This study demonstrates rotavirus as the main etiological agent in pediatric diarrhea in Burkina Faso, and further shows the great severity of rotavirus-induced diarrhea in undernourished children in Burkina Faso.
A novel methane-oxidizing bacterium, strain Fw12E-Y T , was isolated from floodwater of a rice paddy field in Japan. Cells of strain Fw12E-Y T were Gram-negative, motile rods with a single polar flagellum and type I intracytoplasmic membrane arrangement. The strain grew only on methane or methanol as sole carbon and energy source. It was able to grow at 10-40 6C (optimum 30 6C), at pH 5.5-7.0 (optimum 6.5) and with 0-0.1 % (w/w) NaCl (no growth above 0.5 % NaCl). 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis showed that strain Fw12E-Y T is related most closely to members of the genus Methylomonas, but at low levels of similarity (95.0-95.4 %). Phylogenetic analysis of pmoA and mxaF genes indicated that the strain belongs to the genus Methylomonas (97 and 92 % deduced amino acid sequence identities to Methylomonas methanica S1
The diversity of cultivable methane-oxidizing bacteria (MOB) in the rice paddy field ecosystem was investigated by combined culture-dependent and fluorescence
in situ
hybridization (FISH) techniques. Seven microsites of a Japanese rice paddy field were the focus of the study: floodwater, surface soil, bulk soil, rhizosphere soil, root, basal stem of rice plant, and rice stumps of previous harvest. Based on
pmoA
gene analysis and transmission electron microscopy (TEM), four type I, and nine type II MOB isolates were obtained from the highest dilution series of enrichment cultures. The type I MOB isolates included a novel species in the genus
Methylomonas
from floodwater and this is the first type I MOB strain isolated from floodwater of a rice paddy field. In the type I MOB, two isolates from stumps were closely related to
Methylomonas
spp.; one isolate obtained from rhizosphere soil was most related to
Methyloccocus-Methylocaldum-Methylogaea
clade. Almost all the type II MOB isolates were related to
Methylocystis
methanotrophs. FISH confirmed the presence of both types I and II MOB in all the microsites and in the related enrichment cultures. The study reported, for the first time, the diversity of cultivable methanotrophs including a novel species of type I MOB in rice paddy field compartments. Refining growth media and culture conditions, in combination with molecular approaches, will allow us to broaden our knowledge on the MOB community in the rice paddy field ecosystem and consequently to implement strategies for mitigating CH
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emission from this ecosystem.
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