A nonmucoid colonial variant of a mucoid Bacillus subtilis strain produced less amylase activity and a transparent colonial variant of a B. licheniformis strain produced less protease activity compared with their parents. Antibiotic susceptibility patterns of the colonial variants differed, and increased resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics was correlated with increased production of extracell...

Vancomycin resistant enterococci are increasingly being isolated from inpatients. This report describes the colonial variation present in most isolates of vancomycin resistant Enterococcus faecium obtained at this hospital. Colonial variants within the same culture were indistinguishable by antimicrobial susceptibility, biochemical reactions, and ribotyping. Failure to appreciate this colonial ...

This study examines Henry Morton Stanley's My African Travels through a post-colonial lens in order to explore how Stanley’s mission of rescuing missing explorer turns into his colonial ambitions the interior Africa. Primarily with project finding missionary and David Livingston by name, Stanley sets out on journey 1871. But after Livingston, eyes fall upon plenitude natural resources backwardn...

Historical accounts of colonial science and medicine have failed to engage with the Colonial Office’s shift in focus towards the support of research after 1940. A large new fund was created in 1940 to expand activities in the colonies described as fundamental research. With this new funding came a qualitative shift in the type of personnel and activity sought for colonial development and, as a ...

Enomoto, Masatoshi (National Institute of Genetics, Mishima, Japan) and Tetsuo Iino. Colonial dimorphism in nonmotile Salmonella. J. Bacteriol. 86:473-477. 1963.-Two distinct colonial types, LP-type and SD-type, appeared among the nonmotile mutant clones originated from a strain of Salmonella typhimurium when they were cultivated on semisolid gelatin-agar medium (NGA) at 37 C. These colonial ty...

British sociology was established as an academic discipline between 1945 and 1965, just as the British Empire was gearing up for a new phase of developmental colonialism backed by the social and other sciences. Many parts of the emerging sociological discipline became entangled with colonialism. Key themes and methods in sociology and the staff of sociology departments emerged from this colonia...

Studies on the history of medicine and psychiatry in former British colonies have multiplied in recent years.1 The relevance of medicine and psychiatry in Britain to the development of colonial medicine and psychiatry within various Anglo-Saxon colonial settings has been firmly established.2 Yet the existence of any reverse impact is less certain. Although historians who specialize on developme...