Upregulation of the PatAB Transporter Confers Fluoroquinolone Resistance to Streptococcus pseudopneumoniae.

abstract：:Candida glabrata is an opportunistic fungal pathogen that currently ranks as the second most common cause of candidiasis. Although the mechanisms underlying virulence and drug resistance in C. glabrata are now starting to be elucidated, we still lack a good understanding of how this yeast adapts during the course of a...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Carreté L,Ksiezopolska E,Gómez-Molero E,Angoulvant A,Bader O,Fairhead C,Gabaldón T

更新日期：2019-02-12 00:00:00

abstract：:In the last decades, pollution of the environment by large scale use of antibiotics in agriculture and human medicine have led to increased antimicrobial resistance in both the environment and the host animal microbiome. Disturbances in the host microbiome can result in impaired immunity and reduced resilience of aqua...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： López Nadal A,Peggs D,Wiegertjes GF,Brugman S

更新日期：2018-10-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterobacter sp. M4 and other bacterial strains were isolated from plant soft rot disease. Virulent phages such as EspM4VN isolated from soil are trending biological controls for plant disease. This phage has an icosahedral head (100 nm in diameter), a neck, and a contractile sheath (100 nm long and 18 nm wide). It be...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Thanh NC,Nagayoshi Y,Fujino Y,Iiyama K,Furuya N,Hiromasa Y,Iwamoto T,Doi K

更新日期：2020-06-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Objective: To elucidate whether the genetic platforms of blaCTX-M contribute to the phenotypes of multi-drug-resistance (MDR) in the first carbapenemase-producing K. pneumoniae strains isolated in Chile. Method: Twenty-two carbapenemase-producing K. pneumoniae strains isolated from different Chilean patients and hospi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Carrasco-Anabalón S,Vera-Leiva A,Quezada-Aguiluz M,Morales-Rivera MF,Lima CA,Fernández J,Ulloa S,Domínguez M,González-Rocha G,Bello-Toledo H

更新日期：2018-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:In this study, we have explored the impact of ascorbic acid on the transcriptome of Streptococcus pneumoniae D39. The expression of several genes and operons, including the ula operon (which has been previously shown to be involved in ascorbic acid utilization), the AdcR regulon (which has been previously shown to be ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Afzal M,Shafeeq S,Kuipers OP

更新日期：2015-02-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacterial host tropism is a primary determinant of the range of host organisms they can infect. Salmonella serotypes are differentiated into host-restricted and host-adapted specialists, and host-unrestricted generalists. In order to elucidate the underlying molecular mechanisms of host specificity in Salmonella infec...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kolenda R,Burdukiewicz M,Schiebel J,Rödiger S,Sauer L,Szabo I,Orłowska A,Weinreich J,Nitschke J,Böhm A,Gerber U,Roggenbuck D,Schierack P

更新日期：2018-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Human settlement of Madagascar traces back to the beginning of the first millennium with the arrival of Austronesians from Southeast Asia, followed by migrations from Africa and the Middle East. Remains of these different cultural, genetic, and linguistic legacies are still present in Madagascar and other islands of t...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Avanzi C,Lécorché E,Rakotomalala FA,Benjak A,Rapelanoro Rabenja F,Ramarozatovo LS,Cauchoix B,Rakoto-Andrianarivelo M,Tió-Coma M,Leal-Calvo T,Busso P,Boy-Röttger S,Chauffour A,Rasamoelina T,Andrianarison A,Sendrasoa F,Spen

更新日期：2020-05-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Metagenomic approaches became increasingly popular in the past decades due to decreasing costs of DNA sequencing and bioinformatics development. So far, however, the recovery of long genes coding for secondary metabolites still represents a big challenge. Often, the quality of metagenome assemblies is poor, especially...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cuadrat RRC,Ionescu D,Dávila AMR,Grossart HP

更新日期：2018-02-20 00:00:00

abstract：:The occurrence of bacteria in the food processing environments plays a key role in food contamination and development of spoilage. Species of the genus Pseudomonas are recognized as major food spoilers and the capability to actually determine spoilage can be species- as well as strain-dependent. In order to improve th...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Stellato G,Utter DR,Voorhis A,De Angelis M,Eren AM,Ercolini D

更新日期：2017-03-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Salmonella is one of the most frequently reported causes of foodborne illness worldwide. Non-typhoidal serovars cause gastroenteritis in humans. Salmonella can grow on surfaces forming biofilms, contributing to its persistence since biofilms are difficult to eradicate due to the high resistance to antimicrobials and d...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Paytubi S,Cansado C,Madrid C,Balsalobre C

更新日期：2017-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Inorganic polyphosphate (polyP) is a linear polymer of orthophosphate residues. It is reported to be present in all life forms. Experimental studies showed that polyP plays important roles in bacterial durability and virulence. Here we investigated the relationships of polyP with bacterial durability and virulence the...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang L,Yan J,Wise MJ,Liu Q,Asenso J,Huang Y,Dai S,Liu Z,Du Y,Tang D

更新日期：2018-04-24 00:00:00

abstract：:Hepatitis C virus (HCV) infection has become a global public health burden costing billions of dollars in health care annually. Even with rapidly advancing scientific technologies this disease still poses a significant threat due to a lack of vaccines and affordable treatment options. The immune correlates of protecti...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Manickam C,Reeves RK

更新日期：2014-12-08 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 1664 in vol. 7, PMID: 27818652.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gunn L,Finn S,Hurley D,Bai L,Wall E,Iversen C,Threlfall JE,Fanning S

更新日期：2017-01-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Background/objectives: Whole genome sequencing (WGS) has proven to be a powerful subtyping tool for foodborne pathogenic bacteria like L. monocytogenes. The interests of genome-scale analysis for national surveillance, outbreak detection or source tracking has been largely documented. The genomic data however can be e...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Henri C,Leekitcharoenphon P,Carleton HA,Radomski N,Kaas RS,Mariet JF,Felten A,Aarestrup FM,Gerner Smidt P,Roussel S,Guillier L,Mistou MY,Hendriksen RS

更新日期：2017-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:The recent worldwide rise in idiopathic immune and inflammatory diseases such as multiple sclerosis (MS) and inflammatory bowel diseases (IBD) has been linked to Western society-based changes in lifestyle and environment. These include decreased exposure to sunlight/UVB light and subsequent impairment in the productio...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bosman ES,Albert AY,Lui H,Dutz JP,Vallance BA

更新日期：2019-10-24 00:00:00

abstract：:A growing body of clinical and experimental data supports the view that the efficacy of probiotics is strain-specific and restricted to particular pathological conditions, which means that newly isolated probiotic strains need to be targeted to a specific disease. Following national and international guidelines, we us...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sagheddu V,Uggeri F,Belogi L,Remollino L,Brun P,Bernabè G,Moretti G,Porzionato A,Morelli L,Castagliuolo I,Elli M

更新日期：2020-04-15 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：:The compatible solute dimethylsulfoniopropionate (DMSP), made by many marine organisms, is one of Earth's most abundant organosulfur molecules. Many marine bacteria import DMSP and can degrade it as a source of carbon and/or sulfur via DMSP cleavage or DMSP demethylation pathways, which can generate the climate active...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Liu J,Liu J,Zhang SH,Liang J,Lin H,Song D,Yang GP,Todd JD,Zhang XH

更新日期：2018-12-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Eukaryotic species are reproductively isolated by sterility barriers that prevent interspecies fertilization (prezygotic sterility barrier) or the fertilization results in infertile offspring (postzygotic sterility barrier). The Saccharomyces species are isolated by postzygotic sterility barriers. Their allodiploid hy...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Szabó A,Antunovics Z,Karanyicz E,Sipiczki M

更新日期：2020-05-07 00:00:00

abstract：:In the past several decades, sulfate concentration and salinity have been considered to be the two essential hydrochemical factors in the formation of dolomite, yet arguments against this hypothesis have existed simultaneously. To clarify the effects of sulfate concentration and salinity in the mineralization of dolom...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Qiu X,Yao Y,Wang H,Shen A,Zhang J

更新日期：2019-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Antimicrobial peptides (AMPs) are essential effectors of the host innate immune system and they represent promising molecules for the treatment of multidrug resistant microbes. A better understanding of microbial resistance to these defense peptides is thus prerequisite for the control of infectious diseases. Here, us...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Attieh Z,Mouawad C,Rejasse A,Jehanno I,Perchat S,Hegna IK,Økstad OA,Kallassy Awad M,Sanchis-Borja V,El Chamy L

更新日期：2020-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 (EHEC O157:H7) causes hemorrhagic colitis and the formation of characteristic attaching and effacing (A/E) lesions in humans. Given the severe sequelae of EHEC O157:H7 infection, it is critical to develop effective vaccines for human use. However, for achieving this goal many...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lin R,Zhang Y,Long B,Li Y,Wu Y,Duan S,Zhu B,Wu X,Fan H

更新日期：2017-03-15 00:00:00

abstract：:The new era of multidrug resistance of pathogens against frontline antibiotics has compromised the immense therapeutic gains of the 'golden age,' stimulating a resurgence in antimicrobial research focused on antimicrobial and immunomodulatory components of botanical, fungal or microbial origin. While much valuable inf...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sadgrove NJ,Jones GL

更新日期：2019-10-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Metabolic adaptation in various environmental niches is crucial for bacterial extracellular survival and intracellular replication during infection. However, the metabolism of carbon/nitrogen sources and related regulatory mechanisms in Laribacter hongkongensis, an asaccharolytic bacterium associated with invasive inf...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Xiong L,Chan E,Teng JLL,Liu S,Lau SKP,Woo PCY

更新日期：2019-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Exposure to environmental toxins such as heavy metals can perturb the development and stability of microbial communities associated with human or animal hosts. Widespread arsenic contamination in rivers and riparian habitats therefore presents environmental and health concerns for populations living near sources of co...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Dahan D,Jude BA,Lamendella R,Keesing F,Perron GG

更新日期：2018-06-21 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：:Gut microbiota plays a critical role in maintaining human intestinal homeostasis and host health. Bacterial extracellular vesicles are key players in bacteria-host communication, as they allow delivery of effector molecules into the host cells. Outer membrane vesicles (OMVs) released by Gram-negative bacteria carry ma...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cañas MA,Fábrega MJ,Giménez R,Badia J,Baldomà L

更新日期：2018-03-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaerobic syntrophic acetate oxidation (SAO) is a thermodynamically unfavorable process involving a syntrophic acetate oxidizing bacterium (SAOB) that forms interspecies electron carriers (IECs). These IECs are consumed by syntrophic partners, typically hydrogenotrophic methanogenic archaea or sulfate reducing bacteri...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Timmers PHA,Vavourakis CD,Kleerebezem R,Damsté JSS,Muyzer G,Stams AJM,Sorokin DY,Plugge CM

更新日期：2018-12-10 00:00:00

abstract：:We investigated the interactions of air and snow over one entire winter accumulation period as well as the importance of chemical markers in a pristine free-tropospheric environment to explain variation in a microbiological dataset. To overcome the limitations of short term bioaerosol sampling, we sampled the atmosphe...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Els N,Greilinger M,Reisecker M,Tignat-Perrier R,Baumann-Stanzer K,Kasper-Giebl A,Sattler B,Larose C

更新日期：2020-05-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Several arenaviruses are highly pathogenic to humans, causing hemorrhagic fever. Discovery of anti-arenavirus drug candidates is urgently needed, although the molecular basis of the host- and organ-specific pathogenicity remains to be fully elucidated. The arenavirus Z protein facilitates production of virus-like part...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mpingabo PI,Urata S,Yasuda J

更新日期：2020-09-30 00:00:00