Reproductive History of a Woman With 8p and 18p Genetic Imbalance and Minor Phenotypic Abnormalities.

We report on the phenotype and the reproductive history of an adult female patient with an unbalanced karyotype: 8p23 and 18p11.3 terminal deletions and 8p22 duplication. The indication for karyotyping of the 28-year-old patient was a structural rearrangement in her miscarriage specimen: 45,ХХ,der(8;18)t(8;18)(p23;p11.

[Azotobacter chroococcum, a producer of a new antifungal antibiotic].

Strain 92 of Azotobacter chroococcum was obtained as result of natural selection. It produces an antibiotic active against phytopathogenic fungi. The antibiotic was isolated from the bacterial mass of the culture with ethanol extraction followed by column and thin-layer chromatography on silica gel.