Lead-resistant Providencia alcalifaciens strain 2EA bioprecipitates Pb+2 as lead phosphate.

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：:The recent rise in the awareness of the occurrence of toxic cyanobacterial blooms in aquatic environments, with associated human health problems and animal deaths, has increased the need for rapid, reliable and sensitive methods of determining cyanobacterial toxicity. A luminescent bacterial toxicity test was assessed...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Lawton LA,Campbell DL,Beattie KA,Codd GA

更新日期：1990-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The following polymers were developed: polyethylene (PE), a PE and polyethylene oxide (70% PE and 30% PEO; PE + PEO) blend, PE and nisin (PE + nisin), PE, nisin, and EDTA (PE + nisin + EDTA), and PE + PEO with nisin (PE + PEO + nisin). METHODS AND RESULTS:Of the polymers tested, PE and PE + PEO did not exhibit an...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Cutter CN,Willett JL,Siragusa GR

更新日期：2001-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of this study was to determine the epidemiology (location, microbial load, microbiome, presence/absence of biofilm and pathogens, including ESKAPE-Enterococcus faecium, Staphylococcus aureus, Klebsiella pneumoniae, Acinetobacter baumannii, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterobacter species, and antimicrobial susc...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Costa DM,Johani K,Melo DS,Lopes LKO,Lopes Lima LKO,Tipple AFV,Hu H,Vickery K

更新日期：2019-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study aimed to investigate the incidence, virulence and antibiotic properties in Vibrio spp. isolated from cockles (Tegillarca granosa) marketed in Korea. A total of 32 Vibrio spp. isolates including V. parahaemolyticus (n = 4), V. alginolyticus (n = 11), V. diabolicus (n = 14) and V. harveyi (n = 3) were ...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Dahanayake PS,Hossain S,Wickramanayake MVKS,Heo GJ

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To measure the microbial removal capacity of a small-scale hydroponics wastewater treatment plant. METHODS AND RESULTS:Paired samples were taken from untreated, partly-treated and treated wastewater and analysed for faecal microbial indicators, i.e. coliforms, Escherichia coli, enterococci, Clostridium perfringen...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Ottoson J,Norström A,Dalhammar G

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was aimed at determining antimicrobial susceptibility by a CLSI standard microdilution testing protocol and detecting the resistance genes of motile Aeromonas species isolated from cultured fish. The importance of the minimum inhibitory concentrations was assessed based on statistically determined ep...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Duman M,Saticioglu IB,Altun S

更新日期：2020-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A rapid and simple method (24M) using 24 well microtitre plates was developed to determine the presence of Listeria monocytogenes or Listeria spp. in food samples. The 24M was composed of two 24 well microtitre plates connected with a yellow tip. The 24M was evaluated with pathogen cocktails and ground beef samples an...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Kang DH,Fung DY

更新日期：1999-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antimicrobial activities of bovine lactoferrin (bLF), its pepsin hydrolysate (bLFH) and the active peptide lactoferricin B (LFcinB) against four clinical isolates of enterohaemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 were studied. The MICs against these isolates were 3 mg ml-1 for bLF, 0.1-0.2 mg ml-1 for bLFH and 8-10 m...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Shin K,Yamauchi K,Teraguchi S,Hayasawa H,Tomita M,Otsuka Y,Yamazaki S

更新日期：1998-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The gram-positive bacterial genus Lactococcus has been taxonomically classified into seven species (Lactococcus lactis, Lactococcus garvieae, Lactococcus piscium, Lactococcus plantarum, Lactococcus raffinolactis, Lactococcus chungangensis and Lactococcus fujiensis). This study aimed to develop a novel multiplex po...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Odamaki T,Yonezawa S,Kitahara M,Sugahara Y,Xiao JZ,Yaeshima T,Iwatsuki K,Ohkuma M

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heat stable antifungal factor (HSAF) is considered to be a potential biological pesticide due to its broad antifungal activity and novel mode of action. However, few studies have reported on HSAF production during fermentation. Thus, this work was executed to optimize the medium composition to maximize HSAF production...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Tang B,Zhao YC,Shi XM,Xu HY,Zhao YY,Dai CC,Liu FQ

更新日期：2018-05-01 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：AIMS:To investigate the impact of acetaldehyde- and pyruvic acid-bound sulphur dioxide on wine lactic acid bacteria (LAB). METHODS AND RESULTS:Growth studies were performed where Oenococcus oeni, Pediococcus parvulus, Ped. damnosus and Lactobacillus hilgardii were inoculated into media containing various concentration...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Wells A,Osborne JP

更新日期：2012-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:The objective of this study was to identify compounds responsible for medicinal off-flavours produced by different species and strains of Alicyclobacillus in orange juice using a combination of chromatographic-coupled olfactometric techniques and gas chromatography-mass spectrometry (GC-MS). METHODS AND RESULTS:E...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Gocmen D,Elston A,Williams T,Parish M,Rouseff RL

更新日期：2005-01-01 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：AIMS:In the present study, two different optimization techniques were used to determine the suitable operating parameters for exo-biopolymer production in submerged mycelial cultures of two entomopathogenic fungi Paecilomyces japonica and Paecilomyces tenuipes. METHODS AND RESULTS:First, the rotating simplex method, a...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Xu CP,Sinha J,Bae JT,Kim SW,Yun JW

更新日期：2006-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Leuconostoc strains were characterized according to their antibiotic susceptibilities, carbohydrate fermentation profiles, sucrase activity patterns and plasmid content. All the strains tested were resistant to the antibiotics sulphathiazole, trimethoprim and vancomycin, and could be separated into two groups based on...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Holt SM,Al-Sheikh H,Shin KJ

更新日期：2001-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:  To show that application of copper hydroxide citrus sprays mixed with field source water (possibly contaminated) will not support Escherichia coli on plant surfaces. Environmental stresses of transient phyllosphere bacteria and presence of copper will eradicate these bacteria before harvest. METHODS AND RESULTS...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Narciso JA,Ference CM,Ritenour MA,Widmer WW

更新日期：2012-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Crystal Enteric/Nonfermenter (E/NF) identification kit (Becton Dickinson Microbiology Systems, USA) was evaluated using water-derived bacterial isolates and results compared to those obtained by the API 20E system (BioMérieux, UK). Both the E/NF and 20E systems correctly identified 93% of the Enterobacteriaceae re...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Micklewright IJ,Sartory DP

更新日期：1995-09-01 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：:Amphotericin B (AmB), a typical polyene macrolide antifungal agent, is widely used to treat systemic mycoses. In the present study, we show that the fungicidal activity of AmB was enhanced by benzyl isothiocyanate (BITC), a cruciferous plant-derived compound, in the budding yeast, Saccharomyces cerevisiae. In addition...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Yamada N,Murata W,Yamaguchi Y,Fujita KI,Ogita A,Tanaka T

更新日期：2020-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To examine the efficacy of liposome oral administration to induce systemic and mucosal immune responses against verotoxin-producing Escherichia coli (VTEC) and the effect of the induced antibodies on the binding of the bacteria to Caco-2 cells. METHODS AND RESULTS:Mice were immunized orally with VTEC antigen and ...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Tana,Watarai S,Isogai E,Oguma K

更新日期：2003-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To evaluate the accuracy of pyrosequencing for the description of Phytophthora communities in terms of taxa identification and risk of assignment for false Molecular Operational Taxonomic Units (MOTUs). METHODS AND RESULTS:Pyrosequencing of Internal Transcribed Spacer 1 (ITS1) amplicons was used to describe the s...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Vettraino AM,Bonants P,Tomassini A,Bruni N,Vannini A

更新日期：2012-11-01 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：:Plant proteases play a fundamental role in several processes like growth, development and in response to biotic and abiotic stress. In particular, aspartic proteases (AP) are expressed in different plant organs and have antimicrobial activity. Previously, we purified an AP from Salpichroa origanifolia fruits called sa...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Díaz ME,Rocha GF,Kise F,Rosso AM,Guevara MG,Parisi MG

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:To determine the underlying substrate utilization mechanism in the logistic equation for batch microbial growth by revealing the relationship between the logistic and Monod kinetics. Also, to determine the logistic rate constant in terms of Monod kinetic constants. METHODS AND RESULTS:The logistic equation used t...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Kargi F

更新日期：2009-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The pattern of DNA fragments produced by the polymerase chain reaction using arbitrary primers is strongly influenced by the age of the colonies sampled. We show that the number, clarity and reproducibility of the bands produced is optimal when very young colonies are sampled. ...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Coutinho HL,Handley BA,Kay HE,Stevenson L,Beringer JE

更新日期：1993-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In a crossover study, volunteers consumed a diet supplemented with either wheat or rye bread. Levels of faecal mucus were determined and the adhesion of five selected probiotics to immobilized intestinal mucus, was assessed. No significant difference in the concentration of faecal mucus or adhesion of the probiotics t...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Ouwehand AC,Gråsten S,Niemi P,Mykkänen H,Salminen S

更新日期：2000-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three white rot fungi were compared for their ability to attack polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB) congeners in the presence and absence of the non-ionic Triton X-100 or the anionic Dowfax 8390 surfactants at half their critical micelle concentrations. Neither surfactant affected PCB biodegradation monitored by gas chroma...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Beaudette LA,Ward OP,Pickard MA,Fedorak PM

更新日期：2000-02-01 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