Allele distribution and genetic diversity of VNTR loci in Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis isolates from different sources.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The naked mole-rat (NMR, Heterocephalus glaber) is being bred as a novel laboratory animal due to its unique biological characteristics, including longevity, cancer resistance, hypoxia tolerance, and pain insensitivity. It is expected that differences exist between the microbiota of wild NMRs and that of NMR...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Cong W,Xing J,Feng Y,Wang J,Fu R,Yue B,He Z,Lin L,Yang W,Cheng J,Sun W,Cui S

更新日期：2018-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mosquitoes are intermediate hosts for numerous disease causing organisms. Vector control is one of the most investigated strategy for the suppression of mosquito-borne diseases. Anopheles stephensi is one of the vectors of malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax. The parasite undergoes major developmental and matu...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Rani A,Sharma A,Rajagopal R,Adak T,Bhatnagar RK

更新日期：2009-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Tsetse flies (Diptera: Glossinidae) are solely responsible for the transmission of African trypanosomes, causative agents of sleeping sickness in humans and nagana in livestock. Due to the lack of efficient vaccines and the emergence of drug resistance, vector control approaches such as the sterile insect te...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Augustinos AA,Meki IK,Demirbas-Uzel G,Ouédraogo GMS,Saridaki A,Tsiamis G,Parker AG,Abd-Alla AMM,Bourtzis K

更新日期：2018-11-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Gene knockouts are a common tool used to study gene function in various organisms. However, designing gene knockouts is complicated in viruses, which frequently contain sequences that code for multiple overlapping genes. Designing mutants that can be traced by the creation of new or elimination of existing r...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Taylor LJ,Strebel K

更新日期：2017-01-07 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:Predicting antibiotic resistance before it emerges at clinical settings constitutes a novel approach for preventing and fighting resistance of bacterial pathogens. To analyse the possibility that novel plasmid-encoded quinolone resistance determinants (Qnr) can emerge and disseminate among bacterial pathogen...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Sánchez MB,Hernández A,Rodríguez-Martínez JM,Martínez-Martínez L,Martínez JL

更新日期：2008-09-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Listeria monocytogenes is the causative agent of listeriosis, a serious disease affecting both animals and humans. Here, multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was used to characterize the genetic diversity of Listeria monocytogenes strains isolated from the natural environment and animal clinical cases in Europe...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Papić B,Pate M,Félix B,Kušar D

更新日期：2019-12-18 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:Anthrax, the zoonotic disease caused by the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus anthracis, is nowadays rare in northern parts of Europe including Finland and Scandinavia. Only two minor outbreaks of anthrax in 1988 and in 2004 and one sporadic infection in 2008 have been detected in animals in Finland since the...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Lienemann T,Beyer W,Pelkola K,Rossow H,Rehn A,Antwerpen M,Grass G

更新日期：2018-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many chronic diseases, such as non-healing wounds are characterized by prolonged inflammation and respond poorly to conventional treatment. Bacterial biofilms are a major impediment to wound healing. Persistent infection of the skin allows the formation of complex bacterial communities termed biofilm. Bacter...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Secor PR,James GA,Fleckman P,Olerud JE,McInnerney K,Stewart PS

更新日期：2011-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Meiotic cells undergo two rounds of nuclear division and generate gametes. Previous studies have indicated that a number of transcription factors modulate the transcriptome in successive waves during meiosis and spore formation in fission yeast. However, the mechanisms underlying the post-transcriptional reg...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Togashi N,Yamashita A,Sato M,Yamamoto M

更新日期：2014-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Many plants have been used in traditional medicine for their antibacterial, antifungal, antiprotozoal, antiviral, antidiarrhoeal, analgesic, antimalarial, antioxidant, anti-inflammatory and anticancer activities. In order to find novel antimicrobial and antiviral agents, the aim of the present study was the ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Di Petrillo A,Fais A,Pintus F,Santos-Buelga C,González-Paramás AM,Piras V,Orrù G,Mameli A,Tramontano E,Frau A

更新日期：2017-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Candida albicans yeast produces 10 distinct secreted aspartic proteases (Saps), which are some of the most important virulence factors of this pathogenic fungus. One of the suggested roles of Saps is their deregulating effect on various proteolytic cascades that constitute the major homeostatic systems in hu...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Kozik A,Gogol M,Bochenska O,Karkowska-Kuleta J,Wolak N,Kamysz W,Aoki W,Ueda M,Faussner A,Rapala-Kozik M

更新日期：2015-03-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several plant-pathogenic bacteria are transmitted by insect vector species that often also act as hosts. In this interface, these bacteria encounter plant endophytic, insect endosymbiotic and other microbes. Here, we used high throughput sequencing to examine the bacterial communities of five different psyll...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Morrow JL,Om N,Beattie GAC,Chambers GA,Donovan NJ,Liefting LW,Riegler M,Holford P

更新日期：2020-07-20 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:Avian pathogenic Escherichia coli (APEC) and uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) are the two main subsets of extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC). Both types have multiple iron acquisition systems, including heme and siderophores. Although iron transport systems involved in the pathogenesis of APEC or UPEC ha...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Gao Q,Wang X,Xu H,Xu Y,Ling J,Zhang D,Gao S,Liu X

更新日期：2012-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has been recently approved by FDA for the treatment of refractory recurrent clostridial colitis (rCDI). Success of FTM in treatment of rCDI led to a number of studies investigating the effectiveness of its application in the other gastrointestinal diseases. However, in ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Goloshchapov OV,Olekhnovich EI,Sidorenko SV,Moiseev IS,Kucher MA,Fedorov DE,Pavlenko AV,Manolov AI,Gostev VV,Veselovsky VA,Klimina KM,Kostryukova ES,Bakin EA,Shvetcov AN,Gumbatova ED,Klementeva RV,Shcherbakov AA,Gorchak

更新日期：2019-12-30 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:The environment is the likely source of many pathogenic mycobacterial species but detection of mycobacteria by bacteriological tools is generally difficult and time-consuming. Consequently, several molecular targets based on the sequences of housekeeping genes, non-functional RNA and structural ribosomal RNA...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Radomski N,Roguet A,Lucas FS,Veyrier FJ,Cambau E,Accrombessi H,Moilleron R,Behr MA,Moulin L

更新日期：2013-12-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Indoor microbial contamination due to excess moisture is an important contributor to human illness in both residential and occupational settings. However, the census of microorganisms in the indoor environment is limited by the use of selective, culture-based detection techniques. By using clone library sequ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Pitkäranta M,Meklin T,Hyvärinen A,Nevalainen A,Paulin L,Auvinen P,Lignell U,Rintala H

更新日期：2011-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In humans, the intestinal microbiota plays an important role in the maintenance of host health by providing energy, nutrients, and immunological protection. Applying current molecular methods is necessary to surmount the limitations of classical culturing techniques in order to obtain an accurate description...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Mariat D,Firmesse O,Levenez F,Guimarăes V,Sokol H,Doré J,Corthier G,Furet JP

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fluconazole (FLC), a triazole antifungal drug, is widely used for the maintenance therapy of cryptococcal meningoencephalitis, the most common opportunistic infection in AIDS patients. In this study, we examined changes in the gene expression profile of the C. neoformans reference strain H99 (serotype A) fol...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Florio AR,Ferrari S,De Carolis E,Torelli R,Fadda G,Sanguinetti M,Sanglard D,Posteraro B

更新日期：2011-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pseudomonas syringae is pathogenic to a large number of plant species. For host colonization and disease progression, strains of this bacterium utilize an array of type III-secreted effectors and other virulence factors, including small secreted molecules such as syringolin A, a peptide derivative that inhib...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Dudnik A,Dudler R

更新日期：2014-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bordetella dermonecrotic toxin (DNT) causes the turbinate atrophy in swine atrophic rhinitis, caused by a Bordetella bronchiseptica infection of pigs, by inhibiting osteoblastic differentiation. The toxin is not actively secreted from the bacteria, and is presumed to be present in only small amounts in infec...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Fukui-Miyazaki A,Kamitani S,Miyake M,Horiguchi Y

更新日期：2010-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:This study provides biochemical and molecular genetic characteristics of P. multocida isolated from dead saigas in 1988, 2010-2015 on the territory of the Republic of Kazakhstan. RESULTS:Bacteriological samples taken from carcasses of saiga antelope during mortality events recorded in West Kazakhstan in bot...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Orynbayev M,Sultankulova K,Sansyzbay A,Rystayeva R,Shorayeva K,Namet A,Fereidouni S,Ilgekbayeva G,Barakbayev K,Kopeyev S,Kock R

更新日期：2019-02-11 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:Acinetobacter baumannii is a gram-negative bacterium which causes opportunistic infections in immunocompromised hosts. Genome plasticity has given rise to a wide range of strain variation with respect to antimicrobial resistance profiles and expression of virulence factors which lead to altered phenotypes as...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Boone RL,Whitehead B,Avery TM,Lu J,Francis JD,Guevara MA,Moore RE,Chambers SA,Doster RS,Manning SD,Townsend SD,Dent L,Marshall D,Gaddy JA,Damo SM

更新日期：2021-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The gene encoding the inorganic pyrophosphatase (PPase) of the intracellular pathogen Legionella pneumophila is induced during intracellular infection, but is constitutively expressed in Escherichia coli. The causative agent of tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, contains a well conserved copy of PPase...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Triccas JA,Gicquel B

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Papua New Guinea (PNG) is a high tuberculosis (TB) burden country of the WHO Western Pacific Region, but so far research on drug resistance (DR) and genotypes of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tuberculosis) was only conducted in few provinces in the country. The aim of the present study was to obtain baselin...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ley SD,Harino P,Vanuga K,Kamus R,Carter R,Coulter C,Pandey S,Feldmann J,Ballif M,Siba PM,Phuanukoonnon S,Gagneux S,Beck HP

更新日期：2014-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lactobacillus plantarum, a versatile lactic acid-fermenting bacterium, isolated from the traditional pickles in Ningbo of China, was chosen for grass carp fermentation, which could also improve the flavor of grass carp. We here explored the central metabolic pathways of L. plantarum by using metabolomic appr...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ming T,Han J,Li Y,Lu C,Qiu D,Li Y,Zhou J,Su X

更新日期：2018-12-18 00:00:00