Hate to say I told you so........but it just didn't sound like a gram negative to
me.
Bacillus will only sporulate under adverse conditions. If you're providing it with
breakfast, lunch, and dinner on a great plate, it has no need to form spores.
Judy Dilworth, M.T. (ASCP)
Microbiology (Clinical) 28 years
Trond Erik Vee Aune wrote:
> Yes, it was highly motile and swarmed in a very fascinating way. That's
> why I decided to identify it. I looked for spores in the microscope, but
> couldn't see any, so maybe the cells were in the wrong growth phase.
>> Trond Erik
>> >>>Anyway, I got very good match against Paenibacillus alvei. According to
> >>web-resources this genus do produce different types of antibiotics as
> >>well as being able to swarm in different ways
> >>(http://ijs.sgmjournals.org/cgi/reprint/49/1/239.pdf). The strange thing
> >>is that it is not a gram negative bug as I thought after staining, but
> >>one of you microbiologists suggested that I was a Bacillus strain, so I
> >>guess we geneticists are much better at sequencing than staining ;)
> >>Anyway, I'm pretty pleased that I finally got an identification, but of
> >>course a little disappointed that it wasn't a new bacterium
>
