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Full-Text Articles in Microbial Physiology
The Evolution Of Host Specificity In The Vertebrate Gut Symbiont Lactobacillus Reuteri, Steven Frese
The Evolution Of Host Specificity In The Vertebrate Gut Symbiont Lactobacillus Reuteri, Steven Frese
Department of Food Science and Technology: Dissertations, Theses, and Student Research
The vertebrate gut is home to one of the densest populations of life on Earth. This microbial community has a profound effect on host health, nutrition, development, behavior, and evolution. However, very little is known about how these microbes have evolved with their vertebrate hosts, how and whether they select hosts or how they remain associated with their hosts. Recent work identified Lactobacillus reuteri as an organism that is composed of host-specific sub-populations, each population associated with a different host animal. Representatives from each host-associated population were tested for their ability to colonize gnotobiotic mice, which only rodent strains could …
Regulation Of To Xin Synthesis By Clostridium Difficile, Charles Darkoh
Regulation Of To Xin Synthesis By Clostridium Difficile, Charles Darkoh
Dissertations and Theses (Open Access)
Clostridium difficile is the leading definable cause of nosocomial diarrhea worldwide due to its virulence, multi-drug resistance, spore-forming ability, and environmental persistence. The incidence of C. difficile infection (CDI) has been increasing exponentially in the last decade. Virulent strains of C. difficile produce either toxin A and/or toxin B, which are essential for the pathogenesis of this bacterium. Current methods for diagnosing CDI are mostly qualitative tests that detect the bacterium, the toxins, or the toxin genes. These methods do not differentiate virulent C. difficile strains that produce active toxins from non-virulent strains that do not produce toxins or produce …
Antifungal Activity Of Lactobacillus Against Microsporum Canis, Microsporum Gypseum And Epidermophyton Floccosum, Jiahui Guo, Brid Brosnan, Ambrose Furey, Elke K. Arendt, Padraigin Murphy
Antifungal Activity Of Lactobacillus Against Microsporum Canis, Microsporum Gypseum And Epidermophyton Floccosum, Jiahui Guo, Brid Brosnan, Ambrose Furey, Elke K. Arendt, Padraigin Murphy
Department of Biological Sciences Publications
A total of 220 lactic acid bacteria isolates were screened for antifungal activity using Aspergillus fumigatus and Aspergillus niger as the target strains. Four Lactobacillus strains exhibited strong inhibitory activity on agar surfaces. All four were also identified as having strong inhibitory activity against the human pathogenic fungi Microsporum canis, Microsporum gypseum and Epidermophyton floccosum. One of the four lactobacilli, namely Lb. reuteri ee1p exhibited the most inhibition against dermatophytes. Cell-free culture supernatants of Lb. reuteri ee1p and of the non-antifungal Lb. reuteri M13 were freeze-dried and used to access and compare antifungal activity in agar plate assays …