Kocuria species are emerging opportunistic pathogens that are most commonly found in immunocompromised patients and those with severe underlying disease. Nowadays, the occurrence of various types of Kocuria infections has been reported, though they are sometimes misidentified as CONS. Newer methods such as Vitek 2, MALDI-TOF Spectrometry, 16S RNA, and repeated specimens have been used…
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Screening is the highly selective procedures for the detection and isolation of only those microorganisms of interest from among a large microbial population. Actinobacteria are the group of bacteria with the greatest biomedical value especially antibiotic production. Detection of the antagonistic property of actinobacteria is the pre-requisite for their exploitation for antibiotic production. There are…
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The Actinobacteria receive much attention, since they produce a wide variety of metabolites, including antibiotics, antitumor agents, antioxidant molecules and enzyme inhibitors. These bacteria can be found in various habitats, including soil, ocean, extreme environments, mangrove, lichen, plants, and animals. The classification of Actinobacteria based upon the morphological observation, physiological and biochemical characteristics is not…
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The present work aimed the prospection of microorganisms from Bauhinia monandra leaves, with the purpose to identify endophytics to obtain strains with possible biotechnological applications. B. monandra leaves, disinfected with hypochlorite solution, were macerated in phosphate buffered saline and seeded in ten culture media containing antibacterial or antifungal agents. The endophytic filamentous fungus strains detected…
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