Role of type 1 and type 3 fimbriae in Klebsiella pneumoniae biofilm formation.

abstract：BACKGROUND:The symbiotic bacteria associated with edible fungi are valuable microbial resources worthy of in-depth exploration. It is important to analyze the community structure and succession of symbiotic bacteria in mushrooms. This can assist in the isolation of growth-promoting strains that have an essential relati...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Sun S,Li F,Xu X,Liu Y,Kong X,Chen J,Liu T,Chen L

更新日期：2020-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Growing concerns about bacterial resistance to antibiotics have prompted the development of alternative therapies like those based on cationic antimicrobial peptides (APs). These compounds not only are bactericidal by themselves but also enhance the activity of antibiotics. Studies focused on the systematic ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Sánchez-Gómez S,Lamata M,Leiva J,Blondelle SE,Jerala R,Andrä J,Brandenburg K,Lohner K,Moriyón I,Martínez-de-Tejada G

更新日期：2008-11-11 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: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:Exposure of cells to environmental stress conditions can lead to the interruption of several intracellular processes, in particular those performed by macromolecular complexes such as the spliceosome. RESULTS:During nucleotide sequencing of cDNA libraries constructed using RNA isolated from B. emersonii cel...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Georg RC,Stefani RM,Gomes SL

更新日期：2009-10-29 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:Rhizobium tropici strain PRF 81 (= SEMIA 4080) has been used in commercial inoculants for application to common-bean crops in Brazil since 1998, due to its high efficiency in fixing nitrogen, competitiveness against indigenous rhizobial populations and capacity to adapt to stressful tropical conditions, repr...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Gomes DF,Batista JS,Schiavon AL,Andrade DS,Hungria M

更新日期：2012-05-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Viability staining with SYTO9 and propidium iodide (PI) is a frequently used tool in microbiological studies. However, data generated by such routinely used method are often not critically evaluated for their accuracy. In this study we aim to investigate the critical aspects of this staining method using Sta...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Stiefel P,Schmidt-Emrich S,Maniura-Weber K,Ren Q

更新日期：2015-02-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Despite the high prevalence of genotype 1b hepatitis C virus (HCV) among patients, a cell culture system that permits entire viral life cycle of genotype 1b isolates is limited. To develop a cell-cultured hepatitis C virus (HCVcc) of genotype 1b, the proper combination of HCV genomic variants and host cells ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Mori KI,Matsumoto A,Maki N,Ichikawa Y,Tanaka E,Yagi S

更新日期：2016-09-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chlamydiae are obligate intracellular pathogens that possess a type III secretion system to deliver proteins into the host cell during infection. Small molecule inhibitors of type III secretion in Yersinia, termed INPs (Innate Pharmaceuticals AB) were reported to strongly inhibit Chlamydia growth in epitheli...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Muschiol S,Normark S,Henriques-Normark B,Subtil A

更新日期：2009-04-21 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:Atherosclerosis is still the leading cause of death in the western world. Besides known risk factors studies demonstrating Chlamydophila pneumoniae (C. pneumoniae) to be implicated in the progression of the disease, little is known about C. pneumoniae infection dynamics. We investigated whether C. pneumoniae...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Marino J,Stoeckli I,Walch M,Latinovic-Golic S,Sundstroem H,Groscurth P,Ziegler U,Dumrese C

更新日期：2008-02-19 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: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: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: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: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:Recently, in India, there has been a shift from NDM to OXA48-like carbapenemases. OXA-181 and OXA-232 are the frequently produced variants of OXA48-like carbapenemases. OXA48-like carbapenemases are also known to be carried on transposons such as Tn1999, Tn1999.2 and it is also associated with IS1R carried o...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Shankar C,Mathur P,Venkatesan M,Pragasam AK,Anandan S,Khurana S,Veeraraghavan B

更新日期：2019-06-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Xanthophyllomyces dendrorhous is a basidiomycetous yeast that synthesizes astaxanthin, a carotenoid with great biotechnological impact. The ergosterol and carotenoid synthetic pathways derive from the mevalonate pathway and involve cytochrome P450 enzymes. Among these enzymes, the CYP51 family, which is invo...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Leiva K,Werner N,Sepúlveda D,Barahona S,Baeza M,Cifuentes V,Alcaíno J

更新日期：2015-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacteria excrete costly toxins to defend their ecological niche. The evolution of such antagonistic interactions between individuals is expected to depend on both the social environment and the strength of resource competition. Antagonism is expected to be weak among highly similar genotypes because most ind...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Schoustra SE,Dench J,Dali R,Aaron SD,Kassen R

更新日期：2012-03-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Porphyromonas gingivalis, a microorganism residing in the oral cavity within complex multispecies biofilms, is one of the keystone pathogens in the onset and progression of periodontitis. In this in vitro study, using DNA microarray, we investigate the differential gene expression of Porphyromonas gingivalis...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Sánchez MC,Romero-Lastra P,Ribeiro-Vidal H,Llama-Palacios A,Figuero E,Herrera D,Sanz M

更新日期：2019-03-12 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: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: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: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:The genus Lactobacillus belongs to a large heterogeneous group of low G + C Gram-positive anaerobic bacteria, which are frequently used as probiotics. The health-beneficial effects, in particular the immunomodulation effect, of probiotics depend on the strain and dose used. Strain variations may be related t...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Górska S,Buda B,Brzozowska E,Schwarzer M,Srutkova D,Kozakova H,Gamian A

更新日期：2016-02-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:adhC from Haemophilus influenzae encodes a glutathione-dependent alcohol dehydrogenase that has previously been shown to be required for protection against killing by S-nitrosoglutathione (GSNO). This group of enzymes is known in other systems to be able to utilize substrates that form adducts with glutathio...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Kidd SP,Jiang D,Tikhomirova A,Jennings MP,McEwan AG

更新日期：2012-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mannheimia haemolytica strains isolated from North American cattle have been classified into two genotypes (1 and 2). Although members of both genotypes have been isolated from the upper and lower respiratory tracts of cattle with or without bovine respiratory disease (BRD), genotype 2 strains are much more ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Clawson ML,Schuller G,Dickey AM,Bono JL,Murray RW,Sweeney MT,Apley MD,DeDonder KD,Capik SF,Larson RL,Lubbers BV,White BJ,Blom J,Chitko-McKown CG,Brichta-Harhay DM,Smith TPL

更新日期：2020-08-12 00:00:00

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:Bacterial lipoproteins often play important roles in pathogenesis and can stimulate protective immune responses. Such lipoproteins are viable vaccine candidates. Haemophilus ducreyi, which causes the sexually transmitted disease chancroid, expresses a number of lipoproteins during human infection. One such l...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Janowicz DM,Zwickl BW,Fortney KR,Katz BP,Bauer ME

更新日期：2014-06-24 00:00:00