ISSN: 0973-7510

E-ISSN: 2581-690X

A. Raja1 , P. Prabakaran2, P. Gajalakshmi3 and S. Senthil Kumar
1Department of Microbiology, Jamal Mohamed College, Trichirappalli, India.
2Department of Microbiology, PRIST University,Thanjavur, India.
3Department of Microbiology, Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan College of Arts and Science for women Perambalur, India.
4Department of Biotechnology, Jamal mohamed College, Tiruchirapalli, India.
J Pure Appl Microbiol. 2010;4(1):225-230
© The Author(s). 2010
Received: 05/11/2009 | Accepted: 18/12/2009 | Published: 30/04/2010
Abstract

The objective of this work is to isolate and screen antibiotic producing psychrophilic Actinomycetes and to find out their antimicrobial activity against Streptococcus by agar well diffusion method. The antibacterial activities of isolated actinomycetes were found against S.mutans and S.oralis. Six Actinomycetes were isolated from the soil sample through crowded plate technique and identified as Intrasporangium sp, Dactyl sporangium sp, Micromonospora sp,  Streptoverticilium sp and two Streptomyces sp.The bacterial species were isolated from fifty of tooth samples which are collected from the dental hospital and identified as S. mutans and S.oralis. The isolated Actinomycetes exhibits different in the way of utilization of  Indole, MR, VP, citrate, nitrate reduction, starch hydrolysis, oxidase, catalase and  utilization of sugar.The identification of test pathogenic bacteria is confirmed by haemolytic activity on blood agar plates and biochemical tests. The test organism S.mutans is highly sensitive to Dactylsporangium sp and the S.oralis sensitive to S.purpurens. The Dactylsporangium sp produce pertinacious substance which is responsible for antimicrobial activity. Other strains are producing non pertinacious substance. the work is extended to find out the structure of the isolated compounds.

Keywords

Psychrophils, Actinomycetes, Tooth decay, ZOI, Muller hinton agar, MBS broth

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