Prevalence of Clostridium botulinum in Finnish trout farms: pulsed-field gel electrophoresis typing reveals extensive genetic diversity among type E isolates.

abstract：:The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's information collection rule requires the use of 1MDS electropositive filters for concentrating enteric viruses from water, but unfortunately, these filters are not cost-effective for routine viral monitoring. In this study, an inexpensive electropositive cartridge filter, the...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Karim MR,Rhodes ER,Brinkman N,Wymer L,Fout GS

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We examined nitrate-dependent Fe(2+) oxidation mediated by anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) bacteria. Enrichment cultures of "Candidatus Brocadia sinica" anaerobically oxidized Fe(2+) and reduced NO3(-) to nitrogen gas at rates of 3.7 ± 0.2 and 1.3 ± 0.1 (mean ± standard deviation [SD]) nmol mg protein(-1) min(-...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Oshiki M,Ishii S,Yoshida K,Fujii N,Ishiguro M,Satoh H,Okabe S

更新日期：2013-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The subunit composition of the extracellular complex from Clostridium thermocellum was analyzed by sodium dodecyl sulfate-polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis (SDS-PAGE). Twenty-six bands, representing proteins with apparent molecular sizes ranging from 37,500 to 185,000 Da, could be detected by silver staining. Cultiva...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kohring S,Wiegel J,Mayer F

更新日期：1990-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Smectite clay minerals are abundant in soils and sediments worldwide and are typically rich in Fe. While recent investigations have shown that the structural Fe(III) bound in clay minerals is reduced by microorganisms, previous studies have not tested growth with clay minerals as the sole electron acceptor. Here we ha...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kostka JE,Dalton DD,Skelton H,Dollhopf S,Stucki JW

更新日期：2002-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The microaerophilic bacterium Campylobacter jejuni is the most common cause of bacterial food-borne infections in the developed world. Tolerance to environmental stress relies on proteases and chaperones in the cell envelope, such as HtrA and SurA. HtrA displays both chaperone and protease activities, but little is kn...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Baek KT,Vegge CS,Skórko-Glonek J,Brøndsted L

更新日期：2011-01-01 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：:In two previous studies dealing with lactic acid bacteria (LAB) from modified-atmosphere-packaged (MAP) broiler products and a broiler processing plant, several isolates remained unidentified. According to 16S rRNA gene sequence analysis, 36 isolates were assigned to the genus Enterococcus. Numerical analysis of combi...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rahkila R,Johansson P,Säde E,Björkroth J

更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous molecular analysis of the Octopus Spring cyanobacterial mat revealed numerous genetically distinct 16S rRNA sequences from predominant Synechococcus populations distantly related to the readily cultivated unicellular cyanobacterium Synechococcus lividus. Patterns in genotype distribution relative to temperatu...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Allewalt JP,Bateson MM,Revsbech NP,Slack K,Ward DM

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three crude oil bioremediation techniques were applied in a randomized block field experiment simulating a coastal oil spill. Four treatments (no oil control, oil alone, oil plus nutrients, and oil plus nutrients plus an indigenous inoculum) were applied. In situ microbial community structures were monitored by phosph...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： MacNaughton SJ,Stephen JR,Venosa AD,Davis GA,Chang YJ,White DC

更新日期：1999-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Sporulation of Bacillus larvae NRRL B-3650 occurred only at aeration rates lower than those used for cultivation of most Bacillus species. One possible explanation for the requirement for a low level of aeration in B. larvae is that toxic forms of oxygen such as H(2)O(2) and superoxide are involved. The superoxide dis...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dingman DW,Stahly DP

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies have demonstrated that reduced humic substances (HS) can be reoxidized by anaerobic bacteria such as Geobacter, Geothrix, and Wolinella species with a suitable electron acceptor; however, little is known of the importance of this metabolism in the environment. Recently we investigated this metabolism ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Coates JD,Cole KA,Chakraborty R,O'Connor SM,Achenbach LA

更新日期：2002-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salinity effects on microbial community structure and on potential rates of arsenate reduction, arsenite oxidation, sulfate reduction, denitrification, and methanogenesis were examined in sediment slurries from two California soda lakes. We conducted experiments with Mono Lake and Searles Lake sediments over a wide ra...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kulp TR,Han S,Saltikov CW,Lanoil BD,Zargar K,Oremland RS

更新日期：2007-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High numbers (10(7) to 10(10) cells per g [dry weight]) of heterotrophic, gram-negative, rod-shaped, non-sporeforming, aerobic, thermophilic bacteria related to the genus Thermus were isolated from thermogenic composts at temperatures between 65 and 82 degrees C. These bacteria were present in different types of waste...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Beffa T,Blanc M,Lyon PF,Vogt G,Marchiani M,Fischer JL,Aragno M

更新日期：1996-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A genomic clone bank of Acetobacter polyoxogenes NBI1028 constructed in Escherichia coli by use of the expression vector pUC18 was screened with antibody raised against membrane-bound aldehyde dehydrogenase (ALDH; 75 kilodaltons [kDa]) from A. polyoxogenes NBI1028. A clone that synthesized a 41-kDa protein cross-react...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fukaya M,Tayama K,Tamaki T,Tagami H,Okumura H,Kawamura Y,Beppu T

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hybridization of crushed Lotus pedunculatus root nodules with P-labeled total genomic DNA probes was used to identify Rhizobium loti and Bradyrhizobium sp. (Lotus rhizobia). Probes always hybridized with homologous target DNA and frequently with DNAs of other strains from the same genus. Intergeneric hybridization did...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Cooper JE,Bjourson AJ,Thompson JK

更新日期：1987-07-01 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：:Pseudomonas fluorescens isolates 13525 and 2-79 were grown in Luria broth and low-nutrient medium (LNM). Pililike fibrils were very rarely produced in Luria broth but were abundantly produced in LNM. In LNM the pili were peritrichously distributed and had diameters ranging from 3 to 8 nm. Pili were purified from strai...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Vesper SJ

更新日期：1987-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mixed infections have important consequences for the ecology and evolution of host-parasite interactions. In vector-borne diseases, interactions between pathogens occur in both the vertebrate host and the arthropod vector. Spirochete bacteria belonging to the Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato genospecies complex are tra...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Herrmann C,Gern L,Voordouw MJ

更新日期：2013-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Reporter gene technology was used to observe the regulation of the alginate biosynthesis gene, algC in a mucoid strain of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in developing and mature biofilms in continuous culture on Teflon and glass substrata. The plasmid pNZ63, carrying an algC-lacZ transcriptional fusion, was shown to not be di...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Davies DG,Geesey GG

更新日期：1995-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Washed cell suspensions of the facultative methylotroph strain IMB-1 grown on methyl bromide (MeBr) were able to consume methyl chloride (MeCl) and methyl iodide (MeI) as well as MeBr. Consumption of >100 microM MeBr by cells grown on glucose, acetate, or monomethylamine required induction. Induction was inhibited by ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Schaefer JK,Oremland RS

更新日期：1999-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is much interest in the use of seed-applied bacteria for biocontrol and biofertilization, and several commercial products are available. However, many attempts to use this strategy fail because the seed-applied bacteria do not colonize the rhizosphere. Mechanisms of rhizosphere colonization may involve active ba...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Knox OG,Killham K,Artz RR,Mullins C,Wilson M

更新日期：2004-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A stable shuttle vector which replicates in Escherichia coli and Clostridium perfringens was constructed by ligating a 3.6-kilobase (kb) fragment of plasmid pBR322 with C. perfringens plasmid pHB101 (3.1 kb). The marker for this shuttle plasmid originated from the 1.3-kb chloramphenicol resistance gene of plasmid pHR1...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Kim AY,Blaschek HP

更新日期：1989-02-01 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：:An amylolytic Lactobacillus plantarum silage strain with the starch-degrading ability displayed by Lactobacillus amylovorus was developed. An active fragment of the gene coding for alpha-amylase production in L. amylovorus was cloned and integrated into the chromosome of the competitive inoculant strain L. plantarum L...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Fitzsimons A,Hols P,Jore J,Leer RJ,O'Connell M,Delcour J

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biodegradation experiments with radioactively labeled trichloroethylene showed that 32% of the radioactive carbon was converted to glyoxylic acid, dichloroacetic acid and trichloroacetic acid and that the same percentage was converted to CO2 and CO after 140 h of incubation by a pure culture of a type II methane-utili...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Uchiyama H,Nakajima T,Yagi O,Nakahara T

更新日期：1992-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The protein content of once-washed pellets of Dunaliella primalecta was 35 to 48%. Protein quality was good. Electron microscopy confirmed the absence of a cell wall. ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Gibbs N,Duffus CM

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Europe, ixodid ticks are important arthropod vectors of human and animal pathogens, but comprehensive studies of the prevalence of all relevant pathogens in Central Europe are scarce. As a result of ecological changes, the incidences of tick-borne infections are expected to increase. In this study, 1,394 nymphal an...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Reye AL,Hübschen JM,Sausy A,Muller CP

更新日期：2010-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 530 strains of Staphylococcus aureus were isolated from the defeathering machinery of a chicken processing plant and from neck skin samples of carcasses at different stages of processing in two visits 4 weeks apart. Eleven different plasmid profiles were detected in the isolates, eight being common to both ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Dodd CE,Chaffey BJ,Waites WM

更新日期：1988-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Algal blooms in lakes are often associated with anthropogenic eutrophication; however, they can occur without the human introduction of nutrients to a lake. A rare bloom of the alga Picocystis sp. strain ML occurred in the spring of 2016 at Mono Lake, a hyperalkaline lake in California, which was also at the apex of a...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Stamps BW,Nunn HS,Petryshyn VA,Oremland RS,Miller LG,Rosen MR,Bauer KW,Thompson KJ,Tookmanian EM,Waldeck AR,Loyd SJ,Johnson HA,Stevenson BS,Berelson WM,Corsetti FA,Spear JR

更新日期：2018-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:The pigmented strain Serratia marcescens ATCC 274 had a higher buffering capacity and a higher membrane H conductance than S. marcescens GP, a spontaneous nonpigmented mutant of ATCC 274. The data suggest that mutations which apparently affect only the synthesis of a secondary metabolite can modify buffering capacity ...

journal_title：Applied and environmental microbiology

authors： Rius N,Solé M,Francia A,Lorén JG

更新日期：1994-06-01 00:00:00