Abstract:
:Nosocomial infections caused by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia resistant to SXT are increasingly reported worldwide. In this study, a novel melting-curve based multiplex real-time PCR assay for the simultaneous detection of the ssrA and sul1, sul2 and sul3 genes was first established. The assays were performed on a Roche LightCycler® 480 II system. The results for target and non-target amplification showed that the multiplex real-time PCR assays were specific, the limit of detection for each target was 10 copies per 20 μL reaction volume, the assays were linear over six log dilutions of the target genes (r2 > 0.99), and the Ct values of the coefficients of variation for intra- and interassay reproducibility were <5%. The sensitivity for the target DNA in simulated blood samples was 102 CFU/mL. The multiplex real-time PCR assays showed 100% concordance with conventional PCR when tested against 20 SXT-susceptible and 20 SXT-resistant S. maltophilia from clinical samples. Therefore, the multiplex real-time PCR is a rapid, affordable and sensitive assay for direct detection of the ssrA and sul1, sul2 and sul3 genes.
journal_name
J Microbiol Methodsjournal_title
Journal of microbiological methodsauthors
Li S,Peng Y,Rui Ydoi
10.1016/j.mimet.2018.12.002subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2019-01-01 00:00:00pages
52-59eissn
0167-7012issn
1872-8359pii
S0167-7012(18)30498-6journal_volume
156pub_type
杂志文章abstract::This study proposes a high throughput method based on Confocal Laser Scanning Microscopy (CLSM) combined with the use of 96-wells microtiter plates compatible with high resolution imaging for the study of biofilm formation and structure. As an illustration, the three-dimensional structures of biofilms formed by 60 opp...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2010.04.006
更新日期:2010-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::A yeast transcriptional activator, Gcn4p, induces the expression of genes that are involved in amino acid and purine biosynthetic pathways under amino acid starvation. Gcn4p has an acidic activation domain in the central region and a bZIP domain in the C-terminus that is divided into the DNA-binding motif and dimeriza...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2007.02.010
更新日期:2007-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::Leishmaniasis, caused by protozoa belonging to the genus Leishmania, is an important public health problem found in >90 countries and with still limited options for treatment. Development of new anti-leishmanial drugs is an urgent need and the identification of new active compounds is a limiting factor that can be acc...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2019.105732
更新日期:2019-11-01 00:00:00
abstract::Fourier transform-infrared (FT-IR) spectroscopy has been used to rapidly and nondestructively analyze bacteria, bacteria-polymer mixtures, digester samples and microbial biofilms. Diffuse reflectance FT-IR (DRIFT) analysis of freeze-dried, powdered samples offered a means of obtaining structural information. The bac...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/0167-7012(85)90023-5
更新日期:1985-01-01 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::To facilitate routine laboratories in the effective diagnosis of brucellosis, we report a robust and rapid multiplex PCR assay, which allows for the differentiation of all nine currently recognised Brucella species. This includes the recently described species B. microti, B. inopinata, B. ceti and B. pinnipedialis. ...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2009.10.015
更新日期:2010-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::A simple and reliable method to estimate paper degradation by cellulolytic bacteria is described. This method is based on the detection in the culture medium of a fluorescent whitening agent (FWA) added to white paper during the manufacturing process. Preliminary results using a Cellulomonas strain cultivated in a liq...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/s0167-7012(99)00043-3
更新日期:1999-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Rapid and accurate detection of the pathogens that cause gastrointestinal infection is important for appropriate therapy and proper infection control. This study assesses the performance of a new molecular assay for simultaneous detection of 13 different gastrointestinal bacteria in stool specimens. Using the Allplex ...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2017.10.016
更新日期:2018-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Coagulase negative staphylococci (CoNS) are a leading cause of infections in preterm infants, mostly involved in late-onset infection in low birth weight neonates. The epidemiology and pathophysiology of these infections remain unclear, notably because the causing agents are gathered in the artificial CoNS group. The ...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2013.12.022
更新日期:2014-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::The aim of this study was to demonstrate that flow cytometry (FACS) could potentially be employed for rapid viability assessment of probiotic bacteria immobilized or encapsulated in complex matrices. Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG was immobilized within six different protein environments using whey protein isolate (WPI) a...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2010.07.003
更新日期:2010-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::Flow cytometry (FCM) is efficient in detecting both abundance and optical physiological parameters including cell size and cellular carbon content-side scatter (SSC), carotenoids-green and orange fluorescence (FL1 and FL2), and red fluorescence-chlorophylls (FL3) can be obtained by FCM. The utilization of these physio...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2012.09.030
更新日期:2012-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Global public health is threatened by the emergence of potentially dangerous antibiotic drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Point mutations in certain M. tuberculosis genes are associated with the resistance of M. tuberculosis strains to antibiotic drugs. The purpose of this study was to develop a su...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2005.04.026
更新日期:2005-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::In this study, a simple and rapid method was developed to transform protein A producing Staphylococcus aureus cells into red color and red fluorescent nanobioparticles, which were homogeneous, dispersive and relatively stable with a uniform size of 800 nm. The method consists of reaction with a monotetrazolium redox d...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2015.04.018
更新日期:2015-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::Poly(3-hydroxyalkanoates) (PHAs) are bio-based and biodegradable polyesters which have been considered as a promising alternative to petrol-based plastics. Their bacterial production is a dynamic process in which intracellular polymerization and depolymerization are closely linked and depend on the availability of car...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2016.10.003
更新日期:2016-12-01 00:00:00
abstract::Bacterial fruit blotch (BFB) of cucurbits, caused by Acidovorax citrulli, is a major threat to commercial watermelon and melon production worldwide. At present, there are at least two genetically distinct sub-populations (group I and II) of A. citrulli that differ in host preference among cucurbit species and copper s...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2019.02.003
更新日期:2019-03-01 00:00:00
abstract:OBJECTIVES:Galactomannan (GM) and Aspergillus DNA detection are useful tools for the diagnosis of invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA), primarily in blood and bronchoscopy samples. This study aimed to evaluate the utility of both markers for detection of Aspergillus in sputum from patients with allergic bronchopulmon...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2017.06.016
更新日期:2017-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::This paper reports a novel electrochemical immunosensor for the sensitive detection of staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA) based on self-assembly monolayer (SAM) and protein A immobilization on gold electrode. Three different methods of protein A immobilization were tested: physical adsorption, cross-linking using glut...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2012.05.016
更新日期:2012-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::The cDNA conversion of RNA molecules is a prerequisite for their analysis. In the case of prokaryotic RNAs, cDNA conversion is difficult due to a lack of the long poly(A) tails that are found in eukaryotic mRNAs. The full cDNAs for eukaryotic mRNAs can be amplified by the reverse transcription polymerase chain reactio...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2005.05.011
更新日期:2006-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Confocal Raman Microspectroscopy (CRM) can be used as a tool for the in situ evaluation of the chemical composition of living, fully submerged, unstained biofilms. In this study the estimation of the local water content in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA01 biofilms is given as an example. The ratio of the area of the O-H st...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2008.05.012
更新日期:2008-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The need for improved pathogen separation and concentration methods to reduce time-to-detection for foodborne pathogens is well recognized. Apolipoprotein H (ApoH) is an acute phase human plasma protein that has been previously shown to interact with viruses, lipopolysaccharides (LPS) and bacterial proteins. The purpo...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2016.07.014
更新日期:2016-09-01 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::The aim of this study was to (i) design, develop and validate a practical and physiologically relevant reconstituted in vitro oral mucosa tissue model and (ii) to assess its applicability in in vitro host-pathogen interactions with C. albicans and S. aureus. Co-culture organotypic constructions were created by incorpo...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2018.07.004
更新日期:2018-09-01 00:00:00
abstract::The food industry requires easy, accurate, and cost-effective techniques for microbial identification to ensure safe products and identify microbial contaminations. In this work, FTIR spectroscopy and MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry were assessed for their suitability and applicability for routine microbial diagnostics of...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2014.05.011
更新日期:2014-08-01 00:00:00
abstract::The aim of this study was to increase the sensitivity of Saccharomyces cerevisiae towards trichothecene toxins, in particular to deoxynivalenol (DON), in order to improve the utility of this yeast as a bioassay indicator organism. We report the construction of a strain with inactivated genes (PDR5, PDR10, PDR15) encod...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2007.12.013
更新日期:2008-03-01 00:00:00
abstract::Fusarium guttiforme and Fusarium ananatum are the etiological agents of fusariosis and fruitlet core rot in pineapple, respectively, producing mycotoxins that are harmful to the health of consumers. These two fungi are morphologically similar and difficulty in obtaining macroconidia of the species limits their identif...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2020.105915
更新日期:2020-06-01 00:00:00
abstract::A novel method for directly increasing the recovery of Escherichia coli O157:H7 and efficiently eliminating PCR inhibitors in oyster tissue without preenrichment was developed with the use of activated carbon coated with bentonite. The recovery of E. coli O157:H7 was significantly affected by the amount of bentonite u...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2007.10.010
更新日期:2008-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::Surface interfacial physiology is particularly important to unicellular organisms with regard to maintenance of optimal cell function. Bacterial cell surfaces possess net negative electrostatic charge by virtue of ionized phosphoryl and carboxylate substituents on outer cell envelope macromolecules which are exposed t...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
doi:10.1016/s0167-7012(00)00224-4
更新日期:2001-01-01 00:00:00
abstract::The plant root interface is a hot spot for microbial activities. Root exudates are the key compounds that drive microbial performance. However quality and amount of root exudates are highly dynamic in time and space, thus a direct influence of a single compound on a microbial community composition is fairly impossible...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2013.04.003
更新日期:2013-07-01 00:00:00
abstract::Here we demonstrate a cost effective and scalable microbial ecology sequencing platform using the Ion Torrent Personal Genome Machine (PGM). We assessed both PCR amplified 16S rRNA and shotgun metagenomic approaches and generated 100,000+ to 1,000,000+ reads using 'post-light' based sequencing technology within differ...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2012.07.008
更新日期:2012-10-01 00:00:00
abstract::Host DNA may adversely affect metagenomic studies focusing on the prokaryotic microbiota. This study compared the levels of host DNA in subgingival plaque collected by paper points and curette, using quantitative PCR. Lower proportions of host DNA and higher proportions of bacterial DNA were recovered from samples col...
journal_title:Journal of microbiological methods
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1016/j.mimet.2015.01.023
更新日期:2015-04-01 00:00:00