Antibiotic resistance and adhesion properties of oral Enterococci associated to dental caries.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) are devices that exploit microorganisms to generate electric power from organic matter. Despite the development of efficient MFC reactors, the microbiology of electricity generation remains to be sufficiently understood. RESULTS:A laboratory-scale two-chamber microbial fuel cell ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ishii S,Shimoyama T,Hotta Y,Watanabe K

更新日期：2008-01-10 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: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:Fungi are the second most abundant type of human pathogens. Invasive fungal pathogens are leading causes of life-threatening infections in clinical settings. Toxicity to the host and drug-resistance are two major deleterious issues associated with existing antifungal agents. Increasing a host's tolerance and...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Kidane YH,Lawrence C,Murali TM

更新日期：2013-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biofilms are ubiquitous. For instance, the majority of medical infections are thought to involve biofilms. However even after decades of investigation, the in vivo efficacy of many antimicrobial strategies is still debated suggesting there is a need for better understanding of biofilm antimicrobial tolerance...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zuroff TR,Bernstein H,Lloyd-Randolfi J,Jimenez-Taracido L,Stewart PS,Carlson RP

更新日期：2010-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Klebsiella pneumoniae is an important gram-negative opportunistic pathogen causing primarily urinary tract infections, respiratory infections, and bacteraemia. The ability of bacteria to form biofilms on medical devices, e.g. catheters, has a major role in development of many nosocomial infections. Most clin...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Schroll C,Barken KB,Krogfelt KA,Struve C

更新日期：2010-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae, is a novel member of the genus Streptococcus, falling close to related members like S. pneumoniae, S. mitis, and S. oralis. Its recent appearance has shed light on streptococcal infections, which has been unclear till recently. In this study, the transcriptome of S. pseudopneu...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Park HK,Myung SC,Kim W

更新日期：2012-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatitis B virus (HBV), because of its error-prone viral polymerase, has a high mutation rate leading to widespread substitutions, deletions, and insertions in the HBV genome. Deletions may significantly change viral biological features complicating the progression of liver diseases. However, the clinical c...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zhang D,Dong P,Zhang K,Deng L,Bach C,Chen W,Li F,Protzer U,Ding H,Zeng C

更新日期：2012-12-28 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: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: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: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: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: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: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:Lyme borrelia genotypes differ in their capacity to cause disseminated disease. Gene array analysis was employed to profile the host transcriptome induced by Borrelia burgdorferi strains with different capacities for causing disseminated disease in the blood of C3H/HeJ mice during early infection. RESULTS:B...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Petzke MM,Iyer R,Love AC,Spieler Z,Brooks A,Schwartz I

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microbiome and metagenomic studies have given rise to a new understanding of microbial colonization of various human tissues and their ability to impact our health. One human microbiome growing in notoriety, the vaginal microbiome, stands out given its importance for women's health, and is peculiar in terms ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Brandt K,Barrangou R

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In this study, we have evaluated the immunological status of hepatitis C virus (HCV)-infected patients aiming at identifying putative biomarkers associated with distinct degrees of liver fibrosis. Peripheral blood and tissue T-cells as well as cytokine levels were quantified by flow cytometry. RESULTS:Data ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： de Souza-Cruz S,Victória MB,Tarragô AM,da Costa AG,Pimentel JP,Pires EF,Araújo Lde P,Coelho-dos-Reis JG,Gomes Mde S,Amaral LR,Teixeira-Carvalho A,Martins-Filho OA,Victória Fda S,Malheiro A

更新日期：2016-01-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most living cells uptake phosphate, an indispensable nutrient for growth from their natural environment. In Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, the cells lack phosphate-inorganic transport (Pit) system but contain two phosphate-specific transport (Pst) systems, Pst1 and Pst2. We investigated the kinetics of Pi uptak...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Burut-Archanai S,Eaton-Rye JJ,Incharoensakdi A

更新日期：2011-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Rhodobacter sphaeroides 2.4.1 is a metabolically versatile organism that belongs to α-3 subdivision of Proteobacteria. The present study was to identify the extent, history, and role of gene duplications in R. sphaeroides 2.4.1, an organism that possesses two chromosomes. RESULTS:A protein similarity search...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Bavishi A,Lin L,Schroeder K,Peters A,Cho H,Choudhary M

更新日期：2010-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Accurate identification of Aspergillus species is a very important subject. Mass spectral fingerprinting using matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) is generally employed for the rapid identification of fungal isolates. However, the results are based on s...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Nakamura S,Sato H,Tanaka R,Kusuya Y,Takahashi H,Yaguchi T

更新日期：2017-04-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Coxiella burnetii is the causative agent of Q-fever, a widespread zoonosis. Due to its high environmental stability and infectivity it is regarded as a category B biological weapon agent. In domestic animals infection remains either asymptomatic or presents as infertility or abortion. Clinical presentation i...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Panning M,Kilwinski J,Greiner-Fischer S,Peters M,Kramme S,Frangoulidis D,Meyer H,Henning K,Drosten C

更新日期：2008-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacteria belonging to Planctomycetes display several unique morphological and genetic features and are found in a wide variety of habitats on earth. Their ecological roles in these habitats are still poorly understood. Planctomycetes have previously been detected throughout the year on surfaces of the kelp L...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Bengtsson MM,Øvreås L

更新日期：2010-10-15 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:The Gram-negative phytopathogenic bacterium Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris recruits the hrp/T3SS system to inject pathogenicity effector proteins into host cells and uses the rpf/DSF cell-cell signaling system to regulate the expression of virulence factors such as extracellular enzymes and polysaccha...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Jiang BL,Jiang GF,Liu W,Yang LC,Yang LY,Wang L,Hang XH,Tang JL

更新日期：2018-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The lung of patients with cystic fibrosis (CF) is particularly sensitive to Pseudomonas aeruginosa. This bacterium plays an important role in the poor outcome of CF patients. During the disease progress, first acquisition of P. aeruginosa is the key-step in the management of CF patients. Quantitative PCR (qP...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Le Gall F,Le Berre R,Rosec S,Hardy J,Gouriou S,Boisramé-Gastrin S,Vallet S,Rault G,Payan C,Héry-Arnaud G

更新日期：2013-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Neisseria gonorrhoeae is an obligate human pathogen that causes significant worldwide morbidity. N. gonorrhoeae expresses lipooligosaccharide (LOS), a phase variable molecule that plays an important role during pathogenesis of the organism. Alteration in the structure of gonococcal LOS correlates with altere...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Patrone JB,Stein DC

更新日期：2007-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Demand for high-throughput bioprocessing has dramatically increased especially in the biopharmaceutical industry because the technologies are of vital importance to process optimization and media development. This can be efficiently boosted by using microtiter plate (MTP) cultivation setup embedded into an a...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Tan JS,Abbasiliasi S,Kadkhodaei S,Tam YJ,Tang TK,Lee YY,Ariff AB

更新日期：2018-01-04 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:Changes in aboveground plant species diversity as well as variations of environmental conditions such as exposure of ecosystems to elevated concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide may lead to changes in metabolic activity, composition and diversity of belowground microbial communities, both bacterial an...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Grüter D,Schmid B,Brandl H

更新日期：2006-07-27 00:00:00