Biocontrol of Gray Mold Decay in Pear by Bacillus amyloliquefaciens Strain BA3 and its Effect on Postharvest Quality Parameters

HUI QU*, LONGYU ZHAO*, FENGCHUN ZHAO, YUFANG LIU, ZHENGYOU YANG** Department of Microbiology, College of Life Science, Key Laboratory for Agriculture Microbiology, Shandong Agricultural University, Taian, China *These authors contributed equally. **Corresponding author: Z. Yang, Department of Microbiology, College of Life Science, Key Laboratory for Agriculture Microbiol...
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Interaction of Gram-Positive and Gram-Negative Bacteria with Ceramic Nanomaterials Obtained by Combustion Synthesis – Adsorption and Cytotoxicity Studies

ANDRZEJ BORKOWSKI1, FILIP OWCZAREK1, MATEUSZ SZALA2 and MAREK SELWET3* 1Faculty of Geology, University of Warsaw, Warsaw, Poland 2Faculty of Advanced Technologies and Chemistry, Military University of Technology, Warsaw, Poland 3Department of General and Environmental Microbiology, Poznan University of Life Sciences, Poznan, Poland *Corresponding author: Department of General...
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Microbial Glycosylation of Flavonoids

SANDRA SORDON*, JAROSŁAW POPŁOŃSKI and EWA HUSZCZA Faculty of Food Science, Department of Chemistry, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Wrocław, Poland *Corresponding author: S. Sordon, Wrocław University of Environmental and Life Sciences, Faculty of Food Science, Department of Chemistry, Wrocław, Poland; e-mail: sandra.sordon@up.wroc.pl. Submitted...
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Relationship between ureB Sequence Diversity, Urease Activity and Genotypic Variations of Different Helicobacter pylori Strains in Patients with Gastric Disorders

HOSSEIN GHALEHNOEI1,2,ALIREZA AHMADZADEH1,2, NASTARAN FARZI2, MASOUD ALEBOUYEH*2,3, HAMID ASADZADEH AGHDAEI3,4, PENDRAM AZIMZADEH, MAHSA MOLAEI3, and MOHAMMAD REZA ZALI*2,3 1Faculty of Medicine, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran 2Foodborne and Waterborne Diseases Research Center, Research Institute for Gastroenterology and Liver Diseases, Shahid B...
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Characterization of Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec (SCCmec) in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis Strains Isolated from Biomaterial-Associated Infections and their Antibiotic Resistance Patterns

EWA SZCZUKA1*, KAROLINA BOSACKA2 and ADAM KAZNOWSKI1 1Department of Microbiology, Institute of Experimental Biology, Faculty of Biology, Adam Mickiewicz University, Poznań, Poland 2Department of Microbiological and Laboratory Diagnostics, Bacteriological Laboratory, Regional Hospital in Poznań, Poznań, Poland *Corresponding authors: E. Szczuka, Department of Microbiology...
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Etiologic Agents and Antifungal Susceptibility of Oral Candidosis from Romanian patients with HIV-infection or type 1 diabetes mellitus

BOGDAN MINEA1, VALENTIN NASTASA2, ANNA KOLECKA3, MAGDALENA MARES4, NARCISA MARANGOCI1, IRINA ROSCA1, MARIANA PINTEALA1, MONICA HANCIANU5 and MIHAI MARES2* 1Institute of Macromolecular Chemistry “Petru Poni”, Advanced Research Centre for Bionanoconjugates and Biopolymers, Iasi, Romania 2“Ion Ionescu de la Brad” University, Laboratory of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Iasi, Roma...
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IgG Avidity: an Important Serologic Marker for the Diagnosis of Tick-Borne Encephalitis Virus Infection

TATJANA VILIBIC-CAVLEK1,2, LJUBO BARBIC3, VLADIMIR STEVANOVIC3, GORANKA PETROVIC4 and GORDANA MLINARIC-GALINOVIC1,2 1Department of Virology, Croatian National Institute of Public Health, Zagreb, Croatia 2School of Medicine University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia 3Department of Microbiology and Infectious Diseases with Clinic, Faculty of Veterinary Medicine University of Zagr...
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Enterobacter asburiae KUNi5, a Nickel Resistant Bacterium for Possible Bioremediation of Nickel Contaminated Sites

ANIRUDHA PAUL and SAMIR KUMAR MUKHERJEE* Department of Microbiology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, India *Corresponding author: S. K. Mukherjee, Department of Microbiology, University of Kalyani, Kalyani, India; e-mail: dr.samirmukherjee@gmail.com Submitted 6 February 2015, revised 25 May 2015, accepted 31 May 2015 DOI: 10.5604/17331331.1197284 Abstract Nickel res...
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Usefulness of CHROMagar Candida Medium, Biochemical Methods – API ID32C and VITEK 2 Compact and Two MALDI-TOF MS Systems for Candida spp. Identification

ELŻBIETA STEFANIUK1,2*, ANNA BARANIAK3, MONIKA FORTUNA1 and WALERIA HRYNIEWICZ1,2 1 Centre of Quality Control in Microbiology, Warsaw, Poland 2 Department of Epidemiology and Clinical Microbiology, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland 3 Department of Molecular Microbiology, National Medicines Institute, Warsaw, Poland *Corresponding author:  E. Stefaniuk, Centre...
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Antimicrobial Activity of Penicillin G and N-acetylcystein on Planktonic and Sessile Cells of Streptococcus suis

IVETTE ESPINOSA1, MICHEL BÁEZ1, EVELYN LOBO1, SIOMARA MARTÍNEZ1 and MARCELO GOTTSCHALK2 1Department of Microbiology, National Centre for Animal and Plant Health, José de Las Lajas Mayebeque, Cuba 2Groupe de Recherche sur les Maladies Infectieuses du Porc and Centre de Recherche en Infectiologie Porcine, Faculte de Medecine Veterinaire, Université de Montreal, St-Hyacinthe, ...
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