ALTHOUGH the occurrence of localized areas of suppuration caused by the typhoid bacillus is on the whole infrequent, McCrae 1 believes that during typhoid fever no part of the body in which abscesses ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Analysis, by the recovery of specific genetic ``markers,'' of the effects of DNase I, physical shear, and temperature shock on DNA-cell ...

Although most clinically used antibiotics are derived from natural products, identifying new antibacterial molecules from natural product extracts is difficult due to the complexity of these extracts ...

There are many ways of classifying bacteria. One method is based on the cell membrane. In 1884, a bacteriologist named Christian Gram created a test that could determine if a bacterium had a thick, ...

THE Friedländer bacillus (Klebsiella pneumoniae), under the right conditions, is highly virulent for man. Hence, although infections with this organism are not frequent, they deserve consideration out ...