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AME Aquatic Microbial Ecology Contact the journal Facebook Twitter RSS Mailing List Subscribe to our mailing list via Mailchimp HomeLatest VolumeAbout the JournalEditorsSpecials AME 13:257-266 (1997) - doi:10.3354/ame013257 Ciliate-Vibrio cholerae interactions within a microbial loop: an experimental study Macek M, Carlos G, Memije P, Ramírez P Interactions between Vibrio cholerae and 2 Mexican athalassohaline-lake bacteria assemblages were studied in laboratory microcosms with the presence or absence of protists. Pre-cultivated and harvested vibrios were added as the food for protists at a concentration of 107 cells ml-1. Total direct bacterial counts, colony forming units on a selective (thiosulphate-citrate-bile salts-sucrose) medium, and V. cholerae indirect fluorescent antibody (FA) direct counts were measured. Numbers of V. choleraedecreased faster in the microcosms inoculated with protists and, moreover, the proportion of non-culturable vibrio counts increased. Comparison between the ciliate feeding rates upon fluorescently labelled V. cholerae, Salmonella typhi and Shigella sp. showed that the ciliates fed preferably upon vibrios. Calculated grazing rates of Cyclidium glaucoma related to non-culturable but FA-positive V. cholerae were correlated to observed decrease in V. cholerae numbers. Non-culturable Vibrio cholerae · Cyclidium glaucoma · Colpoda steinii · Clearance rate Full text in pdf format PreviousNextExport citation RSS - Facebook - Tweet - linkedIn Cited by Published in AME Vol. 13, No. 3. Publication date: September 11, 1997 Print ISSN: 0948-3055; Online ISSN: 1616-1564 Copyright © 1997 Inter-Research.
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