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    Effect of starvation on survival and virulence expression of Aeromonas hydrophila from different sources

    Aeromonas hydrophila is an aquatic bacterium responsible for several human illnesses. The aim of this work was to investigate the survival ability and virulence expression of two strains from dif...

    Anna Casabianca, Chiara Orlandi, Federica Barbieri in Archives of Microbiology (2015)

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    Role of Biofilm in Protection of the Replicative Form of Legionella pneumophila

    The dual nature of Legionella pneumophila enables its survival in free and intracellular environments and underpins its infection and spread mechanisms. Experiments using bacterial cultures and improved RTqPCR pr...

    Elisa Andreozzi, Andrea Di Cesare, Luigia Sabatini, Elisa Chessa in Current Microbiology (2014)

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    Comparative Effect of Chlorhexidine and Some Mouthrinses on Bacterial Biofilm Formation on Titanium Surface

    The aim of the present study was to evaluate the effectiveness of chlorhexidine digluconate (CHX) and commonly used mouthrinses to single- and poly-species biofilms by S. mutans, S. aureus and P. aeruginosa, on t...

    Wally Baffone, Gianfranco Sorgente, Raffaella Campana in Current Microbiology (2011)

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    Shape based kinetic outlier detection in real-time PCR

    Real-time PCR has recently become the technique of choice for absolute and relative nucleic acid quantification. The gold standard quantification method in real-time PCR assumes that the compared samples have ...

    Davide Sisti, Michele Guescini, Marco BL Rocchi, Pasquale Tibollo in BMC Bioinformatics (2010)

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    A new real-time PCR method to overcome significant quantitative inaccuracy due to slight amplification inhibition

    Real-time PCR analysis is a sensitive DNA quantification technique that has recently gained considerable attention in biotechnology, microbiology and molecular diagnostics. Although, the cycle-threshold (Ct) meth...

    Michele Guescini, Davide Sisti, Marco BL Rocchi, Laura Stocchi in BMC Bioinformatics (2008)

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    Cultivation of Edible Ectomycorrhizal Fungi by in Vitro Mycorrhizal Synthesis

    Giovanna Maria Giomaro, Davide Sisti in In Vitro Culture of Mycorrhizas (2005)