Essays on Microbiology

Applied microbiology is a branch of microbiology in which micro-organisms are studied and utilised, perhaps even exploited, for the benefit of humans and animals. According to (Nature. com, 2018), applied microbiology is “a scientific discipline that deals with the application of microorganisms and the knowledge…

Introduction Our daily life is adorned inextricably with microorganisms. Microbes are found all of the corner of the earth. Microbes can spread from everywhere because their contamination sources are huge such as soil, air, water. It has many applied sector in our daily life, it…

Numerous cultures isolated from different sites of infections such as blood, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), urine, pus, stool and many more are routinely measured through a microbial profile and antibiogram. The results of the microbial profile and antibiogram of these cultures isolated are applicable in diagnosing…

There are around 99 thousand organisms that are known within the fungi kingdom, such as mould, rust and mushrooms. Some fungi are found living freely in either water or soil, while others choose to form parasitic relationships with animals or plants. There are large amounts…

Joshua Lederberg was born in New Jersey in 1925. His parents were recent immigrants from Israel and soon after his birth moved to Washington Heights in New York City. When he graduated high school, from Stuyvesant High school, he sought to continue his education. In…

In recent years we have seen an increased prevalence in zoonotic parasitic infections. This is likely due to a number of factors, some of which are related to a shift in the way humans interact with animals. There are also however, other factors, not so…

In present study, all selected carps (H. nobilis, C. idella and C. carpio) secreted huge amount of mucus. Also mucus secretion varied among selected fish species. Blackstock and Pickering (1982); Negus (1983) and Nigam, Kumari, Mittal and Mittal (2012) also reported the similar results. This…

Monophyletic groups all come from a single common ancestor, but for paraphyletic groups, not all of the descendants are counted, some are excluded. Protista is a part of this group, meaning they do not share derived characteristics that separate them from other lineages. The major…

The word ‘Lectins’ has been derived from the Latin word which means ‘I choose’. Because lectins are very specific to the site to which it binds. Lectins are carbohydrate-binding proteins which bind to glycoproteins, glycolipids, and also polysaccharides which mediates various kind of biological processes…

Acidithiobacillus strains SP5/1 and HV2/2 are rod-shaped, Gram-negative, γ-proteobacterium, aerobically pyrite-oxidizing and Acidophilic bacteria that thrives optimally at 30°C and 45°C respectively. S-layer molecular structure similarity in symmetry in the closely related species can be used as a taxonomic characteristic that distinguishes phylogenetic position of…