Public health labs and food regulatory agencies globally are embracing whole genome sequencing (WGS) as a revolutionary new method that is positioned to replace numerous existing diagnostic and microbial typing technologies with a single new target: the microbial draft genome. The ability to cheaply generate large amounts of microbial genome sequence data, combined with emerging policies of foo...

Predictive microbiology is an emerging research domain in which biological and mathematical knowledge is combined to develop models for the prediction of microbial proliferation in foods. To provide accurate predictions, models must incorporate essential factors controlling microbial growth. Current models often take into account environmental conditions such as temperature, pH and water activi...

Due to plastics resilience against degradation and its proliferation in. An extremely halotolerant bacterial consortium MPD-M, immobilized.The hypothesis is that if PE-degrading microorganisms do exist in the Nature, then it will be possible to isolate them and use them for degradation of plastic bags. A microbial consortium capable of PE degradation was obtained as a result of.Selection and sc...

Advancement in high throughput DNA sequencing technologies has supported a rapid proliferation of microbial genome sequencing projects, providing the genetic blueprint for in-depth studies. Oftentimes, difficult to sequence regions in microbial genomes are ruled "intractable" resulting in a growing number of genomes with sequence gaps deposited in databases. A procedure was developed to sequenc...

Metalworking fluids provide an excellent environment for the growth and proliferation of a variety of bacteria and fungi. Historically, the incidence of infectious disease outbreaks at metalworking facilities has been rare. Consequently the primary focus of microbial contamination control efforts has been to prevent fluid biodeterioration. Research conducted over the past decade increasingly su...

Alpha-enolase, also called non-neuronal enolase, belongs to a family of cytoplasmic and glycolytic enzymes. In addition to its glycolytic function, alpha-enolase exerts many other functions in eukaryotes and prokaryotes. Antibodies (Abs) against alpha-enolase have been detected in a large variety of infectious and autoimmune diseases. These Abs might arise as a consequence of a microbial infect...

Long-term maintenance of the memory T-cell response is the hallmark of immune protection and, hence, constitutes one of the most important objectives of vaccine-development strategies. Persistent memory T cells, developed after vaccination or microbial infections, ensure the generation of an antimicrobial response upon re-exposure to the pathogen through rapid clonal proliferation and activatio...

The benzonitrile herbicides bromoxynil, chloroxynil, dichlobenil, and ioxynil have been used actively worldwide to control weeds in agriculture since 1970s. Even though dichlobenil is prohibited in EU since 2008, studies addressing the fate of benzonitrile herbicides in the environment show that some metabolites of these herbicides are very persistent. We tested the cytotoxic effects of benzoni...

Insect and microbial pathogens pose an eternal challenge to our crop plants, developing novel ways to tap into food reservoirs. A multitude of management strategies have been tailored to control their proliferation, but the approaches have been successful only at high cost. Pesticide and fungicide usage has been a method of choice, but a newly emerging alternative in disease management is to en...