Antibacterial Activities of Bacteria Isolated from the Marine Sponges Isodictya compressa and Higginsia bidentifera Collected from Algoa Bay, South Africa

Marine Drugs

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2017, Pages

  Matobole, Relebohile Matthew ^a   Van Zyl, Leonardo Joaquim ^a   Parker Nance, Shirley ^b,c   Davies Coleman, Michael T ^a   Trindade, Marla ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

^b NELSON MANDELA METROPOLITAN UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c SOUTH AFRICAN INSTITUTE FOR AQUATIC BIODIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Antimicrobial; Higginsia bidentifera; Isodictya compressa; Marine sponge; Natural products

Indexed keywords

ANTIBACTERIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; AXINELLA; BACTERIAL GENOME; BACTERIAL GROWTH; BACTERIAL STRAIN; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; DNA SEQUENCE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; HIGGINSIA BIDENTIFERA; ISODICTYA COMPRESSA; NONHUMAN; POPULATION DENSITY; SOUTH AFRICA; SPECIES DIVERSITY; SPECIES RICHNESS; SPONGE (PORIFERA); SPONGIA; WALTHERARNDTIA CALICULATUM; ANIMAL; BACTERIUM; BAY; BIODIVERSITY; CHEMISTRY; DRUG EFFECT; GENETICS; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MULTIDRUG RESISTANCE; NUCLEOTIDE SEQUENCE; SYMBIOSIS;

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCT;

ANIMALS; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BASE SEQUENCE; BAYS; BIODIVERSITY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTS; DRUG RESISTANCE, MULTIPLE, BACTERIAL; ESCHERICHIA COLI; PORIFERA; SOUTH AFRICA; SYMBIOSIS;

EID: 85014495574     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16603397     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/md15020047     Document Type: Article

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