Resuscitation-promoting factors are important determinants of the pathophysiology in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection.

abstract：:Dermatophytoses are superficial infections caused by a group of fungi, the dermatophytes, which invade keratinized tissue of skin, hair, and nails in humans and animals. The importance of normal immune function in resistance to dermatophytoses is substantiated by an increased susceptibility to chronic infection seen i...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Calderon RA

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbiology of meats has been a subject of great concern in food science and public health in recent years. Although many articles have been devoted to the microbiology of beef, pork, and poultry meats, much less has been written about microbiology of lamb meat and even less on restructured lamb meat. This article pr...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： al-Sheddy IA,Fung DY,Kastner CL

更新日期：1995-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A chronically weak area in research papers, reports, and reviews is the complete identification of important background reference documents that formed the building blocks for the research. A method for systematically determining these important references is presented. Citation-Assisted Background (CAB) is based on t...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Kostoff RN

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli can commonly be found, either as a commensal, probiotic or a pathogen, in the human gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Biofilm formation and its regulation is surprisingly variable, although distinct regulatory pattern of red, dry and rough (rdar) biofilm formation arise in certain pathovars and even clones...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Rossi E,Cimdins A,Lüthje P,Brauner A,Sjöling Å,Landini P,Römling U

更新日期：2018-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Legionella spp. are the causative agent of Legionnaire's disease and an opportunistic pathogen of significant public health concern. Identification and quantification from environmental sources is crucial for identifying outbreak origins and providing sufficient information for risk assessment and disease prevention. ...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Whiley H,Taylor M

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Highly significant evidence of the intellectual and cultural efforts of the human race is contained in documents. They take many forms, from papyri through paper to modern magnetic media and optical records. These items are mainly made of organic materials many of which contain polymers, which span from cellulose and ...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Cappitelli F,Sorlini C

更新日期：2005-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy metal contamination has become a worldwide environmental concern due to its toxicity, non-degradability and food-chain bioaccumulation. Conventional physical and chemical treatment methods for heavy metal removal have disadvantages such as cost-intensiveness, incomplete removal, secondary pollution and the lack ...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Li PS,Tao HC

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli enterotoxigenic strains produce one or more toxins which action result in production of diarrhea in animals including Man. One of these toxins, STb, has been mainly associated with colibacillosis in swine. Although highly prevalent in pigs with diarrhea, a relation between STb and disease was arduous ...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Dubreuil JD

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms are complex microbial architectures that encase microbial cells in a matrix comprising self-produced extracellular polymeric substances. Microorganisms living in biofilms are much more resistant to hostile environments than their planktonic counterparts and exhibit enhanced resistance against the microbicides...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Yin W,Xu S,Wang Y,Zhang Y,Chou SH,Galperin MY,He J

更新日期：2020-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Gonorrhea is a major, global public health problem for which there is no vaccine. The continuing emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains raises concerns that untreatable Neisseria gonorrhoeae may become widespread in the near future. Consequently, there is an urgent need for increased efforts towards the development...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Edwards JL,Jennings MP,Apicella MA,Seib KL

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The increasing emergence of antimicrobial multiresistant bacteria is of great concern to public health. While these bacteria are becoming an ever more prominent cause of nosocomial and community-acquired infections worldwide, the antibiotic discovery pipeline has been stalled in the last few years with very few effort...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Cardona ST,Selin C,Gislason AS

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The immune system is well-equipped with sensors that detect invading pathogens and dictate subsequent immune responses for clearing the infections. One such class of sensor is the toll-like receptor (TLR), that can sense diverse molecules of pathogen origin such as proteins, lipids, carbohydrate, DNA, RNA, and trigger...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Udgata A,Dolasia K,Ghosh S,Mukhopadhyay S

更新日期：2019-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Both coagulation and fibrinolysis are tightly connected with the innate immune system. Infection and inflammation cause profound alterations in the otherwise well-controlled balance between coagulation and fibrinolysis. Many pathogenic bacteria directly exploit the host's hemostatic system to increase their virulence....

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Peetermans M,Vanassche T,Liesenborghs L,Lijnen RH,Verhamme P

更新日期：2016-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial cell cycle is simpler and different than that of the typical eukaryotic cell cycle. The selective pressure during evolution has been directed to achieve optimal growth of the individual free-living microbial cell instead of a variety of replication rates of the differentiated cell within an entire multic...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Koch AL

更新日期：2001-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The environmental health-related relevance of cyanobacteria is primarily related to their ability to produce a wide range of toxins, which are known to be hazardous to many organisms, including human beings. The occurrence of cyanobacterial blooms has been related to eutrophic surface water. In the bloom-forming proce...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Baptista MS,Vasconcelos MT

更新日期：2006-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Enteroaggregative Escherichia coli heat-stable enterotoxin 1 (EAST1) is a small protein that was first detected more than a decade ago in an enteroaggregative E. coli (EAEC) strain isolated from the stools of a diarrheic child. The EAST1 gene, astA, is not solely present in EAEC, but also in other categories of diarrh...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Ménard LP,Dubreuil JD

更新日期：2002-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The brucellae are α-Proteobacteria causing brucellosis, an important zoonosis. Although multiplying in endoplasmic reticulum-derived vacuoles, they cause no cell death, suggesting subtle but efficient use of host resources. Brucellae are amino-acid prototrophs able to grow with ammonium or use glutamate as the sole ca...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Ronneau S,Moussa S,Barbier T,Conde-Álvarez R,Zuniga-Ripa A,Moriyon I,Letesson JJ

更新日期：2016-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Within Gram-positive bacteria, the expression of target genes is controlled at the population level via signaling peptides, also known as pheromones. Pheromones control a wide range of functions, including competence, virulence, and others that remain unknown. Until now, their role in bacterial gene regulation has pro...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Monnet V,Juillard V,Gardan R

更新日期：2016-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The cell wall of Saccharomyces cerevisiae is an extracellular organelle crucial for preserving its cellular integrity and detecting environmental cues. The cell wall is composed of mannoproteins attached to a polysaccharide network and is continuously remodelled as cells undergo cell division, mating, gametogenesis or...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Novačić A,Vučenović I,Primig M,Stuparević I

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis is an ancient human scourge that continues to be an important public health problem worldwide. The increasing number of multidrug-resistant (MDR) M. tuberculosis isolates from both AIDS and non-AIDS patients is an ominous trend that threatens tuberculosis eradication programs both in the U.S. and overseas...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Collins FM

更新日期：1993-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Tuberculosis (TB) is an air-born, transmissible disease, having an estimated 9.4 million new TB cases worldwide in 2009. Eventual control of this disease by developing a safe and efficient new vaccine able to detain its spread will have an enormous impact on public health policy. Selecting potential antigens to be inc...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Ocampo M,Patarroyo MA,Vanegas M,Alba MP,Patarroyo ME

更新日期：2014-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems consist of a bicistronic operon, encoding a toxin and an antitoxin. They are widely distributed in the prokaryotic kingdom, often in multiple numbers. TAs are implicated in contradicting phenomena of persistence and programmed cell death (PCD) in bacteria. mazEF TA system, one of the widel...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Ramisetty BC,Natarajan B,Santhosh RS

更新日期：2015-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A pheromone is a chemical excreted by an organism into the environment that acts to elicit a specific response from other organisms of the same species. The importance of pheromones in the life cycle of various species of mammals, insects, and fungi is well known. In the past decade, it has become apparent that pherom...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Stephens K

更新日期：1986-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Programmed cell death (PCD), also referred to as apoptosis, is a cellular "suicide" mechanism, based on information from its own internal metabolism, environment, developmental history, and genome. This system was described in eukaryotes continuously along evolution, through amoebae, nematodes, insects, and animals. P...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Hochman A

更新日期：1997-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In terms of genetically determined susceptibility to the clinical antifungal agent 5-fluorocytosine (5-FC), Candida albicans may be homozygous sensitive (FCY/FCY), homozygous resistant (fcy/fcy), or heterozygous (fcy/FCY). Although heterozygotes are only slightly resistant, they occur at significant frequency among cl...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Whelan WL

更新日期：1987-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Botulinum neurotoxin (BoNT), which cause the deadly neuroparalytic disease, botulism, is the most toxic substance known to man. BoNT can be used as potential bioterrorism agents, and therefore, pose great threat to national security and public health. Rapid and sensitive detection of BoNTs using molecular and biochemi...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Cai S,Singh BR,Sharma S

更新日期：2007-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cyclic AMP is a ubiquitous messenger that integrates many processes of the cell. Diverse families of adenylate cyclases and phosphodiesterases stringently regulate the intracellular concentration of cAMP. Any alteration in the cytosolic concentration of cAMP has a profound effect on the various processes of the cell. ...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Ahuja N,Kumar P,Bhatnagar R

更新日期：2004-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Aureobasidium spp. have been divided into three species, A. pullulans. A. leucospermi and A. proteae, and A. pullulans has been known to have five varieties. However, after analysis of many strains of this yeast isolated from different environments, they do not belong to any of the three species or the five ...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Li Y,Chi Z,Wang GY,Wang ZP,Liu GL,Lee CF,Ma ZC,Chi ZM

更新日期：2015-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Following a brief review of the ecology of Escherichia coli in general, the role of Shiga-Toxigenic (Verocytotoxigenic) E. coli (STEC) as pathogens is addressed. While STEC belonging to the serogroup O157 have been extensively studied and shown to be involved in many cases and outbreaks of human disease, the importanc...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Bettelheim KA

更新日期：2007-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:It is clear that mannan has the potential to influence multiple biologic functions in vivo and in vitro, including both mannan-specific and mannan-nonspecific activities. Based on in vitro studies, various mechanisms have been proposed for the regulatory activities observed, ranging from interference with normal PMNL ...

journal_title：Critical reviews in microbiology

authors： Domer JE

更新日期：1989-01-01 00:00:00