Evaluating the risks associated with Shiga-toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) in private well waters in Canada.

abstract：:The bacterial flora of an experimental plant that processes liquid swine manure by an aerated compartmented (multistage) lagoon system has been studied. The total flora is characterized by a larger number of oligotrophic bacteria than eutrophic ones. Each compartment displays a specific flora, different from the flora...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Chikh G,Pourquié J,Kaiser P,Davila AM

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Rhizobia are used exclusively in agricultural systems for enhancing the ability of legumes to fix atmospheric nitrogen. Knowledge about the indigenous population is necessary for the selection and application of inoculant strains. In this study, we have assessed the genetic diversity of Bradyrhizobium strains isolated...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Saleena LM,Loganathan P,Rangarajan S,Nair S

更新日期：2001-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa establishes life-long chronic infections in the cystic fibrosis (CF) lung by utilizing various adaptation strategies. Some of these strategies include altering metabolic pathways to utilize readily available nutrients present in the host environment. The airway sputum contains various host-deriv...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Daniels JB,Scoffield J,Woolnough JL,Silo-Suh L

更新日期：2014-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An Escherichia coli K-12 biofilm was grown at a dilution rate of 0.028 h(-1) for 48 h in a glucose-limited chemostat coupled to a modified Robbins' device to determine its susceptibility to infection by bacteriophage T4. Bacteriophage T4 at a multiplicity of infection (MOI) of 10 caused a log reduction in biofilm dens...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Corbin BD,McLean RJ,Aron GM

更新日期：2001-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The monitoring of antimicrobial susceptibilities in Neisseria gonorrhoeae isolates and characterization of N. gonorrhoeae multiantigen sequence types (NG-MAST, ST) provide important surveillance data as resistance rates continue to rise. A total of 2970 N. gonorrhoeae isolates were collected by Canadian provincial pub...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Martin I,Sawatzky P,Liu G,Allen V,Lefebvre B,Hoang L,Lovgren M,Haldane D,Caeseele PV,Horsman G,Garceau R,Ratnam S,Wong T,Gilmour M

更新日期：2013-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Penicillium chrysogenum F1 is very efficient in bioleaching heavy metals from the soil and is used for that purpose. We found that F1 can extract 19.8 mg Cd, Cu, Pb, and Zn from 2.5 g soil; the total heavy metals' bioleaching ratio was 60.4%. In this study, the bioleaching mechanism was investigated by means of metabo...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Deng X,Yang Z,Chen R

更新日期：2019-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cultural, morphological, and physiological properties of Thermomonospora fusca (strain 190Th) are described. Its physiological properties show that this species is primarily a carbohydrate-degrading actinomycete which can use a wide range of plant sugars and polymeric carbohydrates as sources of carbon and energy....

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Crawford DL

更新日期：1975-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cultures of Streptomyces peucetius often were observed to divert spontaneously from the production of anthracycline antibiotics to the excretion of acidic metabolites, whether grown in a defined medium or a nutrient-rich medium. The predominant excreted acidic metabolites were determined by high-performance liquid chr...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Dekleva ML,Strohl WR

更新日期：1987-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We have characterized two mutants of Rhizobium meliloti L5-30 obtained by random mutagenesis using Mu-lacZ that were defective in transport of C4-dicarboxylic acids. These mutants induced ineffective nodules on alfalfa. Mutations in the two strains appeared to be located in a dctA gene. Levels of dctA gene expression ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Batista S,Castro S,Aguilar OM,Martínez-Drets G

更新日期：1992-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Health effects associated with poor indoor air quality have created a need for accurate, reproducible methods of monitoring the microbiological content of indoor air. Improved methods of detection may allow researchers to clarify the effect of individual species present in the indoor environment on human health. This ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： MacNeil L,Kauri T,Robertson W

更新日期：1995-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Neisseria gonorrhoeae strains can be grouped or differentiated (auxotyped) by their requirements for none, or any one or more of proline, uracil, hypoxanthine, and citrulline or ornithine. Most strains were readily assessed because they responded with growth or no growth on each defined auxanographic medium. Other str...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Hendry AT

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Nodulation of Pisum sativum cv. Afghanistan by Rhizobium leguminosarum strain Tom can be blocked by the nonnodulating R. leguminosarum strain PF2. This system was used to study the dynamics of rhizobial binding to seedling root surfaces. Appreciable numbers of 35S-labeled rhizobia bound to the root surface within 2h a...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Broughton WJ,van Egeraat AW,Lie TA

更新日期：1980-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Four modes of heating endotoxin in plasma and two different times of heating endotoxin in pyrogen-free water were compared. There were no significant differences in standard curves after heating endotoxin in plasma at 100 degrees C for 1 and for 10 min. However, the standard curve after heating for 10 min at 75 degree...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Piotrowicz BI,McCartney AC

更新日期：1986-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In an effort to reduce human exposure to adenoviruses through drinking water, we determined the effectiveness of sequential disinfection with an alternative ultraviolet (UV) technology (medium-pressure (MP) UV) and monochloramine. The results of this study showed that MP UV was much more effective than traditional UV ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Shin GA,Lee JK

更新日期：2010-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An anaerobic consortium that carboxylated and dehydroxylated phenol to benzoate, and 2-cresol to 3-methylbenzoic acid, under methanogenic conditions was studied. Phenol induced this transformation activity. Addition of 4-hydroxypyridine or an increase in the concentration of proteose peptone to 0.5% (w/v) delayed the ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Bisaillon JG,Lépine F,Beaudet R,Sylvestre M

更新日期：1993-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using a gene fusion approach, hybrid proteins were created by linking alkaline phosphatase (PhoA) or a cellulase reporter (delta CenA) to four large N-terminal portions of the Caulobacter crescentus surface (S)-layer protein (RsaA; 1026 amino acids). Three of the sites (amino acids 189, 220, 315) were selected on the ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Bingle WH,Smit J

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Plant secondary metabolites, such as saponins, have a considerable impact in agriculture because of their allelopathic effects. They also affect the growth of soil microorganisms, especially fungi. We investigated the influence of saponins on rhizosphere bacteria in vitro and in soil conditions. The effects of gypsoph...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Fons F,Amellal N,Leyval C,Saint-Martin N,Henry M

更新日期：2003-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two potassium (K)-bearing minerals, Nanjing feldspar and Suzhou illite, were used to investigate K mobilization by the wild-type strain NBT of Bacillus edaphicus, also labeled MPs+, selected for high activity in mobilizing potassium from minerals, and by four of its UV + LiCl mutants, MPs++, MPs+1, MPs+2, and MPs-. In...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Sheng XF,He LY

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococci, formerly confounded with faecal streptococci, are recognized since the beginning of the century as being faecal in origin and are generally searched for in waste waters and food products; their detection may in fact indicate the presence of enteropathogenic organisms. Although nearly ubiquitous, their pre...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Flahaut S,Boutibonnes P,Auffray Y

更新日期：1997-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Like recF and recQ mutants studied earlier, two other classes of Escherichia coli mutants defective in the RecF conjugal recombination pathway, recJ and recO, were found to be partially resistant to thymineless death. In contrast, a recN mutant, also belonging to the pathway, was indistinguishable from the wild type w...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Nakayama K,Shiota S,Nakayama H

更新日期：1988-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effects of selected culture conditions on production of Shiga-like toxin-II variant by an edema disease strain of Escherichia coli (412) and E. coli TB1 (pCG6) containing the cloned genes for Shiga-like toxin-II variant were examined. Incubation time, culture media, incubation temperature, starting pH of the cultu...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： MacLeod DL,Gyles CL

更新日期：1989-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) causes severe infectious diseases in all ages of swine and leads to serious economic losses. Serologic tests are widely accepted and used to detect anti-PEDV antibodies that could indicate PEDV infection or vaccination. In this study, PEDV recombinant S1 protein (rS1) was express...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Shan Y,Liu Y,Liu Z,Li G,Chen C,Luo H,Chen Y,Guo N,Shi X,Zhang X,Fang W,Li X

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The techniques in current use for detection of pathogens in environmental samples are restricted to those organisms whose replication in either culture media or cell culture is feasible. These methods lack the selectivity and sensitivity necessary for their unequivocal detection and identification. We have developed a...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Toranzos GA,Alvarez AJ

更新日期：1992-05-01 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：:This research examines the distribution of aflatoxins among conidia and sclerotia of toxigenic strains of Aspergillus flavus Link and Aspergillus parasiticus Speare cultured on Czapek agar (21 days, 28 degrees C). Total aflatoxin levels in conidia and sclerotia varied considerably both within (intrafungal) and among s...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Wicklow DT,Shotwell OL

更新日期：1983-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Characterization and enumeration of the adherent epimural community of the rumen wall of young, conventionally reared lambs were carried out from 2 to 21 days after birth. Three hundred strains were isolated by anaerobic procedures from three sites: dorsal, ventral, and caudal sacs, and from the sloughed epithelial ce...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Rieu F,Fonty G,Gouet P

更新日期：1989-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The gene coding for glycoprotein B2 (gB2) of herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2) strain 333 was mapped and its nucleotide sequence determined. Open reading frame analysis deduced a polypeptide consisting of 902 amino acids and having close homology to gB1 of HSV type 1. Several predicted features of gB2 are consistent...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Zwaagstra JC,Leung WC

更新日期：1987-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Total community DNA from 29 noncontaminated soils and soils impacted by petroleum hydrocarbons and chloro-organics from Antarctica and Brazil were screened for the presence of nine catabolic genes, encoding alkane monooxygenase or aromatic dioxygenases, from known bacterial biodegradation pathways. Specific primers an...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Luz AP,Pellizari VH,Whyte LG,Greer CW

更新日期：2004-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A visual micromethod for measuring antifungal effects on germination and growth is described. The antifungal agent griseofulvin and the fungus Trichophyton mentagrophytes were used as materials to compare the micromethod with a standard assay based on dry mycelial weight. The micromethod was more sensitive than the we...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Kerbs S,Hutton RD,Hollister JW

更新日期：1978-05-01 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