Bioguided identification of antimicrobial compounds from Chrysopogon zizaniodes (L.) Roberty root essential oil.

abstract：AIM:To explore the molecular epidemiology and clinical characteristics of Washington University polyomavirus (WUPyV) infection in pediatric patients with acute respiratory tract infections in China. MATERIALS & METHODS:A laboratory surveillance was performed to recruit pediatric patients with acute respiratory tract i...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Zhu T,Lu QB,Zhang SY,Wo Y,Zhuang L,Zhang PH,Zhang XA,Wei W,Liu W

更新日期：2017-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:Glucuronoxylomannan (GXM) is the major polysaccharide component of Cryptococcus neoformans. We evaluated in this study whether GXM fractions of different molecular masses were functionally distinct. MATERIALS & METHODS:GXM samples isolated from C. neoformans cultures were fractionated to generate polysaccharide p...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Albuquerque PC,Fonseca FL,Dutra FF,Bozza MT,Frases S,Casadevall A,Rodrigues ML

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To understand the relationship between ica, aap and bhp gene expression and the implications in biofilm formation in selected clinical and commensal Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates. MATERIAL & METHODS:Isolates were analyzed regarding their biofilm-forming capacity, biochemical matrix composition, biofilm spati...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Freitas AI,Lopes N,Oliveira F,Brás S,França Â,Vasconcelos C,Vilanova M,Cerca N

更新日期：2018-03-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last decade Raman spectroscopy has become established as a physicochemical technique for the rapid identification of microbes. This powerful analytical method generates a spectroscopic fingerprint from the microbial sample, which provides quantitative and qualitative information that can be used to characteri...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Ashton L,Lau K,Winder CL,Goodacre R

更新日期：2011-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:While high-throughput protein-protein interaction screens were first published approximately 10 years ago, systematic attempts to map interactions among viruses and hosts started only a few years ago. HIV-human interactions dominate host-pathogen interaction databases (with approximately 2000 interactions) despite the...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Mendez-Rios J,Uetz P

更新日期：2010-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:European Respiratory Society Congress, Amsterdam, 26-30 September 2015, and CHEST 2015, Montréal, Canada, 24-28 October 2015 With approximately 50,000 deaths in the US and EU attributed to antibacterial resistance each year, together with several million days of hospital care [1], the need to address resistance mechan...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Sethi S,Bryan J

更新日期：2016-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is a leading human bacterial pathogen with diverse clinical manifestations. Macrophages constitute a critical first line of host defense against GAS infection, using numerous surface and intracellular receptors such as Toll-like receptors and inflammasomes for pathogen recognition and activ...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Valderrama JA,Nizet V

更新日期：2018-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Oritavancin is a lipoglycopeptide antibiotic with activity against aerobic and anaerobic Gram-positive bacteria. Oritavancin separates itself from other glycopeptides through its potent in vitro activity against resistant isolates of Staphylococcus aureus, Enterococcus spp. and Streptococcus spp. Oritavancin possesses...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Crandon J,Nicolau DP

更新日期：2008-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently, there is growing interest in the identification and purification of microbial lectins due to their involvement in the pathogenicity mechanisms of pathogens, such as Entamoeba histolytica and free-living amoebae. The Gal/GalNAc lectin from E. histolytica participates in adhesion, cytotoxicity and regulation ...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Guzmán-Téllez P,Martínez-Castillo M,Flores-Huerta N,Rosales-Morgan G,Pacheco-Yépez J,la Garza M,Serrano-Luna J,Shibayama M

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIMS:We explored changes in antibiotic susceptibility of Serratia marcescens in the last 50 years by comparing isolates collected between 1945 and 1950, and current isolates. MATERIALS & METHODS:Isolates were divided into three groups: environmental, clinical and 'old'. Susceptibility was determined by microdilution. ...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Fusté E,Galisteo GJ,Jover L,Vinuesa T,Villa TG,Viñas M

更新日期：2012-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:To investigate the cost of antibiotic resistance versus the potential for resistant clones to adapt in maintaining polymorphism for resistance. MATERIALS & METHODS:Experimental evolution of Escherichia coli carrying different resistance alleles was performed under an environment devoid of antibiotics and evolution...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Moura de Sousa J,Sousa A,Bourgard C,Gordo I

更新日期：2015-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Gallium has a long history as a diagnostic and chemotherapeutic agent. The pharmacological properties of Ga(III) rely on chemical mimicry; when Ga(III) is exogenously supplied to living cells it can replace Fe(III) within target molecules, thereby perturbing bacterial metabolism. Ga(III)-induced metabolic distresses a...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Minandri F,Bonchi C,Frangipani E,Imperi F,Visca P

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Living organisms adapt to the dynamic external environment for their survival. Environmental adaptation in prokaryotes is thought to be primarily accomplished by signaling events mediated by two-component systems, consisting of histidine kinases and response regulators. However, eukaryotic-like serine/threonine kinase...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Burnside K,Rajagopal L

更新日期：2011-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aim: To identify intestinal microbiota compositions in elderly functional constipation (FC) patients. Materials & methods: Fecal samples from 61 FC patients and 48 healthy age-matched volunteers were analyzed through 16S rRNA gene sequencing. Results: The intestinal microbiota compositions of FC patients were signific...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Guo M,Yao J,Yang F,Liu W,Bai H,Ma J,Ma X,Zhang J,Fang Y,Miao Y,Sun J,Zhang Y,Zhao H

更新日期：2020-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aim: To investigate the action mechanism of 1-benzyl-1,4-diazepane (1-BD) as efflux pump inhibitor (EPI) in Escherichia coli mutants: ΔacrAB or overexpressing AcrAB and AcrEF efflux pumps. Materials & methods: Effect of 1-BD on: antibiotic potentiation, by microdilution method; membrane functionality, by fluorimetric ...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Casalone E,Vignolini T,Braconi L,Gardini L,Capitanio M,Pavone FS,Dei S,Teodori E

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis, the agent of TB, is a facultative intracellular bacterial pathogen that replicates inside host macrophages and other phagocytes within a membrane-bound vacuole or phagosome. How M. tuberculosis captures and exploits vital nutrients inside host cells is an intensive research area that might ...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Gouzy A,Poquet Y,Neyrolles O

更新日期：2014-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Using the murine CMV animal model and the well-established model of Cre-lox-P-mediated green-fluorescence tagging of endothelial cell (EC)-derived mouse CMV to quantify the role of infected ECs in transplantation-associated CMV dissemination (in mice expressing Cre recombinase under the control of either the Tie2 or t...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Gerna G

更新日期：2012-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The emergence of antimicrobial resistance threatens current clinical practice across a range of infection types. Delafloxacin, a non-zwitterionic fluoroquinolone recently approved by the US FDA for the treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections, has been developed to address some of these challeng...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Bassetti M,Righi E,Pecori D,Tillotson G

更新日期：2018-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a major human pathogen responsible for a wide diversity of infections ranging from localized to life threatening diseases. From 1961 and the emergence of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA), this bacterium has shown a particular capacity to survive and adapt to drastic environmental changes...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Lazarevic V,Beaume M,Corvaglia A,Hernandez D,Schrenzel J,François P

更新日期：2011-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Celebrating its 30th anniversary in Budapest this year, the International Immunocompromised Host Society (ICHS) was established to advance the understanding of interactions between host defenses and microbial agents in order to improve the prevention and management of human disease in patients with compromised immune ...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Maertens J,Bryan J

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: A major focus of tuberculosis drug discovery is aimed at the development of novel antibiotics with activity against drug-resistant strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Results: We have synthesized ten isoniazid derivatives and investigated for antibacterial activity toward M. tuberculosis H37Rv and isoni...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Volynets GP,Tukalo MA,Bdzhola VG,Derkach NM,Gumeniuk MI,Tarnavskiy SS,Yarmoluk SM

更新日期：2020-07-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The outstanding ability of Acinetobacter baumannii to cause outbreaks and acquire multidrug resistance motivated the development of a plethora of typing techniques, which can help infection preventionists and hospital epidemiologists to more efficiently implement intervention controls. Nowadays, the world is witnessin...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Rafei R,Osman M,Dabboussi F,Hamze M

更新日期：2019-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:This study aims to evaluate the genetic and population structure of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in the major coastal regions of China. MATERIALS & METHODS:Multilocus sequence typing was performed. RESULTS:Insertion of large sequence into recA happened in nearly 30 strains, which were untypeable by multilocus sequence...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Li P,Xin W,Kang L,Chen Z,Guo C,Gao S,Yang H,Ji B,Yan Y,Wang H,Zhou D,Yang W,Wang J

更新日期：2018-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Aim: The purpose of this study was to evaluate the antifungal activity of midazolam, alone and in association with azoles, against isolates of clinical Candida spp. in planktonic and biofilm form. Materials & methods: The antifungal activity was observed using the broth microdilution technique. Flow cytometry tests we...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Holanda MA,da Silva CR,de A Neto JB,do Av Sá LG,do Nascimento FB,Barroso DD,da Silva LJ,Cândido TM,Leitão AC,Barbosa AD,de Moraes MO,Cc B,Júnior HVN

更新日期：2021-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:In light of recent studies based on cultivation-independent methods, it appears that the diversity of Prevotella in human microbiota is greater than was previously assumed from cultivation-based studies, and that the implication of these bacteria in several human diseases was unrecognized. While some Prevotella taxa w...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Alauzet C,Marchandin H,Lozniewski A

更新日期：2010-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Amoebiasis is a serious infectious disease that is caused by the unicellular parasite, Entamoeba histolytica. This parasite is mainly found in developing countries, and are named owing to its ability to destroy tissues. The molecular mechanisms that regulate the virulence of this parasite are not well understood. In r...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Tovy A,Ankri S

更新日期：2010-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：AIM:The purpose of current study is to find out relationship between cas9 gene and antimicrobial resistance in Campylobacter jejuni NCTC11168. MATERIALS & METHODS:The involvement of the cas9 gene in antimicrobial resistance of C. jejuni was determined by assessment of minimum inhibitory concentration, clustered regula...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Shabbir MA,Wu Q,Shabbir MZ,Sajid A,Ahmed S,Sattar A,Tang Y,Li J,Maan MK,Hao H,Yuan Z

更新日期：2018-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Cooling towers provide a favorable environment for the proliferation of microorganisms. Cooling towers generate a biofilm and often aerosolize contaminated water, thereby increasing the risk of microorganism dissemination by human inhalation. This pathogen dissemination was first revealed by the epidemics of Legionnai...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Pagnier I,Merchat M,La Scola B

更新日期：2009-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A number of viruses in the family Arenaviridae cause severe illness in humans. Lassa virus in West Africa and a number of agents in South America produce hemorrhagic fever in persons exposed to aerosolized excretions of the pathogens' rodent hosts. Because arenaviruses are not transmitted by arthropods, and person-to-...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Gowen BB,Bray M

更新日期：2011-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Some intracellular/membranous factors exert intrinsic immunity against viral pathogens. Most recently, SAMHD1 has been shown to be one of these factors. SAMHD1 is a nucleus-localized protein, and mutations in the gene are associated with Aicardi-Goutières syndrome. As a triphosphohydrolase, it depletes the intracellul...

journal_title：Future microbiology

authors： Chen Z,Zhang L,Ying S

更新日期：2012-09-01 00:00:00