The incidence and PCR detection of Campylobacter upsaliensis in dogs and cats.

abstract：AIMS:To examine changes in membrane fatty acid profile attributed to the physiological adaptation of Lactobacillus helveticus during vacuum drying. METHODS AND RESULTS:The viability and membrane integrity of the cells after vacuum drying were measured by plate counts and DNA fluorescence dyes. The physiological adapta...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Santivarangkna C,Kulozik U,Kienberger H,Foerst P

更新日期：2009-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The unicellular freshwater green microalga Haematococcus pluvialis is the richest source of natural astaxanthin. Since accumulation of astaxanthin differs significantly among various algal strains at different stages, it is therefore critical to develop an effective high-throughput assay for rapid screening ...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Liu JH,Song L,Huang Q

更新日期：2016-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:In this study, a capillary polymerase chain reaction (cPCR) was applied for Salmonella detection from poultry meat. METHODS AND RESULTS:Salmonella detection limits of the optimized cPCR were determined with DNA templates from the samples of tetrathionate broth (TTB), Rappaport Vassiliadis broth (RVB) and selenite...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Gunaydin E,Eyigor A,Carli KT

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Acetic acid is considered an important preservative in tropical grass ensiling. The objective of the current experiments was to follow the ensiling fermentation of low dry matter (DM) tropical grass as a model to study changes in bacterial communities during acetic acid fermentation. METHODS AND RESULTS:Direct-cu...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Nishino N,Li Y,Wang C,Parvin S

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To evaluate the efficacy of electrochemically activated solution (ECASOL) in decontaminating Bacillus anthracis Ames and Vollum 1B spores, with and without changing the source water hardness and final ECASOL pH. METHODS AND RESULTS:Five different ECASOL formulations were generated, in which the source water hardne...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Rogers JV,Ducatte GR,Choi YW,Early PC

更新日期：2006-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain named as Pseudomonas aeruginosa 2016NX1, which could produce phenazine and cereusitin, was isolated from the root of Millettia specisoa. Phenazines were extracted, isolated and purified by chloroform, thin-layer chromatography, column chromatography and high-performance liquid chromatography. Then the purifie...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Liu TT,Ye FC,Pang CP,Yong TQ,Tang WD,Xiao J,Shang CH,Lu ZJ

更新日期：2020-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine the effects of urine, a urease inhibitor and/or an odour-reducing antimicrobial compound, on zoonotic pathogens in swine manure slurries. METHODS AND RESULTS:Swine faeces were collected and blended with different amounts of urine. Marker strains of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhimur...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Wells JE,Varel VH

更新日期：2008-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate mycobiota and aflatoxins B(1) (AFB(1)), B(2) (AFB(2)), G(1) (AFG(1)), G(2) (AFG(2)) and fumonisin B(1) (FB(1)) contamination in different malted barley types and brands and brewer's grain collected from a major Argentinean brewery. METHODS AND RESULTS:Total fungal counts were performed using the plate...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Gonzalez Pereyra ML,Rosa CA,Dalcero AM,Cavaglieri LR

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four strains of Escherichia coli were tested for electroporation-induced plasmid transformation using a high voltage pulse in a square waveform. Conditions for optimal transformation were determined for each strain and transformation frequencies found to be comparable to those reported previously for E. coli with a si...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Elvin S,Bingham AH

更新日期：1991-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To screen a pair of primers suitable for denaturing gradient gel electrophoretic (DGGE) analysis of ruminal methanogenic Archaea and to detect the archaeal communities in the rumen of goat. METHODS AND RESULTS:Nine primer pairs for 16S rDNA of methanogenic Archaea, including six for directed polymerase chain reac...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Cheng YF,Mao SY,Liu JX,Zhu WY

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To identify several strains of Mesorhizobium amorphae and Mesorhizobium tianshanense nodulating Cicer arietinum in Spain and Portugal, and to study the symbiotic genes carried by these strains. METHODS AND RESULTS:The sequences of 16S-23S intergenic spacer (ITS), 16S rRNA gene and symbiotic genes nodC and nifH we...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Rivas R,Laranjo M,Mateos PF,Oliveira S,Martínez-Molina E,Velázquez E

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microsomal chitinase from yeast and hyphal cells of Candida albicans was activated endogenously by incubation at 30 degrees C and exogenously by trypsin. The putative activating factor of yeast cells was separated from chitinase activity by fractionation of lysed protoplasts on an Iodixanol density gradient. The vacuo...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Jackson DJ,Saunders VA,Humphreys AM

更新日期：1996-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This study was conducted to clarify the taxonomic status of Bacteroides type A strains with high vitamin B(12)-producing ability that is widely distributed in the intestinal tracts of freshwater fish. METHODS AND RESULTS:Seventeen strains of Bacteroides type A isolated from five fish species were all rod-shaped a...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Tsuchiya C,Sakata T,Sugita H

更新日期：2008-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Colistin-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa (CRPA), as a health care system threat, is increasing globally. This study aimed was to determine CRPA by high-resolution melting curve (HRM) analysis method. The HRM method was done on standard strains of P. aeruginosa and CRPA strains. Ninefold serial dilutions of known geno...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Tahmasebi H,Dehbashi S,Arabestani MR

更新日期：2020-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine which citric acid-producing strain of Aspergillus niger utilized wet corn distillers grains most effectively to produce citric acid. METHODS AND RESULTS:Citric acid and biomass production by the fungal strains were analysed on the untreated grains or autoclaved grains using an enzyme assay and a grav...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Xie G,West TP

更新日期：2006-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine antimicrobial peptide NZ17074, a variant of arenicin-3 from Arenicola marina that has broad antimicrobial activity and high bioavailability, can be designed to treat bacterial and fungal diseases. To reduce the toxicity of NZ17074, N6 was designed by replacing a cysteine in positions 3 and 20 with alanine, ...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Yang N,Wang X,Teng D,Mao R,Hao Y,Feng X,Wang J

更新日期：2017-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine the production of reuterin by lactobacilli isolates from pig faeces and to evaluate their potential as probiotic bacteria. METHODS AND RESULTS:Twenty-eight of 165 lactobacilli isolates produced reuterin in the presence of glycerol. Six isolates yielding high levels of reuterin with respect to type st...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Rodríguez E,Arqués JL,Rodríguez R,Nuñez M,Medina M

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This study examines the diversity of streptomycetes causing potato scab using phenotypic identification, 16S rRNA sequence, and pathogenicity measurements. Pathogenicity did not correlate well with taxonomic identification, nor with phylogenetic position. This result suggests that neither phenotypic nor 16S characteri...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Bramwell PA,Wiener P,Akkermans AD,Wellington EM

更新日期：1998-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Coliphages and enteroviruses were monitored over 12 months in sewage and air adjacent to an activated sludge plant. Both showed temporal variation but the mean count of phages in enterovirus-positive samples was not significantly different from that in enterovirus-negative samples. Hence coliphages are not necessarily...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Carducci A,Arrighi S,Ruschi A

更新日期：1995-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Evaluation of the activity profiles of standard prokaryotic translation inhibitors with different physicochemical properties under whole-cell and cell-free conditions. METHODS AND RESULTS:The minimal inhibitory concentration values (cell-free/whole-cell microg ml(-1)) for three aminoglycosides (neomycin, 0.01/6.9...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Weidlich M,Klammt C,Bernhard F,Karas M,Stein T

更新日期：2008-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Results of biocide efficacy testing on laboratory-generated microbial biofilms containing Legionella bozemanii is presented. These show that chlorine is effective at recommended concentrations in cooling towers; at least 48 h contact between free chlorine and the biofilm is necessary. Of five commercial biocides teste...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Green PN

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The development of various types of virus-like particles (VLPs) has accelerated over the past two decades as the importance of VLPs for generating next-generation vaccines has been appreciated. Yeast has advantages such as scalable fermentation, low risk of contamination by adventitious agents, low production costs an...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Kim HJ,Kim HJ

更新日期：2017-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To isolate benzene-degrading strains from neutral and alkaline groundwaters contaminated by benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylenes (BTEX) from the SIReN aquifer, UK, and to test their effective pH range and ability to degrade TEX. METHODS AND RESULTS:The 14 isolates studied had an optimum pH for growth of 8, and...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Fahy A,Ball AS,Lethbridge G,Timmis KN,McGenity TJ

更新日期：2008-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To determine whether assessing the penetration of solutions with different concentrations of ethanol (alcohol percentage test: APT) on fungal surfaces is effective in characterization of hydrophobicity on fungal surfaces. METHODS AND RESULTS:APT and contact angle (CA) measurements were conducted on nine hydrophobi...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Chau HW,Goh YK,Si BC,Vujanovic V

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To develop a specific, fast and simple molecular method useful to detect the entomopathogenic bacterium Pseudomonas entomophila. METHODS AND RESULTS:The use of bioinformatics tools allowed the identification of unique genes present in P. entomophila genome. Using such genes, we designed primers aiming to detect s...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Papagiannoulis A,Mathiopoulos KD,Mossialos D

更新日期：2010-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of chemotherapeutic agents to affect the growth of common bacterial pathogens and the relationship between the effects of chemotherapeutics and antimicrobials is largely unknown. The purpose of this study was to describe the susceptibility of canine bacterial isolates to chemotherapeutic agents and to comp...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Campbell O,Gagnon J,Rubin JE

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Dynamic microbial characterization of the colonization of organic carrier during a model biofiltration experiment using methanol as air pollutant. METHODS AND RESULTS:A model biofilter was used in order to characterize the micro-organisms involved in the colonization of a model organic carrier. The model system c...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Pineda R,Alba J,Thalasso F,Ponce-Noyola T

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Environmental air sampling was evaluated as a method to detect the presence of M. bovis in the vicinity of infected badgers and their setts. Airborne particles were collected on gelatine filters using a commercially available air sampling instrument and tested for the presence of M. bovis using bacteriological culture...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Jones RM,Ashford R,Cork J,Palmer S,Wood E,Spyvee P,Parks S,Bennett A,Brewer J,Delahay R,Chambers M,Sawyer J

更新日期：2013-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The present study was designed to determine the individual and combined effects of acidified sodium chlorite (ASC, 0.1%, 24 +/- 1 degrees C), cetylpyridinium chloride (CPC, 0.5%, 24 +/- 1 degrees C) and hot water (HW, 93 +/- 1 degrees C) treatments on the survival of Listeria monocytogenes and Staphylococcus aureu...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Ozdemir H,Koluman A,Yildirim Y

更新日期：2006-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For pyruvate-producing strains, intracellular reduced nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide (NADH) accumulation is the main reason for the glycolysis inhibition. Comparing with glucose, using sodium gluconate as carbon source brought a decrease in NADH production and an increase in pyruvate production in engineered strain...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Yang M,Mu T,Zhong W,Olajuyin AM,Xing J

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00