Evaluation of culture media for recovery of Staphylococcus aureus from swimming pools.

abstract：:Forty-nine isolates of Butyrivibrio fibrisolvens and a single isolate of Butyrivibrio crossotus were screened for the production of inhibitors by a deferred plating procedure. Twenty-five isolates produced factors which, to various degrees, inhibited the growth of the other Butyrivibrio isolates. None of the inhibitor...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kalmokoff ML,Teather RM

更新日期：1997-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sigma B (sigma(B)) is a stress-responsive alternative sigma factor that has been identified in various gram-positive bacteria. Seven different regulators of sigma B (Rsbs) are located in the sigB operons of both Bacillus subtilis and Listeria monocytogenes. In B. subtilis, these proteins contribute to regulation of si...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chaturongakul S,Boor KJ

更新日期：2004-09-01 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：:We report the characterization of the ccpA gene of Lactobacillus plantarum, coding for catabolite control protein A. The gene is linked to the pepQ gene, encoding a proline peptidase, in the order ccpA-pepQ, with the two genes transcribed in tandem from the same strand as distinct transcriptional units. Two ccpA trans...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Muscariello L,Marasco R,De Felice M,Sacco M

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Between November 2002 and April 2003, 244 bottles and cartons of commercially pasteurized cow's milk were obtained at random from retail outlets throughout the Czech Republic. During the same period, samples of raw milk and of milk that was subsequently subjected to a minimum of 71.7 degrees C for 15 s in a local past...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ayele WY,Svastova P,Roubal P,Bartos M,Pavlik I

更新日期：2005-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Maximum yields of amylase were produced by the thermophilic actinomycete Thermomonospora viridis in a modified Simpson and McCoy medium containing 1.5% corn starch and 0.5% mycological peptone with an initial pH 7.0. Best yields of amylase were obtained after incubation for 48 h, when the pH of the medium had risen to...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Upton ME,Fogarty WM

更新日期：1977-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thermal inactivation of desiccation-adapted Salmonella spp. in aged chicken litter was investigated in comparison with that in a nonadapted control to examine potential cross-tolerance of desiccation-adapted cells to heat treatment. A mixture of four Salmonella serovars was inoculated into the finished compost with 20...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Chen Z,Diao J,Dharmasena M,Ionita C,Jiang X,Rieck J

更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Systematic environmental surveillance for poliovirus circulation has been conducted in Egypt since 2000. The surveillance has revealed three independent importations of wild-type poliovirus. In addition, several vaccine-derived polioviruses have been detected in various locations in Egypt. In addition to acute flaccid...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Blomqvist S,El Bassioni L,El Maamoon Nasr EM,Paananen A,Kaijalainen S,Asghar H,de Gourville E,Roivainen M

更新日期：2012-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of selenite on the growth rate and protein synthesis has been investigated in Rhodobacter sphaeroides. This photosynthetic bacterium efficiently reduces selenite with intracellular accumulation under both dark aerobic and anaerobic photosynthetic conditions. Addition of 1 mM selenite under these two growth ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Bebien M,Chauvin JP,Adriano JM,Grosse S,Verméglio A

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The wastewater of livestock slaughterhouses is considered a source of antimicrobial-resistant bacteria with clinical relevance and may thus be important for their dissemination into the environment. To get an overview of their occurrence and characteristics, we investigated process water (n = 50) from delivery and unc...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Savin M,Bierbaum G,Hammerl JA,Heinemann C,Parcina M,Sib E,Voigt A,Kreyenschmidt J

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N-chloramine compound 3-chloro-4,4-dimethyl-2-oxazolidinone (agent I) has been compared with calcium hypochlorite as to its efficacy as a bactericide for the treatment of water. The study included concentration, contact time, pH, temperature, and water quality as controlled variables. The species of bacteria teste...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Williams DE,Worley SD,Wheatley WB,Swango LJ

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There are a number of genetic tools available for studying Francisella tularensis, the etiological agent of tularemia; however, there is no effective inducible or repressible gene expression system. Here, we describe inducible and repressible gene expression systems for F. tularensis based on the Tet repressor, TetR. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： LoVullo ED,Miller CN,Pavelka MS Jr,Kawula TH

更新日期：2012-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence or absence of molecular oxygen has been shown to play a crucial role in the degradability of haloaromatic compounds. In the present study, it was shown that anaerobic phototrophic 3-chlorobenzoate (3CBA) metabolism by Rhodopseudomonas palustris DCP3 is oxygen tolerant up to a concentration of 3 microM O2....

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Krooneman J,van den Akker S,Pedro Gomes TM,Forney LJ,Gottschal JC

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We demonstrate that enhanced lysozyme resistance of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli requires the plasmid-encoded regulator, Per, and is mediated by factors outside the locus for enterocyte effacement. EspC, a Per-activated serine protease autotransporter protein, conferred enhanced resistance on nonpathogenic E. col...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Salinger N,Kokona B,Fairman R,Okeke IN

更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:DNA from over 300 Bacillus thuringiensis, Bacillus cereus, and Bacillus anthracis isolates was analyzed by fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP). B. thuringiensis and B. cereus isolates were from diverse sources and locations, including soil, clinical isolates and food products causing diarrheal an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hill KK,Ticknor LO,Okinaka RT,Asay M,Blair H,Bliss KA,Laker M,Pardington PE,Richardson AP,Tonks M,Beecher DJ,Kemp JD,Kolstø AB,Wong AC,Keim P,Jackson PJ

更新日期：2004-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Erwinia carotovora subsp. atroseptica, E. carotovora subsp. betavasculorum, and E. carotovora subsp. carotovora produce high levels of extracellular enzymes, such as pectate lyase (Pel), polygalacturonase (Peh), cellulase (Cel), and protease (Prt), and the quorum-sensing signal N-acyl-homoserine lactone (AHL) at 28 de...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Hasegawa H,Chatterjee A,Cui Y,Chatterjee AK

更新日期：2005-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Spent sulfite liquor (SSL) is a waste effluent from sulfite pulping that contains monomeric sugars which can be fermented to ethanol. However, fermentative yeasts used for the fermentation of the sugars in SSL are adversely affected by the inhibitory substances in this complex feedstock. To overcome this limitation, e...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Pinel D,D'Aoust F,del Cardayre SB,Bajwa PK,Lee H,Martin VJ

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7 carried on plant surfaces, including alfalfa sprouts, has been implicated in food poisoning and outbreaks of disease in the United States. Adhesion to cell surfaces is a key component for bacterial establishment and colonization on many types of surfaces. Several E. coli O157:H7 surface protei...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Torres AG,Jeter C,Langley W,Matthysse AG

更新日期：2005-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 69 dyes were incorporated separately at different concentrations into an agar medium for evaluation of their effects on the quantitative recovery of five serotypes of Yersinia enterocolitica. One strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and one strain of Bacillus cereus were included for comparative purposes. Certa...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schiemann DA

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:o-Methoxycinnamaldehyde has been isolated and purified from powdered cinnamon. The compound inhibits the growth and toxin production of mycotoxin-producing fungi. The substance completely inhibited the growth of Aspergillus parasiticus and A. flavus at 100 microgram/ml and A. ochraceus and A. versicolor at 200 microgr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Morozumi S

更新日期：1978-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The food-borne pathogenic bacterium Listeria is known for relatively low morbidity and high mortality rates, reaching up to 25 to 30%. Listeria is a hardy organism, and its control in foods represents a significant challenge. Many naturally occurring compounds, including the bacteriocin nisin and a number of plant ess...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Field D,Daly K,O'Connor PM,Cotter PD,Hill C,Ross RP

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Digital dermatitis (DD) is an important cause of lameness in dairy cattle worldwide. It has now been reported in beef cattle and also sheep (contagious ovine digital dermatitis [CODD]). Three Treponema phylogroups are consistently isolated from lesions, Treponema medium-like, Treponema phagedenis-like, and Treponema p...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Sullivan LE,Carter SD,Duncan JS,Grove-White DH,Angell JW,Evans NJ

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colonization of livestock with bacteria resistant to antibiotics is considered a risk for the entry of drug-resistant pathogens into the food chain. For this reason, there is a need for novel concepts to address the eradication of drug-resistant commensals on farms. In the present report, we evaluated the decontaminat...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schmithausen RM,Kellner SR,Schulze-Geisthoevel SV,Hack S,Engelhart S,Bodenstein I,Al-Sabti N,Reif M,Fimmers R,Körber-Irrgang B,Harlizius J,Hoerauf A,Exner M,Bierbaum G,Petersen B,Bekeredjian-Ding I

更新日期：2015-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three Rhizobium japonicum strains and two slow-growing cowpea-type Rhizobium strains were found to remain viable and able to rapidly modulate their respective hosts after being stored in purified water at ambient temperatures for periods of 1 year and longer. Three fast-growing Rhizobium species did not remain viable ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Crist DK,Wyza RE,Mills KK,Bauer WD,Evans WR

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two alpha-amylase genes from the thermophilic alkaliphile Anaerobranca gottschalkii were cloned, and the corresponding enzymes, AmyA and AmyB, were investigated after purification of the recombinant proteins. Based on their amino acid sequences, AmyA is proposed to be a lipoprotein with extracellular localization and ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Ballschmiter M,Armbrecht M,Ivanova K,Antranikian G,Liebl W

更新日期：2005-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactobacillus gasseri LA39 and L. reuteri LA6 isolated from feces of the same human infant were found to produce similar cyclic bacteriocins (named gassericin A and reutericin 6, respectively) that cannot be distinguished by molecular weights or primary amino acid sequences. However, reutericin 6 has a narrower spectr...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kawai Y,Ishii Y,Arakawa K,Uemura K,Saitoh B,Nishimura J,Kitazawa H,Yamazaki Y,Tateno Y,Itoh T,Saito T

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The successful nodulation of legumes by a Rhizobium strain is determined by the competitive ability of that strain against the mixture of other native and inoculant rhizobia. Competition among six Leucaena rhizobial strains in single and multistrain inoculants were studied. Field inoculation trials were conducted in a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Moawad H,Bohlool BB

更新日期：1984-07-01 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：:Listeria monocytogenes can change its cellular morphology from bacilli to cocci during the transition to the long-term-survival (LTS) phase. The LTS cells demonstrated increased baro- and thermotolerance compared to their vegetative counterparts. So far, the underlying mechanisms that trigger this morphological and ph...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Wen J,Deng X,Li Z,Dudley EG,Anantheswaran RC,Knabel SJ,Zhang W

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gut microbiota is a diverse and dynamic ecological community that is increasingly recognized to play important roles in host metabolic, immunological, and behavioral functioning. As such, identifying new routes for manipulating the microbiota may provide valuable additional methods for improving host health. Dieta...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Reese AT,Carmody RN

更新日期：2019-05-02 00:00:00