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Contents: December 2009, Volume 75, Issue 23

       Public Health Microbiology

       Food Microbiology

       Physiology

       Enzymology and Protein Engineering

       Biotechnology

       Environmental Microbiology

       Microbial Ecology

       Methods

       Genetics and Molecular Biology

       Invertebrate Microbiology

       Errata

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Public Health Microbiology:

Development of a Test System To Evaluate Procedures for Decontamination of Respirators Containing Viral Droplets
Evanly Vo, Samy Rengasamy, and Ronald Shaffer
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7303-7309; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00799-09
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Long-Term Survival of Campylobacter jejuni at Low Temperatures Is Dependent on Polynucleotide Phosphorylase Activity
Nabila Haddad, Christopher M. Burns, Jean Michel Bolla, Hervé Prévost, Michel Fédérighi, Djamel Drider, and Jean Michel Cappelier
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7310-7318; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01366-09
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Clonal Relationship among Atypical Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Strains Isolated from Different Animal Species and Humans
Rodrigo A. Moura, Marcelo P. Sircili, Luciana Leomil, Maria Helena Matté, Luiz R. Trabulsi, Waldir P. Elias, Kinue Irino, and Antonio F. Pestana de Castro
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7399-7408; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00636-09
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Mechanically Ventilated Broiler Sheds: a Possible Source of Aerosolized Salmonella, Campylobacter, and Escherichia coli
H. N. Chinivasagam, T. Tran, L. Maddock, A. Gale, and P. J. Blackall
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7417-7425; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01380-09
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Francisella tularensis Type A Strains Cause the Rapid Encystment of Acanthamoeba castellanii and Survive in Amoebal Cysts for Three Weeks Postinfection
Sahar H. El-Etr, Jeffrey J. Margolis, Denise Monack, Richard A. Robison, Marissa Cohen, Emily Moore, and Amy Rasley
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7488-7500; published ahead of print October 9, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01829-09
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Detection and Identification of tdh- and trh-Positive Vibrio parahaemolyticus Strains from Four Species of Cultured Bivalve Molluscs on the Spanish Mediterranean Coast
Ana Roque, Carmen Lopez-Joven, Beatriz Lacuesta, Laurence Elandaloussi, Sariqa Wagley, M. Dolores Furones, Imanol Ruiz-Zarzuela, Ignacio de Blas, Rachel Rangdale, and Bruno Gomez-Gil
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7574-7577; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00772-09
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Food Microbiology:

Glycoprofiling Bifidobacterial Consumption of Galacto-Oligosaccharides by Mass Spectrometry Reveals Strain-Specific, Preferential Consumption of Glycans
Mariana Barboza, David A. Sela, Claire Pirim, Riccardo G. LoCascio, Samara L. Freeman, J. Bruce German, David A. Mills, and Carlito B. Lebrilla
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7319-7325; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00842-09
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Risk Assessment in Shellfish-Borne Outbreaks of Hepatitis A
Rosa M. Pintó, M. Isabel Costafreda, and Albert Bosch
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7350-7355; published ahead of print October 9, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01177-09
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Influence of Different Filling, Cooling, and Storage Conditions on the Growth of Alicyclobacillus acidoterrestris CRA7152 in Orange Juice
Ana Cláudia N. F. Spinelli, Anderson S. Sant'Ana, Salatir Rodrigues-Junior, and Pilar R. Massaguer
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7409-7416; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01400-09
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Dynamics of Clinical and Environmental Vibrio parahaemolyticus Strains during Seafood-Related Summer Diarrhea Outbreaks in Southern Chile
Katherine García, Rafael Torres, Paulina Uribe, Cristina Hernández, M. Luisa Rioseco, Jaime Romero, and Romilio T. Espejo
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7482-7487; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01662-09
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Physiology:

Novel Electrochemically Active Bacterium Phylogenetically Related to Arcobacter butzleri, Isolated from a Microbial Fuel Cell
Viatcheslav Fedorovich, Matthew C. Knighton, Eulyn Pagaling, F. Bruce Ward, Andrew Free, and Igor Goryanin
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7326-7334; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01345-09
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Evidence for Nitrogen Fixation by "Dehalococcoides ethenogenes" Strain 195
Patrick K. H. Lee, Jianzhong He, Stephen H. Zinder, and Lisa Alvarez-Cohen
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7551-7555; published ahead of print October 9, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01886-09
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Enzymology and Protein Engineering:

Effect of Linker Length and Dockerin Position on Conversion of a Thermobifida fusca Endoglucanase to the Cellulosomal Mode
Jonathan Caspi, Yoav Barak, Rachel Haimovitz, Diana Irwin, Raphael Lamed, David B. Wilson, and Edward A. Bayer
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7335-7342; published ahead of print October 9, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01241-09
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Thermal Stabilization of Erwinia chrysanthemi Pectin Methylesterase A for Application in a Sugar Beet Pulp Biorefinery
Chacko Chakiath, Margaret J. Lyons, Robert E. Kozak, and Craig S. Laufer
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7343-7349; published ahead of print October 9, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01010-09
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Generation of Amylosucrase Variants That Terminate Catalysis of Acceptor Elongation at the Di- or Trisaccharide Stage
Jens Schneider, Christin Fricke, Heike Overwin, Birgit Hofmann, and Bernd Hofer
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7453-7460; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01194-09
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Molecular Characterization of a Novel Peroxidase from the Cyanobacterium Anabaena sp. Strain PCC 7120
Henry Joseph Oduor Ogola, Takaaki Kamiike, Naoya Hashimoto, Hiroyuki Ashida, Takahiro Ishikawa, Hitoshi Shibata, and Yoshihiro Sawa
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7509-7518; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01121-09
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Biotechnology:

Stress-Responsive Systems Set Specific Limits to the Overproduction of Membrane Proteins in Bacillus subtilis
Jessica C. Zweers, Thomas Wiegert, and Jan Maarten van Dijl
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7356-7364; published ahead of print October 9, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01560-09
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Environmental Microbiology:

Diversity of nirK Denitrifying Genes and Transcripts in an Agricultural Soil
Sophie Wertz, Catherine E. Dandie, Claudia Goyer, Jack T. Trevors, and Cheryl L. Patten
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7365-7377; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01588-09
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Impact of an 8-Year-Old Transgenic Poplar Plantation on the Ectomycorrhizal Fungal Community
Franck O. P. Stefani, Jean-Marc Moncalvo, Armand Séguin, Jean A. Bérubé, and Richard C. Hamelin
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7527-7536; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01120-09
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Contamination of Soil by Copper Affects the Dynamics, Diversity, and Activity of Soil Bacterial Communities Involved in Wheat Decomposition and Carbon Storage
L. Bernard, P. A. Maron, C. Mougel, V. Nowak, J. Lévêque, C. Marol, J. Balesdent, F. Gibiat, and L. Ranjard
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7565-7569; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00616-09
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Microbial Ecology:

Influence of Environmental Gradients on the Abundance and Distribution of Mycobacterium spp. in a Coastal Lagoon Estuary
John Jacobs, Matt Rhodes, Brian Sturgis, and Bob Wood
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7378-7384; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01900-09
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Novel Alkane Hydroxylase Gene (alkB) Diversity in Sediments Associated with Hydrocarbon Seeps in the Timor Sea, Australia
Kenneth Wasmund, Kathryn A. Burns, D. Ipek Kurtböke, and David G. Bourne
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7391-7398; published ahead of print October 9, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01370-09
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CO Dehydrogenase Genes Found in Metagenomic Fosmid Clones from the Deep Mediterranean Sea
Ana-Belen Martin-Cuadrado, Rohit Ghai, Aitor Gonzaga, and Francisco Rodriguez-Valera
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7436-7444; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01283-09
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Endosymbiotic Bacteria in the Parasitic Ciliate Ichthyophthirius multifiliis
H. Y. Sun, J. Noe, J. Barber, R. S. Coyne, D. Cassidy-Hanley, T. G. Clark, R. C. Findly, and H. W. Dickerson
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7445-7452; published ahead of print October 9, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00850-09
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Distribution and Diversity of Archaeal and Bacterial Ammonia Oxidizers in Salt Marsh Sediments
Nicole S. Moin, Katelyn A. Nelson, Alexander Bush, and Anne E. Bernhard
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7461-7468; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01001-09
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Phylogenetic Diversity and Metabolic Potential Revealed in a Glacier Ice Metagenome
Carola Simon, Arnim Wiezer, Axel W. Strittmatter, and Rolf Daniel
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7519-7526; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00946-09
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Development and Application of Quantitative-PCR Tools for Subgroups of the Roseobacter Clade
Alison Buchan, Mary Hadden, and Marcelino T. Suzuki
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7542-7547; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00814-09
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Low Salinity and High-Level UV-B Radiation Reduce Single-Cell Activity in Antarctic Sea Ice Bacteria
Andrew Martin, Julie Hall, and Ken Ryan
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7570-7573; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.00829-09
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Methods:

Development and Application of a Bioluminescence-Based Test for Assimilable Organic Carbon in Reclaimed Waters
Lauren A. Weinrich, Eugenio Giraldo, and Mark W. LeChevallier
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7385-7390; published ahead of print October 9, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01728-09
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Functional Tomographic Fluorescence Imaging of pH Microenvironments in Microbial Biofilms by Use of Silica Nanoparticle Sensors
Gabriela Hidalgo, Andrew Burns, Erik Herz, Anthony G. Hay, Paul L. Houston, Ulrich Wiesner, and Leonard W. Lion
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7426-7435; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01220-09
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Strain-Specific Genotyping of Bifidobacterium animalis subsp. lactis by Using Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms, Insertions, and Deletions
Elizabeth P. Briczinski, Joseph R. Loquasto, Rodolphe Barrangou, Edward G. Dudley, Anastasia M. Roberts, and Robert F. Roberts
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7501-7508; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01430-09
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Introducing mothur: Open-Source, Platform-Independent, Community-Supported Software for Describing and Comparing Microbial Communities
Patrick D. Schloss, Sarah L. Westcott, Thomas Ryabin, Justine R. Hall, Martin Hartmann, Emily B. Hollister, Ryan A. Lesniewski, Brian B. Oakley, Donovan H. Parks, Courtney J. Robinson, Jason W. Sahl, Blaz Stres, Gerhard G. Thallinger, David J. Van Horn, and Carolyn F. Weber
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7537-7541; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01541-09
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BchY-Based Degenerate Primers Target All Types of Anoxygenic Photosynthetic Bacteria in a Single PCR
Natalya Yutin, Marcelino T. Suzuki, Mira Rosenberg, Denisse Rotem, Michael T. Madigan, Jörg Süling, Johannes F. Imhoff, and Oded Béjà
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7556-7559; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01014-09
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Detection and Quantification of Dehalogenimonas and "Dehalococcoides" Populations via PCR-Based Protocols Targeting 16S rRNA Genes
Jun Yan, Brian A. Rash, Fred A. Rainey, and William M. Moe
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7560-7564; published ahead of print October 9, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01938-09
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Genetics and Molecular Biology:

Identification of Two Aflatrem Biosynthesis Gene Loci in Aspergillus flavus and Metabolic Engineering of Penicillium paxilli To Elucidate Their Function
Matthew J. Nicholson, Albert Koulman, Brendon J. Monahan, Beth L. Pritchard, Gary A. Payne, and Barry Scott
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7469-7481; published ahead of print October 2, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.02146-08
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Invertebrate Microbiology:

Oligomerization of Cry11Aa from Bacillus thuringiensis Has an Important Role in Toxicity against Aedes aegypti
Carlos Muñoz-Garay, Claudia Rodríguez-Almazán, Jose N. Aguilar, Leivi Portugal, Isabel Gómez, Gloria Saab-Rincon, Mario Soberón, and Alejandra Bravo
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7548-7550; published ahead of print October 9, 2009, doi:10.1128/AEM.01303-09
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Errata:

Quantitative Physiology of Saccharomyces cerevisiae at Near-Zero Specific Growth Rates
Léonie G. M. Boender, Erik A. F. de Hulster, Antonius J. A. van Maris, Pascale A. S. Daran-Lapujade, and Jack T. Pronk
Appl. Environ. Microbiol. December 2009 75: 7578
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