• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
• /
• 제23권9호
• /
• pp.1250-1260
• /
• 2010

Mycotoxins are secondary metabolites produced by fungi. These toxins pose serious health concerns to animals as well as human beings. Biodegradation of these mycotoxins has been considered as one of the best strategies to decontaminate food and feedstuffs. Biodegradation employs the application of microbes or enzymes to contaminated food and feedstuffs. Ruminants are considered to be resistant to the adverse effects of mycotoxins presumably due to the biodegrading ability of rumen microbes compared to mono-gastric animals. Therefore, rumen microbial source or microbial enzyme could be a great asset in biological detoxification of mycotoxins. Isolation and characterization of pure culture of rumen microorganisms or isolation and cloning of genes encoding mycotoxin-degrading potential would prove to have overall beneficial impact in the food and feed industry.

• 대한한방부인과학회지
• /
• 제20권2호
• /
• pp.124-138
• /
• 2007

Purpose: This study was conducted to investigate the antimicrobial effects of the interior warming herbs on vaginal microbes. Methods: Staphylococcus aureus, Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Candida albicans and Gardnerella vaginalis were used for vaginitis-induced microbes. Lactobacillus gasseri, Streptococcus spp. and Escherichia coli HB101 were used for normal vaginal florae. And herbs for warming the interior (Zingiberis Rhizoma, Alpiniae Officinari Rhizoma, Aconiti Tuber, Anethi Fructus, Evodiae Fructus, Cinnamomi Cortex Spissus, Caryophylli Flos, Aconiti Tube, Zanthoxyli Pericarpium, Piperis Longi Fructus, Piperis Nigri Fructus) were used in this study. Antimicrobial activities were tested by the change of optical densities (OD) and colony test in vitro. Results: In the results of vaginitis-induced microbes, Anethi Fructus was decreased the OD values on MRSA and Gardnerella vaginalis and Aconiti Tuber was decreased on MRSA. There were no viable MRSA and Gardnerella vaginalis colony forming against Evodiae Fructus, Staphylococcus aureus and MRSA colony forming against Piperis Longi Fructus, Staphylococcus aureus colony forming against Piperis Nigri Fructus and MRSA colony forming against Zanthoxyli Pericarpium. In the results of normal vaginal florae, Zingiberis Rhizoma was decreased the OD values on Streptococcus spp. and all normal vaginal florae were showed viable colony forming against all experimental herbs. Conclusion: According to these results, we can suggest that some kinds of interior warming herbs have antimicrobial effects on vaginal microbes. So there might be needed to make furthermore studies to seek the herbs which have selective antimicrobial effect on pathologic vaginal microbes.

• 약학회지
• /
• 제51권4호
• /
• pp.253-258
• /
• 2007

Bombycis corpus, a batryticated silkworm and white-stiff silkworm, is an oriental drug consisting of the dried larva of silkworm, dead and stiffened due to the infection of Beauveria. An peptidyl antimicrobial molecule was purified from B. corpus by reverse phase-column chromatography and HPLC. Its molecular weight was determined to be 2295.45 by using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight (MALDI-TOF) mass spectrometry. Its antimicrobial activity was diminished by trypsin digestion. It exhibited a broad antimicrobial spectrum against not only Gram-negative, but also Gram- positive bacteria. Furthermore, it was found to have an antimicrobial activity against vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE), methicillin-resistant S. arureus (MRSA), and vancomycin-intermediate resistant S. arureus (VISA). It may be a useful molecule for a new antibiotic development, especially against antibiotic resistant microbe. This substance may play a role in the defense system of this animal against Beauveria bassiana. This is the first report of a peptidyl antimicrobial substance from B. corpus.

• 한국식품영양과학회:학술대회논문집
• /
• 한국식품영양과학회 2001년도 International Symposium on Food,Nutrition and Health for 21st Century
• /
• pp.161-169
• /
• 2001

Lactic acid producing bacteria were isolated from baby feces and characterized to be used as a probiotic with anti Helicobacter pylori functions. The selected bacteria had inhibition activity on the adherance and growth of H. pylori. These bacteria had additional beneficial characteristics for the probiotic such as antibacterial activity, antitumor activity, immunostimulation activity, resistance to antibiotic and bile salt, ability to bind to the intestinal cells, and safe for the human use.

• International Journal of Oral Biology
• /
• 제38권2호
• /
• pp.51-54
• /
• 2013

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of the important causative microbes for nosocomial infection and has been isolated from the dental environment. The purpose of this study was to investigate the antimicrobial activity of linalool and ${\alpha}$-terpineol against MRSA isolates from a Korean population. In the experiments, we determined the minimum inhibitory concentrations (MICs) and minimum bactericidal concentrations (MBCs) of these two compounds against 18 strains of MRSA. The data revealed that the $MIC_{90}/MBC_{90}$ values of linalool and ${\alpha}$-terpineol against MRSA were >12.8 mg/ml and 6.4 mg/ml, respectively. These results indicate that ${\alpha}$-terpineol has more potent antimicrobial activity against MRSA than linalool and may have utility as an anti-MRSA cleansing agent for dental instruments and dental unit chairs.

• 한국환경성돌연변이발암원학회지
• /
• 제25권4호
• /
• pp.157-160
• /
• 2005

Biofilm 내부의 항생제 내성 박테리아의 성장형태는 만성감염과 질병을 발생한다. 인위적 형성한 biofilm의 체외실험 모델 시스템 통한 항생제 침투 실험을 수행하였다. 항생제 내성 균주 (E. coli, S. aureus)는 항생제 내성균주 은행으로부터 획득하였다 Ca-alginate bead를 인위적 biofilm으로 사용하였고, 세포 생존률을 향상시키기 위해 공기 압축을 이용한 세포 포획 실험도 측정되었다. biofilm의 항생제 감수성은 항생제의 농도 따라 최저 저해 농도 (MIC)를 이용하여 측정되었다. bead생성에 따른 안정성은 bead를 형성하지 않은 세포와 비교하여 감소하였다. 항생제에 민감한 E. coli의 경우 시간이 지남에 따라 균체수도 감소하였으나, 항생제 내성 E. coli는 일정한 균체수를 유지하였다. bead형성 후 항생제 투여 효과는 항생제 내성이 있고, 낮은 농도의 항생제를 처리할수록 더 높은 생존률을 보였다.

• 대한임상검사과학회지
• /
• 제50권4호
• /
• pp.431-437
• /
• 2018

Acinetobacter baumannii는 광범위한 항생제에 대한 저항성으로 인해 감염된 환자의 사망률이 높아지는 적색 경보 병원체로 분류됩니다. 이 연구에서 다제 내성 A. baumannii(MRAB)의 18가지 임상 분리 균주에 대해 일부 에센셜 오일(티트리, 로즈마리, 라벤더 오일)의 항균 활성을 평가하고자 하였다. Carbapenemase 선별을 위한 Hodge 시험법은 A. baumannii의 20 가지 균주가 모두 imipenem에 내성이 있음을 보여주었습니다. 다제 내성 미생물의 확인은 VITEK 시스템을 통해 수행하였다. 에센셜 오일의 항균 활성은 MRAB에 대한 디스크 확산 방법으로 평가하였다. 디스크 확산 방법에서 tee tree는 라벤더 오일에 비해 억제 크기가 가장 크게 증가했으며, 로즈마리는 항균 효과가 없었다. 티 트리 오일은 가장 일반적인 인간 병원균 및 MRAB 감염의 치료 및 예방을 위한 대체 천연 제품으로 유용할 것으로 보인다. 따라서 이 연구의 결과는 다제 내성 A. baumannii의 항균 효과를 입증했으며, 미래에 천연 에센셜 오일을 사용하는 손 소독제와 같은 항균제로 사용될 것으로 예상됩니다.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
• /
• 제16권10호
• /
• pp.1550-1554
• /
• 2003

One hundred of lactic cultures were evaluated for their ability to inhibit hazardous microbes, such as Salmonella enteritidis, Salmonella typhimurium, Escherichia coli, Listeria monocytogenes, and Bacillus cereus by agar well diffusion method. None of them showed inhibitory halo against S. enteritidis, while 27 strains showed inhibitory activity against S. typhimurium, 6 against E. coli, 9 against ampicillin resistant E. coli, 31 against L. monocytogens, 10 against B. cereus. pH of the culture does not explain for the inhibitory activity except against B. cereus. A neutralized culture from corn silage showed highest inhibitory activity against S. typhimurium, and the size of inhibitory halo was same as 10 ug/mL of ampicillin. The culture was identified to be Lactobacillus buchneri on the basis of biochemical characteristics and utilization of substrates. Using the culture as probiotics could be expected to reduce antibiotics for animal feeding.

• Asian-Australasian Journal of Animal Sciences
• /
• 제5권3호
• /
• pp.511-517
• /
• 1992

Ethanol was utilized by mixed rumen microbes, but addition of pentachlorophenol (25 mg/l), a methanogen inhibitor, suppressed the utilization of ethanol. Carbon monoxide (50% of the gas phase), a hydrogenase inhibitor, more strongly suppressed the utilization of ethanol, propanol, and butanol. These results suggest that the major ethanol utilizers are $H_2$ producers. Ethanol utilization was depressed at low pH (below 6.0). Since methanogens were shown to be relatively resistant to low pH, it appears that ethanol utilizers are particularly sensitive to low pH. Ruminococcus albus and R. flavefaciens in mono-culture produced ethanol from carbohydrate (glucose and cellobiose), even when a high level (170 mM) of ethanol was present. Ethanol was not utilized even in the absence of carbohydrate, but the co-culture of these bacteria with methanogens resulted in the utilization of ethanol, i.e., when $H_2$ was rapidly converted to $CH_4$, R. albus and R. flavefaciens utilized ethanol. These results suggest that ethanol is utilized when the electrons liberated by the oxidation of ethanol are rapidly removed, and ready electron disposal in ethanol-utilizing, $H_2$-producing bacteria is accomplished by the interspecies transfer of $H_2$.

• 한국환경과학회지
• /
• 제25권6호
• /
• pp.757-766
• /
• 2016

MTBE and other gasoline additives contained in gasoline are known to be a refractory substance resistant to biodegradation. As a method of removing these substances, a research of method using native microbes of polluted soil was progressed and among these, bio-degradation possibility under aerobic condition was evaluated. All of the experiments were progressed based on batch experiment of lab scale and analyzed by GC-FID using HS-SPME technique. The result of bio-degradation experiment based on MTBE and other additives(ETBE, TAME) was observed below 1 mg/L, which initial concentration were 100 mg/L for each method. And through production of by-product and CO2, partial mineralization was confirmed. Degradation velocity of each additive was promptly represented in the order of TBA>ETBE>MTBE>TAME. Through this study, bio-degradation possibility of native microbes of oil polluted soil, MTBE and other gasoline additives was confirmed and it was considered that the result could be used for basic experiment data in removing oil pollutants of soil.