Transient fecal shedding and limited animal-to-animal transmission of Clostridium difficile by naturally infected finishing feedlot cattle.

abstract：:The objective of the present study was to develop a mathematical model of pathogenic bacterial inactivation kinetics in a gastric environment in order to further understand a part of the infectious dose-response mechanism. The major bacterial pathogens Listeria monocytogenes, Escherichia coli O157:H7, and Salmonella s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Koseki S,Mizuno Y,Sotome I

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza virus has been found to persist in the environment for hours to days, allowing for secondary transmission of influenza via inanimate objects known as fomites. We evaluated the efficacy of heat and moisture for the decontamination of surfaces for the purpose of preventing of the spread of influenza. Aqueous s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McDevitt J,Rudnick S,First M,Spengler J

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on results from eight experiments, no overall difference was found between roll tube and three- and five-tube most-probable-number (MPN) methods for estimating total numbers of ruminal bacteria. However, standard errors for the replicate means within an experiment were higher with the MPN procedures. Visual grow...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dehority BA,Tirabasso PA,Grifo AP Jr

更新日期：1989-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA microarray analysis showed that yfiD, yggB, and yggE genes were up-regulated when superoxide dismutase (SOD)-deficient Escherichia coli IM303 (I4) was cultivated under the oxidative stress generated by photoexcited TiO(2), and pYFD, pYGB, and pYGE were constructed by inserting the respective genes into a pUC 19 ve...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kim SY,Nishioka M,Hayashi S,Honda H,Kobayashi T,Taya M

更新日期：2005-05-01 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：:Reduction of hexavalent chromium (chromate) to less-toxic trivalent chromium was studied by using cell suspensions and cell-free supernatant fluids from Pseudomonas putida PRS2000. Chromate reductase activity was associated with soluble protein and not with the membrane fraction. The crude enzyme activity was heat lab...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ishibashi Y,Cervantes C,Silver S

更新日期：1990-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seawater enrichments of marine bacteria clustered in 20- to 50-(mu)m-wide bands near air-water interfaces. The cells within the band travelled at up to 212 (mu)m s(sup-1) and at an average speed of 163 (mu)m s(sup-1). Mean cell speeds peaked mid-run at 187 (mu)m s(sup-1). At the end of the run, bacteria reversed direc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mitchell JG,Pearson L,Dillon S

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 1,6-dichlorohexane-degrading strain of Acinetobacter sp. was isolated from activated sludge. The organism could grow with and quantitatively release halide from 1,6-dichlorohexane, 1,9-dichlorononane, 1-chloropentane, 1-chlorobutane, 1-bromopentane, ethylbromide, and 1-iodopropane. Crude extracts contained an induci...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Janssen DB,Jager D,Witholt B

更新日期：1987-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The nucleotide sequence of a new plasmid pCNB1 from Comamonas sp. strain CNB-1 that degrades 4-chloronitrobenzene (4CNB) was determined. pCNB1 belongs to the IncP-1beta group and is 91,181 bp in length. A total of 95 open reading frames appear to be involved in (i) the replication, maintenance, and transfer of pCNB1; ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ma YF,Wu JF,Wang SY,Jiang CY,Zhang Y,Qi SW,Liu L,Zhao GP,Liu SJ

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:After propagation of Rhizopus javanicus in defined media containing glucose, urea, and mineral salts in deionized distilled water, the ability of the nonliving biomass to sequester cupric ion was assayed. Growth, uptake capacity (saturation uptake at >1 mM Cu concentration in solution), and biosorptive yield (biomass ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Treen-Sears ME,Martin SM,Volesky B

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study describes the optimization of PCR parameters and testing of a wide number of microbial species to establish a highly specific and sensitive PCR-based method of detection of a newly emerged pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 strain in pure cultures and seeded waters from the Gulf of Mexico (gulf water). ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Myers ML,Panicker G,Bej AK

更新日期：2003-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fermentative production of succinic acid from glucose by Escherichia coli was significantly increased by overexpression of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxylase. In contrast, overexpression of phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase had no effect. Under optimized conditions, induction of the carboxylase resulted in a 3.5-fold inc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Millard CS,Chao YP,Liao JC,Donnelly MI

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Efficient production of heterologous proteins with yeasts and other eukaryotic hosts is often hampered by inefficient secretion of the product. Limitation of protein secretion has been attributed to a low folding rate, and a rational solution is the overexpression of proteins supporting folding, like protein disulfide...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gasser B,Sauer M,Maurer M,Stadlmayr G,Mattanovich D

更新日期：2007-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The capacity of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH)-utilizing bacteria to produce biosurfactants was investigated. Twenty-three bacteria isolated from a soil contaminated with petroleum wastes were able to form clearing zones on mineral salt agar plates sprayed with solutions of PAHs. Naphthalene and phenanthrene we...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Deziel E,Paquette G,Villemur R,Lepine F,Bisaillon J

更新日期：1996-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody (BA11) has been produced against Clostridium botulinum type A neurotoxin by the fusion of myeloma cells (P3 NS1/1-Ag4-1) with spleen cells from BALB/c mice immunized with botulinum type A neurotoxoid. The antibody bound specifically to botulinum type A neurotoxin, showing no cross-reactivity with...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shone C,Wilton-Smith P,Appleton N,Hambleton P,Modi N,Gatley S,Melling J

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group I strains of Clostridium botulinum are known to degrade arginine by the arginine deiminase pathway. We have found that C. botulinum Okra B consumed a level of arginine (20 g/liter) higher than the basal requirement for growth (3 g/liter). Arginine was probably the preferred source of nitrogen for biosynthesis bu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Patterson-Curtis SI,Johnson EA

更新日期：1992-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A theoretical analysis of the detachment of bacteria adhering to substratum surfaces upon the passage of an air-liquid interface is given, together with experimental results for bacterial detachment in the absence and presence of a conditioning film on different substratum surfaces. Bacteria (Streptococcus sobrinus HG...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gómez-Suárez C,Busscher HJ,van der Mei HC

更新日期：2001-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method is described for generating and screening variants of the beta-galactosidase from Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus sensitive to several environmental stresses, with potential application in the food industry. Chemical mutagenesis with hydroxylamine or methoxylamine was performed on the beta-galacto...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yoast S,Adams RM,Mainzer SE,Moon K,Palombella AL,Schmidt BF

更新日期：1994-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Caldalkalibacillus thermarum strain TA2.A1 grew in pH-controlled batch culture containing a fermentable growth substrate (i.e., sucrose) from pH 7.5 to 10.0 with no significant change in the specific growth rate, suggesting that this bacterium was a facultative alkaliphile. However, when strain TA2.A1 was grown on a n...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： McMillan DG,Keis S,Berney M,Cook GM

更新日期：2009-12-01 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：:Celiac disease (CD) is an immune-mediated enteropathy triggered by the ingestion of cereal gluten proteins. This disorder is associated with imbalances in the gut microbiota composition that could be involved in the pathogenesis of CD. The aim of this study was to characterize the composition and diversity of the cult...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sánchez E,Donat E,Ribes-Koninckx C,Fernández-Murga ML,Sanz Y

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In May 1999, field surveys of Lyme disease spirochetes were conducted around the Tianshan Mountains in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region in northwestern People's Republic of China. Ixodes persulcatus ticks were obtained in a Tianchi Lake valley with primary forest, while the tick fauna was poor in the semidesert or at ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Takada N,Masuzawa T,Ishiguro F,Fujita H,Kudeken M,Mitani H,Fukunaga M,Tsuchiya K,Yano Y,Ma XH

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enzymes with high specific activities at low temperatures have potential uses for chemical conversions when low temperatures are required, as in the food industry. Psychrotrophic microorganisms which grow at low temperatures may be a valuable source of cold-active enzymes that have higher activities at low temperature...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Trimbur DE,Gutshall KR,Prema P,Brenchley JE

更新日期：1994-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The proportion of oocysts of Cryptosporidium parvum showing a fold on oocyst walls when incubated with either fluorescent monoclonal antibody or a surface-reactive fluorescent dye was increased by incubating suspensions of oocysts with dimethyl sulfoxide, sucrose, or Hanks' balanced salt solution. Further incubation o...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Robertson LJ,Campbell AT,Smith HV

更新日期：1993-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A norleucine-resistant mutant was derived from an isoleucine-valine auxotroph of a leucine accumulator of Serratia marcescens. The norleucine-resistant mutant could accumulate norleucine from norvaline in the medium without the addition of methionine, which antagonized norleucine. This mutant constitutively formed hom...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kisumi M,Sugiura M,Chibata I

更新日期：1977-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Chickens on a broiler farm in southern England were found to be colonized with Campylobacter jejuni of a single serotype, Lior 1 Penner 4. The farm was the sole supplier of a local slaughterhouse associated with a campylobacter outbreak in 1984 caused by this serotype. The serotype persisted on the farm for at least 1...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pearson AD,Greenwood M,Healing TD,Rollins D,Shahamat M,Donaldson J,Colwell RR

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyanuric acid, a metabolic intermediate in the degradation of many s-triazine compounds, is further metabolized by cyanuric acid hydrolase. Cyanuric acid also accumulates in swimming pools due to the breakdown of the sanitizing agents di- and trichloroisocyanuric acid. Structurally stable cyanuric acid hydrolases are ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Li Q,Seffernick JL,Sadowsky MJ,Wackett LP

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene encoding a novel 5-oxoprolinase without ATP-hydrolyzing activity from Alcaligenes faecalis N-38A was cloned and characterized. The coding region of this gene is 1,299 bp long. The predicted primary protein is composed of 433 amino acid residues, with a 31-amino-acid signal peptide. The mature protein is compo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Nishimura A,Oyama H,Hamada T,Nobuoka K,Shin T,Murao S,Oda K

更新日期：2000-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An indirect fluorescent antibody-membrane filter staining technique, which permitted the autecological study of Methylomonas methanica and Methylosinus trichosporium, was developed. This technique was used to assay the numbers of these two organisms in Cleveland Harbor. The concentrations of M. methanica and M. tricho...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Reed WM,Dugan PR

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In the natural environment, most of the phages that target bacteria are thought to exist in biofilm ecosystems. The purpose of this study was to gain a clearer understanding of the reactivity of these viral particles when they come into contact with bacteria embedded in biofilms. Experimentally, we quantified lactococ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Briandet R,Lacroix-Gueu P,Renault M,Lecart S,Meylheuc T,Bidnenko E,Steenkeste K,Bellon-Fontaine MN,Fontaine-Aupart MP

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00