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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009)Some lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are capable of growing on stored meat and inhibiting pathogenic and spoilage bacteria of concern to the meat industry using a range of mechanisms including general competition and/or the ...
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 1990)The use of artificial wetlands as a sewage effluent treatment process has recently been the focus of much interest in New Zealand but little information is available on their effectiveness in removal of human viruses. Wetland ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2008)Integrative and conjugative elements (ICEs) are a newly appreciated group of mobile elements that contribute immensely to bacterial evolution. The symbiosis island ICEMlSym[R7A] of Mesorhizobium loti strain R7A is the ...
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2013)Most streptococcal species are essentially non-pathogenic and are part of the normal commensal microflora of the mouth, skin, intestine, and upper respiratory tract of humans (and other animals). Streptococcus salivarius ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)The immune system has the potential to detect and destroy tumour cells, however naturally occurring anti-tumour immunity is not always capable of controlling tumour growth. Immunotherapy can harness the anti-tumour function ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)Infectious disease accounts for the highest percentage of preventable deaths worldwide and today’s health care systems are predominately reliant upon antibiotics to treat bacterial infections bacterial strains. Serious ... -
(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2013)Members of the genus Mycobacterium are able to degrade cholesterol and for pathogenic members like Mycobacterium tuberculosis this degradation has been implicated in persistence in the lungs of the chronically infected ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2002)
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1991)
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2009)This environmental history explores dialectics of ecological and cultural change on the Otago Peninsula, from first human settlement to 1900. It argues that Maori and European systems of property defined the shifting ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2002)Approximately l 0% of S. pyogenes inhibit the growth of all nine indicator strains when tested in a standardised bacteriocin testing scheme. This indicator inhibition activity is referred to as bacteriocin production ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010)The largest family of bacterial toxin-antitoxin (TA) modules is formed by the vapBC operons, and these are grouped together by virtue of their toxin components belonging to the PilT N-terminal domain family of proteins ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1996)
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 1999)
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 1997)
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2007)
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2002)
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(Thesis, Bachelor of Biomedical Science with Honours, 2006)
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(Thesis, Bachelor of Biomedical Science with Honours, 2007)
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(Thesis, Bachelor of Biomedical Science with Honours, 2009)Virus-like particles (VLP), such as the Rabbit Haemorrhagic Disease Virus (RHDV) VLP, are subunit vaccines that have proven to be efficient vectors for delivery of heterologous antigens to the immune system. Model tumour ...
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