Phosphatidylglycerol homeostasis in glycerol-phosphate auxotrophs of Staphylococcus aureus.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thermotolerant Campylobacter is among the more prevalent bacterial pathogens that cause foodborne diseases. This study aimed at evaluating the occurrence of thermotolerant Campylobacter contamination in chicken carcasses and processing plant stations (chilling water, scalding water, defeathering machinery, e...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Figueroa G,Troncoso M,López C,Rivas P,Toro M

更新日期：2009-05-15 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:Iron is an essential nutrient but can be toxic at high intracellular concentrations and organisms have evolved tightly regulated mechanisms for iron uptake and homeostasis. Information on iron management mechanisms is available for organisms living at circumneutral pH. However, very little is known about how...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Osorio H,Martínez V,Nieto PA,Holmes DS,Quatrini R

更新日期：2008-11-24 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:Probiotics are increasingly applied to prevent and treat a range of infectious, immune related and gastrointestinal diseases. Despite this, the mechanisms behind the putative effects of probiotics are poorly understood. One of the suggested modes of probiotic action is modulation of the endogenous gut microb...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Laursen MF,Laursen RP,Larnkjær A,Michaelsen KF,Bahl MI,Licht TR

更新日期：2017-08-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Pneumococcus is exposed to a variety of temperature and oxygen levels in the upper respiratory tract and as it invades the lung, tissues, and blood. We sought to determine the effect of environmental variability on growth in vitro and to assess variability between strains. We evaluated the effect of temperat...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Tóthpál A,Desobry K,Joshi SS,Wyllie AL,Weinberger DM

更新日期：2019-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genome of Arthrobacter sp. strain FB24 contains a chromate resistance determinant (CRD), consisting of a cluster of 8 genes located on a 10.6 kb fragment of a 96 kb plasmid. The CRD includes chrA, which encodes a putative chromate efflux protein, and three genes with amino acid similarities to the amino ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Henne KL,Nakatsu CH,Thompson DK,Konopka AE

更新日期：2009-09-16 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:Whole-genome sequencing using high throughput technologies has revolutionized and speeded up the scientific investigation of bacterial genetics, biochemistry, and molecular biology. Lactic acid bacteria (LABs) have been extensively used in fermentation and more recently as probiotics in food products that pr...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： El Jeni R,Ghedira K,El Bour M,Abdelhak S,Benkahla A,Bouhaouala-Zahar B

更新日期：2020-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacillus spp. have prominent ability to suppress plant pathogens and corresponding diseases. Previous analyses of Bacillus spp. revealed numerous gene clusters involved in nonribosomal synthesis of cyclic lipopeptides with distinct antimicrobial action. The 4'-phosphopantetheinyl transferase (PPTase) encoded...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Jin P,Wang H,Liu W,Miao W

更新日期：2017-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Legionella pneumophila, the causative agent of Legionnaire's disease, may enter a viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state triggered by environmental stress conditions. Specific outer-membrane epitopes of L. pneumophila are used in many diagnostic applications and some of them are linked to important virulence...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Schrammel B,Petzold M,Cervero-Aragó S,Sommer R,Lück C,Kirschner A

更新日期：2018-07-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:"Candidatus Phytoplasma aurantifolia", is the causative agent of witches' broom disease in Mexican lime trees (Citrus aurantifolia L.), and is responsible for major losses of Mexican lime trees in Southern Iran and Oman. The pathogen is strictly biotrophic, and thus is completely dependent on living host cel...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zamharir MG,Mardi M,Alavi SM,Hasanzadeh N,Nekouei MK,Zamanizadeh HR,Alizadeh A,Salekdeh GH

更新日期：2011-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis (S. Enteritidis) is a zoonotic pathogen, which can be found in many sources including animals and the environment. However, little is known about the molecular relatedness among S. Enteritidis isolates from different sources. We have applied multiple-locus variable nu...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Cho S,Whittam TS,Boxrud DJ,Bartkus JM,Saeed AM

更新日期：2008-09-15 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: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:Microorganisms of different species interact in several ecological niches, even causing infection. During the infectious process, a biofilm of single or multispecies can develop. Aspergillus fumigatus and Staphyloccocus aureus are etiologic agents that can cause infectious keratitis. We analyzed in vitro sin...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ramírez Granillo A,Canales MG,Espíndola ME,Martínez Rivera MA,de Lucio VM,Tovar AV

更新日期：2015-02-15 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:Streptococcus agalactiae or Group B Streptococci (GBS) have the ability to access various host sites, which reflects its adaptability to different environments during the course of infection. This adaptation is due to the expression of virulence factors that are involved with survival, invasion and bacterial...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Otaguiri ES,Morguette AE,Tavares ER,dos Santos PM,Morey AT,Cardoso JD,Perugini MR,Yamauchi LM,Yamada-Ogatta SF

更新日期：2013-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The phenomenon of misdiagnosing tuberculosis (TB) by laboratory cross-contamination when culturing Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) has been widely reported and it has an obvious clinical, therapeutic and social impact. The final confirmation of a cross-contamination event requires the molecular identificati...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Martín A,Herranz M,Lirola MM,Fernández RF,INDAL-TB group.,Bouza E,García de Viedma D

更新日期：2008-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The species Pectobacterium carotovorum includes a diverse subspecies of bacteria that cause disease on a wide variety of plants. In Morocco, approximately 95% of the P. carotovorum isolates from potato plants with tuber soft rot are P. carotovorum subsp. carotovorum. However, identification of this pathogen ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Kettani-Halabi M,Terta M,Amdan M,El Fahime el M,Bouteau F,Ennaji MM

更新日期：2013-07-29 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: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: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:Cryptosporidium spp. and Giardia duodenalis are important causes of diarrheal diseases in humans and animals worldwide, and there is an increased interest in the role of animals in the mechanical transmission of these protozoa. To examine the role of yaks in this process, we examined the occurrence and genot...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Qi M,Cai J,Wang R,Li J,Jian F,Huang J,Zhou H,Zhang L

更新日期：2015-05-21 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:Dispersal from Candida albicans biofilms that colonize catheters is implicated as a primary factor in the link between contaminated catheters and life threatening blood stream infections (BSI). Appropriate in vitro C. albicans biofilm models are needed to probe factors that induce detachment events. RESULTS...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Sellam A,Al-Niemi T,McInnerney K,Brumfield S,Nantel A,Suci PA

更新日期：2009-02-02 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: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: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:The cell tropism of Brucella abortus, a causative agent of brucellosis and facultative intracellular pathogen, in the placenta is thought to be a key event of infectious abortion, although the molecular mechanism for this is largely unknown. There is a higher degree of bacterial colonization in the placenta ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Watanabe K,Tachibana M,Tanaka S,Furuoka H,Horiuchi M,Suzuki H,Watarai M

更新日期：2008-12-05 00:00:00