A large collection of bacterial strains, immunotrapped from soil and from the wheat rhizoplane, was subjected to polyphasic taxonomy by examining various pheno- and genotypic parameters. Strains were grouped on (inter) repetitive extragenic palindromic DNA (REP) PCR profiles at the intraspecies level. Pheno- and genotypic characters were assessed for representatives from 13 different REP groups...

Clinical strains of Enterobacter were isolated from Cumana's Central Hospital in Venezuela, and classified as E. cloacae (21), E. aerogenes (7), E. intermedium (1), E. sakazakii (1) and three unclassified. The strains showed high levels of resistance, especially to SXT (58.1%), CRO (48.8%), CAZ (46.6%), PIP (46.4%), CIP (45.2%) and ATM (43.3%). This is the first report for South America of blaV...

Heavy metal contamination still prevails due to improper discharge of effluents from industries, mining activities, agricultural and domestic sources. Hence, the objectives this study were isolate bacteria fungi with high potentials for biosorption Cd(II), Pb(II), Cr(III) Ni(II) explore their functional groups. Bacteria able grow in presence 0.1% selected heavy metals isolated enumerated using ...

We have revised the theory of condensed complexity simple by incremental subtraction to understand apparently vestigial character state simplified paraproct, especially pronounced at Banyallarga and Phylloicus genera in Calamoceratidae family. recorded Leptonema album Mosely, 1933 intermedium from Ecuador, spirillum Flint, McAlpine & Ross, 1987 Colombia, as well described six new species: (...

We describe a case of infective endocarditis in a prosthetic mitral valve due to Ochrobactrum anthropi. Although O. anthropi is an emerging pathogen in immunocompromised patients, infections with the bacterium have very rarely been documented in healthy hosts, and endocarditis is rare. To our knowledge, only two cases of O. anthropi endocarditis have been reported in the medical literature.