Specific detection of Clostridium botulinum type B by using the polymerase chain reaction.

abstract：:Escherichia coli is a widely utilized indicator of the sanitary quality of bivalve molluscan shellfish sold for human consumption. However, it is now well documented that shellfish that meet the E. coli standards for human consumption may contain human enteric viruses that cause gastroenteritis and hepatitis. In this ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Doré WJ,Henshilwood K,Lees DN

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Isolates of the obligately biotrophic fungus Uncinula necator cluster in three distinct genetic groups (groups I, II, and III). We designed PCR primers specific for these groups in order to monitor field populations of U. necator. We used the nucleotide sequences of the gene that encodes eburicol 14alpha-demethylase (...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Délye C,Ronchi V,Laigret F,Corio-Costet MF

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Physical agents, such as low electric voltage and current, have recently gained attention for antimicrobial treatment due to their bactericidal capability. Although microampere electric current was shown to suppress the growth of bacteria, it remains unclear to what extent the microampere current damaged the bacterial...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Krishnamurthi VR,Rogers A,Peifer J,Niyonshuti II,Chen J,Wang Y

更新日期：2020-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Ticks are important disease vectors, as they transmit a variety of human and animal pathogens worldwide. Symbionts that coevolved with ticks confer crucial benefits to their host in nutrition metabolism, fecundity, and vector competence. Although over 100 tick species have been identified in China, general information...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang M,Zhu D,Dai J,Zhong Z,Zhang Y,Wang J

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variety of nitroaromatic compounds, including 2,4,6-trinitrotoluene (TNT), were reduced by hydrogen in the presence of enzyme preparations from Veillonella alkalescens. Consistent with the proposed reduction pathway, R-NO2 H2 leads to R-NO H2 leads to R-NHOH H2 leads to R-NH2, 3 mol of H2 was utilized per mol of nit...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McCormick NG,Feeherry FE,Levinson HS

更新日期：1976-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:AvrPtoB is a type III effector protein from Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato that physically interacts with the tomato Pto kinase and, depending on the host genotype, either elicits or suppresses programmed cell death associated with plant immunity. We reported previously that avrPtoB-related sequences are present in d...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lin NC,Abramovitch RB,Kim YJ,Martin GB

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A molecular analysis of betaproteobacterial ammonia oxidizers and a N(2)O isotopomer analysis were conducted to study the sources of N(2)O emissions during the cow manure composting process. Much NO(2)(-)-N and NO(3)(-)-N and the Nitrosomonas europaea-like amoA gene were detected at the surface, especially at the top ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Maeda K,Toyoda S,Shimojima R,Osada T,Hanajima D,Morioka R,Yoshida N

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 2.2-kb fragment containing a replicon from pBtoxis, the large plasmid that encodes the insecticidal endotoxins of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis, was identified, cloned, and sequenced. This fragment contains cis elements, including iterons, found in replication origins of other large plasmids and suggests...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tang M,Bideshi DK,Park HW,Federici BA

更新日期：2006-11-01 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：:High-cell-density fermentation for industrial production of chemicals can impose numerous stresses on cells due to high substrate, product, and by-product concentrations; high osmolarity; reactive oxygen species; and elevated temperatures. There is a need to develop platform strains of industrial microorganisms that a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lennen RM,Herrgård MJ

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The major gut bacteria of the worker caste of nine species of Australian termites, belonging to four families, were isolated and identified to generic level. All species were either facultative anaerobes or strict aerobes. A correlation appears to exist between the major gut bacterium and the family to which the termi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Eutick ML,O'Brien RW,Slaytor M

更新日期：1978-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To longitudinally assess fecal shedding and animal-to-animal transmission of Clostridium difficile among finishing feedlot cattle as a risk for beef carcass contamination, we tested 186 ± 12 steers (mean ± standard deviation; 1,369 samples) in an experimental feedlot facility during the finishing period and at harvest...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rodriguez-Palacios A,Pickworth C,Loerch S,LeJeune JT

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1.8-kb chromosomal DNA fragment of the mycoplasmalike organism (MLO) associated with apple proliferation was sequenced. Three putative open reading frames were observed on this fragment. The protein encoded by open reading frame 2 shows significant homologies with bacterial nitroreductases. From the nucleotide seque...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jarausch W,Saillard C,Dosba F,Bové JM

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fermentation of the pentose sugar xylose to ethanol in lignocellulosic biomass would make bioethanol production economically more competitive. Saccharomyces cerevisiae, an efficient ethanol producer, can utilize xylose only when expressing the heterologous genes XYL1 (xylose reductase) and XYL2 (xylitol dehydrogenase)...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Johansson B,Christensson C,Hobley T,Hahn-Hägerdal B

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most species of the diazotrophic Proteobacteria Azoarcus spp. occur in association with grass roots, while A. tolulyticus and A. evansii are soil bacteria not associated with a plant host. To facilitate species identification and strain comparison, we developed a protocol for PCR-generated genomic fingerprints, using ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hurek T,Wagner B,Reinhold-Hurek B

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae non-O1/non-O139 strains have caused several cases of ear, wound, and blood infections, including one lethal case of septicemia in Austria, during recent years. All of these cases had a history of local recreational activities in the large eastern Austrian lake Neusiedler See. Thus, a monitoring program...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kirschner AK,Schlesinger J,Farnleitner AH,Hornek R,Süss B,Golda B,Herzig A,Reitner B

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The stability of spheroplasts from the osmotrophic yeast Saccharomyces rouxii was studied in buffered solutions of mannitol and glucose. The plasma membranes from cells grown in high glucose concentrations were more stable to osmotic lysis than were membranes from cells grown in lower glucose concentrations. Mannitol ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Moran JW,Witter LD

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbial assemblages of Lake Cisó and Lake Vilar (Banyoles, northeast Spain) were analyzed in space and time by microscopy and by performing PCR-denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (DGGE) and sequence analysis of 16S rRNA gene fragments. Samples obtained from different water depths and at two different times ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Casamayor EO,Schäfer H,Bañeras L,Pedrós-Alió C,Muyzer G

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Field-collected larvae of the tussock moth, Lymantria ninayi, a major pest of exotic pines in Papua New Guinea, were found to contain a small RNA-containing virus with a diameter of 29 nm and a buoyant density of 1.32 g/ml. The RNA was single stranded, had a molecular weight of 2.8 x 10, and was polyadenylated. Virion...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pullin JS,Black F,King LA,Entwistle PF,Moore NF

更新日期：1984-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A culture-independent method called mRNA profiling has been developed for the analysis of fecal enterobacteria and their physiological status in environmental samples. This taxon-specific approach determines the single-cell content of selected gene transcripts whose abundance is either directly or inversely proportion...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chen H,Ponniah G,Salonen N,Blum P

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antibody production against aflatoxin B1 was compared in three rabbits and one goat. Titers obtained were 20 times higher in the rabbits than in the goat. The goat antiserum appeared to have a higher degree of cross-reactivity for other aflatoxins and related metabolites than did the rabbit antiserum. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gaur PK,El-Nakib O,Chu FS

更新日期：1980-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The initial microbial colonization of tooth surfaces is a repeatable and selective process, with certain bacterial species predominating in the nascent biofilm. Characterization of the initial microflora is the first step in understanding interactions among community members that shape ensuing biofilm development. Usi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Diaz PI,Chalmers NI,Rickard AH,Kong C,Milburn CL,Palmer RJ Jr,Kolenbrander PE

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report that two species of basidiomycete fungi (Polyporus versicolor and Poria monticola) grow in minimal liquid or solid medium when supplemented with crushed lignite coal. The fungi also grow directly on crushed lignite coal. The growth of both fungi was observed qualitatively as the production and extension of h...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cohen MS,Gabriele PD

更新日期：1982-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Burkholderia includes over 60 species isolated from a wide range of environmental niches and can be tentatively divided into two major species clusters. The first cluster includes pathogens such as Burkholderia glumae, B. pseudomallei, and B. mallei and 17 well-studied species of the Burkholderia cepacia com...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Suárez-Moreno ZR,Devescovi G,Myers M,Hallack L,Mendonça-Previato L,Caballero-Mellado J,Venturi V

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Pseudomonas fluorescens CHA0, mutation of the GacA-controlled aprA gene (encoding the major extracellular protease) or the gacA regulatory gene resulted in reduced biocontrol activity against the root-knot nematode Meloidogyne incognita during tomato and soybean infection. Culture supernatants of strain CHA0 inhibi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Siddiqui IA,Haas D,Heeb S

更新日期：2005-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A soil bacterium capable of utilizing fluoranthene as the sole source of carbon and energy for growth was purified from a seven-member bacterial community previously isolated from a creosote waste site for its ability to degrade polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons. By standard bacteriological methods, this bacterium was ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mueller JG,Chapman PJ,Blattmann BO,Pritchard PH

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial communities associated with the development of necroses in injured agria cactus tissue were examined in the field by using both human-induced injuries and cactus tissue inoculated with cactophilic bacteria. Whole-cell bacterial fatty acids were used to determine when and where each of 23 detected species...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Foster JL,Fogleman JC

更新日期：1994-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrate was formed from ammonium at pH 3.2 to 6.1 in suspensions of a naturally acid forest soil; the maximum rates of formation occurred at ca. pH 4 to 5. Nitrate was also formed from soil nitrogen in suspensions incubated at 50 degrees C. Autotrophic nitrifying bacteria could not be isolated from this soil. Enrichme...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stroo HF,Klein TM,Alexander M

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Drinking water quality management requires early warning tools which enable water supply companies to detect quickly and to forecast degradation of the microbial quality of drinking water during its transport throughout distribution systems. This study evaluated the feasibility of assessing, in real time, drinking wat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Delille A,Quilès F,Humbert F

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biotransformation of 2-chlorophenol by a methanogenic sediment community resulted in the transient accumulation of phenol and benzoate. 3-Chlorobenzoate was a more persistent product of 2-chlorophenol metabolism. The anaerobic biotransformation of phenol to benzoate presumably occurred via para-carboxylation and dehyd...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Becker JG,Stahl DA,Rittmann BE

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00