Whole Genome Sequencing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Clinical Isolates From India Reveals Genetic Heterogeneity and Region-Specific Variations That Might Affect Drug Susceptibility.

abstract：:Microbial strains with a unique combination of technological and bioactive properties are preferred for industrial applications. The present study was conducted to evaluate the potential use of Enterococcus mundtii QAUEM2808 (NCBI Accession Number: LSMC00000000) in milk fermentation. This strain was isolated from Dahi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Nawaz F,Khan MN,Javed A,Ahmed I,Ali N,Ali MI,Bakhtiar SM,Imran M

更新日期：2019-03-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cryptococcus neoformans is an opportunist fungal pathogen that causes meningoencephalitis in immunocompromised patients. During infection, this basidiomycete yeast has to adapt to several adverse conditions, especially nutrient availability. The interruption on various amino acid biosynthetic pathways and on amino aci...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Martho KF,Brustolini OJB,Vasconcelos AT,Vallim MA,Pascon RC

更新日期：2019-11-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Cronobacter spp. are bacterial pathogens that cause neonatal meningitis, septicemia, and necrotizing enterocolitis in infants with a lethality rate of 40-80%. Powdered infant formulas (PIF) have been implicated as the main vehicles of transmission. This pathogen can also cause infection through contaminated expressed ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Parra-Flores J,Aguirre J,Juneja V,Jackson EE,Cruz-Córdova A,Silva-Sanchez J,Forsythe S

更新日期：2018-09-27 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：:The VPAP30 strain was isolated as the highly predominant bacteria from an episode of massive larval mortality occurring in a commercial culture of the Chilean scallop Argopecten purpuratus. The main aims of this study were, to characterize and identify the pathogenic strain using biochemical and molecular methods to d...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rojas R,Miranda CD,Santander J,Romero J

更新日期：2016-09-20 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the resident (16S rDNA) and the active (16S rRNA) members of soil archaeal and bacterial communities during rice plant development by sampling three growth stages (vegetative, reproductive and maturity) under field conditions. Additionally, the microbial community was investigated in two non-flooded fields ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Breidenbach B,Conrad R

更新日期：2015-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Members of the genus Burkholderia (β-proteobacteria) have only recently been shown to be able to establish a nitrogen-fixing symbiosis with several legumes, which is why they are also referred to as β-rhizobia. Therefore, very little is known about the competitiveness of these species to nodulate different legume host...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lardi M,de Campos SB,Purtschert G,Eberl L,Pessi G

更新日期：2017-08-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The contribution of ammonia-oxidizing bacteria and archaea (AOB and AOA, respectively) to the net oxidation of ammonia varies greatly between terrestrial environments. To better understand, predict and possibly manage terrestrial nitrogen turnover, we need to develop a conceptual understanding of ammonia oxidation as ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Daebeler A,Abell GC,Bodelier PL,Bodrossy L,Frampton DM,Hefting MM,Laanbroek HJ

更新日期：2012-10-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial decomposition of organic matter is an essential process in the global carbon cycle. The soil bacteria Pseudopedobacter saltans and Flavobacterium johnsoniae are both able to degrade complex organic molecules, but it is not fully known how their membrane structures are adapted to their environmental niche. Th...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Moore EK,Hopmans EC,Rijpstra WI,Sánchez-Andrea I,Villanueva L,Wienk H,Schoutsen F,Stams AJ,Sinninghe Damsté JS

更新日期：2015-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Ebolavirus (EBOV) is an enveloped, non-segmented, negative-stranded RNA virus, which consists of five species: Zaire ebolavirus, Sudan ebolavirus, Tai Forest ebolavirus, Bundibugyo ebolavirus, and Reston ebolavirus. EBOV causes a lethal hemorrhagic fever in both humans and non-human primates. The EBOV RNA genome encod...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yasuda J

更新日期：2012-04-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular vesicles secreted by Gram-negative bacteria have proven to be important in bacterial defense, communication and host-pathogen relationships. They resemble smaller versions of the bacterial mother cell, with similar contents of proteins, LPS, DNA, and RNA. Vesicles can elicit a protective immune response ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Langlete P,Krabberød AK,Winther-Larsen HC

更新日期：2019-11-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Chronic inflammatory rheumatic diseases (CIRDs) are immune-mediated pathologies involving joints. To date, TNFα-blocking agents administration is the most promising therapy, although these treatments are associated with an increased Polyomavirus JC (JCPyV) reactivation, the etiological agent of the Progressive Multifo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rodio DM,Anzivino E,Mischitelli M,Bellizzi A,Scrivo R,Scribano D,Conte G,Prezioso C,Trancassini M,Valesini G,Palamara AT,Pietropaolo V

更新日期：2016-05-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Protein phosphorylation, one of the most important post-translational modifications, regulates almost every cellular process. Although signal transduction by protein phosphorylation is extensively studied in Eukaryotes and Bacteria, the knowledge of this process in archaea is greatly lagging behind, especially for Ser...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Huang Q,Zhong Q,Mayaka JBA,Ni J,Shen Y

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A major issue for present HIV-1 research is to establish model systems that reflect or mimic viral replication and pathogenesis actually observed in infected humans. To this end, various strategies using macaques as infection targets have long been pursued. In particular, experimental infections of rhesus macaques by ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Doi N,Miura T,Mori H,Sakawaki H,Koma T,Adachi A,Nomaguchi M

更新日期：2018-10-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The colon is inhabited by a dense population of microorganisms, the so-called "gut microbiota," able to ferment carbohydrates and proteins that escape absorption in the small intestine during digestion. This microbiota produces a wide range of metabolites, including short chain fatty acids (SCFA). These compounds are ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ríos-Covián D,Ruas-Madiedo P,Margolles A,Gueimonde M,de Los Reyes-Gavilán CG,Salazar N

更新日期：2016-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter jejuni is the leading cause of bacterial foodborne diarrhoeal disease worldwide. Despite the microaerophilic nature of the bacterium, C. jejuni can survive the atmospheric oxygen conditions in the environment. Bacteria that can survive either within a host or in the environment like C. jejuni require var...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gundogdu O,da Silva DT,Mohammad B,Elmi A,Wren BW,van Vliet AH,Dorrell N

更新日期：2016-12-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Active efflux is regarded as a common mechanism for antibiotic and biocide resistance. However, the role of many drug efflux pumps in biocide resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii remains unknown. Using biocide-resistant A. baumannii clinical isolates, we investigated the incidence of 11 known/putative antimicrobial r...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lin F,Xu Y,Chang Y,Liu C,Jia X,Ling B

更新日期：2017-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Streptomyces clavuligerus F613-1 produces a clinically important β-lactamase inhibitor, clavulanic acid (CA). Although the biosynthesis pathway of CA has essentially been elucidated, the global regulatory mechanisms of CA biosynthesis remain unclear. The paired genes cagS and cagR, which are annotated, respectively, a...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fu J,Qin R,Zong G,Liu C,Kang N,Zhong C,Cao G

更新日期：2019-02-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile is an opportunistic pathogen inhabiting the human gut, often being the aetiological agent of infections after a microbiota dysbiosis following, for example, an antibiotic treatment. C. difficile infections (CDI) constitute a growing health problem with increasing rates of morbidity and mortality ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Valdés-Varela L,Alonso-Guervos M,García-Suárez O,Gueimonde M,Ruas-Madiedo P

更新日期：2016-04-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Pseudomonas syringae pv. tomato DC3000 carries the wssABCDEFGHI operon for the synthesis of acetylated cellulose, whose production is stimulated by increasing the intracellular levels of the second messenger c-di-GMP. This enhances air-liquid biofilm formation and generates a wrinkly colony morphotype in solid media. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Pérez-Mendoza D,Felipe A,Ferreiro MD,Sanjuán J,Gallegos MT

更新日期：2019-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Metacaspases are distant homologs of metazoan caspase proteases, implicated in stress response, and programmed cell death (PCD) in bacteria and phytoplankton. While the few previous studies on metacaspases have relied on cultured organisms and sequenced genomes, no studies have focused on metacaspases in a natural set...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Asplund-Samuelsson J,Sundh J,Dupont CL,Allen AE,McCrow JP,Celepli NA,Bergman B,Ininbergs K,Ekman M

更新日期：2016-07-06 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：:Traditionally, the shelf-life and safety of foods have been achieved by thermal processing. Low temperature long time and high temperature short time treatments are the most commonly used hurdles for the pasteurization of fluid foods and raw materials. However, the thermal treatments can reduce the product quality and...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Patrignani F,Lanciotti R

更新日期：2016-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:During cystic fibrosis (CF) chronic lung infections, bacteria of the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) are exposed for several years to a stressful and changing environment. These environmental challenges results in genetic changes of the initial infecting strain with the consequent diversification of genotypes and p...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Moreira AS,Lourenço AB,Sá-Correia I

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Previous studies had suggested the presence of ammonium oxidizing Thaumarchaeota as well as nitrite oxidizing Bacteria in the subsurface spring called Franz Josef Quelle (FJQ), a slightly radioactive thermal mineral spring with a temperature of 43.6-47°C near the alpine village of Bad Gastein, Austria. The microbiolog...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gerbl FW,Weidler GW,Wanek W,Erhardt A,Stan-Lotter H

更新日期：2014-05-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Among the intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli, enteroinvasive E. coli (EIEC) are a group of intracellular pathogens able to enter epithelial cells of colon, multiplicate within them, and move between adjacent cells with a mechanism similar to Shigella, the ethiological agent of bacillary dysentery. Despite EIEC bel...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Pasqua M,Michelacci V,Di Martino ML,Tozzoli R,Grossi M,Colonna B,Morabito S,Prosseda G

更新日期：2017-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Proteus mirabilis is an important etiological agent of catheter-associated urinary tract infections (CAUTIs) owing to its efficient crystalline biofilm formation and virulence enzyme production. Hence, the present study explicated the antibiofilm and antivirulence efficacies of 2-hydroxy-4-methoxybenzaldehyde (HMB) ag...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Durgadevi R,Abirami G,Alexpandi R,Nandhini K,Kumar P,Prakash S,Veera Ravi A

更新日期：2019-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus diseases are often caused by Aspergillus fumigatus. Azoles are the mainstay of therapy, but the management of aspergillosis is hampered by the emergence of azole resistance. Rapid detection of azole resistance might benefit treatment outcome by early treatment modifications. However, the yield of fungal cu...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Buil JB,Zoll J,Verweij PE,Melchers WJG

更新日期：2018-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterobacteria phage vB_PcaM_CBB is a "jumbo" phage belonging to the family Myoviridae. It possesses highly atypical whisker-like structures along the length of its contractile tail. It has a broad host range with the capability of infecting species of the genera Erwinia, Pectobacterium, and Cronobacter. With a genome...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Buttimer C,Hendrix H,Oliveira H,Casey A,Neve H,McAuliffe O,Ross RP,Hill C,Noben JP,O'Mahony J,Lavigne R,Coffey A

更新日期：2017-01-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine circovirus-like virus P1 is an important pathogen of the current pig industry, the infection mechanism is not entirely clear. Wnt signaling pathway plays an important role in the growth of young animals and infection of some viruses. This study was designed to demonstrate the effects of P1 infection on the Wnt...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhu X,Wen L,Sheng S,Wang W,Xiao Q,Qu M,Hu Y,Liu C,He K

更新日期：2018-03-12 00:00:00