Dermatophyte and yeast species have been screened for their degradative ability towards various keratin substrates. Application of soluble preparation of keratin (KS) of chicken feathers enables a preliminary evaluation of the growth of the fungi and screening of fungal isolates that possesed keratinolytic activity and keratinase enzyme. Five dermatophytes i.e. Trichophyton rubrum, Trichophyton...

A paradigm shift currently occurs in microbiology, with significant impacts in a variety of environmental, medical and industrial applications. The old misconception of free floating microbes is invalidated by a different knowledge pattern: the great majority of terrestrial microorganisms live in communities associated to surfaces, called biofilms (Costerton et al, 1987; Flemming, 2008; Muntean...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine whether unemployment and alcohol consumption were associated with different types of crime in Trinidad and Tobago. METHODS This study made use of secondary data from the Central Statistical Office of Trinidad and Tobago for the period 1990-1997. Pearson product moment correlations and stepwise multiple regression analysis were used to ident...

OBJECTIVES To describe the sources that active offenders in Trinidad and Tobago use to obtain firearms and report their motivations for obtaining them. To estimate relationships between gang involvement, drug selling, and firearm ownership (or possession). SETTING Port of Spain (Republic of Trinidad and Tobago). METHODS A cross-sectional research design was used to collect self-report data ...

With the advent of high throughput sequencing platforms and relevant analytical tools, the rate of microbial genome sequencing has accelerated which has in turn led to better understanding of microbial molecular biology and genetics. The complete genome sequences of important industrial organisms provide opportunities for human health, industry, and the environment. Bacillus species are the dom...

be up to date for at least a few months. It does suffer from the deliberate shortcoming of being only a supplement; beginning students of molecular biology will need to read the Supplement side by side with the original text. But for those lucky enough to have already read DNA Replication, this Supplement is not to be missed, especially with a price tag of less than an evening out at the movies.

listeria monocytogenes can cause serious infection and recently, relapse of listeriosis has been reported in leukemia and colorectal cancer, and the patients with klebsiella pneumoniae are at increased risk of colorectal cancer. translation initiation codon recognition is basically mediated by shine-dalgarno (sd) and the anti-sd sequences at the small ribosomal rna (ssu rrna). in this research,...