Within the field of food hygiene and food control, the antibiotic residues in food of animal origin are analysed because their presence may have undesirable consequences. These include for example, allergic reactions in people, spread of resistance to antibiotics among microorganisms and damages in the food industry. Methods available for the detection of antibiotic residues in food are microbi...

A series of copper(II) complexes of mixed ligands with Schiff bases derived from 2-aminophenol/2-aminobenzoic acid with substituted benzaldehydes and 1,10-phenonthroline have been synthesized. Microanalytical, magnetic susceptibility, IR, UV-vis, CV, ESR and mass spectral techniques have been used to confirm the structure of these complexes. Their low electrical conductance values indicate that...

An organism capable of growth on pyridine was isolated from soil by enrichment culture techniques and identified as Micrococcus luteus. The organism oxidized pyridine for energy and released N contained in the pyridine ring as ammonium. The organism could not grow on mono- or disubstituted pyridinecarboxylic acids or hydroxy-, chloro-, amino-, or methylpyridines. Cell extracts of M. luteus coul...

Studies on the metabolism of the strict aerobe Micrococcus sodonensis revealed that a considerable accumulation of a-ketoglutarate and glutamate occurred. This accumulation was in evidence, both during growth on complex media and during growth on chemically defined media with acetate as the sole carbon source. The major pathway of terminal respiration in aerobically growing microorganisms appea...

Anthocephalus cadamba (Roxb.) Miq. Syn A. chinensis (Lamk) A. Rich (Rubiaceae) is ethnomedicinally widely used in the form of paste by tribe in western Ghats for treating skin diseases. In this context, antimicrobial potential of A. cadamba against a wide range of microorganisms was studied. To validate the ethnotherapeutic claims of the plant in skin diseases, wound healing activity was studie...

In recent years, biological desulfurization technology has attracted more and attention from domestic foreign researchers due to its mild reaction conditions, high efficiency, environmental protection. this study, bacteria were collected oil depots, sewage treatment plants sewage, using a screening medium with DBT as the only sulfur source. Three strains that can degrade isolated, numbered 1, 2...

Picea abies and Larix decidua were subjected to GC/MS analyses, and antimicrobial (fungi and bacteria) assays of their stem wood and bark extracts were investigated. L. decidua bark extract exhibited the highest antifungal and antibacterial activities against the microorganisms that were screened. The microbes Penecillium ochrochloron and Aspergillus ochraceus were the most sensitive to the ext...

Arils from six pomegranate (Punica granatum L.) varieties grown in the Mediterranean region of Turkey were tested for their antimicrobial properties by the agar diffusion and minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) methods against seven bacteria: (Bacillus megaterium DSM 32, Pseudomonas aeruginosa DSM 9027, Staphylococcus aureus Cowan 1, Corynebacterium xerosis UC 9165, Escherichia coli DM, Ente...