A study was undertaken to determine typical concentrations of airborne bacteria and fungi (microflora) in Teaching Hospital environment in Benin City in the tropical rainforest environment of Nigeria. Aerial sampling was conducted at various hospital wards each day. The air samples were collected thrice daily. Concentrations of airborne microflora exceeded available local guidelines for indoor ...

Background: Microbial and fungal contamination of agricultural produce has been a health challenge over the years. The present study surveyed microbial and aflatoxin contamination in groundnut, maize, and cowpea collected from Port Harcourt, Nigeria. Methods: Ninety samples of maize, groundnut, and cowpea were purchased from six major markets in Port Harcourt, Nigeria. The samples were first e...

The study examined the microbial load of bacteria and fungi samples stored from 0- 10 days. were subjected to microbiological analysis. organisms isolated characterized by using standard biochemical methods, following bacterial Salmonella sp, Pseudomonas Staphylococcus Klebsiella Serretia Escherichia coli, Citrobacter Enterococcus Enterobacter sp Proteus sp. showed that was more prevalent with ...

The present study was aimed to isolate, identify and screening of enzyme producing bacteria from soil samples. For this purpose the soil samples were collected from agriculture fields at sangam dairy, Guntur district, fish culture ponds, timber depot soil at rural areas of Bhimavaram, West Godavari district and oil mills at Vijayawada, Krishna district, Andhra Pradesh. A total of seventeen stra...

Plant-associated bacteria can have beneficial effects on the growth and health of their host. Nevertheless, the role of endophytic bacteria present in seeds has not been investigated in depth. In this study, the cultivable endophytic population of seeds from Arabidopsis thaliana exposed to 2 μm cadmium for several generations (Cd seeds) was compared with a population isolated from seeds of plan...

Chemical surfactants are highly toxic to the environment so the Biosurfactants have paying attention by many scientists because of their low toxicity, biodegradability and ecological acceptability. The aim of this present study is to produce the Biosurfactants from Saccharomyces cerevisiae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa and to check its antimicrobial activity against several bacterial (Such as Esch...

Polymicrobial infections involving Staphylococcus aureus exhibit enhanced disease severity and morbidity. We reviewed the nature of polymicrobial interactions between S. aureus and other bacterial, fungal, and viral cocolonizers. Microbes that were frequently recovered from the infection site with S. aureus are Haemophilus influenzae, Enterococcus faecalis, Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Streptococcus...

Bacterial species present in the Berg and Plankenburg Rivers (Western Cape, South Africa) were isolated from water and biofilm samples and population shifts between sampling sites were phylogenetically identified. Deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) extraction of representative isolates was performed and amplified using 2 different primer sets. Various Enterobacteriaceae species were present at all of ...

Development of multi drug resistant organism has been high due to improper use of antibiotics. That made the necessity to develop new drug molecules. In this study an effort was made to find a new alternative. A wild type microorganism was isolated from soil and was identified as Bacillus and confirmed as Bacillus subtilis species by 16S r RNA sequencing. The strain was identified to have the a...