Proteome profiling of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 identifies novel responders to copper stress.

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:The use of chemical fungicides against fungal pathogens adversely affects soil and plant health thereby resulting in overall environmental hazards. Therefore, biological source for obtaining antifungal agents is considered as an environment-friendly alternative for controlling fungal pathogens. RESULTS:In t...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Hazarika DJ,Goswami G,Gautom T,Parveen A,Das P,Barooah M,Boro RC

更新日期：2019-04-02 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

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bordetella dermonecrotic toxin (DNT) causes the turbinate atrophy in swine atrophic rhinitis, caused by a Bordetella bronchiseptica infection of pigs, by inhibiting osteoblastic differentiation. The toxin is not actively secreted from the bacteria, and is presumed to be present in only small amounts in infec...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Fukui-Miyazaki A,Kamitani S,Miyake M,Horiguchi Y

更新日期：2010-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Generation of extended- spectrum β- lactamases is one of the major mechanisms by which clinical Klebsiella pneumoniae develop resistance to antibiotics. Combined antibiotics prove to be a relatively effective method of controlling such resistant strains. Some of Chinese herbal active ingredients are known to...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Cai W,Fu Y,Zhang W,Chen X,Zhao J,Song W,Li Y,Huang Y,Wu Z,Sun R,Dong C,Zhang F

更新日期：2016-08-08 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:The life cycle of a bacteriophage has tightly programmed steps to help virus infect its host through the interactions between the bacteriophage and its host proteins. However, bacteriophage-host protein interactions in high temperature environment remain poorly understood. To address this issue, the protein ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Chen Y,Wei D,Wang Y,Zhang X

更新日期：2013-02-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The bacterial surface protein internalin (InlA) is a major virulence factor of the food-born pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. It plays a critical role in the bacteria crossing the host intestinal barrier by a species-specific interaction with the cell adhesion molecule E-cadherin. In mice, the interaction of...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Bergmann S,Beard PM,Pasche B,Lienenklaus S,Weiss S,Gahan CG,Schughart K,Lengeling A

更新日期：2013-04-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Porphyromonas gingivalis is the foremost oral pathogen of adult periodontitis in humans. However, the mechanisms of bacterial invasion and the resultant destruction of the gingival tissue remain largely undefined. RESULTS:We report host-P. gingivalis interactions in primary human gingival fibroblast (HGF) c...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Urnowey S,Ansai T,Bitko V,Nakayama K,Takehara T,Barik S

更新日期：2006-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recently, in India, there has been a shift from NDM to OXA48-like carbapenemases. OXA-181 and OXA-232 are the frequently produced variants of OXA48-like carbapenemases. OXA48-like carbapenemases are also known to be carried on transposons such as Tn1999, Tn1999.2 and it is also associated with IS1R carried o...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Shankar C,Mathur P,Venkatesan M,Pragasam AK,Anandan S,Khurana S,Veeraraghavan B

更新日期：2019-06-24 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:Enterococci, ubiquitous colonizers of humans and other animals, play an increasingly important role in health-care associated infections (HAIs). It is believed that the recent evolution of two clinically relevant species, Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium occurred in a big part in a hospital env...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Sadowy E,Luczkiewicz A

更新日期：2014-03-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Cysteine has a crucial role in cellular physiology and its synthesis is tightly controlled due to its reactivity. However, little is known about the sulfur metabolism and its regulation in clostridia compared with other firmicutes. In Clostridium perfringens, the two-component system, VirR/VirS, controls the...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： André G,Haudecoeur E,Monot M,Ohtani K,Shimizu T,Dupuy B,Martin-Verstraete I

更新日期：2010-09-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) are classified into typical and atypical strains based on the presence of the E. coli adherence factor (EAF) plasmid. The EAF plasmid contains the bfp (bundle-forming pilus) operon and the perABC (plasmid encoded regulator) gene cluster. A 1-kb cryptic region of EAF p...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Teixeira NB,Rojas TC,da Silveira WD,Matheus-Guimarães C,Silva NP,Scaletsky IC

更新日期：2015-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enterococcus is ubiquitous in nature and is a commensal of both the bovine and human gastrointestinal (GI) tract. It is also associated with clinical infections in humans. Subtherapeutic administration of antibiotics to cattle selects for antibiotic resistant enterococci in the bovine GI tract. Antibiotic re...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Beukers AG,Zaheer R,Goji N,Amoako KK,Chaves AV,Ward MP,McAllister TA

更新日期：2017-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The hemibiotrophic fungus Moniliophthora perniciosa is the causal agent of Witches' broom, a disease of Theobroma cacao. The pathogen life cycle ends with the production of basidiocarps in dead tissues of the infected host. This structure generates millions of basidiospores that reinfect young tissues of the...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Pires AB,Gramacho KP,Silva DC,Góes-Neto A,Silva MM,Muniz-Sobrinho JS,Porto RF,Villela-Dias C,Brendel M,Cascardo JC,Pereira GA

更新日期：2009-08-04 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:The microbiological diagnosis of bacterial vaginosis is usually made using Nugent's criteria, a useful but rather laborious scoring system based on counting bacterial cell types on Gram stained slides of vaginal smears. Ison and Hay have simplified the score system to three categories and added a fourth cate...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Verhelst R,Verstraelen H,Claeys G,Verschraegen G,Van Simaey L,De Ganck C,De Backer E,Temmerman M,Vaneechoutte M

更新日期：2005-10-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The catabolite control protein CcpA is a transcriptional regulator conserved in many Gram-positives, controlling the efficiency of glucose metabolism. Here we studied the role of Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 CcpA in regulation of metabolic pathways and expression of enterotoxin genes by comparative transcripto...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： van der Voort M,Kuipers OP,Buist G,de Vos WM,Abee T

更新日期：2008-04-16 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:The complete genome sequences of 44 Bacillus cereus group isolates collected from diverse sources in Japan were analyzed to determine their genetic backgrounds and diversity levels in Japan. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and core-genome single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP) typing data from whole-genome s...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Okutani A,Inoue S,Noguchi A,Kaku Y,Morikawa S

更新日期：2019-12-16 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Vibrio parahaemolyticus is a food-borne pathogen causing inflammation of the gastrointestinal epithelium. Pathogenic strains of this bacterium possess two Type III Secretion Systems (TTSS) that deliver effector proteins into host cells. In order to better understand human host cell responses to V. parahaemol...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Matlawska-Wasowska K,Finn R,Mustel A,O'Byrne CP,Baird AW,Coffey ET,Boyd A

更新日期：2010-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lactobacillus species are used as probiotics and play an important role in fermented food production. However, use of 16S rRNA gene sequences as standard markers for the differentiation of Lactobacillus species offers a very limited scope, as several species of Lactobacillus share similar 16S rRNA gene seque...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Kim E,Yang SM,Lim B,Park SH,Rackerby B,Kim HY

更新日期：2020-04-15 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: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: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: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:The phenomenon of misdiagnosing tuberculosis (TB) by laboratory cross-contamination when culturing Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) has been widely reported and it has an obvious clinical, therapeutic and social impact. The final confirmation of a cross-contamination event requires the molecular identificati...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Martín A,Herranz M,Lirola MM,Fernández RF,INDAL-TB group.,Bouza E,García de Viedma D

更新日期：2008-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Klebsiella pneumoniae can be found in environmental habitats as well as in hospital settings where it is commonly associated with nosocomial infections. One of the factors that contribute to virulence is its capacity to form biofilms on diverse biotic and abiotic surfaces. The second messenger Bis-(3'-5')-cy...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Cruz DP,Huertas MG,Lozano M,Zárate L,Zambrano MM

更新日期：2012-07-09 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