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Contents: October 2009, Volume 75, Issue 19

       Minireviews

       Public Health Microbiology

       Microbial Ecology

       Physiology

       Food Microbiology

       Biotechnology

       Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology

       Methods

       Invertebrate Microbiology

       Genetics and Molecular Biology

       Biodegradation

       Geomicrobiology

       Environmental Microbiology

       Enzymology and Protein Engineering

       Author's Correction

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Minireviews:

Surface Colonization by Marine Roseobacters: Integrating Genotype and Phenotype
Rachael N. Slightom and Alison Buchan
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6027-6037; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01508-09
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Public Health Microbiology:

Novel Clonal Complexes with an Unknown Animal Reservoir Dominate Campylobacter jejuni Isolates from River Water in New Zealand
P. E. Carter, S. M. McTavish, H. J. L. Brooks, D. Campbell, J. M. Collins-Emerson, A. C. Midwinter, and N. P. French
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6038-6046; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01039-09
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Glyphosate Resistance as a Novel Select-Agent-Compliant, Non-Antibiotic-Selectable Marker in Chromosomal Mutagenesis of the Essential Genes asd and dapB of Burkholderia pseudomallei
Michael H. Norris, Yun Kang, Diana Lu, Bruce A. Wilcox, and Tung T. Hoang
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6062-6075; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00820-09
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Improved Detection of F-Specific RNA Coliphages in Fecal Material by Extraction and Polyethylene Glycol Precipitation
Tineke H. Jones and Michael W. Johns
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6142-6146; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00436-09
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Novel and Unique Diagnostic Biomarkers for Bacillus anthracis Infection
Sagit Sela-Abramovich, Theodor Chitlaru, Orit Gat, Haim Grosfeld, Ofer Cohen, and Avigdor Shafferman
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6157-6167; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00766-09
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Serogroup, Virulence, and Genetic Traits of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the Estuarine Ecosystem of Bangladesh
Munirul Alam, Wasimul B. Chowdhury, N. A. Bhuiyan, Atiqul Islam, Nur A. Hasan, G. Balakrish Nair, H. Watanabe, A. K. Siddique, Anwar Huq, R. Bradley Sack, M. Z. Akhter, Christopher J. Grim, K.-M. Kam, C. K. Y. Luey, Hubert P. Endtz, Alejandro Cravioto, and Rita R. Colwell
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6268-6274; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00266-09
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Spatiotemporal Homogeneity of Campylobacter Subtypes from Cattle and Sheep across Northeastern and Southwestern Scotland
Ovidiu Rotariu, John F. Dallas, Iain D. Ogden, Marion MacRae, Samuel K. Sheppard, Martin C. J. Maiden, Fraser J. Gormley, Ken J. Forbes, and Norval J. C. Strachan
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6275-6281; published ahead of print August 21, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00499-09
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Implications of Limits of Detection of Various Methods for Bacillus anthracis in Computing Risks to Human Health
Amanda B. Herzog, S. Devin McLennan, Alok K. Pandey, Charles P. Gerba, Charles N. Haas, Joan B. Rose, and Syed A. Hashsham
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6331-6339; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00288-09
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Microbial Ecology:

Evolution of Diversity in Spatially Structured Escherichia coli Populations
José Miguel Ponciano, Hyun-Joon La, Paul Joyce, and Larry J. Forney
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6047-6054; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00063-09
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Isolation, Diversity, and Antimicrobial Activity of Rare Actinobacteria from Medicinal Plants of Tropical Rain Forests in Xishuangbanna, China
Sheng Qin, Jie Li, Hua-Hong Chen, Guo-Zhen Zhao, Wen-Yong Zhu, Cheng-Lin Jiang, Li-Hua Xu, and Wen-Jun Li
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6176-6186; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01034-09
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Microbial Decomposer Communities Are Mainly Structured by Trophic Status in Circumneutral and Alkaline Streams
Sofia Duarte, Cláudia Pascoal, Frédéric Garabétian, Fernanda Cássio, and Jean-Yves Charcosset
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6211-6221; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00971-09
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Influence of Vegetation on the In Situ Bacterial Community and Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon (PAH) Degraders in Aged PAH-Contaminated or Thermal-Desorption-Treated Soil
Aurélie Cébron, Thierry Beguiristain, Pierre Faure, Marie-Paule Norini, Jean-François Masfaraud, and Corinne Leyval
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6322-6330; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.02862-08
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Community Structure and Dynamics of Small Eukaryotes Targeted by New Oligonucleotide Probes: New Insight into the Lacustrine Microbial Food Web
Jean-François Mangot, Cécile Lepère, Christophe Bouvier, Didier Debroas, and Isabelle Domaizon
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6373-6381; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00607-09
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Physiology:

Impaired Uptake and/or Utilization of Leucine by Saccharomyces cerevisiae Is Suppressed by the SPT15-300 Allele of the TATA-Binding Protein Gene
Richard J. S. Baerends, Jin-Long Qiu, Simon Rasmussen, Henrik Bjørn Nielsen, and Anders Brandt
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6055-6061; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00989-09
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Transcriptional and Functional Studies of Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans Genes Related to Survival in the Presence of Copper
Claudio A. Navarro, Luis H. Orellana, Cecilia Mauriaca, and Carlos A. Jerez
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6102-6109; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00308-09
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Furfural Inhibits Growth by Limiting Sulfur Assimilation in Ethanologenic Escherichia coli Strain LY180
Elliot N. Miller, Laura R. Jarboe, Peter C. Turner, Priti Pharkya, Lorraine P. Yomano, Sean W. York, David Nunn, K. T. Shanmugam, and Lonnie O. Ingram
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6132-6141; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01187-09
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Zif, the Zoocin A Immunity Factor, Is a FemABX-Like Immunity Protein with a Novel Mode of Action
Shaw R. Gargis, Amy S. Gargis, Harry E. Heath, Lucie S. Heath, Paul A. LeBlanc, Maria M. Senn, Brigitte Berger-Bächi, Robin S. Simmonds, and Gary L. Sloan
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6205-6210; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01011-09
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Food Microbiology:

Internalization of Salmonella enterica in Leaves Is Induced by Light and Involves Chemotaxis and Penetration through Open Stomata
Yulia Kroupitski, Dana Golberg, Eduard Belausov, Riky Pinto, Dvora Swartzberg, David Granot, and Shlomo Sela
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6076-6086; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01084-09
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Transcriptomic Response of Escherichia coli O157:H7 to Oxidative Stress
Siyun Wang, Kaiping Deng, Sam Zaremba, Xiangyu Deng, Chiahui Lin, Qian Wang, Mary Lou Tortorello, and Wei Zhang
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6110-6123; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00914-09
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Molecular Analysis of Virulence Profiles and Shiga Toxin Genes in Food-Borne Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli
T. Slanec, A. Fruth, K. Creuzburg, and H. Schmidt
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6187-6197; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00874-09
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Survival of Lactobacillus reuteri DSM 17938 and Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG in the Human Gastrointestinal Tract with Daily Consumption of a Low-Fat Probiotic Spread
Yvonne E. M. Dommels, Robèr A. Kemperman, Yvonne E. M. P. Zebregs, René B. Draaisma, Arne Jol, Danielle A. W. Wolvers, Elaine E. Vaughan, and Ruud Albers
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6198-6204; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01054-09
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The Response of Campylobacter jejuni to Low Temperature Differs from That of Escherichia coli
Rebecca-Ayme Hughes, Kathy Hallett, Tristan Cogan, Mike Enser, and Tom Humphrey
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6292-6298; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00993-09
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Inorganic Phosphate and Sodium Ions Are Cogerminants for Spores of Clostridium perfringens Type A Food Poisoning-Related Isolates
Daniel Paredes-Sabja, Pathima Udompijitkul, and Mahfuzur R. Sarker
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6299-6305; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00822-09
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Quantification of Horizontal Transmission of Salmonella enterica Serovar Enteritidis Bacteria in Pair-Housed Groups of Laying Hens
M. E. Thomas, D. Klinkenberg, G. Ejeta, F. Van Knapen, A. A. Bergwerff, J. A. Stegeman, and A. Bouma
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6361-6366; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00961-09
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Estimating Risk from Small Inocula by Using Population Growth Parameters
P. K. Malakar and G. C. Barker
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6399-6401; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00651-09
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Little Heterogeneity among Genes Encoding Heat-Labile and Heat-Stable Toxins of Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Strains Isolated from Diarrheal Pigs
Chengxian Zhang, Dana Rausch, and Weiping Zhang
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6402-6405; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00952-09
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Biotechnology:

Functional Assembly of Minicellulosomes on the Saccharomyces cerevisiae Cell Surface for Cellulose Hydrolysis and Ethanol Production
Shen-Long Tsai, Jeongseok Oh, Shailendra Singh, Ruizhen Chen, and Wilfred Chen
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6087-6093; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01538-09
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Poly(3-Hydroxybutyrate) Production from Glycerol by Zobellella denitrificans MW1 via High-Cell-Density Fed-Batch Fermentation and Simplified Solvent Extraction
Mohammad H. A. Ibrahim and Alexander Steinbüchel
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6222-6231; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01162-09
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Evolutionary and Genomic Microbiology:

Neurotoxin Gene Clusters in Clostridium botulinum Type Ab Strains
Carolina Lúquez, Brian H. Raphael, and Susan E. Maslanka
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6094-6101; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01009-09
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Methods:

New Plasmid Tools for Genetic Analysis of Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae and Other Pasteurellaceae
Janine T. Bossé, Andrew L. Durham, Andrew N. Rycroft, J. Simon Kroll, and Paul R. Langford
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6124-6131; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00809-09
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Cell-Free Escherichia coli-Based System To Screen for Quorum-Sensing Molecules Interacting with Quorum Receptor Proteins of Streptomyces coelicolor
Yung-Hun Yang, Tae-Wan Kim, Sung-Hee Park, Kwangwon Lee, Hyung-Yeon Park, Eunjung Song, Hwang-Soo Joo, Yun-Gon Kim, Ji-Sook Hahn, and Byung-Gee Kim
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6367-6372; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00019-09
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Use of Chimeric DNA-RNA Primers in Quantitative PCR for Detection of Ehrlichia canis and Babesia canis
Ofer Peleg, Gad Baneth, Osnat Eyal, Jacob Inbar, and Shimon Harrus
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6393-6398; published ahead of print July 24, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00720-09
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Identification of Brevibacteriaceae by Multilocus Sequence Typing and Comparative Genomic Hybridization Analyses
Marie-Pierre Forquin, Hugo Duvergey, Caroline Proux, Valentin Loux, Jerome Mounier, Sophie Landaud, Jean-Yves Coppée, Jean-François Gibrat, Pascal Bonnarme, Isabelle Martin-Verstraete, and Tatiana Vallaeys
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6406-6409; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00224-09
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Invertebrate Microbiology:

Evidence for Vertical Transmission of Bacterial Symbionts from Adult to Embryo in the Caribbean Sponge Svenzea zeai
On On Lee, Pui Yi Chui, Yue Him Wong, Joseph R. Pawlik, and Pei-Yuan Qian
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6147-6156; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00023-09
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Genetic Basis for Alkaline Activation of Germination in Bacillus thuringiensis subsp. israelensis
M. M. Abdoarrahem, K. Gammon, B. N. Dancer, and C. Berry
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6410-6413; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00962-09
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Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Identification of the Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA)-Specific Acetoacetyl Coenzyme A Reductase among Multiple FabG Paralogs in Haloarcula hispanica and Reconstruction of the PHA Biosynthetic Pathway in Haloferax volcanii
Jing Han, Qiuhe Lu, Ligang Zhou, Hailong Liu, and Hua Xiang
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6168-6175; published ahead of print July 31, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00938-09
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Virulence Genes and Molecular Typing of Different Groups of Escherichia coli O157 Strains in Cattle
István Tóth, Herbert Schmidt, Gábor Kardos, Zsuzsanna Lancz, Kristina Creuzburg, Ivelina Damjanova, Judit Pászti, Lothar Beutin, and Béla Nagy
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6282-6291; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00873-09
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Conjugative Plasmid from Lactobacillus gasseri LA39 That Carries Genes for Production of and Immunity to the Circular Bacteriocin Gassericin A
Yoshiyuki Ito, Yasushi Kawai, Kensuke Arakawa, Yoshiko Honme, Takashi Sasaki, and Tadao Saito
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6340-6351; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00195-09
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Intra- and Interspecies Conjugal Transfer of Tn916-Like Elements from Lactococcus lactis In Vitro and In Vivo
Joanna Boguslawska, Joanna Zycka-Krzesinska, Andrea Wilcks, and Jacek Bardowski
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6352-6360; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00470-09
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Aeromonas hydrophila AH-3 Type III Secretion System Expression and Regulatory Network
Silvia Vilches, Natalia Jimenez, Juan M. Tomás, and Susana Merino
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6382-6392; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00222-09
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Biodegradation:

Actions of Mycobacterium sp. Strain AP1 on the Saturated- and Aromatic-Hydrocarbon Fractions of Fuel Oil in a Marine Medium
Joaquim Vila and Magdalena Grifoll
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6232-6239; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.02726-08
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Geomicrobiology:

Afforestation Alters the Composition of Functional Genes in Soil and Biogeochemical Processes in South American Grasslands
Sean T. Berthrong, Christopher W. Schadt, Gervasio Piñeiro, and Robert B. Jackson
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6240-6248; published ahead of print August 21, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01126-09
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Environmental Microbiology:

Inhibition of Nitrate Reduction by Chromium(VI) in Anaerobic Soil Microcosms
Peter S. Kourtev, Cindy H. Nakatsu, and Allan Konopka
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6249-6257; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00347-09
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Microarray and Real-Time PCR Analyses of the Responses of High-Arctic Soil Bacteria to Hydrocarbon Pollution and Bioremediation Treatments
Etienne Yergeau, Mélanie Arbour, Roland Brousseau, David Juck, John R. Lawrence, Luke Masson, Lyle G. Whyte, and Charles W. Greer
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6258-6267; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01029-09
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Enzymology and Protein Engineering:

Acetolactate Synthase from Bacillus subtilis Serves as a 2-Ketoisovalerate Decarboxylase for Isobutanol Biosynthesis in Escherichia coli
Shota Atsumi, Zhen Li, and James C. Liao
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6306-6311; published ahead of print August 14, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01160-09
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Evolved β-Galactosidases from Geobacillus stearothermophilus with Improved Transgalactosylation Yield for Galacto-Oligosaccharide Production
Gaël Placier, Hildegard Watzlawick, Claude Rabiller, and Ralf Mattes
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6312-6321; published ahead of print August 7, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00714-09
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Author's Correction:

Bifidobacterium bifidum Lacto-N-Biosidase, a Critical Enzyme for the Degradation of Human Milk Oligosaccharides with a Type 1 Structure
Jun Wada, Takuro Ando, Masashi Kiyohara, Hisashi Ashida, Motomitsu Kitaoka, Masanori Yamaguchi, Hidehiko Kumagai, Takane Katayama, and Kenji Yamamoto
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. October 2009 75: 6414
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