Rapid evaluation of the mycobactericidal efficacy of disinfectants in the quantitative carrier test EN 14563 by using fluorescent Mycobacterium terrae.

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：:An l-aminopeptidase of Pseudomonas putida, used in an industrial process for the hydrolysis of d,l-amino acid amide racemates, was purified to homogeneity. The highly l-enantioselective enzyme resembled thiol reagent-sensitive alkaline serine proteinases and was strongly activated by divalent cations. It possessed a h...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hermes HF,Sonke T,Peters PJ,van Balken JA,Kamphuis J,Dijkhuizen L,Meijer EM

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bioconversion of sugars present in wood hemicellulose to 2,3-butanediol by Klebsiella pneumoniae grown on high sugar concentrations was investigated. When K. pneumoniae was grown under finite air conditions in the presence of added acetic acid, 50 g of D-glucose and D-xylose per liter could be converted to 25 and ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yu EK,Saddler JN

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Of 44 fluorogenic substrates tested for their ability to differentiate species of fecal streptococci, four yielded species-differentiating reactions. The remaining substrates either yielded uniformly positive, negative, or variable strain-dependent reactions. One substrate, 4-methylumbelliferone-alpha-D-galactoside, w...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Littel KJ,Hartman PA

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The incidence of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) infection has been increasing; however, the sources of infection remain unclear. Therefore, we investigated the involvement of meat as a possible mediator of CA-MRSA infection. We examined the distribution of MRSA strains in comm...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ogata K,Narimatsu H,Suzuki M,Higuchi W,Yamamoto T,Taniguchi H

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the washing aid T-128 (generally recognized as safe [GRAS] formulation, composed mainly of phosphoric acid and propylene glycol) on inactivation of Salmonella and Pseudomonas populations in biofilms on stainless steel was evaluated under conditions of increasing organic matter loads in chlorinated wash s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shen C,Luo Y,Nou X,Bauchan G,Zhou B,Wang Q,Millner P

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of rhizobia that form symbioses with roots of black locust (Robinia pseudoacacia L.), an economically important leguminous tree species, was examined by inoculating seedling root zones with samples of soil collected from the United States, Canada, and China. Bacteria were isolated from nodules, subcultur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McCray Batzli J,Graves WR,van Berkum P

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ergosterol, a fungus-specific sterol enriched in cell plasma membranes, is an effective antifungal drug target. However, current knowledge of the ergosterol biosynthesis process in the saprophytic human fungal pathogen Aspergillus fumigatus remains limited. In this study, we found that two endoplasmic reticulum-locali...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Long N,Xu X,Zeng Q,Sang H,Lu L

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gibberellins (GAs) are tetracyclic diterpenoid phytohormones that were first identified as secondary metabolites of the fungus Fusarium fujikuroi (teleomorph, Gibberella fujikuroi). GAs were also found in the cassava pathogen Sphaceloma manihoticola, but the spectrum of GAs differed from that in F. fujikuroi. In contr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bömke C,Rojas MC,Gong F,Hedden P,Tudzynski B

更新日期：2008-09-01 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：:The fatty acid methyl ester composition of a total of 71 marine strains representing the genera Alteromonas, Deleya, Oceanospirillum, and Vibrio was determined by gas-liquid chromatographic analysis. Over 70 different fatty acids were found. The predominant fatty acids were 16:0, 16:1 cis 9, summed-in-feature (SIF) 4 ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bertone S,Giacomini M,Ruggiero C,Piccarolo C,Calegari L

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper presents a method for determining mutagenic concentrations of chemicals by using an agar diffusion assay. The method is based on the linear relationship between the amount of chemical placed at the center of the dish and the radius of the mutagenic zone. A brief theoretical discussion and experimental data ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Awerbuch TE,Stark AA

更新日期：1979-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genetic diversity of 138 strains of the Xanthomonas pathovar mangiferaeindicae, which were isolated from three different hosts (mango, ambarella, and pepper tree) in 14 different countries, was assessed with restriction fragment length polymorphism markers. An analysis of patterns obtained by hybridization with an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gagnevin L,Leach JE,Pruvost O

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Our understanding of leptospiral pathogenesis, which remains poorly understood, depends on reliable genetic tools for functional analysis of genes in pathogenic strains. In this study, we report the first demonstration of conjugation between Escherichia coli and Leptospira spp. by using RP4 derivative conjugative plas...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Picardeau M

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The physiology of ethanologenic Escherichia coli grown anaerobically in alkali-pretreated plant hydrolysates is complex and not well studied. To gain insight into how E. coli responds to such hydrolysates, we studied an E. coli K-12 ethanologen fermenting a hydrolysate prepared from corn stover pretreated by ammonia f...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schwalbach MS,Keating DH,Tremaine M,Marner WD,Zhang Y,Bothfeld W,Higbee A,Grass JA,Cotten C,Reed JL,da Costa Sousa L,Jin M,Balan V,Ellinger J,Dale B,Kiley PJ,Landick R

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A real-time immunoquantitative PCR (iqPCR) method for detection of Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxin B (SEB) was developed and evaluated using both pure cultures and foods. The assay consisted of immunocapture of SEB and real-time PCR amplification of the DNA probe linked to the detection antibody. iqPCR was compared ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rajkovic A,El-Moualij B,Uyttendaele M,Brolet P,Zorzi W,Heinen E,Foubert E,Debevere J

更新日期：2006-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial second messengers (p)ppGpp and bis-(3'-5')-cyclic dimeric GMP (c-di-GMP) regulate important functions, such as transcription, virulence, biofilm formation, and quorum sensing. In mycobacteria, they regulate long-term survival during starvation, pathogenicity, and dormancy. Recently, a Pseudomonas aerugin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gupta KR,Kasetty S,Chatterji D

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a medium containing ammonia, proteose peptone, and cysteine as nitrogen sources, 17 of 24 Bacteroidaceae strains, 3 of Selenomonas strains, 1 of 7 curved rods, 3 of 7 Spirochaetaceae strains, 8 of 20 Eubacterium strains, 8 of 13 Peptococcaceae strains, 3 of 4 Clostridium strains, 19 of 20 Enterobacteriaceae strains...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Takahashi M,Benno Y,Mitsuoka T

更新日期：1980-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterotoxin B produced by Staphylococus aureus 243 in brain heart infusion broth was concentrated by dialysis against 40% polyethylene glycol (20 M), partially purified on a Sephadex G-100 column and heated at 110 degrees C in thermal death time cans. Various heating menstrua included 0.04 M Veronal buffer (pH 7.4), b...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lee IC,Stevenson KE,Harmon LG

更新日期：1977-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat-treated Escherichia coli producing Thermus polyphosphate kinase regenerated ATP by using exogenous polyphosphate. This recombinant could be used as a platform to produce valuable compounds in combination with thermostable phosphorylating or energy-requiring enzymes. In this work, we demonstrated the production of...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Iwamoto S,Motomura K,Shinoda Y,Urata M,Kato J,Takiguchi N,Ohtake H,Hirota R,Kuroda A

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryparin is a cell-surface-associated hydrophobin of the filamentous ascomycete Cryphonectria parasitica. This protein contains a signal peptide that directs it to the vesicle-mediated secretory pathway. We detected a glycosylated form of cryparin in a secretory vesicle fraction, but secreted forms of this protein are...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McCabe PM,Van Alfen NK

更新日期：1999-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Very little is known about the interaction of bryophytes with bacteria. Therefore, we analyzed bacteria associated with three bryophyte species, Tortula ruralis, Aulacomnium palustre, and Sphagnum rubellum, which represent typical moss species of three nutrient-poor plant communities at the southern Baltic Sea coast i...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Opelt K,Berg G

更新日期：2004-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hadal environments sustain diverse microorganisms. A few studies have investigated hadal microbial communities consisting of free-living or particle-associated bacteria and archaea. However, animal-associated microbial communities in hadal environments remain largely unexplored, and comparative analyses of animal gut ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zhang W,Watanabe HK,Ding W,Lan Y,Tian RM,Sun J,Chen C,Cai L,Li Y,Oguri K,Toyofuku T,Kitazato H,Drazen JC,Bartlett D,Qian PY

更新日期：2018-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Aqueous spore suspensions of Bacillus stearothermophilus ATCC 12980 were heated at different temperatures for various time intervals in a resistometer, spread plated on antibiotic assay medium supplemented with 0.1% soluble starch without (AAMS) or with (AAMS-S) 0.9% NaCl, and incubated at 55 degrees C unless otherwis...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Feeherry FE,Munsey DT,Rowley DB

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Soils harbor enormously diverse bacterial populations, and soil bacterial communities can vary greatly in composition across space. However, our understanding of the specific changes in soil bacterial community structure that occur across larger spatial scales is limited because most previous work has focused on eithe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lauber CL,Hamady M,Knight R,Fierer N

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work we investigated the antibacterial properties of differently shaped silver nanoparticles against the gram-negative bacterium Escherichia coli, both in liquid systems and on agar plates. Energy-filtering transmission electron microscopy images revealed considerable changes in the cell membranes upon treatme...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pal S,Tak YK,Song JM

更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recovery results of Staphylococcus aureus ATCC 6538 treated with phenolics and quaternary ammonium compounds on Dey and Engley (D/E) neutralizing medium at various time intervals were compared by the use of two commonly used media. Two recovery processes were utilized. In one, the chemically treated organisms were pla...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dey BP,Engley FB Jr

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A gene, pfa1, encoding an autotransporter was cloned from a pathogenic Pseudomonas fluorescens strain, TSS, isolated from diseased fish. The expression of pfa1 is enhanced during infection and is regulated by growth phase and growth conditions. Mutation of pfa1 significantly attenuates the overall bacterial virulence ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hu YH,Liu CS,Hou JH,Sun L

更新日期：2009-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Preinfection development in Colletotrichum spp. exhibits three morphologies (conidia, germ tubes, and appressoria) and is directed by a complex interplay of environmental signals. Germ tube morphogenesis for Colletotrichum trifolii and the related fungus Colletotrichum gloeosporioides f. sp. aeschynomene was shown to ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Buhr TL,Dickman MB

更新日期：1997-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) infections are a critical public health concern because they can cause severe clinical outcomes, such as hemolytic uremic syndrome, in humans. Determining the presence or absence of virulence genes is essential in assessing the potential pathogenicity of STEC strains. Curr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tseng M,Fratamico PM,Bagi L,Delannoy S,Fach P,Manning SD,Funk JA

更新日期：2014-10-01 00:00:00