Bioconversion of 3 beta-acetoxypregna-5,16-diene-20-one to androsta-1,4-diene-3,17-dione by mixed bacterial culture.

abstract：AIM:To examine whether isolates of the entomopathogenic fungus Beauveria bassiana are more closely associated to their summer hosts compared with overwintering hosts, with recently developed molecular tools based on mitochondrial regions. METHODS AND RESULTS:Primers for the traditional ITS1-5.8S-ITS2 region and two mi...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Kouvelis VN,Ghikas DV,Edgington S,Typas MA,Moore D

更新日期：2008-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The fate of Salmonella enteritidis PT4 in home-made mayonnaise prepared with citric acid solution (citric acid concentration of > or = 4.98% (w/v)) was investigated. It was found that pH of mayonnaise is closely related to the ratio of egg yolk to citric acid, and the inactivation rate of the micro-organisms increases...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Xiong R,Xie G,Edmondson AS

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to evaluate possible indicators of viral aerosol contamination in sewage treatment plants, a year-long study was carried out on the relationships between the presence of cytopathogenic viruses and the counts of total bacteria, faecal streptococci and somatic coliphages in samples collected at various distance...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Carducci A,Gemelli C,Cantiani L,Casini B,Rovini E

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To investigate the potential usefulness of u.v. germicidal irradiation (UVGI) in preventing the spread of Burkholderia cepacia, an important pathogen in cystic fibrosis (CF), the in-vitro susceptibility of B. cepacia to UVGI was determined. Five strains were exposed to UVGI from a 7.2-W source. Burkholderia cepacia wa...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Cairns G,Kerr KG,Beggs CB,Sleigh PA,Mooney L,Keig P,Donnelly JK

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Species-specific PCR was applied to identify Lactobacillus brevis and the sensitivity and the specificity of the protocol were determined. METHODS AND RESULTS:Strains of Lact. brevis obtained from foods, particularly dairy products, and various strain collections, were identified by PCR using primers which amplif...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Guarneri T,Rossetti L,Giraffa G

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bulk tank milk from 160 producers was tested for Listeria monocytogenes at three monthly intervals over 1 year. Twenty-five producers were positive, most on a single occasion, only seven were positive on three or more of the four samplings. Listeria monocytogenes numbers were low, usually < 1 ml-1, the highest was 35 ...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Fenlon DR,Stewart T,Donachie W

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：UNLABELLED:The structure and dynamics of microbial populations play a significant role during cheese manufacture and ripening. Therefore, fast and accurate methods for identification and characterization of the microbial populations are of fundamental importance to the cheese industry. In this study, we investigate the...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Porcellato D,Brighton C,McMahon DJ,Oberg CJ,Lefevre M,Broadbent JR,Steele JL

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The development of a simple, rapid and sensitive method for the screening of chitinase inhibitors using Ostazin Brilliant Red labelled chitin as a substrate for chitinase assay. METHODS AND RESULTS:The colloidal substrate prepared from the Ostazin Brilliant Red labelled chitin was used in the estimation of chitin...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Shirazi F,Kulkarni M,Deshpande MV

更新日期：2007-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Bacillus halodurans C-125 is a Gram-positive bacterium that was the first alkaliphilic species to have its genome completely sequenced. Despite its many years as a model for alkaliphily and source of industrially important enzymes, genetic manipulation of B. halodurans C-125 remains difficult, and therefore, we so...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Wallace JG,Breaker RR

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:This study sought to evaluate the performance of two chromogenic media designed for the isolation of vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) and compare them with a traditional bile-esculin medium for the isolation of VRE from stool samples. METHODS AND RESULTS:A total of 285 stool samples were inoculated onto Chr...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Asir K,Wilkinson K,Perry JD,Reed RH,Gould FK

更新日期：2009-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pinellia ternata is a traditional Chinese herb that has been shown to suffer from continuous cropping. Deterioration in continuous P. ternata cropping soils and the effect of alteration of crop rotation on the soil were evaluated by using Illumina high-throughput sequencing technology. Soil physicochemical properties ...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： He Z,Chen H,Liang L,Dong J,Liang Z,Zhao L

更新日期：2019-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell surface hydrophobicity of micro-organisms is a characteristic that has been associated with the colonization of mammalian epithelia and with their capacity to induce diseases. Melatonin is a hormone produced by the pineal gland that affects the immune response mechanism. This study investigated, as an express...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Uberos J,Molina A,Liébana J,Augustin MC,Muñoz A

更新日期：2000-10-01 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：UNLABELLED:The objective of this study was to evaluate the effect of different caffeine concentrations (0-4%) on (i) lag phase prior to growth, (ii) growth rates and (iii) ochratoxin A (OTA) production by strains from the Aspergillus section Circumdati and Aspergillus section Nigri groups, isolated from coffee, when gr...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Akbar A,Medina A,Magan N

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Small particle aerosols of plate-grown Salmonella enteritidis and Salm. typhimurium were generated and maintained within a rotating drum at 75% relative humidity and 24 degrees C for 2 h. Plate-grown organisms were found to be more aerosol-stable than broth-grown organisms. Differences were observed between the two sp...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： McDermid AS,Lever MS

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron availability plays an important role in the virulence of micro-organisms, which develops different systems for iron acquisition. The expression of genes involved in iron uptake systems is usually regulated by Fur, a transcriptional regulator. Plesiomonas shigelloides is a Gram-negative food- and water-borne enter...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Rodríguez-Rodríguez S,Santos JA

更新日期：2018-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella enteritidis-inoculated poultry sausages were pressurized at 500 MPa by combining different times (10 and 30 min) and temperatures (50, 60 and 70 degrees C) or heat treated with the same temperature-time combinations and a standard cooking (75 degrees C for 30 min). Counts of Salm. enteritidis and mesophilic...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Yuste J,Pla R,Mor-Mur M

更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus aureus, two bacterial strains commonly associated with biofilm-related medical infections and food poisoning, can rapidly colonize biotic and abiotic surfaces. The present study investigates the ability of anodic alumina surfaces with nanoporous surface topography to minim...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Feng G,Cheng Y,Worobo RW,Borca-Tasciuc DA,Moraru CI

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While the beta-glucuronidase activity of intact cells of Clostridium perfringens was higher in 0.95% sodium chloride (NaCl) than that in 0, 0.1 or 0.5%, that of Escherichia coli was higher in 0.1% NaCl than that in 0, 0.5 or 0.95% NaCl in 0.1 mol l-1 KH2PO4. However, the enzyme activity of both species of intact cells...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Fujisawa T,Aikawa K,Takahashi T,Yamai S

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The objective of this study was to undertake a microbiological survey of foods, animal faeces and wastewater samples for Clostridium difficile, and determine the genotypes and antimicrobial susceptibilities of isolates. A total of 211 samples were tested for C. difficile using culture methods. Thirteen toxigenic C. di...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Rivas L,Dupont PY,Gilpin BJ,Cornelius AJ

更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Limited data are available on the prevalence of livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (LA-MRSA) in the UK. We tested 124 raw meat samples for MRSA including pork (n = 63), chicken (n = 50) and turkey (n = 11) collected from retail outlets in North West England between March and July 2015. MR...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Fox A,Pichon B,Wilkinson H,Doumith M,Hill RL,McLauchlin J,Kearns AM

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of trehalose and hsp104 to barotolerance in Saccharomyces cerevisiae has been investigated. Mutant strains, which lacked the ability to accumulate trehalose and/or hsp104, were examined for barotolerance and thermotolerance. All the mutants showed lower barotolerance and thermotolerance than their con...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Iwahashi H,Obuchi K,Fujii S,Komatsu Y

更新日期：1997-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To develop and evaluate a new and reliable real-time PCR detection protocol on chromosomal DNA of the contagious plant pathogenic bacterium Erwinia amylovora, the causal agent of fire blight. METHODS AND RESULTS:A Taqman minor-groove-binder real-time PCR assay targeting a hypothetical protein coding gene of Erw. ...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Gottsberger RA

更新日期：2010-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The goal of the study was to develop a reliable, reproducible and rapid method of culture in order to screen a large number of fungal transformants. METHODS AND RESULTS:The method is based upon miniaturized cell cultures and automated expression screening in microwell plates. For the method development, 50 recomb...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Alberto F,Navarro D,de Vries RP,Asther M,Record E

更新日期：2009-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seventeen aerobic bacterial strains known to degrade one or more aromatic compounds were tested for their ability to utilize benzene, seven different methylated benzenes or other aromatic compounds as their sole source of carbon. The results are discussed with respect to the possibility of finding strains which degrad...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Lang E

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To enhance the overall expression level of lipase isozymes which catalyse the same reaction in Pichia pastoris through co-expression of isozymes from different sources; several types of co-expression ways were constructed to determine the co-expression efficiencies of lipase isozymes in P. pastoris. The results showed...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Cai H,Zhang T,Zhao M,Mao J,Cai C,Feng F

更新日期：2017-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To investigate the spatial organization of endogenous and exogenously applied Lactobacillus communities at specific locations in the adult gastrointestinal tract of different hosts. METHODS AND RESULTS:Samples of the human, murine and avian gastrointestinal tract of subjects that received or not received a Lactob...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Lebeer S,Verhoeven TL,Claes IJ,De Hertogh G,Vermeire S,Buyse J,Van Immerseel F,Vanderleyden J,De Keersmaecker SC

更新日期：2011-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, a total of 172 putative omega-3 producers were isolated from 28 sediment samples from the Arabian Gulf employing a selective isolation procedure using marine agar containing 0·1% triphenyl tetrazolium chloride (TTC). Out of these 172 isolates, 19 isolates produced eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) as confirme...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Alagarsamy S,Sabeena Farvin KH,Fakhraldeen S,Kooramattom MR,Al-Yamani F

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method was developed to obtain reproducible DNA fingerprints from Campylobacter by PCR-based amplification, without the need to isolate total DNA. Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) profiles were generated with three randomly designed 10-mers, using each separately as an amplification primer. A range of C. je...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Mazurier S,van de Giessen A,Heuvelman K,Wernars K

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A study was made of the incidence of Campylobacter upsaliensis among dogs and cats suffering from acute or chronic diarrhoea; 225 dogs and cats were examined and 51 strains were identified, 16 (7%) of which were Camp. upsaliensis. When rectal swabs were taken from a control group of 126 dogs and cats without clinical ...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Steinhauserova I,Fojtikova K,Klimes J

更新日期：2000-09-01 00:00:00