Susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa urinary tract isolates and influence of urinary tract conditions on antibiotic tolerance.

abstract：:The archaeal diversity in salt pan sediment from Mumbai, India, was investigated by 16S rDNA-dependent molecular phylogeny. Small-subunit rRNA (16S rDNA) from salt pan sediment metagenome were amplified by polymerase chain reaction (PCR) using primers specific to the domain archaea. Thirty-two unique phylotypes were o...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Ahmad N,Sharma S,Khan FG,Kumar R,Johri S,Abdin MZ,Qazi GN

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Gram-stain-negative bacterium, designated WF-2T, was isolated from bensulfuron-methyl contaminated watermelon soil in Weifang, Shandong province, China. Cells of strain WF-2T were strictly aerobic, non-motile and rod-shaped. Strain WF-2T grew optimally at 30 °C, pH 7.0. Strain WF-2T possessed ubiquinone-8 (Q-8) as t...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Zhang H,Zhao HZ,Liu J,Qin W,Huang X

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio vulnificus, a highly virulent marine bacterium, is the causative agent of both serious wound infections and fatal septicemia in many areas of the word. A gene (hlyIII) encoding a hemolysin was cloned and sequenced from V. vulnificus. Nucleotide sequence analysis predicted an open reading frame of 642 bp encodin...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Chen YC,Chang MC,Chuang YC,Jeang CL

更新日期：2004-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Magainin 2 is pore-forming antimicrobial peptide on lipid matrix of bacterial membrane, secreted from the skin of the African clawed frog Xenopus laevis. The aim of this study was to investigate a new concept for antibacterial mechanisms called bacterial apoptosis-like cell death. We examined the morphological changes...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Lee W,Lee DG

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A bacterium that tested positive with antibodies specific for Escherichia coli O157 was isolated from beef during routine screening procedures. The bacterium was identified as E. fergusonii by biochemical testing and partial sequencing of 16S rRNA. The isolate was tested for the presence of genes encoding Shiga toxins...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Fegan N,Barlow RS,Gobius KS

更新日期：2006-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-one Bifidobacterium strains were isolated from the feces of healthy adults (30-40 years old) and seniors (older than 70 years of age). B. adolescentis, B. breve, B. infantis, and B. longum were isolated from the healthy adults and B. adolescentis and B. longum from elderly subjects. The tested bacteria bound, in...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： He F,Ouwehand AC,Isolauri E,Hosoda M,Benno Y,Salminen S

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactic acid bacteria such as Lactobacillus helveticus, L. delbrueckii subsp. delbrueckii, L. delbrueckii subsp. lactis, L. delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus, L. acidophilus, and L. casei related taxa which are widely used as starter or probiotic cultures can be identified by amplified ribosomal DNA restriction analysis (A...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Roy D,Sirois S,Vincent D

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyt1Aa gene from Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis (Bti), whose product synergizes other mosquitocidal toxins, and functions as a repressor of resistance developed by mosquitoes against Bacilli insecticides, was introduced into the aquatic Gram-negative bacterium Asticcacaulis excentricus alongside the cry...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Zheng D,Valdez-Cruz NA,Armengol G,Sevrez C,Munoz-Olaya JM,Yuan Z,Orduz S,Crickmore N

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium (Clostridioides) difficile ribotype 027 (RT027) was detected in Germany for the first time in 2007 during an outbreak in the region of Trier, Rhineland-Palatinate and is today the most prevalent ribotype (RT) in Europe. We aimed to determine the changes in RT distribution and corresponding antimicrobial re...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Piepenbrock E,Stelzer Y,Berger F,Jazmati N

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was undertaken to identify exopolysaccharide-producing bacteria gathered from 18 hypersaline habitats. Phenotypic studies performed with 134 isolates revealed the majority of them to be Gram-negative rods with respiratory metabolism, belonging to the genus Halomonas. A numerical analysis of the 114 phenotyp...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Martínez-Cánovas MJ,Quesada E,Martínez-Checa F,Béjar V

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A high-virulence clone (HVC) was proposed as causing much of the morbidity and mortality when a collection of group B Streptococcus (GBS) isolates was examined by multi-locus enzyme electrophoresis. HVC isolates could be further distinguished by their inability to grow at 40 degrees C, and a temperature-sensitive aldo...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Palacios GC,Timmons BC,Eskew EK,Solórzano F,Mattingly SJ

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porphyromonas gingivalis, one of the etiological agents of periodontitis, can be killed by red light in the presence of toluidine blue. The purpose of this study was to determine whether this light-induced killing was accompanied by changes in the fluidity of the organism's cytoplasmic membrane. A suspension of the or...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Bhatti M,MacRobert A,Henderson B,Wilson M

更新日期：2002-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Chinese HCV cDNA clone, designated as Q379, 379 nucleotides in length, was selected by recombinant immunoscreening from a random-primed Chinese HCV lambda gt11 library. DNA sequencing demonstrated that Q379 situated from positions 7314 to 7695 at NS5 region corresponded with the American prototype HCV nucleotide seq...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Qi Z,Arima T

更新日期：1994-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thiothrix spp., sulfide-oxidizing filamentous bacteria, were found to be a principal bacterial component of aquatic biofilms causing biofouling in selected municipal water storage tanks, private wells, and drip irrigation systems in Florida. Treatments of up to 200 ppm chlorine in the affected systems could not preven...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Brigmon RL,Martin HW,Aldrich HC

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Variable-number-of-tandem-repeats (VNTR) markers are increasingly being used in population genetic studies of bacteria. They were recently developed for Pasteuria ramosa, an endobacterium that infects Daphnia species. In the present study, we genotyped P. ramosa in 18 infected hosts from the United Kingdom, Belgium, a...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Mouton L,Ebert D

更新日期：2008-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 11.2-kb fragment containing the ectABC genes of the biosynthetic pathway of ectoine from the Gram-positive, moderately halophilic bacterium Halobacillus dabanensis D-8(T) was obtained by inverse polymerase chain reaction. Subsequently, the entire ectABC cluster was cloned and analyzed. It revealed that the intergeni...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Zhao B,Lu W,Yang L,Zhang B,Wang L,Yang SS

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erwinia amylovora causes fire blight of apple, pear, and other members of the Rosaceae family. The enzyme LuxS catalyzes the last step in the production of autoinducer-2 (AI-2), a molecule implicated with quorum sensing in many bacterial species. It is now well recognized that LuxS also plays a central role in sulfur ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Gao Y,Song J,Hu B,Zhang L,Liu Q,Liu F

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae represent a global public health concern. K. pneumoniae strains isolated during 2010 and 2014-2016 within a single hospital of Molise Region, Central Italy, were analyzed testing antimicrobial susceptibility, clonality by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) and random ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Ripabelli G,Tamburro M,Guerrizio G,Fanelli I,Flocco R,Scutellà M,Sammarco ML

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Early blight, caused by Alternaria solani, is one of the most devastating diseases of potato that causes severe yield loss worldwide. The infected potato debris existed in the soil serve as the initial infection sources for the next growing potato. Current identification of A. solani in soil relies primarily on cultur...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Gu Q,Yang ZH,Zhao DM,Zhang D,Wang Q,Ma LS,Zhu JH

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present a novel light-dependent metabolism of an aromatic compound (trans-cinnamate) that is assimilatory rather than dissimilatory. Light-dependent assimilation of trans-cinnamate was observed by both growing and resting cells of Rhodobacter sphaeroides OU5. Trans-cinnamate assimilation could be correlated with si...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Usha P,Sasikala Ch,Ramana ChV

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In past years, the significance of microbial resistance to biocides has increased. Twenty biocide-resistant bacterial strains were isolated from dental-unit water line biofilm. All strains resisted high biocide concentrations (up to 100 microg ml(-1)): sodium dodecyl sulphate, hydrogen peroxide, sodium hypochlorite, p...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Liaqat I,Sabri AN

更新日期：2008-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene organization and nucleotide sequence of the type A and B BoNT-gene clusters in Clostridium botulinum strain NCTC 2916 were studied. The aim was to clarify the organization of genes within C. botulinum type A strains possessing an unexpressed BoNT/B gene. The BoNT/A-gene cluster includes genes encoding BoNT, N...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Rodríguez Jovita M,Collins MD,East AK

更新日期：1998-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The taxonomic position of bacterial strain, designated 15J9-4T, recovered from a beach soil sample on Jeju Island, South Korea, was established using a polyphasic approach. Strain 15J9-4T was assigned to phylum Bacteroidetes within the family Cytophagaceae based on 16S rRNA gene similarities. The closest phylogenetic ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Ten LN,Okiria J,Lee JJ,Lee SY,Park S,Lee DS,Kang IK,Kim MK,Jung HY

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cyclomaltodextrinase gene from Bacillus subtilis high-temperature growth transformant H-17 was cloned on separate PstI, BamHI, and EcoRI fragments into the plasmid vector pUC18, but was expressed in an inactive form in the host, Escherichia coli DH5 alpha. High level constitutive expression of the gene product was...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Krohn BM,Lindsay JA

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is an emerging opportunistic pathogen that primarily infects critically ill patients in nosocomial settings and there is a need for identifying new alternative therapeutic agents against these organisms. Ceragenins are non-peptide, membrane-active agents that mimic the antimicrobial properties ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Bozkurt-Guzel C,Inci G,Oyardi O,Savage PB

更新日期：2020-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ostricacin-1 and ostricacin-2 (Osp-1 and Osp-2) were beta-defensins antimicrobial peptides that were purified from ostrich leukocytes using a cation-exchange column and a semi-prep RP-HPLC column. Both ostricacins were subjected to increased concentrations of monovalent cations (K(+) and Na(+)) and divalent cations (C...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Sugiarto H,Yu PL

更新日期：2007-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A new host specificity was discovered with the insecticidal protein encoded by the cryV gene. The cryV gene was cloned from the Bacillus thuringiensis kurstaki INA-02 strain, which was selected among a number of B. thuringiensis isolates because of its high activity against Spodoptera litura. Analyses by polymerase ch...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Sasaki J,Asano S,Iizuka T,Bando H,Lay BW,Hastowo S,Powell GK,Yamamoto T

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four cell lysis methods (NaOH-SDS solubilization, French press treatment, sonication, mutanolysin treatment) and three methods of protein assays (Lowry, Bradford, Pierce) were studied for their applicability to determination of cell volume in Clostridium perfringens NCTC 8798 cell suspensions. Protein contents were hi...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Guerlava P,Izac V,Tholozan JL

更新日期：1998-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio harveyi has been reported to enter into a viable but nonculturable (VBNC) state. One marine V. harveyi strain, SF1 became nonculturable when incubated in seawater microcosm at 4 °C within 60 days. We investigated protein expression in the exponential phase of V. harveyi SF1 and compared it to the VBNC state. Cy...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Jia J,Li Z,Cao J,Jiang Y,Liang C,Liu M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The non-metabolizable glucose analog, 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG), decreased the growth rate and optical density of Streptococcus bovis JB1 20%, but it had an even greater effect on stationary phase cultures. Control cultures receiving only glucose (2 mg/ml) lysed very slowly (<5% decline in optical density in 48 h), but cu...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Russell JB,Wells JE

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00