Analysis of growth-phase regulated genes in Streptococcus agalactiae by global transcript profiling.

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:Typically, raw meat can be contaminated with antibiotic resistant pathogens at unhygienic slaughter and sale points. Consumption of meat contaminated with antibiotic resistant E. coli is associated with grave health care consequences. The aim of this study was to determine the microbial quality of raw meat, ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Dsani E,Afari EA,Danso-Appiah A,Kenu E,Kaburi BB,Egyir B

更新日期：2020-08-14 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:Understanding mollicutes is challenging due to their variety and relationship with host cells. Invasion has explained issues related to their opportunistic role. Few studies have been done on the Ureaplasma diversum mollicute, which is detected in healthy or diseased bovine. The invasion in Hep-2 cells of fo...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Marques LM,Ueno PM,Buzinhani M,Cortez BA,Neto RL,Yamaguti M,Oliveira RC,Guimarães AM,Monezi TA,Braga AC Jr,Machado-Santelli GM,Timenetsky J

更新日期：2010-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Plant cell wall degrading enzymes (PCWDEs) are a subset of carbohydrate-active enzymes (CAZy) produced by plant pathogens to degrade plant cell walls. To counteract PCWDEs, plants release PCWDEs inhibitor proteins (PIPs) to reduce their impact. Several transgenic plants expressing exogenous PIPs that interac...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Chang HX,Yendrek CR,Caetano-Anolles G,Hartman GL

更新日期：2016-07-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Legionella testing conducted at environmental laboratories plays an essential role in assessing the risk of disease transmission associated with water systems. However, drawbacks of culture-based methodology used for Legionella enumeration can have great impact on the results and interpretation which togethe...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Díaz-Flores Á,Montero JC,Castro FJ,Alejandres EM,Bayón C,Solís I,Fernández-Lafuente R,Rodríguez G

更新日期：2015-04-29 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:Mycobacterium avium is an environmental mycobacterium that can be divided into the subspecies avium, hominissuis, paratuberculosis and silvaticum. Some M. avium subspecies are opportunistic pathogens for animals and humans. They are ubiquitous in nature and can be isolated from natural sources of water, soil...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Johansen TB,Olsen I,Jensen MR,Dahle UR,Holstad G,Djønne B

更新日期：2007-03-05 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: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: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: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:The phytohormone indole-3-acetic acid (IAA) is widely distributed among plant-associated bacteria. Certain strains of the Pseudomonas syringae complex can further metabolize IAA into a less biologically active amino acid conjugate, 3-indole-acetyl-ε-L-lysine, through the action of the iaaL gene. In P. syring...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Castillo-Lizardo MG,Aragón IM,Carvajal V,Matas IM,Pérez-Bueno ML,Gallegos MT,Barón M,Ramos C

更新日期：2015-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Previous phylogenetic analyses of species within the genus Golovinomyces (Ascomycota, Erysiphales), based on ITS and 28S rDNA sequence data, revealed a co-evolutionary relationship between powdery mildew species and hosts of certain tribes of the plant family Asteraceae. Golovinomyces growing on host plants ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Qiu PL,Liu SY,Bradshaw M,Rooney-Latham S,Takamatsu S,Bulgakov TS,Tang SR,Feng J,Jin DN,Aroge T,Li Y,Wang LL,Braun U

更新日期：2020-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:After E. coli O157, E. coli O26 is the second most prevalent enterohaemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) serotype identified in cases of foodborne illness in Australia and throughout the world. E. coli O26 associated foodborne outbreaks have drawn attention to the survival capabilities of this organism in a range of e...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Lajhar SA,Brownlie J,Barlow R

更新日期：2017-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Increasing age, several co-morbidities, environmental contamination, antibiotic exposure and other intestinal perturbations appear to be the greatest risk factors for C. difficile infection (CDI). Therefore, elderly care home residents are considered particularly vulnerable to the infection. The main objecti...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Rodriguez C,Taminiau B,Korsak N,Avesani V,Van Broeck J,Brach P,Delmée M,Daube G

更新日期：2016-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Escherichia coli is a well-studied anaerobic bacteria which is able to regulate metabolic pathways depending on the type of sugar presented in the medium. We have studied the glucose-lactose shift in E. coli at the protein level using a recently developed mass spectrometry platform. METHOD:Cells were grown ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Mostovenko E,Deelder AM,Palmblad M

更新日期：2011-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brucellosis caused by Brucella abortus is one of the most important zoonoses in the world. Multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA16) has been shown be a useful tool to epidemiological traceback studies in B. abortus infection. Thus, the present study aimed (i) to evaluate the genetic div...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Dorneles EM,Santana JA,Alves TM,Pauletti RB,Mol JP,Heinemann MB,Lage AP

更新日期：2014-07-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chronic wound pathogenic biofilms are host-pathogen environments that colonize and exist as a cohabitation of many bacterial species. These bacterial populations cooperate to promote their own survival and the chronic nature of the infection. Few studies have performed extensive surveys of the bacterial popu...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Dowd SE,Sun Y,Secor PR,Rhoads DD,Wolcott BM,James GA,Wolcott RD

更新日期：2008-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Extended-spectrum cephalosporin resistance (ESC-R) in Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae is a healthcare threat; high gastrointestinal carriage rates are reported from South-east Asia. Colonisation prevalence data in Cambodia are lacking. The aim of this study was to determine gastrointestinal coloni...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： van Aartsen JJ,Moore CE,Parry CM,Turner P,Phot N,Mao S,Suy K,Davies T,Giess A,Sheppard AE,Peto TEA,Day NPJ,Crook DW,Walker AS,Stoesser N

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Macrolides and lincosamides are two leading types of antibiotics commonly used in therapies. The study examines the differences in resistance to these antibiotics and their molecular bases in S. epidermidis as well as in rarely isolated species of coagulase-negative staphylococci such as S. hominis, S. haemo...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Szemraj M,Czekaj T,Kalisz J,Szewczyk EM

更新日期：2019-06-10 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:ClpP is important for bacterial growth and plays an indispensable role in cellular protein quality control systems by refolding or degrading damaged proteins, but the physiological significance of ClpP in Enterococcus faecalis remains obscure. A clpP deletion mutant (△clpP) was constructed using the E. faeca...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zheng J,Wu Y,Lin Z,Wang G,Jiang S,Sun X,Tu H,Yu Z,Qu D

更新日期：2020-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alpha (alpha)-hemolysin is a pore forming cytolysin and serves as a virulence factor in intestinal and extraintestinal pathogenic strains of E. coli. It was suggested that the genes encoding alpha-hemolysin (hlyCABD) which can be found on the chromosome and plasmid, were acquired through horizontal gene tran...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Burgos Y,Beutin L

更新日期：2010-07-19 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: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:Bacteria adapted to live within animals can protect their hosts against harmful infections. Beyond antagonism with pathogens, a 'defensive' bacterial symbiont could engage in additional interactions with other colonizing micro-organisms. A single bacterium might thus have cascading ecological impacts on the ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Dahan D,Preston GM,Sealey J,King KC

更新日期：2020-06-15 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:Coxiella burnetii is a Gram-negative intracellular bacterial pathogen that replicates within a phagolysosome-like parasitophorous vacuole (PV) of macrophages. PV formation requires delivery of effector proteins directly into the host cell cytoplasm by a type IVB secretion system. However, additional secretio...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Stead CM,Omsland A,Beare PA,Sandoz KM,Heinzen RA

更新日期：2013-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ochrobactrum anthropi is a versatile bacterial species with strains living in very diverse habitats. It is increasingly recognized as opportunistic pathogen in hospitalized patients. The population biology of the species particularly with regard to the characteristics of the human isolates is being investiga...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Romano S,Aujoulat F,Jumas-Bilak E,Masnou A,Jeannot JL,Falsen E,Marchandin H,Teyssier C

更新日期：2009-12-18 00:00:00