Cover (and back side), Alexa488-APEC staining (green) of the adenosine A 2A receptor in living Chinese hamster ovary cell transiently transfected with pcDNA3 A 2A R as well as pAS β-arrestin2-RFP (red).

Avian Pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) has been studied for decades because of its economic impact on the poultry industry. Recently, the zoonotic potential of APEC and multidrug-resistant strains have emerged. The aim of this study was to characterize 225 APEC isolated from turkeys presenting airsacculitis. The results showed that 92% of strains presented a multidrug-resistance (MDR), and th...

During the 2014 APEC Conference, there was a long presence of blue sky (APEC Blue) after a long-time occurrence of hazy weather in Beijing, China, which prompted the public’s attention to heavy-polluting enterprises to reach a new peak. Will the public’s negative concern about the incident will affect the operation of heavy-polluting enterprises? In this paper, we analyzed the influence of the ...

Background and Aim: Probiotics are beneficial microorganisms for humans animals. In this study, we developed a microencapsulated probiotic with antibacterial activity against avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC). Materials Methods: Alignment of the 16S rRNA sequences isolate WU222001 those deposited in GenBank revealed that was Pediococcus acidilactici 99.6% homology. This bacterium charact...

Bacteria can change its lifestyle during inhabiting in host niches where they survive and replicate by rapidly altering gene expression pattern to accommodate the new environment. In this study, two novel regulators in avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) were identified and designated as AutA and AutR. RT-PCR and β-galactosidase assay results showed that AutA and AutR co-regulated the expr...

The measurement of impediments to trade in services within the APEC region is addressed in this paper. This work builds upon major methodological and practical issues encountered in measuring such impediments in the 1995 PECC Survey of Impediments to Trade and Investment in the APEC Region. Conceptual and measurement issues in deriving partial equilibrium estimates of the effects of service tra...

Infections caused by avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) cause important economic losses to poultry industry. The studies presented herein, aimed at investigating the in vivo performance of a cocktail of three phages in treating severe respiratory E. coli infections in experimentally contaminated birds and naturally infected flocks. Three lytic coliphages, phi F78E (Myoviridae), phi F258E ...