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Open AccessThe management of grapevine downy mildew: from anti-resistance strategies to innovative approaches for fungicide resistance monitoring
Efficient grapevine downy mildew control necessitates the implementation of anti-resistance strategies to ensure the ongoing efficacy of available substances and optimal disease control. With the gradual disap...
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Virus-like particles isolated from reactivated biological soil crusts
A novel method was developed for virus-like particle (VLP) extraction and characterization from biological soil crust (BSC) after microbial community reactivation. The method consisted of a single cell analysi...
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Study of the Adhesion of Bifidobacterium bifidum MIMBb75 to Human Intestinal Cell Lines
The aim of this study was to investigate the adhesive phenotype of the human intestinal isolate Bifidobacterium bifidum MIMBb75 to human colon carcinoma cell lines. We have previously shown that the adhesion of t...
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Open AccessFluorescent-BOX-PCR for resolving bacterial genetic diversity, endemism and biogeography
BOX-A1R-based repetitive extragenic palindromic-PCR (BOX-PCR) is one of the most used techniques in biogeography studies of microbial isolates. However the traditional separation of BOX-PCR patterns by agarose...
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Generation and Comparison of Bioluminescent and Fluorescent Bacillus licheniformis
The environmental bacterium Bacillus licheniformis was transformed with two different shuttle-vectors (pCSS810 and pGFPratiometric) containing insect luciferase and green fluorescent prote...
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Complete nucleotide sequence of pGS18, a 62.8-kb plasmid from Geobacillus stearothermophilus strain 18
The complete nucleotide sequence (62.8 kb) of pGS18, the largest sequenced plasmid to date from the species Geobacillus stearothermophilus, was determined. Computational analysis of sequence data revealed 65 puta...
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Identification andin silico characterisation of putative conjugative transfer genes onGeobacillus stearothermophilus plasmids
We repor the first data demonstrating the presence of putative conjugative transfer genes on plasmids of the speciesGeobacillus stearothermophilus. Partial sequence analysis of the plasmid pGS18 fromG. stearother...
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Molecular characterization of Bifidobacterium longum biovar longum NAL8 plasmids and construction of a novel replicon screening system
In this study, we performed molecular characterization and sequence analysis of three plasmids from the human intestinal isolate Bifidobacterium longum biovar longum NAL8 and developed a novel vector screening sy...
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Conditions affecting cell surface properties of human intestinal bifidobacteria
The cell surface properties of human intestinal bifidobacteria have been characterized for 30 strains isolated from a fecal sample. Strain identification to the species level was obtained by restriction analys...
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Development of Genus/Species-Specific PCR Analysis for Identification of Carnobacterium Strains
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Multilocus Hybridization Ty** in Pediococcus acidilactici Strains