| isolation and characterization of two hydrocarbon-degrading bacillus subtilis strains from oil contaminated soil of kuwait. | two strains of hydrocarbon-utilizing bacteria were isolated from soil samples of the kuwait burqan oil field at a temperature of 37 degrees c. the bacteria were motile endospore-forming rods with slight differences in their metabolic patterns and 16s rrna sequence. vegetative cells of the strains designated as ahi and ahii had an ultrastructure typical of gram-positive bacteria and showed gram-positive staining. the bacteria did not show pigmentation. best growth was observed at 37 degrees c at ... | 2000 | 11061184 |