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HEp-2 cell adherence patterns of porcine Escherichia coli carrying a gene encoding adhesin involved in diffuse adherence(AIDA)

  • Hong, Keum-suk;Ha, Seung-kwon;Chae, Chan-hee
    • Proceedings of the Korean Society of Veterinary Pathology Conference
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    • 2003.10a
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    • pp.30-30
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    • 2003
  • Escherichia coli strains associated with diarrhea have been divided into the following six major categories on the basis of pathogenic mechanisms: enterotoxigenic E. coli (ETEC), enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC), enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC), enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC), enteroaggregative E. coli (EAggEC) and diffusely adherent E. coli (DAEC).$\^$15,18/ EPEC, EAggEC, and DAEC strains were classified by their ability to produce distinct patterns of adherence to cultured epithelial cells in virto: localized (LA), aggregative (AA), and diffuse (DA) adherence. The objective of this study was to investigate the relationship of the adherence patterns with AIDA-positive E. coli isolated from diarrheic pigs. (omitted)

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Comparison of laboratory and in situ studies on the survival of escherichia coli in river waters (하천수에서 escherichia coli의 생존율에 대한 실험실 및 원위치 실험방법의 비교연구)

  • 김치경;김근식
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.23 no.1
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    • pp.49-55
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    • 1985
  • The survival of Escherichia coli in river water was comparatively studied by laboratory and in sity study methods. The survival by two methods was evaluated as a function of E. coli strain, indigeneous predator, level of water pollution, and water temperature in different season. The survival rate of E. coli examined by laboratory method was lower than that by in situ method. That was found to be due to the fact that higher number of predator was maintained in labortory study than in in situ study. The survival rates of E. coli in gradually polluted river waters could be differentiated by in situ study, but not by laboratory study. Therefore, an in situ method rather than labortory method was thought to be a choice of study method for the survival of E. coli in river waters.

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Production of Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) [P(3HB)] with High P(3HB) Content by Recombinant Escherichia coli Harboring the Alcaligenes latus P(3HB) Biosynthesis Genes and the E. coli ftsZ Gene

  • Choi, Jong-Il;Lee, Sang-Yup
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.9 no.6
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    • pp.722-725
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    • 1999
  • Filamentation-suppressed recombinant Escherichia coli strain harboring the Alcaligenes latus polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) biosynthesis genes and the E. coli ftsZ gene was constructed and cultivated for the production of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) [P(3HB)] with high concentration and high content. By the pH-stat fed-batch culture of this recombinant E. coli strain XL1-Blue(pJC5), the final cell concentration and P(3HB) concentration obtained in 44.25h were 172.2g cell dry weight/l and 141.9g P(3HB)/l, respectively, resulting in productivity of 3.21g P(3HB)/l-h. More importantly, the P(3HB) content obtained was 82.4 wt %, which was significantly higher than that obtained with the recombinant E. coli harboring only the PHA biosynthesis genes.

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Biological properties of vibrio vulnificus lipopolysaccharide and compared to those of escherichia coli and salmonella typhimurium lipopolysaccharides (Vibrio vulnificus lipopolysaccharide의 생물학적 특성과 escherichia coli 및 salmonella typhimurium의 lipopolysaccharides와의 비교 연구)

  • 김용호;이봉헌;신홍대;강신원
    • Korean Journal of Microbiology
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    • v.27 no.2
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    • pp.147-154
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    • 1989
  • Vibrio vulnificus Lipopolysaccharide (LPS) was extracted, performed chemical analysis, tested its biological activities, and compared to those of Escherichia coli LPS and Salmonella typhimurium LPS. The lethal activity of V. vulnificus LPS was 138.6138.6 mg/kg in mouse, but this was lower than thowe of E. coli LPS (56.3 mg/kg) and S. typhimurium LPS (37.5 mg/kg). The result of fatty acid analysis showed that V. vulnificus LPS had more saturated fatty acid than E. coli LPS and S. typhimurium LPS. Above results indicated that V. vulnificus LPS did not have much effect on the lethality. The results of biological responses of enzymes and blood cells by LPSs showed that V. vulnificus LPS had slightly greater activity than E. coli LPS and S. typhimurium LPS. V. vulnificus LPS was recommendavle for stimulant on interferon induction because of adequate stimulation and safety for host and cell lines.

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Influence of Gluconeogenic Phosphoenolpyruvate Carboxykinase (PCK) Expression on Succinic Acid Fermentation in Escherichia coli Under High Bicarbonate Condition

  • Kwon Yeong-Deok;Lee Sang-Yup;Kim Pil
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.16 no.9
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    • pp.1448-1452
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    • 2006
  • The effects of amplifying the gluconeogenic phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase of Escherichia coli ($pck_{Ec}$) on succinic acid production in E. coli were examined under anaerobic condition. No significant increase in succinic acid production was observed in E. coli overexpressing the $pck_{Ec}$ gene without supplementing $NaHCO_{3}$ or $MgCO_{3}$. On the other hand, succinic acid production was enhanced as the $NaHCO_{3}$ concentration was increased. When 20 g/l of $NaHCO_{3}$ was added, succinic acid production in recombinant E. coli overexpressing PCK was 2.2-fold higher than that observed in the wild-type strain. It was concluded that the gluconeogenic $pck_{Ec}$ overexpression enabled E. coli to enhance succinic acid production only under the high bicarbonate supplementation condition.

Comparison of tdcA Expression Between Escherichia coli and Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium

  • Kim, Min-Jeong;Lim, Sang-Yong;Ryu, Sang-Ryeol
    • Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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    • v.21 no.3
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    • pp.252-255
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    • 2011
  • Both Escherichia coli (E. coli) and Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) have a tdc operon that encodes enzymes involved in a metabolic pathway for the degradation of L-serine and L-threonine. However, S. Typhimurium does not have the tdcR gene, which is a positive regulator in E. coli. In the present study, transcriptional analysis revealed that tdcA expression in E. coli is higher under anaerobic than aerobic growth conditions, but the opposite is true in S. Typhimurium. Interestingly, a tdcR mutant strain of E. coli showed a similar expression pattern to that observed in S. Typhimurium and was also induced by anaerobic shock. These results suggest that the induction of tdcA expression by anaerobic conditions is observable when tdcA expression is low owing to the absence of TdcR.

Antimicrobial Resistance Profiles of eae Positive Escherichia coli (eae+ Escherichia coli의 항생제 감수성 및 내성 패턴)

  • Lee, Min-Hwa;Choi, Chang-Sun
    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.22 no.2
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    • pp.116-119
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    • 2007
  • The antimicrobial susceptibility and antibiotic resistance patterns of 67 eae positive Escherichia coli strains isolated from pigs were investigated by disc diffusion method. Sixty-seven E. coli isolated from pigs showed susceptibility to Ceftiofur (98.5%), Lincomycin+Spectinomycin (74.6%), Danofloxacin (73.1%), Enrofloxacin (64.2%), and Neomycin (41.8%). However, the multiple resistance patterns were also seen in eae+E. coli isolates. Neomycin+Tylosin+Penicillin+Tetracycline, Tylosin+Penicillin+Tetracycline, and Neomycin+Tylosin+Danofloxacin+Penicillin+Tetracycline+Enrofloxacinwere the most prevalent patterns of multiple antibiotic resistance.

Antimicrobial activity of extracts from medicinal herbs against Escherichia coli (Escherichia coli에 대한 한약재추출물의 항균활성)

  • Cho, Jae-yong;Choi, Il;Hwang, Eui-kyung
    • Korean Journal of Veterinary Research
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    • v.43 no.4
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    • pp.625-631
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    • 2003
  • The extracts from 40 different traditional medicinal herbs were used to investigate the antimicrobial activities against Escherichia coli. Among them, the extracts from Paeonia suffruticosa (PS), Siegesbeckia orientalis (SO), Schizandra chinensis (SC), Caesalpinia sappan (CS) and Rhus javanica (RJ) exhibited high antimicrobial activities against E. coli, Minimum inhibitory concentrations (MIC) of the RJ extract against E. coli were 0.8 mg/ml. After heating treatment of these extracts, the antimicrobial activities against E. coli were significantly reduced in case of the CS extract. After alkaline or acid treatment of these extracts, the antimicrobial activities against E. coli were significantly increased in the PS extract but reduced in both SO and RJ extract. Since extracts from RJ and CS exhibited the highest antimicrobial activities, bacterial growth-inhibiting activities against E. coli by these two extracts were further examined. Optical density at 620 nm after 24 hours incubation of E. coli in the presence of 100, 300 or 500 ppm of RJ extract ranged from 0.1 to 0.2 compared to 0.35~0.65 in the absence of RJ extract, indicating that growth of E. coli was significantly inhibited within 24 hours by the addition of at least 100 ppm of RJ extract. Optical density at 620 nm after 24 hours incubation of E. coli in the presence of 300 or 500 ppm of CS extract ranged from 0.01 to 0.25 compared to 0.5~0.55 in the absence of CS extract, indicating that growth of E. coli was also significantly inhibited within 24 hours by the addition of at least 300 ppm of CS extract. In conclusion, these findings suggest that extracts from RJ and CS may play important roles for antimicrobial activities against E. coli causing various animal diseases.

Prevalence and Kinetic Behavior of Escherichia coli in Smoked Duck at Changing Temperature

  • Park, Eunyoung;Kim, Yujin;Lee, Yewon;Seo, Yeongeun;Kang, Joohyun;Oh, Hyemin;Kim, Joo-Sung;Yoon, Yohan
    • Journal of Food Hygiene and Safety
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    • v.36 no.6
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    • pp.504-509
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    • 2021
  • The objective of this study was to develop dynamic model to describe the kinetic behavior of E. coli in sliced smoked duck. E. coli was detected in 2 sliced smoked duck samples (16.7%) at 1.23 log CFU/g. The maximum specific growth rate (𝜇max) of E. coli ranged from 0.05 to 0.36 log CFU/g/h, and lag phase duration (LPD) ranged from 4.39 to 1.07 h, depending on the storage at 10-30℃, and h0 value ranged from 0.24 to 0.51. The developed model was validated with observed values obtained at 13℃ and 25℃. The model performance was appropriate with 0.130 of root mean squared error (RMSE), and the dynamic model also described properly kinetic behavior of E. coli in sliced smoked duck samples. These results indicate that E. coli can contaminate sliced smoked ducks and the models developed with the E. coli isolates are useful in describing the kinetic behavior of E. coli in sliced smoked duck.

Inhibition of Escherichia coli 0157:H7 and Staphylococcus aureus 196E by allspice (Pimenta dioica L.) during cold storage (저온저장중 Allspice(Pimenta dioica L.)에 의한 Escherichia coli 0157:H7과 Staphylococcus aureus 196E의 생존억제)

  • 박찬성
    • Korean journal of food and cookery science
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.106-112
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    • 1997
  • The effect of low concentrations of allspice (Pimenta dioica L.) in culture broth as an antibacterial agent against Escherichia coli 0157:H7 and Staphylococcus aureus 196E was tested at 35,5 and -20$^{\circ}C$. Tryptic soy broth (TSB) containing 0∼2% (w/v) of allspice was inoculated with 10$\^$5/∼10$\^$6/ cells/$m\ell$ of E. coli and S. aureus and incubated at each temperature. The growth of E. coli was not inhibited at 0.1∼1.0% allspice and growth occured at 2% allspice but only after a prolonged lag period. Growth of S. aureus was inhibited with increasing concentration of allspice at 35$^{\circ}C$. Growth of S. aureus occured at the presence of 0.1∼0.3% allspice but the viability of S. aureus at 0.5∼2.0% allspice was decreased during storage at 35$^{\circ}C$. During refrigerated storage at 5$^{\circ}C$, inhibition of E. coli and S. aureus was increased with the progress of time and increasing spice concentration. During frozen storage at -20$^{\circ}C$, antibacterial activity of allspice against E. coli was increased with increasing storage time and spice concentration while that activity against S. aureus was effective during early period of storage. There was no major changes in population of S. aureus in TSB with different concentration of spice frozen at -20$^{\circ}C$. Viable counts of E. coli and S. aureus at 0.l% of allspice was less than that of control during frozen storage.

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