Denitrification in marine sediment: measurement of capacity and estimate of in situ rate.

abstract：:Cyanobacterium Plectonema boryanum IU 594 and cyanophage LPP-1 were used as indicator organisms in a bioassay of 16 pesticides. Experiments such as spot tests, disk assays, growth curves, and one-step growth experiments were used to examine the effects of pesticides on the host and virus. Also, experiments were done i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mallison SM 3rd,Cannon RE

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to HIV infection in a cohort of commercial sex workers living in Nairobi, Kenya, is linked to mucosal and antiinflammatory factors that may be influenced by the vaginal microbiota. Since bacterial vaginosis (BV), a polymicrobial dysbiosis characterized by low levels of protective Lactobacillus organisms, is...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schellenberg JJ,Links MG,Hill JE,Dumonceaux TJ,Kimani J,Jaoko W,Wachihi C,Mungai JN,Peters GA,Tyler S,Graham M,Severini A,Fowke KR,Ball TB,Plummer FA

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Alpha-ketoglutarate-dependent (R)-dichlorprop dioxygenase (RdpA) and alpha-ketoglutarate-dependent (S)-dichlorprop dioxygenase (SdpA), which are involved in the degradation of phenoxyalkanoic acid herbicides in Sphingomonas herbicidovorans MH, were expressed and purified as His6-tagged fusion proteins from Escherichia...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Müller TA,Fleischmann T,van der Meer JR,Kohler HP

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the growth of six culturable bacterial lineages from coastal North Sea picoplankton in environmental samples under different incubation conditions. The grazing pressure of heterotrophic nanoflagellates (HNF) was reduced either by double prefiltration through 0.8- micro m-pore-size filters or by 10-fold dilu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Beardsley C,Pernthaler J,Wosniok W,Amann R

更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial activities of sucrose monolaurate and a novel ester, lactose monolaurate (LML), were tested. Gram-positive bacteria were more susceptible than Gram-negative bacteria to both esters. The minimal bactericidal concentrations of LML were 5 to 9.5 mM for Listeria monocytogenes isolates and 0.2 to 2 mM for...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wagh A,Shen S,Shen FA,Miller CD,Walsh MK

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A variant of Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. kurstaki containing a single, stable copy of a uniquely amplifiable DNA oligomer integrated into the genome for tracking the fate of biological agents in the environment was developed. The use of genetically tagged spores overcomes the ambiguity of discerning the test materia...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Emanuel PA,Buckley PE,Sutton TA,Edmonds JM,Bailey AM,Rivers BA,Kim MH,Ginley WJ,Keiser CC,Doherty RW,Kragl FJ,Narayanan FE,Katoski SE,Paikoff S,Leppert SP,Strawbridge JB,VanReenen DR,Biberos SS,Moore D,Phillips DW,

更新日期：2012-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A spoilage organism isolated from turbid beer is described. The bacterium was gram negative, catalase negative, strictly anaerobic, and rod shaped, having flagella only on one side of the cell. The main metabolic product was propionic acid. In addition acetic, succinic, and lactic acids and acetoin were formed. Malona...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Haikara A,Penttilä L,Enari TM,Lounatmaa K

更新日期：1981-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The blacklegged tick, Ixodes scapularis, is of significant public health importance as a vector of Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme borreliosis. The timing of seasonal activity of each immature I. scapularis life stage relative to the next is critical for the maintenance of B. burgdorferi because larvae must fe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gatewood AG,Liebman KA,Vourc'h G,Bunikis J,Hamer SA,Cortinas R,Melton F,Cislo P,Kitron U,Tsao J,Barbour AG,Fish D,Diuk-Wasser MA

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two rapid methods were evaluated for their extraction of plasmids from Clostridium perfringens. The first method involved lysis of 1 to 2 ml of C. perfringens culture by treatment with hyaluronidase, lysozyme, and sarcosyl. DNA, extracted with phenol-chloroform, was treated with RNase, boiled, and electrophoresed in a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mahony DE,Clark GA,Stringer MF,MacDonald MC,Duchesne DR,Mader JA

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mongolian gerbils were used as an animal model to excyst and host Giardia spp. isolated from meadow voles, dogs, beavers, and humans. Both cysts and trophozoites were used to establish infections. Gerbils were infected with Giardia duodenalis from beaver, dog, and human sources, and the trophozoites were extracted and...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wallis PM,Wallis HM

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola NPS3121 hrp sequences were used as hybridization probes in a restriction fragment length polymorphism (RFLP) analysis of 24 P. syringae pv. tabaci strains as a means to evaluate the genetic and taxonomic relationship of pathovars of P. syringae. Southern blot analyses of genomic r...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Scholz BK,Jakobek JL,Lindgren PB

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the presence of the four main viruses responsible for human acute gastroenteritis in a hydrographic network impacted by a disordered urbanization process, a 1-year study was performed involving water sample collection from streams in the hydrographic basin surrounding the city of Manaus, Amazonas, Brazil. Th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Miagostovich MP,Ferreira FF,Guimarães FR,Fumian TM,Diniz-Mendes L,Luz SL,Silva LA,Leite JP

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Florfenicol resistance was analyzed in 230 enteric pig isolates collected between 1998 and 2006. PCR, plasmid profiling, Southern blot hybridization, and a mixed-broth conjugation assay suggested the intra- and interspecies plasmid-mediated transfer of florfenicol resistance among the isolates that exhibited MICs for ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rayamajhi N,Cha SB,Kang ML,Lee SI,Lee HS,Yoo HS

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty-three enteric isolates from Australian (Escherichia coli only) and United Kingdom (U.K.) (Salmonella sp., Citrobacter spp., and E. coli) piggeries were characterized with respect to their copper resistance. The copper resistance phenotypes of four new Australian E. coli isolates were comparable with that of the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Williams JR,Morgan AG,Rouch DA,Brown NL,Lee BT

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, members of our group reported the isolation and characterization of mutacin II from Streptococcus mutans T8 and the genetic analyses of the mutacin II biosynthesis genes (J. Novak, P. W. Caufield, and E. J. Miller, J. Bacteriol. 176:4316-4320, 1994; F. Qi, P. Chen, and P. W. Caufield, Appl. Environ. Microb...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Qi F,Chen P,Caufield PW

更新日期：1999-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Survival studies were conducted on Legionella pneumophila cells that had been grown intracellularly in Acanthamoeba polyphaga and then exposed to polyhexamethylene biguanide (PHMB), benzisothiazolone (BIT), and 5-chloro-N-methylisothiazolone (CMIT). Susceptibilities were also determined for L. pneumophila grown under ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Barker J,Brown MR,Collier PJ,Farrell I,Gilbert P

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two gram-positive, strictly anoxic, coccoid- to rod-shaped strains of bacteria, Clostridium coccoides 1410 and C. coccoides 3110, were isolated from human feces on the typical homoacetogenic substrates formate plus H2 plus CO2 (strain 1410) and vanillate plus H2 plus CO2 (strain 3110) in the presence of 2-bromoethanes...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kamlage B,Gruhl B,Blaut M

更新日期：1997-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variations in the thymidine incorporation rate, bacterial abundance, and mean cell volumes in the surface water (0.5 m) of the Baltic Sea in spring and summer were compared in studies with different spatial scales (570 nautical miles [nmi] [ca. 1056 km], 220 nmi [ca. 407 km], 24 nmi [ca. 44 km], 12 nmi [ca. 22 km], an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Heinänen A,Kuparinen J

更新日期：1991-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pfiesteria piscicida is a heterotrophic dinoflagellate widely distributed along the middle Atlantic shore of the United States and associated with fish kills in the Neuse River (North Carolina) and the Chesapeake Bay (Maryland and Virginia). We constructed a genomic DNA library from clonally cultured P. piscicida and ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Saito K,Drgon T,Robledo JA,Krupatkina DN,Vasta GR

更新日期：2002-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An epoxyalkane:coenzyme M (CoM) transferase (EaCoMT) enzyme was recently found to be active in the aerobic vinyl chloride (VC) and ethene assimilation pathways of Mycobacterium strain JS60. In the present study, EaCoMT activity and genes were investigated in 10 different mycobacteria isolated on VC or ethene from dive...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Coleman NV,Spain JC

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two thermostable lipases were isolated and characterized from Thermosyntropha lipolytica DSM 11003, an anaerobic, thermophilic, alkali-tolerant bacterium which grows syntrophically with methanogens on lipids such as olive oil, utilizing only the liberated fatty acid moieties but not the glycerol. Lipases LipA and LipB...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Salameh MA,Wiegel J

更新日期：2007-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanomicrobium mobile requires a heat-stable factor present in ruminal fluid and in boiled cell extract from Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum for growth. By comparing the growth of M. mobile with boiled cell extract with that observed with various methanogenic cofactors, we found that 7-mercaptoheptanoylthreonin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kuhner CH,Smith SS,Noll KM,Tanner RS,Wolfe RS

更新日期：1991-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antifungal protein AFP from Aspergillus giganteus is highly effective in restricting the growth of major human- and plant-pathogenic filamentous fungi. However, a fundamental prerequisite for the use of AFP as an antifungal drug is a complete understanding of its mode of action. In this study, we performed several...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hagen S,Marx F,Ram AF,Meyer V

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlortetracycline and the macrolide tylosin were identified as commonly used antimicrobials for growth promotion and prophylaxis in swine production. Resistance to these antimicrobials was measured throughout the waste treatment processes at five swine farms by culture-based and molecular methods. Conventional farm sa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jindal A,Kocherginskaya S,Mehboob A,Robert M,Mackie RI,Raskin L,Zilles JL

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Miniaturized growth systems for heterogeneous culture collections are not only attractive in reducing demands for incubation space and medium but also in making the parallel handling of large numbers of strains more practicable. We report here on the optimization of oxygen transfer rates in deep-well microtiter plates...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Duetz WA,Rüedi L,Hermann R,O'Connor K,Büchs J,Witholt B

更新日期：2000-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial communities in extreme environments often have low diversity and specialized physiologies suggesting a limited resistance to change. The McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV) are a microbially dominated, extreme ecosystem currently undergoing climate change-induced disturbances, including the melting of massive buried i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Van Horn DJ,Okie JG,Buelow HN,Gooseff MN,Barrett JE,Takacs-Vesbach CD

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three different gels (Sepharose 4B, Sephadex G-200, and Sephadex G-50) were evaluated as a means of removing humic contaminants from DNA extracts of environmental samples. Sepharose 4B gave superior separation of DNA from humics, and DNA purified in this way showed consistently greater amplification than DNA purified ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Jackson CR,Harper JP,Willoughby D,Roden EE,Churchill PF

更新日期：1997-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to vancomycin permitted detection, in a culture of Streptococcus cremoris 290PC, of a contaminant gram-positive coccus. Morphological and physiological characteristics indicated that this bacterium was a strain of Leuconostoc sp., designated PO184. This strain contained four plasmid species, which were dist...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Orberg PK,Sandine WE

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The industrial production of beta-carotene with the zygomycete Blakeslea trispora involves the joint cultivation of mycelia of opposite sex in the presence of beta-ionone and other chemical activators. We have obtained improved strains by mutation and heterokaryosis. We chose wild strains on the basis of their growth ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mehta BJ,Obraztsova IN,Cerdá-Olmedo E

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydiae are important pathogens of humans and animals but diagnosis of chlamydial infections is still hampered by inadequate detection methods. Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) using rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes is widely used for the investigation of uncultured bacteria in complex microbial commun...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Poppert S,Essig A,Marre R,Wagner M,Horn M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00