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A designed experiments approach to optimizing MALDI-TOF MS spectrum processing parameters enhances detection of antibiotic resistance in Campylobacter jejuni
(Frontiers Media, 2016)
MALDI-TOF MS has been utilized as a reliable and rapid tool for microbial fingerprinting at the genus and species levels. Recently, there has been keen interest in using MALDI-TOF MS beyond the genus and species levels to ...
Molecular characterization of the 16S rRNA Gene of helicobacter fennelliae isolated from stools and blood cultures from paediatric patients in South Africa
(Hindawi, 2011)
Forty strains of H. fennelliae collected from paediatric blood and stool samples over an 18 year period at a children's hospital in
Cape Town, South Africa, were amplified by PCR of the 16S rRNA. Two distinct genotypes ...
Multilocus sequence typing methods for the emerging Campylobacter species C. hyointestinalis, C. lanienae, C. sputorum, C. concisus, and C. curvus
(Frontiers Media, 2012)
Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) systems have been reported previously for multiple food - and food animal-associated Campylobacter species (e.g., C. jejuni, C. coli, C. lari, and C. fetus) to both differentiate strains ...
The Institute for Microbial Biotechnology and Metagenomics 2009
(UWC, 2010-01)
The IMBM Brochure (2009) provides a summary of the staffing, activities and outputs of the Institute for the 2009 academic year
Micro-Eukaryotic diversity in Hypolithons from Miers Valley, Antarctica
(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2013)
The discovery of extensive and complex hypolithic communities in both cold and hot deserts has raised many questions regarding their ecology, biodiversity and relevance in terms of regional productivity. However, most ...
Hypolithic and soil microbial community assembly along an aridity gradient in the Namib Desert
(Springer, 2013)
The Namib Dessert is considered the oldest desert in the world and hyperarid for the last 5 million years. However, the environmental buffering provided by quartz and other translucent rocks supports extensive hypolithic ...
Selection of diazotrophic bacterial communities in biological sand filter mesocosms used for the treatment of phenolic-laden wastewater
(Springer Verlag, 2013)
Agri effluents such as winery or olive mill waste-waters are characterized by high phenolic concentrations. These compounds are highly toxic and generally refractory to biodegradation. Biological sand filters (BSFs) represent ...
Engineering pyruvate decarboxylase-mediated ethanol production in the thermophilic host Geobacillus thermoglucosidasius
(Springer Verlag, 2013)
This study reports the expression, purification, and kinetic characterization of a pyruvate decarboxylase (PDC) from Gluconobacter oxydans . Kinetic analyses showed the enzyme to have high affinity for pyruvate (120 μM at ...
Characterisation of the arsenic resistance genes in Bacillus sp. UWC isolated from maturing fly ash acid mine drainage neutralised solids
(Academy of Science of South Africa, 2010)
An arsenic resistant Bacillus sp. UWC was isolated from fly ash acid mine drainage (FA-AMD)
neutralised solids. A genomic library was prepared and screened in an arsenic sensitive mutant
Escherichia coli strain for the ...