This volume details methods and procedures used to detect and enumerate bacteria in food. Chapters guide readers through food and beverage matrices, techniques used to enumerate bacteria, mixed bacterial strains (naturally present or inoculated), yeast, viruses, protozoan in dis…
"A unique visual reference for the diagnostic microbiology laboratory Conceived by a team of authors with decades of classroom and laboratory experience, the Color Atlas of Medical Bacteriology includes more than 730 brilliant, four-color images of common pathogenic bacteria and…
Although invisible to the bare eye, bacterial cells are large enough to make complex decisions. Cells are composed of thousands of different molecular species including DNA, proteins, and smaller molecules, allowing them to sense their environment, to process this information, a…
Global patterns of biodiversity intrigue biologists to investigate their origins and common mechanisms and causes underlying the patterns through studies of evolutionary histories, processes, drivers that might have shaped the patterns of species diversification. The eastern Asi…
Polyfluoroalkyl and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) are highly stable organic compounds, which contain multiple carbon-fluorine bonds. They are used in various commercial products, including aqueous fire-fighting foams (AFFF) and products with non-stick coatings. However, thes…
The tuberculin skin test (TST) is the standard test for detecting latent tuberculosis infection. With the HIV epidemic and the resurgence of tuberculosis (TB), identifying and treating persons with latent infection has been found to be important to prevent the development of act…
Requirements for a molecular biology laboratory. General methods for isolating and characterizing nucleic acids. Enzymatic techniques and recombinant DNA technology. Restriction enzymes. Growth and maintenance of bacteria. Genomic cloning. Preparation and characterization of RNA…
Requirements for a molecular biology laboratory. General methods for isolating and characterizing nucleic acids. Enzymatic techniques and recombinant DNA technology. Restriction enzymes. Growth and maintenance of bacteria. Genomic cloning. Preparation and characterization of RNA…
Requirements for a molecular biology laboratory. General methods for isolating and characterizing nucleic acids. Enzymatic techniques and recombinant DNA technology. Restriction enzymes. Growth and maintenance of bacteria. Genomic cloning. Preparation and characterization of RNA…
by Cornelissen, Cynthia Nau, Hobbs, Marcia Metzgar
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Background: Critically ill patients are at particular risk of developing bloodstream infection. Such infections are associated with the development of sepsis, leading to a marked increase in mortality rate. Early detection of the causative organism and appropriate antibiotic tre…
The spatial spread of populations is one of the most visible and fundamental processes in population and community ecology. Due to the potential negative impacts of spatial spread of invasive populations, there has been intensive research into understanding the drivers of ecolog…
Determining the postmortem interval (PMI) remains one of the most important but challenging factors to establish in a suspicious death investigation. Unfortunately, as time passes current methods lose accuracy and only allow investigators to approximate how long ago death occurr…
A relatively new mosquitocidal strain of Bacillus thuringiensis, Bacillus thuringiensis jegathesan (Btj, strain 367), isolated from Malaysia was assayed for its larvicidal efficacy against field-derived early fourth-instar larvae of the southern house mosquito Culex quinquefasci…
Many thermophilic bacteria have now been identified. Only a few of these bacteria are alkalithermophiles, which grow at temperatures above 50°C and at pH levels above 8.0 In an effort to identify and characterize additional alkalithermophilic bacteria, 25 samples were collected …
