Bioactive compound production by thermophilic and thermotolerant cyanobacteria (blue-green algae)

Fish, Steven Anthony and Codd, G. A. (1994) Bioactive compound production by thermophilic and thermotolerant cyanobacteria (blue-green algae). World Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology, 10 (3). pp. 338-341. ISSN 0959-3993

Abstract

A thermotolerant species of Phormidium produced extracellular anti-microbial material during batch culture. Although this material was inactive when screened against a number of other cyanobacteria, it inhibited the growth of a wide range of Gram-positive and Gram-negative heterotrophic bacteria, Candida albicans and Cladosporium resinae.