abstract：:Bulk tank milk from 160 producers was tested for Listeria monocytogenes at three monthly intervals over 1 year. Twenty-five producers were positive, most on a single occasion, only seven were positive on three or more of the four samplings. Listeria monocytogenes numbers were low, usually < 1 ml-1, the highest was 35 ...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Fenlon DR,Stewart T,Donachie W

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) was used after a short pre-enrichment culture to detect Salmonella subspecies in chicken fillets. A direct PCR assay performed with chicken meat inoculated with Salmonella Typhimurium produced no PCR products. Six different DNA extraction protocols were tested to recover efficiently Sal...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Soumet C,Ermel G,Fach P,Colin P

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A total of 87 isolates of Yersinia enterocolitica were examined with randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) by use of three different primers. Based on the RAPD profiles, the strains could be divided into three major groups: (1) the pathogenic American serotypes, O:8, O:13ab, O:20 and O:21; (2) the pathogenic Europ...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Rasmussen HN,Olsen JE,Rasmussen OF

更新日期：1994-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five phage types have been identified in 38 strains of Salmonella enteritidis isolated in Turkey in the 20-month period June 1992-January 1994. Strains belonging to phage type 4 predominated. Within phage type 4, plasmid profile typing has proved a useful method of strain discrimination and has confirmed the identity ...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Erdem B,Threlfall EJ,Schofield SL,Ward LR,Rowe B

更新日期：1994-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for developing a single-transposon-insertion mutant from a double-insertion mutant in Rhizobium is described. An exopolysaccharide (EPS)-defective mutant containing two Tn5-lacZ insertions was complemented with cloned wild-type DNA for EPS synthesis. One of the Tn5-lacZ insertions from the mutant was transfer...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Parveen N,Borthakur D

更新日期：1994-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Three groups of substances were identified which inhibit the bactericidal activity of bacitracin. Beside two divalent metals, Mg2+ and Ca2+, and a metabolite with chelating properties, citrate, the most pronounced effect was observed with pyrophosphate. Metals probably prevent access of bacitracin to the lipid carrier...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Podlesek Z,Comino A

更新日期：1994-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:RAPD technique (randomly amplified polymorphic DNA) was used for epidemiological subtyping of Bacillus licheniformis and other Bacillus spp. Within 46 isolates of B. licheniformis, up to 10 strain types could be determined when two 10-mer primers were used. RAPD patterns, which were found in eight further strains of B...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Stephan R,Schraft H,Untermann F

更新日期：1994-05-01 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：:Results of biocide efficacy testing on laboratory-generated microbial biofilms containing Legionella bozemanii is presented. These show that chlorine is effective at recommended concentrations in cooling towers; at least 48 h contact between free chlorine and the biofilm is necessary. Of five commercial biocides teste...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Green PN

更新日期：1993-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An efficient method is described for the purification of Ti plasmid DNA from Agrobacterium. The procedure is based on the relative binding capacity of ethidium bromide to supercoiled plasmid DNA and linear DNA and on the high solubility of ethidium bromide in phenol. Following treatment with ethidium bromide, more tha...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Zhang L,Kerr A

更新日期：1993-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Protoplasts of Streptomyces flavopersicus with the highest regeneration frequency were isolated from late log phase mycelium grown in a two-stage culture system with 2% glycine in the medium. Of the 11 regeneration media tested, R9 was selected as the most efficient with 29 degrees C as the best temperature. ...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Lyutzkanova D,Nikolova B,Stoilova-Discheva M,Todorov T

更新日期：1993-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:An investigation of the biochemical, nutritional and pathogenic reactions of strains of Pseudomonas syringae pv. japonica and Ps. syringae pv. syringae showed them to be indistinguishable. Pseudomonas syringae pv. japonica is a junior synonym of Ps. syringae pv. syringae. ...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Young JM

更新日期：1992-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method for the diagnosis of mycobacterial infections by PCR amplification followed by selective restriction enzyme digestion of the PCR product was developed. The amplified DNA sequence used in this study occurs within the gene encoding for the mycobacterial 65 kDa heat shock protein (Hance et al. 1989), which is fo...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Rodrigo G,Källenius G,Hoffmann E,Svenson SB

更新日期：1992-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A method was developed to obtain reproducible DNA fingerprints from Campylobacter by PCR-based amplification, without the need to isolate total DNA. Randomly amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) profiles were generated with three randomly designed 10-mers, using each separately as an amplification primer. A range of C. je...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Mazurier S,van de Giessen A,Heuvelman K,Wernars K

更新日期：1992-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A sandwich enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay to detect staphylococcal enterotoxin B was developed using rat monoclonal antibodies as capture antibodies and as a biotinylated conjugate. This test was sensitive, less than 1 ng/ml of enterotoxin B was detected and interference by protein A was prevented by the use of rat...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Rogemond V,Da Costa Castro JM,Delaunay T,Cazaux C,Guinet RM

更新日期：1991-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:From a genomic library of Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae a 1.3 kb DNA fragment was cloned which showed specific Southern hybridization and dot hybridization with the type strain of several porcine and bovine Mycoplasma species. This probe selectively recognized M. hyopneumoniae sequences in purified DNA or in broth-grown or...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Ahrens P,Friis NF

更新日期：1991-06-01 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：:The small cryptic plasmid pMB1 (1.9 kb), previously isolated from Bifidobacterium longum, has been characterized by physical mapping. Two cloning vectors, pMR3 and pDG7, carrying chloramphenicol and ampicillin resistances derived from pJH101, have been electroporated in Escherichia coli. ...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Matteuzzi D,Brigidi P,Rossi M,Di D

更新日期：1990-10-01 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：:A 21-mer DNA oligonucleotide probe targeting the 23S rRNA of Mycobacterium leprae was developed and its high specificity demonstrated by dot-blot hybridization. Even under relaxed hybridization and washing conditions (20 degrees C below Tm) the probe was highly selective in that positive signals were only detected wit...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Liesack W,Pitulle C,Stackebrandt E

更新日期：1990-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A monoclonal antibody (mAb) has been produced to aflatoxin B1 (AF B1) after successful immunization of mice and fusion of sensitized spleen cells with myeloma cancer cells. The mice were immunized with AF B1-oxime-protein conjugate. Positive mAbs were screened using an indirect ELISA specific for AF B1. The selected m...

journal_title：Letters in applied microbiology

authors： Candlish AA,Smith JE,Stimson WH

更新日期：1990-04-01 00:00:00