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Advances in Microbiology (AIM) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in Microbiology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of Microbiology. Al…
Carla Fontana, Marco Favaro, Cartesio Favalli
Liquid-based microbiology (LBM) is the future for the technological development of microbiology laboratories. In particular, the Eswab system (by Copan) simplifies and streamlines specimen collection and represents the only liquid system su pporting the recov…
Md. Shariful Islam, M. Firoz Ahmed, Sabita Rezwana Rahman
Staphylococcus aureus infection remains an increasing problem for higher morbidity and mortality in burn patients. We sought to determine the frequency of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) in burn wound patients and study their drug resistance genes. Sam…
C. J. Sund, M. D. Servinsky, E. S. Gerlach
There has been a surge of interest in acetone-butanol-ethanol fermentations of Clostridium acetobutylicum due to its capacity to ferment many carbohydrates found in biomass. This metabolic diversity makes it a promising candidate for conversion of inexpensive…
Kasturi Dutta, Veeranki Venkata Dasu, Krishnamoorthy Hegde
The development of medium for the production of cutinase from Pseudomonas cepacia NRRL B 2320 was carried out using Plackett-Burman experimental design followed by central composite design. The medium components were screened by Plackett-Burman experimental d…
Manjula N. G., Girish C. . Math, A. Patil, Subhashchandra M. Gaddad, Channappa T. Shivannavar
Urinary tract infection ( UTI) is the most common medical complications of pregnancy together with anaemia and hypertension and it occurs approximately in 5%-10% of all pregnancies. The aim of this study was to determine the incidence of UTI and prevalence of…
Galyna Kufryk
Cyanobacteria are photoautotrophic prokaryotes with a remarkable metabolic flexibility. Many species of cyanobacteria produce hydrogen, and the efficiency of this process can be improved by genetic engineering. Isolated photosynthetic complexes of cyanobacter…
Yurii G. Kuznetsov, Sheng-Chieh Chang, Arielle Credaroli, Alexander McPherson
The objective was to visualize a variety of marine bacteriophage and identify unique structural features that set them apart from terrestrial phages. Phages were plaque isolated and characterized using atomic force microscopy. Bacteriophage infecting cyanobac…
Fabiane Feder, Deise O. Delfino, Maria D. Wanderley, Loreine H. Silva e Silva
Microbial mats are organo-sedimentary ecosystems formed by autotrophic and heterotrophic bacterias. Cyanobacteria contribute to the formation of these structures from the entrapment and engulfment of sediments contributing to the formation of carbonate rocks…
Ranya Amer, Rehab Shehawy, Saraa Saad El-Dien, Marwa Abu Serie, Kamel Shaker
The combined use of morphological identification and phylogenetic characterization employing primers that target the 16S rDNA region led to the identification of ten isolates belonging to eight cyanobacterial genera in the Nile River. 16S-23S ITS region was a…
Benjamin Misson, Delphine Latour
We investigated the vertical variability of toxic potential ( i.e. proportions of cells containing microcystin genes) and genotypic structure within different populations of Microcystis aeruginosa that developed in deep artificial reservoirs on the Loire Rive…
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Advances in Microbiology (AIM) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in Microbiology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of Microbiology. Al… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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