Article history: Received on: 11/04/2016 Revised on: 09/05/2016 Accepted on: 24/06/2016 Available online: 29/10/2016 Drug resistance in microorganisms is an emerging phenomenon that poses challenges to public health and treatment. The reservoir of drug resistance genes found in the resistome of environmental isolates in aquatic saline systems has been augmenting continuously. The spread of drug...

Microorganisms that love salt are known as halophiles, and they found in both the archaeal eubacterial domains of life. Halophiles do naturally occur mesmeric saline habitats such hypersaline lakes, pans, marshes, soils, solar salterns. The group microorganisms live a salty environment is halophilic microbiome. This includes bacteria, algae, fungi, viruses, more. According to how much can toler...

An annotated selection of World Wide Web sites relevant to the topics in Microbial Biotechnology Industrial and environmental applications of halophiles Halophiles have traditionally been important in the food industry. More recently, they have become important for the production of b-carotene and ectoine. This paper describes a halophilic lipase that could be useful for the production of eicos...

Hypersaline environments are widely distributed on the earth s continent where they exist either as natural water bodies such as permanent saline lakes, ephemeral saltpans and salt marshes,or as artificial solar salterns (Litchfield and Gillevet; 2002). The microbial diversity of saline lakes has been studied primarily by focusing on the isolation and characterization of individual organisms wi...

Halophiles are extremophile organisms that thrive in environments with very high concentrations of salt. Halophiles are categorized as slight, moderate or extreme, based on the extent of their halotolerance. Slight halophiles prefer 0.3 to 0.8 M (1.8 to 4.7% seawater is 0.6 M or 3.5%), moderate halophiles 0.8 to 3.4 M (4.7 to 20%), and extreme halophiles 3.4 to 5.1 M (20 to 30%) NaCl. Halophile...

Halophiles are salt-loving organisms that inhabit hypersaline environments and are well equipped to balance the osmotic pressure of the environment and resist the denaturing effects of salts. Halophiles can be grouped as slightly, moderately or extremely halophilic, depending on their requirement for NaCl. Moderately halophilic bacteria are microorganisms able to grow optimally in media contain...

In a study of a lake having a higher concentration of salts than the Dead Sea, all of the heterotrophic bacteria isolated were aerobes; no strictly anaerobic strains were found. Ninety percent of the strains were euryhalines and ten percent were strict halophiles. The extreme halophiles belonged to the species Halobacterium trapanicum and Halococcus morrhuae.

BACKGROUND The extremely halophilic archaea are present worldwide in saline environments and have important biotechnological applications. Ten complete genomes of haloarchaea are now available, providing an opportunity for comparative analysis. METHODOLOGY/PRINCIPAL FINDINGS We report here the comparative analysis of five newly sequenced haloarchaeal genomes with five previously published one...

Extremely to slightly halophilic bacteria were tested for susceptibility to two sterilizing agents, peracetic acid (PAA) and ethylene oxide (ETO). PAA susceptibility was explored by two methods: an agar plate (constant pH of 7.2) and a filter strip (constant incubation period of 37 days); 100% susceptibility was obtained by both methods. The dosage (0.5 ml/min) was applied to a filter pad in a ...