Strategies for combating bacterial biofilms: A focus on anti-biofilm agents and their mechanisms of action

R Roy, M Tiwari, G Donelli, V Tiwari - Virulence, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Biofilm refers to the complex, sessile communities of microbes found either attached to a
surface or buried firmly in an extracellular matrix as aggregates. The biofilm matrix …

[PDF][PDF] A threshold selection method from gray-level histograms

N Otsu - Automatica, 1975 - dspace.tul.cz
Summary 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes for eubacteria (EUB338), ammonium-
oxidizing bacteria (Nsm156) and nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (Nb1000) were used for the rapid …

Phylogenetic identification and in situ detection of individual microbial cells without cultivation

RI Amann, W Ludwig, KH Schleifer - Microbiological reviews, 1995 - Am Soc Microbiol
The frequent discrepancy between direct microscopic counts and numbers of culturable
bacteria from environmental samples is just one of several indications that we currently …

[PDF][PDF] Microbial biofilms

JW Costerton, Z Lewandowski, DE Caldwell… - 1995 - academia.edu
MICROBIAL BIOFILMS Page 1 A,lv Microbial. J 95. 49:7Jl-45 Coyrigt 0 J 95 by nul Reviws I,c. Al
rigts reseved MICROBIAL BIOFILMS J. William Costeton and Zbigniew Lewandowski Center fr …

Fingerprinting genomes using PCR with arbitrary primers

J Welsh, M McClelland - Nucleic acids research, 1990 - academic.oup.com
Simple and reproducible fingerprints of complex genomes can be generated using single
arbitrarily chosen primers and the polymerase chain reaction (PCR). No prior sequence …

Combination of 16S rRNA-targeted oligonucleotide probes with flow cytometry for analyzing mixed microbial populations

RI Amann, BJ Binder, RJ Olson… - Applied and …, 1990 - Am Soc Microbiol
Fluorescent oligonucleotide hybridization probes were used to label bacterial cells for
analysis by flow cytometry. The probes, complementary to short sequence elements within …

Development of the human infant intestinal microbiota

C Palmer, EM Bik, DB DiGiulio, DA Relman… - PLoS …, 2007 - journals.plos.org
Almost immediately after a human being is born, so too is a new microbial ecosystem, one
that resides in that person's gastrointestinal tract. Although it is a universal and integral part …

Isolation and direct complete nucleotide determination of entire genes. Characterization of a gene coding for 16S ribosomal RNA

U Edwards, T Rogall, H Blöcker, M Emde… - Nucleic acids …, 1989 - academic.oup.com
Using a set of synthetic oligonucleotides homologous to broadly conserved sequences in-
vitro amplification via the polymerase chain reaction followed by direct sequencing results in …

Biogeography of a human oral microbiome at the micron scale

JL Mark Welch, BJ Rossetti… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
The spatial organization of complex natural microbiomes is critical to understanding the
interactions of the individual taxa that comprise a community. Although the revolution in DNA …

Metagenomics: application of genomics to uncultured microorganisms

J Handelsman - Microbiology and molecular biology reviews, 2004 - Am Soc Microbiol
Metagenomics (also referred to as environmental and community genomics) is the genomic
analysis of microorganisms by direct extraction and cloning of DNA from an assemblage of …