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Advances in Microbiology (AIM) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in Microbiology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of Microbiology. Al…
Ryo Hoshina, Yuko Fujiwara
The green ciliate, Paramecium bursaria , has evolved a mutualistic relationship with endosymbiotic green algae (photobionts). Under culture conditions, photobionts are usually unified (to be single species) within each P. bursaria strain. In most cases, the a…
Ayyasamy Mahalakshmi, Kabilan Sujatha, Poornima Kani, Rajaiah Shenbagarathai
Bacillus thuringiensis strains isolated from Madurai, TamilNadu, India were evaluated for their mosquitocidal activity, as well as cry and cyt genes diversity. It revealed that 99% of the parasporal crystal morphology of these isolates was spherical in nature…
Junko Nishimura, Tadao Saito, Hiroshi Yoneyama, Lan Lan Bai, Kazuhiko Okumura, Emiko Isogai
Caries is a disease of human dentition characterized by the loss of mineralized surfaces of the tooth; it is an infectious disease of the oral cavity in which biofilms play a causative role. Control of biofilms has traditionally relied on non-specific removal…
Qun Liang, Lingxia Zhang, Zeng Tu, Jingyu Wang, Tao Hu, Pengzhi Wang, Weili Wu, Qi Liu, Yanlin Zhao, Yan Li, Weijun Chen
To distinguish Mycobacterium tuberculosis from Mycobacterium avium , specific M. tuberculosis antigens had been studied for improving the early differential diagnosis effect of tuberculosis caused by different Mycobacterium . The rabbit anti- M. avium sera an…
Elsa Pinto, Natália Marques, Peter W. Andrew, M. Leonor Faleiro
Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen capable of surviving under challenging conditions both outside and inside the host. During the transition from exponential to stationary phase it experiences a series of environmental changes that require an appr…
Naofumi Shiomi, Emi Harada, Risako Nabeshima
Although Yarrowia lipolytica is an important host strain, there have so far been few studies on the production of glutathione by the strain. We therefore performed a study to obtain an improved strain of Y. lipolytica ATCC20688, which could produce a high yie…
Ahmed Ahmed, Henricus L. B. M. Klaasen, Mark van der Veen, Hans van der Linden, Marga G. A. Goris, Rudy A. Hartskeerl
Validated real-time PCRs detecting leptospires for veterinary purposes are not readily available. This paper describes the prospective evaluation of a SYBR Green-based real-time PCR on serum samples collected from experimentally infected dogs. Compared to cul…
Juan x Juan Aguirre, Carmen Bravo, Juan A. Ordóñez, Gonzalo García de Fernando
Many articles dealing with individual cell lag phase determination assume that growth, when observed, comes from one cell. This assumption is not in agreement with the Poisson distribution, which uses the probability of growth in a sample to predict how many…
Claudio Battiston Loureiro, Kleiton Silva Borges, Augusto Faria Andrade, Luiz Gonzaga Tone, Suraia Said
L-asparaginase is a chemotherapeutic drug used in the treatment of lymphoblastic leukemia. In the present study, the extracellular L-asparaginase produced by strain (PC-1.7A) of Aspergillus terreus was purified, characterized, and modified with polyethylene g…
Melissa S. Wilberger, Kate E. Anthony, Sasha Rose, Matt McClain, Luiz E. Bermudez
Nosocomial infections are frequent complications of hospitalization, caused by opportunistic pathogens that gain access to hosts undergoing invasive procedures, such as surgery, intubation, and placement of deep vein lines. Nosocomial infections in animal hos…
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Advances in Microbiology (AIM) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in Microbiology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of Microbiology. Al… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
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