The process-related dynamics of microbial community during a simulated fermentation of Chinese strong-flavored liquor.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Porphyromonas gingivalis, a microorganism residing in the oral cavity within complex multispecies biofilms, is one of the keystone pathogens in the onset and progression of periodontitis. In this in vitro study, using DNA microarray, we investigate the differential gene expression of Porphyromonas gingivalis...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Sánchez MC,Romero-Lastra P,Ribeiro-Vidal H,Llama-Palacios A,Figuero E,Herrera D,Sanz M

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fibronectin-binding protein A (FnBPA) mediates adhesion of Staphylococcus aureus to fibronectin, fibrinogen and elastin. We previously reported that S. aureus strain P1 encodes an FnBPA protein where the fibrinogen/elastin-binding domain (A domain) is substantially divergent in amino acid sequence from the a...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Loughman A,Sweeney T,Keane FM,Pietrocola G,Speziale P,Foster TJ

更新日期：2008-05-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The infections caused by antibiotic multidrug-resistant bacteria seriously threaten human health. To prevent and cure the infections caused by multidrug-resistant bacteria, new antimicrobial agents are required. Antimicrobial peptides are ideal therapy candidates for antibiotic-resistant pathogens. However, ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Mao R,Teng D,Wang X,Zhang Y,Jiao J,Cao X,Wang J

更新日期：2015-03-03 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mycoplasmas-contamination of Orientia tsutsugamushi, one of the obligated intracellular bacteria, is a very serious problem in in vitro studies using cell cultures because mycoplasmas have significant influence on the results of scientific studies. Only a recommended decontamination method is to passage the ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ogawa M,Uchiyama T,Satoh M,Ando S

更新日期：2013-02-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Burkholderia pseudomallei is the etiological agent of melioidosis and a CDC category B select agent with no available effective vaccine. Previous immunizations in mice have utilized the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) as a potential vaccine target because it is known as one of the most important antigenic epitopes ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Stone JK,Mayo M,Grasso SA,Ginther JL,Warrington SD,Allender CJ,Doyle A,Georgia S,Kaestli M,Broomall SM,Karavis MA,Insalaco JM,Hubbard KS,McNew LA,Gibbons HS,Currie BJ,Keim P,Tuanyok A

更新日期：2012-11-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mycobacterium avium is an environmental mycobacterium that can be divided into the subspecies avium, hominissuis, paratuberculosis and silvaticum. Some M. avium subspecies are opportunistic pathogens for animals and humans. They are ubiquitous in nature and can be isolated from natural sources of water, soil...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Johansen TB,Olsen I,Jensen MR,Dahle UR,Holstad G,Djønne B

更新日期：2007-03-05 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:The increasing availability of whole genome sequences allows the gene or protein content of different organisms to be compared, leading to burgeoning interest in the relatively new subfield of pan-genomics. However, while several studies have analyzed protein content relationships in specific groups of bacte...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Trost B,Haakensen M,Pittet V,Ziola B,Kusalik A

更新日期：2010-10-13 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: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:Biofilm formation by Candida albicans has shown to be highly variable and is directly associated with pathogenicity and poor clinical outcomes in patients at risk. The aim of this study was to test the hypotheses that the extracellular DNA release by C. albicans is strain dependent and is associated with bio...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Rajendran R,Sherry L,Lappin DF,Nile CJ,Smith K,Williams C,Munro CA,Ramage G

更新日期：2014-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several intracellular bacterial pathogens have evolved subtle strategies to subvert vesicular trafficking pathways of their host cells to avoid killing and to replicate inside the cells. Brucellae are Gram-negative facultative intracellular bacteria that are responsible for brucellosis, a worldwide extended ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Hamer I,Goffin E,De Bolle X,Letesson JJ,Jadot M

更新日期：2014-09-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Ralstonia eutropha (syn. Cupriavidus necator) is a model microorganism for studying metabolism of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHAs) and a potential chassis for protein expression due to various advantages. Although current plasmid systems of R. eutropha provide a basic platform for gene expression, the performanc...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Hu M,Xiong B,Li Z,Liu L,Li S,Zhang C,Zhang X,Bi C

更新日期：2020-05-19 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: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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most of the studies evaluating the secular trends of blood isolates come from tertiary hospitals in urban areas. We sought to study the trends of the antimicrobial resistance of blood isolates in patients from a rural population hospitalized in a tertiary hospital in a small city in Greece. METHODS:We retro...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Falagas ME,Bakossi A,Pappas VD,Holevas PV,Bouras A,Stamata E

更新日期：2006-05-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enterococci are increasingly associated with opportunistic infections in Humans but the role of the oral cavity as a reservoir for this species is unclear. This study aimed to explore the carriage rate of Enterococci in the oral cavity of Tunisian children and their antimicrobial susceptibility to a broad ra...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Kouidhi B,Zmantar T,Mahdouani K,Hentati H,Bakhrouf A

更新日期：2011-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Crohn's disease (CD) is a high morbidity chronic inflammatory disorder of unknown aetiology. Adherent-invasive Escherichia coli (AIEC) has been recently implicated in the origin and perpetuation of CD. Because bacterial biofilms in the gut mucosa are suspected to play a role in CD and biofilm formation is a ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Martinez-Medina M,Naves P,Blanco J,Aldeguer X,Blanco JE,Blanco M,Ponte C,Soriano F,Darfeuille-Michaud A,Garcia-Gil LJ

更新日期：2009-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enterobacterial common antigen (ECA) is a family-specific surface antigen shared by all members of the Enterobacteriaceae family. Previous studies showed that the loss of ECA results in Salmonella attenuation, indicating its usefulness as a vaccine candidate for Salmonella infection, but no studies have show...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Liu Q,Shen X,Bian X,Kong Q

更新日期：2020-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Hepatitis B virus (HBV), because of its error-prone viral polymerase, has a high mutation rate leading to widespread substitutions, deletions, and insertions in the HBV genome. Deletions may significantly change viral biological features complicating the progression of liver diseases. However, the clinical c...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zhang D,Dong P,Zhang K,Deng L,Bach C,Chen W,Li F,Protzer U,Ding H,Zeng C

更新日期：2012-12-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Poorly understood but highly diverse microbial communities exist within anoxic and oxygen-depleted marine sediments. These communities often harbour single-celled eukaryotes that form symbiotic associations with different prokaryotes. During low tides in South-western British Columbia, Canada, vast areas of ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Breglia SA,Yubuki N,Hoppenrath M,Leander BS

更新日期：2010-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Similar to Gram-negative bacteria, the outer membrane (OM) of the pathogenic spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, contains integral OM-spanning proteins (OMPs), as well as membrane-anchored lipoproteins. Although the mechanism of OMP biogenesis is still not well-understood, recent studies have indicated that a ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Lenhart TR,Kenedy MR,Yang X,Pal U,Akins DR

更新日期：2012-04-20 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: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:Clostridium termitidis CT1112 is an anaerobic, Gram-positive, mesophilic, spore-forming, cellulolytic bacterium, originally isolated from the gut of a wood feeding termite Nasusitermes lujae. It has the ability to hydrolyze both cellulose and hemicellulose, and ferment the degradation products to acetate, fo...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Munir RI,Spicer V,Krokhin OV,Shamshurin D,Zhang X,Taillefer M,Blunt W,Cicek N,Sparling R,Levin DB

更新日期：2016-05-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The evolution of mycoplasmas from a common ancestor with Firmicutes has been characterized not only by genome down-sizing but also by horizontal gene transfer between mycoplasma species sharing a common host. The mechanisms of these gene transfers remain unclear because our knowledge of the mycoplasma mobile...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Breton M,Tardy F,Dordet-Frisoni E,Sagne E,Mick V,Renaudin J,Sirand-Pugnet P,Citti C,Blanchard A

更新日期：2012-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The development of vaccines and evaluation of novel treatment strategies for invasive group A streptococcal (iGAS) disease requires suitable models of human infection that can be monitored longitudinally and are preferably non-invasive. Bio-photonic imaging provides an opportunity to reduce use of animals in...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Lamb LE,Zhi X,Alam F,Pyzio M,Scudamore CL,Wiles S,Sriskandan S

更新日期：2018-06-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Clostridium thermocellum is a Gram-positive thermophilic anaerobic bacterium with the unusual capacity to convert cellulosic biomass into ethanol and hydrogen. Identification and characterization of protein complexes in C. thermocellum are important toward understanding its metabolism and physiology. RESULT...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Peng Y,Luo Y,Yu T,Xu X,Fan K,Zhao Y,Yang K

更新日期：2011-01-26 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:Invasive aspergillosis (IA) is a major cause of infectious morbidity and mortality in immune compromised patients. Studies on the pathogenesis of IA have been limited by the difficulty to monitor disease progression in real-time. For real-time monitoring of the infection, we recently engineered a bioluminesc...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ibrahim-Granet O,Jouvion G,Hohl TM,Droin-Bergère S,Philippart F,Kim OY,Adib-Conquy M,Schwendener R,Cavaillon JM,Brock M

更新日期：2010-04-08 00:00:00