Common and specific genomic sequences of avian and human extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli as determined by genomic subtractive hybridization.

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:Most of the studies evaluating the secular trends of blood isolates come from tertiary hospitals in urban areas. We sought to study the trends of the antimicrobial resistance of blood isolates in patients from a rural population hospitalized in a tertiary hospital in a small city in Greece. METHODS:We retro...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Falagas ME,Bakossi A,Pappas VD,Holevas PV,Bouras A,Stamata E

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:L-arabitol dehydrogenase (LAD) and xylitol dehydrogenase (XDH) are involved in the degradation of L-arabinose and D-xylose, which are among the most abundant monosaccharides on earth. Previous data demonstrated that LAD and XDH not only differ in the activity on their biological substrate, but also that only...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Rutten L,Ribot C,Trejo-Aguilar B,Wösten HA,de Vries RP

更新日期：2009-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:H-NS is a DNA-binding protein with central roles in gene regulation and nucleoid structuring in Escherichia coli. There are over 60 genes that are influenced by H-NS many of which are involved in metabolism. To determine the significance of H-NS-regulated genes in metabolism and stress tolerance, an hns muta...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Erol I,Jeong KC,Baumler DJ,Vykhodets B,Choi SH,Kaspar CW

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the past decade, researchers have proposed that the pldA gene for outer membrane phospholipase A (OMPLA) is important for bacterial colonization of the human gastric ventricle. Several conserved Helicobacter pylori genes have distinct genotypes in different parts of the world, biogeographic patterns that ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Vollan HS,Tannaes T,Yamaoka Y,Bukholm G

更新日期：2012-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:There is an increasing interest to better understand endosymbiont capabilities in insects both from an ecological point of view and for pest control. Blochmannia floridanus provides important nutrients for its host, the ant Camponotus, while the bacterium in return is provided with a niche to proliferate. Bl...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Gaudermann P,Vogl I,Zientz E,Silva FJ,Moya A,Gross R,Dandekar T

更新日期：2006-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Urine within the urinary tract is commonly regarded as "sterile" in cultivation terms. Here, we present a comprehensive in-depth study of bacterial 16S rDNA sequences associated with urine from healthy females by means of culture-independent high-throughput sequencing techniques. RESULTS:Sequencing of the V...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Siddiqui H,Nederbragt AJ,Lagesen K,Jeansson SL,Jakobsen KS

更新日期：2011-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ATP-Binding Cassette (ABC) functional superfamily includes integral transmembrane exporters that have evolved three times independently, forming three families termed ABC1, ABC2 and ABC3, upon which monophyletic ATPases have been superimposed for energy-coupling purposes [e.g., J Membr Biol 231(1):1-10, ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zheng WH,Västermark Å,Shlykov MA,Reddy V,Sun EI,Saier MH Jr

更新日期：2013-05-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acetic acid has been used to clean and disinfect surfaces in the household for many decades. The antimicrobial efficacy of cleaning procedures can be considered particularly important for young, old, pregnant, immunocompromised people, but may also concern other groups, particularly with regards to the COVID...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zinn MK,Bockmühl D

更新日期：2020-08-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) is a portable, broadly applicable method for classifying bacterial isolates at an intra-species level. This methodology provides clinical and scientific investigators with a standardized means of monitoring evolution within bacterial populations. MLST uses the DNA sequences...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Adamiak P,Vanderkooi OG,Kellner JD,Schryvers AB,Bettinger JA,Alcantara J

更新日期：2014-06-03 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:Streptococcus pneumoniae is a common respiratory pathogen and a major causative agent of respiratory infections, including otitis media (OM). Pneumococcal biofilms have been demonstrated on biopsies of the middle ear mucosa in children receiving tympanostomy tubes, supporting the hypothesis that chronic OM m...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Hall-Stoodley L,Nistico L,Sambanthamoorthy K,Dice B,Nguyen D,Mershon WJ,Johnson C,Hu FZ,Stoodley P,Ehrlich GD,Post JC

更新日期：2008-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Campylobacter jejuni is the predominant cause of antecedent infection in post-infectious neuropathies such as the Guillain-Barré (GBS) and Miller Fisher syndromes (MFS). GBS and MFS are probably induced by molecular mimicry between human gangliosides and bacterial lipo-oligosaccharides (LOS). This study desc...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Godschalk PC,Bergman MP,Gorkink RF,Simons G,van den Braak N,Lastovica AJ,Endtz HP,Verbrugh HA,van Belkum A

更新日期：2006-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the genome of H. pylori 26695, 149 proteins containing the CXXC motif characteristic of thioldisulfide oxidoreductases have been identified to date. However, only two of these proteins have a thioredoxin-like fold (i.e., HP0377 and HP0231) and are periplasm-located. We have previously shown that HP0231 is...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Roszczenko P,Grzeszczuk M,Kobierecka P,Wywial E,Urbanowicz P,Wincek P,Nowak E,Jagusztyn-Krynicka EK

更新日期：2015-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Classical bacteriological characteristics of Salmonella enterica indicate that the members of this species are unable to utilize lactose as a carbon source. However, lactose-fermenting (Lac+) strains of several Salmonella serovars have been isolated from different foodborne outbreaks as well as different geo...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Leonard SR,Lacher DW,Lampel KA

更新日期：2015-08-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The aim of this study was to identify mutations of rpoB, katG, inhA and ahp-genes associated Mycobacterium tuberculosis resistance to rifampicin (RIF) and isoniazid (INH) in Kyrgyz Republic. We studied 633 smear samples from the primary pulmonary tuberculosis (TB) patients. We verified Mycobacterium tubercul...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Isakova J,Sovkhozova N,Vinnikov D,Goncharova Z,Talaibekova E,Aldasheva N,Aldashev A

更新日期：2018-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genus Phytophthora includes a group of agriculturally important pathogens and they are commonly regarded as water molds. They produce motile zoospores that can move via water currents and on their own locomotion in aquatic environments. However, zoosporic response to dissolved oxygen, an important water ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Kong P,Hong C

更新日期：2014-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the most widely accepted mechanism of action for polymyxins is related to bacterial lysis via disruption, we hypothesized that this antimicrobial drug class could have other effects on Pseudomonas aeruginosa planktonic and sessile cells. Little is known regarding oxidative burst and zeta potential (...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Lima MR,Ferreira GF,Nunes Neto WR,Monteiro JM,Santos ÁRC,Tavares PB,Denadai ÂML,Bomfim MRQ,Dos Santos VL,Marques SG,de Souza Monteiro A

更新日期：2019-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Emergence of drug resistant varieties of tuberculosis is posing a major threat to global tuberculosis eradication programmes. Although several approaches have been explored to counter resistance, there has been limited success due to a lack of understanding of how resistance emerges in bacteria upon drug tre...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Raman K,Chandra N

更新日期：2008-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The gut comprises an essential barrier that protects both invertebrate and vertebrate animals from invasion by microorganisms. Disruption of the balanced relationship between indigenous gut microbiota and their host can result in gut bacteria eliciting host responses similar to those caused by invasive patho...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Broderick NA,Raffa KF,Handelsman J

更新日期：2010-04-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The cell tropism of Brucella abortus, a causative agent of brucellosis and facultative intracellular pathogen, in the placenta is thought to be a key event of infectious abortion, although the molecular mechanism for this is largely unknown. There is a higher degree of bacterial colonization in the placenta ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Watanabe K,Tachibana M,Tanaka S,Furuoka H,Horiuchi M,Suzuki H,Watarai M

更新日期：2008-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Francisella tularensis is a fastidious, Gram-negative coccobacillus and is the causative agent of tularemia. To assess viability yet overcome lengthy incubation periods, a culture-based PCR method was used to detect early growth of the lowest possible number of F. tularensis cells. This method utilized a pre...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Buse HY,Morris BJ,Rice EW

更新日期：2020-03-25 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:Infection with Brucella melitensis (B. melitensis) is one of the most important causes of abortion in goats and sheep, and also causes severe systemic disease in exposed humans. In Ethiopia, based on seroepidemiological studies, brucellosis is known to be endemic. However, there is little information on the ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Tekle M,Legesse M,Edao BM,Ameni G,Mamo G

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Human granulocytic anaplasmosis (HGA) is a tick-borne disease caused by the etiologic agent Anaplasma phagocytophilum. HGA was designated a nationally notifiable disease in the United States in 1998. Currently there are no vaccines available against HGA. Conserved membrane proteins that are subdominant in An...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Crosby FL,Lundgren AM,Hoffman C,Pascual DW,Barbet AF

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The emergence and spread of multidrug resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MDR-MRSA) has serious health consequences in the presence of sub-MIC antibiotics. Therefore, this study was designed to evaluate β-lactamase activity, efflux activity, biofilm formation, and gene expression pattern i...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Jo A,Ahn J

更新日期：2016-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Participation of renal cells in the pathogenesis of staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) is critical for late cleansing and sequestration of the antigens facilitated by CD1d mediated antigen sensing and recognition. This is a noted deviation from the typical antigen recognition process that recruits the major ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Hammamieh R,Chakraborty N,Lin Y,Shupp JW,Miller SA,Morris S,Jett M

更新日期：2015-02-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Campylobacter jejuni is a leading foodborne pathogen worldwide. Despite the fastidious nature of C. jejuni growth, increasing numbers of human campylobacteriosis suggest that C. jejuni may possess unique mechanisms to survive under various stress conditions. C. jejuni possesses only three sigma factors (FliA...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Hwang S,Jeon B,Yun J,Ryu S

更新日期：2011-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Photorhabdus are Gram-negative nematode-symbiotic and insect-pathogenic bacteria. The species Photorhabdus asymbiotica is able to infect humans as well as insects. We investigated the secreted proteome of a clinical isolate of P. asymbiotica at different temperatures in order to identify proteins relevant to...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Jones RT,Sanchez-Contreras M,Vlisidou I,Amos MR,Yang G,Muñoz-Berbel X,Upadhyay A,Potter UJ,Joyce SA,Ciche TA,Jenkins AT,Bagby S,Ffrench-Constant RH,Waterfield NR

更新日期：2010-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Staphylococcus aureus is a food-borne pathogen and the most common cause of infections in hospitalized patients. The increase in the resistance of this pathogen to antibacterials has made necessary the development of new anti-staphylococcal agents. In this context, bacteriophage lytic enzymes such as endolys...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Rodríguez L,Martínez B,Zhou Y,Rodríguez A,Donovan DM,García P

更新日期：2011-06-17 00:00:00