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  • Role of Plc in the germination of Clostridium perfringens food poisoning isolate SM101

    Creator:
    Bond, Colton B.
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    Clostridium perfringens is the causative agent of gas gangrene and the 3rd most common cause of type A food borne disease in the United States. Critical to the pathogenicity of C. perfringens is the ability of this bacterium to produce highly resistant, metabolically dormant spores that can resume metabolic function...
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    in the Germination of Clostridium perfringens Food Poisoning Isolate SM101 Abstract

  • Fecal Bacteroidetes host distributions and environmental source tracking

    Creator:
    Dick, Linda K.
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    Contamination of recreational and shellfish waters with fecal pollution is a major water quality issue with associated economic impacts and human health risks. Reliable fecal source identification and rapid, quantitative analyses are essential components of risk assessment. Enteric bacteria that are endemic to specific hosts have a potential role as...
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    . Joint Group of Experts on the Scientific Aspects of Marine Environmental Protection (GESAMP). United

  • Molecular basis for Clostridium perfringens spore resistance to heat and other environmental stress factors

    Creator:
    Raju, Deepa
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    Clostridium perfringens type A isolates producing enterotoxin (CPE) are an important cause of both food poisoning (FP) and non food borne gastrointestinal diseases (NFBGID) in both humans and animals. C. perfringens type A food poisoning is caused by isolates carrying the CPE encoding gene (cpe) on the chromosome while the...
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    ) are an important cause of both food poisoning (FP) and non food borne gastrointestinal diseases

  • Disease models and infectious phenotypes of Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis

    Creator:
    Everman, Jamie L.
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    Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) is the causative agent of Johne's disease, a chronic inflammatory bowel disease that affects ruminant populations worldwide. The characteristic stages of the disease make diagnosis difficult, resulting in silent transmission among animals in a herd for years before proper detection of the infection. The extensive...
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    (2014) Evaluation of eight live attenuated vaccine candidates for protection against challenge with

  • Advances in expression of heterologous protein products by Streptococcus gordonii

    Creator:
    Warren, Travis Kent
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    Streptococcus gordonii is a bacterial species that naturally colonizes the oral cavity of most healthy humans. It resides in the mouth as an adherent to dental surfaces and, with few exceptions, does not cause disease in individuals it inhabits. It possesses qualities that encourage its use as a vector to...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF Travis K. Warren for the

  • Mycobacterium avium genes upregulated upon infection of Acanthamoeba castellanii demonstrate a common response to the intracellular environment

    Creator:
    Tennant, Rachel C.
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    Mycobacterium avium is a ubiquitous environmental organism found in both water and soil. It can cause disease in patients with previous pulmonary conditions, as well as immunosupressed patients, with the most prevalent being AIDS patients. Studies have indicated that passage through amoeba, a common environmental protozoa, increases virulence of M....
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE THESIS OF Rachel Tennant for the degree of

  • Social Evolution and Regulatory Architecture of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Quorum Sensing

    Creator:
    Asfahl, Kyle L.
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    Cell-cell communication in bacteria is understood to facilitate the coordination of population-wide cooperative behavior in the form of concerted gene expression. The opportunistic pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa uses such a communication mechanism to regulate a large group of genes important to virulence strategies in this bacterium. This general mechanism of communication...
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    AN ABSTRACT OF THE DISSERTATION OF

  • Clostridium perfringens sporulation and gliding motility

    Creator:
    Huang, I-Hsiu
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    Clostridium perfringens type A isolates, an anaerobic enterotoxigenic spore forming bacterium, are the third leading cause of food-borne disease in the United States. Factors that contribute to the virulence of C. perfringens include the ability of the bacterium to form heat resistant spores and to produce an enterotoxin (CPE). Although...
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    spore forming bacterium, are the third leading cause of food-borne disease in the United States