abstract：:DNA hybridization studies were conducted to determine the taxonomic status of the aquatic group of Metschnikowia species and their varieties. Among the DNAs of the four varieties of Metschnikowia bicuspidata, that of Metschnikowia bicuspidata var. australis showed 37 to 51% relative binding with the DNAs of Metschniko...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Mendonça-Hagler LC,Hagler AN,Phaff HJ,Tredick J

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several restriction systems were detected in different strains of Streptomyces antibioticus by using actinophages as biological indicators. Adsorption of phages to the bacteria, together with the study of the efficiency of plating gave an initial indication of restriction in three strains. The alternation of efficienc...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Sànchez J,Barbès C,Hernandez A,de los Reyes Gavilàn CR,Hardisson C

更新日期：1985-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of phenolic compounds, ethyl alcohol, and sodium metabisulphite on the lytic activity of virulent bacteriophage PL-1 on a Lactobacillus casei S strain isolated from a lactic acid beverage fermentation was investigated. Catechin, caffeic, and gallic acids, commercially produced red, white, and champagne tann...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Lee A,Eschenbruch R,Waller J

更新日期：1985-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During shadowing, a "cap" of metal develops on small particles. This cap increases apparent particle with (measured normal to the shadowing direction) by an extent which cannot be predetermined. The extent of this increase in particle size (here defined as the "cap," X) is estimated in the present method by using oppo...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Willison JH

更新日期：1985-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Five strains of Haemophilus pleuropneumoniae, out of eight strains tested, produced extracellular haemolysin(s) when grown in liquid culture in the presence, but not in the absence, of RNA. The haemolysin produced by the neotype strain was unstable, heat labile, and sensitive to degradation by pronase, trypsin, and ch...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Martin PG,Lachance P,Niven DF

更新日期：1985-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The types of bacteria and fungi present in the air of a municipal solid waste recovery system have been characterized and the population densities estimated. Conventional methods were successful in enumerating coagulase-positive staphylococci, Klebsiella spp., gram-negative bacteria, fungi, and common indicator organi...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Lembke LL,Kniseley RN

更新日期：1985-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Purification and chemical characterization of an immunosuppressive exopolysaccharide from Capnocytophaga ochracea strain 25 are described. This polysaccharide was extracted from spent culture medium by cold ethanol precipitation. Purification was accomplished by trichloroacetic acid and pronase treatments in combinati...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Dyer JK,Bolton RW

更新日期：1985-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The effect of hydrogen peroxide on Treponema pallidum was investigated. The in vitro loss of virulence (as measured by rabbit inoculation) of T. pallidum was accelerated by as low as 100 microM hydrogen peroxide in the complex maintenance medium used. Higher doses led to rapidly accelerated death with 500 microM hydro...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Steiner BM,Wong GH,Sutrave P,Graves S

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group B Neisseria meningitidis (SD1C) was grown on defined medium supplemented with each of a variety of sulphur compounds as the sole source of sulphur. The organism grew on sulphate, sulphite, bisulphite, thiosulphate, dithionite, hydrosulphide, thiocyanate, L-cysteine, L-cystine, reduced glutathione, methionine, me...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Port JL,DeVoe IW,Archibald FS

更新日期：1984-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Thirty Haemophilus strains and six Actinobacillus strains, all of porcine origin, were examined for their biochemical reactivity on API 20E and API ZYM test strips using dense cell suspensions (supplemented with NAD as appropriate) as strip inocula. When combined with a test for V-factor dependency, the use of both st...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： O'Reilly T,Rosendal S,Niven DF

更新日期：1984-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Twenty-six strains of group JK corynebacteria had the same colonial morphology and biological reactions as the biotypes of the biovars of Corynebacterium genitalium and C. pseudogenitalium. Therefore, group JK corynebacteria can be assigned to the biovars of C. genitalium or C. pseudogenitalium. Although the strains d...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Evangelista AT,Coppola KM,Furness G

更新日期：1984-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The lytic effect of lysozyme on Streptococcus faecalis ATCC 9790 was studied by spectrophotometry and electron microscopy and it was found to be highly dependent on the ionic strength of the suspending media and on the ratio lysozyme to bacterial cell mass. When 7.2 X 10(8) bacteria/mL are exposed to 0.4 mg/mL of lyso...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Carvalho ME,Gonçalves MH,Silva MT

更新日期：1984-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cells of five Bacteroides species were examined following treatment with homologous antisera and staining with ruthenium red. They were enveloped by glycocalyces and these extensive fibrous exopolysaccharide matrices were fully retained as an integral "capsule" by some cells, while other cells showed "capsule" as well...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Lambe DW Jr,Mayberry-Carson KJ,Ferguson KP

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:New antibiotics produced by Streptomyces echinatus A8331 cultured in the presence of heterocyclic aromatic acids can be separated and purified by high-performance liquid chromatography using reversed phase columns. Natural quinoxaline antibiotics and certain quinoline derivatives can also be efficiently separated in n...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Gauvreau D,Waring MJ

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mutations in the DNA polymerase locus of phage, bacteria, and eukaryotic may change the mutation rates at other loci of the genome. We used resistance to phosphonoacetate to select mutants of herpes simplex virus with mutated DNA polymerase and then determined the reversion frequency of viral thymidine kinase mutation...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Campione-Piccardo J,Rawls WE

更新日期：1984-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces echinatus A8331 cultured on a maltose minimal salts medium normally produces a single antibiotic, echinomycin (quinomycin A), containing two quinoxaline-2-carbonyl chromophores. Echinomycin is powerfully active against experimental tumours and can be assayed by its activity against Gram-positive bacteria....

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Gauvreau D,Waring MJ

更新日期：1984-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The peptidoglycan of Escherichia coli K-12 strain AB264 was isolated by treating whole cells with sodium dodecyl sulfate and was purified by deoxyribonuclease, ribonuclease, and trypsin treatment. Like the peptidoglycan of Bacillus subtilis, this peptidoglycan proved able to bind substantial amounts of metallic ions f...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Hoyle BD,Beveridge TJ

更新日期：1984-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of Coxiella burnetti infection (Q fever) was determined among Nova Scotia (N.S.) and Prince Edward Island (P.E.I.) blood donors by using the complement fixation and microimmunofluorescence (IF) test. The complement fixation and IF antibody tests measured antibody prevalence for the phase II or phase I a...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Marrie TJ,Van Buren J,Faulkner RS,Haldane EV,Williams JC,Kwan C

更新日期：1984-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Absorption of 14C-labelled poliovirus-2 to sedimentable solids of primary sludge samples collected from a secondary treatment facility during a 6-month period averaged 94%; for anaerobically digested sludge, 99%. The extent of virus adsorption was influenced by the amount of solids. Maximal adsorption occurred at or a...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Lewis MA,Nath MW,Johnson JC

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the persistence of naturally acquired cell-mediated immunity to rubella during early pregnancy. We compared lymphocyte transformation responses to phytohemagglutinin and rubella virus in 35 naturally immune women aged 17-37 years, in the first trimester of pregnancy, with 49 naturally immune age-matched non...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Rossier E,Phipps PH,Weber JM

更新日期：1983-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Hydrogen cyanide production by Pseudomonas aeruginosa growing in a synthetic medium required aerobosis but operated efficiently at low dissolved oxygen concentration. Half maximum levels of cyanogenesis occurred at 0.015 microM oxygen; maximum cyanogenesis occurred over a wide range, 0.1-180 microM, of oxygen concentr...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Castric PA

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Acid (AcP) and alkaline phosphatase (AlP) were localized by physicobiochemical techniques. Greater than 53% of the phosphatases were detected, following sonication, in a low speed centrifugation pellet while osmotically shocked and spheroplasted Capnocytophaga species released only 9-28% and 11-43% of the cellular pho...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Poirier TP,Holt SC

更新日期：1983-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteins were solubilized from cell wall fractions of Candida albicans and separated by polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis. Cell walls were isolated from 25 and 37 degrees C growing and stationary phase yeast cultures and from germ tubes. The 42 protein bands detected by dye binding were observed in all wall extracts,...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Chaffin WL,Stocco DM

更新日期：1983-10-01 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：:In Salmonella typhimurium LT2 the F factor of Escherichia coli K-12 replicates normally but is repressed; Flac+ cells give no visible lysis on solid media with male-specific phages, low frequency transfer of Flac+ (0.001-0.007 per donor cell), few f2 infective centers (0.002-0.006 per cell), and they propagate male-sp...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Sanderson KE,Kadam SK,MacLachlan PR

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several physiological groups of bacteria were examined for the presence of a cytochrome b - like pigment which is demonstrable in dithionite-reduced minus substrate-reduced difference spectra. This pigment is characterized by an unusually high alpha band at 567 nm, a low concentration relative to conventional cytochro...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Jacobs NJ,O'Hara J,Gray CT

更新日期：1983-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A technique is described that employs vapor fixation and a simple vapor diffusion dehydration apparatus to minimize the disturbance of delicate fungal structures during preparation for scanning electron microscopy. The technique is applicable to fungi grown on agar media or on natural substrates. ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： King EJ,Brown MF

更新日期：1983-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Strict anaerobic cultures of Mucor hiemalis lead to major modifications of the quantitative and qualitative composition of sterols. Sterols of which the lateral chain contains an ethyl or ethylidene group in C24 are for the first time brought to evidence in a Mucorales. Isolation in the same conditions of E-ethylidene...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Herber R,Villoutreix J,Granger P,Chapelle S

更新日期：1983-05-01 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：:Staphylococcus aureus was grown in a rich peptone medium which became alkaline with continued incubation. Cells were grown at 37 degrees C and in the same medium containing 1 M NaCl at 46 degrees C, a temperature at which this organism can grow only when protected by NaCl. Cells of these cultures are hereafter called ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： El-Banna AA,Hurst A

更新日期：1983-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The induction of antituberculous immunity by crude ribosomal fractions isolated from Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain H37Ra, M. bovis strain BCG, and M. smegmatis was studied in CF-1 mice. Levels of antituberculous immunity similar to that induced by live BCG were induced by the BCG and H37Ra ribosomal fractions wher...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Portelance V,Beaudet R

更新日期：1983-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mice immunized subcutaneously with 10(6) viable yeast cells of Histoplasma capsulatum exhibited host protection to a challenge infection and also exhibited concomitant manifestations of cellular immunity to a culture filtrate antigen (yeast extract dialysate (YED)-histoplasmin). Protective immunity was determined by q...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Burt WR,Smith RA

更新日期：1983-01-01 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：:A high molecular component of a saline extract derived from Listeria monocytogenes contained amino acids, carbohydrates, and phosphorus. The same fraction was capable of promoting both the in vitro mitogenic and adjuvant activities and the in vivo immunosuppressive activity displayed by the crude extract. The material...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Otokunefor TV,Galsworthy SB

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A strain of Pseudomonas putida grew rapidly on cyclohexanecarboxylic acid as a sole source of carbon. A CoA-mediated beta-oxidation pathway was induced for the metabolism of the compound. The organism could not utilize 3-cyclohexenecarboxylic acid as a sole source of carbon for growth, but cells grown on gluconate in ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Blakley ER,Papish B

更新日期：1982-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Samples of seawater, sediment, and the following invertebrates were collected from the Mediterranean Sea in the neighborhood of Alexandria, Egypt: sea urchins (Echinus spp.), clams (Tapes spp.), and wedge shells (Donax trunculus). A total of 165 samples were collected from November 1979 to July 1980. Average counts (p...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： El-Sahn MA,El-Banna AA,El-Tabey Shehata AM

更新日期：1982-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Methanospirillum hungatei strains GP1 and JF1 when exposed to the adenosinetriphosphatase inhibitor N,N'-dicyclohexylcarbodiimide experienced a marked decline in growth rates, methane synthesis activities, and intracellular ATP concentrations. Although growth was inhibited, the intracellular ATP concentrations of all ...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Sprott GD,Jarrell KF

更新日期：1982-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The synthesis of the nucleotide precursors for peptidoglycan is regulated by the relA gene in Escherichia coli. Thus, nucleotide precursors labeled with [3H]diaminopimelic acid accumulated in a relA strain but not in an isogenic relA+ strain during amino acid deprivation. Furthermore, nucleotide precursor synthesis wa...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Ishiguro EE

更新日期：1982-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The course of intranasal infection of Sendai virus in CBA and DBA mice was investigated in animals decomplemented with purified cobra venom factor. The mice were decomplemented either immediately before inoculation or at 4 days postinfection. Depletion of complement after the infection had been established had no appa...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Finnie JC,Aston WP,O'Shaughnessy MV,Stewart RB

更新日期：1982-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Eighteen gram-negative marine bacteria and two terrestrial species, Escherichia coli and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, were examined for their sensitivity to lysis in distilled water after exposure to a salt solution containing a sea water concentration of Mg2+ (0.05 M) or to 0.5 M NaCl. A spectrum of lytic susceptibility w...

journal_title：Canadian journal of microbiology

authors： Laddaga RA,MacLeod RA

更新日期：1982-04-01 00:00:00