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Creator:: Boin, Markus A.
Abstract:: The ability to move towards favorable environmental conditions, called chemotaxis, is common among motile bacteria. In particular aerotaxis has been extensively studied in Escherichia coli. Three putative aer gene homologs were identified in the V. cholerae genome designated VCAer-1 (VC0512) VCAer-2 (VCA0658), and VCAer-3 (VCA0988). Deletion analyses indicated that only...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: particularly aerotaxis in the biology of V. cholerae, including its environmental and infectious life stages

Creator:: Petersen, Carolyn A.
Abstract:: Standard methods of measuring fecal pollution in water do not distinguish between human and non-human sources. Molecular technology enabled the development of host-specific markers that distinguish fecal sources. Human specific PCR primers, HF183F and HF134F, were designed based on phylogenetic analyses of partial 16S rRNA gene sequences from the Bacteroidales...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis

Creator:: Flax, Lindsay A.
Abstract:: Francisella tularensis is a gram-negative facultative intracellular coccobacillus that primarily infects macrophages. The causative agent of tularemia, this bacterium is considered among the most infectious organisms known, requiring fewer than ten organisms to cause disease. Although ubiquitous in nature, transmission to humans is rare but can occur via insect bites,...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: –TOPO Plasmid backbone Amp R Selection in E. coli pBAD – TOPO Plasmid backbone 25 pFT

Creator:: Harrison, Ben
Abstract:: Clostridium perfringens type A isolates producing enterotoxin (CPE) are an important cause of food poisoning and non-food-borne human gastrointestinal (GI) diseases, including antibiotic-associated diarrhea (AAD), and spontaneous diarrhea (SD). In enterotoxigenic type A isolates, the cpe gene is found on the chromosome in food poisoning isolates, but is present on...
Resource Type:: Masters Thesis
Full Text:: increase the cyclic AMP levels in the intestine (23). CPE also has the ability to inhibit the absorption

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