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Leo Meile
Researcher at ETH Zurich
Publications - 142
Citations - 5268
Leo Meile is an academic researcher from ETH Zurich. The author has contributed to research in topics: Plasmid & Streptococcus infantarius. The author has an hindex of 38, co-authored 141 publications receiving 4791 citations. Previous affiliations of Leo Meile include École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne & Laval University.
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Acquired antibiotic resistance in lactic acid bacteria from food
TL;DR: Data support the view that in antibiotic challenged habitats lactic acid bacteria like other bacteria participate in the communication systems which transfer resistance traits over species and genus borders.
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Identification and quantification of Bifidobacterium species isolated from food with genus-specific 16S rRNA-targeted probes by colony hybridization and PCR
TL;DR: With these two methods, genus-specific colony hybridization and genus- specific PCR, it is now possible to readily and accurately detect any bifidobacteria in food and fecal samples and to discriminate between them and members of other genera.
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Bifidobacterium lactis sp. nov., a Moderately Oxygen Tolerant Species Isolated from Fermented Milk
Leo Meile,Wolfgang Ludwig,Ursula Rueger,Christina Gut,Peter Kaufmann,Gottfried Dasen,Susanne Wenger,Michael Teuber +7 more
TL;DR: Strain UR1, an isolate from a French yoghurt, was able to grow at elevated oxygen concentrations above 5% oxygen in liquid media containing 0.3 mM paraquat (methylviologen) and produced considerable amounts of formate depending on the oxygen-stress conditions.
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Antibiotic susceptibility patterns and resistance genes of starter cultures and probiotic bacteria used in food.
Sabine Kastner,Vincent Perreten,Helen Bleuler,Gabriel Hugenschmidt,Christophe Lacroix,Leo Meile +5 more
TL;DR: A survey of starter and probiotic cultures was carried out to determine the current antibiotic resistance situation in microbial food additives in Switzerland to detect the tetracycline resistance gene tet(K) in 5 Staphylococcus isolates and the lincosamide resistance gene lnu(A) (formerly linA) in L. reuteri SD 2112.
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Characterization of the d-Xylulose 5-Phosphate/d-Fructose 6-Phosphate Phosphoketolase Gene (xfp) from Bifidobacterium lactis
TL;DR: Comparison of the deduced amino acid sequence of the cloned gene with sequences in public databases revealed high homologies with hypothetical proteins (26 to 55% identity) in 20 microbial genomes.