The effects of daily fasting hours on shaping gut microbiota in mice.

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:Thiomonas strains are ubiquitous in arsenic-contaminated environments. Differences between Thiomonas strains in the way they have adapted and respond to arsenic have never been studied in detail. For this purpose, five Thiomonas strains, that are interesting in terms of arsenic metabolism were selected: T. a...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Bryan CG,Marchal M,Battaglia-Brunet F,Kugler V,Lemaitre-Guillier C,Lièvremont D,Bertin PN,Arsène-Ploetze F

更新日期：2009-06-23 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Staphylococcus aureus is an opportunistic commensal bacterium that mostly colonizes the skin and soft tissues. The pathogenicity of S. aureus is due to both its ability to resist antibiotics, and the production of toxins. Here, we characterize a group of genes responsible for toxin production and antibiotic ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Sina H,Ahoyo TA,Moussaoui W,Keller D,Bankolé HS,Barogui Y,Stienstra Y,Kotchoni SO,Prévost G,Baba-Moussa L

更新日期：2013-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacillus sp. H2O-1, isolated from the connate water of a Brazilian reservoir, produces an antimicrobial substance (denoted as AMS H2O-1) that is active against sulfate reducing bacteria, which are the major bacterial group responsible for biogenic souring and biocorrosion in petroleum reservoirs. Thus, the u...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Korenblum E,de Araujo LV,Guimarães CR,de Souza LM,Sassaki G,Abreu F,Nitschke M,Lins U,Freire DM,Barreto-Bergter E,Seldin L

更新日期：2012-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Anthrax, the zoonotic disease caused by the gram-positive bacterium Bacillus anthracis, is nowadays rare in northern parts of Europe including Finland and Scandinavia. Only two minor outbreaks of anthrax in 1988 and in 2004 and one sporadic infection in 2008 have been detected in animals in Finland since the...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Lienemann T,Beyer W,Pelkola K,Rossow H,Rehn A,Antwerpen M,Grass G

更新日期：2018-09-03 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: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:We and others have previously shown that alterations in the mammalian gut microbiome are associated with diet, notably early life exposure to a maternal high fat diet (HFD). Here, we aimed to further these studies by examining alterations in the gut microbiome of juvenile Japanese macaques (Macaca fuscata) t...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Pace RM,Prince AL,Ma J,Belfort BDW,Harvey AS,Hu M,Baquero K,Blundell P,Takahashi D,Dean T,Kievit P,Sullivan EL,Friedman JE,Grove K,Aagaard KM

更新日期：2018-04-05 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The compatible solute trehalose is involved in the osmostress response of Rhizobium etli, the microsymbiont of Phaseolus vulgaris. In this work, we reconstructed trehalose metabolism in R. etli, and investigated its role in cellular adaptation and survival to heat and desiccation stress under free living con...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Reina-Bueno M,Argandoña M,Nieto JJ,Hidalgo-García A,Iglesias-Guerra F,Delgado MJ,Vargas C

更新日期：2012-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Lyme borrelia genotypes differ in their capacity to cause disseminated disease. Gene array analysis was employed to profile the host transcriptome induced by Borrelia burgdorferi strains with different capacities for causing disseminated disease in the blood of C3H/HeJ mice during early infection. RESULTS:B...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Petzke MM,Iyer R,Love AC,Spieler Z,Brooks A,Schwartz I

更新日期：2016-03-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Microbiome and metagenomic studies have given rise to a new understanding of microbial colonization of various human tissues and their ability to impact our health. One human microbiome growing in notoriety, the vaginal microbiome, stands out given its importance for women's health, and is peculiar in terms ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Brandt K,Barrangou R

更新日期：2020-11-10 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The global spread of bacterial resistance has given rise to a growing interest in new anti-bacterial agents with a new strategy of action. Pilicides are derivatives of ring-fused 2-pyridones which block the formation of the pili/fimbriae crucial to bacterial pathogenesis. They impair by means of a chaperone-...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Piatek R,Zalewska-Piatek B,Dzierzbicka K,Makowiec S,Pilipczuk J,Szemiako K,Cyranka-Czaja A,Wojciechowski M

更新日期：2013-06-12 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Members of the genus Bifidobacterium are anaerobic Gram-positive Actinobacteria, which are natural inhabitants of human and animal gastrointestinal tract. Certain bifidobacteria are frequently used as food additives and probiotic pharmaceuticals, because of their various health-promoting properties. Due to t...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Jarocki P,Podleśny M,Komoń-Janczara E,Kucharska J,Glibowska A,Targoński Z

更新日期：2016-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Bacteria adapted to live within animals can protect their hosts against harmful infections. Beyond antagonism with pathogens, a 'defensive' bacterial symbiont could engage in additional interactions with other colonizing micro-organisms. A single bacterium might thus have cascading ecological impacts on the ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Dahan D,Preston GM,Sealey J,King KC

更新日期：2020-06-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) is a portable, broadly applicable method for classifying bacterial isolates at an intra-species level. This methodology provides clinical and scientific investigators with a standardized means of monitoring evolution within bacterial populations. MLST uses the DNA sequences...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Adamiak P,Vanderkooi OG,Kellner JD,Schryvers AB,Bettinger JA,Alcantara J

更新日期：2014-06-03 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: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:Atherosclerosis is still the leading cause of death in the western world. Besides known risk factors studies demonstrating Chlamydophila pneumoniae (C. pneumoniae) to be implicated in the progression of the disease, little is known about C. pneumoniae infection dynamics. We investigated whether C. pneumoniae...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Marino J,Stoeckli I,Walch M,Latinovic-Golic S,Sundstroem H,Groscurth P,Ziegler U,Dumrese C

更新日期：2008-02-19 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: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:The balanced synthesis of membrane phospholipids, fatty acids and cell wall constituents is a vital facet of bacterial physiology, but there is little known about the biochemical control points that coordinate these activities in Gram-positive bacteria. In Escherichia coli, the glycerol-phosphate acyltransfe...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Parsons JB,Yao J,Jackson P,Frank M,Rock CO

更新日期：2013-11-16 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 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:Recent studies suggest that the reported protective effects of statins (HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors) against community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and sepsis in humans may be due to confounders and a healthy user-effect. To directly test whether statins are protective against Streptococcus pneumoniae, the lead...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Boyd AR,Hinojosa CA,Rodriguez PJ,Orihuela CJ

更新日期：2012-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Macrolides and lincosamides are two leading types of antibiotics commonly used in therapies. The study examines the differences in resistance to these antibiotics and their molecular bases in S. epidermidis as well as in rarely isolated species of coagulase-negative staphylococci such as S. hominis, S. haemo...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Szemraj M,Czekaj T,Kalisz J,Szewczyk EM

更新日期：2019-06-10 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:Since 1994, Brucella strains have been isolated from a wide range of marine mammals. They are currently recognized as two new Brucella species, B. pinnipedialis for the pinniped isolates and B. ceti for the cetacean isolates in agreement with host preference and specific phenotypic and molecular markers. In ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Maquart M,Le Flèche P,Foster G,Tryland M,Ramisse F,Djønne B,Al Dahouk S,Jacques I,Neubauer H,Walravens K,Godfroid J,Cloeckaert A,Vergnaud G

更新日期：2009-07-20 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) colonizes the intestinal epithelium and causes attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions. Expression of virulence genes, particularly those from the locus of the enterocyte effacement (LEE) pathogenicity island is required for the formation of a type three secretion syste...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Hansen AM,Jin DJ

更新日期：2012-10-11 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The high demand for ethanol in the U.S. has generated large stocks of wet distillers grains (DG), a byproduct from the manufacture of ethanol from corn and sorghum grains. Little is known, however, about the potential influence of dietary DG on fecal microbial community structure. A better understanding of t...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Rice WC,Galyean ML,Cox SB,Dowd SE,Cole NA

更新日期：2012-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:Moraxella catarrhalis is a human-specific gram-negative bacterium readily isolated from the respiratory tract of healthy individuals. The organism also causes significant health problems, including 15-20% of otitis media cases in children and ~10% of respiratory infections in adults with chronic obstructive ...

journal_title：BMC microbiology

authors： Balder R,Shaffer TL,Lafontaine ER

更新日期：2013-06-19 00:00:00