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Efficacy of three chemical disinfectants and steam against Clostridioides difficile endospores on nylon carpet with two different backing systems [PDF]
Applied and Environmental MicrobiologyCarpet could serve as a potential vehicle for transmitting Clostridioides difficile endospores, a leading cause of healthcare-associated infections.
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Dual activation of NLRP3 and pyrin inflammasomes mediates host responses to the human fungal pathogen Coccidioides [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsCoccidioides is a dimorphic fungal pathogen that grows as a mold in soil and produces infectious arthroconidia. Inhaled arthroconidia transition to spherules containing endospores in mammalian hosts.
Ka Pui Sharon Yau +18 more
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Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, 2023 Plant-parasitic nematodes are important economic pests of a range of tropical crops. Strategies for managing these pests have relied on a range of approaches, including crop rotation, the utilization of genetic resistance, cultural techniques, and since ...
Keith G. Davies +3 more
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Establishing Sterility Assurance for Bacillus canaveralius 29669 Spores Under High Heat Exposure
Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 The ever-increasing complexity in critical spacecraft hardware and materials has led to the development of new microbial reduction procedures as well as to changes in established processes such as heat microbial reduction (HMR).
Zachary Steven Dean +5 more
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Frontiers in Microbiology, 2022 Microbially mediated processes in a given habitat tend to be catalyzed by abundant populations that are ecologically adapted to exploit specific environmental characteristics.
Anirban Chakraborty +7 more
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The Sporobiota of the Human Gut
Gut Microbes, 2021 The human gut microbiome is a diverse and complex ecosystem that plays a critical role in health and disease. The composition of the gut microbiome has been well studied across all stages of life. In recent years, studies have investigated the production
Muireann Egan +4 more
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Preservative of Essential Oil Blends: Control of Clostridium perfringens Type a in Mortadella
Brazilian Archives of Biology and Technology, 2021 The aim of this study was to evaluate the antimicrobial effect of the essential oils of cinnamon, cardamom, clove, oregano, and thyme and their synergism on vegetative cells and endospores of Clostridium perfringens type A inoculated in meat sausage ...
Heloísa Helena de Abreu Martins +6 more
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Frontiers in Physics, 2021 The efficiency of plasmas sources for the decontamination of heat-sensitive devices has been proven for more than 20 years, but commercial plasma-based sterilizers still have a narrow range of applications. This can be partially explained by difficulties
A Salmon, G. D Stancu, C. O Laux
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Understanding the importance of endosporulation methods for generating endospores that can resist harsh conditions and produce calcite in bio self-healing of concrete [PDF]
MATEC Web of Conferences, 2023 Vegetative cells used for the concrete bio self-healing process often face threatening environmental conditions such as extreme temperature, pH, salinity, shear stress, and starvation during the hardening process and the service life of the concrete ...
Rahmaninezhad Seyed Ali +8 more
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CotG Mediates Spore Surface Permeability in Bacillus subtilis
mBio, 2022 Proteins and glycoproteins that form the surface layers of the Bacillus spore assemble into semipermeable arrays that surround and protect the spore cytoplasm.
Anella Saggese +6 more
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