In Vitro Synergistic Effect and Mutant Prevention Concentrations of Cefepime Alone or in Combination with Sulbactam Against OXA-48-positive Klebsiella pneumoniae Isolates.

abstract：:We report on a novel bacterium, isolated during a screen for environmental isolates of Bacillus thuringiensis, that possesses a novel filamentous structure. Nucleotide sequence from the isolate's 16S rRNA gene places the bacterium unambiguously within the Bacillus thuringiensis/Bacillus cereus group. Phase-contrast an...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Rampersad J,Khan A,Ammons D

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The natural biodiversity that is found in tropical areas offers countless biotechnological opportunities; especially if we take in account that many biomolecules from several microorganisms have supported for many years, different industrial applications in areas such as pharmacology, agro-industry, bioprocess, enviro...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Arboleda Valencia JW,Valencia Jiménez A,Gonçalves de Siqueira F,Dussan Medina K,Restrepo Franco GM,Filho EX,Siegfried BD,Grossi-de-Sa MF

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventy-eight bacterial isolates from human, animal, and plant hosts, representing eight species of the family Enterobacteriaceae, were screened for F-like plasmid sequences. Of the examined human Escherichia coli strains, 28% harbored one or two of the three F-like, RepFI replication regions, while 35% of the examine...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Mulec J,Starcic M,Zgur-Bertok D

更新日期：2002-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An exopolysaccharide (EPS-I) having the molecular weight ~ 2.6 × 105 Da, was isolated from a Zinc resistant strain of Enterococcus faecalis from costal area. The exopolysaccharide consists of D-mannose, D-glucose, and L-fucose in molar ratio of 9:4:1. The monosaccharide units in the EPS-1 were determined through chemi...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Choudhuri I,Khanra K,Pariya P,Maity GN,Mondal S,Pati BR,Bhattacharyya N

更新日期：2020-10-01 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 outer membrane protein of Photobacterium damsela (OMP-PD) and the gene encoding for this porin protein were isolated and characterized. The deduced amino acid sequence of the OMP-PD monomer has 338 amino acids and a calculated molecular weight of 36,951 Da. This sequence includes a 22-amino acid signal peptide at ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Gribun A,Katcoff DJ,Hershkovits G,Pechatnikov I,Nitzan Y

更新日期：2004-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni is a major food-borne pathogen that causes human gastroenteritis in many developed countries. In our study, we applied multilocus sequence typing (MLST) technology to 167 C. jejuni isolates from diverse sources in Eastern China to examine their genetic diversity. MLST defined 94 sequence types (ST...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Zhang G,Zhang X,Hu Y,Jiao XA,Huang J

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipids contribute significantly to the pathogenesis of fungal infectious diseases and an understanding of lipid metabolism occurring in fungal pathogens can help the development of more efficient antifungal therapeutic strategies. In this study, the effect of culture age on the distribution of fatty acids among differ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Zarnowski R,Dobrzyn A,Ntambi JM,Woods JP

更新日期：2008-02-01 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：: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：:By proteomic analysis, we found a rhodanese-like protein(RhdA) from Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans ATCC 23270 whose C-terminal contained a cysteine motif (Cys-XX-Trp-XX-Cys), known to bind iron-sulfur clusters. But so far, there were no articles to confirm the existence of iron-sulfur cluster in RhdA. In this study, R...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Dai Y,Liu J,Zheng C,Wu A,Zeng J,Qiu G

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The laccase gene lacD, cloned from a novel laccase-producing basidiomycete Trametes sp. 420, contained 2,052 base pairs (bp) interrupted by 8 introns. lacD displayed a relatively high homology with laccase genes from other white rot fungi, whereas the homology between lacD and laccase genes from plants, insects, or ba...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Hong YZ,Zhou HM,Tu XM,Li JF,Xiao YZ

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibacterial effects of tea polyphenols (TPP) extracted from Korean green tea (Camellia sinensis) against clinical isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) were evaluated. Characterization of the minimal inhibitory concentration (MIC) of oxacillin for 30 S. aureus strains isolated from patie...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Cho YS,Schiller NL,Oh KH

更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phage H188, a novel Vibrio kanaloae phage, was isolated from the surface water of Yellow Sea. Morphological analysis by transmission electron microscopy reveals that it belongs to the family Myoviridae. Present result suggests that the phage is stable at pH between 4.0 and 12.0. No significant difference in phage tite...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Li Y,Wang M,Liu Q,Song X,Wang D,Ma Y,Shao H,Jiang Y

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the research was (i) to evaluate white and cream strains of A. bisporus yields when challenged or not with the pathogen L. fungicola, (ii) to identify the more aggressive pathogen isolates, and (iii) to develop a diagrammatic scale of spot symptoms on infected mushrooms. The experiment was carried out using...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Caitano CEC,Iossi MR,Pardo-Giménez A,Vieira Júnior WG,Dias ES,Zied DC

更新日期：2020-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria acquire new DNA in a process known as horizontal gene transfer (HGT). To investigate the evolutionary impact of this transfer of DNA, various methods have been developed to detect past HGT events. For example, codon usage-based methods detect the presence of transferred genes by identifying atypical patterns ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Friedman R,Ely B

更新日期：2012-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The goal of this work was the investigation of correlation between some peculiarities of membrane fatty acids composition, biofilm formation, and motility of dam and/or seqA mutants in Salmonella typhimurium bacterial cells and UV-C radiations. The exposure changed the fatty acids composition of dam and seqA/dam strai...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Abdelwaheb C,Lobna M,Bouchra BA,Selma K,Ahmed L

更新日期：2015-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Gram-positive, yellow pigmented actinobacterium, strain S2-48(T) was isolated from water sample collected from the river Brahmaputra, Assam, India and subjected to a polyphasic taxonomic study. Most of the physiological and biochemical properties, major fatty acids (C(15:0) Anteiso, iso C(16:0) and C(17:0) Anteiso),...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Kaur I,Dhanjal S,Korpole S,Bora TC,Mayilraj S

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, fatty-acid content and patterns were analyzed in order to distinguish Nostoc flagelliforme, an edible terrestrial cyanobacterium, from other Nostoc species and representatives typical of its close neighbors (genera Anabaena, Microcystis, and Synechococcus). According to the Kenyon-Murata classification ...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Liu XJ,Chen F,Jiang Y

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Six cyclohexylacetic acid-degrading strains were isolated from soil samples in Japan and identified as members of the genera Cupriavidus (strain KUA-1), Rhodococcus, and Dietzia by 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis. For the first time members of these genera were shown to be capable of degrading cyclohexylacetic acid. A...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Iwaki H,Nakai E,Nakamura S,Hasegawa Y

更新日期：2008-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An endolithic bacterium, strain RSBr-1, was isolated from the inside of a piece of red sandstone from coastal areas of Scotland. RSBr-1 was gram negative, oxidase and catalase positive, and cells were non-motile rods. Sodium was required for growth. The optimum sodium chloride concentration and pH for growth were 4% a...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Tanaka T,Yan L,Burgess JG

更新日期：2003-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonial aggregation of Microcystis plays a key role in bloom formation. Limited studies have been reported about effects of environmental factors on the aggregation of Microcystis. Calcium is an important chemical element in water system. In this study, we investigated the effects of a low- (0.015 g l⁻¹) and a high-c...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Wang YW,Zhao J,Li JH,Li SS,Zhang LH,Wu M

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Next Generation Sequencing (NGS), using the Illumina® metabarcoding system, showed differences between biofilm communities on three degraded siliceous stone church façades in central Rio de Janeiro. Two church biofilms (on granite and augen gneiss) were dominated by Actinobacteria; the third (granite), surrounded by t...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Ogawa A,Celikkol-Aydin S,Gaylarde C,Baptista-Neto JA,Beech I

更新日期：2017-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nitrate assimilation-defective mutants SP7, SP9, and SP17 of the cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. PCC 7120 were isolated by use of transposon mutagenesis and screened on medium containing chlorate. SP7 and SP17 represented nitrate reductase-defective nature, while mutant SP9 appeared to be a regulatory mutant exhibiting pl...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Rai AK,Tiwari SP

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three yeast strains of Yamadazyma dushanensis f.a., sp. nov. were isolated from rotten wood samples collected in the Dushan Forest Park, Nanyang, Henan Province, China. Sequence analyses of the D1/D2 domains of the large subunit rRNA gene and the internal transcribed spacer (ITS) regions revealed that this new species...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Wang Y,Ren YC,Li Y,Hui FL

更新日期：2015-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study was taken up with a view to generate basic information on spore hardiness to ethanol in various Bacillus species and related genera, and to assess the effectiveness of different levels of ethanol as a bacterial disinfectant. Predominantly spore-bearing cultures of five Bacillus spp. (B. pumilus, B. subtilis...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Thomas P

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The limitation of phosphate concentrations in effluents is of international concern because of the risk of eutrophication.Acinetobacter spp. have often been isolated from activated sludge plants exhibiting enhanced phosphate removal. The ability to remove phosphate from mixed liquor byAcinetobacter isolates and refere...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Bosch M,Cloete TE

更新日期：1993-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Raw vine-trimming wastes or the solid residues obtained after different fractionation treatments were evaluated for their suitability as Amycolatopsis sp. immobilization carriers during the bioconversion of ferulic acid into valuable phenolic compounds such as vanillin, vanillyl alcohol, and vanillic acid, the main fl...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Castañón-Rodríguez JF,Pérez-Rodríguez N,de Souza Oliveira RP,Aguilar-Uscanga MG,Domínguez JM

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several di-, tri-, and oligopeptides were incubated individually in vitro with rumen fluid from two sheep receiving a mixed grass hay/concentrate diet and with washed cells of Prevotella (formerly Bacteroides) ruminicola M384 and P. ruminicola B(1)4. The rates of breakdown of most peptides were similar in the rumen fl...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Wallace RJ,McKain N,Broderick GA

更新日期：1993-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leucoagaricus gongylophorus, the fungus cultured by the leaf-cutting ant Atta sexdens, produces polysaccharidases that degrade leaf components by generating nutrients believed to be essential for ant nutrition. We evaluated pectinase, amylase, xylanase, and cellulase production by L. gongylophorus in laboratory cultur...

journal_title：Current microbiology

authors： Silva A,Bacci M Jr,Pagnocca FC,Bueno OC,Hebling MJ

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00