Recent Discoveries in Microbiology (GATE - XL)

Human hepegivirus 1 was discovered by Amit Kapoor, a virologist at Columbia University, in old blood samples. Later it was shown that HIV-infected people benefit from co-infection with hepegivirus, it reduces the pathogenesis of HIV.

The rod-shaped bacteria isolated from drinking water systems belonged to the genus Serratia. It was Serratia aquatilis.

Methylopila henanensis is a monotrichous bacteria. It has a single flagellum. It is capable of obtaining carbon and energy from methane.

In 2016, McLean and his colleagues discovered a new life form from saliva and linked it to human disease. This parasite makes its host more harmful to humans.

Psychroflexus salis is a gram negative, strictly aerobic and non-motile bacteria from the genus of Psychroflexus.

Burkholderia insulsa isolated from the Ambitle Island on Papua New Guinea was arsenic tolerant.

Legionella norrlandica isolated in 2015 from the biopurification systems of wood processing plants that has no significant negative effect on the growth or replication of the amoeba.

Massilia putida discovered in 2016 from the Jiangxi Province in China that has the ability to produce dimethyl cyanide.

In 2014, it was found by Borgdorff et al. that lactobacillus crispatus is very good at trapping HIV, HSV or HPV particles and their dominance presents less chance of HIV, HSV or HPV infection.

Chryseobacterium arachidiradicis is a Gram-negative and rod-shaped bacteria isolated from soil around peanut in Alabama, United States in 2015.

In 2015, W. C. Campbell and Saroshi Omura received the Nobel prize for novel therapy against infections caused by roundworm.

In 2014, a novel antibiotic called Teixobactin was found in Eleftheria terrae. Teixobactin was the first new antibiotic discovered since the synthetic era of the 1980s, thus it was a major discovery.

Rhizobium bangladeshense can grow in the presence of lincomycin.

Bacteria a and b were isolated from moss in 2015. Chryseobacterium takakiae has been isolated from the moss takakia lepidozioides from the Gawalong glacier in Tibet in China and bacteria Chryseobacterium polytrichastri has been isolated from the moss polytrichastrum formosum from the Gawalong glacier from Tibet in China.

This is the correct match Streptomyces alfalfae has been isolated from rhizosphere soil from an alfalfa field in Jingyang in China, Streptomyces actinomycinicus has been isolated from soil from a peat swamp forest in the Rayong Province in Thailand. Psychroflexus planctonicus has been isolated from the Lake Xiaochaidan in Qaidam Basin in the Qinghai Province in China. Massilia putida has been isolated from a wolfram mine in Dayu County in the Jiangxi Province in China.