Staphylococcus destruction

Staphylococcus -destruction of m foods [STERILIZATION TECITNIQUES] (Vol 22) -immunoassay for [IMMUNOASSAY] (Vol 14)... 

Chopin, A., Mocquot, G., and Le Graet, Y. Destruction of Microbacterium lacticum, Escherichia coli and Staphylococcus aureus in milk by spray drying. 11. Effect of drying conditions. Can.. Microbiol., 23, 755,1977. 

Traditionally methods of viable counting and microscopy have been used to study phagocytosis of bacteria and subsequent survival or destruction." However, such indirect methods give an underestimate of bacterial survival within cells. It has been shown that bioluminescence acts as a convenient real-time method for monitoring survival of Bordetella bronchiseptica in vitro, whilst a dual gfp-luxABCDE operon has been used to monitor real-time replication of Staphylococcus aureus. The use of clinically important bacteria transformed with the lux cassette overcomes the problems with viable but non-culturable bacteria, as the expression of lux genes depends on the functional biochemistry of the bacteria. ""... 

Who are these new adversaries They are led by viruses such as the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) which causes AIDS, the hanta viruses, herpes, and the emerging viruses such as Ebola and Lassa fever. They are bacteria, such as Salmonella, Staphylococcus and Mycobacterium tuberculosis, that once were easily killed by a host of antibiotics and are now resistant to most drugs we develop. They are the insect-borne diseases such as Lyme s, Dengue, and West Nile. They are the prions, a lifeform less complex than viruses that can only survive in a host and cause debilitating, and presently noncurable, madness in animals and humans. They are the insects themselves that are resistant to many organic pesticides and which continue to cause destruction of plant life. Why are these threats emerging now ... 

Voyich, J. M., Braughton, K. R., Sturdevant, D. E., et al. (2005) Insights into mechanisms used by Staphylococcus aureus to avoid destruction by human neutrophils. J. Immunol. 175, 3907-3919. 

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