Evidence for natural transfer of a tetracycline resistance gene between bacteria from the human colon and bacteria from the bovine rumen.

abstract：:The psychrotolerant acidophile Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans has been identified from cold environments and has been shown to use ferrous iron and inorganic sulfur compounds as its energy sources. A bioinformatic evaluation presented in this study suggested that Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans utilized a ferrous iron ox...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liljeqvist M,Rzhepishevska OI,Dopson M

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In in vitro estuarine water and sediment chambers, the survival of Vibrio cholerae and Escherichia coli was determined by plate counting and direct counting techniques. V. cholerae strains included environmental, clinical, and serotype O1 and non-O1 isolates, whereas E. coli strains included ATCC 25922 and a freshly c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hood MA,Ness GE

更新日期：1982-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pediocin PA-1 is an antimicrobial peptide (called bacteriocin) that shows inhibitory activity against the food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. To elucidate which residue(s) is responsible for this function, the antimicrobial activities of pediocin PA-1 mutants were evaluated and compared. Each of the 44 native ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tominaga T,Hatakeyama Y

更新日期：2006-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Infrared spectra of type cultures of the six recognized species of the genus Listeria and of Listeria grayi subsp. murrayi were recorded. By use of a library of 59 spectra, comprising at least six replicates of each type, discrimination by canonical variate analysis of the spectral amplitudes allowed all of the spectr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Holt C,Hirst D,Sutherland A,MacDonald F

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Among 1,962 bacterial isolates from a smear-surface soft cheese (Munster cheese) screened for activity against Listeria monocytogenes, six produced antilisterial compounds other than organic acids. The bacterial strain WHE 92, which displayed the strongest antilisterial effect, was identified at the DNA level as Lacto...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ennahar S,Aoude-Werner D,Sorokine O,Van Dorsselaer A,Bringel F,Hubert JC,Hasselmann C

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:3-Hydroxypyridine (3HP) is an important natural pyridine derivative. Ensifer adhaerens HP1 can utilize 3HP as its sole sources of carbon, nitrogen, and energy to grow, but the genes responsible for the degradation of 3HP remain unknown. In this study, we predicted that a gene cluster, designated 3hpd, might be respons...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wang H,Wang X,Ren H,Wang X,Lu Z

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Two isolates of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) O104:H4 were isolated in France in 2004 and 2009. Both were characterized and compared to the strain which caused the German outbreak in 2011 and to other O104:H4 strains. This suggests that different O104:H4 EHEC strains were present several years prior to the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Monecke S,Mariani-Kurkdjian P,Bingen E,Weill FX,Balière C,Slickers P,Ehricht R

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of the biochemical pathways nitrification, denitrification, and dissimilatory NO3- reduction to NH4+ (DNRA) to the accumulation of NO2- in freshwaters is governed by the species compositions of the bacterial populations resident in the sediments, available carbon (C) and nitrogen (N) substrates, and e...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kelso BHL,Smith RV,Laughlin RJ

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have shown that the plant pathogen Alternaria brassicicola exhibited very high susceptibility to ambruticin VS4 and to a lesser extent to the phenylpyrrole fungicide fludioxonil. These compounds are both derived from natural bacterial metabolites with antifungal properties and are thought to exert their toxicity by...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dongo A,Bataillé-Simoneau N,Campion C,Guillemette T,Hamon B,Iacomi-Vasilescu B,Katz L,Simoneau P

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A novel type II restriction and modification (R-M) system, Sth368I, which confers resistance to phiST84, was found in Streptococcus thermophilus CNRZ368 but not in the very closely related strain A054. Partial sequencing of the integrative conjugative element ICESt1, carried by S. thermophilus CNRZ368 but not by A054,...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Burrus V,Bontemps C,Decaris B,Guédon G

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid coliphage analysis technique for enumerating coliphages in natural waters has been evaluated by water quality laboratories located throughout the United States. Correlations were established between coliphages and coliforms in natural water systems. These correlations were highly significant. This relationship...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wentsel RS,O'Neill PE,Kitchens JF

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several selective media were evaluated for the primary isolation and enumeration of Staphylococcus aureus from halogenated indoor swimming pool waters. Standard plate counts of the viable population and total coliform densities were also determined to ascertain their value as indicator systems. All studies were done w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Alico RK,Dragonjac MF

更新日期：1986-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed at the long-term storage of rumen protozoa as living cells in liquid nitrogen. The two-step or interrupted slow freezing procedure was used to cryopreserve six of the dominant species of rumen ciliates isolated from monofaunated animals, Dasytricha ruminantium, Entodinium caudatum, Epidinium ec...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nsabimana E,Kisidayová S,Macheboeuf D,Newbold CJ,Jouany JP

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magnetotactic bacteria (MTB) form intracellular chain-assembled nanocrystals of magnetite or greigite termed magnetosomes. The characterization of magnetosome crystals requires electron microscopy due to their nanoscopic sizes. However, electron microscopy does not provide phylogenetic information for MTB. We have dev...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li J,Zhang H,Menguy N,Benzerara K,Wang F,Lin X,Chen Z,Pan Y

更新日期：2017-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Various Listeria monocytogenes strains may contaminate a single food product, potentially resulting in simultaneous exposure of consumers to multiple strains. However, due to bias in strain recovery, L. monocytogenes strains isolated from foods by selective enrichment (SE) might not always represent those that can bet...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zilelidou E,Karmiri CV,Zoumpopoulou G,Mavrogonatou E,Kletsas D,Tsakalidou E,Papadimitriou K,Drosinos E,Skandamis P

更新日期：2016-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat-treated cells of Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar trifolii strain 162X95 were used to produce monoclonal antibodies (MAbs). The fusion produced three cross-reactive MAbs and eight MAbs specific for the immunizing strain and a group of five other R. trifolii strains from the same geographic region where 162X95 was i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wright SF

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bifidobacterial and lactobacillus populations of fecal samples collected from 10 human subjects were studied. The numbers of bifidobacteria were similar in the fecal samples of all of the subjects, but lactobacillus numbers varied, even between samples collected from the same individual. Analysis of the compositio...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kimura K,McCartney AL,McConnell MA,Tannock GW

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe a rapid and efficient method for producing the capsular polysaccharide of Streptococcus pneumoniae by fermentation on tryptic soy broth and purification of this compound by using immobilized soybean lectin as an affinity adsorbent. In principle, the same strategy can be used to produce purified capsular po...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Suárez N,Fraguas LF,Texeira E,Massaldi H,Batista-Viera F,Ferreira F

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present work, we aimed at determining the relationship between the hepatitis A virus (HAV) numbers in imported frozen coquina clams involved in two hepatitis outbreaks, as well as the risk for human health. Due to HAV unculturability, a standardized TaqMan real-time reverse transcription-PCR controlling the vir...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pintó RM,Costafreda MI,Bosch A

更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Confocal scanning laser microscopy (CSLM) was used to demonstrate the attachment of Escherichia coli O157:H7 transformed with a plasmid encoding for green fluorescent protein (GFP) to the surface and within the internal structures of nonwaxed Red Delicious cv. apples. Apples at 2 or 25 degrees C were inoculated with a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Burnett SL,Chen J,Beuchat LR

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples of a sandy loam soil taken from a long-term liming experiment in southeast England were amended with solutions of metal sulfate salts. Soils with a range of pHs were amended to contain Cu, Cd, or Zn at concentrations around the maximum permissible values for these metals in agricultural land receiving sewage s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Knight BP,McGrath SP,Chaudri AM

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:O island 48 (OI-48) of Escherichia coli consists of three functional gene clusters that encode urease, tellurite resistance (Te(r)), and putative adhesins Iha and AIDA-1. The functions of these clusters in enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) O157:H7 infection are unknown. Deletion mutants for these three regions were con...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yin X,Wheatcroft R,Chambers JR,Liu B,Zhu J,Gyles CL

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) and vegetative compatibility analyses were undertaken to assess genetic relationships among 52 isolates of Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. vasinfectum of worldwide origin and representing race A, 3, or 4 on cotton plants. Ten distinct vegetative compatibility groups (VCGs) wer...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fernandez D,Assigbese K,Dubois MP,Geiger JP

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid accumulation and fatty acid composition in Candida 107 have been studied using a two-stage continuous culture system in which the first vessel was run under carbon-limited conditions and then the entire output was passed into a second vessel, where lipid accumulation was stimulated by adding only glucose. Maximu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hall MJ,Ratledge C

更新日期：1977-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Zearalenone [6-(10-hydroxy-6-oxo-trans-1-undecenyl)beta-resorcyclic acid lactone] is a hormone produced by Fusarium spp. which regulates the sexual stage in F. roseum. 3H- and 14C-labeled zearalenone were found to bind preferentially to one of two peaks containing uncharacterized proteins obtained from the cytosol of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Inaba T,Mirocha CJ

更新日期：1979-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Forty-nine isolates of Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens and a single isolate of Butyrivibrio crossotus were screened for the production of inhibitors by a deferred plating procedure. Twenty-five isolates produced factors which, to various degrees, inhibited the growth of the other Butyrivibrio isolates. None of the inhibitor...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kalmokoff ML,Teather RM

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:POL-88, a mutant of the white-rot fungus Phanerochaete chrysosporium, was selected for diminished phenol-oxidizing enzyme activity. A wide variety of phenolic compounds were degraded by ligninolytic cultures of this mutant. With several o-diphenolic substrates, degradation intermediates were produced that had UV spect...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Leatham GF,Crawford RL,Kirk TK

更新日期：1983-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bacterial strain able to transform iprodione was isolated from a fast iprodione-degrading soil by enrichment procedures. Transformation was detected through 3,5-dichloroaniline production as measured by a rapid colorimetric method. The strain, MA6, was tentatively identified as an Arthrobacter sp. When it was incuba...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Athiel P,Alfizar,Mercadier C,Vega D,Bastide J,Davet P,Brunel B,Cleyet-Marel JC

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological factors important in the penetration of Escherichia coli through anaerobic, nutrient-saturated, Ottawa sand-packed cores were studied under static conditions. In cores saturated with galactose-peptone medium, motile strains of E. coli penetrated four times faster than mutants defective only in flagellar...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Reynolds PJ,Sharma P,Jenneman GE,McInerney MJ

更新日期：1989-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reductive dechlorination of the ortho moiety of polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs) as well as of meta and para moieties is shown to occur in anaerobic enrichments of Baltimore Harbor sediments. These estuarine sediments ortho dechlorinated 2,3,5,6-chlorinated biphenyl (CB), 2,3,5-CB, and 2,3,6-CB in freshwater or estuar...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Berkaw M,Sowers KR,May HD

更新日期：1996-07-01 00:00:00