Genetic polymorphisms identify in species/biovars of Brucella isolated in China between 1953 and 2013 by MLST.

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:Probiotics are live microorganisms that, when administered in adequate amounts, confer a health benefit on the host, are now accepted as suitable alternatives to antibiotics in the control of animal infections and improving animal production. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) with remarkable functional properties h...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Reuben RC,Roy PC,Sarkar SL,Alam RU,Jahid IK

更新日期：2019-11-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Streptomyces lividans is an appealing host for the production of proteins of biotechnological interest due to its relaxed exogenous DNA restriction system and its ability to secrete proteins directly to the medium through the major Sec or the minor Tat routes. Often, protein secretion displays non-uniform ti...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Valverde JR,Gullón S,García-Herrero CA,Campoy I,Mellado RP

更新日期：2019-10-26 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:Ustilago esculenta, a typical dimorphic fungus could infect Zizania latifolia and induce host stem swollen to form an edible vegetable called Jiaobai in China. The strains differentiation especially in the mating ability and pathogenicity is closely related to different phenotypes of Jiaobai formed in the fi...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zhang Y,Wu M,Ge Q,Yang M,Xia W,Cui H,Yu X,Zhang S,Ye Z

更新日期：2019-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The heme acquisition machinery in Streptococcus pyogenes is believed to consist of the surface proteins, Shr and Shp, and heme-specific ATP-binding cassette transporter HtsABC. Shp has been shown to rapidly transfer its heme to the lipoprotein component, HtsA, of HtsABC. The function of Shr and the heme sour...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zhu H,Liu M,Lei B

更新日期：2008-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microbiota from different niches within the canine oral cavity were profiled and compared. Supragingival plaque and stimulated saliva, were collected alongside samples from the buccal and tongue dorsum mucosa, from 14 Labrador retrievers at three timepoints within a 1 month timeframe. The V3-V4 region of the...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ruparell A,Inui T,Staunton R,Wallis C,Deusch O,Holcombe LJ

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Mosquitoes are intermediate hosts for numerous disease causing organisms. Vector control is one of the most investigated strategy for the suppression of mosquito-borne diseases. Anopheles stephensi is one of the vectors of malaria parasite Plasmodium vivax. The parasite undergoes major developmental and matu...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Rani A,Sharma A,Rajagopal R,Adak T,Bhatnagar RK

更新日期：2009-05-19 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Comparative knowledge of microbiomes and resistomes across environmental interfaces between animal production systems and urban settings is lacking. In this study, we executed a comparative analysis of the microbiota and resistomes of metagenomes from cattle feces, catch basin water, manured agricultural soi...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zaheer R,Lakin SM,Polo RO,Cook SR,Larney FJ,Morley PS,Booker CW,Hannon SJ,Van Domselaar G,Read RR,McAllister TA

更新日期：2019-08-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Several conventional methods, including fungal culture and periodic acid-Schiff (PAS) reagent staining, have been used to diagnose oral candidiasis. The aim of this study was to evaluate the efficacy of a novel method, fungal fluorescent staining, in relation to conventional protocols in the diagnosis of ora...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Yao Y,Shi L,Zhang C,Sun H,Wu L

更新日期：2019-05-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Indoor microbial contamination due to excess moisture is an important contributor to human illness in both residential and occupational settings. However, the census of microorganisms in the indoor environment is limited by the use of selective, culture-based detection techniques. By using clone library sequ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Pitkäranta M,Meklin T,Hyvärinen A,Nevalainen A,Paulin L,Auvinen P,Lignell U,Rintala H

更新日期：2011-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Aspergillus fumigatus is a ubiquitous saprotrophic fungus and an opportunistic pathogen of humans and animals. Humans and animals can inhale hundreds of A. fumigatus spores daily. Normally this is harmless for humans, but in case of immunodeficiency, invasive pulmonary aspergillosis (IPA) can develop with a ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Valdes ID,van den Berg J,Haagsman A,Escobar N,Meis JF,Hagen F,Haas PJ,Houbraken J,Wösten HAB,de Cock H

更新日期：2018-09-17 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: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:Bartonella henselae is a Gram-negative bacterium transmitted to humans by a scratch from cat in the presence of ectoparasites. Humans infected with B. henselae can result in various clinical diseases including local lymphadenopathy and more serious systemic disease such as persistent bacteremia and endocardi...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zheng X,Ma X,Li T,Shi W,Zhang Y

更新日期：2020-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Chlortetracycline (CTC) is one of the commercially important tetracyclines (TCs) family product and is mainly produced by Streptomyces. CTC is still in a great demand due to its broad-spectrum activity against pathogens. Engineering transcriptional control allows the cell to allocate its valuable resources t...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Kong L,Liu J,Zheng X,Deng Z,You D

更新日期：2019-12-10 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: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:Propionibacterium acnes is a commensal of human skin but is also known to be involved in certain diseases, such as acne vulgaris and infections of orthopaedic implants. Treatment of these conditions is complicated by increased resistance to antibiotics and/or biofilm formation of P. acnes bacteria. P. acnes ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Lood R,Mörgelin M,Holmberg A,Rasmussen M,Collin M

更新日期：2008-08-15 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:Streptococcus agalactiae (GBS) is a common pathogen to infect newborn, woman, the elderly, and immuno-compromised human and fish. 37 fish isolates and 554 human isolates of the GBS in 2007-2012 were investigated in serotypes, antibiotic susceptibility, genetic difference and pathogenicity to tilapia. RESULT...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Chu C,Huang PY,Chen HM,Wang YH,Tsai IA,Lu CC,Chen CC

更新日期：2016-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Abundant populations of bacteria have been observed on Mir and the International Space Station. While some experiments have shown that bacteria cultured during spaceflight exhibit a range of potentially troublesome characteristics, including increases in growth, antibiotic resistance and virulence, other stu...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Kim W,Tengra FK,Shong J,Marchand N,Chan HK,Young Z,Pangule RC,Parra M,Dordick JS,Plawsky JL,Collins CH

更新日期：2013-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Successful viral infection requires the involvement of host cellular factors in their life cycle. Heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) can be recruited by numerous viruses to promote the folding, maturation, or assembly of viral proteins. We have previously shown that HSP70 is significantly elevated in porcine repr...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Gao J,Xiao S,Liu X,Wang L,Ji Q,Mo D,Chen Y

更新日期：2014-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Prevotella intermedia is a Gram-negative black-pigmenting oral anaerobe associated with periodontitis in humans, and has a haem requirement for growth, survival and virulence. It produces an iron porphyrin-containing pigment comprising monomeric iron (III) protoporphyrin IX (Fe(III)PPIX.OH; haematin). The ba...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Byrne DP,Manandhar SP,Potempa J,Smalley JW

更新日期：2015-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Most living cells uptake phosphate, an indispensable nutrient for growth from their natural environment. In Synechocystis sp. PCC 6803, the cells lack phosphate-inorganic transport (Pit) system but contain two phosphate-specific transport (Pst) systems, Pst1 and Pst2. We investigated the kinetics of Pi uptak...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Burut-Archanai S,Eaton-Rye JJ,Incharoensakdi A

更新日期：2011-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microbial biofilms are known to cause an increasing number of chronic inflammatory and infectious conditions. A classical example is chronic periodontal disease, a condition initiated by the subgingival dental plaque biofilm on gingival epithelial tissues. We describe here a new model that permits the examin...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Guggenheim B,Gmür R,Galicia JC,Stathopoulou PG,Benakanakere MR,Meier A,Thurnheer T,Kinane DF

更新日期：2009-12-31 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:Salmonella enterica is a facultative intracellular pathogen that replicates within a membrane-bound compartment termed Salmonella containing vacuole (SCV). The biogenesis of SCV requires Salmonella type III protein secretion/translocation system and their effector proteins which are translocated into host ce...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Wang X,Li D,Qu D,Zhou D

更新日期：2010-08-26 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:H-NS is a DNA-binding protein with central roles in gene regulation and nucleoid structuring in Escherichia coli. There are over 60 genes that are influenced by H-NS many of which are involved in metabolism. To determine the significance of H-NS-regulated genes in metabolism and stress tolerance, an hns muta...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Erol I,Jeong KC,Baumler DJ,Vykhodets B,Choi SH,Kaspar CW

更新日期：2006-08-15 00:00:00