Differential expression of virulence and stress fitness genes between Escherichia coli O157:H7 strains with clinical or bovine-biased genotypes.

abstract：:The deposition of manganese in a water distribution system with manganese-related "dirty water" problems was studied over a 1-year period. Four monitoring laboratories with Robbins biofilm sampling devices fitted to the water mains were used to correlate the relationship among manganese deposition, the level of mangan...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sly LI,Hodgkinson MC,Arunpairojana V

更新日期：1990-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Myoviruses and podoviruses that infect cyanobacteria are the two major groups of marine cyanophages, but little is known of how their phylogenetic lineages are distributed in different habitats. In this study, we analyzed the phylogenetic relationships of cyanopodoviruses and cyanomyoviruses based on the existing geno...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huang S,Zhang S,Jiao N,Chen F

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In many cities, the feral rock dove is an abundant bird species that can harbor Chlamydophila psittaci. We determined the prevalence and genotype of C. psittaci in fresh fecal samples from feral pigeons in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. The prevalence was 7.9% overall (26/331; 95% confidence interval, 5 to 11). Ten genot...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Heddema ER,Ter Sluis S,Buys JA,Vandenbroucke-Grauls CM,van Wijnen JH,Visser CE

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Arthrobacter sp. strain PBA metabolized phenylboronic acid to phenol. The oxygen atom in phenol was shown to be derived from the atmosphere using (18)O(2). 1-Naphthalene-, 2-naphthalene-, 3-cyanophenyl-, 2,5-fluorophenyl-, and 3-thiophene-boronic acids were also transformed to monooxygenated products. The oxygen atom ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Negrete-Raymond AC,Weder B,Wackett LP

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Different amounts of enterotoxin A-, B-, and C1-producing staphylococci were added to dry sausage prepared by normal processes, either alone or in conjunction with a starter culture (micrococci and lactobacilli). The sausage was examined after 0, 3, 7, 14, and 30 days for staphylococci, micrococci, and lactobacilli, a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Niskanen A,Nurmi E

更新日期：1976-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:7 alpha-Dehydroxylation of cholic acid and chenodeoxycholic acid by whole cells of strain c-25, a Eubacterium lentum-like intestinal anaerobe, was studied. 7 alpha-Dehydroxylase activity was observed only in whole cells grown in the presence of the primary bile acid (cholic acid or chenodeoxycholic acid). Chenodeoxych...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Masuda N,Oda H,Hirano S,Masuda M,Tanaka H

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is much interest in the use of seed-applied bacteria for biocontrol and biofertilization, and several commercial products are available. However, many attempts to use this strategy fail because the seed-applied bacteria do not colonize the rhizosphere. Mechanisms of rhizosphere colonization may involve active ba...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Knox OG,Killham K,Artz RR,Mullins C,Wilson M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of Listeria monocytogenes during refrigerated storage was determined on several processed meat products, including ham, bologna, wieners, sliced chicken, sliced turkey, fermented semidried sausage, bratwurst, and cooked roast beef. The meats were surface inoculated with a five-strain mixture of less than or e...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Glass KA,Doyle MP

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lantibiotics, such as nisin and subtilin, are lanthionine-containing peptides that exhibit antimicrobial as well as pheromone-like autoinducing activity. Autoinduction is specific for each lantibiotic, and reporter systems for nisin and subtilin autoinduction are available. In this report, we used the previously repor...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fuchs SW,Jaskolla TW,Bochmann S,Kötter P,Wichelhaus T,Karas M,Stein T,Entian KD

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three cases of Mycobacterium avium complex-related lung disorders were associated with two poorly maintained spa pools by genotypic investigations. Inadequate disinfection of the two spas had reduced the load of environmental bacteria to less than 1 CFU/ml but allowed levels of M. avium complex of 4.3 x 10(4) and 4.5 ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lumb R,Stapledon R,Scroop A,Bond P,Cunliffe D,Goodwin A,Doyle R,Bastian I

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nprA gene, encoding Bacillus thuringiensis neutral protease A, was cloned by the use of gene-specific oligonucleotides. The size of neutral protease A deduced from the nprA sequence was 566 amino acids (60,982 Da). The cloned nprA gene was partially deleted in vitro, and the deleted allele, designated nprA3, was u...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Donovan WP,Tan Y,Slaney AC

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Transfer of plasmid-borne antibiotic resistance genes in Escherichia coli wild-type strains is possible by transformation under naturally occurring conditions in oligotrophic, aquatic environments containing physiologic concentrations of calcium. In contrast, transformation is suppressed in nitrogen-rich body fluids l...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Woegerbauer M,Jenni B,Thalhammer F,Graninger W,Burgmann H

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the increased number of anthrax outbreaks in Georgia and the other Caucasian republics of the former Soviet Union, no data are available on the diversity of the Bacillus anthracis strains involved. There is also little data available on strains from the former Soviet Union, including the strains previously use...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Merabishvili M,Natidze M,Rigvava S,Brusetti L,Raddadi N,Borin S,Chanishvili N,Tediashvili M,Sharp R,Barbeschi M,Visca P,Daffonchio D

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding the survival of fecal indicator bacteria (FIB) and microbial source-tracking (MST) markers is critical to developing pathogen fate and transport models. Although pathogen survival in water microcosms and manure-amended soils is well documented, little is known about their survival in intact cow pats depo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Oladeinde A,Bohrmann T,Wong K,Purucker ST,Bradshaw K,Brown R,Snyder B,Molina M

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus gasseri LA39 and L. reuteri LA6 isolated from feces of the same human infant were found to produce similar cyclic bacteriocins (named gassericin A and reutericin 6, respectively) that cannot be distinguished by molecular weights or primary amino acid sequences. However, reutericin 6 has a narrower spectr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kawai Y,Ishii Y,Arakawa K,Uemura K,Saitoh B,Nishimura J,Kitazawa H,Yamazaki Y,Tateno Y,Itoh T,Saito T

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty fungal genera, including 14 Fusarium species, were examined for ice nucleation activity at -5.0 degrees C, and this activity was found only in Fusarium acuminatum and Fusarium avenaceum. This characteristic is unique to these two species. Ice nucleation activity of F. avenaceum was compared with ice nucleation ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pouleur S,Richard C,Martin JG,Antoun H

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifteen Bacillus thuringiensis strains representing 13 serotypes were screened with five oligodeoxyribonucleotide probes specific for certain regions of two published sequences and one unpublished sequence of B. thuringiensis delta-endotoxin genes. Of the 15 cultures, 14 hybridized with at least one probe; the B. thur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Prefontaine G,Fast P,Lau PC,Hefford MA,Hanna Z,Brousseau R

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mass spectral analysis of T-2 toxin formed during the growth of Fusarium sporotrichioides (ATCC 24043) in the presence of H(2)O showed incorporation of up to three O atoms per toxin molecule. The carbonyl oxygens of the acetates at C-4 and C-15 and of the isovalerate at C-8 were derived from H(2)O. Toxin formed in the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Desjardins AE,Plattner RD,Vanmiddlesworth F

更新日期：1986-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lantibiotics are antimicrobial peptides belonging to the family of ribosomally synthesized and posttranslationally modified peptides (RiPPs) and feature thioether linkages in their structures. In this study, we identified the biosynthetic gene cluster of a cinnamycin analog, named mathermycin, from Marinactinospora th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chen E,Chen Q,Chen S,Xu B,Ju J,Wang H

更新日期：2017-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In earlier studies, the pathway of toluene and m- and p-xylene degradation (TOL pathway) in Pseudomonas putida (pWW0) was found to be subject to catabolite repression when the strain was grown at the maximal rate on glucose or succinate in the presence of an inducer. This report describes catabolite repression of the ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Duetz WA,Marqués S,Wind B,Ramos JL,van Andel JG

更新日期：1996-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Diel nitrogen fixation studies were conducted with assemblages of cyanobacteria sampled from surface blooms on Sanctuary Lake, Pa. The studies were conducted between July and September of 1982 to 1985 by using the acetylene reduction technique. Assemblages with the lowest cell concentrations (0.9 x 10 to 1.0 x 10 cell...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Storch TA,Saunders GW,Ostrofsky ML

更新日期：1990-02-01 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：:Laboratory column studies were conducted at the Utah Water Research Laboratory, Logan, Utah, to evaluate reovirus removal from drinking water supplies by slow-rate sand filtration (SSF). Columns, constructed to simulate a full-scale SSF field operation, were inoculated with reovirus at ca. 1,000-times-greater concentr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McConnell LK,Sims RC,Barnett BB

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) yield and deoxyribonuclease (DNase) activity of several yeasts were correlated. Debaryomyces castellii and Debaryomyces franciscae were found to contain active DNases which carry out DNA hydrolysis, whereas the amounts of DNA as determined by extraction with Sarkosyl buffer (pH 7.8) wer...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： El-Nakhal H,Phaff HJ

更新日期：1981-06-01 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：:Three Lactococcus lactis subsp. cremoris strains were used to develop ad hoc biofilms on the surfaces of virgin wooden vats used for cheese production. Two vats (TZ) were tested under controlled conditions (pilot plant), and two vats (TA) were tested under uncontrolled conditions (industrial plant). In each plant, one...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gaglio R,Cruciata M,Di Gerlando R,Scatassa ML,Cardamone C,Mancuso I,Sardina MT,Moschetti G,Portolano B,Settanni L

更新日期：2015-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Phylogenetic relationships, diversity, and in situ identification of spirochetes in the gut of the termite Neotermes koshunensis were examined without cultivation, with an emphasis on ectosymbionts attached to flagellated protists. Spirochetes in the gut microbial community investigated so far are related to the genus...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Noda S,Ohkuma M,Yamada A,Hongoh Y,Kudo T

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity and dynamics of a bacterial community extracted from an exploited oil field with high natural soil salinity near Comodoro Rivadavia in Patagonia (Argentina) were investigated. Community shifts during long-term incubation with diesel fuel at four salinities between 0 and 20% NaCl were monitored by single-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kleinsteuber S,Riis V,Fetzer I,Harms H,Müller S

更新日期：2006-05-01 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：:Recombinant plasmids containing fusion proteins composed of two different modules were constructed and expressed in Escherichia coli. The modules encoded the lactase LacA (LacZ) from the thermophilic bacterium Thermoanaerobacter ethanolicus and the cellulase CelD, a cellulose-binding module (CBM) from Anaerocellum the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Velikodvorskaya GA,Tikhonova TV,Gurvits ID,Karyagina AS,Lavrova NV,Sergienko OV,Tashlitskii VN,Lunina NA,Lunin VG

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00