Table 1.

Total viable counts of actinomycetes in the soil sample from three different locations of Saudi Arabia.

Stations	Colony forming unit (1 × 106 CFU g−1) (10-5 dilution)
	Protease producing organism	Lipase producing organism	Total
1	18	14	32
2	20	16	36
3	30	11	41

1: Al-Aselah hot spring region; 2: Dammam marine region; 3: Jazan marine region.