E. coli O157:H7 is recognised as an important human pathogen world-wide and has been associated with diseases such as haemorrhagic colitis (HC), haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS) and thrombotic thrombocytopaenic purpura (TTP). Accurate laboratory detection of E. coli O157:H7 is important for diagnostic purposes and to justify epidemiological data on E. coli O157:H7. A well-known phenotypic char...

Jos e D. Anad on*, Osvaldo E. Sala and Fernando T. Maestre Department of Biology, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY 11367, USA; School of Life Sciences and School of Sustainability, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA; South American Institute for Resilience and Sustainability Studies, SARAS, Maldonado 20000, Uruguay; and Departamento de Biolog ıa y Geolog ıa,...

Characterization of community-level substrate utilization via incubation of environmental samples in BIOLOG microplates has been increasingly applied in many areas of microbial ecology. The easily-produced multivariate profile allows for intensive spatial and temporal analysis of microbial communities, and it is a sensitive and reproducible tool for characterizing microbial communities. This wo...

Understanding management factors driving soil biota is pivotal to improve the sustainability of cropping systems, especially given emergence new systems induced by bioeconomy. Here, we investigated combined effects tillage practices (tillage versus no-tillage) and contrasted including conventional, feed biogas on earthworm communities microbial metabolic activity diversity (using Biolog Ecoplat...

During a metal speciation study, an unusually high retention of lead ·was observed when lead solution was percolated through a column packed with sludge compost obtained from Hampton Roads Sanitation department. A bacterium was isolated from the sludge compost and identified as Bacillus sphaericus using electron microscopy, whole cell fatty acid analysis (Midi System) and Biolog GP Microplate. ...

kocho and bula are fermented product of enset (ensete ventricosum). it is the staple food for 20 million people in ethiopia. the aim of study was to isolate, identify and characterize yeast species from fermented kocho and bulla by using biolog micro station. 300 kocho samples were collected from angacha district. 0.1ml of serially diluted samples were streaked on yeast pepton dextrose agar and...

Kůdela V., Krejzar V., Pánková I. (2010): Pseudomonas corrugata and Pseudomonas marginalis associated with the collapse of tomato plants in rockwool slab hydroponic culture. Plant Protect. Sci., 46: 1-11. Plant pathogenic species Pseudomonas corrugata and P. marginalis were detected and determined in collapsed tomato plants in rockwool slab hydroponic culture in southern Moravia, Czech Republic...