Comparative gene expression profiling in two congenic mouse strains following Bordetella pertussis infection.

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:There is a rapid emergence of multiple resistant gram-negative bacteria due to overuse of antibiotics in the treatment of infections. Biofilms consist of polymicrobial communities that survive the host's defense system. The key bacteria in biofilms are slow growing and support an attachment and rapid growth ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Wu C,Nakka S,Mansouri S,Bengtsson T,Nayeri T,Nayeri F

更新日期：2016-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prevotella intermedia is a Gram-negative black-pigmenting oral anaerobe associated with periodontitis in humans, and has a haem requirement for growth, survival and virulence. It produces an iron porphyrin-containing pigment comprising monomeric iron (III) protoporphyrin IX (Fe(III)PPIX.OH; haematin). The ba...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Byrne DP,Manandhar SP,Potempa J,Smalley JW

更新日期：2015-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The plasma membrane plays an essential role in selective permeability, compartmentalization, osmotic balance, and cellular uptake. The characteristics and functions of cyanobacterial membranes have been extensively investigated in recent years. Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) are special nanocarriers that c...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Liu BR,Huang YW,Lee HJ

更新日期：2013-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The complete genome sequences of 44 Bacillus cereus group isolates collected from diverse sources in Japan were analyzed to determine their genetic backgrounds and diversity levels in Japan. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and core-genome single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) typing data from whole-genome s...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Okutani A,Inoue S,Noguchi A,Kaku Y,Morikawa S

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microorganisms are a large and diverse form of life. Many of them live in association with large multicellular organisms, developing symbiotic relations with the host and some have even evolved to form obligate endosymbiosis. All Carpenter ants (genus Camponotus) studied hitherto harbour primary endosymbioti...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： de Souza DJ,Bézier A,Depoix D,Drezen JM,Lenoir A

更新日期：2009-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Suppression subtractive hybridization (SSH) strategy was used with extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (EXPEC) that cause avian colibacillosis (avian pathogenic E. coli or APEC) and human urinary tract infections (uropathogenic E. coli or UPEC) to determine if they possessed genes that were host and/...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Kariyawasam S,Scaccianoce JA,Nolan LK

更新日期：2007-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The human gastrointestinal (GI) tract microbiota has been a subject of intense research throughout the 3rd Millennium. Now that a general picture about microbiota composition in health and disease is emerging, questions about factors determining development of microbiotas with specific community structures w...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Peñate-Medina O,Tower RJ,Peñate-Medina T,Will O,Saris PEJ,Suojanen J,Sorsa T,Huuskonen L,Hiippala K,Satokari R,Glüer CC,de Vos WM,Reunanen J

更新日期：2019-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Streptomyces lividans is an appealing host for the production of proteins of biotechnological interest due to its relaxed exogenous DNA restriction system and its ability to secrete proteins directly to the medium through the major Sec or the minor Tat routes. Often, protein secretion displays non-uniform ti...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Valverde JR,Gullón S,García-Herrero CA,Campoy I,Mellado RP

更新日期：2019-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Porphyromonas gingivalis is the foremost oral pathogen of adult periodontitis in humans. However, the mechanisms of bacterial invasion and the resultant destruction of the gingival tissue remain largely undefined. RESULTS:We report host-P. gingivalis interactions in primary human gingival fibroblast (HGF) c...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Urnowey S,Ansai T,Bitko V,Nakayama K,Takehara T,Barik S

更新日期：2006-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Helicobacter pylori has diverged in parallel to its human host, leading to distinct phylogeographic populations. Recent evidence suggests that in the current human mixing in Latin America, European H. pylori (hpEurope) are increasingly dominant at the expense of Amerindian haplotypes (hspAmerind). This pheno...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Maldonado-Contreras A,Mane SP,Zhang XS,Pericchi L,Alarcón T,Contreras M,Linz B,Blaser MJ,Domínguez-Bello MG

更新日期：2013-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study evaluated how dosing regimen for intramuscularly-administered ampicillin, composition of Escherichia coli strains with regard to ampicillin susceptibility, and excretion of bacteria from the intestine affected the level of resistance among Escherichia coli strains in the intestine of nursery pigs....

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ahmad A,Zachariasen C,Christiansen LE,Græsbøll K,Toft N,Matthews L,Nielsen SS,Olsen JE

更新日期：2016-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus has undergone rapid changes in both K- and O-antigens, making detection of outbreaks more difficult. In order to understand these rapid changes, the genetic regions encoding these antigens must be examined. In Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio vulnificus, both O-antigen and capsular...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Chen Y,Dai J,Morris JG Jr,Johnson JA

更新日期：2010-11-02 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:Polymicrobial infections are responsible for significant mortality and morbidity in adults and children. Staphylococcus epidermidis and Candida albicans are the most frequent combination of organisms isolated from polymicrobial infections. Vascular indwelling catheters are sites for mixed species biofilm for...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Pammi M,Liang R,Hicks J,Mistretta TA,Versalovic J

更新日期：2013-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Access to potable water remains a major challenge particularly in resource-limited settings. Although the potential contaminants of water are varied, enteric pathogenic protozoa are known to cause waterborne diseases greatly. This study aimed at investigating the prevalence, characteristics and correlates of...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Nsoh FA,Wung BA,Atashili J,Benjamin PT,Marvlyn E,Ivo KK,Nguedia AJ

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epitope tagging is a powerful strategy to study the function of proteins. Although tools for C-terminal protein tagging in the ciliated protozoan Tetrahymena thermophila have been developed, N-terminal protein tagging in this organism is still technically demanding. RESULTS:In this study, we have establishe...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Busch CJ,Vogt A,Mochizuki K

更新日期：2010-07-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pseudomonas fuscovaginae (Pfv) is an emerging plant pathogen of rice and also of other gramineae plants. It causes sheath brown rot disease in rice with symptoms that are characterized by brown lesions on the flag leaf sheath, grain discoloration and sterility. It was first isolated as a high altitude pathog...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Patel HK,Matiuzzo M,Bertani I,Bigirimana Vde P,Ash GJ,Höfte M,Venturi V

更新日期：2014-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Candida krusei has been known to exhibit communal interactions such as pellicle formation and crawling out of nutritional broth. We noticed another possible interaction on agar surfaces, where C. krusei yeast cells formed mycelia along agar surfaces toward each other. We report here the results of experiment...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Fleischmann J,Broeckling CD,Lyons S

更新日期：2017-03-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:With the growing demand for fossil fuels and the severe energy crisis, lignocellulose is widely regarded as a promising cost-effective renewable resource for ethanol production, and the use of lignocellulose residues as raw material is remarkable. Polar organisms have important value in scientific research a...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Cong B,Wang N,Liu S,Liu F,Yin X,Shen J

更新日期：2017-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacteria employ multiple mechanisms to control gene expression and react to their constantly changing environment. Bacterial growth in rich laboratory medium is a dynamic process in which bacteria utilize nutrients from simple to complex and change physical properties of the medium, as pH, during the process...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Sitkiewicz I,Musser JM

更新日期：2009-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The purpose of this study was to design and evaluate fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) probes for the single-cell detection and enumeration of lactic acid bacteria, in particular organisms belonging to the major phylogenetic groups and species of oral lactobacilli and to Abiotrophia/Granulicatella. R...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Quevedo B,Giertsen E,Zijnge V,Lüthi-Schaller H,Guggenheim B,Thurnheer T,Gmür R

更新日期：2011-01-19 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:Identification and characterization of intervening sequences (IVSs) within 23S rRNA genes from Campylobacter organisms including atypical campylobacters were carried out using two PCR primer pairs, designed to generate helix 25 and 45 regions. RESULTS:Only C. sputorum biovar sputorum LMG7975 and fecalis LMG...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Tazumi A,Kakinuma Y,Misawa N,Moore JE,Millar BC,Matsuda M

更新日期：2009-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Adenosine triphosphate (ATP) is used as an intracellular energy source by all living organisms. It plays a central role in the respiration and metabolism, and is the most important energy supplier in many enzymatic reactions. Its critical role as the energy storage molecule makes it extremely valuable to all...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Mempin R,Tran H,Chen C,Gong H,Kim Ho K,Lu S

更新日期：2013-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Epidemiology of celiac disease (CD) is increasing. CD mainly presents in early childhood with small intestinal villous atrophy and signs of malabsorption. Compared to healthy individuals, CD patients seemed to be characterized by higher numbers of Gram-negative bacteria and lower numbers Gram-positive bacter...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Di Cagno R,De Angelis M,De Pasquale I,Ndagijimana M,Vernocchi P,Ricciuti P,Gagliardi F,Laghi L,Crecchio C,Guerzoni ME,Gobbetti M,Francavilla R

更新日期：2011-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Photorhabdus are Gram negative bacteria that are pathogenic to insect larvae whilst also having a mutualistic interaction with nematodes from the family Heterorhabditis. Iron is an essential nutrient and bacteria have different mechanisms for obtaining both the ferrous (Fe2+) and ferric (Fe3+) forms of this ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Watson RJ,Millichap P,Joyce SA,Reynolds S,Clarke DJ

更新日期：2010-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The infections caused by antibiotic multidrug-resistant bacteria seriously threaten human health. To prevent and cure the infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria, new antimicrobial agents are required. Antimicrobial peptides are ideal therapy candidates for antibiotic-resistant pathogens. However, ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Mao R,Teng D,Wang X,Zhang Y,Jiao J,Cao X,Wang J

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is unclear how DNA is packaged in a bacterial cell in the absence of nucleosomes. To investigate the initial level of DNA condensation in bacterial nucleoid we used in vivo DNA digestion coupled with high-throughput sequencing of the digestion-resistant fragments. To this end, we transformed E. coli cells...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Tolstorukov MY,Virnik K,Zhurkin VB,Adhya S

更新日期：2016-02-20 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