The first thing you'll need to do is determine your unknown's group number. To do that, you will need to consult Bergey's Manual of Determinative Bacteriology (9th edition). To find your group number, look through the table of contents of the manual, and use the table that starts on page 17. Most unknowns will be in one of these groups:
Bergeys Manual Of Determinative Bacteriology 9th Edition
Based on the data contained in the four-volume Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, BMDB-9 also includes new genera and species, new combinations, and new taxa published through the January 1992 issue of the IJSB. Users will find short general descriptions that encompass all organisms by Groups; shape and size, Gram reaction, other pertinent morphological features, motility and flagella, relations to oxygen, basic type of metabolism, carbon and energy sources, habitat and ecology. BMDB-9 also includes discussions of difficulties in identification, keys or tables to genera and species, genus descriptions, synonyms, other nomenclatural changes, and numerous illustrations.if(typeof performance.mark !== 'undefined')performance.mark("Product_Tabs_loading_start");Related collections and offersProduct DetailsProduct DetailsISBN-13:9780683006032Publisher:LWW Publication date:10/09/1993Edition description:Ninth Pages:816Product dimensions: 8.62(w) x 11.03(h) x 1.47(d)if(typeof performance.mark !== 'undefined' && typeof performance.measure !== 'undefined')performance.mark("Product_Tabs_loading_end");performance.measure("productTabsDur","Product_Tabs_loading_start","Product_Tabs_loading_end");Related Subjects Biology - Bacteriology Microbiology Biology - Bacteriology MicrobiologyEditorial ReviewsReviewer: Bruce E. Dunn, MD (Medical College of Wisconsin) Description: This book is a collection of brief descriptions of bacteria and detailed tables of differential characteristics of bacterial species described and cultured as of January 1991.Purpose: The purpose is to serve as a reference to aid in the identification of bacteria. Information is arranged strictly based on phenotypic characteristics of bacteria. In contrast to Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology, this determinative manual does not offer a natural classification of bacteria.Audience: Because of the concise organization of the descriptions and tables in the book, it should prove useful to students, diagnostic microbiologists, and researchers.Features: Important descriptive, differential, and physiologic features of bacteria are present in bold type in the text. In tables, alternate lines are shaded to allow the reader to easily line up the relevant information. In most cases the reader will have to refer back to Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology to obtain references, because few references are cited in this determinative manual.Assessment: The book was compiled by abstracting the phenotypic information contained in the four volumes of Bergey's Manual of Systematic Bacteriology. This well-organized book provides to the diagnostic microbiologist an unequaled amount of descriptive information in one source. The detailed index allows easy access to the large number of bacteria described.
2. Document D37A consists of a copy of the double-sided cover page and page 222 from the ninth edition of the Bergey's manual, a textbook known to all those working in the field of microbiology. Page 222 explains the meaning of the symbols used in the tables of pages 233 (see the footnote of Table 5.17) and 234 (see the footnote of Table 5.18) of the same document submitted together with pages 179 and 180 as document D37 by appellant II during the opposition proceedings. The information contained in page 222 does not constitute new evidence. Therefore, the Board admits document D37A in the appeal proceedings.
3. Document D37B is a letter from the present publisher of the Bergey's manual. It conveys the information that the pages of Bergey's manual which were presented in document D37 originate from the ninth edition thereof (this had not been indicated earlier; see the appellant II's letter of 18 July 2008) and that said edition was published on 1 September 1993, i.e. before the priority date. As neither the origin of the pages filed as document D37 nor their availability to the public before the priority date have been disputed, either during the opposition proceedings or at the appeal stage, the Board admits document D37B into the appeal proceedings.
23. Document D37 is a compilation of four pages from the ninth edition of the Bergey's manual. On pages 179 (see the right-hand column) and 180 (see the left-hand column), the genus Escherichia is generally described. On page 180, following the remark that "Another biogroup of E. coli is negative in reactions for lysine carboxylase, arginine dihydrolase, and ornithine decarboxylase, which make them similar to Enterobacter (Pantoea) agglomerans and other species that are negative in these tests", reference is made to Table 5.17. This table on page 233 of document D37 shows, as interpreted on page 222, that no lysine decarboxylase activity has been found in 90% or more of the strains of Escherichia hermanii. 2ff7e9595c
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