Development of a Sterne-Based Complement Fixation Test to Monitor the Humoral Response Induced by Anthrax Vaccines.

abstract：:The adult intestine hosts a myriad of diverse bacterial species that reside mostly in the lower gut maintaining a symbiosis with the human habitat. In the current review, we describe the neoteric advancement in our comprehension of how the gut microbiota communicates with the skin as one of the main regulators in the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Salem I,Ramser A,Isham N,Ghannoum MA

更新日期：2018-07-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Red palm weevil (RPW), Rhynchophorus ferrugineus Olivier, is a destructive pest for palm trees worldwide. Recent studies have shown that RPW gut is colonized by microbes and alterations in gut microbiota can significantly modify its hemolymph nutrition content. However, the exact effects of gut microbiota on RPW pheno...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Habineza P,Muhammad A,Ji T,Xiao R,Yin X,Hou Y,Shi Z

更新日期：2019-05-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Sequencing and annotation was performed for two large double stranded DNA bacteriophages, φGrn1 and φSt2 of the Myoviridae family, considered to be of great interest for phage therapy against Vibrios in aquaculture live feeds. In addition, phage-host metabolic interactions and exploitation was studied by transcript pr...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Skliros D,Kalatzis PG,Katharios P,Flemetakis E

更新日期：2016-11-14 00:00:00

abstract：:The Bacillus cereus group, also known as B. cereus sensu lato (s.l.), is a species complex comprising numerous closely related lineages, which vary in their ability to cause illness in humans and animals. The classification of B. cereus s.l. isolates into species-level taxonomic units is essential for facilitating com...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Carroll LM,Cheng RA,Kovac J

更新日期：2020-09-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) in bacteria is an increasing health concern. The spread of AMR bacteria (AMRB) between animals and humans via the food chain and the exchange of AMR genes requires holistic approaches for risk mitigation. The AMRB exposure of humans via food is currently only poorly understoo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jans C,Sarno E,Collineau L,Meile L,Stärk KDC,Stephan R

更新日期：2018-03-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The U. S. Gulf of Mexico is experiencing a dramatic increase in tidal marsh restoration actions, which involves planting coastal areas with smooth cordgrass (Spartina alterniflora) and black needlerush (Juncus roemerianus) for erosion control and to provide habitat for fish and wildlife. It can take decades for sedime...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mavrodi OV,Jung CM,Eberly JO,Hendry SV,Namjilsuren S,Biber PD,Indest KJ,Mavrodi DV

更新日期：2018-12-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Human immunodeficiency virus type-1 (HIV-1) infection has resulted in the death of upward of 39 million people since being discovered in the early 1980s. A cure strategy for HIV-1 has eluded scientists, but gene editing technologies such as clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR)/CRISPR-asso...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sullivan NT,Allen AG,Atkins AJ,Chung CH,Dampier W,Nonnemacher MR,Wigdahl B

更新日期：2020-08-12 00:00:00

abstract：:Prostatitis has various etiology including bacterial infection and dysregulated immunity; some of its forms remain a serious therapeutic challenge. Inflammation occurs in all forms of this disorder and is proposed to predispose to the development of prostate cancer (PC). There are reports that phage therapy is effecti...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Górski A,Jończyk-Matysiak E,Łusiak-Szelachowska M,Międzybrodzki R,Weber-Dąbrowska B,Borysowski J,Letkiewicz S,Bagińska N,Sfanos KS

更新日期：2018-06-29 00:00:00

abstract：:Trait-based approaches provide a mechanistic framework to understand and predict the structure and functioning of microbial communities. Resource utilization traits and trade-offs are among key microbial traits that describe population dynamics and competition among microbes. Several important trade-offs have been ide...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Litchman E,Edwards KF,Klausmeier CA

更新日期：2015-04-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Illicit drugs, such as cocaine, are known to increase the likelihood and severity of HIV-1 associated neurocognitive disorders (HAND). In the current studies synaptic integrity was assessed following exposure to low concentrations of the HIV-1 viral protein Tat 1-86B, with or without cocaine, by quantifying filamentou...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bertrand SJ,Hu C,Aksenova MV,Mactutus CF,Booze RM

更新日期：2015-09-08 00:00:00

abstract：:The microbial processes of denitrification and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) are two important nitrate reducing mechanisms in soil, which are responsible for the loss of nitrate ([Formula: see text]) and production of the potent greenhouse gas, nitrous oxide (N(2)O). A number of factors are known ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Giles M,Morley N,Baggs EM,Daniell TJ

更新日期：2012-12-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Atypical porcine pestivirus (APPV) is an RNA virus newly discovered from swine in Asia, Europe, and the Americas. This novel virus has been confirmed as the cause of congenital tremor (CT) in piglets, which causes extensive economic losses to the swine industry. To investigate the genetic diversity and evolutionary re...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Xie Y,Wang X,Su D,Feng J,Wei L,Cai W,Li J,Lin S,Yan H,He D

更新日期：2019-06-20 00:00:00

abstract：:A new method to measure growth rates of individual photoautotrophic cells by combining stable isotope probing (SIP) and single-cell resonance Raman microspectrometry is introduced. This report explores optimal experimental design and the theoretical underpinnings for quantitative responses of Raman spectra to cellular...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Taylor GT,Suter EA,Li ZQ,Chow S,Stinton D,Zaliznyak T,Beaupré SR

更新日期：2017-08-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Over the last years the demand for pre-washed, fresh-cut, and minimally-processed (MP) produce has increased. MP fresh vegetable are rapidly spoiled, whereas there is consumers' concern about chemical disinfection treatments such as with chlorine. A promising antimicrobial is reuterin, a broad-spectrum-antimicrobial c...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Asare PT,Greppi A,Stettler M,Schwab C,Stevens MJA,Lacroix C

更新日期：2018-07-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Extracellular DNA is found in all environments and is a dynamic component of the microbial ecosystem. Microbial cells produce and interact with extracellular DNA through many endogenous mechanisms. Extracellular DNA is processed and internalized for use as genetic information and as a major source of macronutrients, a...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chimileski S,Dolas K,Naor A,Gophna U,Papke RT

更新日期：2014-02-20 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：:There is increasing evidence that microbial volatiles (VOCs) play an important role in natural suppression of soil-borne diseases, but little is known on the factors that influence production of suppressing VOCs. In the current study we examined whether a stress-induced change in soil microbial community composition w...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： van Agtmaal M,van Os GJ,Hol WH,Hundscheid MP,Runia WT,Hordijk CA,de Boer W

更新日期：2015-07-10 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：:F-specific filamentous phage of Escherichia coli (Ff: f1, M13, or fd) are long thin filaments (860 nm × 6 nm). They have been a major workhorse in display technologies and bionanotechnology; however, some applications are limited by the high length-to-diameter ratio of Ff. Furthermore, use of functionalized Ff outside...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Sattar S,Bennett NJ,Wen WX,Guthrie JM,Blackwell LF,Conway JF,Rakonjac J

更新日期：2015-04-20 00:00:00

abstract：:Recent studies of bacterial speciation have claimed to support the biological species concept-that reduced recombination is required for bacterial populations to diverge into species. This conclusion has been reached from the discovery that ecologically distinct clades show lower rates of recombination than that which...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Melendrez MC,Becraft ED,Wood JM,Olsen MT,Bryant DA,Heidelberg JF,Rusch DB,Cohan FM,Ward DM

更新日期：2016-01-14 00:00:00

abstract：:Airborne bacterial communities are subject to conditions ill-suited to microbial activity and growth. In spite of this, air is an important transfer medium for bacteria, with the bacteria in indoor air having potentially major consequences for the health of a building's occupants. A major example is the decreased dive...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Vestergaard DV,Holst GJ,Basinas I,Elholm G,Schlünssen V,Linneberg A,Šantl-Temkiv T,Finster K,Sigsgaard T,Marshall IPG

更新日期：2018-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Helicobacter pylori does not encode the classical DsbA/DsbB oxidoreductases that are crucial for oxidative folding of extracytoplasmic proteins. Instead, this microorganism encodes an untypical two proteins playing a role in disulfide bond formation - periplasmic HP0231, which structure resembles that of EcDsbC/DsbG, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bocian-Ostrzycka KM,Łasica AM,Dunin-Horkawicz S,Grzeszczuk MJ,Drabik K,Dobosz AM,Godlewska R,Nowak E,Collet JF,Jagusztyn-Krynicka EK

更新日期：2015-10-08 00:00:00

abstract：:Microbial diversity present on grapes in wineries, and throughout fermentation has been associated with important metabolites for final wine quality. Although microbiome-metabolome associations have been well characterized and could be used as indicators of wine quality, the impact of regionality on the microbiome and...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wang HL,Hopfer H,Cockburn DW,Wee J

更新日期：2021-01-11 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteroides is among the most abundant microorganism inhabiting the human intestine. They are saccharolytic bacteria able to use dietary or host-derived glycans as energy sources. Some Bacteroides fragilis strains contribute to the maturation of the immune system but it is also an opportunistic pathogen. The intestine...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Rios-Covian D,Sánchez B,Salazar N,Martínez N,Redruello B,Gueimonde M,de Los Reyes-Gavilán CG

更新日期：2015-08-18 00:00:00

abstract：:Cellulolytic enzyme hydrolysis of lignocellulose biomass to release fermentable sugars is one of the key steps in biofuel refining. Gene expression of fungal cellulolytic enzymes is tightly controlled at the transcriptional level. Key transcription factors such as activator ClrB/CLR2 and XlnR/XYR1, as well as represso...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Li Y,Zheng X,Zhang X,Bao L,Zhu Y,Qu Y,Zhao J,Qin Y

更新日期：2016-12-22 00:00:00

abstract：:MraW is a 16S rRNA methyltransferase and plays a role in the fine-tuning of the ribosomal decoding center. It was recently found to contribute to the virulence of Staphylococcus aureus. In this study, we examined the function of MraW in Escherichia coli O157:H7 and found that the deletion of mraW led to decreased moti...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Xu X,Zhang H,Huang Y,Zhang Y,Wu C,Gao P,Teng Z,Luo X,Peng X,Wang X,Wang D,Pu J,Zhao H,Lu X,Lu S,Ye C,Dong Y,Lan R,Xu J

更新日期：2019-11-13 00:00:00

abstract：:The gram-negative bacterium Francisella tularensis (Ft) is both a potential biological weapon and a naturally occurring microbe that survives in arthropods, fresh water amoeba, and mammals with distinct phenotypes in various environments. Previously, we used a number of measurements to characterize Ft grown in Brain-H...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Holland KM,Rosa SJ,Kristjansdottir K,Wolfgeher D,Franz BJ,Zarrella TM,Kumar S,Sunagar R,Singh A,Bakshi CS,Namjoshi P,Barry EM,Sellati TJ,Kron SJ,Gosselin EJ,Reed DS,Hazlett KRO

更新日期：2017-06-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Vibrio cholerae can enter into a viable but non-culturable (VBNC) state in order to survive in unfavorable environments. In this study, we studied the roles of five physicochemical and microbiological factors or states, namely, different strains, growth phases, oxygen, temperature, and starvation, on the development o...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wu B,Liang W,Kan B

更新日期：2016-03-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Iron (Fe) is an essential micronutrient for many processes in all living cells. Dissolved Fe (dFe) concentrations in the ocean are of the order of a few nM, and Fe is often a factor limiting primary production. Bioavailability of Fe in aquatic environments is believed to be primarily controlled through chelation by Fe...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Desai DK,Desai FD,Laroche J

更新日期：2012-10-18 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