food safety - Purdue Extension
... sands of years by drying them. Scien tists have determined that it isn’t how much moisture is in a food that most affects bacterial growth. Growth is influenced most by the amount of “available water” which is designated with the symbol Aw. Aw is water that is not bound to the food and is available ...
... sands of years by drying them. Scien tists have determined that it isn’t how much moisture is in a food that most affects bacterial growth. Growth is influenced most by the amount of “available water” which is designated with the symbol Aw. Aw is water that is not bound to the food and is available ...
evolutionary adaptation to temperature. viii. effects of
... from 208C to 39.58C over a single day in July and from 128C to 208C on a single day in November. Seasonal Variability in Bacterial Growth Rates Turtles from Baldwin Lake were sampled on five occasions: November 1997; May, July, and November 1998; and May 1999. Not surprisingly, average temperatures ...
... from 208C to 39.58C over a single day in July and from 128C to 208C on a single day in November. Seasonal Variability in Bacterial Growth Rates Turtles from Baldwin Lake were sampled on five occasions: November 1997; May, July, and November 1998; and May 1999. Not surprisingly, average temperatures ...
EVOLUTIONARY ADAPTATION TO TEMPERATURE. VIII. EFFECTS OF ESCHERICHIA COLI SALMONELLA ENTERICA A
... from 208C to 39.58C over a single day in July and from 128C to 208C on a single day in November. Seasonal Variability in Bacterial Growth Rates Turtles from Baldwin Lake were sampled on five occasions: November 1997; May, July, and November 1998; and May 1999. Not surprisingly, average temperatures ...
... from 208C to 39.58C over a single day in July and from 128C to 208C on a single day in November. Seasonal Variability in Bacterial Growth Rates Turtles from Baldwin Lake were sampled on five occasions: November 1997; May, July, and November 1998; and May 1999. Not surprisingly, average temperatures ...
application of bacteriophages
... bacteriophages have been recovered from the skin of healthy humans (Foulongne et al., 2012), or when they were successfully incorporated into fibers used for human clothing (Mao, 2009). 4. Current hurdles and regulatory status of bacteriophages Bacteriophages are not currently classified in medicina ...
... bacteriophages have been recovered from the skin of healthy humans (Foulongne et al., 2012), or when they were successfully incorporated into fibers used for human clothing (Mao, 2009). 4. Current hurdles and regulatory status of bacteriophages Bacteriophages are not currently classified in medicina ...
Elongation Factor P
... Bacterial elongation factor P (EF-P) is a poorly understood soluble protein that has been shown to enhance the first step of peptide bond formation through an interaction with the ribosome and initiator tRNA. The crystal structure of EF‐P shows that EF‐P mimics the tRNA shape. Orthologous proteins h ...
... Bacterial elongation factor P (EF-P) is a poorly understood soluble protein that has been shown to enhance the first step of peptide bond formation through an interaction with the ribosome and initiator tRNA. The crystal structure of EF‐P shows that EF‐P mimics the tRNA shape. Orthologous proteins h ...
A Phylogenomic Approach to Bacterial Phylogeny
... length. However, the topology of the supertree based on 730 bootstrap values, the basal position of Spirochaetes and Chlagenes, and particularly its bacterial part, suggests that it is mydiales. However, they found that nine of these genes necessary to remove trees containing long branch artifacts, ...
... length. However, the topology of the supertree based on 730 bootstrap values, the basal position of Spirochaetes and Chlagenes, and particularly its bacterial part, suggests that it is mydiales. However, they found that nine of these genes necessary to remove trees containing long branch artifacts, ...
Synthesis and Antibacterial Activity of Isoindoline
... Objectives: Antimicrobial resistance drives the increasing need for discovery and development of new antibiotics. Novel pentacyclic tetracycline analogs containing an isoindoline moiety, accessible by total synthesis, were designed to explore their potential to achieve antibacterial potency and over ...
... Objectives: Antimicrobial resistance drives the increasing need for discovery and development of new antibiotics. Novel pentacyclic tetracycline analogs containing an isoindoline moiety, accessible by total synthesis, were designed to explore their potential to achieve antibacterial potency and over ...
FMB - E
... biologists are able to identify characteristics of a organism. What is a natural classification? The natural classification system may be a phenetic system, one that groups organisms together based on the mutual similarity of their phenotypic characteristics. Although phenetic studies can reveal pos ...
... biologists are able to identify characteristics of a organism. What is a natural classification? The natural classification system may be a phenetic system, one that groups organisms together based on the mutual similarity of their phenotypic characteristics. Although phenetic studies can reveal pos ...
JamesBenaventre NO Poster - Digital Scholarship @UNLV
... approximately 50% sequence identity and a β-barrel shape (fig. 1D). The differences in the structure of these four proteins are in the surface-exposed loop region surrounding the active site, but not in the active site itself [4]. These proteases are important for the virulence of many bacteria. For ...
... approximately 50% sequence identity and a β-barrel shape (fig. 1D). The differences in the structure of these four proteins are in the surface-exposed loop region surrounding the active site, but not in the active site itself [4]. These proteases are important for the virulence of many bacteria. For ...
Rapid identification of health care–associated infections with an
... from prolonged hospital stays, lasting disability, and demand for new antimicrobials. In the United States, it is estimated that more than 600,000 patients develop HAIs every year (1), and HAI-related costs amount to $100 billion to $150 billion per year (2). Rapid, sensitive detection of pathogenic ...
... from prolonged hospital stays, lasting disability, and demand for new antimicrobials. In the United States, it is estimated that more than 600,000 patients develop HAIs every year (1), and HAI-related costs amount to $100 billion to $150 billion per year (2). Rapid, sensitive detection of pathogenic ...
Changes in the composition and diversity of the bacterial microbiota
... organism is important because the microbiota can be disturbed by environmental changes that subsequently allow transient microorganisms to gain an advantage and cause disease (Moriarty, 1990, 1997). The association between bivalve molluscs and gut microorganisms is typically attributed to the ingest ...
... organism is important because the microbiota can be disturbed by environmental changes that subsequently allow transient microorganisms to gain an advantage and cause disease (Moriarty, 1990, 1997). The association between bivalve molluscs and gut microorganisms is typically attributed to the ingest ...
Isolation of Lipoteichoic Acids from Butyrivibrio
... covalently to a glycolipid. It was not substituted with glycosyl or D-alanyl ester groups. Deacylated lipoteichoic acid (57.5 pmol phosphoruslg cells) was similar in constitution but lacked fatty acid esters. Lipoteichoic acid reacted serologically with antisera to the glycerol phosphate backbone of ...
... covalently to a glycolipid. It was not substituted with glycosyl or D-alanyl ester groups. Deacylated lipoteichoic acid (57.5 pmol phosphoruslg cells) was similar in constitution but lacked fatty acid esters. Lipoteichoic acid reacted serologically with antisera to the glycerol phosphate backbone of ...
(E coli) 0157
... pathogen cattle seem to be the main source. Cattle do not suffer from E coli 0157 infection while humans do. Humans have cell surface receptors that allow attachment of E coli 0157 and transfer of its toxin (viro toxin shiga toxin) to the cells of the urinary and digestive system while cattle do not ...
... pathogen cattle seem to be the main source. Cattle do not suffer from E coli 0157 infection while humans do. Humans have cell surface receptors that allow attachment of E coli 0157 and transfer of its toxin (viro toxin shiga toxin) to the cells of the urinary and digestive system while cattle do not ...
An Investigation of the Anti-bacterial Properties of Orbit and Trident
... Chewing gum producing companies have claimed publicly that their product helps fight oral diseases. But, these companies have not publicly shown what effect their product has on the oral flora. Specifically they do not mention the effect on Streptococcus mutans, bacteria known to cause some oral dis ...
... Chewing gum producing companies have claimed publicly that their product helps fight oral diseases. But, these companies have not publicly shown what effect their product has on the oral flora. Specifically they do not mention the effect on Streptococcus mutans, bacteria known to cause some oral dis ...
Canadian Journal of Microbiology 43
... brasilense Cd cells in the rhizosphere occurred as vibroid forms, whereas those on waterstressed plants were cyst-like. When waterstressed conditions were eliminated, the bacterial cells reverted to vibroid form with a concomitant increase in the bacterial population. Apparently, cyst-like formation ...
... brasilense Cd cells in the rhizosphere occurred as vibroid forms, whereas those on waterstressed plants were cyst-like. When waterstressed conditions were eliminated, the bacterial cells reverted to vibroid form with a concomitant increase in the bacterial population. Apparently, cyst-like formation ...
Antibiotics lectureSKD
... • Interfere with essential structures or properties common in microbes but not human cells • Toxicity is relative and expressed as therapeutic index • Lowest dose toxic to patient / dose used for therapy – Penicillin G useful, has high index; interferes with cell wall synthesis, a process not pr ...
... • Interfere with essential structures or properties common in microbes but not human cells • Toxicity is relative and expressed as therapeutic index • Lowest dose toxic to patient / dose used for therapy – Penicillin G useful, has high index; interferes with cell wall synthesis, a process not pr ...
fecal indicator bacteria at freshwater rainbow trout
... equinus, S. mitis and S. salivarius (Levin et al. 1975, Clausen et al. 1977, Beaudoin and Litsky 1981). Of these, S. faecalis and S. faecium are usuaiiy regarded as enterococci, although S. avium (group Q) aiso conforms to the Sherman criteria of enterococci. The enterococci, together with S. bovis ...
... equinus, S. mitis and S. salivarius (Levin et al. 1975, Clausen et al. 1977, Beaudoin and Litsky 1981). Of these, S. faecalis and S. faecium are usuaiiy regarded as enterococci, although S. avium (group Q) aiso conforms to the Sherman criteria of enterococci. The enterococci, together with S. bovis ...
Upper respiratory tract infections
... Bacterial biofilms have been reported to be up to 500 times more resistant to antibiotics than planktonic cells. There are several properties of biofilms that could contribute to increased resistance to antibiotics. The esopolysaccharide matrix or slime that surrounds the cells may create an exclusi ...
... Bacterial biofilms have been reported to be up to 500 times more resistant to antibiotics than planktonic cells. There are several properties of biofilms that could contribute to increased resistance to antibiotics. The esopolysaccharide matrix or slime that surrounds the cells may create an exclusi ...
Dissecting the effects of antibiotics on horizontal gene transfer
... determine effects of the antibiotic. By measuring T/Ri, one study showed that combinatory treatment of sub-inhibitory kanamycin (Kan) and streptomycin (Strep) concentrations promoted conjugation for three different conjugative plasmids in E. coli [82]. However, critical evaluation of the results sug ...
... determine effects of the antibiotic. By measuring T/Ri, one study showed that combinatory treatment of sub-inhibitory kanamycin (Kan) and streptomycin (Strep) concentrations promoted conjugation for three different conjugative plasmids in E. coli [82]. However, critical evaluation of the results sug ...
Daya antibakteri madu terhadap beberapa kuman patogen secara
... ABSTRACT Honey is a healthy liquid. Honey consists of many kinds of material that may recover human from infectious diseases, like antibiotics. Some infectious diseases like digestive diseases can be cured using honey. Microorganisms causing diseases are among others Staphylococcus aureus, Escherich ...
... ABSTRACT Honey is a healthy liquid. Honey consists of many kinds of material that may recover human from infectious diseases, like antibiotics. Some infectious diseases like digestive diseases can be cured using honey. Microorganisms causing diseases are among others Staphylococcus aureus, Escherich ...
0-Resistance-Antimicrobial-Drugs-vaccines
... Resistance: Specific Mechanisms of Resistance • Resistance to vancomycin is caused by change in Dalanyl-D-alanine part of peptide in peptidoglycan to Dalanine-D-lactate, resulting in inability of vancomycin to bind. ...
... Resistance: Specific Mechanisms of Resistance • Resistance to vancomycin is caused by change in Dalanyl-D-alanine part of peptide in peptidoglycan to Dalanine-D-lactate, resulting in inability of vancomycin to bind. ...
original article multiple antibiotic resistance (mar)
... in bacteria is most commonly associated with the presence of plasmids which contain one or more resistance genes, each encoding a single antibiotic resistance phenotype [9]. Emergence of antibiotic resistance in P. aeruginosa resulting in severe adverse outcomes had been on the rise. In the USA annu ...
... in bacteria is most commonly associated with the presence of plasmids which contain one or more resistance genes, each encoding a single antibiotic resistance phenotype [9]. Emergence of antibiotic resistance in P. aeruginosa resulting in severe adverse outcomes had been on the rise. In the USA annu ...
Rediscover Cranberries! - The Cranberry Institute
... and therefore the subsequent reproduction required for infection.9-11 It is these anti-adhesion powers that appears to prevent UTIs rather than the acidification of the urine as was previously hypothesized.9-11 ...
... and therefore the subsequent reproduction required for infection.9-11 It is these anti-adhesion powers that appears to prevent UTIs rather than the acidification of the urine as was previously hypothesized.9-11 ...