Secular trends of blood isolates in patients from a rural area population hospitalized in a tertiary center in a small city in Greece.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The native microflora associated with mosquitoes have important roles in mosquito development and vector competence. Sequencing of bacterial V3 region from 16S rRNA genes across the developmental stages of Culex mosquitoes (early and late larval instars, pupae and adults) was used to test the hypothesis that...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Duguma D,Hall MW,Rugman-Jones P,Stouthamer R,Terenius O,Neufeld JD,Walton WE

更新日期：2015-07-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microbial biofilms are known to cause an increasing number of chronic inflammatory and infectious conditions. A classical example is chronic periodontal disease, a condition initiated by the subgingival dental plaque biofilm on gingival epithelial tissues. We describe here a new model that permits the examin...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Guggenheim B,Gmür R,Galicia JC,Stathopoulou PG,Benakanakere MR,Meier A,Thurnheer T,Kinane DF

更新日期：2009-12-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacillus mycoides Flügge, a Gram-positive, non-motile soil bacterium assigned to Bacillus cereus group, grows on agar as chains of cells linked end to end, forming radial filaments curving clock- or counter-clockwise (SIN or DX morphotypes). The molecular mechanism causing asymmetric curving is not known: ou...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Di Franco C,Beccari E,Santini T,Pisaneschi G,Tecce G

更新日期：2002-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacteria belonging to Planctomycetes display several unique morphological and genetic features and are found in a wide variety of habitats on earth. Their ecological roles in these habitats are still poorly understood. Planctomycetes have previously been detected throughout the year on surfaces of the kelp L...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Bengtsson MM,Øvreås L

更新日期：2010-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Klebsiella pneumoniae displaying the hypermucoviscosity (HV) phenotype are considered more virulent than HV-negative strains. Nevertheless, the emergence of tissue-abscesses-associated HV-negative isolates motivated us to re-evaluate the role of HV-phenotype. RESULTS:Instead of genetically manipulating the ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Lin YC,Lu MC,Tang HL,Liu HC,Chen CH,Liu KS,Lin C,Chiou CS,Chiang MK,Chen CM,Lai YC

更新日期：2011-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Probiotics are increasingly applied to prevent and treat a range of infectious, immune related and gastrointestinal diseases. Despite this, the mechanisms behind the putative effects of probiotics are poorly understood. One of the suggested modes of probiotic action is modulation of the endogenous gut microb...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Laursen MF,Laursen RP,Larnkjær A,Michaelsen KF,Bahl MI,Licht TR

更新日期：2017-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Rio Grande River is the natural boundary between U.S. and Mexico from El Paso, TX to Brownsville, TX. and is one of the major water resources of the area. Agriculture, farming, maquiladora industry, domestic activities, as well as differences in disposal regulations and enforcement increase the contamina...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Mendoza J,Botsford J,Hernandez J,Montoya A,Saenz R,Valles A,Vazquez A,Alvarez M

更新日期：2004-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacteria release a wide variety of small molecules including cell-to-cell signaling compounds. Gram-negative bacteria use a variety of self-produced autoinducers such as acylated homoserine lactones (acyl-HSLs) as signal compounds for quorum sensing (QS) within and between bacterial species. QS plays a signi...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Minagawa S,Inami H,Kato T,Sawada S,Yasuki T,Miyairi S,Horikawa M,Okuda J,Gotoh N

更新日期：2012-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hfq is a widely conserved bacterial RNA-binding protein which generally mediates the global regulatory activities involv ed in physiological process and virulence. The goal of this study was to characterize the biological function of hfq gene in Xanthomonas axonpodis pv. citri (Xac), the causal agent of citr...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Liu X,Yan Y,Wu H,Zhou C,Wang X

更新日期：2019-05-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lactobacillus species are used as probiotics and play an important role in fermented food production. However, use of 16S rRNA gene sequences as standard markers for the differentiation of Lactobacillus species offers a very limited scope, as several species of Lactobacillus share similar 16S rRNA gene seque...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Kim E,Yang SM,Lim B,Park SH,Rackerby B,Kim HY

更新日期：2020-04-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We performed a 12-month cohort study of the stability and resilience of the intestinal microbiota of healthy children in daycare in Denmark in relation to diarrheal events and exposure to known risk factors for gastrointestinal health such as travelling and antibiotic use. In addition, we analyzed how gut mi...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Mortensen MS,Hebbelstrup Jensen B,Williams J,Brejnrod AD,O'Brien Andersen L,Röser D,Andreassen BU,Petersen AM,Stensvold CR,Sørensen SJ,Krogfelt KA

更新日期：2018-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adhesion to surfaces facilitates many crucial functions of microbes in their natural habitats. Thus understanding the mechanism of microbial adhesion is of broad interest to the microbiology research community. RESULTS:We report a study by fluorescence imaging and atomic force microscopy on the growth in si...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Li G,Brun YV,Tang JX

更新日期：2013-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The compatible solute trehalose is involved in the osmostress response of Rhizobium etli, the microsymbiont of Phaseolus vulgaris. In this work, we reconstructed trehalose metabolism in R. etli, and investigated its role in cellular adaptation and survival to heat and desiccation stress under free living con...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Reina-Bueno M,Argandoña M,Nieto JJ,Hidalgo-García A,Iglesias-Guerra F,Delgado MJ,Vargas C

更新日期：2012-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaire's disease, may enter a viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state triggered by environmental stress conditions. Specific outer-membrane epitopes of L. pneumophila are used in many diagnostic applications and some of them are linked to important virulence...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Schrammel B,Petzold M,Cervero-Aragó S,Sommer R,Lück C,Kirschner A

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The human gastrointestinal (GI) tract microbiota is characterised by an abundance of uncultured bacteria most often assigned in phyla Firmicutes and Bacteroidetes. Diversity of this microbiota, even though approached with culture independent techniques in several studies, still requires more elucidation. The...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Krogius-Kurikka L,Kassinen A,Paulin L,Corander J,Mäkivuokko H,Tuimala J,Palva A

更新日期：2009-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Demand for high-throughput bioprocessing has dramatically increased especially in the biopharmaceutical industry because the technologies are of vital importance to process optimization and media development. This can be efficiently boosted by using microtiter plate (MTP) cultivation setup embedded into an a...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Tan JS,Abbasiliasi S,Kadkhodaei S,Tam YJ,Tang TK,Lee YY,Ariff AB

更新日期：2018-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enterobacter sakazakii is an emergent pathogen associated with ingestion of infant formula and accurate identification is important in both industrial and clinical settings. Bacterial species can be difficult to accurately characterise from complex biochemical datasets and computer algorithms can potentially...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Iversen C,Lancashire L,Waddington M,Forsythe S,Ball G

更新日期：2006-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fibronectin-binding protein A (FnBPA) mediates adhesion of Staphylococcus aureus to fibronectin, fibrinogen and elastin. We previously reported that S. aureus strain P1 encodes an FnBPA protein where the fibrinogen/elastin-binding domain (A domain) is substantially divergent in amino acid sequence from the a...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Loughman A,Sweeney T,Keane FM,Pietrocola G,Speziale P,Foster TJ

更新日期：2008-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Famous Chinese strong-flavored liquor (CSFL) is brewed by microbial consortia in a special fermentation pit (FT). However, the fermentation process was not fully understood owing to the complicate community structure and metabolism. In this study, the process-related dynamics of microbial communities and mai...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zhang Y,Zhu X,Li X,Tao Y,Jia J,He X

更新日期：2017-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification and characterization of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) with reduced susceptibility to β-lactam antibiotics due to mutations in penicillin binding protein 3 (PBP3) is a clinical challenge. We analyzed a blood isolate, NTHi93-57485, that was categorized as aminopenicillin resistant b...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Thegerström J,Matuschek E,Su YC,Riesbeck K,Resman F

更新日期：2018-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Gram-negative phytopathogenic bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris recruits the hrp/T3SS system to inject pathogenicity effector proteins into host cells and uses the rpf/DSF cell-cell signaling system to regulate the expression of virulence factors such as extracellular enzymes and polysaccha...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Jiang BL,Jiang GF,Liu W,Yang LC,Yang LY,Wang L,Hang XH,Tang JL

更新日期：2018-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacteriocins are antimicrobial proteins and peptides ribosomally synthesized by some bacteria which can effect both intraspecies and interspecies killing. RESULTS:Moraxella catarrhalis strain E22 containing plasmid pLQ510 was shown to inhibit the growth of M. catarrhalis strain O35E. Two genes (mcbA and mcb...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Attia AS,Sedillo JL,Hoopman TC,Liu W,Liu L,Brautigam CA,Hansen EJ

更新日期：2009-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Viability staining with SYTO9 and propidium iodide (PI) is a frequently used tool in microbiological studies. However, data generated by such routinely used method are often not critically evaluated for their accuracy. In this study we aim to investigate the critical aspects of this staining method using Sta...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Stiefel P,Schmidt-Emrich S,Maniura-Weber K,Ren Q

更新日期：2015-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) is a zoonotic pathogen, which can be found in many sources including animals and the environment. However, little is known about the molecular relatedness among S. Enteritidis isolates from different sources. We have applied multiple-locus variable nu...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Cho S,Whittam TS,Boxrud DJ,Bartkus JM,Saeed AM

更新日期：2008-09-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Whole-genome sequencing using high throughput technologies has revolutionized and speeded up the scientific investigation of bacterial genetics, biochemistry, and molecular biology. Lactic acid bacteria (LABs) have been extensively used in fermentation and more recently as probiotics in food products that pr...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： El Jeni R,Ghedira K,El Bour M,Abdelhak S,Benkahla A,Bouhaouala-Zahar B

更新日期：2020-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial and cellular genotyping is becoming increasingly important in the diagnosis of infectious diseases. However, difficulties in obtaining sufficient amount of bacterial and cellular DNA extracted from the same human biopsy specimens is often a limiting factor. In this study, total DNA (host and bacter...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ryberg A,Borch K,Sun YQ,Monstein HJ

更新日期：2008-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Similar to Gram-negative bacteria, the outer membrane (OM) of the pathogenic spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, contains integral OM-spanning proteins (OMPs), as well as membrane-anchored lipoproteins. Although the mechanism of OMP biogenesis is still not well-understood, recent studies have indicated that a ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Lenhart TR,Kenedy MR,Yang X,Pal U,Akins DR

更新日期：2012-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zinc is an essential element for all living cells. Recent studies have shown that the ZnuABC zinc uptake system significantly contributes to the ability of several pathogens to multiply in the infected host and cause disease, suggesting that zinc is scarcely available within different tissues of the host. To...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Gabbianelli R,Scotti R,Ammendola S,Petrarca P,Nicolini L,Battistoni A

更新日期：2011-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:FliH is a protein involved in the export of components of the bacterial flagellum and we herein describe the presence of glycine-rich repeats in FliH of the form AxxxG(xxxG)mxxxA, where the value of m varies considerably in FliH proteins from different bacteria. While GxxxG and AxxxA patterns have previously...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Trost B,Moore SA

更新日期：2009-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Successful viral infection requires the involvement of host cellular factors in their life cycle. Heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) can be recruited by numerous viruses to promote the folding, maturation, or assembly of viral proteins. We have previously shown that HSP70 is significantly elevated in porcine repr...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Gao J,Xiao S,Liu X,Wang L,Ji Q,Mo D,Chen Y

更新日期：2014-03-13 00:00:00