KPC-3-Producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in Portugal Linked to Previously Circulating Non-CG258 Lineages and Uncommon Genetic Platforms (Tn4401d-IncFIA and Tn4401d-IncN).

abstract：:Rapid molecular techniques that evaluate eggs for the presence of foodborne pathogens is an essential component to poultry food safety monitoring. Interestingly, it is not just table eggs that contribute to outbreaks of foodborne disease. Broiler layer production actively contributes to sustaining of foodborne pathoge...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rothrock MJ Jr,Feye KM,Kim SA,Park SH,Locatelli A,Hiett KL,Gamble J,Sellers H,Ricke SC

更新日期：2018-11-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Staphylococcus epidermidis is a ubiquitous commensal of human skin. The widespread use of indwelling medical devices in modern medicine provides an opportunity for it to cause infections. Disease causing isolates can come from many different genetic backgrounds. Multiply antibiotic resistant strains have spread global...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Foster TJ

更新日期：2020-07-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Seeds play key roles in the acquisition of plant pioneer microbiota, including the transmission of microbes from parent plants to offspring. However, the issues about seed microbial communities are mostly unknown, especially for their potential origins and the factors influencing the structure and composition. In this...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhou X,Wang JT,Zhang ZF,Li W,Chen W,Cai L

更新日期：2020-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Drought directly affects sugarcane production. Plant growth-promoting bacteria have gained attention as growth promoters of plants under abiotic stresses. The present study focused on genome assessment of the plant-beneficial endophyte Streptomyces chartreusis WZS021 and its vital role in sugarcane plants under drough...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang Z,Solanki MK,Yu ZX,Yang LT,An QL,Dong DF,Li YR

更新日期：2019-01-09 00:00:00

abstract：:The use of antibiotics in food-producing animals has significantly increased animal health by lowering mortality and the incidence of diseases. Antibiotics also have largely contributed to increase productivity of farms. However, antibiotic usage in general and relevance of non-therapeutic antibiotics (growth promoter...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Diarra MS,Malouin F

更新日期：2014-06-17 00:00:00

abstract：:Microorganisms have a wonderful ability to adapt rapidly to new or altered environmental conditions. Enzymes are the basis of metabolism in all living organisms and, therefore, enzyme adaptation plays a crucial role in the adaptation of microorganisms. Comparisons of homology and parallel beneficial mutations in an en...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Suenaga H

更新日期：2015-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The Gram negative bacterium Yersinia pestis can infect humans by multiple routes to cause plague. Three plague pandemics have occurred and Y. pestis has been linked to biowarfare in the past. The continued risk of plague as a bioweapon has prompted increased research to understand Y. pestis pathogenesis and develop ne...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Lawrenz MB

更新日期：2010-11-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Salicylic acid (SA) plays an important role in regulating plant defense responses against pathogens. However, pathogens have evolved ways to manipulate plant SA-mediated defense signaling. Fusarium graminearum causes Fusarium head blight (FHB) and reduces crop yields and quality by producing various mycotoxins. In thi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hao G,Naumann TA,Vaughan MM,McCormick S,Usgaard T,Kelly A,Ward TJ

更新日期：2019-01-08 00:00:00

abstract：:This mini-review describes three biological systems. All three include competing molecules and a limiting molecule that binds the competing molecules. Such systems are extensively researched by economists. In fact, the issue of limited resources is the defining feature of economic systems. Therefore, we call these sys...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Polansky H,Javaherian A

更新日期：2016-03-23 00:00:00

abstract：:In the present study, we found that our isolate Shewanella decolorationis NTOU1 is able to degrade acetate under anaerobic condition with concomitant implementation of extracellular electron transfer (EET). With +0.63 V (vs. SHE) poised on the anode, in a 72-h experiment digesting acetate, only 2 mM acetate was consum...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li SL,Wang YJ,Chen YC,Liu SM,Yu CP

更新日期：2019-03-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Porcine circovirus-like virus P1 is an important pathogen of the current pig industry, the infection mechanism is not entirely clear. Wnt signaling pathway plays an important role in the growth of young animals and infection of some viruses. This study was designed to demonstrate the effects of P1 infection on the Wnt...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhu X,Wen L,Sheng S,Wang W,Xiao Q,Qu M,Hu Y,Liu C,He K

更新日期：2018-03-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Temperature is the main factor to control the microbial growth in perishable foods. The psychrotrophic pathogen bacteria are microorganisms of concern for food products with extended shelf life in chilling conditions. The aims of this work were two. Firstly, to evaluate growth behavior of Aeromonas hydrophila DSM-3018...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： De Silvestri A,Ferrari E,Gozzi S,Marchi F,Foschino R

更新日期：2018-12-05 00:00:00

abstract：:Viruses are a primary influence on microbial mortality in the global ocean. The impacts of viruses on their microbial hosts in low-energy environments are poorly explored and are the focus of this study. To investigate the role of viruses in mediating mortality in low-energy environments where contacts between viruses...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Colangelo-Lillis J,Wing BA,Raymond-Bouchard I,Whyte LG

更新日期：2017-01-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Based on the Stable Ecotype Model, evolution leads to the divergence of ecologically distinct populations (e.g., with different niches and/or behaviors) of ecologically interchangeable membership. In this study, pyrosequencing was used to provide deep sequence coverage of Synechococcus psaA genes and transcripts over ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Becraft ED,Wood JM,Rusch DB,Kühl M,Jensen SI,Bryant DA,Roberts DW,Cohan FM,Ward DM

更新日期：2015-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Anti-retroviral therapy (ART) is crucial for controlling human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) infection. Recently, progress in identifying and characterizing highly potent broadly neutralizing antibodies has provided valuable templates for HIV-1 therapy and vaccine design. Nevertheless, HIV-1, like many RNA vir...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Harada S,Yoshimura K

更新日期：2017-03-16 00:00:00

abstract：:The marine picocyanobacterium Synechococcus sp. WH7803 possesses two glutamine synthetases (GSs; EC 6.3.1.2), GSI encoded by glnA and GSIII encoded by glnN. This is the first work addressing the physiological regulation of both enzymes in a marine cyanobacterial strain. The increase of GS activity upon nitrogen starva...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Domínguez-Martín MA,Díez J,García-Fernández JM

更新日期：2016-06-28 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：: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：:The Formyl-peptide receptor-2 (FPR2) is a seven transmembrane G protein-coupled receptor, which plays an important role in sensing of bacteria and modulation of immune responses. FPR2 is also used by viruses for their own profit. Annexin A1, one of the multiple ligands of FPR2, is incorporated in the budding virus mem...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Alessi MC,Cenac N,Si-Tahar M,Riteau B

更新日期：2017-09-05 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：:Bacterial cells are surrounded by an exoskeleton-like structure, the cell wall, composed primarily of the peptidoglycan (PG) sacculus. This structure is made up of glycan strands cross-linked by short peptides generating a covalent mesh that shapes bacteria and prevents their lysis due to their high internal osmotic p...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yadav AK,Espaillat A,Cava F

更新日期：2018-08-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Abortive infection is an anti-phage mechanism employed by a bacterium to initiate its own death upon phage infection. This reduces, or eliminates, production of viral progeny and protects clonal siblings in the bacterial population by an act akin to an "altruistic suicide." Abortive infection can be mediated by a Type...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen B,Akusobi C,Fang X,Salmond GPC

更新日期：2017-05-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Pathogenic and non-pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus strains were simultaneously detected and quantified using a novel viable multiplex real-time PCR (novel qPCR). We used a new PCR primer and probe, ureR, as a surrogate for detection of the toxin trh gene as the primer was better at identifying variant V. parahaemol...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Niu B,Hong B,Zhang Z,Mu L,Malakar PK,Liu H,Pan Y,Zhao Y

更新日期：2018-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Current notion presumes that only one protein is encoded at a given bacterial genetic locus. However, transcription and translation of an overlapping open reading frame (ORF) of 186 bp length were discovered by RNAseq and RIBOseq experiments. This ORF is almost completely embedded in the annotated L,D-transpeptidase g...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hücker SM,Vanderhaeghen S,Abellan-Schneyder I,Scherer S,Neuhaus K

更新日期：2018-05-14 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：:Recent findings provide evidence that fungal structures can be detected in brain tissue from Alzheimer's disease (AD) patients using rabbit polyclonal antibodies raised against whole fungal cells. In the present work, we have developed and tested specific antibodies that recognize the fungal proteins, enolase and β-tu...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Pisa D,Alonso R,Rábano A,Horst MN,Carrasco L

更新日期：2016-11-07 00:00:00

abstract：:This study evaluated the efficacy of the essential oil from Mentha spicata L. (MSEO) and M. × villosa Huds. (MVEO) to inactivate Candida albicans, C. tropicalis, Pichia anomala and Saccharomyces cerevisiae in Sabouraud dextrose broth and cashew, guava, mango, and pineapple juices during 72 h of refrigerated storage. T...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： da Cruz Almeida ET,de Medeiros Barbosa I,Tavares JF,Barbosa-Filho JM,Magnani M,de Souza EL

更新日期：2018-05-25 00:00:00

abstract：:The naturally occurring nitrogen (N) isotopes, 15N and 14N, exhibit different reaction rates during many microbial N transformation processes, which results in N isotope fractionation. Such isotope effects are critical parameters for interpreting natural stable isotope abundances as proxies for biological process rate...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mooshammer M,Alves RJE,Bayer B,Melcher M,Stieglmeier M,Jochum L,Rittmann SKR,Watzka M,Schleper C,Herndl GJ,Wanek W

更新日期：2020-07-28 00:00:00

abstract：:Escherichia coli O157:H7 is regarded as one of the most harmful pathogenic microorganisms related to foodborne diseases. This paper proposes a rapid-detection biosensor for the sensitive and quantitative analysis of E. coli O157:H7 in biological samples by surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS)-based lateral flow im...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Shi L,Xu L,Xiao R,Zhou Z,Wang C,Wang S,Gu B

更新日期：2020-11-06 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