Bijay Kumar Behera,a Priyanka Das,a Jitendra Maharana,a Prasenjit Paria,a Shambhu Nath Mandal,a Dharmendra Kumar Meena,a Anil Prakash Sharma,b Rijith Jayarajan,c Vishal Dixit,c Ankit Verma,c Shamsudheen Karuthedath Vellarikkal,c,e Vinod Scaria,d,e Sridhar Sivasubbu,c,e Atmakuri Ramakrishna Rao,f Trilochan Mohapatrag Biotechnology Laboratory, ICAR-Central Inland Fisheries Research Institute, Kol...

Microbial communities in shale oil fields are still poorly known. We obtained samples of injection, produced and facility waters from a Bakken shale oil field in Saskatchewan, Canada with a resident temperature of 60°C. The injection water had a lower salinity (0.7 Meq of NaCl) than produced or facility waters (0.6-3.6 Meq of NaCl). Salinities of the latter decreased with time, likely due to in...

Among the 30 strains of moderately halophilic bacteria isolated from the salty effluents of textile industries around Qom city in central Iran, a Gram-negative rod shape bacterium designated as strain IP8 showed a remarkable ability in decolorizing of azo dyes over wide ranges of pH (7-11) and temperature (25-45 ºC), in presence of NaCl and Na2SO...

INTRODUCTION Halomonas hamiltonii is a Gram-negative, halophilic, motile, and nonspore-forming rod bacterium. Although most Halomonas sp. are commonly found in saline environments, it has rarely been implicated as a cause of human infection. Herein, the authors present a case report of continuous ambulatory peritoneal dialysis (CAPD)-related peritonitis attributed to H hamiltonii. CASE PRESEN...

Bacterial and archaeal aerobic communities were recovered from sediments from the shallow El-Djerid salt lake in Tunisia, and their salinity gradient distribution was established. Six samples for physicochemical and microbiological analyses were obtained from 6 saline sites in the lake for physico-chemical and microbiological analyses. All samples studied were considered hypersaline with NaCl c...

The formation, chemical composition and rheological properties of the exopolysaccharides (EPS) produced by 19 strains belonging to Halomonas eurihalina have been compared in two different culture media. Our aim was to screen several strains isolated from saline soils to select those producing maximum EPS yield and good rheological properties. We found that MY medium was best for the production ...

Halophilic bacteria use a variety of osmoregulatory methods, such as the accumulation of one or more compatible solutes. The wide diversity of compounds that can act as compatible solute complicates the task of understanding the different strategies that halophilic bacteria use to cope with salt. This is specially challenging when attempting to go beyond the pathway that produces a certain comp...