BACKGROUND Recently, newly defined clades of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC) strains, namely Ethiopia 1-3 and Ethiopia H37Rv-like strains, and other clades associated with pulmonary TB (PTB) were identified in Ethiopia. In this study, we investigated whether these new strain types exhibit an increased ability to cause TB lymphadenitis (TBLN) and raised the question, if particular MTBC...

A standard procedure for pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) of macrorestriction fragments of Acinetobacter baumannii was set up and validated for its interlaboratory reproducibility and its potential for use in the construction of an Internet-based database for international monitoring of epidemic strains. The PFGE fingerprints of strains were generated at three different laboratories with...

The amount of environmental contamination brought on by the careless disposal plastic garbage has increased to 400 million tons every year a global scale. These synthetically generated traditional polymers are not easily biodegradable. This work was therefore undertaken isolate Bacillus subtilis from soil with potential produce bioplastic: Poly-ß-hydroxybutyrate (PHB). Samples were collected va...