Immunization protected well nourished mice but not undernourished ones from lung injury in Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infection.

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:Biofilm is a fundamental bacterial survival mode which proceeds through three main generalized phases: adhesion, maturation, and dispersion. Lactobacilli spp. (LB) are critical components of gut and reproductive health and are widely used probiotics. Evaluation of time-dependent mechanisms of biofilm formati...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Martinez S,Garcia JG,Williams R,Elmassry M,West A,Hamood A,Hurtado D,Gudenkauf B,Ventolini G,Schlabritz-Loutsevitch N

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rhodosporidium toruloides is a β-carotenoid accumulating, oleaginous yeast that has great biotechnological potential. The lack of reliable and efficient genetic manipulation tools have been a major hurdle blocking its adoption as a biotechnology platform. RESULTS:We report for the first time the development...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Koh CM,Liu Y,Moehninsi,Du M,Ji L

更新日期：2014-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The hemibiotrophic fungus Moniliophthora perniciosa is the causal agent of Witches' broom, a disease of Theobroma cacao. The pathogen life cycle ends with the production of basidiocarps in dead tissues of the infected host. This structure generates millions of basidiospores that reinfect young tissues of the...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Pires AB,Gramacho KP,Silva DC,Góes-Neto A,Silva MM,Muniz-Sobrinho JS,Porto RF,Villela-Dias C,Brendel M,Cascardo JC,Pereira GA

更新日期：2009-08-04 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:The taxonomy of tintinnine ciliates is vastly unresolved because it has traditionally been based on the lorica (a secreted shell) and it has only recently incorporated cytological and molecular information. Tintinnopsis, the most speciose tintinnine genus, is also the most problematic: it is known to be non-...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Bai Y,Wang R,Song W,Li L,Santoferrara LF,Hu X

更新日期：2020-12-14 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: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:Wolbachia, one of the most abundant taxa of intracellular Alphaproteobacteria, is widespread among arthropods and filarial nematodes. The presence of these maternally inherited bacteria is associated with modifications of host fitness, including a variety of reproductive abnormalities, such as cytoplasmic in...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Conte CA,Segura DF,Milla FH,Augustinos A,Cladera JL,Bourtzis K,Lanzavecchia SB

更新日期：2019-12-24 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:The microbiota of the mammalian gastrointestinal (GI) tract consists of diverse populations of commensal bacteria that interact with host physiological function. Dysregulating these populations, through exogenous means such as antibiotics or dietary changes, can have adverse consequences on the health of the...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Galley JD,Nelson MC,Yu Z,Dowd SE,Walter J,Kumar PS,Lyte M,Bailey MT

更新日期：2014-07-15 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: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:Abundant populations of bacteria have been observed on Mir and the International Space Station. While some experiments have shown that bacteria cultured during spaceflight exhibit a range of potentially troublesome characteristics, including increases in growth, antibiotic resistance and virulence, other stu...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Kim W,Tengra FK,Shong J,Marchand N,Chan HK,Young Z,Pangule RC,Parra M,Dordick JS,Plawsky JL,Collins CH

更新日期：2013-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The sequenced O45:K1:H7 Escherichia coli meningitis strain S88 harbors a large virulence plasmid. To identify possible genetic determinants of pS88 virulence, we examined the transcriptomes of 88 plasmidic ORFs corresponding to known and putative virulence genes, and 35 ORFs of unknown function. RESULTS:Qua...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Lemaître C,Bidet P,Bingen E,Bonacorsi S

更新日期：2012-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although Aspergillus fumigatus is an important human fungal pathogen there are few expression systems available to study the contribution of specific genes to the growth and virulence of this opportunistic mould. Regulatable promoter systems based upon prokaryotic regulatory elements in the E. coli tetracycl...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Vogt K,Bhabhra R,Rhodes JC,Askew DS

更新日期：2005-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enterococci are increasingly associated with opportunistic infections in Humans but the role of the oral cavity as a reservoir for this species is unclear. This study aimed to explore the carriage rate of Enterococci in the oral cavity of Tunisian children and their antimicrobial susceptibility to a broad ra...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Kouidhi B,Zmantar T,Mahdouani K,Hentati H,Bakhrouf A

更新日期：2011-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Helicobacter pylori forms biofilms on glass surfaces at the air-liquid interface in in vitro batch cultures; however, biofilms of H. pylori have not been well characterized. In the present study, we analyzed the ability of H. pylori strains to form biofilms and characterized the underlying mechanisms of H. p...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Yonezawa H,Osaki T,Kurata S,Fukuda M,Kawakami H,Ochiai K,Hanawa T,Kamiya S

更新日期：2009-09-15 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:The ability of an intracellular pathogen to establish infection depends on the capacity of the organism to survive and replicate inside the host. Mycobacterium fortuitum is a bacteria that contains genes involved in the detoxification of the oxygen reactive species such as those produced by the host during t...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Núñez MC,Menéndez MC,Rebollo MJ,García MJ

更新日期：2008-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Establishing an optimal proportion of nitrifying microbial populations, including ammonia-oxidizing bacteria (AOB), nitrite-oxidizing bacteria (NOB), complete nitrite oxidizers (comammox) and ammonia-oxidizing archaea (AOA), is important for ensuring the efficiency of nitrification in water treatment systems...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Scarascia G,Cheng H,Harb M,Hong PY

更新日期：2017-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fungi constitute an important yet frequently neglected component of the human microbiota with a possible role in health and disease. Fungi and bacteria colonise the infant gastrointestinal tract in parallel, yet most infant microbiome studies have ignored fungi. Milk is a source of diverse and viable bacteri...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Moossavi S,Fehr K,Derakhshani H,Sbihi H,Robertson B,Bode L,Brook J,Turvey SE,Moraes TJ,Becker AB,Mandhane PJ,Sears MR,Khafipour E,Subbarao P,Azad MB

更新日期：2020-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since bacteria embedded in biofilms are far more difficult to eradicate than planktonic infections, it would be useful to know whether certain Staphylococcus aureus lineages are especially involved in strong biofilm formation. For this reason, in vitro biofilm formation of 228 clinical S. aureus isolates of ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Croes S,Deurenberg RH,Boumans ML,Beisser PS,Neef C,Stobberingh EE

更新日期：2009-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The dspA (hik33) gene, coding for a putative sensory histidine kinase, is conserved in plastids (ycf26) and cyanobacteria. It has been linked with a number of different stress responses in cyanobacteria. RESULTS:We constructed an insertional mutant of dspA (ycf26) in Synechocystis 6803. We found little phen...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Morrison SS,Mullineaux CW,Ashby MK

更新日期：2005-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microbiota from different niches within the canine oral cavity were profiled and compared. Supragingival plaque and stimulated saliva, were collected alongside samples from the buccal and tongue dorsum mucosa, from 14 Labrador retrievers at three timepoints within a 1 month timeframe. The V3-V4 region of the...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ruparell A,Inui T,Staunton R,Wallis C,Deusch O,Holcombe LJ

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enteroaggregative (EAEC) and Shiga-toxin producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are a major cause of diarrhea worldwide. E. coli carrying both virulence factors characteristic for EAEC and STEC and producing extended-spectrum beta-lactamase caused severe and protracted disease during an outbreak of E. coli O104:H...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Trung NV,Nhung HN,Carrique-Mas JJ,Mai HH,Tuyen HT,Campbell J,Nhung NT,Van Minh P,Wagenaar JA,Mai NT,Hieu TQ,Schultsz C,Hoa NT

更新日期：2016-09-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are major inhabitants and part of the normal microflora of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) of humans and animals. Despite substantial evidence supporting the beneficial properties of LAB, only a few studies have addressed the migration and colonization of probiotic bacteria in the...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Van Zyl WF,Deane SM,Dicks LMT

更新日期：2018-10-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The type IV secretion system (T4SS) can be classified as a large family of macromolecule transporter systems, divided into three recognized sub-families, according to the well-known functions. The major sub-family is the conjugation system, which allows transfer of genetic material, such as a nucleoprotein, ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Souza RC,del Rosario Quispe Saji G,Costa MO,Netto DS,Lima NC,Klein CC,Vasconcelos AT,Nicolás MF

更新日期：2012-08-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:GeoChip 3.0, a microbial functional gene array, containing ~28,000 oligonucleotide probes and targeting ~57,000 sequences from 292 functional gene families, provided a powerful tool for researching microbial community structure in natural environments. The alpine meadow is a dominant plant community in the Q...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zhang Y,Lu Z,Liu S,Yang Y,He Z,Ren Z,Zhou J,Li D

更新日期：2013-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) has been considered a beneficial bacterial group, found as part of the microbiota of diverse hosts, including humans and various animals. However, the mechanisms of how hosts and LAB interact are still poorly understood. Previous work demonstrates that 13 species of Lactobacillus a...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Butler È,Alsterfjord M,Olofsson TC,Karlsson C,Malmström J,Vásquez A

更新日期：2013-10-22 00:00:00