Evaluation of beta-glucuronidase assay for the detection of Escherichia coli from environmental waters.

abstract：:A purified lipopolysaccharide (LPS) isolated from the rickettsial agent of Q fever, Coxiella burnetii phase 1, possesses some of the in vivo and in vitro biological properties previously only associated with bacterial endotoxins. The Coxiella LPS is mitogenic for guinea pig leukocytes, induces non-specific resistance ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Paquet A Jr,Rael ED,Klassen D,Martinez I,Baca OG

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The results of sucrose-density-gradient centrifugation of a cell-free particulate enzyme system from Acetobacter xylinum which was incubated with uridine diphosphoglucose indicate that there is a polymeric intermediate in the biosynthesis of cellulose. This intermediate has the properties of an oligomer of glucose, is...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Kjosbakken J,Colvin JR

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In Neurospora crassa, heat shock results in the induction of 9 to 11 heat shock proteins (HSP), of which HSP80 is the most abundant and the first to be synthesized. The induction of HSP80 was investigated during normal growth (2% sucrose) and under sucrose starvation. Transfer of mycelium to a medium supplemented with...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Roychowdhury HS,Kapoor M

更新日期：1988-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The N5,N10-methylenetetrahydromethanopterin dehydrogenase from Methanobacterium thermoautotrophicum strain Marburg has been purified with reasonable yield and much higher specific activity than previously reported. For the first time it has been shown that both N5,N10-methylenetetrahydromethanopterin dehydrogenase and...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Mukhopadhyay B,Daniels L

更新日期：1989-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures of Sclerotium rolfsii and Trichoderma viride together in autoclaved soil were assayed at intervals during 8 days of incubation for proteolytic activity (PA) of T. viride. Significant proteolytic activity was detected only in soil containing T. viride (i.e., T. viride alone or S. rolfsii + T. viride); greatest...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Rodriguez-Kabana R,Kelley WD,Curl EA

更新日期：1978-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The suitability of two types of membrane filters for scanning and transmission electron-microscopical examination of chlamydospores formed from macroconidia of Fusarium solani from soil was tested. An improved method to incubate propagules in soil and to collect them free from soil particles for electron-microscopical...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Van Eck WH

更新日期：1976-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The phototrophic purple sulfur bacterium Thiopedia rosea forms multicellular, gas-vacuolate, regular, flat aggregates (platelets, sheets) held together by slime. Platelets found in eutrophic water consisted of slime (85% of the total wet volume) and 16 cells, while the gas-filled vacuole occupied 44% of the volume of ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Scherrer R,Shull VE

更新日期：1986-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven streptomycete strains were tested for biotransformation of salicylate. The products were identified by nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy and three types of conversion were found. Streptomyces cinnamonensis and Streptomyces spectabilis formed gentisate and salicylamide concurrently. Streptomyces rimosus tra...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Pospíšil S,Přikrylová V,Němeček J,Spížek J

更新日期：1996-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of atmospheric composition and storage temperature on growth and survival of uninjured and sublethally heat-injured Escherichia coli O157:H7, inoculated onto brain heart infusion agar containing 0.3% beef extract (BEM), was determined. BEM plates were packaged in barrier bags in air, 100% CO2, 100% N2, 20% ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Semanchek JJ,Golden DA,Williams RC

更新日期：1999-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of a chromated-copper-arsenate wood preservative on the degradation of pentachlorophenol by Flavobacterium sp. strain ATCC 53874 was examined in liquid culture. Both a commercially available and a laboratory-prepared formulation were tested. Each increased the lag time required for measurable pentachlorophe...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Wall AJ,Stratton GW

更新日期：1994-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The tuberculin activity of protoplasmic extracts isolated from living BCG was purified successively by gel filtration on Sephadex G-100 and G-75, and by electrophoresis on 7.5% and on gradient (6-18%) polyacrylamide gels. The tuberculin-active fractions, as determined in BCG-sensitized guinea pigs, were used as the st...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Laguerre M,Turcotte R

更新日期：1975-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus caespitosus NRRL 5769 growing in broth containing small amounts of sitosterol produced substance(s) with greater inhibitory activity against Candida albicans ATCC 10231 than in broth without sitosterol. Subsequent isolation, purification, and structural elucidation yielded 5,6-dihydro-5(S)-acetoxy-6(S)-1,2...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Mizuba S,Lee K,Jiu J

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus was grown in a rich peptone medium which became alkaline with continued incubation. Cells were grown at 37 degrees C and in the same medium containing 1 M NaCl at 46 degrees C, a temperature at which this organism can grow only when protected by NaCl. Cells of these cultures are hereafter called ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： El-Banna AA,Hurst A

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The influence of plant growth promoting (PGP) activity of bacterial communities recovered from each of six weed species (barnyard grass (Echinochloa crusfalli (L.) Beauv.), corn spurrey (Spergula arvensis L.), goldenrod (Sonchus sp.), Italian ryegrass (Lolium multiflorum L.), lamb's-quarters (Chenopodium album L.), an...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Sturz AV,Matheson BG,Arsenault W,Kimpinski J,Christie BR

更新日期：2001-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Phialocephala fortinii is a dark septate fungal endophyte that colonizes roots of many host species. Its effect on plant growth varies from being pathogenic to beneficial. The basic biology of this species has received little research, and thus the main objectives of this study were to determine cytological features o...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Saito K,Kuga-Uetake Y,Saito M,Peterson RL

更新日期：2006-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To expand current knowledge on the molecular aspects of alkaline phosphatase PhoX in shallow eutrophic freshwaters, we investigated the genetic diversity and abundance of the PhoX-encoding gene (phoX) in 4 ecological regions in Lake Taihu, China, following a gradient in total phosphorus concentrations ranging from hyp...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Dai J,Chen D,Gao G,Tang X,Wu S,Wu X,Zhou J

更新日期：2014-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The insect pathogenic fungus Aschersonia placenta is a highly effective pathogen of whiteflies and scale insects. However, few genetic tools are currently available for studying this organism. Here we report on the conditions for the production of transformable A. placenta protoplasts using an optimized protocol based...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Wei X,Song X,Dong D,Keyhani NO,Yao L,Zang X,Dong L,Gu Z,Fu D,Liu X,Qiu J,Guan X

更新日期：2016-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aluminum (Al) toxicity is a major problem affecting soil fertility, microbial diversity, and nutrient uptake of plants. Rhizobia response and legume interaction under Al conditions are still unknown; it is important to understand how to develop and improve legume cultivation under Al stress. In this study, rhizobia re...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Artigas Ramírez MD,Silva JD,Ohkama-Ohtsu N,Yokoyama T

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacteria are generally acknowledged as major gut microflora used as probiotics, which promote human health. In this study, the effects of the administration of Bifidobacterim bifidum on modulating gastrointestinal (GI) tract microflora, acid and bile resistance, and physiological indices in BALB/c mice were inve...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Wang BG,Xu HB,Wei H,Zeng ZL,Xu F

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas maltophilia has been identified in the rhizosphere of several cultured plants: cabbage, rape, mustard, corn, beet. In comparison with nonrhizospheric soil, all the rhizospheric samples analysed contain more of this Pseudomonas and the most important stimulation is supplied by cruciferous plants. The possib...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Debette J,Blondeau R

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Fifty-four strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae were examined for their ability to be agglutinated by various lectins. Wheat germ agglutinin, ricin, soybean lectin, and peanut agglutinin agglutinated all strains tested. Dolichos biflorus, Sophora japonica, Maclura pomifera, Ulex Europaeus, Lens culinaris, Canavalia ensifo...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Allen PZ,Connelly MC,Apicella MA

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An alginate lyase gene of a newly isolated Pseudomonas sp. strain KS-408 was cloned by using PCR with the specific primers designed from homologous nucleotide sequences. A partial protein sequence of KS-408 alginate lyase was homology-modeled on the basis of the crystal structure of A1-III alginate lyase from Sphingom...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Kam N,Park YJ,Lee EY,Kim HS

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic strains of Vibrio cholerae O139 possess the cholera toxin A subunit (ctxA) gene as well as the gene for toxin co-regulated pili (tcpA). We report the isolation of a ctxA-negative, tcpA-negative V. cholerae O139 strain (INDREI) from a patient in Mexico diagnosed with gastrointestinal illness. Certain phenoty...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Parveen S,Farrah SR,Gonzalez-Bonilla C,Zamudio AV,Tamplin ML

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several physiological groups of bacteria were examined for the presence of a cytochrome b - like pigment which is demonstrable in dithionite-reduced minus substrate-reduced difference spectra. This pigment is characterized by an unusually high alpha band at 567 nm, a low concentration relative to conventional cytochro...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Jacobs NJ,O'Hara J,Gray CT

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Studies of the molecular biology of human papillomavirus type 16 have been limited by the lack of a tissue culture system that is fully permissive for virus replication; as a result, high-titre stocks of infectious virus are not readily available. Therefore, studies of viral gene expression have relied on analysis of ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Salloukh H,Lavery C,Smiley JR,Rawls WE

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A test is described for selective inhibition of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and M. bovis isolates in fluid medium. The method employs rho-nitro-alpha-acetyl-amino-beta-hydroxy-propiophenone (NAP) as an inhibitory agent for differentiation of mammalian tuberculosis strains from other Mycobacteria. ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Laszlo A,Eidus L

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven tk- mutants of herpes simplex virus, type 2 (HSV-2), and three tk- mutants of herpes simplex virus, type 1 (HSV-1), were isolated which did not produce the thymidine kinase (TK) polypeptides but formed smaller polypeptides not seen in wild-type infected cells. Positive TK mRNA selection by hybridization to the c...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Block TM,Kuhn NJ,Kustas KA,Held WA,Gross K,Hughes RG Jr

更新日期：1983-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene-encoding HMT2-like sulfide dehydrogenase from Bacillus stearothermophilus JCM2501 was amplified and expressed in Escherichia coli and the enzymatic features were examined. The enzyme was detected mainly in the membrane fraction. It catalyzed the sulfide-dependent menaquinone (MK) reduction showing special enz...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Shibata H,Suzuki K,Kobayashi S

更新日期：2007-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ruminal microbiota plays major roles in feed digestion. The composition and fermentation of the bacterial communities in 3 important ruminant species have been studied previously. Here, we extended this research to the effect of concentrate-to-forage ratios on ruminal bacterial communities in Tarim red deer (Cervu...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Qian W,Ao W,Hui X,Wu J

更新日期：2018-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pleomorphic deterioration is a process where a fungal isolate loses the ability to produce conidia during repeated subculturing. We have previously isolated strains of the entomopathogenic fungus Metarhizium anisopliae that have irreversibly lost the ability to produce conidia and only produce mycelia when grown on ag...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Kamp AM,Bidochka MJ

更新日期：2002-09-01 00:00:00