Hot spring water may harbour emerging waterborne opportunistic pathogens that can cause infections in humans. We have investigated the diversity and antimicrobial resistance of culturable emerging and opportunistic bacterial pathogens, in water and sediment of hot springs located in Limpopo, South Africa. Aerobic bacteria were cultured and identified using 16S ribosomal DNA (rDNA) gene sequenci...

Forty strains of Gram-positive, aerobic, heterotrophic bacteria isolated from saturated subsurface lacustrine, paleosol and fluvial sediments at the US Department of Energy's Hanford Site in south central Washington State were characterized by phylogenetic analysis of 16S rRNA gene sequences and by determination of selected morphological, physiological and biochemical traits. Phylogenetic analy...

Kocuria/ Micrococcus species have been implicated as microbial population of fermented African oil bean seed ‘ugba’, but has never been characterized and its role in the fermentation not known. In this study Kocuria varians was isolated from fermented African oil bean seed. The organism could not utilize citrate and was coagulase, methyl red and oxidase negative. It appeared as deep yellow circ...

Kocuria spp., are frequently documented members of the human microbiota and were formerly thought to be opportunistic bacteria, initiating infection only in immunocompromised patients. This study aimed determine prevalence species samples from Iraqi pediatric patients, addition their sensitivity pattern. Bacterial identification was performed using a VITEK 2 device, Kirby-Bauer disk diffusion m...

Marine Actinobacteria, particularly coral-associated Actinobacteria, have attracted attention recently. In this study, the abundance and diversity of Actinobacteria associated with three types of coral thriving in a thermally stressed coral reef system north of the Arabian Gulf were investigated. Coscinaraea columna, Platygyra daedalea and Porites harrisoni have been found to harbor equivalent ...

The methods currently available for quantitative determination of lysozyme are based on the capacity of the enzyme to lyse Micrococcus lysodeikticus. Previous attempts to develop immunochemical assays have been reported, but the sensitivity was inferior to that of the most widely used lysoplate method. We describe the development of a sensitive immunochemical method for lysozyme assay in which ...