Bacillus subtHis secretes a variety of proteins directly into the culture medium at high levels.1} It is therefore possible to cause efficient secretion of useful foreign proteins using the expression and secretion systems of B. subtHis. A large number of both procaryotic and eucaryotic genes have successfully been fused t'o several secretion vectors.2~8) In most cases, however, the systems yie...

1307 patients with suppurative bacterial infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria of different species were treated with specific bacteriophages (BP). BP therapy was highly effective; full recovery was noted in 1123 cases (85.9%). In 134 cases (10.9%) transient improvement was observed and only in 50 cases (3.8%) was BP treatment found to be ineffective. The results confirm the high ef...

We retrospectively reviewed microbiological data from a tertiary care hospital in Botswana, and found that Cryptococcus neoformans was cultured from 15% (193/1307) of all cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) specimens submitted for analysis, making it the most common diagnosed cause of meningitis in this population. Moreover, almost 70% of CSF samples with significant lymphocytosis did not yield a pathoge...

mycobacterium smegmatis ptcc 1307 (cip 73.26) was used as a microbial agent to produce androsta-1,4-diene-3,17-dione (add) and androst-4-ene-3,17-dione, two useful precursors in the synthesis of steroid drugs. the side chain of cholesterol, as the substrate, was selectively cleaved in the presence of five enzyme inhibitors. an intermediate structure with intact side chain, cholest-4-ene-3-one, ...