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Clostridium sporogenes is a food contaminating anaerobic bacteria causes late bowing effect in cheeses and spoilages in other dairy products. A total of 150 samples were studied for the presence of Clostridium sporogenes in raw milk, curd and cheese samples. Out of 150 sample 11(22%) Clostridium sporogenes was found in raw milk, 7(14%) in curd and 2(4%) in cheese samples. The study shows the ex...

THREE-DIMENSIONAL STRUCTURES OF S-LAYERS 1. Classification of S-layers According to Symmetry 2. Hexagonal S-layers (a) Sulfolobus acidocaldarius (b) Thermoproteus tenax (c) Synechocystis sp. CLII (d) Eubacterium sp. AHN 990 (e) Clostridium thermohydrosulfuricum (f) Deinococcus radiodurans (g) Aquaspirillum serpens (h) Acetooenium kivui (i) Bacteroides buccae 3. Tetragonal S-layers (a) Bacillus ...

Clostridium senegalense strain JC122(T), is the type strain of Clostridium senegalense sp. nov., a new species within the genus Clostridium. This strain, whose genome is described here, was isolated from the fecal flora of a healthy patient. C. senegalense strain JC122(T) is an obligate anaerobic Gram-positive rod-shaped bacterium. Here we describe the features of this organism, together with t...

The 16S rRNA sequences of 17 species of the genus Clostridium were determined by direct sequencing of their PCR amplified genes. The sequences were aligned with those from other known clostridial species and representative low G + C Gram-positive relatives, and a phylogenetic tree was constructed. It was evident from the comparative sequence analysis that the genus Clostridium as presently cons...

INTRODUCTION Clostridium difficile infections predominatelly occur among hospitalized patients. The aim of this study was to evaluate the importance of finding the isolate of Clostridium difficile cultured from the stool of hospitalized patients. MATERIAL AND METHODS Material consisted of 100 patients with at least one liquid stool samples and control group with form stool. Every patient spen...

, in this study 77 and 86 bacterial strains were isolated from faeces of healthy and diarrhoeic dogs respectively. all salmonella isolates were confirmed by per method using specific inva genes. antibacterial activity of 8 routine antibiotics including tylosin, gentamycin, kanamycin, neomycin, tetracycline, oxytetracycline, chloramphenicol and sulfadiazine on the isolated bacteria was evaluated...

We examined the reactivities of Clostridium butyricum neurotoxin to nine monoclonal antibodies against Clostridium botulinum type E neurotoxin which recognize the light chain or the amino-terminal half (H-1 fragment) or the carboxyl-terminal half (H-2 fragment) of the heavy chain of botulinum neurotoxin. Butyricum neurotoxin and its derived chains did not react to two of four monoclonal antibod...

In 2009, a programme of Clostridium difficile ribotyping was established in the north east. The aim of this project was to profile circulating ribotypes in the region, In all, 50 notified north east Clostridium difficile cases were ribotyped. The majority of cases occurred in patients over 70 years and in hospital in-patients. The most common ribotype identified was 027 (n = 12, 24%) and 005 (n...

Clostridium spiroforme produces the binary actin-ADP-ribosylating toxin CST (C. spiroforme toxin), which has been proposed to be responsible for diarrhea, enterocolitis, and eventually death, especially in rabbits. Here we report on the recombinant production of the enzyme component (CSTa) and the binding component (CSTb) of C. spiroforme toxin in Bacillus megaterium. By using the recombinant t...