1 2 CONCENTRATION OF NOROVIRUS DURING WASTEWATER 3 TREATMENT AND THE IMPACT ON OYSTER CONTAMINATION 4 5 6 John Flannery, Sinéad Keaveney, Paulina Rajko-Nenow, Vincent O’Flaherty* 7 and William Doré 8 9 Marine Institute, Rinville, Oranmore, Co. Galway, Ireland. 10 *Microbial Ecology Laboratory, Microbiology, School of Natural Sciences, National 11 University of Ireland, Galway, Ireland 12 13 Run...

This is a descriptive study of a series of laboratory exercises on environmental microbiology carried out by students in a general microbiology course during eight of the twelve weeks of the semester. The revised laboratory component is predicated upon seawater and sediment samples collected by student pairs using marine sampling equipment on a field trip aboard a research vessel. Two longitudi...

CASPER H. A. VAN LEEUWEN* , †, , NAOMI HUIG*, GERARD VAN DER VELDE †, § , THEO A. VAN ALEN , CORNELIS A. M. WAGEMAKER** , CRAIG D. H. SHERMAN , MARCEL KLAASSEN ††, ‡‡, § § AND JORDI FIGUEROLA Aquatic Ecology, Netherlands Institute of Ecology, Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences (NIOO-KNAW), Wageningen, The Netherlands Radboud University Nijmegen, Institute for Water and Wetland Resea...

Beginning in 1993, an increase in clinical isolates of Mycobacterium abscessus was observed in a single hospital microbiology laboratory. This involved a cluster of four patients in June 1993 and five patients and a quality-control culture of distilled water in May 1994. Twenty-three M. abscessus isolates recovered between 1991 and 1996 were compared by random amplified polymorphic DNA polymera...