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[Studies on the classification of thermophilic actinomycetes. IV. Determination of thermophilic Streptomyces hygroscopicus group]. 1991

Y Y Lu, and D Y Xu, and H P Dai

Institute of Microbiology, Academia Sinica, Beijing.

The thermophilic streptomyces hygroscopicus is one of the pathogens of farmer's lung disease. The identified 60 strains of thermophilic streptomyces hygroscopicus coming from the isolates from the haystack, moldy hay and sputa collected from Jiangsu, Hubei province and Shanghai in China. These strains are grown around 50 degrees C and have moist patches on the surface of colonies. It is proved that protease can be extracted from cultured H9-4 strain. This protease is provided with antigen, the farmer's lung disease of rabbit can be induced in animals experiments. On clinical diagnosis the farmer's lung disease can be detected by sera test. From the identification of the 60 thermophilic streptomyces hygroscopicus strains, we found the morphological cultural, physiological characteristics and cell wall composition of H9-4 and T562 well different from description hitherto. So two of them are identified as new species. H9-4 is named as Streptomyces thermoendus sp. nov. and T562 is named as Streptomyces thermobicorno-hygroscopicus sp. nov.

UI	MeSH Term	Description	Entries
D008168	Lung	Either of the pair of organs occupying the cavity of the thorax that effect the aeration of the blood.	Lungs
D009626	Terminology as Topic	Works about the terms, expressions, designations, or symbols used in a particular science, discipline, or specialized subject area.	Etymology,Nomenclature as Topic,Etymologies
D011817	Rabbits	A burrowing plant-eating mammal with hind limbs that are longer than its fore limbs. It belongs to the family Leporidae of the order Lagomorpha, and in contrast to hares, possesses 22 instead of 24 pairs of chromosomes.	Belgian Hare,New Zealand Rabbit,New Zealand Rabbits,New Zealand White Rabbit,Rabbit,Rabbit, Domestic,Chinchilla Rabbits,NZW Rabbits,New Zealand White Rabbits,Oryctolagus cuniculus,Chinchilla Rabbit,Domestic Rabbit,Domestic Rabbits,Hare, Belgian,NZW Rabbit,Rabbit, Chinchilla,Rabbit, NZW,Rabbit, New Zealand,Rabbits, Chinchilla,Rabbits, Domestic,Rabbits, NZW,Rabbits, New Zealand,Zealand Rabbit, New,Zealand Rabbits, New,cuniculus, Oryctolagus
D005203	Farmer's Lung	A form of alveolitis or pneumonitis due to an acquired hypersensitivity to inhaled antigens associated with farm environment. Antigens in the farm dust are commonly from bacteria actinomycetes (SACCHAROPOLYSPORA and THERMOACTINOMYCES), fungi, and animal proteins in the soil, straw, crops, pelts, serum, and excreta.	Mushroom Worker's Lung,Farmer Lung,Farmer's Lungs,Farmers Lung,Mushroom Worker Lung,Mushroom Worker's Lungs,Mushroom Workers Lung
D000818	Animals	Unicellular or multicellular, heterotrophic organisms, that have sensation and the power of voluntary movement. Under the older five kingdom paradigm, Animalia was one of the kingdoms. Under the modern three domain model, Animalia represents one of the many groups in the domain EUKARYOTA.	Animal,Metazoa,Animalia
D012697	Serine Endopeptidases	Any member of the group of ENDOPEPTIDASES containing at the active site a serine residue involved in catalysis.	Serine Endopeptidase,Endopeptidase, Serine,Endopeptidases, Serine
D013302	Streptomyces	A genus of bacteria that form a nonfragmented aerial mycelium. Many species have been identified with some being pathogenic. This genus is responsible for producing a majority of the ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS of practical value.