microbial ecology
Microbial Ecology and Antibiotic Susceptibility Profile of Germs Isolated from Hospital Surfaces and Medical Devices in a Reference Hospital in Douala (Cameroon)
... The investigated surfaces and medical devices of the Douala General Hospital were found to be highly contaminated by pathogenic environmental bacteria and certain yeasts; this allows us confirming the existence of a ...
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Natural environments, ancestral diets, and microbial ecology: is there a modern “paleo-deficit disorder”? Part II
... Famed microbiologist René J. Dubos (1901 – 1982) was an early pioneer in the developmental origins of health and disease (DOHaD) construct. In the 1960s, he conducted groundbreaking research concerning the ways in which ...
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Environmental and Spatial Factors Affecting Microbial Ecology and Metabolic Activity During the Initiation of Methanogenesis in Solid Waste
... Recommendations. This study confirms that observed bias is most likely caused by the sample processing method rather than an analytical artifact, sample variation or other confounding variable. It has been previously ...
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Microbial Ecology of Retail Ready-to-Eat Escarole and Red Chicory Sold in Palermo City, Italy
... According to the definition given by Food and Agricul- ture Organization and World Health Organization, RTE foods include any edible food that is commonly con- sumed raw (FAO and WHO, 2004). As RTE vegetables do not ...
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Understanding microbial ecology to improve management of drinking water distribution systems
... Molecular methods are based on the information contained in nucleic acids (DNA/RNA) and are useful tools to detect and monitor microorganisms in aquatic environments (Clark et al., 2018), including DWDS. Molecular ...
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Partial Formalization: An Approach for Critical Analysis of Definitions and Methods Used in Bulk Extraction Based Molecular Microbial Ecology
... natural microbial assemblages (NMA) by the use of bulk ...(the microbial community); (pool 5) viruses (virocells/virions/cryptic viral genomes); and (pool 6) extracellular nucleic acids including ...
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Bridging the Holistic-Reductionist Divide in Microbial Ecology
... microbial ecology. What is the role of the environment in shaping microbial diversity? How does microbial diversity lead to ecosystem functioning? Moreover, combining the three axes leads to ...
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Challenges in microbial ecology: building predictive understanding of community function and dynamics
... Traditionally, evolution has been ignored in ecolo- gical models, as it is assumed to occur only on long timescales. While this assumption might hold for animal and plant communities, ecological and evolutionary ...
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50 important research questions in microbial ecology
... on microbial life on land and water, and how do they differ? What are the mechanisms by which the gut microbiota protects its host from pathogens? What are the mechanisms used by mycoviruses to confer host fitness ...
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Molecular microbial ecology of hospital ward environments
... the microbial ecology of the intensive care environment and used culture to isolate fungi from environmental surfaces and ...the microbial ecology of sinks on the orthopaedic ward, focusing ...
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Direct Extraction of DNA from Soils for Studies in Microbial Ecology
... the microbial ecology of native ...the microbial community and results obtained using molecular phylogeny methods will not accurately describe the original native ...
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Changes in microbial ecology after fecal microbiota transplantation for recurrent C. difficile infection affected by underlying inflammatory bowel disease
... After fecal DNA isolation (MoBio, Carlsbad, CA fecal DNA kit), amplicons spanning the variable region 4 of bacterial 16S rRNA were generated and sequenced using Illumina MiSeq platform at the Mayo Clinic Medical Genome ...
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Molecular musings in microbial ecology and evolution
... In microbial ecology, a ‘ Phylogenetic Tree of Life ’ based on 16S rRNA genes inspired a taxonomic tool for the identification of microbes in order to infer physiologies from a gene sequence, rather than ...
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Microbial ecology research in New Zealand
... An arguably more unusual aspect of microbial ecology research in the Antarctic is the study of fungi that inhabit historical dwellings on Ross Island (Duncan et al. 2006, 2008, 2010; Farrell et al. 2011; ...
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Understanding microbial ecology to improve management of drinking water distribution systems
... Molecular methods are based on the information contained in nucleic acids (DNA/RNA) and are useful tools to detect and monitor microorganisms in aquatic environments (Clark et al., 2018), including DWDS. Molecular ...
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Next Generation Sequencing Technologies in Microbial Ecology. Frank Oliver Glöckner
... Promise of NGS: Much Denser Network of Data Phylogenetic diversity • Qualitative data • Quantitative data Functional diversity • Functional inventory • Operon structures • Expression [r] ...
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Natural environments, ancestral diets, and microbial ecology: is there a modern “paleo-deficit disorder”? Part I
... with microbial diversity, changed dietary habits (which, in turn, alter intestinal microbial diversity), and less fre- quency of the Stone Age nature experiences Dubos considered to be ...
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Molecular microbial ecology of contaminated marine sediment near Casey Station, Antarctica
... In summary, five conclusions can be drawn from this work: i DGGE with universal primers has a limited usefulness in monitoring sediment microbial communities ii multivariate statistical [r] ...
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Intrinsic Bioremediation of Gasoline-Contaminated Aquifers: Biodegradation Rate Measurement and Microbial Ecology
... Field monitoring results (Section 5, Borden et al., 1995) suggested that the various BTEX components biodegrade in a sequential process where toluene and o-xylene biodegrade first, fol[r] ...
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Rumen Microbial Ecology And Rumen-Derived Fatty Acids: Determinants Of And Relationship To Dairy Cow Production Performance
... Ruminal bacteria synthesize OBCFA for incorporation into their cell membranes (Kaneda, 1991). OCFA and iso-BCFA give bacteria a biological advantage with melting points 1-2°C lower than straight-chain FA with n-1 atoms ...
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