Antimicrobial Resistance as a Hidden Menace Lurking Behind the COVID-19 Outbreak: The Global Impacts of Too Much Hygiene on AMR.

abstract：:Nowadays, contamination of agricultural commodities with fungi and their mycotoxins is one of the most annoying with regard to food safety and pose serious health risk. Therefore, there is a requisite to propose suitable mitigation strategies to reduce the contamination of fungi and mycotoxins in agricultural commodit...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kalagatur NK,Kamasani JR,Siddaiah C,Gupta VK,Krishna K,Mudili V

更新日期：2018-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To date, genes identified and transcriptionally regulated by the AirSR TCS have been involved in energy production and cellular homeostasis of the staphylococcal cell. It is well accepted that the state of cellular metabolism impacts the expression of virulence factors in Staphylococcus aureus. For this reason, we con...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hall JW,Yang J,Guo H,Ji Y

更新日期：2015-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial mat communities in the effluent channels of Octopus and Mushroom Springs within the Lower Geyser Basin of Yellowstone National Park have been extensively characterized. Previous studies have focused on the chlorophototrophic organisms of the phyla Cyanobacteria and Chloroflexi. However, the diversity and met...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Thiel V,Hügler M,Ward DM,Bryant DA

更新日期：2017-06-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Aerobic degradation of methylphosphonate (MPn) by marine bacterioplankton has been hypothesized to contribute significantly to the ocean's methane supersaturation, yet little is known about MPn utilization by marine microbes. To identify the microbial taxa and metabolic functions associated with MPn-driven methane pro...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Martínez A,Ventouras LA,Wilson ST,Karl DM,Delong EF

更新日期：2013-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Desulfotomaculum reducens strain MI-1 is a Gram-positive, sulfate-reducing bacterium also capable of reducing Fe(III). Metal reduction in Gram-positive bacteria is poorly understood. Here, we investigated Fe(III) reduction with lactate, a non-fermentable substrate, as the electron donor. Lactate consumption is concomi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Dalla Vecchia E,Shao PP,Suvorova E,Chiappe D,Hamelin R,Bernier-Latmani R

更新日期：2014-08-19 00:00:00

abstract：:In the environment, bacteria live in complex multispecies communities. These communities span in scale from small, multicellular aggregates to billions or trillions of cells within the gastrointestinal tract of animals. The dynamics of bacterial communities are determined by pairwise interactions that occur between di...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Stubbendieck RM,Vargas-Bautista C,Straight PD

更新日期：2016-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Chironomids (Diptera; Chironomidae), also known as non-biting midges, are one of the most abundant insects in freshwater habitats. Our aim was to understand whether the metamorphosis developmental stages affect the endogenous microbiota composition of Chironomus transvaalensis. Toward our objective, we analyzed the en...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sela R,Laviad-Shitrit S,Halpern M

更新日期：2020-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The taxonomically diverse rhizosphere microbiome contributes to plant nutrition, growth and health, including protection against soil-borne pathogens. We previously showed that breeding for Fusarium-resistance in common bean changed the rhizosphere microbiome composition and functioning. Here, we assessed the impact o...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mendes LW,de Chaves MG,Fonseca MC,Mendes R,Raaijmakers JM,Tsai SM

更新日期：2019-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The claimed role of gene reservoir of coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) could be contradicted by estimates that CRISPR/Cas systems are found in the genomes of 40-50% of bacteria, as these systems interfere with plasmid uptake in staphylococci. To further correlate this role with presence of CRISPR, we analyzed, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rossi CC,Souza-Silva T,Araújo-Alves AV,Giambiagi-deMarval M

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Multidrug resistant (MDR) bacteria are an increasing health problem with the shortage of new active antibiotic agents. Among effective mechanisms that contribute to the spread of MDR Gram-negative bacteria are drug efflux pumps that expel clinically important antibiotic classes out of the cell. Drug pumps are attracti...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Otręebska-Machaj E,Chevalier J,Handzlik J,Szymańska E,Schabikowski J,Boyer G,Bolla JM,Kieć-Kononowicz K,Pagès JM,Alibert S

更新日期：2016-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 1733 in vol. 7, PMID: 27877157.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Canovas J,Baldry M,Bojer MS,Andersen PS,Grzeskowiak PK,Stegger M,Damborg P,Olsen CA,Ingmer H

更新日期：2017-06-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The ability of some symbiotic cnidarians to resist and better withstand stress factors that cause bleaching is a trait that is receiving increased attention. The adaptive bleaching hypothesis postulates that cnidarians that can form a stable symbiosis with thermotolerant Symbiodiniaceae strains may cope better with in...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Newkirk CR,Frazer TK,Martindale MQ,Schnitzler CE

更新日期：2020-05-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Omega-3 long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs) have important therapeutic and nutritional benefits in humans. In the biosynthesis pathways of these LC-PUFAs, omega-3 desaturase plays a critical role. In this study, we report a new omega-3 desaturase (PPD17) from Phytophthora parasitica. This desaturase shar...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Tang X,Chen H,Mei T,Ge C,Gu Z,Zhang H,Chen YQ,Chen W

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Combatting antimicrobial resistant (AMR) using a One-Health approach is essential as various bacteria, including Escherichia coli, a common bacteria, are becoming increasingly resistant and livestock may be a reservoir. The AMR gene content of 492 E. coli, isolated from 56 pig farms across Great Britain in 2014-2015, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： AbuOun M,O'Connor HM,Stubberfield EJ,Nunez-Garcia J,Sayers E,Crook DW,Smith RP,Anjum MF

更新日期：2020-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Probiotic bacteria have been associated with various health benefits and included in overwhelming number of foods. Today, probiotic supplements are consumed with increasing regularity and record a rapidly growing economic value. With billions of heterogeneous populations of probiotics per serving, probiotic supplement...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang Y,Jiang Y,Deng Y,Yi C,Wang Y,Ding M,Liu J,Jin X,Shen L,He Y,Wu X,Chen X,Sun C,Zheng M,Zhang R,Ye H,An H,Wong A

更新日期：2020-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterobacter cloacae has emerged as an opportunistic pathogen in healthcare-associated infections. Analysis of the genomic sequences of several E. cloacae strains revealed the presence of genes that code for expression of at least one type VI secretion system (T6SS). Here, we report that E. cloacae strain ATCC 13047 c...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Soria-Bustos J,Ares MA,Gómez-Aldapa CA,González-Y-Merchand JA,Girón JA,De la Cruz MA

更新日期：2020-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite the effective use of antiretroviral therapy, the remainder of a latently HIV-1-infected reservoir mainly in the resting memory CD4+ T lymphocyte subset has provided a great setback toward viral eradication. While host transcriptional silencing machinery is thought to play a dominant role in HIV-1 latency, HIV-...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kamori D,Ueno T

更新日期：2017-01-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Brucellosis is one of the most common zoonotic epidemics worldwide. Brucella, the etiological pathogen of brucellosis, has unique virulence characteristics, including the ability to survive within the host cell. Hfq is a bacterial chaperone protein that is involved in the survival of the pathogen under stress conditio...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lei S,Zhong Z,Ke Y,Yang M,Xu X,Ren H,An C,Yuan J,Yu J,Xu J,Qiu Y,Shi Y,Wang Y,Peng G,Chen Z

更新日期：2016-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:The purpose of this study was to investigate the prevalence of extended spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) genes in Escherichia coli isolated from post-weaning diarrhea (PWD) piglets in Heilongjiang province, China. METHODS:Of 458 E. coli isolated from 589 fecal samples from PWD piglets, a total of 198 isolates we...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Xu G,An W,Wang H,Zhang X

更新日期：2015-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial contamination has been a pervasive issue during the rice storage and triggers extensive researches. The metabolism of microorganisms was proved as an indicator to mirror the degree of microbial contamination. It is necessary to develop a scientific method to analyze the metabolism of rice microbial communiti...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ge Z,Du H,Gao Y,Qiu W

更新日期：2018-07-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial processes such as nitrification and anaerobic ammonium oxidation (anammox) are important for nitrogen cycling in marine sediments. Seasonal variations of archaeal and bacterial ammonia oxidizers (AOA and AOB) and anammox bacteria, as well as the environmental factors affecting these groups, are not well stud...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lipsewers YA,Bale NJ,Hopmans EC,Schouten S,Sinninghe Damsté JS,Villanueva L

更新日期：2014-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:We introduce a manually constructed and curated regulatory network model that describes the current state of knowledge of transcriptional regulation of Bacillus subtilis. The model corresponds to an updated and enlarged version of the regulatory model of central metabolism originally proposed in 2008. We extended the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Faria JP,Overbeek R,Taylor RC,Conrad N,Vonstein V,Goelzer A,Fromion V,Rocha M,Rocha I,Henry CS

更新日期：2016-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternaria is an important fungus to study due to their different life style from saprophytes to endophytes and a very successful fungal pathogen that causes diseases to a number of economically important crops. Alternaria species have been well-characterized for the production of different host-specific toxins (HSTs)...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Meena M,Gupta SK,Swapnil P,Zehra A,Dubey MK,Upadhyay RS

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Sponges that harbor microalgal or, cyanobacterial symbionts may benefit from photosynthetically derived carbohydrates, which are rich in carbon but devoid of nitrogen, and may therefore encounter nitrogen limitation. Diazotrophic communities associated with two Caribbean sponges, Ircinia strobilina and Mycale laxissim...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang F,Vicente J,Hill RT

更新日期：2014-10-28 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to decipher the nature of the slowly growing Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tuberculosis) lineage 7, the differentially abundant proteins in strains of M. tuberculosis lineage 7 and lineage 4 were defined. Comparative proteomic analysis by mass spectrometry was employed to identify, quantitate and compare the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yimer SA,Birhanu AG,Kalayou S,Riaz T,Zegeye ED,Beyene GT,Holm-Hansen C,Norheim G,Abebe M,Aseffa A,Tønjum T

更新日期：2017-05-09 00:00:00

abstract：:As two central issues of global climate change, the continuous increase of both atmospheric CO2 concentrations and global temperature has profound effects on various terrestrial ecosystems. Microbial communities play pivotal roles in these ecosystems by responding to environmental changes through regulation of soil bi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yu H,Deng Y,He Z,Van Nostrand JD,Wang S,Jin D,Wang A,Wu L,Wang D,Tai X,Zhou J

更新日期：2018-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteriophages (phages) are bacterial viruses that parasitize bacteria. They are highly prevalent in nature, with an estimated 1031 viral particles in the whole biosphere, and they outnumber bacteria by at least 10-fold. Hence, phages represent important drivers of bacterial evolution, although our knowledge of the ro...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fortier LC

更新日期：2018-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Similar to other CTX-M family enzymes, KLUC is a recently identified and emerging determinant of cefotaxime resistance that has been recovered from at least three Enterobacteriaceae species, including Kluyvera cryocrescens, Escherichia coli, and Enterobacter cloacae. Whether this extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL) h...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li P,Shen K,Zhang Y,Ying J,Zhu T,Liu Y,Xu L,Lin C,Zhang K,Li P,Lu J,Li K,Yi H,Bao Q,Xu T

更新日期：2018-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is a common cause of health-care acquired diarrhea, resulting in a spectrum of disease from mild diarrhea to life-threatening illness. Sixty Lactobacillus strains were screened for anti-C. difficile activity using a co-culture method. Based on their ability to inhibit C. difficile, L. gasseri APC...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Quigley L,Coakley M,Alemayehu D,Rea MC,Casey PG,O'Sullivan Ó,Murphy E,Kiely B,Cotter PD,Hill C,Ross RP

更新日期：2019-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Sterols are essential components of eukaryotic cells whose biosynthesis and function has been studied extensively. Sterols are also recognized as the diagenetic precursors of steranes preserved in sedimentary rocks where they can function as geological proxies for eukaryotic organisms and/or aerobic metabolisms and en...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wei JH,Yin X,Welander PV

更新日期：2016-06-24 00:00:00