Serologic Evaluation of Healthcare Workers Caring for COVID-19 Patients in the Republic of Korea.

abstract：:IncI-complex plasmids can be divided into seven subgroups IncI1, IncI2, IncIγ, IncB/O, IncK1, IncK2, and IncZ. In this study, a replicon-based scheme was proposed for typing IncI-complex plasmids into four separately clustering subgroups IncI2, IncI1/B/O, IncIγ/K1 and IncK2/Z, the last three of which were combined fro...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang D,Zhao Y,Feng J,Hu L,Jiang X,Zhan Z,Yang H,Yang W,Gao B,Wang J,Li J,Yin Z,Zhou D

更新日期：2019-01-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Ocular toxoplasmosis (OT) is one of the most common causes of posterior uveitis. The signaling of triggering receptor expressed on myeloid cells (TREM)-1 amplifies inflammation, whereas TREM-2 signaling is anti-inflammatory. IL-1β is a major driver of inflammation during infection. Toll-like receptors (TLRs) play impo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang Y,He J,Zheng H,Huang S,Lu F

更新日期：2019-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Approximately 36.7 million people were living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) at the end of 2016 according to UNAIDS, representing a global prevalence rate of 0.8%. In Brazil, an HIV prevalence of 0.24% has been estimated, which represents approximately 830,000 individuals living with the virus. As a touri...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Alves BM,Siqueira JD,Prellwitz IM,Botelho OM,Da Hora VP,Sanabani S,Recordon-Pinson P,Fleury H,Soares EA,Soares MA

更新日期：2019-04-09 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：:Maternally inherited endosymbionts inhabit a variety of arthropods. Some of them can protect the arthropod host against a wide range of pathogens. However, very little is known about the association between endosymbionts and pathogen susceptibility in ticks. The present study investigated the effect of endosymbionts o...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li LH,Zhang Y,Zhu D,Zhou XN

更新日期：2018-06-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Meningococcal lipoprotein, Factor H binding protein (FHbp), is the sole antigen of the Trumenba vaccine (Pfizer) and one of four antigens of the Bexsero vaccine (GSK) targeting Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B isolates. Lipidation of FHbp is assumed to occur for all isolates. We show in the majority of a collection ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： da Silva RAG,Karlyshev AV,Oldfield NJ,Wooldridge KG,Bayliss CD,Ryan A,Griffin R

更新日期：2019-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are the primary genera of the intestinal flora and have many probiotic functions. In the present study, Lactobacillus rhamnosus GG (LGG) ATCC 53103 was used to treat BALB/c mice. After LGG intervention, both low and high LGG doses were shown to improve the observed OTU, Chao1, ACE, and Shann...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Shi CW,Cheng MY,Yang X,Lu YY,Yin HD,Zeng Y,Wang RY,Jiang YL,Yang WT,Wang JZ,Zhao DD,Huang HB,Ye LP,Cao X,Yang GL,Wang CF

更新日期：2020-12-17 00:00:00

abstract：:To gain better understanding of the distributions of the culturable Lactobacillus species in the chicken intestinal tract, we collected ceca, and distal ileum from 10 3-weeks-old broiler chickens. Lactobacillus strains from cecal lumen contents (M-CL), and those associated with mucosa of ceca (M-CM) and ileum (M-IM) w...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Adhikari B,Kwon YM

更新日期：2017-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:In this work we report the whole genome sequences of six new Geobacillus xylanolytic strains along with the genomic analysis of their capability to degrade carbohydrates. The six sequenced Geobacillus strains described here have a range of GC contents from 43.9% to 52.5% and clade with named Geobacillus species throug...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Brumm PJ,De Maayer P,Mead DA,Cowan DA

更新日期：2015-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Interactions with microbes affect many aspects of animal biology, including immune system development, nutrition and health. In vertebrates, the gut microbiota is dominated by a small subset of phyla, but the species composition within these phyla is typically not conserved. Moreover, several recent studies have shown...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ellegaard KM,Engel P

更新日期：2016-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The yeasts belonging to the Wickerhamiella and Starmerella genera (W/S clade) share a distinctive evolutionary history marked by loss and subsequent reinstatement of alcoholic fermentation mediated by horizontal gene transfer events. Species in this clade also share unusual features of metabolism, namely the preferenc...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gonçalves C,Ferreira C,Gonçalves LG,Turner DL,Leandro MJ,Salema-Oom M,Santos H,Gonçalves P

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The two main pillars of clinical microbiological diagnostics are the identification of potentially pathogenic microorganisms from patient samples and the testing for antibiotic susceptibility (AST) to allow efficient treatment with active antimicrobial agents. While routine microbial species identification is increasi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Welker M,van Belkum A

更新日期：2019-11-26 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：:PP2A-like phosphatases share high homology with PP2A enzymes and are composed of a catalytic subunit and a regulatory subunit. In Candida albicans, the PP2A-like catalytic subunit SIT4 regulates cell growth, morphogenesis, and virulence. However, the functions of its regulatory subunits remain unclear. Here, by homolo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Han Q,Pan C,Wang Y,Zhao L,Wang Y,Sang J

更新日期：2019-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Cronobacter are an important group of foodborne pathogens that has been linked to life-threatening infections in both infants and adults. The major infections associated with Cronobacter species are neonatal meningitis, necrotizing enterocolitis, and septicaemia. There are seven species in the Cronobacter genus, of wh...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Aldubyan MA,Almami IS,Benslimane FM,Alsonosi AM,Forsythe SJ

更新日期：2017-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Chagasic chronic cardiomyopathy is one of the most frequent and severe manifestations of Chagas disease, caused by the parasite Trypanosoma cruzi. The pathogenic and biochemical mechanisms responsible for cardiac lesions remain not completely understood, although it is clear that hypertrophy and subsequent heart dilat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Libisch MG,Faral-Tello P,Garg NJ,Radi R,Piacenza L,Robello C

更新日期：2018-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Accurately identifying bacteriophage virion proteins from uncharacterized sequences is important to understand interactions between the phage and its host bacteria in order to develop new antibacterial drugs. However, identification of such proteins using experimental techniques is expensive and often time consuming; ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Manavalan B,Shin TH,Lee G

更新日期：2018-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Ramoplanin is a glycolipodepsipeptide antibiotic obtained from fermentation of Actinoplanes sp. ATCC 33076 that exhibits activity against clinically important multi-drug-resistant, Gram-positive pathogens including vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus (VRE), methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA), and vancomy...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： de la Cruz M,González I,Parish CA,Onishi R,Tormo JR,Martín J,Peláez F,Zink D,El Aouad N,Reyes F,Genilloud O,Vicente F

更新日期：2017-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:QepA is one of the genes that confer quinolone resistance in bacteria. The aim of this study was to analyze the genetic structures of plasmids that carry a qepA3, a recently discovered allele of qepA in Enterobacteriaceae clinical isolates. 656 non-redundant Enterobacteriaceae clinical isolates were screened for the q...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang D,Huang X,Chen J,Mou Y,Li H,Yang L

更新日期：2015-10-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii often causes serious nosocomial infections. Because of its serious drug resistance problems, complex drug resistance mechanism, and rapid adaptation to antibiotics, it often shows pan-drug resistance and high fatality rates, which represent great challenges for clinical treatment. Therefore, id...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Huang W,Zhang Q,Li W,Chen Y,Shu C,Li Q,Zhou J,Ye C,Bai H,Sun W,Yang X,Ma Y

更新日期：2019-06-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Acetate is a characteristic by-product of Escherichia coli K-12 growing in batch cultures with glucose, both under aerobic as well as anaerobic conditions. While the reason underlying aerobic acetate production is still under discussion, during anaerobic growth acetate production is important for ATP generation by sub...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Schütze A,Benndorf D,Püttker S,Kohrs F,Bettenbrock K

更新日期：2020-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteroides is among the most abundant microorganism inhabiting the human intestine. They are saccharolytic bacteria able to use dietary or host-derived glycans as energy sources. Some Bacteroides fragilis strains contribute to the maturation of the immune system but it is also an opportunistic pathogen. The intestine...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rios-Covian D,Sánchez B,Salazar N,Martínez N,Redruello B,Gueimonde M,de Los Reyes-Gavilán CG

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Myeloid-derived suppressor cells (MDSCs) are innate immune cells characterized by their ability to suppress T-cell responses. Recently, we demonstrated that the human-pathogenic fungi Candida albicans and Aspergillus fumigatus induced a distinct subset of neutrophilic MDSCs. To dissect Candida-mediated MDSC induction ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Singh A,Lelis F,Braig S,Schäfer I,Hartl D,Rieber N

更新日期：2016-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Resistance to polymyxins in most Gram-negative bacteria arises from chemical modifications to the lipid A portion of their lipopolysaccharide (LPS) mediated by chromosomally encoded mutations or the recently discovered plasmid-encoded mcr genes that have further complicated the landscape of colistin resistance. Curren...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Dortet L,Bonnin RA,Le Hello S,Fabre L,Bonnet R,Kostrzewa M,Filloux A,Larrouy-Maumus G

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Verticillium wilts caused by Verticillium spp. are among the most challenging plant diseases to control and affect numerous hosts worldwide. Due to the lack of effective, conventional control methods, integrated control strategies provide a promising approach to manage these diseases. The non-pathogenic Fusarium oxysp...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mulero-Aparicio A,Cernava T,Turrà D,Schaefer A,Di Pietro A,López-Escudero FJ,Trapero A,Berg G

更新日期：2019-08-02 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：:The abundant and diverse microorganisms that inhabit aquatic systems are both determinants and indicators of aquatic health, providing essential ecosystem services such as nutrient cycling but also causing harmful blooms and disease in impacted habitats. Estuaries are among the most urbanized coastal ecosystems and as...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jeffries TC,Schmitz Fontes ML,Harrison DP,Van-Dongen-Vogels V,Eyre BD,Ralph PJ,Seymour JR

更新日期：2016-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Recently, controllable, targeted proteolysis has emerged as one of the most promising new strategies to study essential genes and otherwise toxic mutations. One of the principal limitations preventing the wider adoption of this approach is due to the lack of easily identifiable species-specific degrons that can be use...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Liu N,Chaudhry MT,Xie Z,Kreth J,Merritt J

更新日期：2017-12-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Dermatophytes are the most common cause of onychomycosis, counting for 90% fungal nail infection. Although dermatophyte pathogens are normally susceptible to antifungal agents, onychomycosis often results in refractory chronic disease, and the formation of biofilms frequently underlines the inadequate responses and re...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen B,Sun Y,Zhang J,Chen R,Zhong X,Wu X,Zheng L,Zhao J

更新日期：2019-06-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, compound microbial inoculants, including three Bacillus strains and one Yeast strain, were inoculated into swine manure composting to explore the effects on antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and mobile genetic elements (MGEs), microbial community structure, and pathogenic bacteria. The results indicate...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li K,Cao R,Mo S,Yao R,Ren Z,Wu J

更新日期：2020-11-03 00:00:00