Environmental microbiology utilizes indirect methods as microscopy and culture media to its studies. However, these conventional methodologies present problems to quantify and qualify microorganisms and their relation with the environment. The aim of this manuscript was to describe the application of fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) in environmental microbiology studies. It was discusse...

AS HRAE Jou rna l ash rae .o rg M a y 2 0 0 8 Michael D. Larrañaga, Ph.D., P.E., is Simplex Professor and department head of the School of Fire Protection and Safety at the Oklahoma State University, School of Fire Protection and Safety Engineering Technology, Stillwater, Okla. Mario G. Beruvides, Ph.D., P.E., is professor and director of the Center for Systems Solutions at Texas Tech Universit...

The majority of current biotechnological applications are of microbial origin, and it is widely appreciated that the microbial world contains by far the greatest fraction of biodiversity in the biosphere. Because of their biotech impact, numerous efforts are being undertaken worldwide, with an ultimate goal to deliver new usable substances of microbial origin to the marketplace. However, the di...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to determine whether unemployment and alcohol consumption were associated with different types of crime in Trinidad and Tobago. METHODS This study made use of secondary data from the Central Statistical Office of Trinidad and Tobago for the period 1990-1997. Pearson product moment correlations and stepwise multiple regression analysis were used to ident...

OBJECTIVES To describe the sources that active offenders in Trinidad and Tobago use to obtain firearms and report their motivations for obtaining them. To estimate relationships between gang involvement, drug selling, and firearm ownership (or possession). SETTING Port of Spain (Republic of Trinidad and Tobago). METHODS A cross-sectional research design was used to collect self-report data ...

4 Tarek M. Gibreel, Andrew R. Dodgson, John Cheesbrough, Frederick J. Bolton, 5 Andrew J. Fox and Mathew Upton 6 7 8 Microbiology and Virology Unit, School of Medicine, University of Manchester, Stopford 9 Building, Oxford Road, Manchester, M13 9PL, United Kingdom. Central Manchester 10 Foundation Trust, Oxford Road Manchester, Manchester, M13 9WL. Preston Microbiology 11 Services, Royal Presto...

listeria monocytogenes can cause serious infection and recently, relapse of listeriosis has been reported in leukemia and colorectal cancer, and the patients with klebsiella pneumoniae are at increased risk of colorectal cancer. translation initiation codon recognition is basically mediated by shine-dalgarno (sd) and the anti-sd sequences at the small ribosomal rna (ssu rrna). in this research,...