Biphenyl Modulates the Expression and Function of Respiratory Oxidases in the Polychlorinated-Biphenyls Degrader Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes KF707.

abstract：:Burkholderia are highly evolved Gram-negative bacteria that primarily infect solipeds but are transmitted to humans by ingestion and cutaneous or aerosol exposures. Heightened concern over human infections of Burkholderia mallei and the very closely related species B. pseudomallei is due to the pathogens' proven effec...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Whitlock GC,Robida MD,Judy BM,Qazi O,Brown KA,Deeraksa A,Taylor K,Massey S,Loskutov A,Borovkov AY,Brown K,Cano JA,Torres AG,Estes DM,Sykes KF

更新日期：2011-11-21 00:00:00

abstract：:Although currently available model organisms such as Mycobacterium smegmatis and Mycobacterium bovis Bacillus Calmette-Guérin (BCG) have significantly contributed to our understanding of tuberculosis (TB) biology, these models have limitations such as differences in genome size, growth rates and virulence. However, at...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mouton JM,Heunis T,Dippenaar A,Gallant JL,Kleynhans L,Sampson SL

更新日期：2019-08-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Human campylobacteriosis is the leading food-borne zoonosis in industrialized countries. This study characterized the clonal population structure, antimicrobial resistance profiles and occurrence of antimicrobial resistance determinants of a set of Campylobacter jejuni strains isolated from broiler carcasses in Belgiu...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Elhadidy M,Miller WG,Arguello H,Álvarez-Ordóñez A,Duarte A,Dierick K,Botteldoorn N

更新日期：2018-05-17 00:00:00

abstract：:In order to determine the dynamics of marine fluorescent organic matter (FOM) using high-resolution spatial data, in situ fluorometers have been used in the open ocean. In this study, we measured FOM during the Global Ocean Ship-based Hydrographic Investigations Program (GO-SHIP) expedition from early December 2019 to...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Shigemitsu M,Uchida H,Yokokawa T,Arulananthan K,Murata A

更新日期：2020-12-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Historically, vaccines have been designed to mimic the immunity induced by natural exposure to the target pathogen, but this approach has not been effective for any parasitic pathogen of humans or complex pathogens that cause chronic disease in humans, such as Plasmodium. Despite intense efforts by many laboratories a...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Proietti C,Doolan DL

更新日期：2015-01-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated levels of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in soil and water have been linked to livestock farms and in some cases feed antibiotics may select for antibiotic resistant gut microbiota. The purpose of this study was to examine the establishment of ARGs in the feces of calves receiving milk replacer containing...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Thames CH,Pruden A,James RE,Ray PP,Knowlton KF

更新日期：2012-04-10 00:00:00

abstract：:During cystic fibrosis (CF) chronic lung infections, bacteria of the Burkholderia cepacia complex (Bcc) are exposed for several years to a stressful and changing environment. These environmental challenges results in genetic changes of the initial infecting strain with the consequent diversification of genotypes and p...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Moreira AS,Lourenço AB,Sá-Correia I

更新日期：2016-12-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Experiments with different phytoplankton densities in lake samples showed that a high biomass increases the rate of hydrogen peroxide (HP) degradation and decreases the effectiveness of HP in the selective suppression of dominant cyanobacteria. However, selective application of HP requires usage of low doses only, acc...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Weenink EF,Luimstra VM,Schuurmans JM,Van Herk MJ,Visser PM,Matthijs HC

更新日期：2015-07-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Acinetobacter baumannii, a Gram-negative opportunistic pathogen, is known to cause multidrug resistant infections. This organism has primarily been isolated from clinical environments and its environmental reservoirs remain largely unknown. In the present study, we recovered seven isolates of A. baumannii growing unde...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Fernando DM,Khan IU,Patidar R,Lapen DR,Talbot G,Topp E,Kumar A

更新日期：2016-11-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Organic farming system and sustainable management of soil pathogens aim at reducing the use of agricultural chemicals in order to improve ecosystem health. Despite the essential role of microbial communities in agro-ecosystems, we still have limited understanding of the complex response of microbial diversity and comp...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lupatini M,Korthals GW,de Hollander M,Janssens TK,Kuramae EE

更新日期：2017-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Alphaviruses and flaviviruses are important human pathogens that include Chikungunya virus (CHIKV), Dengue virus (DENV), and Zika virus (ZIKV), which can cause diseases in humans ranging from arthralgia to hemorrhagic fevers and microcephaly. It was previously shown that treatment with surface layer (S-layer) protein,...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Prado Acosta M,Geoghegan EM,Lepenies B,Ruzal S,Kielian M,Martinez MG

更新日期：2019-04-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Marine Group (MG) I (currently known as Thaumarchaeota) and MG II Archaea were first reported over two decades ago. While significant progress has been made on MG I microbiology and ecology, the progress on MG II has been noticeably slower. The common understanding is that while MG I mainly function as chemolithoautot...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhang CL,Xie W,Martin-Cuadrado AB,Rodriguez-Valera F

更新日期：2015-10-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The diversity of fungi in grape must and during wine fermentation was investigated in this study by culture-dependent and culture-independent techniques. Carignan and Grenache grapes were harvested from three vineyards in the Priorat region (Spain) in 2012, and nine samples were selected from the grape must after crus...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang C,García-Fernández D,Mas A,Esteve-Zarzoso B

更新日期：2015-10-23 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：:Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) relies heavily on the host cellular machinery for production of viral progeny. To exploit cellular proteins for replication and to overcome host factors with antiviral activity, HIV has evolved a set of regulatory and accessory proteins to shape an optimized environment for its repli...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen L,Keppler OT,Schölz C

更新日期：2018-09-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria have the metabolic potential to produce a diverse array of secondary metabolites, which have important roles in biogeochemical cycling processes. However, for Hulun Lake and the rivers that enter into it, the bacterial community structures and their effects have not previously been widely studied, limiting ou...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Shang Y,Wu X,Wei Q,Dou H,Wang X,Chen J,Zhang H,Ma S,Zhang H

更新日期：2020-09-24 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article on p. 1638 in vol. 7, PMID: 27807431.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rughöft S,Herrmann M,Lazar CS,Cesarz S,Levick SR,Trumbore SE,Küsel K

更新日期：2016-11-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Thawing of permafrost soils is expected to stimulate microbial decomposition and respiration of sequestered carbon. This could, in turn, increase atmospheric concentrations of greenhouse gasses, such as carbon dioxide and methane, and create a positive feedback to climate warming. Recent metagenomic studies suggest th...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Coolen MJ,Orsi WD

更新日期：2015-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternaria is an important fungus to study due to their different life style from saprophytes to endophytes and a very successful fungal pathogen that causes diseases to a number of economically important crops. Alternaria species have been well-characterized for the production of different host-specific toxins (HSTs)...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Meena M,Gupta SK,Swapnil P,Zehra A,Dubey MK,Upadhyay RS

更新日期：2017-08-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Coastal zones are transitional areas between land and sea where large amounts of organic and inorganic carbon compounds are recycled by microbes. Especially shallow zones near land have been shown to be the main source for oceanic methane (CH4) emissions. Water depth has been predicted as the best explanatory variable...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Broman E,Sun X,Stranne C,Salgado MG,Bonaglia S,Geibel M,Jakobsson M,Norkko A,Humborg C,Nascimento FJA

更新日期：2020-07-07 00:00:00

abstract：:The dlt operon of Gram-positive bacteria is required for the incorporation of D-alanine esters into cell wall-associated teichoic acids (TAs). Addition of D-alanine to TAs reduces the negative charge of the cell envelope thereby preventing cationic antimicrobial peptides (CAMPs) from reaching their target of action on...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Kamar R,Réjasse A,Jéhanno I,Attieh Z,Courtin P,Chapot-Chartier MP,Nielsen-Leroux C,Lereclus D,El Chamy L,Kallassy M,Sanchis-Borja V

更新日期：2017-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Swine grown under commercial conditions are vulnerable to environmental exposure to several viruses, which may cause infectious diseases and spread easily and rapidly, resulting in significant economic losses in animal husbandry. Previous studies have suggested that probiotics seem to be a new and promising alternativ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chang-Liao WP,Lee A,Chiu YH,Chang HW,Liu JR

更新日期：2020-07-15 00:00:00

abstract：:Marsupials diverged from eutherian mammals about 148 million years ago and represent a unique lineage of mammals with distinctive morphological and reproductive characteristics. Marsupials have significantly shorter gestation periods than eutherians. Pregnancy typically ranges from 15 to 35 days, with young being born...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Cheng Y,Belov K

更新日期：2017-03-07 00:00:00

abstract：:There is an urgent need for new antibiotics and alternative strategies to combat multidrug-resistant bacterial pathogens, which are a growing clinical issue. Repurposing existing approved drugs with known pharmacology and toxicology is an alternative strategy to accelerate antimicrobial research and development. In th...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Thangamani S,Younis W,Seleem MN

更新日期：2015-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:We report the case of a patient with acute necrotizing colitis due to invasive amebiasis associated with CD4 lymphopenia and impaired neutrophil responses. The course of the disease was characterized by CMV reactivation and severe and recurrent bacterial and fungal infections, which might be related to the decreased C...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ghrenassia E,Guihot A,Dong Y,Robinet P,Fontaine T,Lacombe K,Lescot T,Meyohas MC,Elbim C

更新日期：2017-02-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The family Marseilleviridae, defined as a group of icosahedral double-stranded DNA viruses with particle size of approximately 250 nm and genome size of 350-380 kbp, belongs to the nucleo-cytoplasmic family of large DNA viruses. The family Marseilleviridae is currently classified into lineages A-E. In this study, we i...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Aoki K,Hagiwara R,Akashi M,Sasaki K,Murata K,Ogata H,Takemura M

更新日期：2019-05-24 00:00:00

abstract：:The lack of therapeutic options to treat infections caused by multidrug-resistant (MDR) pathogens, especially Gram-negative bacteria, is apparent. Therefore, it is imperative to develop new strategies to address the problem of antimicrobial resistance. Repurposing non-antibiotic commercial drugs for antimicrobial ther...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Domalaon R,Ammeter D,Brizuela M,Gorityala BK,Zhanel GG,Schweizer F

更新日期：2019-07-10 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：:In bacteria, the GntR family is a widespread family of transcription factors responsible for the regulation of a myriad of biological processes. In contrast, despite their occurrence in archaea only a little information is available on the function of GntR-like transcription factors in this domain of life. The thermoa...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lemmens L,Tilleman L,De Koning E,Valegård K,Lindås AC,Van Nieuwerburgh F,Maes D,Peeters E

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Dried blood spots (DBS) are used for epidemiological surveys on infectious diseases in settings where limited resources are available. In fact, DBS can help to overcome logistic difficulties for the collection, transport and storage of biological specimens. Objective: To evaluate the accuracy of Strongyloi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Formenti F,Buonfrate D,Prandi R,Marquez M,Caicedo C,Rizzi E,Guevara AG,Vicuña Y,Huerlo FR,Perandin F,Bisoffi Z,Anselmi M

更新日期：2016-11-08 00:00:00