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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, Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences with Honours, 2011)Ankylosing Spondylitis (AS) is chronic inflammatory arthritis of spine and sacroiliac joints with further peripheral manifestations. AS is a relatively common rheumatic disease affecting 0.1- 1.4% of the population. Early ...
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(Thesis, Master of Science, 2012)Bacteria live in environments where they are constantly under attack by bacteriophage (phage) and are subjected to horizontal gene transfer (HGT) events, such as transfer of plasmids. Bacteria have developed many systems ...
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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, 2012)Serratia sp. ATCC 39006 (Serratia 39006) is a Gram-negative bacterium from the Enterobacteriaceae family. Serratia 39006 is able to produce a number of secondary metabolites including the red tripyrrole antibiotic prodigiosin ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)Human noroviruses are highly infectious viruses that cause the majority of acute, non-bacterial epidemic gastroenteritis cases worldwide. Noroviruses belong to the family Caliciviridae and have a positive-sense RNA genome ...
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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, Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences with Honours, 2011)Tuberculosis (TB) is a difficult to treat disease caused by the bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis. M. tuberculosis is able to shut down its metabolism in response to diverse environmental cues and enter a stage of ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)Digestion-resistant carbohydrates (DRC) in the diet pass to the terminal ileum and large bowel where they may be fermented by resident bacteria. The bacterial communities in the bowel of young animals undergo dramatic ... -
(Thesis, Master of Science, 2009)BCG is already established as a vaccine against a global epidemic of tuberculosis, but its efficacy remains variable. It has shown almost no protection against TB in tropical countries like Africa and India. One of the ... -
(Thesis, Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences with Honours, 2011)Poxviruses are complex, large double stranded DNA viruses that replicate in the cytoplasm of infected cells. The early phase of infection involves a two step uncoating process, firstly releasing viral core structures, then ... -
(Thesis, Bachelor of Biomedical Sciences with Honours, 2011)By presenting antigen to T cells dendritic cells (DC) carry out a central role in the activation of T cell mediated immunity to cancer. Tumour cell lysate (TL) as a source of tumour antigens offers the advantage over single, ... -
(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, 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, Master of Science, 2012)A strain of Micrococcus luteus, isolated from the epidermis of an adult human male, produces anti-bacterial activity in vitro. The purpose of this study was to investigate the potential value of this bacterium, designated ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2010)During the course of this thesis factors mediating successful oral vaccination with lipidencapsulated Mycobacterium bovis BCG were examined. Mice were fed 2x10E07 CFU BCG encapsulated into a lipid matrix to prevent destruction ... -
(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, 1999)
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2012)The poxviruses are an extensive family of large DNA viruses, including the causative agent for smallpox, variola virus. The success of poxviruses as pathogens is in part due to their expression of an array of gene products ...
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(Thesis, Doctor of Philosophy, 2011)Poxviruses are large DNA viruses that replicate in the cytoplasm, and encode numerous host immune modulating factors. The parapoxvirus, orf virus (ORFV) is a zoonotic pathogen that causes pustular dermatitis in sheep, goats ...
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