Thirty mercury-resistant (Hg R) Bacillus strains were isolated from mercury-polluted sediment of Minamata Bay, Japan. Mercury resistance phenotypes were classified into broad-spectrum (resistant to inorganic Hg(2+) and organomercurials) and narrow-spectrum (resistant to inorganic Hg(2+) and sensitive to organomercurials) groups. Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) product sizes and the restriction ...

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Héctor Mera,1,2,* Thomas G. Pedersen,2,3 and Branislav K. Nikolić1 1Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Delaware, Newark, Delaware 19716-2570, USA 2Department of Physics and Nanotechnology, Aalborg University, DK-9220 Aalborg East, Denmark 3Center for Nanostructured Graphene (CNG), DK-9220 Aalborg East, Denmark (Received 20 December 2015; revised manuscript received 21 August 201...

The cell envelopes of several species of nontuberculous mycobacteria, including the Mycobacterium avium complex, contain glycopeptidolipids (GPLs) as major glycolipid components. GPLs are highly antigenic surface molecules, and their variant oligosaccharides define each serotype of the M. avium complex. In the oligosaccharide portion of GPLs, the fucose residue is one of the major sugar moietie...

Mercury-resistant Aeromonas strains isolated from diarrhea were studied. Resistance occurs via mercuric ion reduction but merA and merR genes were only detected in some strains using PCR and dot hybridization. Results indicate a high variability in mer operons in Aeromonas. To our knowledge, this is the first report of mercury-resistant clinical Aeromonas strains.