Rapid Methods and Automation in Microbiology are dynamic fields of study that address the utilization of microbiological, chemical, biochemical, biophysical, immunological and serological methods for the study of improving isolation, early detection, characterization and enumeration of microorganisms and their products in clinical, food, industrial and environmental samples. This overview provi...

*Author for correspondence. White-brined cheeses are widely produced in the North-east Mediterranean area and the Balkans. Traditionally, they were manufactured as artisanal cheeses, and nowadays they are manufactured on an industrial scale, and rigorous control of the production and maturation processes is essential. Aspects of the microbiology of white-brined cheeses and their significance wi...

1Austrian Centre of Industrial Biotechnology ACIB, 8010 Graz, Austria 8 2 Institute of Environmental Biotechnology, University of Natural Resources and Life Sciences, 9 Vienna, 3430 Tulln, Austria 10 3 Microbiology Group, Research Area Biotechnology and Microbiology, Institute of Chemical 11 Engineering, Vienna University of Technology, 1060 Vienna, Austria. 12 4 Institute of Biotechnology, Uni...

4 Xishan Lu, Yi Shi, Feng Gao, Haixia Xiao, Ming Wang, Jianxun Qi and George 5 F Gao 6 7 College of Veterinary Medicine, China Agricultural University, Beijing 100193, China 8 CAS Key Laboratory of Pathogenic Microbiology and Immunology, Institute of 9 Microbiology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China 10 National Laboratory of Biomacromolecules, Institute of Biophysics, Chinese A...

In the face of shortage of fossil fuel supplies and climate warming triggered by excessive carbon dioxide emission, alternative resources for chemical industry have gained considerable attention. Renewable resources and their derivatives are of particular interest. Glycerol, which constitutes one of the by-products during biodiesel production, is such a substrate. Thus, generated excess glycero...

4 Agata M. Pudlik and Juke S. Lolkema 5 6 1 Top Institute Food and Nutrition, Wageningen, The Netherlands. 2 Molecular Microbiology, 7 Groningen Biomolecular Sciences and Biotechnology Institute, University of Groningen, 8 Groningen, The Netherlands. 3 The Kluyver Centre for Genomics of Industrial Fermentations 9 / NCSB, Delft, The Netherlands. 10 11 * correspondence 12 J.S. Lolkema, Center for...

Many countries strive to reduce the emissions of nitrogen compounds (ammonia, nitrate, NOx) to the surface waters and the atmosphere. Since mainstream domestic wastewater treatment systems are usually already overloaded with ammonia, a dedicated nitrogen removal from concentrated secondary or industrial wastewaters is often more cost-effective than the disposal of such wastes to domestic wastew...

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infections of the cerebrospinal shunts and other neurosurgical structures are not uncommon in the clinical practice. these infections are mostly clinical emergencies carrying negative prognostic impacts on the patients as well as spending healthcare resources. the low pathogenicity nature of some implicated pathogens results in minimal physical signs that may complicate the diagnosis and mislea...