Applied and Environmental Microbiology

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  Año 2006, Vol. 72, Número 9

  • Comparison of Four Different Culture Media for Isolation and Growth of Type II and Type I/Ill Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis Strains Isolated from Cattle and Goats

    Julio Álvarez, Ana Isabel Mateos García, Alicia Aranaz Martín, Elena Castellanos, Lucas José Domínguez Rodríguez, Javier Bezos Garrido, Beatriz Romero, Lucía de Juan Ferré

    págs. 5927-5932

    

  • Microbially Mediated Biodegradation of Hexahydro-1,3,5-Trinitro-1,3,5-Triazine by Extracellular Electron Shuttling Compounds

    Kevin T. Finneran

    págs. 5933-5941

    

  • Detection of Cryptosporidium Oocysts in Water: Effect of the Number of Samples and Analytic Replicates on Test Results

    Kerri A. Alderisio

    págs. 5942-5947

    

  • Application of the [³H]Leucine Incorporation Technique for Quantification of Bacterial Secondary Production Associated with Decaying Wetland Plant Litter

    Robert K. Neely, Jane E. Gillies, Kevin A. Kuehn, Steven N. Francoeur

    págs. 5948-5956

    

  • Abundance of narG, nirS, nirK, and nosZ Genes of Denitrifying Bacteria during Primary Successions of a Glacier Foreland

    David Bru, Kathrin Deiglmayr, Laurent Philippot, Dagmar Tscherko, Ellen Kandeler

    págs. 5957-5962

    

  • Microbial Communities in the Surface Mucopolysaccharide Layer and the Black Band Microbial Mat of Black Band-Diseased Siderastrea siderea

    Laurie L. Richardson, Elizabeth R. Remily, Joshua D. Voss, Raju Sekar, DeEtta K. Mills

    págs. 5963-5973

    

  • Survival of Environmental Mycobacteria in Acanthamoeba polyphaga

    Didier Raoult, Michel Drancourt, Mohamed Khlif, Toïdi Adékambi, Skandar Ben Salah

    págs. 5974-5981

    

  • Comparison of Two Fingerprinting Techniques, Terminal Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism and Automated Ribosomal Intergenic Spacer Analysis, for Determination of Bacterial Diversity in Aquatic Environments

    B. Pietrangeli, Antonio Dell' Anno, Gian M. Luna, Roberto Danovaro

    págs. 5982-5989

    

  • Molecular Monitoring of the Fecal Microbiota of Healthy Human Subjects during Administration of Lactulose and Saccharomyces boulardii

    Jean Swings, Evie De Brandt, Vicky De Preter, Tom Vanhoutte, Geert Huys, Kristin Verbeke

    págs. 5990-5997

    

  • Effects of Chloromethanes on Growth of and Deletion of the pce Gene Cluster in Dehalorespiring Desulfitobacterium hafniense Strain Y51

    Kensuke Furukawa, Shun-ichi Nakayama, Takehito Yamaguchi, Masatoshi Goto, Taiki Futagami

    págs. 5998-6003

    

  • Environmental Influences on Vibrio Populations in Northern Temperate and Boreal Coastal Waters (Baltic and Skagerrak Seas)

    Stefan Bertilsson, Mona Johansson, Alexander Eiler

    págs. 6004-6011

    

  • Lysine-Oriented Charges Trigger the Membrane Binding and Activity of Nukacin ISK-1

    Kenji Sonomoto, Sikder M. Asaduzzaman, Jun-ichi Nagao, Jiro Nakayama, Yuji Aso

    págs. 6012-6017

    

  • Halotolerant Cyanobacterium Aphanothece halophytica Contains a Betaine Transporter Active at Alkaline pH and High Salinity

    Aran Incharoensakdi, Rungaroon Waditee, Teruhiro Takabe, Yoshito Tanaka, Surasak Laloknam, Takashi Hibino, Teerapong Buaboocha, Kimihiro Tanaka

    págs. 6018-6026

    

  • Relevance of the Endosymbiosis of Blochmannia floridanus and Carpenter Ants at Different Stages of the Life Cycle of the Host

    Roy Gross, Evelyn Zientz, Ivo Beyaert, Heike Feldhaar

    págs. 6027-6033

    

  • Novel Intermediates of Acenaphthylene Degradation by Rhizobium sp. Strain CU-A1: Evidence for Naphthalene-1,8-Dicarboxylic Acid Metabolism

    Sarunya Paengthai, Amorn Petsom, Thanyanuch Kriangkripipat, Kobchai Pattaragulwanit, Siriwat Poonthrigpun, Kanchana Juntongjin, Suthep Thaniyavarn, Pairoh Pinphanichakarn

    págs. 6034-6039

    

  • Rapid Quantitative Detection of Lactobacillus sakei in Meat and Fermented Sausages by Real-Time PCR

    María Teresa Aymerich Calvet, Margarita Garriga, Belén Martín, María Pla, Anna Jofré Fradera

    págs. 6040-6048

    

  • Optimization of Analytical Parameters for Inferring Relationships among Escherichia coli Isolates from Repetitive-Element PCR by Maximizing Correspondence with Multilocus Sequence Typing Data

    Tony L. Goldberg, Randall S. Singer, Thomas R. Gillespie

    págs. 6049-6052

    

  • Two 2[5H]-Furanones as Possible Signaling Molecules in Lactobacillus helveticus

    Francesca Patrignani, Maurice Ndagijimana, Rosalba Lanciotti, Fabrizio Cappa, Melania Vallicelli, M. Elisabetta Guerzoni, P. Sandro Cocconcelli

    págs. 6053-6061

    

  • Characterization of (R)-2-Hydroxyisocaproate Dehydrogenase and a Family III Coenzyme A Transferase Involved in Reduction of L-Leucine to Isocaproate by Clostridium difficile

    Daniel Darley, Wolfgang Buckel, Thorsten Selmer

    págs. 6062-6069

    

  • An Oxidoreductase Is Involved in Cercosporin Degradation by the Bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. zinniae

    Thomas K. Mitchell, Margaret E. Daub, Tanya V. Taylor

    págs. 6070-6078

    

  • Inhibition of Fungal Colonization by Pseudoalteromonas tunicata Provides a Competitive Advantage during Surface Colonization

    Suhelen Egan, Ashley E. Franks, C. Holmström, S. Kjelleberg, H. Lappin-Scott, S. James

    págs. 6079-6087

    

  • Multicopy Integration of Heterologous Genes, Using the Lactococcal Group II Intron Targeted to Bacterial Insertion Sequences

    Helen Rawsthorne, David A. Mills, Kevin N. Turner

    págs. 6088-6093

    

  • Assay of Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate) Depolymerase Activity and Product Determination

    Birgit Gebauer, Dieter Jendrossek

    págs. 6094-6100

    

  • Detection of Microcystin-Producing Cyanobacteria in Finnish Lakes with Genus-Specific Microcystin Synthetase Gene E (mcyE) PCR and Associations with Environmental Factors

    Kaarina Sivonen, Liisa Lepistö, Pirjo Rajaniemi-Wacklin, Christina Lyra, Joanna Mankiewicz-Boczek, Anne Rantala, Jukka A. Rintala

    págs. 6101-6110

    

  • Visible-Light-Induced Bactericidal Activity of a Nitrogen-Doped Titanium Photocatalyst against Human Pathogens

    págs. 6111-6116

    

  • Biotyping of Enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus by Enterotoxin Gene Cluster (egc) Polymorphism and spa Typing Analyses

    Vincenzina Fusco, Christof von Eiff, Giuseppe Blaiotta, Karsten Becker, Francesco Villani

    págs. 6117-6123

    

  • Evaluation of Freeze-Dried Kefir Coculture as Starter in Feta-Type Cheese Production

    J. S. G. Dooley, P. Kandylis, Y. Kourkoutas, P. Panas, Athanasios A. Koutinas, P. Nigam

    págs. 6124-6135

    

  • Genetic Distinctions among Clinical and Environmental Strains of Vibrio vulnificus

    Katrina Gordon, Anita C. Wright, Valerie J. Harwood, Maria Chatzidaki-Livanis, Michael A. Hubbard

    págs. 6136-6141

    

  • Comparison of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium LT2 and Non-LT2 Salmonella Genomic Sequences, and Genotyping of Salmonellae by Using PCR

    págs. 6142-6151

    

  • Associations between the Ecology of Virulent Rhodococcus equi and the Epidemiology of R. equi Pneumonia on Australian Thoroughbred Farms

    J. R. Gilkerson, G. A. Anderson, G. Muscatello, G. F. Browning

    págs. 6152-6160