Enterotoxin formation by Clostridium perfringens type A studied by the use of fluorescent antibody.

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：:Antibiotic-resistant and antimetabolite-resistant mutants of the nitrogen-fixing symbiotic bacterium Frankia were isolated to provide strains with genetic backgrounds amenable to genetic analysis. The lethal and mutagenic effects of ethyl methanesulfonate (EMS) and UV light on four Frankia strains were investigated. U...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Myers AK,Tisa LS

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We present preliminary data on the role of antibiotics in intraabdominal sepsis using a new, clinically relevant animal model. Peritoneal cavity infection was induced by ligation and perforation of the cecum in adult rats. Surviving rats were randomized to receive either saline or cefoxitin at the time of cecal excisi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Bohnen JM,Matlow AG,Mustard RA,Christie NA,Kavouris B

更新日期：1988-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of inhibition of protein synthesis on the cell size distributions of rel+ and relA- derivatives of Escherichia coli K-12 were determined. Amino acid deprivation resulted in a reduction in the cell sizes of rel+ strains but not of relA- strains. Treatment with chloramphenicol (CAM) did not alter the size di...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Ishiguro EE,Ramey WD

更新日期：1978-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of subtilase-cytotoxin-encoding genes was determined in 397 environmental Escherichia coli strains isolated from water, suspended solids, and sediments sampled from different hydrological and environmental conditions in a California estuary. A total of 7 strains (1.76%) were found to harbor subtilase-cyto...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Pereira Md,Byrne BA,Nguyen TB,Lewis DJ,Atwill ER

更新日期：2013-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The PII protein is apparently involved in the control of NifA activity in Herbaspirillum seropedicae. To evaluate the probable role of PII in signal transduction, uridylylation assays were conducted with purified H. seropedicae PII and Escherichia coli GlnD, or a cell-free extract of H. seropedicae as sources of uridy...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Benelli EM,Buck M,de Souza EM,Yates MG,Pedrosa FO

更新日期：2001-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Yersinia pestis is a bacterium that is transmitted between fleas, which have a body temperature of 26 °C, and mammalian hosts, which have a body temperature of 37 °C. To adapt to the temperature shift, phenotype variations, including virulence, occur. In this study, an antigen microarray including 218 proteins of Y. p...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Li B,Tan Y,Guo J,Cui B,Wang Z,Wang H,Zhou L,Guo Z,Zhu Z,Du Z,Yang R

更新日期：2011-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) represent a major concern for waterborne disease outbreaks associated with consumption of contaminated groundwater. Over 4 million people rely on private groundwater systems as their primary drinking water source in Canada; many of these systems do not meet current standar...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Reynolds C,Checkley S,Chui L,Otto S,Neumann NF

更新日期：2020-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of the transition metal compound trans-[Rh(4-ethylpyridine)4Cl2]Cl x 2H2O on the syntheses of DNA, RNA, and protein has been investigated for an auxotrophic bacterial strain, Escherichia coli JS-1, incapable of thymidine, uridine, and histidine syntheses. At low concentration (7.4 x 10(-6) M), this rhodium ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Seeman SL,Jack TR

更新日期：1980-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The accumulation of radioactive Cs by fungi was studied by analysis of fruit bodies (n (total) = 205, n greater than or equal to 5 for 22 species) collected in 1988 in a Norwegian mountain area with high deposition of radiocaesium from the Chernobyl accident. To account for site variation, the radiocaesium content of ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Bakken LR,Olsen RA

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:When Caryophanon latum was exposed to egg white lysozyme in isotonic sucrose and observed by phase-contrast microscopy, protoplasts emerged along the length of the trichomes, apparently at sites corresponding to cross septa. Electron microscopy of sections revealed that this enzyme initially attacked the core of the s...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Trentini WC,Murray RG

更新日期：1975-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an increasing movement against use of antibiotic growth promoters in animal feed. Prebiotic supplementation is a potential alternative to enhance the host's natural defense through modulation of gut microbiota. In the present study, the effect of mannan oligosaccharide (MOS) and virginiamycin (VIRG) on cecal ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Pourabedin M,Xu Z,Baurhoo B,Chevaux E,Zhao X

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly distinctive aspects of the exponentail-phase Rhizobium japonicum cell were disclosed by means of thin sections, freeze etching, fluorescent antibodies, and ruthenium red staining. Polarity was expressed in the form of reserve polymer distribution near one end of the cell and as cytoplasmic localization near the...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Tsien HC,Schmidt EL

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 20% of Canada's oil supply now comes from the extraction of bitumen from the oil sands deposits in northeastern Alberta. The oil sands are strip-mined, and the bitumen is typically separated from sand and clays by an alkaline hot water extraction process. The rapidly expanding oil sands industry has mill...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Fedorak PM,Coy DL,Salloum MJ,Dudas MJ

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using both fluorescent labelled toxin and antibody--secondary antibody techniques, the Bacillus sphaericus toxin was found to bind strongly to susceptible Culex quinquefasciatus cells, but far less strongly to cells of insensitive insects. An insensitive clone of the C. quinquefasciatus cell line was discovered which ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Davidson EW,Shellabarger C,Meyer M,Bieber AL

更新日期：1987-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial diversity was assessed in water samples collected from several uranium mining wastes in Ger many and in the United States by using 16S rDNA and ribosomal intergenic spacer amplification retrievals. The results obtained using the 16S rDNA retrieval showed that the samples collected from the uranium mill taili...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Radeva G,Selenska-Pobell S

更新日期：2005-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Immunovirological studies suggest that human respiratory syncytial virus may well be composed of five structural proteins as are other members of the Paramyxoviridae family: the two external membrane glycoproteins H (90 000) and Fo (F1, 49 000; F2, 20 000; disulfide linked), the internal membrane protein M (34 000), t...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Trudel M,Nadon F,Séguin C,Ghoubril S,Payment P,Trépanier P

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:This paper reports two different enterotoxigenic classes of the genus Aeromonas isolated from fishes. Strains of A. sobria were isolated from healthy fishes only wheras strains of A. hydrophila were isolated from both healthy and moribund fishes. Aeromonas sobria and hydrophilia strains produced a cytotoxic factor and...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Boulanger Y,Lallier R,Cousineau G

更新日期：1977-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three isolates, a Pseudomonas sp., Bacillus sp., and Arthrobacter sp., which had been isolated from a meadow soil at Devon Island, Canada, were subjected to freezing and thawing at low rates under various conditions. When cells were frozen in sand or soil, survival was dependent on moisture level, storage time, and th...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Nelson LM,Parkinson D

更新日期：1978-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Numbers of viable bacteria as indicated by colony-forming units (CFU), microbial adenosine triphosphate levels, dissolved organic carbon (DOC), particulate organic carbon and nitrogen (POC and PON), glucose concentration, heterotrophic potential (Vmax), and in situ heterotrophic activity (Vn) of near-surface microlaye...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Dietz AS,Albright LJ,Tuominen T

更新日期：1976-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus were found to exhibit strain-specific heterogeneity to the growth-enhancing effects of human urokinase (UK), a proteinase with plasminogen activator activity. Nine out of fourteen (64%) methicillin-sensitive strains of S. aureus were responsive to UK in "in vitro" cultures. I...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Hart DA,Louie T,Krulicki W,Reno C

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza undergoes extensive antigenic variation in nature. These new antigenic variants invariably supplant the preceding antigenic type that then disappears. In apparent contrast to this, two H3N2 strains that were forwarded to the Laboratory Centre for Disease Control, Ottawa, in 1984 from a Canadian public health...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Brown EG

更新日期：1987-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae activates proinflammatory response in cultured intestinal epithelial cells. In this study, we demonstrate that V. cholerae O395 infection of intestinal epithelial cells results in the activation of Akt. Inhibition of Akt significantly decreases IL-1alpha, IL-6, and TNF-alpha production in V. cholerae i...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Bandyopadhaya A,Bhowmick S,Chaudhuri K

更新日期：2009-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A large pool of antibiotic resistant and auxotrophic mutants was isolated from the Staphylococcus aureus phage group 2 strains UT0002-19 and UT0017 by (1) antibiotic gradient plates, (2) trimethoprim selection, and (3) nitrosoguanidine mutagenesis, which sometimes was coupled by enrichment with either penicillin or me...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Martin SM,Rogolsky M

更新日期：1980-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Lyme disease is a tick-borne disease that is emerging in Canada. The disease is caused by spirochetes of the Lyme borreliosis group, which is expanding as new species are discovered. In Canada, Lyme disease risk has so far been assessed primarily by detection of Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto. Of Ixodes scapularis...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Lewis J,Lloyd VK

更新日期：2019-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, 16S rRNA gene primers were designed to complement the suite of already available PCR primers for the detection of different methanogens involved in biogas production through anaerobic digestion by SYBR Green real-time PCR. Primers designed for use in TaqMan real-time PCR for the organisms Methanosaeta, ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Franke-Whittle IH,Goberna M,Insam H

更新日期：2009-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The site specificity of metallic ion binding in Escherichia coli K-12 lipopolysaccharide was assessed by collecting high-resolution phosphorus nuclear magnetic resonance spectra in the presence of manganese, a paramagnetic divalent cation. This technique revealed high-affinity interactions between the cation and all o...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Ferris FG,Beveridge TJ

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The inhibition of pyruvate oxidative decarboxylation as a means of decreasing ruminal methanogenesis in vitro was studied. In the first experiment, the addition of adenosine and adenine (with and without ribose) to ruminal batch cultures did not decrease methanogenesis. In the second experiment, the addition of oxythi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Ungerfeld EM,Rust SR,Burnett R

更新日期：2003-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune benefits associated with the optimal intake of dietary fatty acids are widely known. The objective of the present investigation was to elucidate the role of omega-3 polyunsaturated fatty acids (n-3 PUFA) food source on acute pneumonia induced by Klebsiella pneumoniae. Three different n-3 PUFA preparations (...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Sharma S,Chhibber S,Mohan H,Sharma S

更新日期：2013-07-01 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