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

abstract：:Salinity and pH have direct and indirect impacts on the growth and metabolic activities of microorganisms. In this study, the effects of salt and alkaline stresses on the kinetic balance between nitrous oxide (N2O) production and consumption in the denitrification pathway of Dechloromonas aromatica strain RCB were exa...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Han H,Song B,Song MJ,Yoon S

更新日期：2019-06-05 00:00:00

abstract：:The prevalence of digestive disorders has increased globally, as countries have adopted a more "Westernized" diet pattern. A Western diet, characterized as high in fat and refined carbohydrates, can also be defined as a product of increased technology and industrialization. Modern farmers rely on agrochemicals to meet...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Barnett JA,Gibson DL

更新日期：2020-09-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbiome within a poultry production house influences the attainment of physiologically strong birds and thus food safety and public health. Yet little is known about the microbial communities within the house and the effects on the soil microbes onto which the houses are placed; nor the effects of management pr...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Crippen TL,Sheffield CL,Singh B,Byrd JA,Beier RC

更新日期：2019-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The rapid emergence of multidrug resistant Salmonella is a global public-health concern as outbreaks in recent years have mostly been caused by multidrug resistant strains. Here, we evaluated an outbreak in China caused by multidrug resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) by employing an epi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Xiang Y,Li F,Dong N,Tian S,Zhang H,Du X,Zhou X,Xu X,Yang H,Xie J,Yang C,Liu H,Qiu S,Song H,Sun Y

更新日期：2020-04-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Heterotrophic bacterioplankton communities play an important role in organic matter processing in the oceans worldwide. In order to investigate the significance of distinct phylogenetic bacterial groups it is not only important to assess their quantitative abundance but also their growth dynamics in relation to the en...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bakenhus I,Dlugosch L,Billerbeck S,Giebel HA,Milke F,Simon M

更新日期：2017-09-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Foodborne diseases (FBDs) are infections of the gastrointestinal tract caused by foodborne pathogens (FBPs) such as bacteria [Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC)] and several viruses, but also parasites and some fungi. Artificial intelligence (AI) and its sub-discipline machine ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Vilne B,Meistere I,Grantiņa-Ieviņa L,Ķibilds J

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Anopheles mosquito midgut harbors a diverse group of endogenous bacteria that grow extensively after the blood feeding and help in food digestion and nutrition in many ways. Although, the growth of endogenous bacteria is regulated by various factors, however, the robust antibacterial immune reactions are generally sup...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kajla M,Choudhury TP,Kakani P,Gupta K,Dhawan R,Gupta L,Kumar S

更新日期：2016-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:To obtain full details of gut microbiota, including bacteria, fungi, bacteriophages, and helminths, in giant pandas (GPs), we created a comprehensive microbial genome database and used metagenomic sequences to align against the database. We delineated a detailed and different gut microbiota structures of GPs. A total ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yang S,Gao X,Meng J,Zhang A,Zhou Y,Long M,Li B,Deng W,Jin L,Zhao S,Wu D,He Y,Li C,Liu S,Huang Y,Zhang H,Zou L

更新日期：2018-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Carbohydrate derived fulvic acid (CHD-FA) is a heat stable low molecular weight, water soluble, cationic, colloidal material with proposed therapeutic properties. The aim of this study was to evaluate the antifungal activity of CHD-FA against Candida albicans, and to characterize its mode of action. A panel of C. albi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sherry L,Jose A,Murray C,Williams C,Jones B,Millington O,Bagg J,Ramage G

更新日期：2012-03-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The impact of subacute rumen acidosis (SARA) on the rumen bacterial community has been frequently studied in in vivo trials. Here we investigated whether these alterations can be mirrored by using the rumen simulation technique (RUSITEC) as an in vitro model for this disease. We hypothezised that the bacterial communi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Brede M,Orton T,Pinior B,Roch FF,Dzieciol M,Zwirzitz B,Wagner M,Breves G,Wetzels SU

更新日期：2020-08-07 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.2019.00270.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Newberry EA,Ebrahim M,Timilsina S,Zlatković N,Obradović A,Bull CT,Goss EM,Huguet-Tapia JC,Paret ML,Jones JB,Potnis N

更新日期：2019-05-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Low phosphorus soils are thought to constitute the majority of soils worldwide and cannot support intensive agriculture without high fertilizer inputs. Rhizobacteria are well-known to modify P dynamics and an increased bacterial diversity normally has a positive impact on various process rates. However, it is not know...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Irshad U,Yergeau E

更新日期：2018-09-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Schizophyllum commune is a filamentous basidiomycete causing white-rot in many wood species with the help of a broad range of enzymes including multicopper oxidases such as laccases and laccase-like oxidases. Since these enzymes exhibit a broad substrate range, their ability to oxidatively degrade black slate was inve...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kirtzel J,Madhavan S,Wielsch N,Blinne A,Hupfer Y,Linde J,Krause K,Svatoš A,Kothe E

更新日期：2018-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The Streptococcus bovis/Streptococcus equinus complex (SBSEC) comprises several species inhabiting the animal and human gastrointestinal tract (GIT). They match the pathobiont description, are potential zoonotic agents and technological organisms in fermented foods. SBSEC members are associated with multiple diseases ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jans C,Boleij A

更新日期：2018-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii is one of the most important opportunistic pathogens that causes serious health care associated complications in critically ill patients. In the current study we report on the diversity of the clinical multi-drug resistant (MDR) A. baumannii in Kuwait by molecular characterization. One hundred ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Vali L,Dashti K,Opazo-Capurro AF,Dashti AA,Al Obaid K,Evans BA

更新日期：2015-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study we report the effects of fungal metabolites isolated from cultures of the fungus Trichoderma citrinoviride ITEM 4484 on the feeding preference of the aphid Rhopalosiphum padi, a major pest of cereal crops. Different phagodeterrent metabolites were purified by a combination of direct and reverse phase col...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ganassi S,Grazioso P,De Cristofaro A,Fiorentini F,Sabatini MA,Evidente A,Altomare C

更新日期：2016-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Denitrification and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) compete for nitrate in natural and engineered environments. A known important factor in this microbial competition is the ratio of available electron donor and elector acceptor, here expressed as Ac/N ratio (acetate/nitrate-nitrogen). We studied th...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： van den Berg EM,Boleij M,Kuenen JG,Kleerebezem R,van Loosdrecht MC

更新日期：2016-11-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Plasmid mediated horizontal gene transfer (HGT) has been speculated to be one of the prime mechanisms for the adaptation of roseobacters (Rhodobacteraceae) to their ecological niches in the marine habitat. Their plasmids contain ecologically crucial functional modules of up to ∼40-kb in size, e.g., for aerobic anoxyge...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Petersen J,Wagner-Döbler I

更新日期：2017-07-18 00:00:00

abstract：:The knowledge on the host specificity of a pathogen underlying an interaction is becoming an urgent necessity for global warming. In this study, the gene expression profiles and the roles of effectors in host specificity were integrally characterized with two formae speciales, multigermtubi and monogermtubi, of a hemi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ren F,Yan DH,Wu G,Sun X,Song X,Li R

更新日期：2020-03-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Extremely cold environments are a challenge for all organisms. They are mostly inhabited by psychrophilic and psychrotolerant bacteria, which employ various strategies to cope with the cold. Such harsh environments are often highly vulnerable to the influence of external factors and may undergo frequent dynamic change...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Dziewit L,Bartosik D

更新日期：2014-11-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Active volcanoes in Antarctica contrast with their predominantly cold surroundings, resulting in environmental conditions capable of selecting for versatile and extremely diverse microbial communities. This is especially true on Deception Island, where geothermal, marine, and polar environments combine to create an ex...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bendia AG,Signori CN,Franco DC,Duarte RTD,Bohannan BJM,Pellizari VH

更新日期：2018-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterococcus mundtii strains isolated from the larval feces of the Mediterranean flour moth Ephestia kuehniella show antimicrobial activity against a broad spectrum of Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. The in vitro probiotic characterization of one isolate revealed a high auto-aggregation score, a hydrophilic ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Grau T,Vilcinskas A,Joop G

更新日期：2017-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Chlamydia suis is a swine pathogen that has also recently been found to cause zoonotic infections of the human eye, pharynx, and gastrointestinal tract. Many strains contain a tetracycline class C gene [tet(C)] cassette that confers tetracycline resistance. The cassette was likely originally acquired by horizontal gen...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Marti H,Kim H,Joseph SJ,Dojiri S,Read TD,Dean D

更新日期：2017-02-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Chrysene is a high molecular weight (HMW), polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon (PAH) known for its recalcitrance and carcinogenic properties and sparsely soluble (0.003 mg/L) in aqueous medium. Due to these refractory properties, bioavailability of chrysene is very low and therefore is persistence in the environment escap...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Vaidya S,Devpura N,Jain K,Madamwar D

更新日期：2018-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Aspergillus flavus is the main producer of carcinogenic aflatoxins in agricultural commodities such as maize. This fungus occurs naturally on crops, and produces aflatoxins when environmental conditions are favorable. The aim of this study is to analyse the genetic variability among 109 A. flavus isolates previously r...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Okoth S,De Boevre M,Vidal A,Diana Di Mavungu J,Landschoot S,Kyallo M,Njuguna J,Harvey J,De Saeger S

更新日期：2018-01-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic bacterial persisters are responsible for the recalcitrance of chronic and persistent infections to antimicrobial therapy. Although the mechanisms of persister formation and survival have been widely studied in Escherichia coli, persistence mechanisms in Staphylococcus aureus remain largely unknown. Here, we...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang W,Chen J,Chen G,Du X,Cui P,Wu J,Zhao J,Wu N,Zhang W,Li M,Zhang Y

更新日期：2015-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Nanotechnology monitors a leading agricultural controlling process, especially by its miniature dimension. Additionally, many potential benefits such as enhancement of food quality and safety, reduction of agricultural inputs, enrichment of absorbing nanoscale nutrients from the soil, etc. allow the application of nan...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Prasad R,Bhattacharyya A,Nguyen QD

更新日期：2017-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A Gram-positive, coccoid, motile, aerobic bacterium, designated strain B12T was isolated from a Jet Propulsion Laboratory spacecraft assembly cleanroom, Pasadena, CA, United States. Strain B12T was resistant to chloramphenicol (100 μg/mL), and is a relatively slow grower (3-5 days optimal). Strain B12T was found to gr...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mhatre S,Singh NK,Wood JM,Parker CW,Pukall R,Verbarg S,Tindall BJ,Neumann-Schaal M,Venkateswaran K

更新日期：2020-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae belonging to serogroups other than O1 and O139 are opportunistic pathogens which cause infections with a variety of clinical symptoms. Due to the increasing number of V. cholerae non-O1/non-O139 infections in association with recreational waters in the past two decades, they have received increasing at...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lepuschitz S,Baron S,Larvor E,Granier SA,Pretzer C,Mach RL,Farnleitner AH,Ruppitsch W,Pleininger S,Indra A,Kirschner AKT

更新日期：2019-11-08 00:00:00