| Antimicrobial Sensitivity Assay for Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus
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2020-12-20
[Abstract] Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus, an obligate predatory bacterium [i.e., bacteria that kill and feed on other bacteria (prey)], has the potential to be used as a probiotic for the disinfection of surfaces or for the treatment of bacterial infections. One option is to use this organism in combination with antimicrobials to potentiate the effectiveness of treatments. In order to make this approach feasible more has to be known about the ability of B. bacteriovorus to resist antibiotics itself. Standard assays to determine the minimum inhibitory concentration (MIC) are not suitable for B. bacteriovorus, since the small size of this bacterium (0.25-0.35 by 0.5-2 μm) prevents scattering at OD600. Since these predatory bacteria require larger prey bacteria for growth (e.g., E. coli dimensions are ...
[摘要] [摘要]蛭弧菌弧菌,一种专性捕食细菌[即,细菌杀灭和进料的其它细菌(猎物)] ,有可能使被用作表面的消毒益生菌或细菌感染的治疗。一种选择是将这种生物体与抗菌素联合使用以增强治疗效果。为了使该方法可行,必须进一步了解细菌噬菌芽孢杆菌自身抵抗抗生素的能力。标准测定法来确定最小抑制浓度(MIC)是不适合B.弧菌,由于 的小尺寸该细菌(0.25-0.35由0.5-2的微米)防止在OD散射600 。由于这些细菌掠夺需要用于生长较大的捕食的细菌(例如,大肠杆菌(E.coli)尺寸为1由1-2微米),第这里描述的用于抗微生物敏感性测定方法E基础是OD的降低600期间引起的猎物裂解增长。以前关于掠食性细菌对抗菌素耐药性的研究采用的方法无法直接将抗菌素耐药性水平与其他细菌种类进行比较。在这里,我们描述了一种确定细菌对芽孢杆菌的抗药性的方法,该方法可与被测试的参照生物体尽可能接近相同的实验条件进行比较。简要地说,最低抑菌浓度(MIC)值的B.弧菌通过在存在和不存在不同浓度的抗微生物剂的混合捕食者/猎物培养物的600nm处测量的吸光度的减少来确定。值得注意的是,可以使用不同的条件,猎物细菌和/或抗菌剂来修改此方法以获得其他掠食性细菌的抗菌素MIC值。
[背景]噬菌蛭弧菌是一种革兰氏阴性细菌掠夺是“早”在其他革兰氏阴性细菌的物种,生长在他们的牺牲,并最终杀死它们。细菌噬菌芽孢杆菌以及其他掠食性细菌有潜力用作益生菌以消毒表面或治疗细菌感染(Tyson和Elizabeth ...
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| Candida albicans Agar Invasion Assays
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2020-08-20
[Abstract] The ability of the human fungal pathogen Candida albicans to disseminate into tissues is promoted by a switch from budding to invasive hyphal growth. This morphological transition is stimulated by multiple environmental factors that can vary at different sites of infection. To identify genes that promote invasive growth, C. albicans mutants can be screened for defects in growing invasively into solid agar medium as a substitute for studying tissue invasion. This in vitro approach has advantages in that it permits the media conditions to be varied to mimic different host environments. In addition, the concentration of agar can be varied to determine the effects of altering the rigidity of the matrix into which the cells invade, as this provides a better indicator ...
[摘要] [摘要 ] 人类真菌病原体白色念珠菌传播到组织的能力是由从发芽到侵入性菌丝生长的转换而增强的。多种环境因素可能会刺激这种形态转变,这些环境因素可能在不同的感染部位有所不同。为了鉴定促进侵入growt基因小时,白色念珠菌突变体可以在侵入性生长成固体琼脂培养基作为研究组织侵袭的替代品进行筛选的缺陷。这个体外 该方法的优点在于,它允许改变媒体条件以模仿不同的主机环境。另外,可以改变琼脂的浓度以确定改变细胞侵袭的基质的刚度的作用,因为与液体培养中形成菌丝的能力相比,这提供了更好的侵袭性生长指标。在多种条件下的测试可以用来鉴定具有最强缺陷的突变细胞。因此,将描述用于分析白色念珠菌在不同条件下的侵袭性生长的方案和培养基,其适合于测试突变株白色念珠菌菌株的单个菌株或高通量分析。
[背景 ] 白色念珠菌是一种多形性真菌病原体,可以通过形成芽(小球形细胞),假菌丝细胞(细长细胞链)或菌丝细胞(具有平行平行线的长丝状细胞链)生长(图1)(贵族等人,2017)。已证明宿主中遇到的多种环境刺激可促进向侵袭性生长的转变,包括人体温度(37 °C ),碱性pH,CO 2 ,血清中的因子和糖GlcNAc(N-乙酰氨基葡萄糖) )(Kornitzer,2019)。萌芽细胞被认为促进胃肠道的血流传播和定植(Pierce和Kumamoto ,2012 ;Witchley ...
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