Long-term maintenance of fungal cultures on perlite in cryovials - an alternative for agar slants.

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans is encapsulated yeast that causes cryptococcosis. The cryptococcal meningitis may cause neuropsychiatric symptoms. Here, we evaluated the in vitro activity of amphotericin B (AMB), chlorpromazine (CLOR), and sertraline (SERT) alone or in combination against clinical isolates of C. neoformans co...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Rossato L,Loreto ÉS,Zanette RA,Chassot F,Santurio JM,Alves SH

更新日期：2016-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of Phanerochaete chrysosporium, Trametes versicolor, Coriolopsis polyzona, and Pleurotus ostreatus growing in a mitogen-limited mineral medium (NMM) to degrade PCBs in a commercial, Delor 106 mixture at a concentration of 0.9 ppm was compared. The respective amount of PCBs removed from the fungal cultures ...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Novotný C,Vyas BR,Erbanová P,Kubátová A,Sasek V

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mean lengths of G1, S, G2 and M phases of the cell cycle were determined on the basis of the population distribution of Candida utilis grown in a continuous culture under steady-state conditions by using an original mathematical method. The length of the G2 phase was proportional to that of G1; the length of M was...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Krticka J,Vraná D,Ludvík J,Votruba J

更新日期：1990-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Extrusion of metabolites (glycerol, lactic, malic, and succinic acid) during the medium acidification caused by resting baker's yeast supplied with 200 mM glucose was studied under aerobic and anaerobic conditions and in the absence and presence of 14 mM KCl. The maximum levels of glycerol and of the sum of acids (abo...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Sigler K,Knotková A,Páca J,Wurst M

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen that causes serious infections, especially in patients with immunodeficiency. It exhibits multiple mechanisms of resistance, including efflux pumps, antibiotic modifying enzymes and limited membrane permeability. The primary reason for the development of novel therap...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Kwiatek M,Mizak L,Parasion S,Gryko R,Olender A,Niemcewicz M

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of paraquat on the activities of antioxidant defense and detoxifying enzymes of the white-rot fungus Funalia trogii was determined. Paraquat increased the activities of glutathione reductase (GR), glutathione transferase (GT) and superoxide dismutase at 1 mmol/L, while at 0.1 mmol/L it did not affect the ac...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Asma D,Yeşilada O

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Patients suffering from periodontitis or periodontosis were selected for the study. Further subdivision of these groups was based on the presence or absence of herpes and/or adenoviruses in their oral lymphocytes and epithelial cells. The phagocytic and bactericidal activities of oral leukocytes isolated from the same...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Ongrádi J,Sallay K,Kulcsár G

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strains of genus Citrobacter (152 isolates from 1950 to 1988 deposited in the Czech National Collection of Type Cultures, Prague) were re-classified using biological and matrix-assisted laser desorption/ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) methods. One-hundred thirty-six strains (ca. 90 %) were i...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Kolínská R,Spanělová P,Dřevínek M,Hrabák J,Zemličková H

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity and structure of bacterial and actinobacteral diversity and communities were determined in a metallophytic grassland soil from an upland site in northern England. The community profiles were subjected to multivariate analyses using correspondence and cluster analyses. The total bacterial community divers...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Bamborough L,Cummings SP

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydroxy, n-saturated, branched, dioic, and unsaturated fatty acids in six freshwater wild cyanobacteria (Chroococcus minutus, Lyngbya ceylanica, Merismopedia glauca, Nodularia sphaerocarpa, Nostoc linckia, and Synechococcus aeruginosus) collected from different lakes and springs of Israel have been identified by gas c...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Rezanka T,Dor I,Prell A,Dembitsky VM

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rifampicin-resistant variant of two strains of Lactobacillus plantarum, one strain of Pediococcus acidilactici, and one strain of Enterococcus faecium were used for the experimental production of lucerne silage. Laboratory silage without inoculants served as a control. Counts of total anaerobes, total lactic acid ba...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Vlková E,Rada V,Bunešová V,Ročková S

更新日期：2012-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brefeldin A has been recently characterized to act as an inhibitor of intracellular protein export with profound effects on the structure and function of the Golgi apparatus in animal cells. Manifold activities of the antibiotic (under different names) published in the 1960's and 1970's are reviewed: effects on fungal...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Betina V

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The reserves of fossil-based fuels, which currently seem sufficient to meet the global demands, is inevitably on the verge of exhaustion. Contemporary raw material for alternate fuel like biodiesel is usually edible plant commodity oils, whose increasing public consumption rate raises the need of finding a non-edible ...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Diwan B,Parkhey P,Gupta P

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The mathematical theory of substrate-induced acidification by microorganisms was based on special formulation of mass and charge conservation laws for distinct species. The strength of the theory was tested on the ethanol-induced acidification by Candida utilis in pure water and in phthalate buffer. We showed that the...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Votruba J,Páca J

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

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 gene encoding the coat protein (CP) of a potato virus Y (PVY) was cloned into expression vector pMPM-A4Omega. PVY CP was expressed in Escherichia coli and the purified recombinant protein was used for raising rabbit polyclonal antibodies. The sera and antibodies were tested for the detection of PVY in the laborato...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Folwarczna J,Plchová H,Moravec T,Hoffmeisterová H,Dedic P,Cerovská N

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Investigation of the dependence of cell yield of Candida boidinii in a chemostat and specific growth rate in a turbidostat on temperature was carried out using methanol as substrate. Each of the curves obtained had only one maximum, the optimum temperature for yield (Ys) and for specific growth rate (micron) being som...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Kuvshinnikov VD,Sobotka M,Minkevich IG,Eroshin VK

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many serious diseases caused by Staphylococcus aureus appear to be associated with biofilms. Therefore, we investigated the biofilm-forming ability of the methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) isolates collected from hospitalized patients. As many as 96 % strains had the ability to form biofilm in vitro. The majority...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Szczuka E,Urbańska K,Pietryka M,Kaznowski A

更新日期：2013-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Single chain Fv (scFv) antibodies (generated by phage display technology, molecules representing new and efficient tools in the research and diagnostics of infectious diseases) against the capsid protein (p25) of Maedi-Visna virus were selected. Several clones of p25 specific scFv antibodies were identified; one of th...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Celer V,Blazek D,Navrátilová I,Skládal P,Blacklaws B,Bujdoso R

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Blastoschizomyces capitatus is an uncommon, opportunistic pathogenic fungus, which causes invasive and disseminated infections. This microorganism is normally present in both environmental and normal human flora. Within a host, B. capitatus is able to grow in both unicellular yeast and multicellular filamentous growth...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Allocati N,Masulli M,Del Boccio P,Pieragostino D,D'Antonio D,Sheehan D,Di Ilio C

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 152 lactic acid bacteria (LAB) were isolated from pickles produced in the Ankara-Çubuk region. These isolates were clustered into eight groups on the basis of their phenotypic characteristics including cell morphology, CO2 production from glucose, growth at 10 and 45 °C, growth in 6.5 % NaCl, and growth at ...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Bağder Elmacı S,Tokatlı M,Dursun D,Özçelik F,Şanlıbaba P

更新日期：2015-05-01 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：:Euglena ignobilis cells in natural puddle water of pH 7.8, when kept at 21 +/- 2 degrees C and under continuous light (intensity of approximately 30 micromol m(-2) s(-1)) in a culture chamber, decreased their speed of movement from > or = 78000 microm/min (after a 12-h cultivation), to 850-1300 microm/min after 18 h. ...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Gupta S,Agrawal SC

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The biological activity and the presence of genes sfp and ituD (surfactin and iturin A) among Bacillus strains isolated from the Amazon basin were determined. Bacillus spp. were tested for hemolytic activity and inhibition of fungal growth by agar plate assays in parallel with PCR for identification of sfp and ituD ge...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Velho RV,Medina LF,Segalin J,Brandelli A

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Inhibition of methanogenesis in ruminal cultures was attempted by hindering thiamine availability through its degradation by 'polyphenols' and competition for active sites on enzymes and transporters using thiamine structural analogs. Effects on fermentation were small and not consistently reversed by adding thiamine....

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Ungerfeld EM,Rust SR,Burnett R

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The screening of 17 SAg genes of S. aureus isolated from the sputum of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients revealed that among 47 genetically different strains, 39 (83 %) carried SAg genes. Superantigens forming enterotoxin gene cluster were detected in 20 strains. The 2nd most common superantigen type was selk detected in ...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Bania J,Dabrowska A,Rózalska B,Sadowska B,Wieckowska-Szakiel M,Korzekwa K,Zarczyńska A,Bystroń J,Chrzanowska J,Molenda J

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the original publication, the number of the NCTC strain used was published incorrectly. The authors apologize for the error. The error has no effect on the validity of the results and is corrected for accuracy. ...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Sugita H,Kitao S,Narisawa S,Minamishima R,Itoi S

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic ammonium-oxidizing (anammox) bacteria play an essential part in nitrogen removal in constructed wetlands. The objective of the present study was to explore the spatiotemporal dynamics of anammox bacterial communities and the associated factors in a full-scale constructed wetland for the treatment of polluted...

journal_title：Folia microbiologica

authors： Tong T,Li B,Xie S

更新日期：2020-04-01 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：: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