Documenting the epidemiologic patterns of polyomaviruses in human populations by studying their presence in urban sewage.

abstract：:Oxolinic acid (OA), a quinolone, inhibits the activity of DNA gyrase composed of GyrA and GyrB and shows antibacterial activity against Burkholderia glumae. Since B. glumae causes bacterial seedling rot and grain rot of rice, both of which are devastating diseases, the emergence of OA-resistant bacteria has important ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Maeda Y,Kiba A,Ohnishi K,Hikichi Y

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Escherichia coli MV1184 to accumulate inorganic phosphate (Pi) was enhanced by manipulating the genes involved in the transport and metabolism of Pi. The high-level Pi accumulation was achieved by modifying the genetic regulation and increasing the dosage of the E. coli genes encoding polyphosphate kina...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kato J,Yamada K,Muramatsu A,Hardoyo,Ohtake H

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nine immunoglobulin G and nine immunoglobulin M murine monoclonal antibody-producing hybridomas reactive with live Salmonella bacteria were obtained from several fusions of immune spleen cells and Sp2/0 myeloma cells. The antibodies were selected by the magnetic immunoluminescence assay. The monoclonal antibodies were...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Torensma R,Visser MJ,Aarsman CJ,Poppelier MJ,van Beurden R,Fluit AC,Verhoef J

更新日期：1992-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gray mold fungus Botrytis cinerea is a major threat to fruit and vegetable production. Strawberry fields usually receive several fungicide treatments against Botrytis per season. Gray mold isolates from several German strawberry-growing regions were analyzed to determine their sensitivity against botryticides. Fun...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Leroch M,Plesken C,Weber RW,Kauff F,Scalliet G,Hahn M

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since Vibrio cholerae O139 first appeared in 1992, both O1 El Tor and O139 have been recognized as the epidemic serogroups, although their geographic distribution, endemicity, and reservoir are not fully understood. To address this lack of information, a study of the epidemiology and ecology of V. cholerae O1 and O139...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Alam M,Hasan NA,Sadique A,Bhuiyan NA,Ahmed KU,Nusrin S,Nair GB,Siddique AK,Sack RB,Sack DA,Huq A,Colwell RR

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An amylolytic Lactobacillus plantarum silage strain with the starch-degrading ability displayed by Lactobacillus amylovorus was developed. An active fragment of the gene coding for alpha-amylase production in L. amylovorus was cloned and integrated into the chromosome of the competitive inoculant strain L. plantarum L...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fitzsimons A,Hols P,Jore J,Leer RJ,O'Connell M,Delcour J

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that enhanced lysozyme resistance of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli requires the plasmid-encoded regulator, Per, and is mediated by factors outside the locus for enterocyte effacement. EspC, a Per-activated serine protease autotransporter protein, conferred enhanced resistance on nonpathogenic E. col...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Salinger N,Kokona B,Fairman R,Okeke IN

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteolytic but chitinase-deficient microbial cultures were isolated from shrimp shell waste and characterized. The most efficient isolate was found to be a mixed culture consisting of two Bacillus licheniformis strains, which were first determined microscopically and physiologically. Molecular characterization was ca...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Waldeck J,Daum G,Bisping B,Meinhardt F

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza virus has been found to persist in the environment for hours to days, allowing for secondary transmission of influenza via inanimate objects known as fomites. We evaluated the efficacy of heat and moisture for the decontamination of surfaces for the purpose of preventing of the spread of influenza. Aqueous s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McDevitt J,Rudnick S,First M,Spengler J

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the construction of an Escherichia coli mutant that harbors two compatible plasmids and that is able to synthesize labeled 2-O-alpha-D-mannosyl-D-glycerate from externally added labeled mannose without the loss of specific isotopic enrichment. The strain carries a deletion in the manA gene, encoding phosphom...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sampaio MM,Santos H,Boos W

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five autoagglutinating Aeromonas hydrophila isolates recovered from eels and humans were assigned to serogroups O:14 and O:81 of the Sakazaki and Shimada (National Institutes of Health) scheme. They had the following properties in common: positive precipitation after boiling, moderate surface hydrophobicity (salt-aggr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Esteve C,Alcaide E,Canals R,Merino S,Blasco D,Figueras MJ,Tomás JM

更新日期：2004-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polyclonal antibodies of predetermined specificity for pediocin PA-1 (pedA1) have been generated by immunization of rabbits with a chemically synthesized C-terminal fragment of this bacteriocin (PH2) conjugated to the carrier protein keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH). The sensitivity and specificity of the PH2-KLH-gener...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Martínez JM,Martínez MI,Suárez AM,Herranz C,Casaus P,Cintas LM,Rodríguez JM,Hernández PE

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrated air sampling and PCR-based methods for detecting airborne fungal spores, using Penicillium roqueforti as a model fungus, are described. P. roqueforti spores were collected directly into Eppendorf tubes using a miniature cyclone-type air sampler. They were then suspended in 0.1% Nonidet P-40, and counted usi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Williams RH,Ward E,McCartney HA

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of microbial viability by the plate count method is routine in microbiology laboratories worldwide. However, limitations of the technique, particularly with respect to environmental microorganisms, are widely recognized. Many alternatives based upon viability staining have been proposed, and these are of...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Davey HM

更新日期：2011-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Media used to determine the MICs of heavy metals for bacteria are unreliable because organic components in the media bind or chelate most of the metal being studied. To define specific metal activity in media and to maintain metal activity at a constant level, HEPES-MES [N-2-hydroxyethylpiperazine-N' -2-ethanesulfonic...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Angle JS,Chaney RL

更新日期：1989-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The minimal nutritional growth requirements were determined for strains Okra B and Iwanai E, which are representatives of groups I and II, respectively, of Clostridium botulinum. These type B and E strains differed considerably in their nutrient requirements. The organic growth factors required in high concentrations ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Whitmer ME,Johnson EA

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Northeastern Atlantic minke whales (Balaenoptera acutorostrata) have a multichambered stomach system which includes a nonglandular forestomach resembling that of ruminants. Bacteria from the forestomachs of herring-eating whales were enumerated and isolated in an anaerobic rumen-like culture medium (M8W medium). The t...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Olsen MA,Aagnes TH,Mathiesen SD

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The composition of phospholipids from Mycobacterium convolutum R22 was determined after growth at two temperatures (20 and 30 degrees C) with 1-chlorohexadecane as the substrate. Comparisons were made with the phospholipids of cells grown on n-hexadecane. Phosphatidylinositolmannosides and phosphatidylethanolamine (PE...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Murphy GL,Perry JJ

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic acids derived from engineered microbes can replace fossil-derived chemicals in many applications. Fungal hosts are preferred for organic acid production because they tolerate lignocellulosic hydrolysates and low pH, allowing economic production and recovery of the free acid. However, cell death caused by cytos...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zdraljevic S,Wagner D,Cheng K,Ruohonen L,Jäntti J,Penttilä M,Resnekov O,Pesce CG

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Surfaces made of copper or its alloys have strong antimicrobial properties against a wide variety of microorganisms. However, the molecular mode of action responsible for the antimicrobial efficacy of metallic copper is not known. Here, we show that dry copper surfaces inactivate Candida albicans and Saccharomyces cer...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Quaranta D,Krans T,Espírito Santo C,Elowsky CG,Domaille DW,Chang CJ,Grass G

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mannitol, a six-carbon sugar alcohol, is the main storage carbon in the button mushroom, Agaricus bisporus. Given the physiological importance of mannitol metabolism in growth, fruit body development, and salt tolerance of A. bisporus, the enzyme responsible for mannitol biosynthesis, NADP-dependent mannitol dehydroge...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stoop JM,Mooibroek H

更新日期：1998-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genome of Dehalococcoides ethenogenes strain 195, an anaerobic dehalorespiring bacterium, contains 18 copies of putative reductive dehalogenase genes, including the well-characterized tceA gene, whose gene product functions as the key enzyme in the environmentally important dehalorespiration process. The genome of...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Regeard C,Maillard J,Dufraigne C,Deschavanne P,Holliger C

更新日期：2005-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental contamination with compounds containing oxyanions of chlorine, such as perchlorate or chlorate [(per)chlorate] or chlorine dioxide, has been a constantly growing problem over the last 100 years. Although the fact that microbes reduce these compounds has been recognized for more than 50 years, only six or...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Coates JD,Michaelidou U,Bruce RA,O'Connor SM,Crespi JN,Achenbach LA

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Indoxyl-beta-D-glucuronide (indoxyl) was evaluated as a specific chromogen for detection of Escherichia coli by the membrane filter method. In all, 413 colonies were tested from the indoxyl-supplemented media, yielding 93.3% confirmation, as E. coli. Compared with the indoxyl medium, other media gave either much lower...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Haines JR,Covert TC,Rankin CC

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Population sizes of algae, bacteria, heterotrophic flagellates, and viruses were observed through the 1989 spring diatom bloom in Raunefjorden in western Norway. The culmination of the diatom bloom was followed by a peak in the concentration of bacteria and an increase in the concentration of heterotrophic flagellates...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bratbak G,Heldal M,Norland S,Thingstad TF

更新日期：1990-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The role of Escherichia coli as a pathogen has been the focus of considerable study, while much less is known about it as a commensal and how it adapts to and colonizes different environmental niches within the mammalian gut. In this study, we characterize Escherichia coli organisms (n = 146) isolated from different r...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Abraham S,Gordon DM,Chin J,Brouwers HJ,Njuguna P,Groves MD,Zhang R,Chapman TA

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies implicated loss of motility and mutations of the alsR and sigW regulatory genes in enhanced fitness of the Bacillus subtilis evolved strain WN716 over that of its ancestral strain WN624. The fitness of strains carrying knockout mutations alsR::spc, sigD::kan, and/or sigW::erm was measured and compared...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nicholson WL

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leuconostoc mesenteroides strains that are resistant to high levels of nisin (up to 25,000 IU/ml in broth) were isolated. These nisin-resistant mutants were evaluated to determine their potential use as starter culture strains for cabbage fermentations. We found that some L. mesenteroides strains could be adapted to h...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Breidt F,Crowley KA,Fleming HP

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many recombinant proteins that are produced in Escherichia coli have to be targeted to the periplasm to be functional. N-terminal signal peptides can be used to direct recombinant proteins to the membrane-embedded Sec translocon, a multiprotein complex that translocates proteins across the membrane into the periplasm....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ytterberg AJ,Zubarev RA,Baumgarten T

更新日期：2019-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The abundance of nifH, nirS, and nirK gene fragments involved in nitrogen (N) fixation and denitrification in thinned second-growth Douglas-fir (Pseudotsuga menziesii subsp. menziesii [Mirb.] Franco) forest soil was investigated by using quantitative real-time PCR. Prokaryotic N cycling is an important aspect of N ava...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Levy-Booth DJ,Winder RS

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00