Comparison of methods for evaluation of the bactericidal activity of copper-sputtered surfaces against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

abstract：:Potato tuber disks were submerged in suspensions containing 10 to 10 cells of Agrobacterium tumefaciens B6 per ml. After 60 min, the disks were rinsed and homogenized, and portions of the homogenates were plated to measure the number of adsorbed bacteria. At low initial bacterial concentrations (10/ml), 5 to 23% of th...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kluepfel DA,Pueppke SG

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A group-specific primer, F243 (positions 226 to 243, Escherichia coli numbering), was developed by comparison of sequences of genes encoding 16S rRNA (16S rDNA) for the detection of actinomycetes in the environment with PCR and temperature or denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis (TGGE or DGGE, respectively). The sp...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Heuer H,Krsek M,Baker P,Smalla K,Wellington EM

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this article, we present a new bioluminescent test system for the screening of chemical compounds with an inhibitory effect on protein synthesis. The test is based on the measurement of real-time in vivo light production by Escherichia coli strains expressing different luciferase genes. The eukaryotic lucGR gene fr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lampinen J,Virta M,Karp M

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent declines in bumble bee populations are of great concern and have prompted critical evaluations of the role of pathogen introductions and host resistance in bee health. One factor that may influence host resilience when facing infection is the gut microbiota. Previous experiments with Bombus terrestris, a Europe...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Mockler BK,Kwong WK,Moran NA,Koch H

更新日期：2018-03-19 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was performed to determine the effects of feeding a fiber-rich fraction of Brassica vegetables on the immune response through changes in enteric bacteria and short-chain fatty acid (SCFA) production in normal mice. The boiled-water-insoluble fraction of Brassica rapa L. (nozawana), which consists mainly of ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tanaka S,Yamamoto K,Yamada K,Furuya K,Uyeno Y

更新日期：2016-04-18 00:00:00

abstract：:We have cloned the homoserine dehydrogenase genes (hom) from the gram-negative obligate methylotrophs Methylobacillus glycogenes ATCC 21276 and ATCC 21371 by complementation of an Escherichia coli homoserine dehydrogenase-deficient mutant. The 4.15-kb DNA fragment cloned from M. glycogenes ATCC 21371 also complemented...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Motoyama H,Maki K,Anazawa H,Ishino S,Teshiba S

更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The use of a multilocus sequence typing (MLST) technique has identified the intraspecific genetic diversity of U.S. Flavobacterium psychrophilum, an important pathogen of salmonids worldwide. Prior to this analysis, little U.S. F. psychrophilum genetic information was known; this is of importance when consid...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Van Vliet D,Wiens GD,Loch TP,Nicolas P,Faisal M

更新日期：2016-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The changes in motility, chemotactic responsiveness, and flagellation of Rhizobium meliloti RMB7201, L5-30, and JJ1c10 were analyzed after transfer of the bacteria to buffer with no available C, N, or phosphate. Cells of these three strains remained viable for weeks after transfer to starvation buffer (SB) but lost al...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wei X,Bauer WD

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We reported recently a unique fungal structure, called the spiny ball, on the vegetative hyphae of Coprinus comatus (O. F. Müll.:Fr.) Pers. Although some observations regarding the role of this structure were presented, its function remained largely unknown. In this study, we showed that purified (isolated and washed)...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Luo H,Liu Y,Fang L,Li X,Tang N,Zhang K

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellular fatty acids of 10 strains of lactic acid bacteria were analyzed. The purpose of this work was to find lactic acid bacteria with high lactobacillic acid contents. The bacteria studied were unable to synthesize oleic acid. Some strains did not synthesize lactobacillic acid, although all were able to form dihydr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Johnsson T,Nikkila P,Toivonen L,Rosenqvist H,Laakso S

更新日期：1995-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses are the most abundant and diverse biological entities within soils, yet their ecological impact is largely unknown. Defining how soil viral communities change with perturbation or across environments will contribute to understanding the larger ecological significance of soil viruses. A new approach to examinin...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Srinivasiah S,Lovett J,Polson S,Bhavsar J,Ghosh D,Roy K,Fuhrmann JJ,Radosevich M,Wommack KE

更新日期：2013-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Water resources contaminated with wastewater are an important source for the dissemination of enteric viruses with an impact on the health of the population. The aim of the study was to assess the viral contamination of freshwater from a dam in Argentina by using infectious enterovirus detection, viral RNA amplificati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Masachessi G,Pisano MB,Prez VE,Martínez LC,Michelena JF,Martínez-Wassaf M,Giordano MO,Isa MB,Pavan JV,Welter A,Nates SV,Ré V

更新日期：2018-02-14 00:00:00

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：:Extraintestinal growth of fecal bacteria can impair accurate assessment of watershed health. Anaerobic fecal bacteria belonging to the order Bacteroidales are attractive candidates for fecal source tracking because they have host-specific distributions and do not grow well in the presence of high oxygen concentrations...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Walters SP,Field KG

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nonselected and natural populations of Escherichia coli from 12 animal sources and humans were examined for the presence and types of 14 tetracycline resistance determinants. Of 1,263 unique E. coli isolates from humans, pigs, chickens, turkeys, sheep, cows, goats, cats, dogs, horses, geese, ducks, and deer, 31% were ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bryan A,Shapir N,Sadowsky MJ

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Technological advancements, particularly in the field of geographic information systems (GIS), have made it possible to predict the likelihood of foodborne pathogen contamination in produce production environments using geospatial models. Yet, few studies have examined the validity and robustness of such models. This ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Weller D,Shiwakoti S,Bergholz P,Grohn Y,Wiedmann M,Strawn LK

更新日期：2015-11-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Vibrio cholerae showed a strong positive chemotactic response towards rum distillery wastewaters (mostos) and a high oxygen uptake rate in the presence of this complex substrate. Rum slops stimulated only motility in Aeromonas hydrophila and Escherichia coli. The A. hydrophila and E. coli is...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fuentes FA,Biamon EJ,Hazen TC

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The human large intestine is covered with a protective mucus coating, which is heavily colonized by complex bacterial populations that are distinct from those in the gut lumen. Little is known of the composition and metabolic activities of these biofilms, although they are likely to play an important role in mucus bre...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Macfarlane S,Woodmansey EJ,Macfarlane GT

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We report on the hydrogen production properties of the unicellular, diazotrophic cyanobacterium Cyanothece sp. strain ATCC 51142. This organism has a versatile metabolism and can grow in the presence or absence of combined nitrogen and can grow photosynthetically or mixotrophically and heterotrophically in the presenc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Min H,Sherman LA

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erwinia amylovora bacteriophages (phages) belonging to the Myoviridae and Podoviridae families demonstrated a preference for either high-exopolysaccharide-producing (HEP) or low-exopolysaccharide-producing (LEP) bacterial hosts when grown on artificial medium without or with sugar supplementation. Myoviridae phages pr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Roach DR,Sjaarda DR,Castle AJ,Svircev AM

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The colonization of granular activated carbon columns by bacteria can have both beneficial and potentially detrimental consequences. Bacterial growth on the carbon surface can remove adsorbed organics and thus partially regenerate the carbon bed. However, growth can also increase the levels of bacteria in the column e...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shimp RJ,Pfaender FK

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of host nutrition on symbiont regulation in the pea aphid Acyrthosiphon pisum was investigated. The population density of the obligate symbiont Buchnera aphidicola positively correlated with dietary nitrogen levels. In contrast, the population density of the facultative symbiont Serratia symbiotica increase...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wilkinson TL,Koga R,Fukatsu T

更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The plasmid pYDH208, which confers the ability to catabolize the mannityl opines mannopine and agropine, was mobilized into the nonpathogenic Pseudomonas syringae strain Cit7. The growth of the mannityl opine-catabolizing strain Cit7(pYDH208) was compared with that of the near-isogenic non-opine-catabolizing strain Ci...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wilson M,Savka MA,Hwang I,Farrand SK,Lindow SE

更新日期：1995-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleurotus ostreatus is widely cultivated in China. However, its cultivation is strongly affected by seasonal temperature changes, especially the high temperatures of summer. Nitric oxide (NO) was previously reported to alleviate oxidative damage to mycelia by regulating trehalose. In this study, we found that NO allev...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hou L,Zhao M,Huang C,Wu X,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：:O island 48 (OI-48) of Escherichia coli consists of three functional gene clusters that encode urease, tellurite resistance (Te(r)), and putative adhesins Iha and AIDA-1. The functions of these clusters in enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) O157:H7 infection are unknown. Deletion mutants for these three regions were con...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Yin X,Wheatcroft R,Chambers JR,Liu B,Zhu J,Gyles CL

更新日期：2009-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ferric uptake regulator (Fur) box-like sequence was located upstream of the serine protease-encoding gene (aprII) from a marine bacterium, Alteromonas sp. strain O-7. To clarify whether the production of AprII (the gene product of aprII) is regulated by the environmental iron concentrations, this strain was cultur...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Tsujibo H,Miyamoto K,Okamoto T,Orikoshi H,Inamori Y

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We developed an improved method for cultivation-independent sorting of bacterial cells. The technique is based on labeling the target cells by in situ hybridization with polynucleotide transcript probes. Due to the probes' length, part of the probe remains outside the cell and can subsequently be used to capture the c...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Zwirglmaier K,Ludwig W,Schleifer KH

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rates of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC), formate, and acetate mineralization and/or assimilation were determined in 13 high-temperature (>73 °C) hot springs in Yellowstone National Park (YNP), Wyoming, in order to evaluate the relative importance of these substrates in supporting microbial metabolism. While 9 of the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Urschel MR,Kubo MD,Hoehler TM,Peters JW,Boyd ES

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The uncultivated bacterial endosymbionts of the hydrothermal vent tubeworm Riftia pachyptila play a central role in providing their host with fixed carbon. While this intimate association between host and symbiont indicates tight integration and coordination of function via cellular communication mechanisms, no such s...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hughes DS,Felbeck H,Stein JL

更新日期：1997-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For decades, untreated sewage flowing northward from Tijuana, Mexico, via the Tijuana River has adversely affected the water quality of the recreational beaches of San Diego, California. We used quantitative reverse transcription-PCR to measure the levels of hepatitis A virus (HAV) and enteroviruses in coastal waters ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gersberg RM,Rose MA,Robles-Sikisaka R,Dhar AK

更新日期：2006-12-01 00:00:00