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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…
Meeta Sharma, Saurabh Mehta, Anil Kumar
An alkaline xylanase secreted by Paenibacillus macquariensis RC 1819 has been purified using ammonium sulfate fractionation, ion exchange chromatography using DEAE-cellulose and gel filtration chromatography over Sephadex G-200 and Sephadex G-100. The purifie…
Kelechi Stanley Dike, Ikechukwu Amechi Ekwealor, Samuel Chukwunyelum Eziuzor
The effects of antibiotics and surfactant addition on methionine accumulation in the broth culture of three strains of methionine yeilding Bacillus cereus ( B. cereus DS-13, B. cereus AS-9 and B. cereus RS-16) recovered from different soil ecovars in Owerri N…
Yoshimitsu Otomo, Farzana Hossain, Fazle Rabbi, Yuki Yakuwa, Chowdhury Rafiqul Ahsan
Vibrio parahaemolyticus organisms cause acute gastroenteritis in humans. These bacteria are natural inhabitants of both marine and estuarine ecosystems. In the present study, we investigated the effectiveness of a non-selective enrichment of sediment samples…
Pascal Weibel, Miriam Ender, Jerzy Madon, Annelies S. Zinkernagel, Reto A. Schuepbach
Introducing PCR products into plasmids vectors is key for molecular techniques. Ideally cloning vectors are easy to construct, modify and propagate, neither require advanced techniques nor special equipment or reagents and efficiently incorporate PCR products…
Yi Jiang, Li Han, Xiu Chen, Min Yin, Dan Zheng, Yong Wang, Shumei Qiu, Xueshi Huang
Microbial symbionts play important roles in food digestion and absorption, immunity, pathogens resistance, and health maintaining of their hosts by coevolution. To provide new sources for discovering new leader compounds of drugs, the diversity and bioactivit…
Claudia Zinke, Martina Winter, Elmar Mohr, Volker Kromker
The aim of this study was to determine if raw milk cheese or cheese to be made out of heated milk, manufactured in small German cheese dairies might be a reservoir of contaminations with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Due to predominantly…
Derek T. Kirby, Craigory J. Raino, Samuel F. Rabor Jr., Cassandra J. Wasson, Balbina J. Plotkin
The majority of bacterial infections involve the formation of biofilms. Biofilm formation is nutrient and growth dependent. Determination of the effects of nutrients on exopolysaccharide production and bacterial growth is labor and time intensive. We tested w…
Kalombo Kayembe, Lolofo Basosila, Pius T. Mpiana, Pole C. Sikulisimwa, Juliette K. Kabongo, Damien S. T. Tshibangu, Dorothée D. Tshilanda, Rigobertine K. Tati
Inhibitory compounds are often found to be the leading cause of anaerobic reactor upset and failure since they are present in substantial concentration in wastewaters and organic solid wastes. Among these inhibitory compounds, organic compounds are mentioned…
Sanghun Park, Jihun Jung, Sungsun Choi, Younghee Oh, Jibho Lee, Heesun Chae, Seunghee Ryu, Hyowon Jung, Gunyong Park, Sungmin Choi, Bogsoon Kim, Junghun Kim, Young Zoo Chae, Byungyeol Jung, Myunghun Lee, Hyunsoo Kim
This study was performed to characterize 35 L. monocytogenes isolates from animals, foods, environmental samples collected between 1997 and 2007 with no apparent epidem iological relations, and five reference isolates using serotypic, genotypic and molecular…
Ma Del Carmen Chavez-Parga, Alejandro Munguia-Franco, Mayanin Aguilar-Torres, Eleazar M. Escamilla-Silva
From time immemorial, human beings have used pigments made from vegetables, fruits, superior plants, animal tissues and cereals. One of the greatest sources of pigments is the bacterium that, with the use of the modern technology, has increased the production…
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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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