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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：:The human immune response that controls Plasmodium infection in the liver and blood stages of the parasite life cycle is composed by both pro- and anti-inflammatory programs. Pro-inflammatory responses primarily mediated by IFN-γ controls the infection, but also induce tolerogenic mechanisms to limit host damage, incl...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Dos Santos RO,da Cruz MGS,Lopes SCP,Oliveira LB,Nogueira PA,Lima ES,Soares IS,Kano FS,de Carvalho AT,Costa FTM,Ganoza CA,de Lacerda MVG,Lalwani P

更新日期：2020-03-17 00:00:00

abstract：:CRISPR-Cas systems adapt "memories" via spacers from viruses and plasmids to develop adaptive immunity against mobile genetic elements. Mature CRISPR RNAs guide CRISPR-associated nucleases to site-specifically cleave target DNA or RNA, providing an efficient genome engineering tool for organisms of all three kingdoms....

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li Y,Peng N

更新日期：2019-10-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Activated sludge microbial community composition is a key bio-indicator of the sustainability of wastewater treatment systems. Therefore, a thorough understanding of the activated sludge microbial community dynamics is critical for environmental engineers to effectively manage the wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang H,Feng J,Chen S,Li B,Sekar R,Zhao Z,Jia J,Wang Y,Kang P

更新日期：2018-06-18 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：:Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) are opportunistic pathogens that colonize the small intestine, produce enterotoxins and induce diarrhea. Some aquaporins (AQPs), such as AQP3 and AQP8, have been reported to participate in diarrhea by decreasing cellular influx in the gastrointestinal (GI) tract. AQP4 is another...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang D,Yang L,Su W,Zhao Y,Ma X,Zhou H,Xu B,Zhang K,Ma H

更新日期：2018-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:Chili (Capsicum annuum L.) is an important vegetable and spice crop of tropical and sub-tropical regions. Chili plants showing upward leaf curling, leaf crinkling, and leaf yellowing symptoms, collected from Sikar district of Rajasthan, India, were found to be associated with begomovirus and satellite molecules. The p...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mishra M,Verma RK,Marwal A,Sharma P,Gaur RK

更新日期：2020-10-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Early nutrition of pullets could determine the overall development and the performance of laying hens. With the aim to reduce the use of antibiotic growth promoters (AGPs) and to maintain the growth and development of pullets, the effect of simultaneous short-termed supplementation of AGPs (bacitracin zinc 20 mg/kg an...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li X,Wu S,Li X,Yan T,Duan Y,Yang X,Duan Y,Sun Q,Yang X

更新日期：2018-10-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus aureus is a major cause of hospital- and community-acquired infections placing a significant burden on the healthcare system. With the widespread of multidrug-resistant bacteria and the lack of effective antibacterial drugs, fosfomycin has gradually attracted attention as an "old drug." Thus, investigat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Xu W,Chen T,Wang H,Zeng W,Wu Q,Yu K,Xu Y,Zhang X,Zhou T

更新日期：2020-06-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Marseilleviruses comprise a family of large double-stranded DNA viruses belonging to the proposed order "Megavirales." These viruses have a circular genome of ∼370 kbp, coding hundreds of genes. Over a half of their genes are associated with AT-rich putative promoter motifs, which have been demonstrated to be importan...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rodrigues RAL,Louazani AC,Picorelli A,Oliveira GP,Lobo FP,Colson P,La Scola B,Abrahão JS

更新日期：2020-04-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogens have evolved mechanisms to modulate host cell functions and avoid recognition and destruction by the host damage response. For many years, researchers have focused on proteins as the main effectors used by pathogens to hijack host cell pathways, but only recently with the development of deep RNA sequencing t...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bayer-Santos E,Marini MM,da Silveira JF

更新日期：2017-03-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Due to ocean acidification and global warming, surface seawater of the western Baltic Sea is expected to reach an average of ∼1100 μatm pCO2 and an increase of ∼5°C by the year 2100. In four consecutive experiments (spanning 10-11 weeks each) in all seasons within 1 year, the abiotic factors temperature (+5°C above in...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mensch B,Neulinger SC,Künzel S,Wahl M,Schmitz RA

更新日期：2020-06-26 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：:Peptidoglycan (PGN) recognition proteins (PGLYRPs) are a highly conserved group of host defense proteins in insects and mammals that sense bacterial cell wall PGN and act bactericidally or cleave PGN by amidase function. Streptococcus (S.) pneumoniae is one of the top five killers worldwide and causes, e.g., pneumonia...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Dabrowski AN,Conrad C,Behrendt U,Shrivastav A,Baal N,Wienhold SM,Hackstein H,N'Guessan PD,Aly S,Reppe K,Suttorp N,Zahlten J

更新日期：2019-02-19 00:00:00

abstract：:Cronobacter sakazakii is an opportunistic Gram-negative pathogen that could cause meningitis and necrotizing enterocolitis. Several Gram-negative bacteria use the PmrA/PmrB system to sense and adapt to environmental change by resistance to cationic antimicrobial peptides of host immune systems. The PmrA/PmrB two-compo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hua J,Jia X,Zhang L,Li Y

更新日期：2020-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:With only hundreds of genes contained within their genomes, mycoplasmas have become model organisms for precise understanding of cellular processes, as well as platform organisms for predictable engineering of microbial functions for mission-critical applications. Despite the availability of "whole genome writing" in ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Karas BJ,Wise KS,Sun L,Venter JC,Glass JI,Hutchison CA 3rd,Smith HO,Suzuki Y

更新日期：2014-07-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Litter decomposition is the key link between material circulation and energy flow in ecosystems, resulting from the activity of resident microbes and various enzymes. This study investigated enzyme activity in litter and associated microbial community characteristics to help clarify the internal mechanisms associated ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jia T,Wang Y,Chai B

更新日期：2020-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Currently microorganisms are best identified using 16S rRNA and 18S rRNA gene sequencing. However, in recent years matrix assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has emerged as a potential tool for microbial identification and diagnosis. During the MALDI-TOF MS process, mic...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Singhal N,Kumar M,Kanaujia PK,Virdi JS

更新日期：2015-08-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms are an essential component of cheeses and play important roles during both cheese manufacture and ripening. Both starter and secondary flora modify the physical and chemical properties of cheese, contributing and reacting to changes that occur during the manufacture and ripening of cheese. As the compos...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Neviani E,Bottari B,Lazzi C,Gatti M

更新日期：2013-02-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Vanillin is a potent fermentation inhibitor derived from the lignocellulosic biomass in biofuel production, and high concentrations of vanillin result in the pronounced repression of bulk translation in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. Studies on genes that are efficiently translated even in the presence of high concentratio...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ishida Y,Nguyen TT,Kitajima S,Izawa S

更新日期：2016-07-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Adequate comparisons of DNA and cDNA libraries from complex environments require methods for co-extraction of DNA and RNA due to the inherent heterogeneity of such samples, or risk bias caused by variations in lysis and extraction efficiencies. Still, there are few methods and kits allowing simultaneous extraction of ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lim NY,Roco CA,Frostegård Å

更新日期：2016-10-18 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：:The porcine epidemic diarrhea virus (PEDV) causes an acute and highly contagious enteric disease characterized by severe enteritis, vomiting, watery diarrhea, and a high mortality rate in seronegative neonatal piglets. In the last few years, PED had a large economic impact on the swine industries in Asia and the US, a...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bertasio C,Giacomini E,Lazzaro M,Perulli S,Papetti A,Lavazza A,Lelli D,Alborali G,Boniotti MB

更新日期：2016-12-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Acute respiratory infection (ARI) is the most frequent cause for hospitalization in infants and young children. Using multiplexed nCounter technology to digitally quantify 600 human mRNAs in parallel with 14 virus- and 5 bacterium-specific RNAs, we characterized viral and bacterial presence in nasopharyngeal aspirates...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fukutani KF,Nascimento-Carvalho CM,Bouzas ML,Oliveira JR,Barral A,Dierckx T,Khouri R,Nakaya HI,Andrade BB,Van Weyenbergh J,de Oliveira CI

更新日期：2018-11-09 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：:In this work we report the whole genome sequences of six new Geobacillus xylanolytic strains along with the genomic analysis of their capability to degrade carbohydrates. The six sequenced Geobacillus strains described here have a range of GC contents from 43.9% to 52.5% and clade with named Geobacillus species throug...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Brumm PJ,De Maayer P,Mead DA,Cowan DA

更新日期：2015-05-12 00:00:00

abstract：:The genus Streptomyces under phylum actinobacteria has been recognized as a prolific source for the production of bioactive secondary metabolites. An actinobacterial strain designated as DST103 isolated from a wetland fresh water sediment of Tamdil Lake, Mizoram, Northeast, India was identified as Streptomyces cyaneof...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zothanpuia,Passari AK,Chandra P,Leo VV,Mishra VK,Kumar B,Singh BP

更新日期：2017-01-25 00:00:00

abstract：:Cilia are highly conserved organelles present in almost all types of eukaryotic cells, and defects in cilia structure and/or function are related to many human genetic disorders. Single-celled ciliated protists, which possess diverse types of cilia, are remarkable model organisms for studying cilia structures and func...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Tang D,Wang X,Dong J,Li Y,Gao F,Xie H,Zhao C

更新日期：2020-10-19 00:00:00

abstract：:A common feature of microbial colonization in deserts is biological soil crusts (BSCs), and these comprise a complex community dominated by Cyanobacteria. Rock substrates, particularly sandstone, are also colonized by microbial communities. These are separated by bare sandy soil that also supports microbial colonizati...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lee KC,Archer SD,Boyle RH,Lacap-Bugler DC,Belnap J,Pointing SB

更新日期：2016-09-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Agricultural plastic mulch films are widely used in specialty crop production systems because of their agronomic benefits. Biodegradable plastic mulches (BDMs) offer an environmentally sustainable alternative to conventional polyethylene (PE) mulch. Unlike PE films, which need to be removed after use, BDMs are tilled ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bandopadhyay S,Martin-Closas L,Pelacho AM,DeBruyn JM

更新日期：2018-04-26 00:00:00