• 미생물학회지
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• 제23권3호
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• pp.197-202
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• 1985

Glycine이 R.japonicum의 spheroplasting에 미치는 영향을 검토하였다. Fast-growing R. japonicum R-271은 4mg/ml의 glycine 함유배지에서 생육이 정상이었으나 세포 형태는 배양시간에 따라 변화하였으며 colony 형성단위는 log-phasedlgn 현저히 감소하였다. R-271은 3.5mg/ml glycine 함유배지에서 6시간 배양후에, slow grower R-214는 0.1mg/ml glycine 함유배지에서 24시간 배양후에 lysozyme의 작용을 받았다. 두 균주 모두 이러한 처리에 의해 96%이상의 spheroplast 형성빈도를 나타내었다. 한편 spheroid-type cell은 대두근의 nodule에서 분리한 bacteroid에서도 관찰되었으며 nodule extract에 존재하는 유리 amino acid 중 glycine 은 다른 amino acid에 비해 소량 존재하고 있었다.

• 한국환경보건학회지
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• 제38권6호
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• pp.520-528
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• 2012

Objective: This study was performed to assess bacterial distribution concerned in sanitation management of public lavatory in Seoul. Methods: In this research, bacteriological investigation on public lavatory was accomplished for bidet water, bidet nozzle, washbowl and lavatory stool in the 50 public facilities such as public institutions, subway stations, cinema, department stores, large-scale buildings and hospitals amount to 374 specimens. Results: The geometric mean of colony forming unit(CFU) in total aerobic colony count were analyzed as follows; $5.2{\times}10^2/100cm^2$ on lavatory stool, $7.2{\times}10^3/ea$ on bidet nozzle, $7.8{\times}10^3/ea$ on center ring of washbowl, $1.4{\times}10/mL$ in bidet water (ml) and 7.0/ea on doorknob. Opportunistically pathogenic germs such as Staphylococcus aureus, Escherichia coli, Enterobacter cloacae, Pseudomonas aeruginosa were isolated in 3.7%, 5.9%, 3.2% and 1.9% of total specimens, respectively. Conclusion: The result of this study shows that there were some facilities where the pathogenic germs were detected to may cause urological infection. And the CFU of general bacteria as the representative indicator of disinfection and lavatory cleaning were high enough to imply the improvement of sanitation management of public lavatories should be contrived.

• Environmental Engineering Research
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• 제17권1호
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• pp.35-39
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• 2012

In this study, multiparametric flow cytometry (FCM) was installed to enumerate the diagnosis of Pseudomonas aeruginosa ATCC 10145 and Escherichia coli K12 (IFO 3301). The nucleic acids (DNA/RNA) were double stained by a LIVE/DEAD bacLight viability kit, involving green SYTO 9 and red propidium iodide (PI), based on the permeability of two chemicals according to the integrity of plasma membrane. As the results showed, the gate for dead bacteria was defined as the range of $0.2{\times}10^0$ to $6.0{\times}10^1$ photo multiplier tube (PMT) 2 fluorescence (X-axis) and $2.0{\times}10^0$ to $2.0{\times}10^2$ PMT 4 fluorescence (Y-axis), and the gate for live bacteria was defined as the range of $6.0{\times}10^0$ to $6.0{\times}10^2$ PMT 2 fluorescence (X-axis) and $2.0{\times}10^0$ to $4.0{\times}10^2$ PMT 4 fluorescence (Y-axis). In the comparison of the number of the tested bacteria detected by FCM (viability assessment) and plate culture (cultivability assessment), the number of bacteria detected by FCM well represented the number of bacteria that was detected by the colony forming unit (CFU) counting method when bacteria were exposed to isopropyl alcohol and silver/copper cations. Consequently, it is concluded that the application of FCM to monitor the functional effect of disinfectants on the physiological status of target bacteria can offer more rapid and reliable data than the plate culture colony counting method.

• 한국토양비료학회지
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• 제44권6호
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• pp.1181-1184
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• 2011

Total aerobic bacteria, Esherichia coli O157:H7, and Salmonella spp. were examined in commercial liquid pig manures. Commercial liquid pig manures (n=33) were collected from muck joint resource recovery plant at April, June, August, October 2009, Korea. Total aerobic bacteria were incubated at $37^{\circ}C$ for 24-48 hrs, and quantified as a colony-forming unit (CFU) $mL^{-1}$. Analysis of Esherichia coli O157:H7 and Salmonella spp. were followed by Korean Food Standards Codex method. Colony of Salmonella spp. was confirmed by API kit and real time polymerase chain reaction (PCR). Total aerobic bacteria isolated from fermented commercial liquid pig manures ranged from 2.8 to $24.3{\times}10^4\;CFU\;mL^{-1}$. Esherichia coli O157:H7 was not detected, and Salmonella spp. showed the low detection frequency at only 1 sample. This study suggests that continuous monitoring in commercial liquid pig manures is required to improve the agricultural food through management of agricultural land contaminated with liquid pig manures.

• Journal of Genetic Medicine
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• 제7권2호
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• pp.138-144
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• 2010

목 적: 자궁내막의 신혈관 형성을 조정하는 혈관내피전구세포는 자궁-태반 순환에서의 신혈관 형성에 관여하는 것으로 알려져 있다. 혈관내피전구세포의 정량적 지표로 사용되는 집락생성단위(CFU)의 감소는 혈관질환의 예측 표지자로서 보고되고 있다. 본 연구에서는 정상 산모와 자간전증 산모 간에 CFU의 수적인 차이를 비교해 보고자 하였다. 대상 및 방법: 임신말기의 단태 정상 산모 26명과 자간전증산모 20명을 대상으로 혈관내피전구세포의 수를 CFU로 정량화하였다. 효소면역분석법을 이용하여 혈장내의 VEGF와 sFlt-1, PlGF 농도를 분석하였다. 결 과: CFU의 수는 정상 산모에 비해 자간전증 산모에서 매우 감소하였다[median value: 3 (range: 1-12) vs median value: 31(range:3-81) CFU/ well, P<0.001). 집락을 구성하는 대부분의 세포는 혈관내피세포의 특징적인 성질을 보였다(Ulex europaeus lectin의 발현 및 acetylated lowdensity lipoprotein의 섭취). 혈장내의 sFlt-1 농도는 정상 산모에 비해 자간전증 산모에서 매우 높은 반면(P<0.001), PlGF의 농도는 매우 낮았으며(P=0.004), sFlt-1과 PlGF의 농도는 CFU의 수와 연관성이 없었다. 결 론: 산모 말초혈액내의 CFU의 수적 감소가 자간전증 발생에 기여할 것으로 생각된다.

• 한국식품영양학회지
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• 제1권1호
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• pp.33-40
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• 1988

A Study was conducted to investigate the effect of feeding Lactobacillus casei YS on the growing performance and gastrointestinal flora of the suckling piglets, which were delivered from 2 heads of three-way crossbred(Landrace$\times$Large White$\times$Duroc) pigs, for 4 weeks. The results from the present study was summarized as follows. Average body weight gains of feeding group was slightly better than that of control group and diarrhea was prevented by successive 7 days feeding. Population levels of lactic acid bacteria were maintained about 107 colony forming unit(cfu) per gram of the contents in both feeding and control group at upper parts of small intestine. In this part, coliform count was greatly reduced in (ceding group but not in control group. pH values of the intestinal contents were gradually decreased especially at the upper part of alimentary track of feeding group. Among lactic acid bacteria, L. salivarius, L. cases and L. fermentum were found most predominant strains in feeding group, Wheareas L. salivarius, L. acidophilus and L. cunts in control group. In the other hand, Escherichia coli recovered from scouring pigs were resistant to the drug such as streptomycin, ampicillin and sensitive to gentamycin and neomycin in vitro test.

• The Journal of Advanced Prosthodontics
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• 제3권1호
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• pp.20-24
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• 2011

PURPOSE. The aim of this study was to identify in vitro antimicrobial activity of the tissue conditioner containing silver nanoparticles on microbial strains, Staphylococcus aureus, Streptococcus mutans and Candida albicans. MATERIALS AND METHODS. Experimental disc samples ($20.0{\times}3.0$ mm) of tissue conditioner (GC Soft-Liner, GC cooperation, Tokyo, Japan) containing 0.1 - 3.0% silver nanoparticles (0%: control) were fabricated. Samples were placed on separate culture plate dish and microbial suspensions (100 ${\mu}L$) of tested strains were inoculated then incubated at $37^{\circ}C$. Microbial growth was verified at 24 hrs and 72 hrs and the antimicrobial effects of samples were evaluated as a percentage of viable cells in withdrawn suspension (100 ${\mu}L$). Data were recorded as the mean of three colony forming unit (CFU) numerations and the borderline of the antimicrobial effect was determined at 0.1% viable cells. RESULTS. A 0.1% silver nanoparticles combined to tissue conditioner displayed minimal bactericidal effect against Staphylococcus aureus and Streptococcus mutans strains, a 0.5% for fungal strain. Control group did not show any microbial inhibitory effect and there were no statistical difference between 24 hrs and extended 72 hrs incubation time (P > .05). CONCLUSION. Within the limitation of this in vitro study, the results suggest that the tissue conditioner containing silver nanoparticles could be an antimicrobial dental material in denture plaque control. Further mechanical stability and toxicity studies are still required.

• 대한의생명과학회지
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• 제22권4호
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• pp.215-219
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• 2016

The problems of tuberculosis and its drug resistance are very severe. Therefore, rapid and accurate drug susceptibility assay is required. Recently, there has been an increased understanding of the genetic mechanism of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) drug resistance as well as advancement of molecular technologies. While many gene mutations correlate well with drug resistance, many genes do not show a strong correlation with drug resistance. For this reason, the current study assessed the utility of rpoB mRNA as a target to detect live mycobacteria. In this study, RT-PCR targeting of rpoB mRNA in BCG treated with rifampin was performed. Conventional RT-PCR and real-time PCR targeting rpoB mRNA as well as 85B mRNA was performed to determine whether these two methods could distinguish between viable and non-viable MTB. The levels of rpoB and 85B mRNA detected by RT- PCR were compared in parallel with colony forming unit counts of BCG that were treated with rifampin for different periods of time. The data suggests that that even though both mRNA levels of rpoB and 85B decreased gradually when rifampin-treatment increased, the rpoB mRNA seemed to represent live bacteria better than 85B mRNA. This study clearly indicates that RT-PCR is a good method to monitor viable cell counts in the liquid culture treated with the anti-tuberculosis drug.

• Journal of Microbiology and Biotechnology
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• 제13권5호
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• pp.794-799
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• 2003

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) was developed for the rapid detection of Fusarium species, known as harmful fungi in food. One of the hybridoma cell lines (lB8) which produced a monoclonal antibody (Mab) specific to Fusarium extracellular polysaccharide (EPS) was screened and the Mab was produced and purified. A detection limit of the sandwich ELISA against F. moniliforme EPS was $0.001\;\mu\textrm{g}/ml$ in the standard curve. Among the 59 strains tested, most Fusarium species showed hight reactivity with Mab lB8, even when the culture broths were diluted 100,000 times. On the other hand, the other genera, except A. versicolor and Trichoderma viride, had no reactivity. When 1 to $100\;\mu\textrm{g}$ of F. moniliforme EPS was spiked into rice, potato, and mandarine orange, the average recoveries were 151%, 84%, and 94%, respectively, determined by sandwich ELISA. The correlation coefficients between the EPS levels determined by sandwich ELISA and the dry mycelial weight of the liquid culture of F. moniliforme, as well as between the EPS and colony forming unit in solid culture of potato, were 0.97 and 0.91, respectively.

• 농업과학연구
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• 제37권3호
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• pp.451-455
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• 2010

Cabbage, the main material of coleslaw was not safely washed because it is uneven and tightly layered. In this study, vinegar was used to control the number of E. coli in cabbage for coleslaw production. When cabbage was soaked in 10% acetic acid, The number of bacteria was reduced by $10^{-3}$ was survived after 5min and $10^{-6}$ after 30min. After soaking, 15-20% (w/w of cabbage) of 10% acetic acid was remained in chopped cabbage. Spraying 10% acetic acid up to 3% of cabbage weight decreased the number of bacteria by 1/1000 after 60min. Spraying 3% (v/w of cabbage) of vinegar containing 10% acidity decreased the bacteria by 2/3 after 20min but no further decrease was observed. This result indicated that vinegar can be used only in the case that contamination is low.