Estimation of heavy metal tolerance and antibiotic susceptibility of Bacillus cereus isolated from municipal solid waste

International Journal of Pharma and Bio Sciences

Volumn 3, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 819-829

  Khatun, Mahamuda ^a   Bera, Paramita ^a   Mitra, Debmalya ^a   Mandal, Anurup ^a   Samanta, Amalesh ^a  

^a JADAVPUR UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Antibiotic resistance; Bacillus cereus; Heavy Metal; MIC; Plasmid Curing

Indexed keywords

CADMIUM; CARBENICILLIN; CHLORAMPHENICOL; CHROMIUM; CIPROFLOXACIN; COBALT; ERYTHROMYCIN; HEAVY METAL; LEAD; MERCURY; NICKEL; NORFLOXACIN; PLASMID DNA; TETRACYCLINE;

ANTIBIOTIC RESISTANCE; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACILLUS CEREUS; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BIOCHEMISTRY; CELL STRUCTURE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; METAL TOLERANCE; MINIMUM INHIBITORY CONCENTRATION; MORPHOLOGY; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NONHUMAN; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; PH; PHYLOGENETIC TREE; PLASMID; POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; SEQUENCE ALIGNMENT; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 84873816664     PISSN: None     EISSN: 09756299     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Gadd GM, Fungi and yeasts formetalaccumulation, In: Ehrlich HL, Briierley CL (eds) Microbial mineral recovery, McGraw-Hill, New york, pp- 249-275, (1990).
2. Bruins MR, Kapal S, Oehme WF, Microbial resistance to metals in the environment, Ecotoxicology and Environmental Safty. 45: 198-207, (2000).
3. Foster TJ, Plasmid determined resistance to antimicrobial drug and toxic metal ion in bacteria, Microbial Rev,47: 361-409,(1983).
4. Tanaka T, Kuroda M and Sakajuchi K, Isolation and characterization of four plasmids from Bacillus subtilis, Journal of Bacteriology, 129: 1487-1494, (1977).
5. Collins C H, Lyne P M, Microbiological methods, Butterworths, Boston, USA. 450 p, (1976).
6. Pelczar MJJ. Reid RD, Pure cultures and growth characteristics, In: Microbiology, McGraw-Hill Book Company, New York, pp.76-84, (1958).
7. Schmidt T, Schlegel H G, Combined nikel-cobalt-cadmium resistance encoded by the ncc locus of Alcaligenes xylosoxidans 31A., Journal of Bacteriology, 176: 7054-7054, (1994).
8. Bauer RW, Kirby W M M, Sherris J C and Tarck M, Antibiotic susceptibility testing by a standardized single disk method, American Journal of Clinical Pathology, 45:493-497, (1966).
9. Prescott L M, Harley J P, Klein D A, Microbiology (forth Eds.) McGraw-Hill Companies, New York, 536, 681-3, 807-9, (1999).
10. Birnboin H C, Doly J, A rapid alkaline extraction procedure for screening recombinant plasmid DNA. Nucleic Acids Research, 7 (6): 1513-1523, (1979)
11. Sambrook J, Fritsch E F Maniatis T, Molecular Cloning: A Laboratory Manual, (second Eds.) Cold Spring Harbor, New York, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press, 545, (1989).
12. Unaldi Coral M N, Korkmaz H, Arikan B, Coral G, Plasmid mediated heavy metal resistances in Enterobactor spp. isolated from Sofulu landfill in Adana, Turkey. Annals of Microbiology, 55 (3): 175-179(2005).
13. Rajbanshi A, Study on heavy metal resistant bacteria in Guheswori Sewage Treatment Plant. Our Nature, 6: 52-57, (2008).
14. Margesin R, Schinner F, Applied Environmental Microbiology, 67,3127-3133,(2001).
15. Vajiheh K, Naser B, Antimicrobial, heavy metal resistance and plasmid profile of coliforms isolated from nosocomial infection in a hospital in Isfahan, Iran, African J Biotechnol 2(10): 379-383,(2003).
16. Tuckfield R C and Arthur M C, J V Spatial analysis of antibiotic resistance along metal contaminated streams, Microbial Ecology,55,(4),595-607, (2007).
17. Sebastien M., Tatiana V, Ralstonia metallidurans, A bacterium specifically adapted to toxic metals;towards a catalogue of metal responsive genes.FEMS Microbial Rev.27(2-3): 385-410, (2003).