African Journal of
Pharmacy and Pharmacology

  • Abbreviation: Afr. J. Pharm. Pharmacol.
  • Language: English
  • ISSN: 1996-0816
  • DOI: 10.5897/AJPP
  • Start Year: 2007
  • Published Articles: 2286

Full Length Research Paper

Identification of a bacterium that produced an anti-mycobacterium tuberculosis activity

Chen Xiaoxi
Basic Medicine College, Zhejiang Chinese Medicine University, Binjiang District, Hangzhou City, Zhejiang Province, P. R. China. 
Email: [email protected]

  •  Accepted: 09 December 2010
  •  Published: 31 December 2010

Abstract

The colonial morphology, the cells and the spores of a bacterium had been observed that could produce an anti-Mycobacterium tuberculosis antibiotic. By physiological and biochemical characteristics and by 16S rDNA analysis, this bacterium was identified asBacillus subtilis.

 

Key words: Bacterium, identification, 16S rDNA, Bacillus subtilis.