This research focused on the evaluation of potential use a soil-isolated bacteria, identified as Staphylococcus equorum, for microbial-induced calcite precipitation (MICP) and copper removal. Isolated bacteria were characterized considering growth rate, urease activity, calcium carbonate precipitation, tolerance minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) precipitation. Results compared with Sporosa...

AIM Development of a nested-PCR single strand conformation polymorphism (SSCP) assay targeting the 16S rRNA genes of the Staphylococcus genus, to monitor staphylococci in cheese. METHODS AND RESULTS New primer sets to specifically amplify 16S rDNA of staphylococci were designed to be used in a nested-PCR SSCP assay. The method was efficient in discriminating the staphylococcal species most fr...

In this study, 217 edible nut samples have been investigated regarding Staphylococcus aureus and coagulase-negative staphylococci (CNS). S. aureus was isolated in 26 (11.98%) samples, whereas CNS were isolated in 98 (45.16%) samples. Number of samples for different isolated CNS species was as follows: S. arlettae 19 (8.76%), S. saprophyticus 14 (6.45%), S. xylosus 12 (5.53%), S. epidermis 11 (5...

Transglutaminases (E.C. 2.3.3.13) are a family of Ca(2+)-dependent enzymes that stabilize protein structure by catalyzing the formation of isopeptide bonds. A novel form of transglutaminase has been identified and characterized that seem to play an important role in growth, development, and molting in adult and larval stages of filarial nematodes. The aim of this study was to identify the ubiqu...

This study was conducted to determine the prevalence and significance of parasites of horses in northern Nigeria. Blood and faecal samples were randomly collected from 243 horses from different stables in some states of northern Nigeria for laboratory analyses. Fifty-seven horses (23.5%) were found infected with parasites. The hemoparasites detected, 21 (8.6%), include Theileria equi, Babesia c...

Chromatin diminution in the nematodes Parascaris equorum and Ascaris lumbricoides leads to the formation of somatic cells that contain less DNA than the germ-line cells. We present molecular evidence for the coding potential of germ-line-specific DNA. We report on a cDNA clone that codes for a putative ribosomal protein (ALEP-1, for A. lumbricoides eliminated protein 1). That the corresponding ...

Many metagenomic sequencing studies have observed the presence of closely related bacterial species or genotypes in the same microbiome. Previous attempts to explain these patterns of microdiversity have focused on the abiotic environment, but few have considered how biotic interactions could drive patterns of microbiome diversity. We dissected the patterns, processes, and mechanisms shaping th...

Volume 7, no 5, https://doi.org/10.1128/mBio.01157-16, 2016. In the Results section (PDF page 7), two errors were made in Fig. 3 that might cause confusion but do not change the major conclusions of the work. In Fig. 3E, labels that were intended to indicate the base pair position of genes in the staphyloferrin B operon along a contig in the Staphylococcus equorum BC9 genome were floating above...