Enumeration, isolation, and identification of bifidobacteria from infant feces.

abstract：:The ability of surfactants obtained from three Lactobacillus acidophilus strains to inhibit Staphylococcus aureus and S. epidermidis biofilms was evaluated. Their influence was determined on bacterial initial adhesion, biofilm formation and dispersal using MTT-reduction assay, confocal laser scanning microscopy and im...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Walencka E,Rózalska S,Sadowska B,Rózalska B

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assumption that the pyruvate decarboxylase activity of Saccharomyces carlsbergensis is the main limiting factor determining the formation rate and the total amount of d(--)-l-hydroxy-l-phenyl-propanone (phenylacetylcarbinol, PAC) produced was not confirmed. An increase of about 30% of the total amount of the PAC p...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Vojtísek V,Netrval J

更新日期：1982-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plenty of metagenomic studies have suggested possible associations between microbiome composition and colorectal cancer (CRC). However, these techniques are not economic enough for routine use so far. Therefore, we explored the possibility to detect species associated with colorectal cancer by conventional culture fro...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Starý L,Mezerová K,Vysloužil K,Zbořil P,Skalický P,Stašek M,Raclavský V

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The autofluorescence (primary fluorescence, AF) of agar cultures of the brown-rot fungus Piptoporus betulinus was investigated in Zeiss Jenalumar and Nikon Eclipse 8201 fluorescence microscopes at various excitations. The strongest AF of hyphae was found in minimal medium with glucose, where the hyphae exhibited green...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Zižka Z,Vêtrovský T,Gabriel J

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of immersion time and cell concentration in the attachment of several lactic acid bacteria with antibacterial activity to beef-muscle surface was studied. The number of firmly attached bacteria increased with immersion time in the case of Pediococcus acidilacti, Lactobacillus sake, Lactococcus cremoris (two...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Benito Y,Pin C,Fernández MF,Marín ML,Selgas MD,García ML,Casas C

更新日期：1996-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Moderately halophilic bacteria utilizing phenol as the sole carbon source were isolated by selective enrichment from sea water. The isolate (Gram-negative motile rods) was identified as Deleya venusta. It grew well in the presence of up to 1600 mg/L of phenol and 8% NaCl under aerobic conditions. When the cells were t...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Muñoz JA,Pérez-Esteban B,Esteban M,de la Escalera S,Gómez MA,Martínez-Toledo MV,González-López J

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the ability to attach to polymeric surfaces, the formation of biofilms was determined in 5 wild-type strains (Pseudomonas aeruginosa, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumanii, Escherichia coli, Staphylococcus warneri). Using modified Christensen method, minimum regrowth concentration (MRC) of piperacilli...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Cernohorská L,Votava M

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasma membrane and mitochondria of bottom fermenting brewer's yeast obtained as a by-product of industrial beer production were isolated and the lipid fraction was analyzed. The phospholipid content accounted for 78 mg/g protein in the plasma membrane and 59 mg/g protein in the mitochondria. Major phospholipids i...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Blagović B,Rupcić J,Mesarić M,Marić V

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This is the first report describing precipitation of bacteriophage particles with zinc chloride as a method of choice to isolate infectious lytic bacteriophages against Pectobacterium spp. and Dickeya spp. from environmental samples. The isolated bacteriophages are ready to use to study various (ecological) aspects of...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Czajkowski R,Ozymko Z,Lojkowska E

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rumen ciliate protozoa intensively engulf bacteria. However, their ability to utilize murein which is the main polysaccharide of bacterial cell wall has hardly been recognized. The present study concerns the ability of the rumen protozoa Diploplastron affine to digest and ferment murein. The ciliates were isolated fro...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Bełzecki G,Miltko R,Kwiatkowska E,Michałowski T

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mineral nutrition of crop plants is one of the major challenges faced by modern agriculture, particularly in arid and semi-arid regions. In alkaline calcareous soils, the availability of phosphorus and zinc is critically less due to their fixation and precipitation as complexes. Farmers use fertilizers to fulfill crop...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Ahmad I,Ahmad M,Hussain A,Jamil M

更新日期：2020-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Coxiella burnetii (C. burnetii), an intracellular zoonotic bacterium causing Q fever, occurs widely in cattle herds. After invasion of the pregnant uterus and initial localization in the placenta, active C. burnetii infections may spread to the fetus hematogenously or by the amniotic-oral route and thus may cause abor...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Freick M,Konrath A,Enbergs H,Walraph J,Weber J,Eulenberger K

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms that cause chronic infections exist predominantly as surface-attached stable communities known as biofilms. Microbial cells in biofilms are highly resistant to conventional antibiotics and other forms of antimicrobial treatment; therefore, modern medicine tries to develop new drugs that exhibit anti-bio...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Paldrychová M,Kolouchová I,Vaňková E,Maťátková O,Šmidrkal J,Krmela A,Schulzová V,Hajšlová J,Masák J

更新日期：2019-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of Helicobacter pylori cells with several chaotropic agents resulted in different degrees of inhibition in the binding of the bacteria to hemin and Congo-red dye. Polyanions also yielded a >50% inhibitory effect. Furthermore, hydrophobic interaction chromatography was used to determine the relative surface h...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Ruiz-Bustos E,Wadström T,Ascencio F

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Substitution with NO2, Cl, Br and I into position 6 of 2-benzthiazolthiol derivatives increased their antimicrobial efficiency while the SH group is preserved. This increase affected both G+ and G--bacteria, mycobacteria and some fungi. The degree of efficiency of the benzthiazol derivatives is also influenced by the ...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Foltínová P,Sutoris V,Blöckinger G,Ebringer L

更新日期：1978-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The soil microbial population, determined over a period of 19 months and the elemental chemical composition measured by X-ray fluorescence techniques were followed in two uncultivated salt-affected areas of Greece, namely Lantza and Klidi. The ecological conditions at Lantza remained stable during the period of study ...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Douka CE,Xenoulis AC,Paradellis T

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition activity of the alkaloid (-)-corypalmine on spore germination of plant pathogenic and saprophytic fungi (Alternaria solani, A brassicicola, A. brassicae, A. melongenae, Curvularia pallescens, C. lunata, C. maculans, Curvularisa sp., Colletotrichum sp., Helminthosporium speciferum, H. frumentacei, H. pennise...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Maurya S,Srivastava JS,Jha RN,Pandey VB,Singh UP

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel immunosensing device based on a piezoelectric sensor for direct detection of the biological warfare agent Francisella tularensis was developed. This sensor includes mouse polyclonal antibody immobilized in a layer of protein A covalently linked to the gold electrode of the sensor. The immunosensor is able to d...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Pohanka M,Skládal P

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the nature of Vibrio vulnificus infections (i.e., gastroenteritis and septicemia), only very few studies of a biofilm-associated form in this pathogen's life cycle have been conducted. We proposed that biofilm production by clinical strains of V. vulnificus would be higher than by environmental strains. Biofilm...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Çam S,Brinkmeyer R

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A naturally deficient thiamine and methionine requiring strain of Bacillus coagulans (Ms 5) accumulates lysine in medium only when exogenous pyridoxine (optimal concentration, 0.1 mu g/ml) are supplied. Threonine exerts an inhibitory effect at higher concentrations but pyridoxine does not. ...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Chatterjee S,Banerjee AK

更新日期：1975-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A case report of ventriculoperitoneal shunt infection caused by Candida lusitaniae in a 6-year-old patient with cerebral astrocytoma and obstructive hydrocephalus is presented briefly with emphasis on the course of antifungal treatment. Seven isolates recovered subsequently from the cerebrospinal fluid were studied re...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Hamal P,Hanzen J,Horn F,Trtkova J,Ruskova L,Vecerova R,Ruzicka F,Vollekova A,Raclavsky V

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli strain HB101 harboring an expression plasmid bearing calf prochymosin gene under the control of the tac promoter was grown in the presence of IPTG with or without novobiocin at 28 and 40 degrees C, respectively. The differential rates of synthesis of prochymosin inclusions, and, for comparison, of bet...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Kaprálek F,Tichý PJ,Fábry M,Sedlácek J

更新日期：1998-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungal cells of Aureobasidium pullulans ATCC 201253 were immobilized by entrapment in chitosan beads, and the immobilized cells were investigated for their ability to produce the polysaccharide pullulan using batch fermentation. The 1% chitosan-entrapped fungal cells were capable of producing pullulan for two cycles o...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： West TP

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Saccharomyces cerevisiae strain MW11 is a temperature-sensitive mutant which exports twenty times more proteins at 37 degrees C than parental or wild-type strains do. To understand the mechanism underlying the protein overexport in the mutant the possibility of an altered cell-wall structure leading to facilitated rel...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Alexieva KI,Venkov PV

更新日期：2000-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vancomycin is often used in orthopedic surgery as a local prophylaxis of bacterial infection. The aim of this work was to compare the release of vancomycin and its biologically inactive crystalline degradation products (CDP-1) during in vitro experiments from different types of local antibiotic delivery systems (bone ...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Klapkova E,Nescakova M,Melichercik P,Jahoda D,Dunovska K,Cepova J,Prusa R

更新日期：2020-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a growing interest in the use of bioinoculants to assist mineral fertilizers in improving crop production and yield. Azotobacter and Pseudomonas are two agriculturally relevant strains of bacteria which have been established as efficient bioinoculants. An experiment involving addition of graded concentrations...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Boddupalli A,Tiwari R,Sharma A,Singh S,Prasanna R,Nain L

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-one healthy bottle-fed infants were screened monthly (1-4 months) for bifidobacteria in their stools. Bifidobacteria were detected by culture and isolates specified by PCR. Alternatively, direct PCR in undiluted fecal suspensions was carried out for detection of bifidobacteria under the cultural detection level...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Mullié C,Romond MB,Izard D

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using fermentation with a selected strain of Acetomonas oxydans it was possible to convert 2-deoxy-2-fluro-D-glucitol to 5-deoxy-5-fluoro-L-sorbose, in agreement with Bertrand's and Hudson's rule. The last-named compound was isolated in a yield of 88%. Both compounds were little toxic against Acetomonas oxydans. ...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Kulhánek M,Tadra M,Pacák J,Trejbalová H,Cerný M

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A hexokinase preparation was obtained from a Saccharomyces cerevisiae mutant strain deficient in glucosephosphate isomerase (GPI) and mannosephosphate isomerase (MPI) by precipitation with ammonium sulfate. The supernatant fraction corresponding to 40-60 % saturation showed the lowest content in GPI and MPI activity. ...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Cabrera V,Pascual C,Herrera LS

更新日期：1981-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Glycerol-based medium (BM) with and without the addition of 1 g/L ascorbic acid (Asc) and/or 100 mg/L (+/-)-catechin (Cat) was tested for the storage of three commercial wine yeasts at -20 degrees C. The medium supplemented with Asc was also used to store 706 strains to verify the maintenance of the liquid state. A de...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Sidari R,Caridi A

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00