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Volume : II, Issue : IX, October - 2012

Isolation Of Bacteria From Personal Computer Hardware And Sequence Analysis Of Hypervariable Region V6 For Molecular Identification

V. S. Wadhai and Varsha N. Tandra

Published By : Laxmi Book Publication

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The usage of computers is increasing day by day. Computers just like microbes are ubiquitous and they continue to have an increased presence in almost every aspect of our occupational, recreational, and residential environment. This research seeks to investigate what kinds of microorganisms, especially bacteria that actually can contaminate computer hardware. Bacterial 16S ribosomal RNA genes generally contain nine “hypervariable regions” (V1 – V9) that demonstrate considerable sequence diversity among different bacterial species and can be used for species identification. We identified the unknown bacteria isolated from computer hardware by molecular detection and sequence analysis of 16S ribosomal RNA hypervariable region V6.The gene sequence obtained was studied in the region from V3-V6. Sequence similarity dendogram were created for hypervariable regions V3-V6. After complete analysis and using bioinformatics tools our investigation demonstrated that the V6 (nucleotide 986- 1043) contains diverse character & maximum distinguish power for the Bacillus subtilis species analyzed.

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V. S. Wadhai and Varsha N. Tandra, (2012). Isolation Of Bacteria From Personal Computer Hardware And Sequence Analysis Of Hypervariable Region V6 For Molecular Identification. Indian Streams Research Journal, Vol. II, Issue. IX, http://oldisrj.lbp.world/UploadedData/1410.pdf

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