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Microbial electrochemical technologies: Electronic circuitry and characterization tools
(Elsevier, 2019-11-16)Microbial electrochemistry merges microbiology, electrochemistry and electronics to provide a set of technologies for environmental engineering applications. Understanding the electronic concepts is crucial for effectively ... -
Microbial electrosynthesis: Towards sustainable biorefineries for production of green chemicals from CO2 emissions
(Elsevier, 2020-12-01)Decarbonisation of the economy has become a priority at the global level, and the resulting legislative pressure is pushing the chemical and energy industries away from fossil fuels. Microbial electrosynthesis (MES) has ... -
Novel Multiplex Real-Time PCR Diagnostic Assay for Identification and Differentiation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Mycobacterium canettii, and Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex Strains
(Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 2011-02)Tuberculosis (TB) in humans is caused by members of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC). Rapid detection of the MTC is necessary for the timely initiation of antibiotic treatment, while differentiation between ... -
A Novel Multiplex Real-Time PCR for the Identification of Mycobacteria Associated with Zoonotic Tuberculosis
(PLoS ONE, 2011-08-09)Background: Tuberculosis (TB) is the leading cause of death worldwide from a single infectious agent. An ability to detect the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTC) in clinical material while simultaneously differentiating ... -
OpenTCC: An open source low-cost temperature-control chamber
(Elsevier, 2020-02-24)Microbial electrochemical technologies (MET) are emerging systems for environmental applications such as renewable energy production or pollution remediation. MET research often requires stable temperatures and low levels ... -
Opportunistic bacteria dominate the soil microbiome response to phenanthrene in a microcosm-based study
(Frontiers Media, 2018-11-21)Bioremediation offers a sustainable approach for removal of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) from the environment; however, information regarding the microbial communities involved remains limited. In this study, ... -
Organic waste biorefineries: Looking towards implementation
(Elsevier, 2020-07-16)The concept of biorefinery expands the possibilities to extract value from organic matter in form of either bespoke crops or organic waste. The viability of biorefinery schemes depends on the recovery of higher-value ... -
Pathogenic bacteria in our oceans' shellfish
(Microbiology Society, 2019-02)Mussels, oysters, clams – some of the most appetising culinary dishes, such as moules-frites, feature shellfish. These foods are considered healthy as they are fresh from the ocean, but looks can be deceiving. -
The performance of antimicrobial susceptibility testing programmes relevant to aquaculture and aquaculture products
(Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), 2019)Antimicrobial susceptibility testing of bacteria isolated from aquatic animals and their environments may be performed either as part of a monitoring or surveillance programme or to provide guidance for clinical treatments ... -
Propionate production by bioelectrochemically-assisted lactate fermentation and simultaneous CO2 recycling
(Frontiers Media, 2020-12-15)Production of volatile fatty acids (VFAs), fundamental building blocks for the chemical industry, depends on fossil fuels but organic waste is an emerging alternative substrate. Lactate produced from sugar-containing waste ... -
A rapid culture independent methodology to quantitatively detect and identify common human bacterial pathogens associated with contaminated high purity water
(BioMed Central, 2015-02-18)Water and High Purity Water (HPW) distribution systems can be contaminated with human pathogenic microorganisms. This biocontamination may pose a risk to human health as HPW is commonly used in the industrial, pharmaceutical ... -
Rapid screening for specific glycosylation and pathogen interactions on a 78 species avian egg white glycoprotein microarray
(Nature Research, 2017-07-25)There is an urgent need for discovery of novel antimicrobials and carbohydrate-based anti-adhesive strategies are desirable as they may not promote resistance. Discovery of novel anti-adhesive molecules from natural product ... -
Reproducible, high-yielding, biological caproate production from food waste using a single-phase anaerobic reactor system
(BMC (part of Springer Nature), 2018-03-11)Background: Nowadays, the vast majority of chemicals are either synthesised from fossil fuels or are extracted from agricultural commodities. However, these production approaches are not environmentally and economically ... -
A review of the shortcomings in the testing methods used and reporting of data in the literature on antimicrobial susceptibility
(European Association of Fish Pathologists, 2020-06-02)The susceptibility test protocols used in 186 published papers that reported 203 studies of the antimicrobial susceptibility of non-cholera Vibrio spp were examined. Only a very small percentage of the studies provided ... -
Role of alginate lyase in cell detachment of Pseudomonas aeruginosa
(American Society for Microbiology, 1994-07)The exopolysaccharide alginate of Pseudomonas aeruginosa was shown to be important in determining the degree of cell detachment from an agar surface. Nonmucoid strain 8822 gave rise to 50-fold more sloughed cells than ... -
Setting epidemiological cut-off values for bacteria isolated from aquatic animals: a toolbox for designing a 96-well plate for microdilution MIC assays
(European Association of Fish Pathologists, 2020-06-02)A workshop was held at the EAFP meeting in Porto to initiate discussion on the design of studies that could generate the data needed to set epidemiological cut-off values appropriate for application to antimicrobial ... -
Specificity and sensitivity evaluation of novel and existing Bacteroidales and Bifidobacteria-specific PCR assays on feces and sewage samples and their application for microbial source tracking in Ireland
(Elsevier, 2009)Three novel ruminant-specific PCR assays, an existing ruminant-specific PCR assay and five existing human-specific PCR assays, which target 16S rDNA from Bacteroidales or Bifidobacteria, were evaluated. The assays were ... -
Standard protocols for antimicrobial susceptibility testing of Vibrionaceae isolated from aquatic animals
(European Association of Fish Pathologists, 2018-07-18)A review of the relevant literature has shown that it is safe to recommend that the antimicrobial susceptibility of the species of the Vibrionaceae most commonly isolated from aquatic animals can be established using ... -
Systems-based approaches to unravel multi-species microbial community functioning
(Research Network of Computational and Structural Biotechnology, 2014-12-03)Some of the most transformative discoveries promising to enable the resolution of this century's grand societal challenges will most likely arise from environmental science and particularly environmental microbiology ... -
Temperature-dependent phenotypic variation of Campylobacter jejuni lipooligosaccharides
(2010-11)Background:Campylobacter jejuni is a major bacterial cause of food-borne enteritis, and its lipooligosaccharide (LOS) plays an initiating role in the development of the autoimmune neuropathy, Guillain-Barré syndrome, by ...