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Public Health Microbiology:

Evaggelos Dedepsidis, Zaharoula Kyriakopoulou, Vaia Pliaka, Christine Kottaridi, Eugenia Bolanaki, Stamatina Levidiotou-Stefanou, Dimitri Komiotis, and Panayotis Markoulatos

Retrospective Characterization of a Vaccine-Derived Poliovirus Type 1 Isolate from Sewage in Greece
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6697-6704. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Sarah Lebeer, Tine L. A. Verhoeven, Mónica Perea Vélez, Jos Vanderleyden, and Sigrid C. J. De Keersmaecker

Impact of Environmental and Genetic Factors on Biofilm Formation by the Probiotic Strain Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6768-6775. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Diana Axelsson-Olsson, Patrik Ellström, Jonas Waldenström, Paul D. Haemig, Lars Brudin, and Björn Olsen

Acanthamoeba-Campylobacter Coculture as a Novel Method for Enrichment of Campylobacter Species
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6864-6869. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Woutrina A. Miller, David J. Lewis, Michael Lennox, Maria G. C. Pereira, Kenneth W. Tate, Patricia A. Conrad, and Edward R. Atwill

Climate and On-Farm Risk Factors Associated with Giardia duodenalis Cysts in Storm Runoff from California Coastal Dairies
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6972-6979. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Feifei Han, Robert D. Walker, Marlene E. Janes, Witoon Prinyawiwatkul, and Beilei Ge

Antimicrobial Susceptibilities of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio vulnificus Isolates from Louisiana Gulf and Retail Raw Oysters
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 7096-7098. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Microbial Ecology:

Aspasia A. Nisiotou, Apostolos E. Spiropoulos, and George-John E. Nychas

Yeast Community Structures and Dynamics in Healthy and Botrytis-Affected Grape Must Fermentations
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6705-6713. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Karin Holmfeldt, Mathias Middelboe, Ole Nybroe, and Lasse Riemann

Large Variabilities in Host Strain Susceptibility and Phage Host Range Govern Interactions between Lytic Marine Phages and Their Flavobacterium Hosts
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6730-6739. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Jinjun Kan, Marcelino T. Suzuki, Kui Wang, Sarah E. Evans, and Feng Chen

High Temporal but Low Spatial Heterogeneity of Bacterioplankton in the Chesapeake Bay
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6776-6789. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Byron C. Crump, Cherie Peranteau, Barbara Beckingham, and Jeffrey C. Cornwell

Respiratory Succession and Community Succession of Bacterioplankton in Seasonally Anoxic Estuarine Waters
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6802-6810. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Christina Bremer, Gesche Braker, Diethart Matthies, Andreas Reuter, Christof Engels, and Ralf Conrad

Impact of Plant Functional Group, Plant Species, and Sampling Time on the Composition of nirK-Type Denitrifier Communities in Soil
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6876-6884. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Delita Zul, Sabine Denzel, Andrea Kotz, and Jörg Overmann

Effects of Plant Biomass, Plant Diversity, and Water Content on Bacterial Communities in Soil Lysimeters: Implications for the Determinants of Bacterial Diversity
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6916-6929. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Sabine Jähnichen, Tilo Ihle, Thomas Petzoldt, and Jürgen Benndorf

Impact of Inorganic Carbon Availability on Microcystin Production by Microcystis aeruginosa PCC 7806
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6994-7002. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Susanne Hinck, Thomas R. Neu, Gaute Lavik, Marc Mussmann, Dirk de Beer, and Henk M. Jonkers

Physiological Adaptation of a Nitrate-Storing Beggiatoa sp. to Diel Cycling in a Phototrophic Hypersaline Mat
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 7013-7022. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Noah Fierer, Mya Breitbart, James Nulton, Peter Salamon, Catherine Lozupone, Ryan Jones, Michael Robeson, Robert A. Edwards, Ben Felts, Steve Rayhawk, Rob Knight, Forest Rohwer, and Robert B. Jackson

Metagenomic and Small-Subunit rRNA Analyses Reveal the Genetic Diversity of Bacteria, Archaea, Fungi, and Viruses in Soil
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 7059-7066. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Seth D'Imperio, Corinne R. Lehr, Michele Breary, and Timothy R. McDermott

Autecology of an Arsenite Chemolithotroph: Sulfide Constraints on Function and Distribution in a Geothermal Spring
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 7067-7074. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Weiduo Si, Joshua Gong, Yanming Han, Hai Yu, John Brennan, Huaijun Zhou, and Shu Chen

Quantification of Cell Proliferation and Alpha-Toxin Gene Expression of Clostridium perfringens in the Development of Necrotic Enteritis in Broiler Chickens
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 7110-7113. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Methods:

John Löfblom, Julia Sandberg, Henrik Wernérus, and Stefan Ståhl

Evaluation of Staphylococcal Cell Surface Display and Flow Cytometry for Postselectional Characterization of Affinity Proteins in Combinatorial Protein Engineering Applications
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6714-6721. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Mareike Warkentin, Heike M. Freese, Ulf Karsten, and Rhena Schumann

New and Fast Method To Quantify Respiration Rates of Bacterial and Plankton Communities in Freshwater Ecosystems by Using Optical Oxygen Sensor Spots
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6722-6729. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Mirjam Kaestli, Mark Mayo, Glenda Harrington, Felicity Watt, Jason Hill, Daniel Gal, and Bart J. Currie

Sensitive and Specific Molecular Detection of Burkholderia pseudomallei, the Causative Agent of Melioidosis, in the Soil of Tropical Northern Australia
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6891-6897. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Gitta Schlosser, Petr Kacer, Marek Kuzma, Zoltán Szilágyi, Alida Sorrentino, Carla Manzo, Rosa Pizzano, Livia Malorni, and Gabriella Pocsfalvi

Coupling Immunomagnetic Separation on Magnetic Beads with Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry for Detection of Staphylococcal Enterotoxin B
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6945-6952. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Ekaterina Paramonova, Ed D. de Jong, Bastiaan P. Krom, Henny C. van der Mei, Henk J. Busscher, and Prashant K. Sharma

Low-Load Compression Testing: a Novel Way of Measuring Biofilm Thickness
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 7023-7028. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Katarzyna Hupert-Kocurek, Jay M. Sage, Magdalena Makowska-Grzyska, and Jon M. Kaguni

Genetic Method To Analyze Essential Genes of Escherichia coli
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 7075-7082. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Christian U. Riedel, Pat G. Casey, Heidi Mulcahy, Fergal O'Gara, Cormac G. M. Gahan, and Colin Hill

Construction of p16Slux, a Novel Vector for Improved Bioluminescent Labeling of Gram-Negative Bacteria
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 7092-7095. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Food Microbiology:

Lilia Macovei and Ludek Zurek

Influx of Enterococci and Associated Antibiotic Resistance and Virulence Genes from Ready-To-Eat Food to the Human Digestive Tract
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6740-6747. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Borja Sánchez, Marie-Christine Champomier-Vergès, Birgitte Stuer-Lauridsen, Patricia Ruas-Madiedo, Patricia Anglade, Fabienne Baraige, Clara G. de los Reyes-Gavilán, Eric Johansen, Monique Zagorec, and Abelardo Margolles

Adaptation and Response of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis to Bile: a Proteomic and Physiological Approach
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6757-6767. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Thi Thu Hao Van, George Moutafis, Taghrid Istivan, Linh Thuoc Tran, and Peter J. Coloe

Detection of Salmonella spp. in Retail Raw Food Samples from Vietnam and Characterization of Their Antibiotic Resistance
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6885-6890. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Autumn S. Downey and Thaddeus K. Graczyk

Maximizing Recovery and Detection of Cryptosporidium parvum Oocysts from Spiked Eastern Oyster (Crassostrea virginica) Tissue Samples
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6910-6915. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

G. Licitra, J. C. Ogier, S. Parayre, C. Pediliggieri, T. M. Carnemolla, H. Falentin, M. N. Madec, S. Carpino, and S. Lortal

Variability of Bacterial Biofilms of the "Tina" Wood Vats Used in the Ragusano Cheese-Making Process
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6980-6987. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Gillian E. Gardiner, Mary C. Rea, Brid O'Riordan, Paula O'Connor, Sheila M. Morgan, Peadar G. Lawlor, P. Brendan Lynch, Michael Cronin, R. Paul Ross, and Colin Hill

Fate of the Two-Component Lantibiotic Lacticin 3147 in the Gastrointestinal Tract
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 7103-7109. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Plant Microbiology:

Xiang Yang Shi, C. Korsi Dumenyo, Rufina Hernandez-Martinez, Hamid Azad, and Donald A. Cooksey

Characterization of Regulatory Pathways in Xylella fastidiosa: Genes and Phenotypes Controlled by algU
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6748-6756. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Emmanuel Wicker, Laurence Grassart, Régine Coranson-Beaudu, Danièle Mian, Caroline Guilbaud, Mark Fegan, and Philippe Prior

Ralstonia solanacearum Strains from Martinique (French West Indies) Exhibiting a New Pathogenic Potential
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6790-6801. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Alexandra Koumoutsi, Xiao-Hua Chen, Joachim Vater, and Rainer Borriss

DegU and YczE Positively Regulate the Synthesis of Bacillomycin D by Bacillus amyloliquefaciens Strain FZB42
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6953-6964. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Siobain Duffy and Edward C. Holmes

Multiple Introductions of the Old World Begomovirus Tomato yellow leaf curl virus into the New World
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 7114-7117. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Invertebrate Microbiology:

Verena-Ulrike Lietze, Christopher J. Geden, Patrick Blackburn, and Drion G. Boucias

Effects of Salivary Gland Hypertrophy Virus on the Reproductive Behavior of the Housefly, Musca domestica
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6811-6818. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

John T. Wertz and John A. Breznak

Stenoxybacter acetivorans gen. nov., sp. nov., an Acetate-Oxidizing Obligate Microaerophile among Diverse O₂-Consuming Bacteria from Termite Guts
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6819-6828. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

John T. Wertz and John A. Breznak

Physiological Ecology of Stenoxybacter acetivorans, an Obligate Microaerophile in Termite Guts
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6829-6841. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Yajun Yang, Haiyan Chen, Yidong Wu, Yihua Yang, and Shuwen Wu

Mutated Cadherin Alleles from a Field Population of Helicoverpa armigera Confer Resistance to Bacillus thuringiensis Toxin Cry1Ac
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6939-6944. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Physiology and Biotechnology:

Chung-Jung Chou, Keith R. Shockley, Shannon B. Conners, Derrick L. Lewis, Donald A. Comfort, Michael W. W. Adams, and Robert M. Kelly

Impact of Substrate Glycoside Linkage and Elemental Sulfur on Bioenergetics of and Hydrogen Production by the Hyperthermophilic Archaeon Pyrococcus furiosus
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6842-6853. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Hisashi Yazawa, Hitoshi Iwahashi, Yasushi Kamisaka, Kazuyoshi Kimura, Tsunehiro Aki, Kazuhisa Ono, and Hiroshi Uemura

Heterologous Production of Dihomo--Linolenic Acid in Saccharomyces cerevisiae
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6965-6971. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Orianna Bretschger, Anna Obraztsova, Carter A. Sturm, In Seop Chang, Yuri A. Gorby, Samantha B. Reed, David E. Culley, Catherine L. Reardon, Soumitra Barua, Margaret F. Romine, Jizhong Zhou, Alexander S. Beliaev, Rachida Bouhenni, Daad Saffarini, Florian Mansfeld, Byung-Hong Kim, James K. Fredrickson, and Kenneth H. Nealson

Current Production and Metal Oxide Reduction by Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 Wild Type and Mutants
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 7003-7012. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Clare E. Reimers, Hilmar A. Stecher, III, John C. Westall, Yvan Alleau, Kate A. Howell, Leslie Soule, Helen K. White, and Peter R. Girguis

Substrate Degradation Kinetics, Microbial Diversity, and Current Efficiency of Microbial Fuel Cells Supplied with Marine Plankton
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 7029-7040. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Yigang Xu and Yijing Li

Induction of Immune Responses in Mice after Intragastric Administration of Lactobacillus casei Producing Porcine Parvovirus VP2 Protein
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 7041-7047. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

M. Helanto, K. Kiviharju, M. Leisola, and A. Nyyssölä

Metabolic Engineering of Lactobacillus plantarum for Production of L-Ribulose
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 7083-7091. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Environmental Microbiology:

Paolo Antonioli, Silvia Lampis, Irene Chesini, Giovanni Vallini, Sara Rinalducci, Lello Zolla, and Pier Giorgio Righetti

Stenotrophomonas maltophilia SeITE02, a New Bacterial Strain Suitable for Bioremediation of Selenite-Contaminated Environmental Matrices
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6854-6863. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Benjamin K. Amos, Youlboong Sung, Kelly E. Fletcher, Terry J. Gentry, Wei-Min Wu, Craig S. Criddle, Jizhong Zhou, and Frank E. Löffler

Detection and Quantification of Geobacter lovleyi Strain SZ: Implications for Bioremediation at Tetrachloroethene- and Uranium-Impacted Sites
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6898-6904. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Supplemental material] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Frank Ludwig, Anja Medger, Hilmar Börnick, Michael Opitz, Kathrin Lang, Michael Göttfert, and Isolde Röske

Identification and Expression Analyses of Putative Sesquiterpene Synthase Genes in Phormidium sp. and Prevalence of geoA-Like Genes in a Drinking Water Reservoir
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6988-6993. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Jennifer A. Ufnar, Shiao Y. Wang, David F. Ufnar, and R. D. Ellender

Methanobrevibacter ruminantium as an Indicator of Domesticated-Ruminant Fecal Pollution in Surface Waters
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 7118-7121. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Biodegradation:

Kevin McClay, Charles E. Schaefer, Simon Vainberg, and Robert J. Steffan

Biodegradation of Bis(2-Chloroethyl) Ether by Xanthobacter sp. Strain ENV481
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6870-6875. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Jonathan O. Sharp, Christopher M. Sales, Justin C. LeBlanc, Jie Liu, Thomas K. Wood, Lindsay D. Eltis, William W. Mohn, and Lisa Alvarez-Cohen

An Inducible Propane Monooxygenase Is Responsible for N-Nitrosodimethylamine Degradation by Rhodococcus sp. Strain RHA1
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6930-6938. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Geomicrobiology:

Karen J. Murray, Samuel M. Webb, John R. Bargar, and Bradley M. Tebo

Indirect Oxidation of Co(II) in the Presence of the Marine Mn(II)-Oxidizing Bacterium Bacillus sp. Strain SG-1
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 6905-6909. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Mycology:

Viviana Nagy, Verena Seidl, George Szakacs, Monika Komon-Zelazowska, Christian P. Kubicek, and Irina S. Druzhinina

Application of DNA Bar Codes for Screening of Industrially Important Fungi: the Haplotype of Trichoderma harzianum Sensu Stricto Indicates Superior Chitinase Formation
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 7048-7058. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

Enzymology and Protein Engineering:

Kengo Yasuhira, Yasuhito Tanaka, Hiroshi Shibata, Yasuyuki Kawashima, Akira Ohara, Dai-ichiro Kato, Masahiro Takeo, and Seiji Negoro

6-Aminohexanoate Oligomer Hydrolases from the Alkalophilic Bacteria Agromyces sp. Strain KY5R and Kocuria sp. Strain KY2
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. 2007 73: 7099-7102. [Abstract] [Full Text] [PDF] [Reprints and Permissions]  

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