Incidence of antibiotic resistance and characterization of plasmids in Campylobacter jejuni strains isolated from clinical sources in Alberta, Canada.

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：: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：:Screening for mycotoxin production by Chaetomium spp. and related fungi on rice culture was conducted by a combination of cytotoxicity tests using HeLa cells and thin-layer chromatography. Producers of sterigmatocystin, O-methylsterigmatocystin, chaetochromin, chaetocin, chetomin, cochliodinols, and mollicellin G were...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Sekita S,Yoshihira K,Natori S,Udagawa S,Muroi T,Sugiyama Y,Kurata H,Umeda M

更新日期：1981-08-01 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：:A comparative study of the pathogenicity of Candida albicans morphological mutant strains was made to relate chlamydospore production, germ tube formation, and proteolytic activity to candidiasis in mice. It was observed that the mycelium strains were more lethal than the yeast-like strains and that neither chlamydosp...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Saltarelli CG,Gentile KA,Mancuso SC

更新日期：1975-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The transmission of multi-drug resistant pathogens and antimicrobial-resistant genes is an arising problem with multiple factors involved (humans, domestic animals, wildlife). The aim of this study was to investigate the presence of Escherichia coli isolates with different antimicrobial resistance genes from backyard ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Talavera-Gonzalez JM,Talavera-Rojas M,Soriano-Vargas E,Vazquez-Navarrete J,Salgado-Miranda C

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Amoebae serve as environmental hosts to a variety of mycobacteria, including Mycobacterium avium and Mycobacterium marinum. Mycobacterium shottsii and Mycobacterium pseudoshottsii are waterborne species isolated from the spleens and dermal lesions of striped bass (Morone saxatilis) from the Chesapeake Bay. The optimal...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Gupta T,Fine-Coulson K,Karls R,Gauthier D,Quinn F

更新日期：2013-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously, we reported the metabolic responses of Pseudomonas sp. strain HF-1, a nicotine-degrading bacterium, to nicotine stress. However, the metabolic effects of nicotine on non-nicotine-degrading bacteria that dominate the environment are still unclear. Here, we have used nuclear magnetic resonance based metabolo...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Ding L,Chen J,Zou J,Zhang L,Ye Y

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The aim of the present study was to examine soil samples from various vegetation zones in terms of physicochemical properties, microbial communities, and isolation and identification (by polymerase chain reaction and transmission electron microscopy) of bacteria producing poly-β-hydroxybutyrates (PHBs). Soil samples w...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Carpa R,Butiuc-Keul A,Lupan I,Barbu-Tudoran L,Muntean V,Dobrotă C

更新日期：2012-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The presence of other soil microorganisms might influence the ability of rhizobacterial inoculants to promote plant growth either by reducing contact between the inoculant and the plant root or by interfering with the mechanism(s) involved in rhizobacterially mediated growth promotion. We conducted the following exper...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Bent E,Tuzun S,Chanway CP,Enebak S

更新日期：2001-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Responses of Rhizoctonia solani to herbicides in soil cultures were assessed by measuring soil enzyme activity and other growth-related factors. Both beta-galactosidase (EC 3.2.1.23) and phosphatase (EC 3.1.3.1.3.1.3.2) activities were highly correlated with amounts of mycelium in soil. Both enzyme activities were red...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Beam HW,Curl EA,Rodriguez-Kabana R

更新日期：1977-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida albicans biofilm formation is considered an important matter because it can lead to strong resistance to conventional antifungal agents. Hyphae formed by C. albicans can also act as an important virulence factor related to its biofilm. The objective of this study was to determine the effect of zerumbone, a mon...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Shin DS,Eom YB

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The purpose of this study was to determine the prevalence of antibiotic-resistant bacteria and endotoxin in soil after land application of biosolids. Soil was collected over a 15 month period following land application of biosolids, and antibiotic resistance was ascertained using clinically relevant antibiotic concent...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Brooks JP,Maxwell SL,Rensing C,Gerba CP,Pepper IL

更新日期：2007-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Bovine tuberculosis is still rife in Latin America, producing huge economic losses. There are very few studies of the way this disease is spread through this geographical region, particularly in countries that border those that are almost free of Mycobacterium bovis. In this work, we have analyzed the spacer oligonucl...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Cobos-Marín L,Montes-Vargas J,Zumarraga M,Cataldi A,Romano MI,Estrada-Garcia I,Gonzalez-y-Merchand JA

更新日期：2005-11-01 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：:Haemophilus paragallinarum secretes metalloproteases into different culture media lacking serum. Secreted proteins, concentrated by precipitation with 70% ammonium sulphate ((NH(4))(2)SO(4)) or methanol, displayed proteolytic activity at >100 kDa molecular mass in 10% polyacrylamide gels co-polymerized with porcine ge...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Rivero-García PC,Cruz CV,Alonso PS,Vaca S,Negrete-Abascal E

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Urease activity was measured using whole cells of both long (swarming) and short (nonswarming) populations of Proteus mirabilis from casein hydrolysate agar (CHA) and broth (CHB) cultures, and from brain heart infusion broth (BHIB) cultures. Urease is a constitutive enzyme for both long and short cells, but its activi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Jin T,Murray RG

更新日期：1987-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In British Columbia, Canada, drinking water is tested for total coliforms and Escherichia coli, but there is currently no routine follow-up testing to investigate fecal contamination sources in samples that test positive for indicator bacteria. Reliable microbial source tracking (MST) tools to rapidly test water sampl...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Krentz CA,Prystajecky N,Isaac-Renton J

更新日期：2013-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:For the recently described serotype 15 of biotype I and serotypes 13 and 14 of biotype II of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae, fhuA and hgbA were detected by polymerase chain reaction and DNA sequencing. To determine the substrate specificity of the iron receptors FhuA and HgbA and to study their role in the virulence ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Shakarji L,Mikael LG,Srikumar R,Kobisch M,Coulton JW,Jacques M

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The antibacterial mechanism of a Cinnamomum cassia essential oil from Vietnam and of its main component (trans-cinnamaldehyde, 90% (m/m) of C. cassia essential oil) against a Listeria innocua strain was investigated to estimate their potential for food preservation. In the presence of C. cassia essential oil or trans-...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Trinh NT,Dumas E,Thanh ML,Degraeve P,Ben Amara C,Gharsallaoui A,Oulahal N

更新日期：2015-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The shikimate metabolites are key precursors to a large number of natural products, including aromatic amino acids. Chorismic acid is an important branch point in the biosynthetic pathway to aromatic amino acids. Chorismic acid is also unique among natural products since it is the only compound known to undergo an enz...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Zamir LO,Devor KA,Jensen RA,Tiberio R,Sauriol F,Mamer O

更新日期：1991-04-01 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：:Fifty-two killer, factor-resistant, nuclear mutants were isolated from sensitive strains of yeast and assorted into three functional groups. All but one mutant owed their resistance to an alteration in the cell wall binding site for killer. In several mutant strains, an alteration at the site of killer binding was ass...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Al-Aidroos K,Bussey H

更新日期：1978-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of hsp60 gene sequences for phylogenetic study and identification of pathogenic marine vibrios was investigated. A 600-bp partial hsp60 gene was amplified by PCR and sequenced from 29 strains representing 15 Vibrio species within the family Vibrionaceae. Sequence comparison of the amplified partial hsp60 gene ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Kwok AY,Wilson JT,Coulthart M,Ng LK,Mutharia L,Chow AW

更新日期：2002-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Seven lambs, separated from their dam 24 h after birth, were kept in a conventional environment until transferred to sterile isolators between 1 and 9 days of age: two on day 1 (IA and IB), two on day 4 (IVA and IVB), one on day 8 (VIIIA), and two on day 9 (IXA and IXB). The lambs were reared in these isolators until ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Fonty G,Gouet P,Nebout JM

更新日期：1989-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A dairy product processing plant was studied for 2.5 years to examine contamination with Staphylococcus aureus and try to correlate the source of contamination. Cultures were submitted to an antibiotic susceptibility test (AST) and characterised by Pulsed-field Gel Electrophoresis (PFGE) analysis. Results showed that ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Tondo EC,Guimarães MC,Henriques JA,Ayub MA

更新日期：2000-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The environmental distribution of Giardia spp. and Cryptosporidium spp. is dependent upon human, agricultural, and wildlife sources. The significance of each source with regard to the presence of parasites in the environment is unknown. This 2-year study examined parasite prevalence in human sewage influent, wildlife,...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Heitman TL,Frederick LM,Viste JR,Guselle NJ,Morgan UM,Thompson RC,Olson ME

更新日期：2002-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A Gram-negative aerobic bacterium, designated as JN8, was isolated from activated sludge and soil in a pesticides factory in China. It was found that JN8 had a high capacity for degrading a broad range of type II pyrethroids and utilizing these pyrethroids as the sole carbon source for cell growth. The degradation rat...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Jin Z,Guo Q,Zhang Z,Yan T

更新日期：2014-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A simplified procedure is presented for releasing and concentrating indigenous microbial cells from soil for viewing by transmission electron microscopy as thin sections or replicas of frozen-etched preparations. This procedure is compared with two others reported earlier, and their relative merits are discussed as co...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Balkwill DL,Labeda DP,Casida LE Jr

更新日期：1975-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of R-type lipopolysaccharide (LPS), isolated from Neisseria gonorrhoeae colony type 4, to protect against infection with N. gonorrhoea colony type 1 (T1 isolates) in the mouse and chicken embryo was investigated. C57 black mice were immunized intraperitoneally with 50 microgram of LPS, and challenged intra...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Diena BB,Ashton FE,Ryan A,Wallace R

更新日期：1978-02-01 00:00:00