Streptomyces – The Industrious Antibiotic Producer
Like other actinomycetes, the Streptomyces group of microbes straddles the somewhat artificial boundary between bacteria and fungi. Growth on culture plates looks ‘fungal’ and the organism produces spores and germtubes that look like mycelia. Nonetheless these soil organisms are bacteria and of great interest to microbiologists as the producers of many antibiotics Continue reading Streptomyces – The Industrious Antibiotic Producer