Publications
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| isoprenoid quinones in the classification of coryneform and related bacteria. | menaquinones were the only isoprenoid quinones found in 85 of the 95 coryneform bacteria examined. dihydromenaquinones having nine isoprene units were the main components isolated from corynebacterium bovis, from other glutamic acid-producing strains, and from arthrobacter globiformis and related species. dihydromenaquinones with eight isoprene units were found in brevibacterium linens, the remaining corynebacterium species and strains probably belonging to the genus rhodococcus. tetrahydromenaq ... | 1979 | 107269 |
| endocarditis due to kurthia bessonii. | 1979 | 109026 | |
| immunodiffusion studies of ribosomes in classification of mycobacteria and related taxa. | ribosomal preparations consisting of crude ribosomes (cr), 30s subunits (30s) and 16s core particles (16s) from four strains of the species mycobacterium bovis (bcg), mycobacterium fortuitum, mycobacterium phlei and mycobacterium smegmatis were analyzed by immunodiffusion technique for taxonomical purposes. the ribosomal preparations tested contained several interspecies cross-reacting precipitinogens. the number of precipitinogens demonstrated at the homologous reactions was generally larger th ... | 1979 | 109401 |
| a numerical taxonomic study of coryneform and related bacteria. | two hundred and thirty-three strains of coryneform bacteria, including representatives of the genera arthrobacter, brevibacterium, cellulomonas, corynebacterium, erysipelothrix, jensenia, kurthia, listeria, microbacterium, mycobacterium, nocardia and propionibacterium and other related bacteria, were studied using 173 morphological, physiological and biochemical tests. the bacteria were grown on a soil extract medium which allowed growth of all the strains, and all were incubated at 30 degrees c ... | 1975 | 805825 |
| thin-layer chromatographic analysis of mycolic acid and other long-chain components in whole-organism methanolysates of coryneform and related taxa. | acid methanolysates of strains representing 58 coryneform taxa were examined for mycolic acids and other long-chain constituents by thin-layer chromatography. mycolic esters were detected in the methanolysates of true corynebacteria but not in those from plant pathogenic bacteria, corynebacterium haemolyticum, corynebacterium pyogenes or from representatives of the genera arthrobacter, cellulomonas, curtobacterium, kurthia or oerskovia. thin-layer chromatography of whole-organism methanolysates ... | 1976 | 825611 |
| a numerical taxonomic survey of listeria and related bacteria. | a numerical taxonomic study was performed on named strains of listeria, erysipelothrix, microbacterium thermosphactum, lactobacillus, streptococus, propionibacterium, kurthia and some possibly related bacteria using i43 unit characters covering a wide range of properties. the strains fell into six main clusters: (a) listeria; (b) microbacterium thermosphactum, lactobacillus, streptococcus; (c) gemella, erysipelothrix; (d) kurthia and mainly aerobic corynebacteria; (e) propionibacterium, staphylo ... | 1977 | 856940 |
| identification of the cultivable bacteria in dental plaque from the beagle dog. | fifteen different genera of microorganisms were isolated from the 27-month-old plaque of two beagle dogs. they were as follows: pseudomonas, proteus, neisseria, escherichia, staphylococcus, streptococcus, lactobacillus, nocardia, actinomyces, corynebacterium, micrococcus, microbacterium, brevibacterium, arthrobacter, and kurthia. the dog plaque was characterized by a low number of streptococci and the presence of several noncarbohydrate-fermenting organisms. | 1976 | 1069758 |
| culture media for non-sporulating gram-positive food spoilage bacteria. | the spoilage association especially of protein-rich foods can be dominated by gram-positive bacteria, notably lactic acid bacteria (lab) which affect vacuum packaged refrigerated processed meats and some dairy products. new food ecosystems are being created by novel packaging and processing technologies, resulting in spoilage associations differing from those previously reported. in addition, improvement in identification methods, allow the detection and isolation of 'novel' bacterial groups, e. ... | 1992 | 1486021 |
| use of low molecular mass rna profiles to identify lactic acid bacteria and related organisms associated with foods. | fourteen strains of lactic acid bacteria and species of brochothrix, carnobacterium, enterococcus, erysipelothrix, kurthia and listeria were examined using low molecular mass rna (5s rrna and trna) profiles. these profiles were developed on denaturing polyacrylamide gels. gel strengths between 9 and 14% were tested to improve resolution of distinct bands for densitometrical analysis. profiles generated on 12% gels proved to be the best for scanning. scans of class 2 trnas by densitometry showed ... | 1991 | 1723291 |
| cellular fatty acid composition as an adjunct to the identification of asporogenous, aerobic gram-positive rods. | cellular fatty acid (cfa) compositions of 561 asporogenous, aerobic gram-positive rods were analyzed by gas-liquid chromatography as an adjunct to their identification when grown on blood agar at 35 degrees c. the organisms could be divided into two groups. in the first group (branched-chain type), which included coryneform cdc groups a-3, a-4, and a-5; some strains of b-1 and b-3; "corynebacterium aquaticum"; brevibacterium liquefaciens; rothia dentocariosa; and listeria spp., the rods had siza ... | 1991 | 1899679 |
| the place of listeria among gram-positive bacteria. | the genus listeria, containing the species listeria monocytogenes, listeria innocua, listeria seeligeri, listeria welshimeri, listeria ivanovii, listeria grayi and listeria murrayi is a well circumscribed taxon. numerical taxonomic and chemical studies indicate a very close phenetic similarity to the genus brochothrix and a more distant, but close, similarity to a number of other genera such as lactobacillus, streptococcus, lactococcus, enterococcus, staphylococcus, kurthia and bacillus. recent ... | 1988 | 2458321 |
| [new species of bacteria in the genus kurthia--kurthia sibirica sp. nov]. | six aerobic gram-positive nonspore-forming bacterial strains belonging to the kurthia genus were isolated from the magadan (susuman) mammoth found in the permafrost of the east siberia. the strains are a phenotypically homogeneous group different from the two known species (k. zopfii and k. gibsonii) in requiring more vitamins, the absence of growth in a medium with 7% nacl, and a low level of dna-dna hybridization (not more than 45%). moreover, the strains differ from k. zopfii in the synthesis ... | 1986 | 3102908 |
| immunodiffusion and lipid analyses in the classification of "mycobacterium album" and the "aurantiaca" taxon. | comparative immunodiffusion studies were performed on representative strains of "mycobacterium album", the "aurantiaca" taxon and an "aurantiaca"-like group of actinomycetes, using reference systems representing 25 taxa assigned to the genera arthrobacter, corynebacterium, kurthia, mycobacterium, nocardia, rhodococcus, streptomyces and the "aurantiaca" taxon. thin-layer chromatographic analyses of whole-organism methanolysates were carried out on single strains of "mycobacterium album" and the " ... | 1985 | 3923731 |
| the cytotoxic and photodynamic inactivation of micro-organisms by rose bengal. | rose bengal was cytotoxic to the following bacteria at the concentrations given in parentheses (highest concentrations of dye in mol/l at which growth occurred on nutrient medium): brochothrix thermosphacta and deinococcus radiodurans (1 x 10(-6) or less); streptococcus, micrococcus, staphylococcus, bacillus, arthrobacter and kurthia spp. (1 x 10(-5)-1 x 10(-4], and pseudomonas spp. and enterobacteriaceae (5 x 10(-3)-1 x 10(-2) or greater). these organisms were killed rapidly when suspended in i ... | 1985 | 3997691 |
| action of bacterial growth on the sarcoplasmic and urea-soluble proteins from muscle. i. effects of clostridium perfringens, salmonella enteritidis, achromobacter liquefaciens, streptococcus faecalis, and kurthia zopfi. | comparisons of the starch-gel patterns of uninoculated aseptic control samples from rabbit and pig muscle with similar samples inoculated and incubated with clostridium perfringens, salmonella enteritidis, achromobacter liquefaciens, and kurthia zopfii were made. results indicated that c. perfringens caused extensive alteration in the proteins or enzymes, or both, of the sarcoplasmic fraction of porcine muscle, whereas s. enteritidis and s. faecalis caused complete breakdown of only myoglobin. n ... | 1970 | 4318570 |
| cellulolytic bacteria associated with sloughing spoilage of california ripe olives. | sloughing spoilage of california ripe olives during processing is characterized by severe softening, skin rupture, and flesh sloughing. it was assumed that cellulolytic activity was responsible for skin rupture and sloughing of flesh, and so a deliberate search was made for cellulolytic bacteria from olives undergoing sloughing spoilage. a bacterium identified as cellulomonas flavigena was highly cellulolytic, attacking filter paper, carboxymethyl cellulose (cmc) gel, and olive tissue. other bac ... | 1973 | 4568890 |
| numerical taxonomy of certain coryneform bacteria. | da silva, g. a. nigel (iowa state university, ames), and john g. holt. numerical taxonomy of certain coryneform bacteria. j. bacteriol. 90:921-927. 1965-an electronic computer was used to sort 32 strains of coryneforms into groups with the tree-sort program. the similarity values obtained in this procedure were then used to construct a dendrogram depicting the phenetic resemblance among the taxa. the results indicated that all the phytopathogens studied were sufficiently distinct from the type s ... | 1965 | 4954898 |
| mechanism of proline production by kurthia catenaforma. | the fate of aspartic acid used for proline fermentation by kurthia catenaforma was traced by using aspartic acid-u-(14)c. the radioactivities of proline and glutamic acid increased with the disappearance of aspartic acid. after 40 hr, aspartic acid disappeared from the medium and radioactive alpha-ketoglutaric acid was detected. the radioactivity of proline reached 44% of aspartic acid radioactivity at 40 hr. the specific radioactivities of these amino acids and of alpha-ketoglutaric acid suppor ... | 1972 | 5018617 |
| effect of l-aspartic acid and l-glutamic acid on production of l-proline. | to elucidate the effect of aspartic acid on growth of kurthia catenaforma during the proline fermentation, this organism was compared with other bacteria with respect to the rate of consumption of aspartic acid, and to the activities of enzymes concerned in the metabolism of aspartic acid. although no marked difference in enzyme activities was observed, the aspartic acid consumption rate of k. catenaforma was markedly higher than that of other organisms. the consumption of glutamic acid by k. ca ... | 1972 | 5018618 |
| physiological and morphological characteristics of kurthia zopfii isolated from meat products. | 1969 | 5369169 | |
| production of l-proline by kurthia catenaforma. | a number of organisms were screened for their ability to produce l-proline. kurthia catenaforma, which we recently isolated, was selected. a serine-requiring mutant, strain 45, produced about 1.5 times the amount of this amino acid that the parent strain did. in investigations of various media, it was found that approximately 30 ml of l-proline per ml was produced in shaken culture at 30 c in a medium containing glucose, urea, corn steep liquor, casein hydrolysate, l-aspartic acid, and inorganic ... | 1968 | 5675509 |
| [morphologic and physiologic-biochemical characteristics of kurthia zopfii]. | comparative studies were made employing thirteen new isolates of kurthia zopfii and strain atcc 10538. it was shown that the cell wall of k. zopfii contained lysine, glycine, alanine, leucine, valine, aspartic and glutamic acids, ribose. the guanine plus cytosine content of deoxyribonucleic acid was 37-38 mol%. the simple post-fission cell movement was demonstrated. the obtained results are discussed against the practice of including the kurthia into the group of coryneform bacteria. | 1980 | 6771494 |
| fatty acid and polar lipid composition in the classification of kurthia. | 1980 | 6780505 | |
| numerical classification of some rhodococci, corynebacteria and related organisms. | nineteen strains of corynebacterium sensu stricto, 23 received as corynebacterium equi or rhodococcus equi, marker cultures of arthrobacter, brevibacterium, bacterionema matruchotii, cellulomonas flavigena, kurthia zopfii, listeria denitrificans, microbacterium lacticum, rhodococcus rubropertinctus and 88 representatives of mycobacterium, nocardia, rhodococcus and the 'aurantiaca' taxon were the subject of numerical phenetic analyses using 92 characters. the data were examined using the simple m ... | 1982 | 6811696 |
| a taxonomic study of gardnerella vaginalis (haemophilus vaginalis) gardner and dukes 1955. | fifty-five strains received as haemophilus vaginalis or as catalase-negative coryneform bacteria from the vagina together with 61 marker cultures were subjected to numerical phenetic analyses using 149 unit characters. the data were examined using the simple matching (ssm), jaccard (sj) and pattern (dp) coefficients and clustering was achieved using the average linkage algorithm. cluster composition was not markedly affected by the coefficient used or by test error, estimated at 6 . 5%. the h. v ... | 1980 | 6971916 |
| phylogenetic interrelationships of round-spore-forming bacilli containing cell walls based on lysine and the non-spore-forming genera caryophanon, exiguobacterium, kurthia, and planococcus. | the 16s rrna gene sequences of "bacillus aminovorans" and several species considered to be phylogenetically related to the group 2 bacilli of ash et al. (c. ash, j. a. e. farrow, s. wallbanks, and m. d. collins, lett. appl. microbiol. 13:202-206, 1991) were determined. a comparative analysis of the sequence data revealed that the round-spore-forming group 2 bacilli, together with some asporogenous taxa (the genera caryophanon, exiguobacterium, kurthia, planococcus), form a phylogenetically disti ... | 1994 | 8123563 |
| a ribosomal dna fragment of listeria monocytogenes and its use as a genus-specific probe in an aqueous-phase hybridization assay. | cdnas were prepared from the total rna of listeria monocytogenes atcc 19118 and used as probes to screen a genomic library of the same strain. four clones were identified which contained ribosomal dna fragments. recombinant dna from one of them was fractionated and differentially hybridized with the cdna probes to rna of l. monocytogenes and kurthia zopfii. the resulting hybridization pattern revealed an hpaii fragment of 0.8 kb that was specific for the l. monocytogenes strain. the nucleotide s ... | 1993 | 8368854 |
| predictive models as means to quantify the interactions of spoilage organisms. | the purpose of this paper is to quantify the interactions of some groups of spoilage organisms that can be usually found in refrigerated meat stored in air, such as: enterobacteriaceae, pseudomonas, acinetobacter, psychrobacter, shewanella, carnobacterium, lactobacillus, leuconostoc, brochothrix and kurthia spp. the growth of these organisms was studied in the range of temperature 2-11 degrees c and ph 5.2-6.4, which is characteristic of refrigerated meat. the main growth parameters (maximum spe ... | 1998 | 9631338 |
| the efficiency of different phenol-degrading bacteria and activated sludges in detoxification of phenolic leachates. | phenolic composition, toxicity and biodegradability of three different phenolic leachates/samples was studied. samples a and c were the leachates from the oil-shale industry spent shale dumps at kohtla-järve, estonia. sample b was a laboratory-prepared synthetic mixture of 7 phenolic compounds mimmicking the phenolic composition of the leachate a. toxicity of these 3 samples was analyzed using two photobacterial test (biotox and microtox), daphnia test (daphtoxkit f pulex) and rotifiers' test (r ... | 1998 | 9650267 |
| cloning and characterization of biotin biosynthetic genes of kurthia sp. | the biotin biosynthesis genes of kurthia sp., which is an aerobic gram-positive bacterium, were cloned from kurthia sp. 538-ka26 and characterized. eleven biotin biosynthetic genes have been identified in kurthia sp. kurthia sp. has two genes coding for kapa synthase, biof and biofii, and also has two genes coding for bioh protein, bioh and biohii. in addition, three genes, orf1, orf2, and orf3, whose functions are unknown, were found in the biotin gene clusters of kurthia sp. the bioa, biod, an ... | 2001 | 11255013 |
| comparison of sodium hypochlorite-based foam and peroxyacetic acid-based fog sanitizing procedures in a salmon smokehouse: survival of the general microflora and listeria monocytogenes. | the effects of fog sanitization with peroxyacetic acid (hydrogen peroxide, peracetic acid, and acetic acid in combination) on general hygiene (aerobic plate count) and on listeria monocytogenes were assessed in a slicing area at a salmon smokehouse and compared with the effects of foam sanitization with sodium hypochlorite (routinely performed at the smokehouse). two hundred twenty-three environmental samples were collected with sponges and swabs after each of the sanitization procedures, and 68 ... | 2003 | 12696681 |
| suppression of leaf feeding and oviposition of phytophagous ladybird beetles (coleoptera: coccinellidae) by chitinase gene-transformed phylloplane bacteria and their specific bacteriophages entrapped in alginate gel beads. | the chitinase gene-transformed strain kpm-007e/chi of enterobacter cloacae was vitally entrapped in sodium alginate gel beads with its specific virulent bacteriophage ecp-01 to provide a new method for microbially digesting chitinous peritrophic membranes of phytophagous ladybird beetles epilachna vigintioctopunctata. first, chitinase sh1 from a gram-positive bacterium kurthia zopfii was overproduced by escherichia coli cells and purified by affinity column chromatography. the purified enzyme ef ... | 2003 | 12852588 |
| kurthia bessonii isolated from clinical material. | 1961 | 13726565 | |
| [contamination of permanent cell strains by a species of the genus kurthia]. | 1965 | 14345665 | |
| bacterial species diversity in cigarettes linked to an investigation of severe pneumonitis in u.s. military personnel deployed in operation iraqi freedom. | this report presents results from a study on the bacterial diversity of cigarette brands collected from military personnel during the u.s. army's investigation of a series of cases of acute eosinophilic pneumonitis in military personnel deployed in operation iraqi freedom. eight species of bacillus, including five new species, and one new species of kurthia were isolated from the cigarettes. some of these species have been identified elsewhere as causes of hypersensitivity pneumonitis and other ... | 2005 | 15942700 |
| aerobic bacterial flora of the nasal cavity in gulf of california sea lion (zalophus californianus) pups. | nasal swab samples from clinically healthy california sea lions pups (zalophus californianus) from six different reproductive rookeries in the gulf of california were collected to determine the type and frequency of the representative aerobic bacterial microflora of their nasal mucosa. a total of 114 samples were examined and 100 bacterial isolates were identified and typified by microbiological and biochemical standard tests. fifty four isolates corresponded to gram positive bacteria (54%) and ... | 2005 | 16266850 |
| risk assessment of heterotrophic bacteria from bottled drinking water sold in indian markets. | one hundred and five samples of bottled drinking water belonging to 30 different brands, collected from six different states of india have been analysed for total heterotrophic bacterial (thb) load and coliforms. almost all bottlers used multiple treatment procedures such as microfiltration, reverse osmosis and ozonization to treat the water. around 40% of the samples exceeded the limit of 100 cfu/ml set by the department of health as well as bureau of indian standards (bis), government of india ... | 2006 | 16412688 |
| functional expression and refolding of new alkaline esterase, em2l8 from deep-sea sediment metagenome. | a metagenomics approach is an efficient method of isolating novel and useful genes from uncultured microorganisms in diverse environments. in this research, a gene encoding a new esterase (em2l8) was cloned and characterized from the metagenomic dna library of a deep-sea sediment. the gene consisted of 804bp encoding a polypeptide of 267 amino acids with a molecular mass of 28,952. the deduced amino acid sequence showed similarities with the bioh of kurthia, the 3-oxoadipate enol-lactonase of ha ... | 2007 | 17126562 |
| screening and distributing features of bacteria with hydantoinase and carbamoylase. | hydantoinase and carbamoylase are key biocatalysts for the production of optically pure amino acids from dl-5-substituted hydantoins (ssh). out of 364 isolated strains with hydantoinase and carbamoylase at 45 degrees c, 24 strains showed efficient hydantoinase and carbamoylase activities. among them, 17 produced l-amino acids, and 7 produced d-amino acids from both aromatic dl-5-benzylhydantoin and aliphatic dl-5-isopropylhydantoin. most of the strains that were able to form l-amino acid belonge ... | 2009 | 17498938 |
| proposal of viridibacillus gen. nov. and reclassification of bacillus arvi, bacillus arenosi and bacillus neidei as viridibacillus arvi gen. nov., comb. nov., viridibacillus arenosi comb. nov. and viridibacillus neidei comb. nov. | a polyphasic study was undertaken to clarify the taxonomic position of endospore-forming strains 433-d9, 433-e17 and 121-x1. box-pcr-generated fingerprints indicated that they may be members of a single species. 16s rrna gene sequence similarity demonstrated that a representative of this group, 433-d9, is affiliated closely with bacillus arvi dsm 16317(t) (100 %), bacillus arenosi dsm 16319(t) (99.8 %) and bacillus neidei nrrl bd-87(t) (97.1 %). sequence similarities revealed bacillus pycnus nrr ... | 2007 | 18048716 |
| description of rummeliibacillus stabekisii gen. nov., sp. nov. and reclassification of bacillus pycnus nakamura et al. 2002 as rummeliibacillus pycnus comb. nov. | strains of aerobic, gram-positive, rod-shaped, round-spore-forming bacteria were isolated from different geographical locations and a subsequent polyphasic study was undertaken to clarify the taxonomic position of the round-spore-forming isolates strain ksc-sf6g(t), strain m32 and strain nbrc 12622. 16s rrna gene sequence similarities demonstrated that these strains were most closely affiliated with bacillus pycnus nrrl nrs-1691(t) (98 %), with species of kurthia (96 %) and viridibacillus (94-96 ... | 2009 | 19406799 |
| microorganisms associated with maari, a baobab seed fermented product. | a microbiological study was carried out on baobab fermented seeds (maari) obtained from 4 different production sites in burkina faso (mansila, toulfé, ouagadougou and gorgadji). a total of 390 representative isolates comprising 251 aerobic mesophilic bacteria (amb) and 139 lactic acid bacteria (lab) were isolated and identified to species level using a combination of pheno- and genotypic methods including conventional morphological analysis, carbohydrate fermentation profiling, rep-pcr ((gtg)(5) ... | 2010 | 20688411 |
| reclassification of bacillus beijingensis and bacillus ginsengi qiu et al., 2009 as bhargavaea beijingensis comb. nov. and bhargavaea ginsengi comb. nov. and emended description of the genus bhargavaea. | we have carried out a polyphasic taxonomic characterization of validly published type strains of species, bacillus beijingensis dsm 19037t and bacillus ginsengi dsm 19038t that were phylogenetically closely related to bhargavaea cecembensis lmg 24411t. all the strains are gram-positive, non-motile, moderately halotolerant and non-spore forming. 16s rrna gene sequence analyses showed that these constituted a coherent cluster, with sequence similarities between 99.7 and 98.7 %. the percentage simi ... | 2011 | 22155760 |