Isolation and Identification of Obligate Thermophilic Sporeforming Bacilli from Ocean Basin Cores

Abstract

Bartholomew , J. W. (University of Southern California, Los Angeles), and George Paik . Isolation and identification of obligate thermophilic sporeforming bacilli from ocean basin cores. J. Bacteriol. 92: 635–638. 1966.—Obligate thermophilic sporeforming aerobic bacilli were isolated from 11 ocean basin cores taken from locations in a 150 mile long area off of the coast from Ensenada, Mexico, to Santa Catalina Island, and ranging as far out from shore as 160 miles. Isolated strains of bacilli were all identified as being identical, or closely related, to Bacillus stearothermophilus .