Bacillus aerius sp. nov., Bacillus aerophilus sp. nov., Bacillus stratosphericus sp. nov. and Bacillus altitudinis sp. nov., isolated from cryogenic tubes used for collecting air samples from high altitudes

International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

Volumn 56, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1465-1473

  Shivaji, S ^a   Chaturvedi, P ^a   Suresh, K ^a   Reddy, G S N ^a   Dutt, C B S ^b   Wainwright, M ^c   Narlikar, J V ^d   Bhargava, P M ^e  

^a CENTRE FOR CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SHEFFIELD   (United Kingdom)

^d INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^e Anveshna   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN; AMPICILLIN; BACTERIAL DNA; BACTERIAL RNA; CEFOPERAZONE; CEFUROXIME; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CIPROFLOXACIN; COLISTIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; ERYTHROMYCIN; KANAMYCIN; LINCOMYCIN; LOMEFLOXACIN; NALIDIXIC ACID; NORFLOXACIN; NOVOBIOCIN; PENICILLIN G; RNA 16S; ROXITHROMYCIN; TETRACYCLINE;

AIR SAMPLING; ALTITUDE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS; BACILLUS AERIUS; BACILLUS ALTITUDINIS; BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS SONORENSIS; BACILLUS STRATOSPHERICUS; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CHEMOTAXONOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVICE; DNA HYBRIDIZATION; NEW SPECIES; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PHENOTYPE; PHYLOGENY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIOSENSITIVITY; RNA SEQUENCE; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS; SEQUENCE HOMOLOGY;

AIR MICROBIOLOGY; ALTITUDE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACILLUS; BACTERIAL TYPING TECHNIQUES; BASE COMPOSITION; COLD; DNA, BACTERIAL; DNA, RIBOSOMAL; FATTY ACIDS; GENES, RRNA; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MOLECULAR SEQUENCE DATA; NUCLEIC ACID HYBRIDIZATION; PHYLOGENY; RNA, BACTERIAL; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SEQUENCE ANALYSIS, DNA;

AEROPHILUS; BACILLUS (BACTERIUM); BACILLUS LICHENIFORMIS; BACILLUS PUMILUS; BACILLUS SONORENSIS; BACTERIA (MICROORGANISMS);

EID: 33746217552     PISSN: 14665026     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1099/ijs.0.64029-0     Document Type: Article

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