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Two main sources of error in the conventional stained film cell count method, i.e. errors from imperfect spreading of the suspension and uneven distribution of cells in the film, have been eliminated by counting all the cells in the film. Staining solution and sodium alginate were added to the suspension before spreading over the slide. With a microsyringe, 20-microliters suspension was spread in two bands of ca 1.7 mm x 60 mm each. Then total cells could be counted easily in the x 100 magnification field by moving the slide in one direction. Results were satisfactory. Coefficients of variation were 2.6 and 1.1% in two separate yeast determinations each with five replicates. For counting higher magnifications, a suitable image analyser for automating the method is believed worthy of study.
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- C Jiang
- Department of Biological Science and Biotechnology, Hangzhou University, People's Republic of China
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England LS, Lee H, Trevors JT. Recombinant and wild-type Pseudomonas aureofaciens strains introduced into soil microcosms: effect on decomposition of cellulose and straw. Mol Ecol 1995; 4:221-30. [PMID: 7735525 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.1995.tb00211.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The effect of a genetically engineered Pseudomonas aureofaciens (Ps3732RNL11) strain (GEM) and the parental wild-type (Ps3732RN) on decomposition of cellulose paper, straw and calico cloth was assessed after 18 weeks incubation in laboratory soil microcosms. Effect(s) of inoculum density (10(3), 10(5), and 10(8) cells/g dry soil) and single versus multiple bacterial inoculations were also investigated. Cellulose paper was completely decomposed after 18 weeks in all treatments. There were no significant differences (95% level), between treatments, in percentage decomposition of either straw or calico cloth. Recovery of the GEM at 18 weeks, using viable plating, was limited to treatments originally receiving 10(8) cells/g dry soil. Log 1.8 CFU/g dry soil were recovered from the single dose treatment while log 4.2 CFU/g dry soil were recovered from the multiple dose treatment. Biolog metabolic tests were used to determine if the GEM or parental wild-type had any effect on overall carbon utilization in soil. Results suggested they did not. Detection of the recombinant lacZY gene sequence in soil using PCR suggested the possibility of viable but nonculturable cells and/or persistence of chromosomal DNA.
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- L S England
- Department of Environmental Biology, University of Guelph, Ontario, Canada
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H�nerlage W, Hahn D, Zeyer J. Detection of mRNA of nprM in Bacillus megaterium ATCC 14581 grown in soil by whole-cell hybridization. Arch Microbiol 1995. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00393374] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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Pedersen JC, Hansen BM, Damgaard PH, Eilenberg J. Dispersal ofBacillus thuringiensisvar.kurstakiin an experimental cabbage field. Can J Microbiol 1995. [DOI: 10.1139/m95-016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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The field population dynamics of Bacillus thuringiensis var. kurstaki DMU67R isolated from cabbage leaves was investigated. Two experimental cabbage plots were spray inoculated with a suspension of sporulated bacteria containing 6.5 × 107colony-forming units (cfu)/mL DMU67R or with a sterile medium control. To study transport between phyllosphere and soil, plastic covering was used during spraying to ensure that DMU67R was applied only on leaves (8.5 × 106cfu/g) or on soil (1.2 × 104cfu/g). Numbers of DMU67R declined five log units during the first 4 weeks after spraying of leaves; the initial half-life (1st week) was 16 h. In topsoil, however, a long-term persistency was demonstrated with a half-life exceeding 100 days. Dispersal by rain splash from topsoil to lower leaves of cabbage was demonstrated. After 1 year, analysis of the top 15 cm of soil showed that 77% of DMU67R remained in the 0- to 2-cm topsoil layer. When DMU67R was applied on leaves, larvae of Pieris brassicae were killed within 7 days after spraying. Germination of DMU67R was demonstrated in dead P. brassicae larvae but not in any leaf or soil sample. Pitfall sampling demonstrated dispersal of DMU67R by means of carabid beetles (up to 135 m) and other surface-active insects carrying 102–103 cfu/g wet mass.Key words: Bacillus thuringiensis, Pieris brassicae, cabbage, soil, dispersal, population dynamics.
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Leung K, Cassidy MB, Holmes SB, Lee H, Trevors JT. Survival of κ-carrageenan-encapsulated and unencapsulated Pseudomonas aeruginosa UG2Lr cells in forest soil monitored by polymerase chain reaction and spread plating. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 1995. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.1995.tb00270.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Pillai SD, Ricke SC. Strategies to accelerate the applicability of gene amplification protocols for pathogen detection in meat and meat products. Crit Rev Microbiol 1995; 21:239-61. [PMID: 8688154 DOI: 10.3109/10408419509113542] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 02/01/2023]
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Traditionally, microbiological testing of meat products has involved isolating microorganisms and performing specific biochemical, and in some cases serological, tests to confirm the presence or absence of suspected food-borne pathogens. Given the public attention meat products have received as sources of food-borne disease, there has been considerable interest in the application of rapid detection techniques that require hours rather than days for completion. Theoretically, rapid detection methods could reduce the time from the initial sampling to confirmation so that conclusive results would be available by the time to process the meat product. Both direct gene probe hybridization as well as gene amplification methods show promise as rapid detection techniques. At present, direct gene probe hybridization are being commercially utilized to confirm the presence of a suspected pathogen. A number of gene amplification protocols for detecting food-borne bacterial pathogens have been published. However, many of these studies have utilized spiked samples rather than naturally contaminated samples and many of them have involved extended template extraction/purification methodologies. There is still only a very limited amount of information on the efficacies of the various protocols in detecting bacterial pathogens, especially toxigenic Escherichia coli, Salmonella spp., Campylobacter spp., and Listeria spp., in naturally contaminated food samples. In order to develop gene amplification protocols that have relevance to the meat industry, there must be a concerted effort to utilize naturally contaminated samples in the development and evaluation of protocols, as well as to initiate multilaboratory round robin evaluations of select protocols. Availability of multilaboratory tested methodologies would provide a means to design pathogen detection strategies at the quality control level rather than an end product confirmatory response to an already documented outbreak.
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- S D Pillai
- Environmental Science Program, Texas A&M University Research Center, El Paso 79927, USA
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Fischer K, Hahn D, Hönerlage W, Sch nholzer F, Zeyer J. In situ Detection of Spores and Vegetative Cells of Bacillus megaterium in Soil by Whole Cell Hybridization. Syst Appl Microbiol 1995. [DOI: 10.1016/s0723-2020(11)80397-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/16/2022]
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Mukamolova GV, Kaprelyants AS, Kell DB. Secretion of an antibacterial factor during resuscitation of dormant cells in Micrococcus luteus cultures held in an extended stationary phase. Antonie Van Leeuwenhoek 1995; 67:289-95. [PMID: 7778897 DOI: 10.1007/bf00873692] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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A high proportion of Micrococcus luteus cells in cultures starved for 3-6 months in spent medium following growth to stationary phase in batch culture lost the ability to grow and form colonies on agar plates, but could be resuscitated from dormancy by incubation in liquid medium containing supernatant taken from the late log phase of viable cultures of the same organism (Kaprelyants et al. 1994). In the present work, we found that during the first 50-70 h of such resuscitation the dormant cells actually divide for 10-17 generations in lactate minimal medium containing yeast extract whilst remaining nonculturable on agar plates. Further incubation results in a decrease in the total cell number in liquid medium. The addition of viable (culturable) Micrococcus luteus cells in concentrations of up to 10(4) ml-1 to test tubes containing either resuscitating cells or supernatant from these cultures revealed the excretion of a factor or factors which inhibited the proliferation of otherwise viable cells. The maximum production of this factor took place after some 96 h of incubation of starved cells in resuscitation medium. Supernatant from late logarithmic phase batch cultures of M. luteus abolished the antibacterial effect of starved cultures incubated in resuscitation medium. It is concluded that the stimulating effect of viable cells, and of supernatant taken from batch cultures, on the resuscitation of dormant cells might be connected in part with overcoming the activity of an antibacterial factor causing self-poisoning of dormant cells during their resuscitation.
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- G V Mukamolova
- Bakh Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
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Wendt-Potthoff K, Backhaus H, Smalla K. Monitoring the fate of genetically engineered bacteria sprayed on the phylloplane of bush beans and grass. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 1994. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.1994.tb00251.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022] Open
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Diks RMM, Ottengraf SPP, Vrijlnad S. The existence of a biological equilibrium in a trickling filter for waste gas purification. Biotechnol Bioeng 1994; 44:1279-87. [DOI: 10.1002/bit.260441103] [Citation(s) in RCA: 37] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022]
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Brown DP, Ganova-Raeva L, Green BD, Wilkinson SR, Young M, Youngman P. Characterization of spo0A homologues in diverse Bacillus and Clostridium species identifies a probable DNA-binding domain. Mol Microbiol 1994; 14:411-26. [PMID: 7885226 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1994.tb02176.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 79] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/27/2023]
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Spo0A is a phosphorylation-activated transcription factor of Bacillus subtilis. It is a member of the response regulator superfamily of bacterial signal transduction proteins and controls many of the changes in gene expression that occur during the transition into stationary phase and during the initiation of sporulation. To identify the domains of Spo0A most critical for determining its structural and functional features, presumptive homologues of the spo0A gene were characterized in a collection of eight Bacillus species and six Clostridium species representing phylogenetically diverse members of these genera. An alignment of the partial or complete DNA sequences of these homologues revealed three regions of especially high conservation in the effector domain. We speculate that the most highly conserved of these corresponds to the recognition helix of a putative helix-turn-helix motif, and, therefore, represents the actual DNA-containing surface of the protein. In the case of homologues identified in Bacillus anthracis and Clostridium acetobutylicum and retrieved by polymerase chain reaction amplification, we confirmed by gene-disruption analysis that the homologue actually is required for initiation of sporulation. Apparent homologues of the B. subtilis spoIVB gene were also discovered immediately upstream from the spo0A homologues in all Bacillus and Clostridium species examined. The discovery of homologues of B. subtilis sporulation genes in these diverse species implies that the gene products required for specifying pathways of sporulation-specific gene activation and for determining key morphogenetic changes may be highly conserved and suggests that an approach similar to that undertaken here might be used as a general strategy to retrieve and compare their gene sequences. Exhaustive efforts to detect a spo0A-like gene in non-endospore formers, including close relatives of Bacillus such as Listeria and Staphylococcus, were uniformly unsuccessful, suggesting that regulation of gene activity during the transition into stationary phase mediated by Spo0A-like proteins may be exclusive to the endospore-forming bacteria.
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- D P Brown
- Department of Genetics, University of Georgia, Athens 30602
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Toxicity of toluene and o-xylene toAcinetobacter calcoaceticus in starvation-survival mode. Biotechnol Lett 1994. [DOI: 10.1007/bf01020854] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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Kondo K, Takade A, Amako K. Morphology of the viable but nonculturable Vibrio cholerae as determined by the freeze fixation technique. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1994; 123:179-84. [PMID: 7988886 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1994.tb07219.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 20] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023] Open
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The morphology of the nonculturable Vibrio cholerae strain TSI-4 was examined by the freeze fixation technique of electron microscopy and subsequently four unique structures were found in the fine structure s of this bacterium. The size of the cell was about 2/3 of the growing cell. Although the cell was observed to have an outer membrane as well as the cell membrane and cytoplasm, the outer membrane was undulated and had a surface layer of fine fibers. The peptidoglycan layer was thick and more electron dense than that of normal cells.
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- K Kondo
- Department of Bacteriology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan
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Akkermans AD, Mirza M, Harmsen HJ, Blok HJ, Herron PR, Sessitsch A, Akkermans WM. Molecular ecology of microbes: A review of promises, pitfalls and true progress. FEMS Microbiol Rev 1994. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6976.1994.tb00134.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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McCarthy SA, Johnson RM, Kakimoto D. Characterization of an antibiotic produced by Alteromonas luteoviolacea Gauthier 1982, 85 isolated from Kinko Bay, Japan. THE JOURNAL OF APPLIED BACTERIOLOGY 1994; 77:426-32. [PMID: 7989271 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1994.tb03445.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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An antibiotic produced by Alteromonas luteoviolacea strain 9K-V10 was recovered after cold acetone precipitation of culture supernatant fluids or lysates that had been frozen and thawed. The precipitate obtained from cell-free lysates was fractioned by DEAE ion-exchange chromatography. Further purification by gel-filtration chromatography yielded a single peak of antibiotic activity that corresponded to a protein peak with a molecular mass of approximately 100 kDa. After non-denaturing polyacrylamide gel electrophoresis, antibiotic activity co-migrated with a protein band. The isoelectric point of the antibiotic was estimated to be 7.7. Treatment of the concentrated active fraction with proteinase K or heating at 70 degrees C for 10 min resulted in total loss of antibiotic activity. These results show that the antibiotic produced by Alt. luteoviolacea 9K-V10 is of a proteinaceous nature.
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- S A McCarthy
- Department of Botany and Microbiology, Arizona State University, Tempe
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Moreira L, Agostinho P, Morais PV, da Costa MS. Survival of allochthonous bacteria in still mineral water bottled in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) and glass. THE JOURNAL OF APPLIED BACTERIOLOGY 1994; 77:334-9. [PMID: 7989260 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1994.tb03082.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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The mortality of Escherichia coli, Enterobacter cloacae, Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa, based on the culturability of these bacteria, was assessed in non-carbonated mineral water, bottled in polyvinyl chloride (PVC) containing the indigenous flora, sterile mineral water bottled in PVC, sterile mineral water in glass containers, and sterile tap water in glass containers. There was a general decrease in the culturability of these organisms in the four test waters, except that Ps. aeruginosa grew in sterile tap water. Escherichia coli and Kl. pneumoniae had the highest mortality rates under the conditions tested, while Ent. cloacae had a very low and constant mortality rate that would have resulted in the persistence of this organism in mineral water for a long period of time. After a sharp initial decrease in culturability, Ps. aeruginosa also had a very low mortality rate in mineral water bottled in PVC.
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- L Moreira
- Departamento de Bioquímica, Instituto de Investigação da Agua, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal
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Interstitial cystitis (IC) is manifest by years of urinary frequency, urgency, and bladder pain and on cystoscopy, is diagnosed by petechial hemorrhages or ulcers. The etiology is unknown; the prominent theories are that IC is an autoimmune disease or is linked to increased permeability of the bladder mucosa. Although sought, no infectious agent has ever been identified. The disease has many characteristics of a chronic infection and the author's opinion is that an infectious disease has not been properly ruled out. To do so would require culture of bladder epithelium (not just urine) using special culture and non-culture techniques such as polymerase chain reaction. Infection can easily be integrated into the autoimmune and permeability theories of IC pathogenesis. A possible analogue for this disease is chronic gastritis in which Helicobacter pylori has been identified as an etiological agent.
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- J W Warren
- Department of Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201
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Romalde JL, Barja JL, Magariños B, Toranzo AE. Starvation-Survival Processes of the Bacterial Fish Pathogen Yersinia ruckeri. Syst Appl Microbiol 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/s0723-2020(11)80002-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 23] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Lewis PJ, Nwoguh CE, Barer MR, Harwood CR, Errington J. Use of digitized video microscopy with a fluorogenic enzyme substrate to demonstrate cell- and compartment-specific gene expression in Salmonella enteritidis and Bacillus subtilis. Mol Microbiol 1994; 13:655-62. [PMID: 7997177 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2958.1994.tb00459.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/28/2023]
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A rapid and sensitive method for detection of cell- and compartment-specific gene expression in individual cells of both Gram-negative and Gram-positive microorganisms is described. The method combines the use of gene fusions to lacZ, and a fluorogenic beta-galactosidase substrate, fluorescein-di-(beta-D-galactopyranoside), with digitized video microscopy. All of the reporter constructs tested were successfully detected. Secondary staining of the cells with a nucleic acid-specific dye, propidium iodide, allowed cells devoid of nucleic acid to be identified, while cell nucleoid shape and the morphological stage of development could be correlated with the location of beta-galactosidase activity. The double-staining procedure was used to show that gene expression can be induced in non-culturable cells of Salmonella enteritidis produced by carbon/nitrogen starvation. The resolution was sufficient to distinguish between cells at different morphological stages of sporulation in Bacillus subtilis. This highly sensitive and rapid method may have many other applications in basic and applied microbiology.
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- P J Lewis
- Sir William Dunn School of Pathology, University of Oxford, UK
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Gauthier MJ, Labedan B, Breittmayer VA. Influence of DNA supercoiling on the loss of culturability of Escherichia coli cells incubated in seawater. Mol Ecol 1994; 1:183-90. [PMID: 1344994 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.1992.tb00174.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 13] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/30/2022]
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The relationship between the loss of culturability of Escherichia coli cells in seawater and the DNA supercoiling level of a reporter plasmid (pUC8) have been studied under different experimental conditions. Transfer to seawater of cells grown at low osmolarity decreased their ability to grow without apparent modification of the plasmid supercoiling. We found that E. coli cells could be protected against seawater-induced loss of culturability by increasing their DNA-negative supercoiling in response to environmental factors: either a growth at high osmolarity before the transfer to seawater, or addition of organic matter (50-mg/l peptone) in seawater. We further found conditions where a DNA-induced relaxation was accompanied by an increase in seawater sensitivity. Indeed, inactivation of either one of the subunits A and B of DNA gyrase, which leads to important DNA relaxation, was accompanied in both cases by an increased loss of culturability of conditional mutants after transfer to seawater which could not be explained uniquely by the increase in the temperature required to inactivate the gyrase. Similarly, a strain harbouring a mutation in topoisomerase I, compensated by another mutation in subunit B of the gyrase, was more sensitive to seawater than the isogenic wild-type cell and this greater sensitivity was correlated to a relaxation of plasmid DNA. Again, in these different cases, a previous growth at high osmolarity protected against this seawater sensitivity. We thus propose that the ability of E. coli cells to survive in seawater and maintain their ability to grow on culture media could be linked, at least in part, to the topological state of their DNA.(ABSTRACT TRUNCATED AT 250 WORDS)
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Kellenberger E. Genetic ecology: a new interdisciplinary science, fundamental for evolution, biodiversity and biosafety evaluations. EXPERIENTIA 1994; 50:429-37. [PMID: 8194578 DOI: 10.1007/bf01920741] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Genetic ecology is the extension of our modern knowledge in molecular genetics to studies of viability, gene expression and gene movements in natural environments like soils, aquifers and digestive tracts. In such milieux, the horizontal transfer of plasmid-borne genes between phylogenetically distant species has already been found to be much more frequent than had been expected from laboratory experience. For the study of exchanges involving chromosomally-located genes, more has to be learned about the behaviour of transposons in such environments. The results expected from studies in genetic ecology are relevant for considerations of evolution, biodiversity and biosafety. The role of this new field of research in restoring popular confidence in science and in its biotechnological applications is stressed.
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- E Kellenberger
- Institut de Génétique et de Biologie microbienne, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland
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Brettar I, Ramos-Gonzalez MI, Ramos JL, Höfle MG. Fate of Pseudomonas putida after release into lake water mesocosms: Different survival mechanisms in response to environmental conditions. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 1994; 27:99-122. [PMID: 24190270 DOI: 10.1007/bf00165812] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/06/1993] [Revised: 10/29/1993] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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To study the fate of Pseudomonas putida DSM 3931 in an aquatic environment, cultures of the strain were released into lake water mesocosms. P. putida, bearing the TOL-plasmid, was released as a representative xenobiotic-degrading microorganism. The release was carried out in mesocosms with unamended lake water and in lake water with added culture medium to compare the survival of the strain due to the influence of different organic load. As a comparison, the survival of P. putida was followed in microcosms with sterile lake water. Survival and fate of the strain were determined by means of immunofluorescence with highly specific monoclonal antibodies and growth on selective agar medium for up to ten weeks after release. Addition of medium had a pronounced influence on survival in mesocosms. In mesocosms without added medium, the number of P. putida cells decreased within ten days by over 2 orders of magnitude. In mesocosms with medium, cell numbers increased in the first two days by an order of magnitude and were, after ten days, in the same range as at the time of introduction. Over time, cell numbers decreased but remained detectable in both types of mesocosms for up to ten weeks after release. In mesocosms with unamended lake water, the major fraction of the cells was attached to particles after two days. In mesocosms with medium, large aggregates of P. putida cells formed which included algae. The observed decrease in cell numbers in mesocosms was attributed mainly to grazing. Sedimentation was an additional factor contributing to loss of cells out of the water column, which especially affected aggregate-forming cells in mesocosms with medium in the long run (beyond two weeks). These studies demonstrate that experimental tools on a mesoscale are crucial in order to understand the complex processes microorganisms are subjected to after release into a natural environment, and that single cell detection, such as immunofluorescence, is essential to understand mechanisms of survival and elimination.
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- I Brettar
- Max-Planck-Institut für Limnologie, Postfach 165, D-2320, Plön, Germany
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Monitoring of Polymer Biodegradabilities in the Environment by a DNA Probe Method. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1994. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-444-81708-2.50012-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Carpentier B, Cerf O. Biofilms and their consequences, with particular reference to hygiene in the food industry. THE JOURNAL OF APPLIED BACTERIOLOGY 1993; 75:499-511. [PMID: 8294303 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1993.tb01587.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 283] [Impact Index Per Article: 9.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- B Carpentier
- Laboratoire d'Etudes et de Recherches pour l'Alimentation Collective, Centre National d'Etudes Vétérinaires et Alimentaires, Paris, France
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Smalla K, Overbeek L, Pukall R, Elsas J. Prevalence of nptII and Tn5 in kanamycin-resistant bacteria from different environments. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 1993. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.1993.tb00050.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Binnerup SJÃ, Sørensen J. Long-term oxidant deficiency in Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO303 results in cells which are non-culturable under aerobic conditions. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 1993. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.1993.tb00053.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 15] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022] Open
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Guimarães VF, Araújo MAV, Mendonçla-hagler LCS, Hagler AN. Pseudomonas aeruginosa and other microbial indicators of pollution in fresh and marine waters of rio de janeiro, Brazil. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1993. [DOI: 10.1002/tox.2530080308] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/07/2022]
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Fani R, Damiani G, Di Serio C, Gallori E, Grifoni A, Bazzicalupo M. Use of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) for generating specific DNA probes for microorganisms. Mol Ecol 1993; 2:243-50. [PMID: 8167854 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-294x.1993.tb00014.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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We report the rapid generation of DNA probes for several Azospirillum strains. This method does not require any knowledge of the genetics and/or the molecular biology of the organism (genome) to be investigated. The procedure is based on the generation of random amplified polymorphic DNA (RAPD) fingerprints using primers with an embedded restriction site. The amplification product(s) peculiar to one strain or common to two or more strains can be purified, cloned, sequenced and used as molecular probes in hybridization experiments for the detection and identification of microorganisms. We have tested this methodology in the nitrogen-fixing bacterium Azospirillum by amplyfing the total DNA extracted from several Azospirillum strains. We have used amplification bands with different specificity as molecular probes in hybridization experiments performed on amplified DNA. Results obtained have demonstrated the usefulness of this methodology for Azospirillum. Its use in microbial ecology studies as a general strategy to generate specific DNA probes is also discussed.
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- R Fani
- Dipartimento di Biologia Animale e Genetica, Universitá degli Studi, Firenze, Italy
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Oren A, Gurevich P. Characterization of the dominant halophilic archaea in a bacterial bloom in the dead sea. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 1993. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.1993.tb00037.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 36] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Tumber VP, Robarts RD, Arts MT, Evans MS, Caldwell DE. The influence of environmental factors on seasonal changes in bacterial cell volume in two prairie saline lakes. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 1993; 26:9-20. [PMID: 24189984 DOI: 10.1007/bf00166025] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/19/1993] [Revised: 04/05/1993] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Bacterial biovolumes of hypertrophic Humboldt Lake (total dissolved solids = 3.3 g liter(-1); 6 m deep) and oligotrophic Redberry Lake (total dissolved solids = 20.9 g liter(-1); 17 m deep), Saskatchewan, were measured concurrently with a variety of environmental variables to identify the major factors correlated with volume changes. There was no difference (P > 0.05) in mean bacterial volume between Redberry Lake (0.084 ± 0.034 μm(3) SD) and Humboldt Lake (0.083 ± 0.021 μm(3) SD). Statistical analyses suggested there were marked differences in the factors associated with the pronounced seasonality of bacterial cell volumes in these two lakes. Variance in bacterial volume in the epilimnion of Redberry Lake was best explained by a multivariate regression model which included ciliate abundance and chlorophyll concentration (r (2) = 0.96). The model accounting for changes in hypolimnetic bacterial volume included ciliate numbers and primary production (r (2) = 0.94), of the measured variables. Bacterial volume in Humboldt Lake was most highly correlated with primary production (r (2) = 0.59). Bacterial production (estimated as the rate of thymidine incorporation into DNA) and growth (thymidine incorporation rate normalized to cell numbers) were not correlated to cell volume, with the exception of cocci volume in Humboldt Lake.
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- V P Tumber
- Environment Canada, National Hydrology Research Institute, 11 Innovation Blvd., S7N 3H5, Saskatoon, SK, Canada
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Kieft TL, Amy PS, Brockman FJ, Fredrickson JK, Bjornstad BN, Rosacker LL. Microbial abundance and activities in relation to water potential in the vadose zones of arid and semiarid sites. MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 1993; 26:59-78. [PMID: 24189989 DOI: 10.1007/bf00166030] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/03/1992] [Revised: 02/24/1993] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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Numbers and activities of microorganisms were measured in the vadose zones of three arid and semiarid areas of the western United States, and the influence of water availability was determined. These low-moisture environments have vadose zones that are commonly hundreds of meters thick. The specific sampling locations chosen were on or near U.S. Department of Energy facilities: the Nevada Test Site (NTS), the Idaho National Engineering Laboratory (INEL), and the Hanford Site (HS) in southcentral Washington State. Most of the sampling locations were uncontaminated, but geologically representative of nearby locations with storage and/or leakage of waste compounds in the vadose zone. Lithologies of samples included volcanic tuff, basalt, glaciofluvial and fluvial sediments, and paleosols (buried soils). Samples were collected aseptically, either by drilling bore-holes (INEL and HS), or by excavation within tunnels (NTS) and outcrop faces (paleosols near the HS). Total numbers of microorganisms were counted using direct microscopy, and numbers of culturable microorganisms were determined using plate-count methods. Desiccation-tolerant microorganisms were quantified by plate counts performed after 24 h desiccation of the samples. Mineralization of (14)C-labeled glucose and acetate was quantified in samples at their ambient moisture contents, in dried samples, and in moistened samples, to test the hypothesis that water limits microbial activities in vadose zones. Total numbers of microorganisms ranged from log 4.5 to 7.1 cells g(-1) dry wt. Culturable counts ranged from log <2 to 6.7 CFU g(-1) dry wt, with the highest densities occurring in paleosol (buried soil) samples. Culturable cells appeared to be desiccation-tolerant in nearly all samples that had detectable viable heterotrophs. Water limited mineralization in some, but not all samples, suggesting that an inorganic nutrient or other factor may limit microbial activities in some vadose zone environments.
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- T L Kieft
- Department of Biology, New Mexico Institute of Mining and Technology, 87801, Socorro, New Mexico, USA
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Colwell RR. Nonculturable but still viable and potentially pathogenic. ZENTRALBLATT FUR BAKTERIOLOGIE : INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY 1993; 279:154-6. [PMID: 8219487 DOI: 10.1016/s0934-8840(11)80392-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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Porter JF, Wardlaw AC. Long-term survival of Bordetella bronchiseptica in lakewater and in buffered saline without added nutrients. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1993; 110:33-6. [PMID: 8319892 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1993.tb06291.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 35] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023] Open
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Bordetella bronchiseptica grew from small inocula, and retained viability for at least 24 weeks, in unsupplemented lakewater or phosphate-buffered saline. From washed inocula of around 10(3) colony-forming units/ml, there was growth at both 10 degrees C and 37 degrees C to give 10(6)-10(7) colony-forming units/ml. At 10 degrees C, these counts were maintained with little diminution up to week 24 when observations ceased. In the tests at 37 degrees C, two of three strains tested showed similar retention of viability. These results suggest that B. bronchiseptica may exist as hitherto unsuspected reservoirs of infection in freshwater habitats.
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- J F Porter
- Department of Microbiology, University of Glasgow, UK
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Binnerup SJÃ, Jensen DF, Thordal-Christensen H, Sørensen J. Detection of viable, but non-culturable Pseudomonas fluorescens DF57 in soil using a microcolony epifluorescence technique. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 1993. [DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6941.1993.tb00021.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 58] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/29/2022] Open
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Liang OD, Ascencio F, Vazquez-Juarez R, Wadström T. Binding of collagen, fibronectin, lactoferrin, laminin, vitronectin and heparan sulphate to Staphylococcus aureus strain V8 at various growth phases and under nutrient stress conditions. ZENTRALBLATT FUR BAKTERIOLOGIE : INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY 1993; 279:180-90. [PMID: 7693072 DOI: 10.1016/s0934-8840(11)80396-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 14] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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We have examined how Staphylococcus aureus strain V8 cells interact with 125I-labelled extracellular matrix (ECM) and serum proteins (collagen type I and IV), fibronectin, lactoferrin, laminin, vitronectin, and heparan sulphate at various phases of the growth cycle. Maximal binding of these glycoproteins and heparan sulphate to the bacteria occurred after 17 to 20 h in the late stationary phase except for fibronectin-binding, which was maximal after 12 to 14 h. Binding of the glycoproteins and heparan sulphate to S. aureus V8 under nutrient stress conditions exhibited complex patterns based on different starving conditions and various binding ligands. In general, bacteria starved in distilled water and 0.02 M potassium phosphate buffer (pH 7.2) at room temperature showed high susceptibility to all binding ligands within the first 18 h, followed by entering a lower binding period (except for collagen-binding which still remained high). The binding was not correlated to cell surface charge or hydrophobicity of the bacteria. Furthermore, extracellular and cell-associated proteolytic activity of starved cells against ECM and serum proteins was found to be greater than for non-starved cells. Thus, S. aureus could sustain its ability to bind various connective tissue and cell surface components during a long period of time even in the absence of energy-yielding substrates.
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- O D Liang
- Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Lund, Sweden
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Martins MT, Sanchez PS, Sato MIZ, Brayton PR, Colwell RR. Detection of Vibrio cholerae O1 in the aquatic environment in Brazil employing direct immunofluorescence microscopy. World J Microbiol Biotechnol 1993; 9:390-2. [DOI: 10.1007/bf00383089] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/1992] [Accepted: 12/16/1992] [Indexed: 10/26/2022]
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Yu FP, Pyle BH, McFeters GA. A direct viable count method for the enumeration of attached bacteria and assessment of biofilm disinfection. J Microbiol Methods 1993; 17:167-80. [PMID: 11537721 DOI: 10.1016/0167-7012(93)90044-i] [Citation(s) in RCA: 33] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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This report describes the adaptation of an in situ direct viable count (in situ DVC) method in biofilm disinfection studies. The results obtained with this technique were compared to two other enumeration methods, the plate count (PC) and conventional direct viable count (c-DVC). An environmental isolate (Klebsiella pneumoniae Kp1) was used to form biofilms on stainless steel coupons in a stirred batch reactor. The in situ DVC method was applied to directly assess the viability of bacteria in biofilms without disturbing the integrity of the interfacial community. As additional advantages, the results were observed after 4 h instead of the 24 h incubation time required for colony formation and total cell numbers that remained on the substratum were enumerated. Chlorine and monochloramine were used to determine the susceptibilities of attached and planktonic bacteria to disinfection treatment using this novel analytical approach. The planktonic cells in the reactor showed no significant change in susceptibility to disinfectants during the period of biofilm formation. In addition, the attached cells did not reveal any more resistance to disinfection than planktonic cells. The disinfection studies of young biofilms indicated that 0.25 mg/l free chlorine (at pH 7.2) and 1 mg/l monochloramine (at pH 9.0) have comparable disinfection efficiencies at 25 degrees C. Although being a weaker disinfectant, monochloramine was more effective in removing attached bacteria from the substratum than free chlorine. The in situ DVC method always showed at least one log higher viable cell densities than the PC method, suggesting that the in situ DVC method is more efficient in the enumeration of biofilm bacteria. The results also indicated that the in situ DVC method can provide more accurate information regarding the cell numbers and viability of bacteria within biofilms following disinfection.
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- F P Yu
- Department of Microbiology, Montana State University, Bozeman 59717
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- A S Kaprelyants
- Bakh Institute of Biochemistry, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow
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Thom SM, Horobin RW, Seidler E, Barer MR. Factors affecting the selection and use of tetrazolium salts as cytochemical indicators of microbial viability and activity. THE JOURNAL OF APPLIED BACTERIOLOGY 1993; 74:433-43. [PMID: 7683637 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1993.tb05151.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 77] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/26/2023]
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The reduction of four tetrazolium cations (TCs), nitroblue tetrazolium (NBT), neotetrazolium (NT), methylthiazolyldiphenyltetrazolium (MTT) and iodonitrophenyltetrazolium (INT), by viable micro-organisms, immobilized on glass cover slips, was examined by light microscopy with a view to determining a systematic basis for applying these reagents as cytochemical indicators of microbial viability and activity. The potential value of histochemical information about TC reactions for developing their microbiological applications was also assessed. INT and MTT detected viable cells more readily than NBT and NT. In order to obtain cell-localized formazan, MTT required cobalt ions in the reaction mixture and INT reactions had to be assessed soon after mounting. In general, formazan deposition could be accelerated by the addition of glucose and an intermediate electron carrier (IEC) to the reaction mixture, although inhibitory effects of IECs were also detected. Cultures in exponential phase, in stationary phase and inhibited by chloramphenicol could be differentiated with MTT but not with INT. For some organisms, notably Candida albicans, Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Enterococcus faecalis. TC reactions proved to be a relatively insensitive means of demonstrating viability. Two parameters used in selecting TCs for histochemical reactions, lipophilicity and reducibility appeared to be predictive for the relative sensitivity of these reagents as indicators of cell viability. The concepts of substantivity, a measure of non-specific interactions between reagents and staining substrates, and TC oxygen sensitivity, the effect of competition between oxygen and TCs for electrons, were found to be relevant to formazan deposition in live microbes. These findings support the use of TCs as cytochemical probes of microbial activity in defined settings and the use of histochemical knowledge to support further development of these techniques.
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- S M Thom
- Department of Microbiology, University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
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Turpin PE, Maycroft KA, Rowlands CL, Wellington EM. Viable but non-culturable salmonellas in soil. THE JOURNAL OF APPLIED BACTERIOLOGY 1993; 74:421-7. [PMID: 8486550 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1993.tb05149.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 51] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/31/2023]
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An enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) and a microwell fluorescent antibody (FA) direct count method have been developed for the monitoring of salmonellas in soil. Both methods have a minimum detection level of ca 10(6) cells per gram of soil. The FA direct count method gave a linear recovery for the inoculum range 10(6)-10(9) cells per gram of soil. When monitored by plate counts the survival of salmonellas was greater in a sterile than in a non-sterile soil. Evidence was found for the production of viable but non-culturable salmonellas in non-sterile soil; plate counts dropped rapidly with time, but FA direct counts and ELISA remained level. The salmonella cells became progressively smaller and rounder with time. Dead salmonella cells introduced into soil rapidly disappeared.
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- P E Turpin
- Department of Biological Sciences, University of Warwick, Birmingham, UK
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Bacteria, very early in their history, developed protective 'shock responses', triggered when the organism was exposed to some acute environmental stress. At the heart of each response was the accelerated synthesis of both general and stimulus-specified intracellular proteins. So successful was this strategy that its basic mechanism and several of its components were highly conserved throughout the course of evolution. This was particularly true of heat shock proteins whose universal distribution has both good and bad consequences for man.
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Sobsey MD, Dufour AP, Gerba CP, LeChevallier MW, Payment P. Using a Conceptual Framework for Assessing Risks to Health From Microbes in Drinking Water. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 1993. [DOI: 10.1002/j.1551-8833.1993.tb05953.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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Cholera has been long associated with the seasonality of coastal algal blooms off Bangladesh. Using fluorescent antibody (FA) techniques, microbiologists have now identified a viable, non-cultivable form of Vibrio cholerae in a wide range of marine life, including cyanobacteria (Anabaena variabilis), diatoms (Skeletonema costatum), phaeophytes (Ascophyllum nodosum), in copepod molts, and in freshwater vascular aquatic plants (water hyacinths and duckweed). In unfavourable conditions V. cholerae assumes spore-like forms; with proper nutrients, pH and temperature, it reverts to a readily transmissible and infectious state. Nitrates and phosphates in sewage and fertilizers cause eutrophication, and scientists report an increase in intensity, duration and shifts in the biodiversity of algal blooms in many coastal, brackish and fresh waters worldwide. V. cholerae has been isolated from phyto- and zooplankton in marine and fresh waters near Lima, Peru. V. cholera 01, biotype El Tor, serotype Inaba, may have arrived in the Americas in the bilge of a Chinese freighter. There, in the abundant coastal sea life along the Latin American Pacific coast, nourished by the Humboldt current and eutrophication, it found a reservoir for surviving unfavourable conditions. It is hypothesized that the algae and Vibrio populations grew exponentially; consumed by fish, mollusks and crustacea, a heavy 'inoculum' of carriers infected with V. cholerae was generated and transported into multiple coastal communities.
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- P R Epstein
- Division of Social and Community Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Cambridge Hospital, MA 02139
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Rainey PB, Thompson IP, Moxon ER. Intraclonal Polymorphism in Bacteria. ADVANCES IN MICROBIAL ECOLOGY 1993. [DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4615-2858-6_6] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/07/2023]
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Strauch MA. Regulation of Bacillus subtilis gene expression during the transition from exponential growth to stationary phase. PROGRESS IN NUCLEIC ACID RESEARCH AND MOLECULAR BIOLOGY 1993; 46:121-53. [PMID: 8234782 DOI: 10.1016/s0079-6603(08)61020-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 01/29/2023]
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- M A Strauch
- Department of Molecular and Experimental Medicine, Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, California
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Straub TM, Pepper IL, Gerba CP. Hazards from pathogenic microorganisms in land-disposed sewage sludge. REVIEWS OF ENVIRONMENTAL CONTAMINATION AND TOXICOLOGY 1993; 132:55-91. [PMID: 8346362 DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4684-7065-9_3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 49] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/22/2023]
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Sewage sludge is a complex mixture of organic and inorganic compounds of biological and mineral origin that are precipitated from wastewater and sewage during primary, secondary, and tertiary sewage treatment. Present in these sludges are significant numbers of microorganisms that include viral, bacterial, protozoan, fungal, and helminth pathogens. The treatment of sludge to reduce biochemical oxygen demand, solids content, and odor is not always effective in reducing numbers of pathogens. This becomes a public health concern because the infectious dose for some of these pathogens may be as low as 1 particle (virus) to 50 organisms (Giardia). When sludge is applied to land for agricultural use and landfill compost, these pathogens can survive from days (bacteria) to months (viruses) to years (helminth eggs), depending on environmental conditions. Shallow aquifers can become contaminated with pathogens from sludge and, depending on groundwater flow, these organisms may travel significant distances from the disposal site. Communities that rely on groundwater for domestic use can become exposed to these pathogens, leading to a potential disease outbreak. Currently, methods to determine the risk of disease from pathogens in land-disposed sludge are inadequate because the sensitivity of pathogen detection is poor. The application of recombinant DNA technology (gene probes and polymerase chain reaction) to environmental samples may provide increased sensitivity for detecting specific pathogens in land-disposed sludge and greatly improved risk assessment models for our exposure to these sources of pathogens.
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- T M Straub
- Department of Soil and Water Science, University of Arizona, Tucson 85721
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Weichart D, Oliver JD, Kjelleberg S. Low temperature induced non-culturability and killing of Vibrio vulnificus. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1992; 100:205-10. [PMID: 1478457 DOI: 10.1111/j.1574-6968.1992.tb14041.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 59] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022] Open
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Vibrio vulnificus cells progressively lose culturability during incubation at 5 degrees C. This process is accelerated by the addition of supernatants from non-culturable cells obtained by incubation at 5 degrees C for 17 days. Thus the organism apparently produces a factor upon cold incubation which is triggering or causing the decline in culturability. Reversing the temperature shift can restore a culturable population comparable in numbers to the original population, but this process is largely due to regrowth. A few cells retaining the ability to grow apparently utilize the substrates released by the moribund cells, thus mimicking resuscitation of the whole population.
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- D Weichart
- Department of General and Marine Microbiology, University of Göteborg, Sweden
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Gottschal JC. Substrate capturing and growth in various ecosystems. SOCIETY FOR APPLIED BACTERIOLOGY SYMPOSIUM SERIES 1992; 21:39S-48S. [PMID: 1502600 DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2672.1992.tb03623.x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 22] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/27/2022]
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- J C Gottschal
- Department of Microbiology, Kerklaan, Haren, The Netherlands
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