Search results for "parasitology"

Determinants of the distribution of nitrogen-cycling microbial communities at the landscape-scale

2010

Little information is available regarding the landscape-scale distribution of microbial communities and its environmental determinants. However, a landscape perspective is needed to understand the relative importance of local and regional factors and land management for the microbial communities. In this manuscript, we investigated the distribution of functional microbial communities involved in N-cycling and of the total bacterial and crenarchaeal communities over 107 sites using a grid with a 16 km lag distance within Burgundy, a 31 500 km2 region in France. After quantifying the abundances of the total bacterial, crenarchaeal, nitrate-reducing, denitrifying and ammonia-oxidizing communit…

Relationships between Staphylococcus aureus genetic background, virulence factors, agr groups (alleles), and human disease

2002

ABSTRACT The expression of most Staphylococcus aureus virulence factors is controlled by the agr locus, which encodes a two-component signaling pathway whose activating ligand is an agr -encoded autoinducing peptide (AIP). A polymorphism in the amino acid sequence of the AIP and of its corresponding receptor divides S. aureus strains into four major groups. Within a given group, each strain produces a peptide that can activate the agr response in the other member strains, whereas the AIPs belonging to different groups are usually mutually inhibitory. We investigated a possible relationship between agr groups and human S. aureus disease by studying 198 S. aureus strains isolated from 14 asym…

Prevalence of Mycobacterium bovis in agroecosystems : analysis of potential environmental reservoirs (soil, fresh water, soil fauna and aquatic fauna…

2016

Bovine tuberculosis is an infectious disease caused by Mycobacterium bovis. This disease affects cattle, and many species of domestic and wild mammals, and humans. The circulation of the bacteria in various multi-host systems promotes the maintenance of the disease and the contamination of cattle in the vicinity. Beside direct transmission of the bacteria through the respiratory route, indirect transmission, through inhalation or ingestion of environmental matrices contaminated by an infected animal excretory, is suspected in several countries. Environmental contamination with M. bovis appears to be a crucial factor in the persistence of the infection in multi-host systems. In Côte d'Or, a …

Is oral microbiota linked to taste perception in human?

2022

The role of water in bacteria spore resistance

2016

Rôle et perspectives des études microbiologiques pour la sécurité alimentaire

2017

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Chương IV - VẤN ĐỀ SỬ DỤNG KHÁNG SINH TRONG CHĂN NUÔI VÀ TƯƠNG LAI CỦA NGHIÊN CỨU VI SINH VẬT ĐỐI VỚI AN TOÀN THỰC PHẨM

2016

Trung tâm Quy trình Thực phẩm và Vi sinh vật, AgroSup Dijon, Đại học Bourgogne-Franche Comté 4�1� GIỚI THIỆU Chăn nuôi là một ngành nông nghiệp được công nghiệp hóa rất nhiều trong những thập kỷ vừa qua. Những trang trại chăn nuôi có quy mô lớn dần thay đổi bức tranh hệ thống sản xuất nông nghiệp của nhiều nước trên thế giới, trong đó có Việt Nam. Lợi thế của sản xuất quy mô là tăng năng suất và giảm chi phí đơn vị trên đầu gia súc, hiệu quả cạnh tranh cao, đáp ứng nhu cầu của thị trường về số lượng. Thế nhưng điểm yếu là mức độ an toàn, do sử dụng thức ăn công nghiệp và do rủi ro dịch bệnh lây nhiễm. Một trong những vấn đề lớn là sử dụng kháng sinh trong chăn nuôi. Tại châu Âu, việc dùng k…

Influence of fermented food consumption on oral microbiota and taste perception

2022

Evolution of parasitism.

2019

Inactivation of PadR, the repressor of the phenolic acid stress response, by molecular interaction with Usp1, a universal stress protein from Lactoba…

2009

ABSTRACT The phenolic acid decarboxylase gene padA is involved in the phenolic acid stress response (PASR) in gram-positive bacteria. In Lactobacillus plantarum , the padR gene encodes the negative transcriptional regulator of padA and is cotranscribed with a downstream gene, usp1 , which encodes a putative universal stress protein (USP), Usp1, of unknown function. The usp1 gene is overexpressed during the PASR. However, the role and the mechanism of action of the USPs are unknown in gram-positive bacteria. Therefore, to gain insights into the role of USPs in the PASR; (i) a usp1 deletion mutant was constructed; (ii) the two genes padR and usp1 were coexpressed with padA under its own promo…