| human fecal flora: the normal flora of 20 japanese-hawaiians. | quantitative and qualitative examination of the fecal flora of 20 clinically healthy japanese-hawaiian males was carried out by using anaerobic tube culture techniques. cultural counts were 93% of the microscopic clump counts. isolated colonies were selected in a randomized manner to give an unbiased sampling of the viable bacterial types. each isolate was characterized for species identification. from a total of 1,147 isolates, 113 distinct types of organisms were observed. statistical estimate ... | 1974 | 4598229 |
| intestinal floras of populations that have a high risk of colon cancer. | the fecal floras of polyp patients, japanese-hawaiians, north american caucasians, rural native japanese, and rural native africans were compared. the polyp patients and japanese-hawaiians were considered to be groups at high risk of colon cancer, and the rural native japanese and rural native africans were considered to be groups at low risk. the north american caucasians were found to have a flora composition intermediate between these two groups. fifteen bacterial taxa from the human fecal fl ... | 1995 | 7574628 |
| biodegradation of cyclic nitramines by tropical marine sediment bacteria. | undersea deposition of unexploded ordnance (uxo) constitutes a potential source of contamination of marine environments by hexahydro-1,3,5-trinitro-1,3,5-triazine (rdx) and octahydro-1,3,5,7-tetranitro-1,3,5,7-tetrazocine (hmx). the goal of the present study was to determine microbial degradation of rdx and hmx in a tropical marine sediment sampled from a coastal uxo field in the region of oahu island in hawaii. sediment mixed cultures growing in marine broth 2216 (21 degrees c) anaerobically mi ... | 2005 | 15915354 |