Termites cause major economic losses by destroying agricultural crop trees. This study aims to survey the arboreal tree termites in Komkom community of Oyigbo Niger Delta. The area was divided into 10 zones and 306 trees were examined for presence termite nests, hollow sounds mud tubes. Samples with its nest, hollow, tube cuttings collected from infested using metal spatula, sorted identified. ...

Este estudo teve como objetivo verificar, em condições de campo, se os cupins arborícolas associados a espécies arbóreas presentes na Área Reserva da Ilha do Catalão UFRJ, RJ, exibem preferência para nidificação e forrageamento entre as árvores. Para isso, foram sorteadas aleatoriamente 95 linhas plantio árvores localizadas nessa área. Nestas foi percorrido um trajeto 100 m, também escolhido al...

A total of 393 clinical bacterial isolates were tested for their ability to agglutinate yeast cells of either Saccharomyces cerevisiae or Candida albicans. A positive agglutination of yeasts that could be prevented by methyl alpha-D-mannoside was taken as an indication for the possible presence of a mannose-specific lectin (carbohydrate-binding protein) on the surface of the tested bacteria. Ag...

Literature reports disagree concerning esculin hydrolysis in the family Enterobacteriaceae. A total of 2,490 strains of the family were investigated for esculin hydrolysis by two methods, the esculin spot test and the PathoTec incubation strip, which measures constitutive enzyme, and five growth-supporting methods, which determine both constitutive and inducible enzymes. The five growth-support...

Sodium piperacillin T-1220, a new semisynthetic penicillin, was tested in vitro against 297 clinical isolates of anaerobic bacteria and 669 aerobic bacteria by the conventional agar dilution method and compared with carbenicillin and ticarcillin. At a 100-mug/ml concentration the three drugs showed comparable effectiveness against the anaerobes tested. However, at 20 mug/ml, piperacillin was th...

A 5-year-old boy presented with right eye pain associated with tearing and photophobia of 1-day duration. He gave a history of playing with a river crab when suddenly the crab clamped his fingers. He attempted to fling the crab off, but the crab flew and hit his right eye. Ocular examination revealed a right eye corneal ulcer with clumps of fibrin located beneath the corneal ulcer and 1.6 mm le...