Human rotaviruses are the most important etiologic agents of acquired diarrhoea in infants and young children worldwide. Rotavirus diarrhoea is more frequent during the winter. Limited reports are available from India about diarrhoea due to rotavirus. Some reports of rotaviral diarrhoea in children between 1 month 4 years of age are available. Therefore, we studied the prevalence of rotaviral d...

By M. A. KRISHNA IYER, Alipuram Jail, Bellary. Few medical men have successfully treated and cured a real case of asthma. The truth of this remark is borne out by the very many and very varied lines of treatment in vogue. Injections of peptone solution have stopped the attacks in some cases for two years, whilst in others soamin injections have been successful. Spraying of the mucous membrane o...

L-Asparagine is responsible for a major portion of the effect of peptone on the growth of L5178Y lymphoblasts in culture and is essential for the reproduction of these cells. Among the compounds tested, the requirement for the amide is replaced only by certain peptide derivatives of asparagine, and these are less active on a molar basis than is L-asparagine; L-aspartic acid, D-asparagine, and L...

Fish peptone was produced using enzymatic hydrolysis of silver carp filleting by-products by alcalase and trypsin. Also, the efficiency of the hydrolysates as a nitrogen source in Staphylococcus aureus medium was compared with commercial TSB. The results indicated that the protein hydrolysate from alcalase and trypsin had high protein content (92.92%, 91.53 respectively), and degree of hydrolys...

Several methods are available for testing the sensitivity of organisms to the sulphonamide drugs (Harper and Cawston, 1945; Evans, 1948; Kokko, 1947), but none of them is entirely suitable for clinical use. The main difficu'ty in using a test similar to that for the antibiotics is the presence of sulphonamide-antagonizing substances in routine media. Such substances were first found in peptone ...

Using a freezing-thawing method for extracting colicine from solid media it has been shown that the choice of media for production and diffusion is important. Digest nutrient agar yielded the most colicine and peptone water agar the least. A factor in bacteriological peptone, but absent in a proteose peptone (Difco) and Neopeptone, was responsible for inhibiting production on peptone water agar...

In the present investigation Saccharomyces cerevisiae was isolated from Toddy and identified by based on morphological and sugar fermentation tests. In alcohol tolerance test, Saccharomyces cerevisiae tolerate up to 15% of ethanol in the medium. Optimize the culture conditions of yeast strain such as initial sugar concentration, pH, temperature and incubation period on ethanol production was al...

THE seromucoid* fraction of the plasma proteins comprises a group of glycoproteins-i.e., protein-carbohydrate complexes-characterized by their solubility in certain protein precipitants (perchloric, sulphosalicylic and trichloracetic acids) and by being not readily precipitated by heat. This fraction, which normally contains about io% of the total proteit-bound carbohydrate of the plasma and ac...