Endophytes are microorganisms which live symbiotically with almost all varieties of plant and in turn helping the plant in a number of ways. Instead of satisfactory surface sterilization approaches, repeatedly occurring bacterial growth on in vitro rootstock cultures of peach and pear was identified and isolated as endophytic bacteria in our present study. Five different isolates from peach roo...

In a field experiment conducted during Rabi 2002-03 at Pantnagar, seed inoculation with Rhizobium leguminosarum bv. viceae (LB-4), PSB (Bacillus megaterium) and PGPR LK-786 (Kurthia sp.) alone significantly increased the nodule number at different intervals, nodule dry weight at 45 and 90 DAS, plant dry weight at 70 and 90 DAS and N uptake by grain and straw in lentil over the uninoculated cont...

BACKGROUND Surgical gloves provide a protective barrier for patients and members of the surgical team. Although glove integrity is important in an era of blood-borne pathogens, little data exist on bacterial passage after glove perforation. This study evaluated the impact of antimicrobial surgical gloves in reducing microbial passage after glove puncture in a model of wound contamination. MET...

Two new brachyurans assignable to the family Retroplumidae Gill, 1894, Serrablopluma diminuta n. gen., n. sp., and Gaudipluma bacamortensis n. gen., n. sp., from the Eocene of northern Spain (Huesca, Aragón), substantially enlarge our current knowledge of the morphological diversity of the family. The material, with well-preserved ventral surfaces, permits the erection of two new genera that ca...

Following its termination by the antihelminthic Yomesan, a primary infection due to the administration of 50 H. diminuta cysticercoids has no significant influence on the abundance, length or dry mass of tapeworms in a secondary infection of 7, 13 and 42 days, or 8 months duration in WAG alb. rats. Crowded primary and secondary tapeworm infections experienced only slightly greater proportional ...

The current study was conducted to detect the bacteria that causes skin infections in Mosul city and its resistance pattern different antibiotics. For this purpose, 30 swab samples were collected from patients referred dermatology consultations of Al-Salam Teaching Hospital GeneralHospital city. results isolation diagnosis showed (20) samples, 66.6% total positive for bacterial culture. (56.5%)...

A Gram-negative, aerobic, rod-shaped, motile Brevundimonas-like bacterial strain, J22(T), was isolated from black sand collected from Soesoggak, Jeju Island, Korea. Growth of strain J22(T) was observed in R2A medium at temperatures between 10 and 42 degrees C (optimum 30 degrees C), between pH 6.5 and 10.5 (optimum pH 7.5) and at a NaCl concentration between 0 and 4 % (w/v) (optimum 0-1 %). Phy...