Exploiting predatory bacteria as biocontrol agents across ecosystems

L Zhang, L Guo, Z Cui, F Ju - Trends in Microbiology, 2024 - cell.com
Predatory bacteria have been increasingly known for their ubiquity in environments and
great functional potentials in controlling unwanted microorganisms. Fundamental …

Environmental Regulation of the Distribution and Ecology of Bdellovibrio and Like Organisms

HN Williams, H Chen - Frontiers in microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
The impact of key environmental factors, salinity, prey, and temperature, on the survival and
ecology of Bdellovibrio and like bacteria (BALOs), including the freshwater/terrestrial, non …

Predatory bacteria in combination with solar disinfection and solar photocatalysis for the treatment of rainwater

M Waso, S Khan, A Singh, S McMichael, W Ahmed… - Water research, 2020 - Elsevier
The predatory bacterium, Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus, was applied as a biological pre-
treatment to solar disinfection and solar photocatalytic disinfection for rainwater treatment …

Bdellovibrio and like organisms: current understanding and knowledge gaps of the smallest cellular hunters of the microbial world

JA Ezzedine, Y Desdevises… - Critical Reviews in …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
Almost sixty years ago, Bdellovibrio and like organisms (BALOs) were discovered as the first
obligate bacterial predators of other bacteria known to science. Since then, they were shown …

Characterization of Two Novel Predatory Bacteria, Bacteriovorax stolpii HI3 and Myxococcus sp. MH1, Isolated from a Freshwater Pond: Prey Range, and Predatory …

D Inoue, N Hiroshima, S Nakamura, H Ishizawa, M Ike - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
Predatory bacteria, which prey on other bacteria, have significant functions in microbial
ecosystems and have attracted increasing attention for their biotechnological use. However …

Insights into Bdellovibrio spp. mechanisms of action and potential applications

M Waso, B Reyneke, B Havenga, S Khan… - World Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Recent studies investigating Bdellovibrio spp. have found that although this predator
predominantly preys on Gram-negative organisms, under certain conditions (nutrient/prey …

Predation on bacterial pathogens by predatory bacteria of sewage origin: three days prey-predator interactions

Z Mohsenipour, P Arazi, M Skurnik, B Jahanbin… - BMC microbiology, 2024 - Springer
Predatory bacteria are Gram-negative microorganisms that grow within and lyse their
bacterial prey. As bacterial predators have potential applications in medicine and …

Interaction of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus with Gram-Negative and Gram-Positive Bacteria in Dual Species and Polymicrobial Communities

M Waso-Reyneke, S Khan, W Khan - Microorganisms, 2022 - mdpi.com
The interaction of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus PF13 with mixed bacterial communities,
consisting of Gram-negative (Pseudomonas fluorescens and Klebsiella pneumoniae) and …

Integration of Bdellovibrio spp. with SODIS and Moringa oleifera flocculation to target multi-drug resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae and Pseudomonas aeruginosa

M Kode, M Waso-Reyneke, B Reyneke… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Combination treatments using Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus PF13 and/or TWPF pre-treatment;
solar disinfection (SODIS); and Moringa oleifera flocculation, were investigated for the …

[HTML][HTML] Expression of attack and growth phase genes of Bdellovibrio bacteriovorus in the presence of Gram-negative and Gram-positive prey

M Waso, S Khan, W Ahmed, W Khan - Microbiological research, 2020 - Elsevier
The expression of attack phase (AP) and growth phase (GP) genes of Bdellovibrio
bacteriovorus (B. bacteriovorus) was compared in the presence of Gram-negative …