Complementarity of Selective Culture and qPCR for Colistin Resistance Screening in Fresh and Frozen Pig Cecum Samples.

abstract：:Pseudomonas aeruginosa (PA) is the leading cause of corneal blindness worldwide. A constant increase in multi-drug resistant PA strains have heightened the challenge of effectively managing corneal infections with conventional antibiotics. Antimicrobial peptides are promising antibiotic analogs with a unique mode of a...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mohammed I,Said DG,Nubile M,Mastropasqua L,Dua HS

更新日期：2019-09-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Spices have been used since ancient times. Although they have been employed mainly as flavoring and coloring agents, their role in food safety and preservation have also been studied in vitro and in vivo. Spices have exhibited numerous health benefits in preventing and treating a wide variety of diseases such as cance...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gottardi D,Bukvicki D,Prasad S,Tyagi AK

更新日期：2016-09-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Woodchip bioreactor technology removes nitrate from agricultural subsurface drainage by using denitrifying microorganisms. Although woodchip bioreactors have demonstrated success in many field locations, low water temperature can significantly limit bioreactor efficiency and performance. To improve bioreactor performa...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jang J,Anderson EL,Venterea RT,Sadowsky MJ,Rosen CJ,Feyereisen GW,Ishii S

更新日期：2019-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Trachomatous trichiasis (TT) caused by repeated or chronic ocular infection with Chlamydia trachomatis is the result of a pro-fibrotic ocular immune response. At the conjunctiva, the increased expression of both inflammatory (IL1B, TNF) and regulatory cytokines (IL10) have been associated with adverse clinical outcome...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gall A,Horowitz A,Joof H,Natividad A,Tetteh K,Riley E,Bailey RL,Mabey DC,Holland MJ

更新日期：2011-02-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial symbionts account for survival, development, fitness and evolution of eukaryotic hosts. These microorganisms together with their host form a biological unit known as holobiont. Recent studies have revealed that the holobiont of agaves and cacti comprises a diverse and structured microbiome, which might be im...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Flores-Núñez VM,Fonseca-García C,Desgarennes D,Eloe-Fadrosh E,Woyke T,Partida-Martínez LP

更新日期：2020-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we investigated the pattern of antimicrobial resistance in Salmonella enterica serotype Enteritidis isolates in Shanghai, China from 2005 to 2014. We found the first isolates with resistance to the fourth-generation cephalosporin cefepime starting in 2010. Furthermore, we analyzed the epidemic character...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fu Y,Xu X,Zhang L,Xiong Z,Ma Y,Wei Y,Chen Z,Bai J,Liao M,Zhang J

更新日期：2020-05-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Baiyunbian baijiu, the most popular miscellaneous-flavor baijiu in China, has been widely consumed for decades. Similar to many Chinese baijiu, Baiyunbian baijiu is fermented in five successive batches every year. Sensory analysis demonstrated that the raw baijiu obtained from the last two fermentation batches always ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Liu P,Miao L

更新日期：2020-01-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Zinc has an abounding occurrence in the prokaryotes and plays paramount roles including catalytic, structural, and regulatory. Zinc uptake regulator (Zur), a Fur family transcriptional regulator, is connoted in maintaining zinc homeostasis in the pathogenic bacteria by binding to zinc and regulating the genes involved...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kandari D,Gopalani M,Gupta M,Joshi H,Bhatnagar S,Bhatnagar R

更新日期：2019-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Extended-spectrum beta-lactamase- (ESBL-) and AmpC beta-lactamase- (AmpC-) producing Enterobacteriaceae pose a risk for both human and animal health. For livestock, highest prevalences have been reported in broiler chickens, which are therefore considered as a reservoir of multidrug-resistant bacteria. The possibility...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Robé C,Blasse A,Merle R,Friese A,Roesler U,Guenther S

更新日期：2019-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Although currently available model organisms such as Mycobacterium smegmatis and Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) have significantly contributed to our understanding of tuberculosis (TB) biology, these models have limitations such as differences in genome size, growth rates and virulence. However, at...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mouton JM,Heunis T,Dippenaar A,Gallant JL,Kleynhans L,Sampson SL

更新日期：2019-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Fungi have increased tolerance to environmental stress (also related to the access of pollutants, e.g., trace elements and polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons PAHs). The aim of the study was to evaluate the mycobiome and functional diversity of fungi in long-term crude-oil contaminated soils as the potential bioremediato...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gałązka A,Grządziel J,Gałązka R,Gawryjołek K,Ukalska-Jaruga A,Smreczak B

更新日期：2020-09-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Objectives: To reveal the prevalence and epidemiology of extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)- and/or plasmid AmpC (pAmpC)- and carbapenemase (CP) producing Enterobacteriaceae and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) across the Northern Dutch-German border region. Methods: A point-prevalence study on ESBL/pAmpC/CP p...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhou X,García-Cobos S,Ruijs GJHM,Kampinga GA,Arends JP,Borst DM,Möller LV,Holman ND,Schuurs TA,Bruijnesteijn van Coppenraet LE,Weel JF,van Zeijl JH,Köck R,Rossen JWA,Friedrich AW

更新日期：2017-10-05 00:00:00

abstract：:C-di-GMP has been well investigated to play significant roles in the physiology of many Gram-negative bacteria. However, its effect on Gram-positive bacteria is less known. In order to more understand the c-di-GMP functions in Gram-positive bacteria, we have carried out a detailed study on the c-di-GMP-metabolizing en...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fu Y,Yu Z,Liu S,Chen B,Zhu L,Li Z,Chou SH,He J

更新日期：2018-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Sea star wasting (SSW) disease describes a condition affecting asteroids that resulted in significant Northeastern Pacific population decline following a mass mortality event in 2013. The etiology of SSW is unresolved. We hypothesized that SSW is a sequela of microbial organic matter remineralization near respiratory ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Aquino CA,Besemer RM,DeRito CM,Kocian J,Porter IR,Raimondi PT,Rede JE,Schiebelhut LM,Sparks JP,Wares JP,Hewson I

更新日期：2021-01-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) is well-known to be involved in gastric carcinogenesis, associated with deregulation of cell proliferation and epigenetic changes in cancer-related genes. H. pylori infection is largely acquired during childhood, persisting long-term in about half of infected individuals, a subset of wh...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： George S,Lucero Y,Torres JP,Lagomarcino AJ,O'Ryan M

更新日期：2020-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Mycobacterium tuberculosis adapts to stress conditions by responding to the signals from its external environment. M. tuberculosis genome encodes 11 eukaryotic like serine/threonine protein kinases (STPK) and their importance in regulating the physiology and virulence of the bacteria are being explored. Previous study...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Venkatesan A,Palaniyandi K,Sharma D,Bisht D,Narayanan S

更新日期：2016-10-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to the globally observed increase in antibiotic resistance of bacterial pathogens and the simultaneous decline in new antibiotic developments, the need for alternative inactivation approaches is growing. This is especially true for the treatment of infections with the problematic ESKAPE pathogens, which include En...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hoenes K,Bauer R,Meurle T,Spellerberg B,Hessling M

更新日期：2021-01-13 00:00:00

abstract：:EspF is a central effector protein of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), enteropathogenic E. coli (EPEC), and Citrobacter rodentium (CR) that is secreted through the type III secretion system to host cells. The interaction between EspF and host proteins plays an important role in bacterial pathogenesis. EspF p...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hua Y,Yan K,Wan C

更新日期：2018-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2018.03018.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Liu YC,Hussain F,Negm O,Paiva AC,Halliday N,Dubern JF,Singh S,Muntaka S,Wheldon L,Luckett J,Tighe P,Bosquillon C,Williams P,Cámara M,Martínez-Pomares L

更新日期：2019-02-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Low moisture content ready-to-eat foods vended in Nigerian markets could be pre-packaged or packaged at point of sale. These foods are widely and frequently consumed across Nigeria as quick foods. Despite their importance in the daily diets of Nigerians, a comprehensive study on the diversity of fungi, fungal metaboli...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ezekiel CN,Oyedele OA,Kraak B,Ayeni KI,Sulyok M,Houbraken J,Krska R

更新日期：2020-04-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Innovations in next-generation sequencing technology have introduced new avenues in microbial studies through "omics" approaches. This technology has considerably augmented the knowledge of the microbial world without isolation prior to their identification. With an enormous volume of bacterial "omics" data, considera...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Parmar KM,Gaikwad SL,Dhakephalkar PK,Kothari R,Singh RP

更新日期：2017-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Integrative conjugative elements (ICEs) are a class of bacterial mobile elements that have the ability to mediate their own integration, excision, and transfer from one host genome to another by a mechanism of site-specific recombination, self-circularisation, and conjugative transfer. Members of the SXT/R391 ICE fami...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ryan MP,Armshaw P,Pembroke JT

更新日期：2016-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida species can cause severe infections associated with high morbidity and mortality. Therefore, it is essential to gain more insight into the anti-fungal host defense response. The advent of omics technology and development of advanced systems biology tools has permitted to approach this in an unbiased and quanti...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Smeekens SP,van de Veerdonk FL,Netea MG

更新日期：2016-02-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipopolysaccharide-deficient mutants of smooth Brucella species (rough mutants) have been shown to arise spontaneously in culture. However, in situ analysis of Brucella infected macrophages using antibody directed against O-polysaccharide suggested a loss of reactivity of Brucella consistent with the appearance of rou...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Turse JE,Pei J,Ficht TA

更新日期：2011-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Cheese microbiota contribute significantly to the final characteristics of cheeses due to the growth and interaction between cheese microorganisms during processing and ripening. For raw milk cheeses, such as Parmigiano Reggiano (PR), the microbiota derive from the raw milk itself, the dairy environment, and the start...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bottari B,Levante A,Bancalari E,Sforza S,Bottesini C,Prandi B,De Filippis F,Ercolini D,Nocetti M,Gatti M

更新日期：2020-10-02 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

abstract：:The development of antibiotic resistance poses an increasing threat to global health. Understanding how resistance develops in bacteria is critical for the advancement of new strategies to combat antibiotic resistance. In the 1980s, it was discovered that certain antibiotics induce elevated rates of mutation in bacter...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Revitt-Mills SA,Robinson A

更新日期：2020-10-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Clonostachys rosea is a biological control agent against Fusarium graminearum in small grain cereals and maize. Infections with F. graminearum do not only reduce the yield but, due to the production of mycotoxins, also affect the entire value chain of food and feed. In addition, production of other secondary metabolit...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gimeno A,Sohlberg E,Pakula T,Limnell J,Keller B,Laitila A,Vogelgsang S

更新日期：2019-07-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Pigs are one of the most important economic livestock. Gut microbiota is not only critical to the health but also the production efficiency of pigs. Manipulating gut microbiota relies on the full view of gut microbiome and the understanding of drive forces shaping microbial communities. 16s rDNA sequencing was used to...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang L,Wu W,Lee YK,Xie J,Zhang H

更新日期：2018-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Candida haemulonii is an emerging opportunistic pathogen resistant to most antifungal drugs currently used in clinical arena. Metal complexes containing 1,10-phenanthroline (phen) chelating ligands have well-established anti-Candida activity against different medically relevant species. This study utilized larvae of G...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gandra RM,McCarron P,Viganor L,Fernandes MF,Kavanagh K,McCann M,Branquinha MH,Santos ALS,Howe O,Devereux M

更新日期：2020-03-24 00:00:00