Bacterial growth in media mimicking the high salt and alkalinity of extreme kazakhstan environments results in production of antimicrobial compounds in soil actinomycetes isolated from these extremophile locations

Abstract

Introduction Staphylococcus aureus colonization of the nose is common in the United States with an estimated 30% of the population carrying the organism asymptomatically [1]. However, S. aureus is an opportunistic pathogen accounting for as many as 478,000 hospitalizations as recently as 2005, more than half of which were due to