Browsing Journal Articles by Subject "16S rRNA"

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Amplicon-based assessment of bacterial diversity and community structure in three tropical forest soils in Kenya

Kenya, Eucharia U.; Kinyanjui, Grace; Kipnyargis, Alex C.; Kinyua, Franklin; Mwangi, Mary; Khamis, Fathiya; Mwirichia, Romano K. (Heliyon, 2022-11)

Forest soils provide a multitude of habitats for diverse communities of bacteria. In this study, we selected three tropical forests in Kenya to determine the diversity and community structure of soil bacteria inhabiting ...
Desertifilum fontinale sp. nov. (Oscillatoriales, Cyanobacteria) from a warm spring in East Africa, based on conventional and molecular studies

Dadheech, Pawan K.; Mahmoud, Huda; Kotut, Kiplagat; Krienitz, L. (2014)

Desertifilum is a filamentous cyanobacterium of crusts and biofilms, recently described from the extreme hot and dry Thar Desert in north–western India. A new species was isolated from a warm spring near Lake Bogoria, Kenya ...
Prokaryotic diversity and potentially pathogenic bacteria in vended foods and environmental samples

Muriuki, Susan W.; Rengan, Michael S.; Budambula, Nancy (BMC, 2021-07)

Purpose: Ready-to-eat fast food vending outlets provide a cheap and readily available food. Foodborne diseases have been previously reported in Embu, Kenya, but data on the prokaryotic metagenome in vended foods is scanty. ...