Iranian researchers register new bacteria genes in int'l gene bank

"Registering sequence of micro organism genes and living creatures is one of the important ways which paves the way for using the information and genetic reservoirs of creatures in different parts of the world," said Mehdi Asgari, a faculty member of Islamic Azad University in Garmsar, Central Iran.

One of the genes is sequence of coding the enzyme of Aspartate Ammonia Lyaz of Lawsonia Intracellularis bacteria. The organism has been used as a growing enteritis in foals. It has not been found in our country so far, ISNA reports. He further added that the other gene is sequence with an unknown gene from Avibacterium Paragallinarum bacteria which is the cause of Infectious Coryza in poultry. The results of the study were published in the Turkish Journal of Veterinary and Animal Sciences. The research was carried jointly with Blackwall, an international prominent figure on poultry disease who has written Disease of Poultry. The final gene was a sequence related to General Escherichia F2 Shiga Toxin taken away from birds. The toxin was first discovered in 2000.