Colonization of Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli and Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli in chickens and humans in southern Vietnam.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Moraxella catarrhalis is a human-specific gram-negative bacterium readily isolated from the respiratory tract of healthy individuals. The organism also causes significant health problems, including 15-20% of otitis media cases in children and ~10% of respiratory infections in adults with chronic obstructive ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Balder R,Shaffer TL,Lafontaine ER

更新日期：2013-06-19 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:The flame-oxidized stainless steel anode (FO-SSA) is a newly developed electrode that enhances microbial fuel cell (MFC) power generation; however, substrate preference and community structure of the biofilm developed on FO-SSA have not been well characterized. Herein, we investigated the community on FO-SSA...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Eyiuche NJ,Asakawa S,Yamashita T,Ikeguchi A,Kitamura Y,Yokoyama H

更新日期：2017-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biofilm is a fundamental bacterial survival mode which proceeds through three main generalized phases: adhesion, maturation, and dispersion. Lactobacilli spp. (LB) are critical components of gut and reproductive health and are widely used probiotics. Evaluation of time-dependent mechanisms of biofilm formati...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Martinez S,Garcia JG,Williams R,Elmassry M,West A,Hamood A,Hurtado D,Gudenkauf B,Ventolini G,Schlabritz-Loutsevitch N

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:It is known that insects and crustaceans can carry simultaneous, active infections of two or more viruses without showing signs of disease, but it was not clear whether co-infecting viruses occupied the same cells or different cells in common target tissues. Our previous work showed that successive challenge...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Kanthong N,Khemnu N,Pattanakitsakul SN,Malasit P,Flegel TW

更新日期：2010-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A growing body of evidence suggests that Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) uses the host's cholesterol as a source of carbon and energy during infection. Strains defective in cholesterol transport or degradation exhibit attenuated growth in activated macrophages and diminished infectivity in animal models. Th...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Brzezinska M,Szulc I,Brzostek A,Klink M,Kielbik M,Sulowska Z,Pawelczyk J,Dziadek J

更新日期：2013-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:HSV-1 is a common pathogen that infects 50-90% of the human population worldwide. HSV-1 causes numerous infection-related diseases, some of which are severely life-threatening. There are antiviral medications with activity against HSV-1. However, with the emergence of drug-resistant mutant strains of HSV-1, ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Huang Q,Hou J,Yang P,Yan J,Yu X,Zhuo Y,He S,Xu F

更新日期：2019-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Candida krusei has been known to exhibit communal interactions such as pellicle formation and crawling out of nutritional broth. We noticed another possible interaction on agar surfaces, where C. krusei yeast cells formed mycelia along agar surfaces toward each other. We report here the results of experiment...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Fleischmann J,Broeckling CD,Lyons S

更新日期：2017-03-11 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: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: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:Non-ribosomal peptide synthetase (NRPS) enzymes govern the assembly of amino acids and related monomers into peptide-like natural products. A key goal of the field is to develop methods to effective recombine NRPS domains or modules, and thereby generate modified or entirely novel products. We previously sho...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Calcott MJ,Ackerley DF

更新日期：2015-08-13 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: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: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: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:"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:The purpose of this study was to design and evaluate fluorescent in situ hybridization (FISH) probes for the single-cell detection and enumeration of lactic acid bacteria, in particular organisms belonging to the major phylogenetic groups and species of oral lactobacilli and to Abiotrophia/Granulicatella. R...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Quevedo B,Giertsen E,Zijnge V,Lüthi-Schaller H,Guggenheim B,Thurnheer T,Gmür R

更新日期：2011-01-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enterobacter sakazakii is an emergent pathogen associated with ingestion of infant formula and accurate identification is important in both industrial and clinical settings. Bacterial species can be difficult to accurately characterise from complex biochemical datasets and computer algorithms can potentially...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Iversen C,Lancashire L,Waddington M,Forsythe S,Ball G

更新日期：2006-03-13 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:Pseudomonas syringae is pathogenic to a large number of plant species. For host colonization and disease progression, strains of this bacterium utilize an array of type III-secreted effectors and other virulence factors, including small secreted molecules such as syringolin A, a peptide derivative that inhib...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Dudnik A,Dudler R

更新日期：2014-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bifidobacteria is one of the major gut commensal groups found in infants. Their colonization is commonly associated with beneficial effects to the host through mechanisms like niche occupation and nutrient competition against pathogenic bacteria. Iron is an essential element necessary for most microorganisms...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Vazquez-Gutierrez P,Lacroix C,Jaeggi T,Zeder C,Zimmerman MB,Chassard C

更新日期：2015-01-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Acinetobacter baumannii is a gram-negative bacterium which causes opportunistic infections in immunocompromised hosts. Genome plasticity has given rise to a wide range of strain variation with respect to antimicrobial resistance profiles and expression of virulence factors which lead to altered phenotypes as...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Boone RL,Whitehead B,Avery TM,Lu J,Francis JD,Guevara MA,Moore RE,Chambers SA,Doster RS,Manning SD,Townsend SD,Dent L,Marshall D,Gaddy JA,Damo SM

更新日期：2021-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:A major obstacle to industrial-scale astaxanthin production by the yeast Phaffia rhodozyma is the strong inhibitory effect of high glucose concentration on astaxanthin synthesis. We investigated, for the first time, the mechanism of the regulatory effect of high glucose (> 100 g/L) at the metabolite and tran...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Miao L,Chi S,Wu M,Liu Z,Li Y

更新日期：2019-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Campylobacter jejuni is the predominant cause of antecedent infection in post-infectious neuropathies such as the Guillain-Barré (GBS) and Miller Fisher syndromes (MFS). GBS and MFS are probably induced by molecular mimicry between human gangliosides and bacterial lipo-oligosaccharides (LOS). This study desc...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Godschalk PC,Bergman MP,Gorkink RF,Simons G,van den Braak N,Lastovica AJ,Endtz HP,Verbrugh HA,van Belkum A

更新日期：2006-04-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:In the genome of H. pylori 26695, 149 proteins containing the CXXC motif characteristic of thioldisulfide oxidoreductases have been identified to date. However, only two of these proteins have a thioredoxin-like fold (i.e., HP0377 and HP0231) and are periplasm-located. We have previously shown that HP0231 is...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Roszczenko P,Grzeszczuk M,Kobierecka P,Wywial E,Urbanowicz P,Wincek P,Nowak E,Jagusztyn-Krynicka EK

更新日期：2015-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Brucellosis incidence in China is divided into three stages: high incidence (1950s-1960s), decline (1970s-1980s), and re-emergence (1990s-2010s). At the re-emergence stage, Brucellosis incidence grew exponentially and spread to all 32 provinces. We describe the magnitude and the etiological distribution chan...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Piao DR,Liu X,Di DD,Xiao P,Zhao ZZ,Xu LQ,Tian GZ,Zhao HY,Fan WX,Cui BY,Jiang H

更新日期：2018-01-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Alpha-isopropylmalate synthase (alpha-IPMS) is the key enzyme that catalyzes the first committed step in the leucine biosynthetic pathway. The gene encoding alpha-IPMS in Mycobacterium tuberculosis, leuA, is polymorphic due to the insertion of 57-bp repeat units referred to as Variable Number of Tandem Repea...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Yindeeyoungyeon W,Likitvivatanavong S,Palittapongarnpim P

更新日期：2009-06-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recurrent acute otitis media (rAOM, recurrent ear infection) is a common childhood disease caused by bacteria termed otopathogens, for which current treatments have limited effectiveness. Generic probiotic therapies have shown promise, but seem to lack specificity. We hypothesised that healthy children with ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Lappan R,Imbrogno K,Sikazwe C,Anderson D,Mok D,Coates H,Vijayasekaran S,Bumbak P,Blyth CC,Jamieson SE,Peacock CS

更新日期：2018-02-20 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