Background The marine environment hosts a wide variety of species that have evolved to
live in harsh and challenging conditions. Marine organisms are the focus of interest due to …

Streptomyces smyrnaeus UKAQ_23, isolated from the mangrove-sediment, collected from
Jubail, Saudi Arabia, exhibited substantial antimicrobial activity against methicillin-resistant …

Purpose The emergence of antimicrobial resistance is a major global health challenge and
becoming an urgent priority for policymakers. There is a paucity of scientific studies …

Various pre-treatment methods and three different media were employed for the isolation of
bioactive actinomycetes from mangrove sediments of Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India …

This taxon is one of the major phyla in the domain Bacteria, as inferred from its branching
pattern in the 16S rRNA gene tree (Garrity and Holt, 2001; Ludwig and Klenk, 2005) and …

Abstract Background Andaman and Nicobar Islands situated in the eastern part of Bay of
Bengal are one of the distinguished biodiversity hotspot. Even though number of studies …

Dermatophytes, a group of keratinophilic fungi thriving on the keratin substrate are the etio-
logical agents responsible for causing cutaneous infections. Dermatophytosis is currently …

Totally 25 marine soil samples were collected from the region of Palk Strait of Bay of Bengal,
Tamil Nadu, and were subjected to the isolation of actinomycetes. Sixty-eight …

Out of the 30 actinobacterial cultures screened for antimicrobial activity, 28 cultures were
found to produce active products against various pathogenic microorganisms such as Gram …

This paper reports on the optimization of culture conditions for cellulase and xylanase
production by bacterial isolate from lignocellulosic biomass. The bacterial isolate was …