Abstract：
:A method to detect and enumerate bacterial colonies grown on membrane filters (MF) was described. The colonies were stained with an ethanolic solution of 0.1% Amido black 10B. The procedure yielded the rapid detection of colonies as compared to a conventional plate counting method.
journal_name
J Microbiol Methodsjournal_title
Journal of microbiological methodsauthors
Inatomi Kdoi
10.1016/s0167-7012(03)00170-2subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2003-11-01 00:00:00pages
393-7issue
2eissn
0167-7012issn
1872-8359pii
S0167701203001702journal_volume
55pub_type
杂志文章abstract：:The performance of 3 blood culture bottles (BACTEC Plus Aerobic/F, Plus Anaerobic/F, and Anaerobic Lytic/F) were analyzed with clinical specimens collected from 688 Emergency Department patients. A total of 270 strains belonging to 33 species were identified, with E. coli and S. aureus as the most frequently detected....
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
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abstract：:Rapid pathogen identification (ID) and antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) in bacteremia cases or sepsis could improve patient prognosis. Thus, it is important to provide timely reports, which make it possible for clinicians to set up appropriate antibiotic therapy during the early stages of bloodstream infecti...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2018.01.012
更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We evaluated the use of mixed oligonucleotide probes hybridized to metagenomic clones spotted on high density membranes. The pooled probes included oligonucleotides designed for genes associated with denitrification, antibiotic resistance, and dehalogenation among others. Pyrosequence comparison between the clones and...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2008.09.009
更新日期：2009-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2013.09.001
更新日期：2013-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Currently, there is no single method to collect, process, and analyze a water sample for all pathogenic microorganisms of interest. Some of the difficulties in developing a universal method include the physical differences between the major pathogen groups (viruses, bacteria, protozoa), efficiently concentrating large...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0167-7012(03)00023-x
更新日期：2003-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) is increasingly used as a reliable technique for species identification of bacterial pathogens. In this study we investigated the question of whether MALDI-TOF MS can be used for accurate sub-differentiation of strains and isolates of two important nosocomial pathogens Entero...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2014.02.015
更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:In this review, we examine numerous applications of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) marker gene in environmental microbiology research. The GFP and its variants are reviewed and applications in plant-microbe interactions, biofilms, biodegradation, bacterial-protozoan interactions, gene transfer, and biosensors are...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
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abstract：:Bacterial endosymbionts such as Rickettsia and Wolbachia play prominent roles in the development and behaviour of their insect hosts, such as whiteflies, aphids, psyllids and mealybugs. Accumulating studies have emphasized the importance of establishing experimental insect populations that are either lacking or bearin...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2019.105797
更新日期：2020-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We performed a comparison of four selected protocols from the literature using microtitre-plate and colorimetric biomass assay for evaluation of enterococci biofilm formation ability and optimized a protocol after the identification and stringent performance of biofilm formation steps. The optimized protocol uses a dy...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2010.11.007
更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:DNA probes specific for rRNA of selected target species were utilised for the detection of beer spoilage bacteria of the genera Pectinatus and Megasphaera using a hybridisation protection assay (HPA). All the probes were modified during synthesis by addition of an amino linker arm at the 5' end or were internally modi...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2013.10.014
更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Ruthenium red is a polycationic stain used to visualize acid polysaccharides on the outer surface of cells. Ruthenium red staining followed by electron microscopic analysis was used to demonstrate the presence of an external glycoprotein layer surrounding the spore of both Bacillus anthracis and Bacillus subtilis. Thi...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2004.02.012
更新日期：2004-07-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Expressed sequence tags (ESTs) from fungal-infected plant tissues are composed of a mixture of plant and fungal sequences. Using freely available software and tools, a novel procedure is described for distinguishing plant and fungal DNA sequences. Although the GenBank non-redundant (NR) database is larger and therefor...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0167-7012(03)00067-8
更新日期：2003-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Actinomyces naeslundii is an early colonizer with important roles in the development of the oral biofilm. The effects of butyric acid, one of short chain fatty acids in A. naeslundii biofilm formation was observed using a flow cell system with Tryptic soy broth without dextrose and with 0.25% sucrose (TSB sucrose). Si...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2014.12.021
更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:The gas vesicles of the cyanobacterium Microcystis sp. collapse under pressures ranging from 0.65-1.10 MPa, determined from turbidity changes in a pressure nephelometer. In turgid cells, collapse occurs at a lower range of pressures; the difference is equal to the cell turgor pressure. The turgor pressure decreases, h...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2009.02.005
更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A simple, rapid, sensitive microtiter plate method detecting N-acyl homoserine lactone (HSL)-related compounds was established using an Agrobacterium tumefaciens strain harboring a traG::lacZ/traR reporter gene responsive to HSLs. This strain did not produce its own HSL, but the traG::lacZ reporter gene was induced on...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2005.06.003
更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00
abstract：:We devised a microbial culture apparatus capable of maintaining sub-nanomolar H2 concentrations. This apparatus provides a method for study of interspecies hydrogen transfer by externally fulfilling the thermodynamic requirement for low H2 concentrations, thereby obviating the need for use of cocultures to study some ...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/s0167-7012(99)00125-6
更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Microarrays have allowed gene expression profiling to progress from the gene level to the genome level, and oligonucleotide microarrays have become the platform of choice for large-scale, targeted gene expression studies. cDNA arrays and spotted oligonucleotide arrays have gradually given way to in situ synthesized ol...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2013.12.009
更新日期：2014-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Lactobacillus animalis NP51 is a direct-fed microbial strain (DFM) extensively used as a pre-harvest food safety mitigation in feedlot cattle due to its antagonistic effects against human foodborne pathogens such as Salmonella and Escherichia coli O157:H7. NP51 not only promotes overall gut health but interferes with ...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2018.04.012
更新日期：2018-06-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Two rapid in situ enumeration methods using fluorescent probes were used to assess the physiological activities of Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilms on stainless steel. Fluorescent dyes, 5-cyano-2,3-ditolyl tetrazolium chloride (CTC) and rhodamine 123 (Rh 123), were chosen to perform this study. CTC is a soluble redox ...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/0167-7012(94)90058-2
更新日期：1994-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Serology is commonly used for the diagnosis of acute Chlamydia pneumoniae infections and also for the diagnosis of complicated Chlamydia trachomatis infections. Furthermore, recent sero-epidemiological studies have linked C. pneumoniae infection with several diseases traditionally considered non-infectious. The object...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/s0167-7012(00)00209-8
更新日期：2000-11-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Gene expression analysis provides significant insight to understand regulatory mechanisms of biology, yet acquisition and reproduction of quality data, as well as data confirmation and verification remain challenging due to a lack of proper quality controls across different assay platforms. We present a set of six uni...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2006.10.014
更新日期：2007-03-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A microplate-based rapid, inexpensive and robust technique is developed by using tetrazolium salt 2,3-bis[2-methyloxy-4-nitro-5-sulfophenyl]-2H-tetrazolium-5-carboxanilide (XTT) and menadione to determine the viability of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium bovis BCG and Mycobacterium smegmatis bacilli in microp...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2010.11.013
更新日期：2011-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Drinking water quality typically degrades after treatment during conveyance through the distribution system. Potential causes include biofilm growth in distribution pipes which may result in pathogen retention, inhibited disinfectant diffusion, and proliferation of bad tastes and odors. However, there is no standard m...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2017.10.013
更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:ERIC (Enterobacterial Repetitive Intergenic Consensus)-PCR was employed to generate stable and reproductive ERIC-PCR fingerprints of Ent. sakazakii ATCC51329. Moreover, this study also cloned and sequenced a major band of Ent. sakazakii (ATCC51329) ERIC-PCR fingerprints. The major band was amplified with primer ERIC2 ...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2008.07.012
更新日期：2008-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A simple and reliable method was developed to isolate intact epithelial cells from pig and rabbit ilea and these were used to investigate the adhesion of Yersinia enterocolitica. Hydrophobic interaction was eliminated by treating the bacterial culture with 0.8 M tetramethyl urea (TMU). Virulent strains of Y. enterocol...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2006.08.009
更新日期：2007-02-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Studying the mechanisms of Campylobacter pathogenesis is complicated by the lack of simple animal models that mimic the disease seen in humans. In vitro cell culture methods provide a useful alternative to investigate the interactions between Campylobacter and the host epithelium that occur during infection. In the ge...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章,评审
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2004.12.003
更新日期：2005-05-01 00:00:00
abstract：:To rapidly and simply determine whether or not bacterial colonies growing on agar were Vibrio parahaemolyticus, we developed an immunochromatographic assay (VP-ICA) using two different monoclonal antibodies (designated mAb-VP34 and mAb-VP109) against the delta subunit of V. parahaemolyticus-F0F1 ATP synthase. The epit...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2015.06.009
更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Streptococcus agalactiae is the principal cause of neonatal infections; however, for its study, genetic tools are scarce. We have developed pG+off, an expression vector with a tetracycline inducible promoter that allows a tightly-controllable gene expression in S. agalactiae. Using a reporter gene, we have shown that ...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2013.10.020
更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00
abstract：:A new, simple approach for the isolation and quantitative analysis of the cell wall (CW) proteins from invasively growing Saccharomyces cerevisiae strains is described in this contribution. The proposed method was proved compatible with agar-invasion assays and was demonstrated to be useful as a screening tool for rap...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2009.09.003
更新日期：2009-12-01 00:00:00
abstract：:Traditional antibiotic susceptibility testing methods take several days to confirm and start disease treatment. The lack of new antibiotics or drugs warrants a need for optimization of current diagnostic tools for immediate antibiotic susceptibility testing. We present a rapid screening method to evaluate the response...
journal_title：Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type： 杂志文章
doi：10.1016/j.mimet.2019.05.009
更新日期：2019-07-01 00:00:00
