Laboratory contamination in airway microbiome studies.

abstract：BACKGROUND:Streptococcus canis is an important opportunistic pathogen of dogs and cats that can also infect a wide range of additional mammals including cows where it can cause mastitis. It is also an emerging human pathogen. RESULTS:Here we provide characterization of the first genome sequence for this species, strai...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Richards VP,Zadoks RN,Pavinski Bitar PD,Lefébure T,Lang P,Werner B,Tikofsky L,Moroni P,Stanhope MJ

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Recent scientific developments have shed more light on the importance of the host-microbe interaction, particularly in the gut. However, the mechanistic study of the host-microbe interplay is complicated by the intrinsic limitations in reaching the different areas of the gastrointestinal tract (GIT) in vivo....

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Marzorati M,Vanhoecke B,De Ryck T,Sadaghian Sadabad M,Pinheiro I,Possemiers S,Van den Abbeele P,Derycke L,Bracke M,Pieters J,Hennebel T,Harmsen HJ,Verstraete W,Van de Wiele T

更新日期：2014-05-22 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:The kinetoplast DNA (kDNA) of trypanosomatids consists of an unusual arrangement of circular molecules catenated into a single network. The diameter of the isolated kDNA network is similar to that of the entire cell. However, within the kinetoplast matrix, the kDNA is highly condensed. Studies in Crithidia f...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Cavalcanti DP,Shimada MK,Probst CM,Souto-Padrón TC,de Souza W,Goldenberg S,Fragoso SP,Motta MC

更新日期：2009-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genus Arsenophonus is a group of symbiotic, mainly insect-associated bacteria with rapidly increasing number of records. It is known from a broad spectrum of hosts and symbiotic relationships varying from parasitic son-killers to coevolving mutualists.The present study extends the currently known diversi...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Nováková E,Hypsa V,Moran NA

更新日期：2009-07-20 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: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:LiaRS mediates Bacillus subtilis response to cell envelope perturbations. A third protein, LiaF, has an inhibitory role over LiaRS in the absence of stimulus. Together, LiaF and LiaRS form a three-component system characterized by an unusual stoichiometry, a 4:1 ratio between LiaS and LiaR, the significance ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Jani S,Sterzenbach K,Adatrao V,Tajbakhsh G,Mascher T,Golemi-Kotra D

更新日期：2020-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Biofilms are ubiquitous. For instance, the majority of medical infections are thought to involve biofilms. However even after decades of investigation, the in vivo efficacy of many antimicrobial strategies is still debated suggesting there is a need for better understanding of biofilm antimicrobial tolerance...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Zuroff TR,Bernstein H,Lloyd-Randolfi J,Jimenez-Taracido L,Stewart PS,Carlson RP

更新日期：2010-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacterial nucleoid consists of genome DNA, RNA, and hundreds of nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs). Escherichia coli nucleoid is compacted towards the stationary phase, replacing most log-phase NAPs with the major stationary-phase nucleoid protein, Dps. In contrast, Staphylococcus aureus nucleoid sustains t...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ushijima Y,Ohniwa RL,Morikawa K

更新日期：2017-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The influence of the membrane-bound AAA+ protease FtsH on membrane and cytoplasmic proteins of Corynebacterium glutamicum was investigated in this study. For the analysis of the membrane fraction, anion exchange chromatography was combined with SDS-PAGE, while the cytoplasmic protein fraction was studied by ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Lüdke A,Krämer R,Burkovski A,Schluesener D,Poetsch A

更新日期：2007-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) has been recently approved by FDA for the treatment of refractory recurrent clostridial colitis (rCDI). Success of FTM in treatment of rCDI led to a number of studies investigating the effectiveness of its application in the other gastrointestinal diseases. However, in ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Goloshchapov OV,Olekhnovich EI,Sidorenko SV,Moiseev IS,Kucher MA,Fedorov DE,Pavlenko AV,Manolov AI,Gostev VV,Veselovsky VA,Klimina KM,Kostryukova ES,Bakin EA,Shvetcov AN,Gumbatova ED,Klementeva RV,Shcherbakov AA,Gorchak

更新日期：2019-12-30 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:We performed a 12-month cohort study of the stability and resilience of the intestinal microbiota of healthy children in daycare in Denmark in relation to diarrheal events and exposure to known risk factors for gastrointestinal health such as travelling and antibiotic use. In addition, we analyzed how gut mi...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Mortensen MS,Hebbelstrup Jensen B,Williams J,Brejnrod AD,O'Brien Andersen L,Röser D,Andreassen BU,Petersen AM,Stensvold CR,Sørensen SJ,Krogfelt KA

更新日期：2018-12-22 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:Alleviating arsenic (As) contamination is a high-priority environmental issue. Hyperaccumulator plants may harbor endophytic bacteria able to detoxify As. Therefore, we investigated the distribution, diversity, As (III) resistance levels, and resistance-related functional genes of arsenite-resistant bacteria...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Gu Y,Wang Y,Sun Y,Zhao K,Xiang Q,Yu X,Zhang X,Chen Q

更新日期：2018-05-08 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:Infection with Brucella melitensis (B. melitensis) is one of the most important causes of abortion in goats and sheep, and also causes severe systemic disease in exposed humans. In Ethiopia, based on seroepidemiological studies, brucellosis is known to be endemic. However, there is little information on the ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Tekle M,Legesse M,Edao BM,Ameni G,Mamo G

更新日期：2019-05-24 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:Changes in aboveground plant species diversity as well as variations of environmental conditions such as exposure of ecosystems to elevated concentrations of atmospheric carbon dioxide may lead to changes in metabolic activity, composition and diversity of belowground microbial communities, both bacterial an...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Grüter D,Schmid B,Brandl H

更新日期：2006-07-27 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Zinc is an essential element for all living cells. Recent studies have shown that the ZnuABC zinc uptake system significantly contributes to the ability of several pathogens to multiply in the infected host and cause disease, suggesting that zinc is scarcely available within different tissues of the host. To...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Gabbianelli R,Scotti R,Ammendola S,Petrarca P,Nicolini L,Battistoni A

更新日期：2011-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The KdpD/KdpE two-component system of Escherichia coli regulates expression of the kdpFABC operon encoding the high affinity K+ transport system KdpFABC. The input domain of KdpD comprises a domain that belongs to the family of universal stress proteins (Usp). It has been previously demonstrated that UspC bi...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Heermann R,Lippert ML,Jung K

更新日期：2009-07-09 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Nucleotide sugar transporters (NSTs) play an essential role in translocating nucleotide sugars into the lumen of the endoplasmic reticulum and Golgi apparatus to be used as substrates in glycosylation reactions. This intracellular transport is an essential step in the biosynthesis of glycoconjugates. RESULT...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Baptista CG,Rodrigues EC,Morking P,Klinke A,Zardo ML,Soares MJ,de Aguiar AM,Goldenberg S,Ramos AS

更新日期：2015-11-21 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: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:It is unclear how DNA is packaged in a bacterial cell in the absence of nucleosomes. To investigate the initial level of DNA condensation in bacterial nucleoid we used in vivo DNA digestion coupled with high-throughput sequencing of the digestion-resistant fragments. To this end, we transformed E. coli cells...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Tolstorukov MY,Virnik K,Zhurkin VB,Adhya S

更新日期：2016-02-20 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:Flavobacterium columnare (Bacteroidetes) is the causative agent of columnaris disease in farmed freshwater fish around the world. The bacterium forms three colony morphotypes (Rhizoid, Rough and Soft), but the differences of the morphotypes are poorly known. We studied the virulence of the morphotypes produc...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Laanto E,Penttinen RK,Bamford JK,Sundberg LR

更新日期：2014-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Wolbachia, one of the most abundant taxa of intracellular Alphaproteobacteria, is widespread among arthropods and filarial nematodes. The presence of these maternally inherited bacteria is associated with modifications of host fitness, including a variety of reproductive abnormalities, such as cytoplasmic in...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Conte CA,Segura DF,Milla FH,Augustinos A,Cladera JL,Bourtzis K,Lanzavecchia SB

更新日期：2019-12-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The ColRS two-component system has been shown to contribute to the membrane functionality and stress tolerance of Pseudomonas putida as well as to the virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and plant pathogenic Xanthomonas species. However, the conditions activating the ColRS pathway and the signal(s) sensed by...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Ainsaar K,Mumm K,Ilves H,Hõrak R

更新日期：2014-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The genus Brucella contains highly infectious species that are classified as biological threat agents. The timely detection and identification of the microorganism involved is essential for an effective response not only to biological warfare attacks but also to natural outbreaks. Matrix-assisted laser desor...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Lista F,Reubsaet FA,De Santis R,Parchen RR,de Jong AL,Kieboom J,van der Laaken AL,Voskamp-Visser IA,Fillo S,Jansen HJ,Van der Plas J,Paauw A

更新日期：2011-12-23 00:00:00