Corrigendum: Azole-Resistance in Aspergillus terreus and Related Species: An Emerging Problem or a Rare Phenomenon?

abstract：:Arginine-aspartate-aspartate (RDD) family, representing a category of transmembrane proteins containing one highly conserved arginine and two highly conserved aspartates, has been functionally uncharacterized as yet. Here we present the characterization of a member of this family designated RDD from the moderate halop...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Shao L,Abdel-Motaal H,Chen J,Chen H,Xu T,Meng L,Zhang Z,Meng F,Jiang J

更新日期：2018-04-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Serratia marcescens has emerged as an important opportunistic pathogen responsible for nosocomial and severe infections. Here, we determined phenotypic and molecular characteristics of 54 S. marcescens isolates obtained from patient samples from intensive-care-unit (ICU) and neonatal intensive-care-unit (NIUC) of a Br...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ferreira RL,Rezende GS,Damas MSF,Oliveira-Silva M,Pitondo-Silva A,Brito MCA,Leonardecz E,de Góes FR,Campanini EB,Malavazi I,da Cunha AF,Pranchevicius MDS

更新日期：2020-05-20 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：:Shigella is an important human food-borne zoonosis bacterial pathogen, and can cause clinically severe diarrhea. There is an urgent need to develop a specific, sensitive, and rapid methodology for detection of this pathogen. In this study, loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) combined with magnetic immunocapt...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang L,Wei Q,Han Q,Chen Q,Tai W,Zhang J,Song Y,Xia X

更新日期：2018-02-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Communities of methanogens, anaerobic methanotrophic archaea and aerobic methanotrophic bacteria (MOB) were compared by profiling polymerase chain reaction (PCR)-amplified products of mcrA and pmoA genes encoded by methyl-coenzyme M reductase alpha subunit and particulate methane monooxygenase alpha subunit, respectiv...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhou Z,Chen J,Cao H,Han P,Gu JD

更新日期：2015-02-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Chrysoperla sinica (Tjeder) is widely recognized as an important holometabolous natural enemy of various insect pests in different cropping systems and as a non-target surrogate in environmental risk assessment of Bt rice (i.e., genetically modified rice to express a toxin gene from Bacillus thuringiensis). Like other...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhao C,Zhao H,Zhang S,Luo J,Zhu X,Wang L,Zhao P,Hua H,Cui J

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Treatment of tuberculosis (TB) and HIV co-infections is often complicated by drug-to-drug interactions between anti-mycobacterial and anti-retroviral agents. Rifabutin (RFB) is an alternative to rifampin (RIF) for TB regimens and is recommended for HIV patients concurrently receiving protease inhibitors because of red...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rukasha I,Said HM,Omar SV,Koornhof H,Dreyer AW,Musekiwa A,Moultrie H,Hoosen AA,Kaplan G,Fallows D,Ismail N

更新日期：2016-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Parvoviruses are a diverse group of viruses that are capable of infecting a wide range of animals. In this study, we report the discovery of a novel parvovirus, tilapia parvovirus HMU-HKU, in the fecal samples of crocodiles and intestines of tilapia in Hainan Province, China. The novel parvovirus was firstly identifie...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Du J,Wang W,Chan JF,Wang G,Huang Y,Yi Y,Zhu Z,Peng R,Hu X,Wu Y,Zeng J,Zheng J,Cui X,Niu L,Zhao W,Lu G,Yuen KY,Yin F

更新日期：2019-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil microorganisms historically have been a rich resource for natural product discovery, yet the majority of these microbes remain uncultivated and their biosynthetic capacity is left underexplored. To identify the biosynthetic potential of soil microorganisms using a culture-independent approach, we constructed a la...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Santana-Pereira ALR,Sandoval-Powers M,Monsma S,Zhou J,Santos SR,Mead DA,Liles MR

更新日期：2020-12-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus cereus group, also known as B. cereus sensu lato (s.l.), is a species complex comprising numerous closely related lineages, which vary in their ability to cause illness in humans and animals. The classification of B. cereus s.l. isolates into species-level taxonomic units is essential for facilitating com...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Carroll LM,Cheng RA,Kovac J

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbes play crucial roles in various biogeochemical processes in the ocean, including carbon (C), nitrogen (N), and phosphorus (P) cycling. Functional gene diversity and the structure of the microbial community determines its metabolic potential and therefore its ecological function in the marine ecosystem. However,...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang Y,Zhang R,He Z,Van Nostrand JD,Zheng Q,Zhou J,Jiao N

更新日期：2017-06-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine microorganisms, particularly those residing in coastal areas, may come in contact with any number of chemicals of environmental or xenobiotic origin. The sensitivity and response of marine cyanobacteria to such chemicals is, at present, poorly understood. We have looked at the transcriptional response of well c...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Tetu SG,Johnson DA,Varkey D,Phillippy K,Stuart RK,Dupont CL,Hassan KA,Palenik B,Paulsen IT

更新日期：2013-08-16 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：:To estimate and predict the transmission dynamics of respiratory viruses, the estimation of the basic reproduction number, R0, is essential. Recently, approximate Bayesian computation methods have been used as likelihood free methods to estimate epidemiological model parameters, particularly R0. In this paper, we expl...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Tessmer HL,Ito K,Omori R

更新日期：2018-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The survival of Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 at up to 1500 MPa was investigated by laboratory studies involving exposure to high pressure followed by evaluation of survivors as the number (N) of colony forming units (CFU) that could be cultured following recovery to ambient conditions. Exposing the wild type (WT) bacter...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hazael R,Foglia F,Kardzhaliyska L,Daniel I,Meersman F,McMillan P

更新日期：2014-11-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Prior to harvest, maize kernels are invaded by a diverse population of fungal organisms that comprise the microbiome of the grain mass. Poor post-harvest practices and improper drying can lead to the growth of mycotoxigenic storage fungi and deterioration of grain quality. Hermetic storage bags are a low-cost technolo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lane B,Sharma S,Niu C,Maina AW,Wagacha JM,Bluhm BH,Woloshuk CP

更新日期：2018-10-02 00:00:00

abstract：:The application of biochar to soil is considered to have the potential for long-term soil carbon sequestration, as well as for improving plant growth and suppressing soil pathogens. In our study we evaluated the effect of biochar on the plant growth of soybeans, as well as on the community composition of root-associat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Egamberdieva D,Wirth S,Behrendt U,Abd Allah EF,Berg G

更新日期：2016-02-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Herpes simplex virus 1 (HSV1) is an important pathogen with a worldwide epidemic trend that affects populations of various ages. It has a high morbidity, particularly in juveniles, but a successful HSV1 vaccine is not currently available. Thus, our study systematically observed the immune responses induced in mice imm...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Xu X,Fan S,Wang X,Hu Y,Feng M,Wang L,Zhang Y,Liao Y,Zhang X,Li Q

更新日期：2017-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Salar de Huasco, defined as a polyextreme environment, is a high altitude saline wetland in the Chilean Altiplano (3800 m.a.s.l.), permanently exposed to the highest solar radiation doses registered in the world. We present here the first comparative proteomics study of a photoheterotrophic bacterium, Rhodobacter sp.,...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Pérez V,Hengst M,Kurte L,Dorador C,Jeffrey WH,Wattiez R,Molina V,Matallana-Surget S

更新日期：2017-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterovirus A71 (EV-A71) is one of the major etiologic agents causing hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD) in children and occasionally causes severe neurological diseases or even death. EV-A71 replicates rapidly in host cells. For a successful infection, viruses produce large quantities of viral proteins in a short p...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Su YS,Hsieh PY,Li JS,Pao YH,Chen CJ,Hwang LH

更新日期：2020-07-14 00:00:00

abstract：:In Low and Middle-Income Countries (LMIC), weaning is associated with environmentally acquired and inflammation-associated enteric disorders. Dietary intake of high amylose maize starch (HAMS) can promote commensal fermentative bacteria and drive the production of short chain fatty acids (SCFAs). By stabilizing commen...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang Y,Mortimer EK,Katundu KGH,Kalanga N,Leong LEX,Gopalsamy GL,Christophersen CT,Richard AC,Shivasami A,Abell GCJ,Young GP,Rogers GB

更新日期：2019-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The vertebrate gut teems with a large, diverse, and dynamic bacterial community that has pervasive effects on gut physiology, metabolism, and immunity. Under natural conditions, these microbes share their habitat with a similarly dynamic community of eukaryotes (helminths, protozoa, and fungi), many of which are well-...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Leung JM,Graham AL,Knowles SCL

更新日期：2018-05-14 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：:Salmonella enterica serovars have been isolated from Colombian broilers and broiler meat. The aim of this study was to investigate the diversity of ESBL/pAmpC genes in extended-spectrum cephalosporin resistant Salmonella enterica and the phylogeny of ESBL/pAmpC-carrying Salmonella using Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS). ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Castellanos LR,van der Graaf-van Bloois L,Donado-Godoy P,León M,Clavijo V,Arévalo A,Bernal JF,Mevius DJ,Wagenaar JA,Zomer A,Hordijk J

更新日期：2018-10-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Salinispora (Micromonosporaceae) is an obligate marine bacterium genus consisting of three species that share over 99% 16S rRNA identity. The genome and biosynthetic pathways of the members of this genus have been widely investigated due to their production of species-specific metabolites. However, despite the species...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bauermeister A,Velasco-Alzate K,Dias T,Macedo H,Ferreira EG,Jimenez PC,Lotufo TMC,Lopes NP,Gaudêncio SP,Costa-Lotufo LV

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:The crosstalk between the gut microbiota and immune state of the host is an essential focus in academia and clinics. To explore the dynamic role of the microbiota in response to immune deficiency, we comprehensively assessed the microbiome of 90 mouse fecal samples, across three time points including two immunodeficie...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zheng S,Zhao T,Yuan S,Yang L,Ding J,Cui L,Xu M

更新日期：2019-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbon monoxide (CO) is commonly known as a toxic gas, yet both cultivation studies and emerging genome sequences of bacteria and archaea establish that CO is a widely utilized microbial growth substrate. In this study, we determined the prevalence of anaerobic carbon monoxide dehydrogenases ([Ni,Fe]-CODHs) in current...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Techtmann SM,Lebedinsky AV,Colman AS,Sokolova TG,Woyke T,Goodwin L,Robb FT

更新日期：2012-04-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Clostridium difficile infection (CDI) is a major cause of infectious diarrhea among hospitalized patients. Probiotics could be instrumental in restoring the intestinal dysbiosis caused by CDI. Here, we examined the protective effect of Pediococcus pentosaceus LI05 in a mouse CDI model. C57BL/6 mice were administrated ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Xu Q,Gu S,Chen Y,Quan J,Lv L,Chen D,Zheng B,Xu L,Li L

更新日期：2018-10-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Vitamin C is a critical dietary nutrient in human which has a wide range of regulatory effects on gene expression and physiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that leads to a dormant drug-tolerant phenotype. In the presence of iron, vitamin C shows a high bactericidal activity even in the drug resistant phenotype of M...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mishra A,Sarkar D

更新日期：2015-05-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Influenza A virus (IAV) is a human respiratory pathogen that causes seasonal epidemics and occasional global pandemics with devastating levels of morbidity and mortality. Currently approved treatments against influenza are losing effectiveness, as new viral strains are often refractory to conventional treatments. Thus...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang L,Li W,Li S

更新日期：2016-06-03 00:00:00