Plasmid-Mediated Transmission of KPC-2 Carbapenemase in Enterobacteriaceae in Critically Ill Patients.

abstract：:In this study, 39 sediment samples were collected from Qilian Island, Iltis Bank, and Yongxing Island in Xuande Atoll in the South China Sea (SCS), and the microbial community structures and distribution were analyzed. The microbial community was influenced by both natural environmental factors and human activities. T...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang B,Li Y,Xiang SZ,Yan Y,Yang R,Lin MP,Wang XM,Xue YL,Guan XY

更新日期：2020-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimycotic chemosensitization and its mode of action are of growing interest. Currently, use of antifungal agents in agriculture and medicine has a number of obstacles. Foremost of these is development of resistance or cross-resistance to one or more antifungal agents. The generally high expense and negative impact, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Campbell BC,Chan KL,Kim JH

更新日期：2012-02-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The pyogenic streptococci group includes pathogenic species for humans and other animals and has been associated with enduring morbidity and high mortality. The main reason for the treatment failure of streptococcal infections is the increased resistance to antibiotics. In recent years, infectious diseases caused by p...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Alves-Barroco C,Rivas-García L,Fernandes AR,Baptista PV

更新日期：2020-10-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Sulfate-reducing bacteria such as Desulfovibrio vulgaris Hildenborough are often found in environments with limiting growth nutrients. Using lactate as the electron donor and carbon source, and sulfate as the electron acceptor, wild type D. vulgaris shows motility on soft agar plates. We evaluated this phenotype with ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ray J,Keller KL,Catena M,Juba TR,Zemla M,Rajeev L,Knierim B,Zane GM,Robertson JJ,Auer M,Wall JD,Mukhopadhyay A

更新日期：2014-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Cronobacter sakazakii is an opportunistic pathogen that causes severe infections in neonates and infants through contaminated powdered infant formula (PIF). Therefore, the aim of this study was a large-scale study on determine the prevalence, molecular characterization and antibiotic susceptibility of C. sakazakii iso...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fei P,Jiang Y,Jiang Y,Yuan X,Yang T,Chen J,Wang Z,Kang H,Forsythe SJ

更新日期：2017-10-17 00:00:00

abstract：:As Cryptococcus neoformans mother cells generationally age, their cell walls become thicker and cell-wall associated virulence factors are upregulated. Antiphagocytic protein 1 (App1), and laccase enzymes (Lac1 and Lac2) are virulence factors known to contribute to virulence of C. neoformans during infection through i...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Orner EP,Bhattacharya S,Kalenja K,Hayden D,Del Poeta M,Fries BC

更新日期：2019-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The worldwide dissemination of carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (CPE) has become a major therapeutic concern in clinical settings. Enterobacter cloacae is a major pathogen that causes serious hospital-acquired infections. We investigated the clinical characteristics and molecular mechanisms of the first IMP-...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lee JH,Bae IK,Lee CH,Jeong S

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Understanding microbe-microbe interactions is critical to predict microbiome function and to construct communities for desired outcomes. Investigation of these interactions poses a significant challenge due to the lack of suitable experimental tools available. Here we present the microwell recovery array (MRA), a new ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Barua N,Herken AM,Stern KR,Reese S,Powers RL,Morrell-Falvey JL,Platt TG,Hansen RR

更新日期：2021-01-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial community composition and stability affect pollutant removal for biological/granular activated carbon (BAC/GAC) processes. Here, we pre-loaded the organic carbon substrates sucrose, lactose, and Lysogeny Broth (LB) medium onto new GAC prior to use and then tested whether this substrate pre-loading promoted d...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Qin W,Hammes F

更新日期：2021-01-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Photo-receptors are widely present in both prokaryotic and eukaryotic cells, which serves as the foundation of tuning cell behaviors with light. While practices in eukaryotic cells have been relatively established, trials in bacterial cells have only been emerging in the past few years. A number of light sensors have ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Liu Z,Zhang J,Jin J,Geng Z,Qi Q,Liang Q

更新日期：2018-11-08 00:00:00

abstract：BACKGROUND:The thermoacidophilic and chemolithotrophic archaeon Acidianus ambivalens is routinely grown with sulfur and CO(2)-enriched air. We had described a membrane-bound, tetrathionate (TT) forming thiosulfate:quinone oxidoreductase. Here we describe the first TT hydrolase (TTH) from Archaea. RESULTS:A. ambivalens...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Protze J,Müller F,Lauber K,Naß B,Mentele R,Lottspeich F,Kletzin A

更新日期：2011-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Optical characteristics of individual bacterial cells of natural communities can be measured with flow cytometry (FCM) in high throughput. The resulting data are visualized in cytometric histograms. These histograms represent individual cytometric fingerprints of microbial communities, e.g., at certain time points or ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Koch C,Harnisch F,Schröder U,Müller S

更新日期：2014-06-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Globally, mosquitoes are known to be competent vectors to various arboviruses that cause serious and debilitating diseases to humans and animals. Conversely, mosquitoes harbor a wide array of insect specific viruses (ISVs) that are generally neglected. Extensive characterization of these ISVs is important in understan...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhao L,Mwaliko C,Atoni E,Wang Y,Zhang Y,Zhan J,Hu X,Xia H,Yuan Z

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Lipid droplets (LDs) are endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-related dynamic organelles that store and regulate fatty acids and neutral lipids. They play a central role in cellular energy storage, lipid metabolism and cellular homeostasis. It has become evident that viruses have co-evolved in order to exploit host lipid metabo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang J,Lan Y,Sanyal S

更新日期：2017-11-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms are the dominant form of microbial loading (and organic material) within drinking water distribution systems (DWDS), yet our understanding of DWDS microbiomes is focused on the more easily accessible bulk-water. Disinfectant residuals are commonly provided to manage planktonic microbial activity in DWDS to sa...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fish KE,Boxall JB

更新日期：2018-10-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Soft rot caused by numerous species of Pectobacterium and Dickeya is a serious threat to the world production of potatoes. The application of bacteriophages to combat bacterial infections in medicine, agriculture, and the food industry requires the selection of comprehensively studied lytic phages and the knowledge of...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lukianova AA,Shneider MM,Evseev PV,Shpirt AM,Bugaeva EN,Kabanova AP,Obraztsova EA,Miroshnikov KK,Senchenkova SN,Shashkov AS,Toschakov SV,Knirel YA,Ignatov AN,Miroshnikov KA

更新日期：2020-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Some terrestrial cyanobacteria can acclimate to and then utilize far-red light (FRL; λ = 700-800 nm) to perform oxygenic photosynthesis through a process called Far-Red Light Photoacclimation (FaRLiP). During FaRLiP, cells synthesize chlorophylls (Chl) d and Chl f and extensively remodel their photosynthetic apparatus...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ho MY,Bryant DA

更新日期：2019-03-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Intestinal microecology has been shown to participate in the pathogenesis of many diseases through different pathways, and the intestinal microecology of premature infants is significantly different from full-term infants. Intestinal microecology in premature infants is affected by various factors such as gestational ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen C,Yin Q,Wu H,Cheng L,Kwon JI,Jin J,Han T,Che H

更新日期：2020-01-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Within the subarctic climate of Clinton Creek, Yukon, Canada, lies an abandoned and flooded open-pit asbestos mine that harbors rapidly growing microbialites. To understand their formation we completed a metagenomic community profile of the microbialites and their surrounding sediments. Assembled metagenomic data reve...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： White RA 3rd,Power IM,Dipple GM,Southam G,Suttle CA

更新日期：2015-09-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Probiotic bacteria are recognized for their health-promoting properties, including maintenance of gut epithelial integrity and host immune system homeostasis. Taking into account the beneficial health-promoting effects of GABA, the presence of the gadB gene, encoding glutamate decarboxylase that converts L-glutamate t...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sokovic Bajic S,Djokic J,Dinic M,Veljovic K,Golic N,Mihajlovic S,Tolinacki M

更新日期：2019-03-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The human gut is inhabited by diverse microorganisms that play crucial roles in health and disease. Gut microbiota dysbiosis is increasingly considered as a vital factor in the etiopathogenesis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), which is a common functional gastrointestinal disorder with a high incidence all over the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gu Y,Zhou G,Qin X,Huang S,Wang B,Cao H

更新日期：2019-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Increasing the final titer of a multi-gene metabolic pathway can be viewed as a multivariate optimization problem. While numerous multivariate optimization algorithms exist, few are specifically designed to accommodate the constraints posed by genetic engineering workflows. We present a strategy for optimizing express...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Heinsch SC,Das SR,Smanski MJ

更新日期：2018-02-27 00:00:00

abstract：:Nature is a vast source of medicinal substances, including propolis, which has been extensively investigated. Propolis is a resinous substance produced by bees from the exudates of plants that they collect and modify in their jaws; it is a rich and complex matrix with secondary metabolites of diverse botanical origins...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hochheim S,Pacassa Borges P,Boeder AM,Scharf DR,Simionatto EL,Yamanaka CN,Alberton MD,Guedes A,de Cordova CMM

更新日期：2020-04-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Two lytic bacteriophages, WCHABP1 and WCHABP12, were recovered from hospital sewage and were able to infect 9 and 12 out of 18 carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii clinical strains, which belonged to different clones. Electron microscopy scan showed that both bacteriophages had the similar morphology as those ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhou W,Feng Y,Zong Z

更新日期：2018-04-30 00:00:00

abstract：:The etiology of periodontitis has traditionally been associated to a consortium of three bacterial species-the so-called "red-complex" of periodontal disease-which has been the target for most diagnostic and therapeutic strategies. However, other species have also been found to correlate with disease severity. In addi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Camelo-Castillo AJ,Mira A,Pico A,Nibali L,Henderson B,Donos N,Tomás I

更新日期：2015-02-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Filamentous fungi asymptomatically colonize the inner tissues of macroalgae, yet their ecological roles remain largely underexplored. Here, we tested if metabolites produced by fungal endophytes might protect their host against a phylogenetically broad spectrum of protistan pathogens. Accordingly, the cultivable funga...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Vallet M,Strittmatter M,Murúa P,Lacoste S,Dupont J,Hubas C,Genta-Jouve G,Gachon CMM,Kim GH,Prado S

更新日期：2018-12-21 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：:The U. S. Gulf of Mexico is experiencing a dramatic increase in tidal marsh restoration actions, which involves planting coastal areas with smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) and black needlerush (Juncus roemerianus) for erosion control and to provide habitat for fish and wildlife. It can take decades for sedime...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mavrodi OV,Jung CM,Eberly JO,Hendry SV,Namjilsuren S,Biber PD,Indest KJ,Mavrodi DV

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Bifidobacterium represents a genus within the phylum Actinobacteria which is one of the major phyla in the healthy intestinal tract of humans. Bifidobacterium is one of the most abundant genera in adults, but its predominance is even more pronounced in infants, especially during lactation, when they can constitute the...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ruiz L,Delgado S,Ruas-Madiedo P,Sánchez B,Margolles A

更新日期：2017-12-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Several Bacillus strains exert beneficial effects on the maintenance of intestinal homeostasis and host health. However, whether Bacillus amyloliquefaciens (BA) can improve gut microbial dysbiosis and ameliorate colitis is unknown. Therefore, we conducted the present study to investigate the effects of BA administrati...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cao G,Wang K,Li Z,Tao F,Xu Y,Lan J,Chen G,Yang C

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00