Plasmid profiles as indicators of the source of contamination of Staphylococcus aureus endemic within poultry processing plants.

abstract：:Virulence gene profiles of atypical enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (aEPEC) and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) from cattle, sheep, and humans were examined to determine the relationship between pathotypes. Shared virulence factors (intimin, EHEC hemolysin, serine protease, and a type II secretion system) were ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cookson AL,Cao M,Bennett J,Nicol C,Thomson-Carter F,Attwood GT

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of time-dependent drug and environmental effects on single, live bacterial cells would benefit significantly from a permeable, nonperturbative, long-lived fluorescent stain specific to the nucleoids (chromosomal DNA). The ideal stain would not affect cell growth rate or nucleoid morphology and dynamics, even d...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bakshi S,Choi H,Rangarajan N,Barns KJ,Bratton BP,Weisshaar JC

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium glutamicum is able to grow in media containing up to 12 mM arsenite and 500 mM arsenate and is one of the most arsenic-resistant microorganisms described to date. Two operons (ars1 and ars2) involved in arsenate and arsenite resistance have been identified in the complete genome sequence of Corynebacte...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ordóñez E,Letek M,Valbuena N,Gil JA,Mateos LM

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method was developed to follow bacterial nitrate reduction in freshwater sediments by using common high-performance liquid chromatographic equipment. The low detection limit (14 pmol) of the method enabled us to study concentration profiles and reaction kinetics under natural conditions. Significant nitrate concentr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hordijk CA,Snieder M,van Engelen JJ,Cappenberg TE

更新日期：1987-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Determination of microbial viability by the plate count method is routine in microbiology laboratories worldwide. However, limitations of the technique, particularly with respect to environmental microorganisms, are widely recognized. Many alternatives based upon viability staining have been proposed, and these are of...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Davey HM

更新日期：2011-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Essential oil components (EOCs) have limited water solubility and are used at much higher concentrations in complex food matrices than in growth media to inhibit pathogens. However, the correlation between solubility and activity has not been studied. The objective of this work was to characterize the solubility of EO...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chen H,Davidson PM,Zhong Q

更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The percentage of azygospores of Gigaspora margarita with zoosporangia of chytridiaceous fungi (CF) was reduced significantly after agitating them in fenaminosulf before incubation in soil. Fenaminosulf did not affect zoosporangia development on chlamydospores of Glomus fasciculatum. Metalaxyl and ethazol were not eff...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sylvia DM,Schenck NC

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactocin 705 is a bacteriocin whose activity depends upon the complementation of two peptides, termed Lac705alpha and Lac705beta. Neither Lac705alpha nor Lac705beta displayed bacteriocin activity by itself when the growth of sensitive cells was monitored. To obtain molecular insights into the lactocin 705 mechanism of...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Castellano P,Vignolo G,Farías RN,Arrondo JL,Chehín R

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A selective and differential growth medium was developed for detection of Clostridium botulinum types A, B, and F. The medium consisted of peptone-glucose-yeast extract agar supplemented with cycloserine, 250 micrograms/ml; sulfamethoxazole, 76 micrograms/ml; and trimethoprim, 4 micrograms/ml as selective inhibitors a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Silas JC,Carpenter JA,Hamdy MK,Harrison MA

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe here the development of a single-reaction multiplex PCR assay for the enterotoxin genes from Staphylococcus aureus that utilizes a universal toxin gene primer in combination with toxin-specific primers to amplify characteristic toxin gene products. In combination with a new DNA purification method, the ass...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sharma NK,Rees CE,Dodd CE

更新日期：2000-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Brevibacterium linens M18, isolated from red smear cheese, produces a substance that inhibits the growth of Listeria spp. and several coryneform and other gram-positive bacteria. No gram-negative bacteria were inhibited. The substance is heat labile, sensitive to proteolytic enzymes, and stable between pH 3 and 12. Hi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Valdés-Stauber N,Scherer S

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Ribosomal gene sequences were obtained from bryozoans in the genus Bugula and their bacterial symbionts; analyses of host and symbiont phylogenetic trees did not support a history of strict cospeciation. Symbiont-derived compounds known to defend host larvae from predation were only detected in two out of four symbiot...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Lim-Fong GE,Regali LA,Haygood MG

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four enteric viruses, poliovirus type 1, echovirus type 1, reovirus type 3, and simian adenovirus SV-11, were concentrated from seeded 1.3-liter volumes of raw, finished, and granular activated carbon-treated waters by adsorption to 47-mm-diameter (17 cm2), electropositive ( Virosorb 1MDS ) filters at pH 7.5 or electr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sobsey MD,Glass JS

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Listeria monocytogenes secretes two chitinases and one chitin binding protein. Mutants lacking chiA, chiB, or lmo2467 exhibited normal growth in cultured cells but were defective for growth in the livers and spleens of mice. Mammals lack chitin; thus, L. monocytogenes may have adapted chitinases to recognize alternati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chaudhuri S,Bruno JC,Alonzo F 3rd,Xayarath B,Cianciotto NP,Freitag NE

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five cases of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis associated with swimming in freshwater lakes have been recorded in Florida over the past 14 years. The present study demonstrated that pathogenic Naegleria, the causative agent, is relatively widespread. Twelve of 26 lakes sampled only once yielded the amoeba. Populati...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wellings FM,Amuso PT,Chang SL,Lewis AL

更新日期：1977-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium sp. strain S1, an unnamed bile acid-desulfating strain from rat intestinal microflora (S.M. Huijghebaert, J. A. Mertens, and H. J. Eyssen, Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 43:185-192, 1982), was examined for its ability to desulfate different bile acid sulfates and steroid sulfates in growing cultures. Clostridiu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Huijghebaert SM,Eyssen HJ

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The psychrotolerant acidophile Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans has been identified from cold environments and has been shown to use ferrous iron and inorganic sulfur compounds as its energy sources. A bioinformatic evaluation presented in this study suggested that Acidithiobacillus ferrivorans utilized a ferrous iron ox...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Liljeqvist M,Rzhepishevska OI,Dopson M

更新日期：2013-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutants of Erwinia herbicola Eh1087 (Ant-), which did not produce antibiotic activity against Erwinia amylovora, the fire blight pathogen, were selected after TnphoA mutagenesis. In immature pear fruit Ant- mutants grew at the same rate as wild-type strain Eh1087 but did not suppress development of the disease caused ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kearns LP,Mahanty HK

更新日期：1998-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptosporidium is a genus of waterborne protozoan parasites that causes significant gastrointestinal disease in humans. These parasites can accumulate in environmental biofilms and be subsequently released to contaminate water supplies. Natural microbial assemblages were collected each season from an eastern Pennsylv...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wolyniak EA,Hargreaves BR,Jellison KL

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Norwalk virus and other human caliciviruses (noroviruses) are major agents of gastroenteritis, and water is a major route of their transmission. In an effort to control Norwalk virus in drinking water, Norwalk virus reduction by bench-scale ozone disinfection was determined using quantitative reverse transcription (RT...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Shin GA,Sobsey MD

更新日期：2003-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The assembly of six genes that encode enzymes from glutamate-fermenting bacteria converted Escherichia coli into a glutaconate producer when grown anaerobically on a complex medium. The new anaerobic pathway starts with 2-oxoglutarate from general metabolism and proceeds via (R)-2-hydroxyglutarate, (R)-2-hydroxyglutar...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Djurdjevic I,Zelder O,Buckel W

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:Two different Cd(2+) uptake systems were identified in Lactobacillus plantarum. One is a high-affinity, high-velocity Mn(2+) uptake system which also takes up Cd(2+) and is induced by Mn(2+) starvation. The calculated K(m) and V(max) are 0.26 microM and 3.6 micromol g of dry cell(-1) min(-1), respectively. Unlike Mn(2...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hao Z,Reiske HR,Wilson DB

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four pure cultures of denitrifying bacteria, which had previously been isolated on defined alkylbenzenes, were capable of anaerobic growth with crude oil as the only source of organic substrates. Chemical analyses after growth revealed that the known growth substrates toluene, ethylbenzene, and m-xylene were selective...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rabus R,Widdel F

更新日期：1996-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence and chain length of mycolic acids of bacteria of the genera Corynebacterium, Rhodococcus, Gordona, Mycobacterium, and Arthrobacter and of coryneform bacteria containing a type B peptidoglycan were related to the cell surface hydrophobicity of the bacteria, which in turn was related to adhesion of the cell...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bendinger B,Rijnaarts HH,Altendorf K,Zehnder AJ

更新日期：1993-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Most species of the diazotrophic Proteobacteria Azoarcus spp. occur in association with grass roots, while A. tolulyticus and A. evansii are soil bacteria not associated with a plant host. To facilitate species identification and strain comparison, we developed a protocol for PCR-generated genomic fingerprints, using ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hurek T,Wagner B,Reinhold-Hurek B

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Many cyanobacteria are known to tolerate environmental extremes. Motivated by an interest in selecting cyanobacteria for applications in space, we launched rocks from a limestone cliff in Beer, Devon, United Kingdom, containing an epilithic and endolithic rock-dwelling community of cyanobacteria into low Earth orbit (...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Olsson-Francis K,de la Torre R,Cockell CS

更新日期：2010-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Duplicate anaerobic fermentor systems were used to examine changes in a community of human fecal bacteria supplied with different carbohydrate energy sources. A panel of group-specific fluorescent in situ hybridization probes targeting 16S rRNA sequences revealed that the fermentors supported growth of a greater propo...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Duncan SH,Scott KP,Ramsay AG,Harmsen HJ,Welling GW,Stewart CS,Flint HJ

更新日期：2003-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The possible existence of endemism among microorganisms resulting from and preserved by geographic isolation is one of the most controversial topics in microbial ecology. We isolated 31 strains of "Spumella-like" flagellates from remote sampling sites from all continents, including Antarctica. These and another 23 iso...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Boenigk J,Pfandl K,Garstecki T,Harms H,Novarino G,Chatzinotas A

更新日期：2006-08-01 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