Gene expression profiling of Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis in simulated multi-stress conditions and within THP-1 cells reveals a new kind of interactive intramacrophage behaviour.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Porphyromonas gingivalis is the foremost oral pathogen of adult periodontitis in humans. However, the mechanisms of bacterial invasion and the resultant destruction of the gingival tissue remain largely undefined. RESULTS:We report host-P. gingivalis interactions in primary human gingival fibroblast (HGF) c...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Urnowey S,Ansai T,Bitko V,Nakayama K,Takehara T,Barik S

更新日期：2006-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Saccharomyces cerevisiae multicellular communities are sustained by a scaffolding extracellular matrix, which provides spatial organization, and nutrient and water availability, and ensures group survival. According to this tissue-like biology, the yeast extracellular matrix (yECM) is analogous to the higher...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Faria-Oliveira F,Carvalho J,Ferreira C,Hernáez ML,Gil C,Lucas C

更新日期：2015-11-25 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:Leptospires lack many of the homologs for oxidative defense present in other bacteria, but do encode homologs of the Bacteriodes aerotolerance (Bat) proteins, which have been proposed to fulfill this function. Bat homologs have been identified in all families of the phylum Spirochaetes, yet a specific functi...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Stewart PE,Carroll JA,Dorward DW,Stone HH,Sarkar A,Picardeau M,Rosa PA

更新日期：2012-12-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Quorum sensing is a communication system that regulates gene expression in response to population density and often regulates virulence determinants. Deletion of the luxR homologue vjbR highly attenuates intracellular survival of Brucella melitensis and has been interpreted to be an indication of a role for ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Weeks JN,Galindo CL,Drake KL,Adams GL,Garner HR,Ficht TA

更新日期：2010-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The emergence and spread of multidrug resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MDR-MRSA) has serious health consequences in the presence of sub-MIC antibiotics. Therefore, this study was designed to evaluate β-lactamase activity, efflux activity, biofilm formation, and gene expression pattern i...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Jo A,Ahn J

更新日期：2016-07-29 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:Bovicin HC5 is an antimicrobial peptide that shows a broad spectrum of activity and potential for biotechnological and therapeutic applications. To gain insight about the safety of bovicin HC5 application, the histological and immunostimulatory effects of orally administrated bovicin HC5 to BALB/c mice were ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Paiva AD,Fernandes KM,Dias RS,Rocha Ados S,Oliveira LL,Neves CA,Paula SO,Mantovani HC

更新日期：2013-03-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The high demand for ethanol in the U.S. has generated large stocks of wet distillers grains (DG), a byproduct from the manufacture of ethanol from corn and sorghum grains. Little is known, however, about the potential influence of dietary DG on fecal microbial community structure. A better understanding of t...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Rice WC,Galyean ML,Cox SB,Dowd SE,Cole NA

更新日期：2012-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hypervirulent K. pneumoniae (hvKp) causes severe community acquired infections, predominantly in Asia. Though initially isolated from liver abscesses, they are now prevalent among invasive infections such as bacteraemia. There have been no studies reported till date on the prevalence and characterisation of ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Shankar C,Veeraraghavan B,Nabarro LEB,Ravi R,Ragupathi NKD,Rupali P

更新日期：2018-01-08 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: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:The genus Arsenophonus is a group of symbiotic, mainly insect-associated bacteria with rapidly increasing number of records. It is known from a broad spectrum of hosts and symbiotic relationships varying from parasitic son-killers to coevolving mutualists.The present study extends the currently known diversi...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Nováková E,Hypsa V,Moran NA

更新日期：2009-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brucellosis is an important zoonosis caused by the genus Brucella. In addition Brucella represents potential biological warfare agents due to the high contagious rates for humans and animals. Therefore, the strain typing epidemiological tool may be crucial for tracing back source of infection in outbreaks an...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： De Santis R,Ciammaruconi A,Faggioni G,D'Amelio R,Marianelli C,Lista F

更新日期：2009-04-07 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: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:The human gastrointestinal (GI) tract microbiota has been a subject of intense research throughout the 3rd Millennium. Now that a general picture about microbiota composition in health and disease is emerging, questions about factors determining development of microbiotas with specific community structures w...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Peñate-Medina O,Tower RJ,Peñate-Medina T,Will O,Saris PEJ,Suojanen J,Sorsa T,Huuskonen L,Hiippala K,Satokari R,Glüer CC,de Vos WM,Reunanen J

更新日期：2019-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microencapsulated organic acids and botanicals have the potential to develop into important tools for the poultry industry. A blend of organic acids and botanicals (AviPlus®P) has previously shown to reduce Salmonella and Campylobacter in chickens; however, changes to the microbiota of the jejunum and ileum ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Feye KM,Swaggerty CL,Kogut MH,Ricke SC,Piva A,Grilli E

更新日期：2020-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the present work, we describe a group of anomalous dose-response (DR) profiles and develop a dynamic model that is able to explain them. Responses were obtained from conventional assays of three antimicrobial agents (nisin, pediocin and phenol) against two microorganisms (Carnobacterium piscicola and Leuc...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Murado MA,Vázquez JA

更新日期：2010-08-19 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:Klebsiella pneumoniae can be found in environmental habitats as well as in hospital settings where it is commonly associated with nosocomial infections. One of the factors that contribute to virulence is its capacity to form biofilms on diverse biotic and abiotic surfaces. The second messenger Bis-(3'-5')-cy...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Cruz DP,Huertas MG,Lozano M,Zárate L,Zambrano MM

更新日期：2012-07-09 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:The genus Xanthomonas comprises several plant pathogenic bacteria affecting a wide range of hosts. Despite the economic, industrial and biological importance of Xanthomonas, the classification and phylogenetic relationships within the genus are still under active debate. Some of the relationships between pat...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Rodriguez-R LM,Grajales A,Arrieta-Ortiz ML,Salazar C,Restrepo S,Bernal A

更新日期：2012-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The mce4 operon is one of the four homologues of mammalian cell entry (mce) operons of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The mce4A (Rv3499c) gene within this operon is homologous to mce1A (Rv0169), that has a role in host cell invasion by M. tuberculosis. Our earlier reports show that mce4 operon is expressed duri...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Saini NK,Sharma M,Chandolia A,Pasricha R,Brahmachari V,Bose M

更新日期：2008-11-19 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:Vibrio cholerae is the causative agent of cholera. Extensive studies reveal that complicated regulatory cascades regulate expression of virulence genes, the products of which are required for V. cholerae to colonize and cause disease. In this study, we investigated the expression of the key virulence regulat...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Xu X,Stern AM,Liu Z,Kan B,Zhu J

更新日期：2010-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Staphylococcus aureus methicillin-resistant (MRSA) has been frequently isolated from endotracheal and lung puncture aspirates in malnourished children with pneumonia. In this work we evaluated the susceptibility of undernourished BALB/c mice and its ability to mount a protective immunity against MRSA with em...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： França TG,Ishikawa LL,Zorzella-Pezavento SF,Chiuso-Minicucci F,Guerino CP,da Cunha Mde L,Sartori A

更新日期：2009-11-23 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:The genus Phytophthora includes a group of agriculturally important pathogens and they are commonly regarded as water molds. They produce motile zoospores that can move via water currents and on their own locomotion in aquatic environments. However, zoosporic response to dissolved oxygen, an important water ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Kong P,Hong C

更新日期：2014-05-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Edwardsiella ictaluri is a Gram-negative facultative intracellular anaerobe and the etiologic agent of enteric septicemia of channel catfish (ESC). To the catfish industry, ESC is a devastating disease due to production losses and treatment costs. Identification of virulence mechanisms of E. ictaluri is crit...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Kalindamar S,Lu J,Abdelhamed H,Tekedar HC,Lawrence ML,Karsi A

更新日期：2019-03-08 00:00:00