ABSTRACT A total of 209 clinical isolates of Pseudomonas (193 Pseudomonas aeruginosa,
10 P. putida, 4 P. stutzeri, and 2 P. fluorescens isolates) with reduced susceptibilities to …

The Bacillus subtilis divIVA1 mutation causes misplacement of the septum during cell
division, resulting in the formation of small, circular, anucleate minicells. This study reports …

Klebsiella pneumoniae strains with the transferable carbapenem-hydrolyzing metallo-β-
lactamases, which include IMP-and VIM-type enzymes, remain extremely rare. To …

ABSTRACT Twenty (8.5%) of 234 nonrepetitive clinical isolates of Klebsiella pneumoniae
from southern Taiwan were found to produce extended-spectrum β-lactamases (ESBLs): 10 …

ABSTRACT A total of 1,210 clinical isolates of Escherichia coli collected from a university
hospital in southern Taiwan were screened for production of extended-spectrum β …

Dipicolinic acid (DPA) is a small polar molecule that accumulates to high concentrations in
bacterial endospores, and is thought to play a role in spore heat resistance, or the …

When the Bacillus subtilis dnaB37 mutant, defective in initiation, is returned to permissive
temperature after growth at 45° C, DNA replication is synchronized. Under these conditions …

Mutations that cause a block in a late step of the protoheme IX biosynthetic pathway, ie, in a
step after uroporphyrinogen III, map at 94 degrees on the Bacillus subtilis chromosomal …

The pbpB gene, which encodes penicillin-binding protein (PBP) 2B of Bacillus subtilis, has
been cloned, sequenced, mapped, and mutagenized. The sequence of PBP 2B places it …

Using a gene probe of the Escherichia coli groEL gene, a 1.8-kb HindIII fragment of
chromosomal DNA of Bacillus subtilis was cloned. Upstream sequences were isolated as a …