Extracellular DNA release confers heterogeneity in Candida albicans biofilm formation.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Famous Chinese strong-flavored liquor (CSFL) is brewed by microbial consortia in a special fermentation pit (FT). However, the fermentation process was not fully understood owing to the complicate community structure and metabolism. In this study, the process-related dynamics of microbial communities and mai...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zhang Y,Zhu X,Li X,Tao Y,Jia J,He X

更新日期：2017-09-15 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:The date palm root borer Oryctes agamemnon (Coleoptera: Scarabaeidae) is one of the major pests of palms. In Saudi Arabia, both larvae and adults of Oryctes are particularly troublesome, especially during the establishment of young date palm orchards. Endosymbiotic bacteria are known to have a key role in fo...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： El-Sayed WS,Ibrahim RA

更新日期：2015-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chlamydia trachomatis, an obligate intracellular human pathogen, is the most prevalent bacterial sexually transmitted infection worldwide and a leading cause of preventable blindness. HtrA is a virulence and stress response periplasmic serine protease and molecular chaperone found in many bacteria. Recombina...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Huston WM,Theodoropoulos C,Mathews SA,Timms P

更新日期：2008-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Although the most widely accepted mechanism of action for polymyxins is related to bacterial lysis via disruption, we hypothesized that this antimicrobial drug class could have other effects on Pseudomonas aeruginosa planktonic and sessile cells. Little is known regarding oxidative burst and zeta potential (...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Lima MR,Ferreira GF,Nunes Neto WR,Monteiro JM,Santos ÁRC,Tavares PB,Denadai ÂML,Bomfim MRQ,Dos Santos VL,Marques SG,de Souza Monteiro A

更新日期：2019-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial and cellular genotyping is becoming increasingly important in the diagnosis of infectious diseases. However, difficulties in obtaining sufficient amount of bacterial and cellular DNA extracted from the same human biopsy specimens is often a limiting factor. In this study, total DNA (host and bacter...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ryberg A,Borch K,Sun YQ,Monstein HJ

更新日期：2008-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Identification and characterization of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) with reduced susceptibility to β-lactam antibiotics due to mutations in penicillin binding protein 3 (PBP3) is a clinical challenge. We analyzed a blood isolate, NTHi93-57485, that was categorized as aminopenicillin resistant b...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Thegerström J,Matuschek E,Su YC,Riesbeck K,Resman F

更新日期：2018-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Streptococcus pneumoniae is a common respiratory pathogen and a major causative agent of respiratory infections, including otitis media (OM). Pneumococcal biofilms have been demonstrated on biopsies of the middle ear mucosa in children receiving tympanostomy tubes, supporting the hypothesis that chronic OM m...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Hall-Stoodley L,Nistico L,Sambanthamoorthy K,Dice B,Nguyen D,Mershon WJ,Johnson C,Hu FZ,Stoodley P,Ehrlich GD,Post JC

更新日期：2008-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mycoplasma pneumoniae has previously been characterized as a micro-organism that is genetically highly stable. In spite of this genetic stability, homologous DNA recombination has been hypothesized to lie at the basis of antigenic variation of the major surface protein, P1, of M. pneumoniae. In order to iden...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Sluijter M,Hoogenboezem T,Hartwig NG,Vink C

更新日期：2008-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:LiaRS mediates Bacillus subtilis response to cell envelope perturbations. A third protein, LiaF, has an inhibitory role over LiaRS in the absence of stimulus. Together, LiaF and LiaRS form a three-component system characterized by an unusual stoichiometry, a 4:1 ratio between LiaS and LiaR, the significance ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Jani S,Sterzenbach K,Adatrao V,Tajbakhsh G,Mascher T,Golemi-Kotra D

更新日期：2020-04-29 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: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: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: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

abstract：BACKGROUND:The plasma membrane plays an essential role in selective permeability, compartmentalization, osmotic balance, and cellular uptake. The characteristics and functions of cyanobacterial membranes have been extensively investigated in recent years. Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) are special nanocarriers that c...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Liu BR,Huang YW,Lee HJ

更新日期：2013-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Sinorhizobium meliloti is an agriculturally important model symbiont. There is an ongoing need to update and improve its genome annotation. In this study, we used a high-throughput pyrosequencing approach to sequence the transcriptome of S. meliloti, and search for new bacterial genes missed in the previous ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Mao C,Evans C,Jensen RV,Sobral BW

更新日期：2008-05-02 00:00:00

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:Saudi Arabia is mostly barren except the southwestern highlands that are susceptible to environmental changes, a hotspot for biodiversity, but poorly studied for microbial diversity and composition. In this study, 454-pyrosequencing of 16S rRNA gene hypervariable region V6 was used to analyze soil bacterial ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Yasir M,Azhar EI,Khan I,Bibi F,Baabdullah R,Al-Zahrani IA,Al-Ghamdi AK

更新日期：2015-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chlamydia pneumoniae is a common human pathogen that is associated with upper and lower respiratory tract infections. It has also been suggested that C. pneumoniae infection can trigger or promote a number of chronic inflammatory conditions, including asthma and atherosclerosis. Several strains of C. pneumon...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： He X,Liang Y,LaValley MP,Lai J,Ingalls RR

更新日期：2015-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Since 1994, Brucella strains have been isolated from a wide range of marine mammals. They are currently recognized as two new Brucella species, B. pinnipedialis for the pinniped isolates and B. ceti for the cetacean isolates in agreement with host preference and specific phenotypic and molecular markers. In ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Maquart M,Le Flèche P,Foster G,Tryland M,Ramisse F,Djønne B,Al Dahouk S,Jacques I,Neubauer H,Walravens K,Godfroid J,Cloeckaert A,Vergnaud G

更新日期：2009-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The Bacillus anthracis S-layer protein, BslA, plays a crucial role in mammalian infection. BslA is required to mediate adherence between host cells and vegetative forms of bacteria and this interaction promotes target organs adherence and blood-brain barrier (BBB) penetration in vivo. This study attempts to ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Wang Y,Wei Y,Yuan S,Tao H,Dong J,Zhang Z,Tian W,Liu C

更新日期：2016-08-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Though important in the context of food microbiology and as potential pathogens in immuno-compromised humans, bacterial isolates belonging to the genus Pediococcus are best known for their association with contamination of ethanol fermentation processes (beer, wine, or fuel ethanol). Use of antimicrobial com...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Haakensen M,Vickers DM,Ziola B

更新日期：2009-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Thiomonas strains are ubiquitous in arsenic-contaminated environments. Differences between Thiomonas strains in the way they have adapted and respond to arsenic have never been studied in detail. For this purpose, five Thiomonas strains, that are interesting in terms of arsenic metabolism were selected: T. a...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Bryan CG,Marchal M,Battaglia-Brunet F,Kugler V,Lemaitre-Guillier C,Lièvremont D,Bertin PN,Arsène-Ploetze F

更新日期：2009-06-23 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:Listeria monocytogenes is the causative agent of listeriosis, a serious disease affecting both animals and humans. Here, multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was used to characterize the genetic diversity of Listeria monocytogenes strains isolated from the natural environment and animal clinical cases in Europe...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Papić B,Pate M,Félix B,Kušar D

更新日期：2019-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The skin microbiome serves as a first line defense against pathogens in vertebrates. In amphibians, it has the potential to protect against the chytrid fungus Batrachochytrium dendrobatis (Bd), a likely agent of amphibian declines. Alteration of the microbiome associated with unfavorable environmental change...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Jiménez RR,Alvarado G,Sandoval J,Sommer S

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Following publication of the original article [1], the authors reported an error in Fig. 2c. ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： El-Naggar NE,El-Shweihy NM

更新日期：2020-04-30 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:Campylobacter jejuni is a leading foodborne pathogen worldwide. Despite the fastidious nature of C. jejuni growth, increasing numbers of human campylobacteriosis suggest that C. jejuni may possess unique mechanisms to survive under various stress conditions. C. jejuni possesses only three sigma factors (FliA...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Hwang S,Jeon B,Yun J,Ryu S

更新日期：2011-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Compared with many protists, Giardia lamblia has a simple life cycle alternating between cyst and trophozoite. Most research on the molecular biology of Giardia parasites has focused on trophozoites and the processes of excystation and encystation, whereas cysts have attracted less interest. The striking mor...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Faghiri Z,Widmer G

更新日期：2011-05-04 00:00:00