| immunomodulatory, analgesic and antipyretic effects of violacein isolated from chromobacterium violaceum. | violacein was isolated from chromobacterium violaceum, a soil gram negative bacterium collected from the forest water body soil sample of kolli hills; tamil nadu, india. in the present study the immunomodulatory, analgesic and antipyretic activities of violacein were investigated in wistar rats and mice. analgesic effect was evaluated by acetic acid- induced writhing, formalin induced paw licking and hotplate tests. immunomodulatory effect was investigated by using ovalbumin- induced active paw ... | 2010 | 19576742 |
| oral candidiasis caused by kodamaea ohmeri in a hiv patient in chennai, india. | kodamaea ohmeri was isolated from a 38-year-old hiv seropositive woman with pseudomembranous oral candidiasis. the isolate was identified by the api 20 c yeast identification system and confirmed by sequence analysis. antifungal susceptibility testing done by e-test showed that the isolate was susceptible to voriconazole, amphotericin b and caspofungin. | 2010 | 19531098 |
| the expanding host tree species spectrum of cryptococcus gattii and cryptococcus neoformans and their isolations from surrounding soil in india. | this study reports the widespread prevalence of cryptococcus neoformans and cryptococcus gattii in decayed wood inside trunk hollows of 14 species representing 12 families of trees and from soil near the base of various host trees from delhi and several places in the indian states of uttar pradesh, haryana, tamil nadu and chandigarh union territory. of the 311 trees from which samples were obtained, 64 (20.5%) were found to contain strains of the c. neoformans species complex. the number of tree ... | 2008 | 18608895 |
| production of surfactant and detergent-stable, halophilic, and alkalitolerant alpha-amylase by a moderately halophilic bacillus sp. strain tscvkk. | a moderately halophilic alkalitolerant bacillus sp. strain tscvkk, with an ability to produce extracellular halophilic, alkalitolerant, surfactant, and detergent-stable alpha-amylase was isolated from soil samples obtained from a salt-manufacturing industry in chennai. the culture conditions for higher amylase production were optimized with respect to nacl, substrate, ph, and temperature. maximum amylase production of 592 mu/ml was achieved in the medium at 48 h with 10% nacl, 1% dextrin, 0.4% y ... | 2008 | 17999060 |