Water samples were collected from various sampling sites surrounding the ship building industries in Goa and plated on Zobell marine agar (ZMA), Nutrient agar (NA) and Mineral salt medium agar (MSMA) containing 0.1 mM tributyltin chloride (TBTC). The physicochemical characteristics of the water samples were determined. The total viable counts of bacteria ranged from 58 × 10 cfu/ml in MSMA+TBTC ...

The use of Stainer-Scholte broth supplemented with (2,6-O-dimethyl)beta-cyclodextrin (heptakis) for the isolation of Bordetella pertussis from clinical specimens was evaluated with 3,632 nasal swabs from children and adults with suspected whooping cough or from their family contacts. The liquid enrichment medium was subcultured on charcoal agar with 10% defibrinated horse blood. Charcoal agar a...

Background and Purpose Vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC) is a common problem in women. The purpose of this study was to identify of Candida species isolated from vulvovaginitis woman suffering vulvovaginitis refered to Ghaem Hospital, Mashhad, Iran, by use of MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry.  Materials and Methods The 65 clinical samples isolated from Vulvovaginitis women were collected in...

Leavening agents are important in raising flour dough. Biological leavening agents are microorganisms that have the ability to produce carbon dioxide from the utilization of Sugar and thereby ferment and raise the dough. The present study was carried out to characterize yeast isolates isolated from selected fruits and to assess their leavening potential of wheat dough under laboratory scale. Th...

background and purpose: actinomycetes have been discovered as source of antifungal compounds that are currently in clinical use. invasive aspergillosis (ia) due to aspergillus fumigatus has been identified as individual drug-resistant aspergillus spp. to be an emerging pathogen opportunities a global scale. this paper described the antifungal activity of one terrestrial actinomycete against the...

Bacteria resembling two Bordetella species were isolated from both normal and pneumonic ovine lungs using a selective charcoal agar. Twenty-eight of the 33 isolates showed similarities to stock NCTC B. parapertussis strains in their SDS-PAGE gel protein profiles, in their biochemical reactions and in causing browning on tyrosine agar. Five isolates behaved similarly to stock B. bronchiseptica s...

Routine disc diffusion susceptibility tests (Bauer-Kirby technique), employing 5% sheep blood-Mueller-Hinton agar and 10-mug gentamicin sulfate discs, disclosed that a significant number of clinical enterococcal isolates were sensitive to the antibiotic, as also revealed by the agar dilution technique. With few exceptions, the isolates proved resistant to this antibiotic when tested for suscept...

Brubaker, Robert R. (Fort Detrick, Frederick, Md.) and Michael J. Surgalla. Genotypic alterations associated with avirulence in streptomycin-resistant Pasteurella pestis. J. Bacteriol. 84:615-624. 1962.-Avirulence in Pasteurella pestis, as indicated by the existence of a new genotype, was associated with the genetic loss of Ca(++) dependence rather than with the usual concomitant loss of abilit...

Corynespora cassiicola threatens soybean and cotton production in Brazil. The objective of this study was to evaluate cultural morphological aspects C. isolated from different Brazilian regions, culture media. isolates were grown PDA (Potato Dextrose Agar) V8 juice agar characteristics evaluated were: color, aspect, growth rate mycelia, as well dimension conidia, number septa per conidium. Cult...