Interest in probiotics is at an all-time high in the United States, driven in part by new products emerging in the market, by US researchers eager to evaluate efficacy claims rigorously, and by consumers interested in potential therapeutic and preventive health benefits. The US marketplace is a mixed bag of products, some well-defined and properly evaluated in…
Recently we have developed cutting edge abilities to access a plasmid population (plasmidome) of a given microbial community, and applied them to rumen microbial communities.8, 2015 /PRNewswire/ - This report addresses the global market for microbes and microbial products used in commercial applications during the period from 2014 through Increasing demand for…
About VFDB: The virulence factor database (VFDB) is an integrated and comprehensive online resource for curating information about virulence factors of bacterial pathogens. Since its inception in 2004, VFDB has been dedicated to providing up-to-date knowledge of VFs from various medically significant bacterial pathogens. The motivation for constructing VFDB was…
As Branden and I said in WTF Episode 2, Lactic Acid Bacteria is a very general name for a class of bacteria that are gram-positive, non-sporing, non-respiring, round or rod in shape bacteria, which produce lactic acid as a major end product during the fermentation of carbohydrates. Phew, thatГўВЂВ™s a long definition. Maybe we should just focus on one term at a…
Despite your morning shower, trillions of bacteria linger on your skin. Trillions more took up permanent residence in your gut at birth. In fact, contact with your mother’s vaginal fluids provided your bacterial preparation for life on this earth. This bacterial exposure at birth may be a contributor to the decreased incidence of asthma, allergies, and celiac…
7] cfu/g of microorganism colonies have grown in each biofilter cassette.A nearly ten-fold increase in AFLP citations in the scientific literature in the past five years is an indication of its wide acceptance as a useful DNA fingerprinting technique in the plant science area and its growing use for identifying microorganisms in other areas.It s much easier to…
The number of species of bacteria and archaea is surprisingly small, despite their early evolution, genetic, and ecological diversity. Learning Objective Describe the concept of polyphasic species Key Points The differences in species concepts between the Bacteria and macro-organisms, the difficulties in growing/characterising in pure culture (a prerequisite…
