BACKGROUND We report a case of mucormycosis in a healthy 17-year-old accident victim with multiple abdominal injuries which was caused by infection with Absidia Corymbifera, a ubiquitous saphrophyte in the ground. CASE PRESENTATION The patient was admitted to hospital with massive abdominal trauma. During an 8-hour emergency operation he received transfusions of compacted red blood cells, pla...

Biosensor technology has a great potential to meet the need for sensitive and nearly real-time microbial detection from foods. An antibody-based fiber-optic biosensor to detect low levels of Listeria monocytogenes cells following an enrichment step was developed. The principle of the sensor is a sandwich immunoassay where a rabbit polyclonal antibody was first immobilized on polystyrene fiber w...

The antigenic relationships among members of the different groups of Enterobacteriaceae have been widely studied. The most extensive and systematic research was carried out by Kampelmacher (Antonie van Leeuwenhoek, J. Microbiol. Serol. 25:289. 1959). Studies on crossreactions between members of the genera Hafnia and Shigella, however, have not been published. From the feces of a young boy, pres...

The anti-inflammatory effects of anthocyanins (ACNs) on vascular functions are discussed controversially because of their low bioavailability. This study was performed to determine whether microorganism (MO)-fermented ACNs influence vascular inflammation in vitro. Therefore, MO growth media were supplemented with an ACN-rich grape/berry extract and growth responses of Escherichia coli, E. faeca...

Arginine decarboxylase (encoded by adi) is induced under conditions of acidic pH, anaerobiosis, and rich medium. The DNA sequence of a 3-kb fragment of the Escherichia coli chromosome encoding biodegradative arginine decarboxylase was determined. This sequence encodes a protein of 755 amino acids with a molecular size of 84,420 daltons. The molecular weight and predicted Adi amino acid composit...

We calculate the quasiparticle defect states and charge transition levels (CTLs) of oxygen vacancies in monoclinic hafnia using density functional theory (DFT) and the GW method. We introduce the criterion that the quality and reliability of CTLs may be evaluated by calculating the same CTL via two physical paths and show that it is necessary to include important electrostatic corrections previ...