Molecular ecology methods are now well established for the culture-independent
characterization of complex bacterial communities associated with various environmental …

Despite the abundance of bacterial species in soil, more than 99% of these species cannot
be cultured by traditional techniques. In addition, the less than 1% of bacteria that can be …

Streptomyces is the largest antibiotic-producing genus in the microbial world discovered so
far. The number of antimicrobial compounds reported from the species of this genus per year …

New antimicrobial agents are desperately needed to combat the increasing number of
antibiotic resistant strains of pathogenic microorganisms. Natural products remain the most …

Since the invention of the Petri dish, there have been continuous efforts to improve efficiency
in microbial cultivation. These efforts were devoted to the attainment for diverse growth …

The majority of microorganisms from natural environments cannot be grown in the
laboratory. The diffusion-chamber-based approach is an alternative method that allows …

Since the onset of microbiology in the late 19th century, scientists have been growing
microorganisms almost exclusively as pure cultures, resulting in a limited and biased view of …

Traditional microbiological methods of cultivation recover less than 1% of the total bacterial
species, and the culturable portion of bacteria is not representative of the total phylogenetic …

Emerging infectious diseases in wildlife are responsible for massive population declines. In
amphibians, chytridiomycosis caused by Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis, Bd, has severely …

The microbiome of the respiratory tract, including the nasopharyngeal and oropharyngeal
microbiota, is a dynamic community of microorganisms that is highly diverse. The cystic …