abstract：:We performed a study to (i) investigate efficacy of an Escherichia coli/Salmonella spp./Listeria monocytogenes-targeting bacteriophage cocktail (tentatively named F.O.P.) to reduce a human pathogenic E. coli strain O157:H7 in experimentally infected mice, and (ii) determine how bacteriophages impact the normal gut mic...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Dissanayake U,Ukhanova M,Moye ZD,Sulakvelidze A,Mai V

更新日期：2019-09-10 00:00:00

abstract：:Prosthetic joint replacement failure has a huge impact on quality of life and hospitalization costs. A leading cause of prosthetic joint infection is bacteria-forming biofilm on the surface of orthopedic devices. Staphylococcus epidermidis is an emergent, low-virulence pathogen implicated in chronic infections, barely...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Bottagisio M,Soggiu A,Piras C,Bidossi A,Greco V,Pieroni L,Bonizzi L,Roncada P,Lovati AB

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria of the Vibrio genus are the most predominant infectious agents threatening marine wildlife and aquaculture. Due to the large genetic diversity of these pathogens, the molecular determinants of Vibrio virulence are only poorly understood. Furthermore, studies tend to ignore co-evolutionary interactions between...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Wegner KM,Piel D,Bruto M,John U,Mao Z,Alunno-Bruscia M,Petton B,Le Roux F

更新日期：2019-09-06 00:00:00

abstract：:The extensive use of acids in a variety of manufacturing industries results in the increase of discharged acidic waste stream into the environment. Such co-pollution of acids and other organic pollutants limits the biodegradation capability of neutrophilic degraders. With high-throughput genetic techniques, we aim to ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhou Z,Liu Y,Zanaroli G,Wang Z,Xu P,Tang H

更新日期：2019-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Wallemia ichthyophaga is a highly specialized basidiomycetous fungus. It is one of the most halophilic fungi ever described, only able to grow at low water activity. This specialization is thought to explain why it is only rarely isolated from nature. Results:Genomes of 21 W. ichthyophaga strains were seque...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gostinčar C,Sun X,Zajc J,Fang C,Hou Y,Luo Y,Gunde-Cimerman N,Song Z

更新日期：2019-09-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Volvariella volvacea is a typical edible Basidiomycete with a high-temperature tolerance. It has a strong fibrinolysis capability and consumes abundant agricultural wastes. In agricultural cultivation, mycelial subculturing has been adopted, leading to serious strain degeneration. In this study, continuous mycelial su...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen X,Zhang Z,Liu X,Cui B,Miao W,Cheng W,Zhao F

更新日期：2019-09-03 00:00:00

abstract：:Alternaria brassicicola is a necrotrophic fungus causing black spot disease and is an economically important seed-borne pathogen of cultivated brassicas. Seed transmission is a crucial component of its parasitic cycle as it promotes long-term survival and dispersal. Recent studies, conducted with the Arabidopsis thali...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： N'Guyen GQ,Raulo R,Marchi M,Agustí-Brisach C,Iacomi B,Pelletier S,Renou JP,Bataillé-Simoneau N,Campion C,Bastide F,Hamon B,Mouchès C,Porcheron B,Lemoine R,Kwasiborski A,Simoneau P,Guillemette T

更新日期：2019-08-30 00:00:00

abstract：:Bacteria, like all cells, must precisely duplicate their genomes before they divide. Regulation of this critical process focuses on forming a pre-replicative nucleoprotein complex, termed the orisome. Orisomes perform two essential mechanical tasks that configure the unique chromosomal replication origin, oriC to star...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Leonard AC,Rao P,Kadam RP,Grimwade JE

更新日期：2019-08-29 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：:Crustose coralline red algae (CCA) are important components of marine ecosystems thriving from tropical waters and up to the poles. They fulfill important ecological services including framework building and induction of larval settlement. Like other marine organisms, CCAs have not been spared by the increase in marin...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Quéré G,Intertaglia L,Payri C,Galand PE

更新日期：2019-08-28 00:00:00

abstract：:The present study was designed to clarify the taxonomic status of two species classified as Bacillus cereus sensu lato, namely B. cereus sensu stricto and Bacillus thuringiensis. To this end, nearly 900 whole genome sequences of strains assigned to these taxa were the subject of comparative genomic and phylogenomic an...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Baek I,Lee K,Goodfellow M,Chun J

更新日期：2019-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever (CCHF) is a re-emerging zoonotic viral disease prevalent in many parts of Asia, Europe, and Africa. The causative agent, Crimean-Congo hemorrhagic fever orthonairovirus (CCHFV), is transmitted through hard ticks. Tick vectors especially belonging to the Hyalomma species serve as the res...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Shrivastava N,Shrivastava A,Ninawe SM,Sharma S,Kumar JS,Alam SI,Kanani A,Sharma SK,Dash PK

更新日期：2019-08-23 00:00:00

abstract：:Globally, mosquitoes are known to be competent vectors to various arboviruses that cause serious and debilitating diseases to humans and animals. Conversely, mosquitoes harbor a wide array of insect specific viruses (ISVs) that are generally neglected. Extensive characterization of these ISVs is important in understan...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhao L,Mwaliko C,Atoni E,Wang Y,Zhang Y,Zhan J,Hu X,Xia H,Yuan Z

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:The RNA-dependent RNA polymerases (RdRPs) encoded by the RNA viruses are a unique class of nucleic acid polymerases. Each viral RdRP contains a 500-600 residue catalytic module with palm, fingers, and thumb domains forming an encircled human right hand architecture. Seven polymerase catalytic motifs are located in the...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Jia H,Gong P

更新日期：2019-08-22 00:00:00

abstract：:Maintenance of Borrelia burgdorferi within its enzootic cycle requires a complex regulatory pathway involving the alternative σ factors RpoN and RpoS and two ancillary trans-acting factors, BosR and Rrp2. Activation of this pathway occurs within ticks during the nymphal blood meal when RpoS, the effector σ factor, tra...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Caimano MJ,Groshong AM,Belperron A,Mao J,Hawley KL,Luthra A,Graham DE,Earnhart CG,Marconi RT,Bockenstedt LK,Blevins JS,Radolf JD

更新日期：2019-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:HIV reservoirs persist in infected individuals despite combination antiretroviral therapy and can be identified in secondary lymphoid tissues, in intestinal tissues, in the central nervous system as well as in blood. Clinical trials have begun to explore effects of small molecule interventions to perturb the latent vi...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Denton PW,Søgaard OS,Tolstrup M

更新日期：2019-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The human gut is inhabited by diverse microorganisms that play crucial roles in health and disease. Gut microbiota dysbiosis is increasingly considered as a vital factor in the etiopathogenesis of irritable bowel syndrome (IBS), which is a common functional gastrointestinal disorder with a high incidence all over the ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gu Y,Zhou G,Qin X,Huang S,Wang B,Cao H

更新日期：2019-08-21 00:00:00

abstract：:The bacterial catabolism of aromatic compounds has considerable promise to convert lignin depolymerization products to commercial chemicals. Alkylphenols are a key class of depolymerization products whose catabolism is not well-elucidated. We isolated Rhodococcus rhodochrous EP4 on 4-ethylphenol and applied genomic an...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Levy-Booth DJ,Fetherolf MM,Stewart GR,Liu J,Eltis LD,Mohn WW

更新日期：2019-08-20 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：:Ripening cultures containing fungi and bacteria are widely used in smear-ripened cheese production processes, but little is known about the biotic interactions of typical ripening microorganisms at the surface of cheese. We developed a lab-scale mini-cheese model to investigate the biotic interactions of a synthetic c...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Pham NP,Landaud S,Lieben P,Bonnarme P,Monnet C

更新日期：2019-08-16 00:00:00

abstract：:Swarming is a surface-associated motile behavior that plays an important role in the rapid spread, colonization, and subsequent establishment of bacterial communities. In Pseudomonas aeruginosa, swarming is dependent upon a functional flagella and aided by the production of biosurfactants. AmrZ, a conserved transcript...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hou L,Debru A,Chen Q,Bao Q,Li K

更新日期：2019-08-14 00:00:00

abstract：:More than 10 million people worldwide are infected with the retrovirus human T-cell lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV-1). Infection phenotypes can range from asymptomatic to severe adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma (ATLL) and HTLV-1-associated myelopathy. HTLV-1, like human immunodeficiency virus type 1 (HIV-1), is a blood...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Barski MS,Minnell JJ,Maertens GN

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：Background:Tuberculosis (TB) and non-tuberculous mycobacteriosis are serious threats to health worldwide. A simple non-sequencing method is needed for rapid diagnosis, especially in less experienced hospitals, but there is no specific biomarker commonly used for all mycobacteria. The ku gene of the prokaryotic error-pr...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Zhou L,Ma C,Xiao T,Li M,Liu H,Zhao X,Wan K,Wang R

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Previously we reported the biosynthesis of intracellular cadmium sulfide quantum dots (CdS QDs) at low temperatures by the Antarctic strain Pseudomonas fragi GC01. Here we studied the role of volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs) in the biosynthesis of CdS QDs by P. fragi GC01. The biosynthesis of nanoparticles was evaluat...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Gallardo-Benavente C,Carrión O,Todd JD,Pieretti JC,Seabra AB,Durán N,Rubilar O,Pérez-Donoso JM,Quiroz A

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Heavy metal accumulation in mesquite trees (Prosopis laevigata) growing in aluminum, titanium, chromium and zirconium-polluted soils of a semi-arid region in Mexico was investigated using wavelength dispersive X-ray fluorescence analysis. The results showed that P. laevigata trees can hyper accumulate up to 4100 mg/kg...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Ramírez V,Baez A,López P,Bustillos R,Villalobos MÁ,Carreño R,Contreras JL,Muñoz-Rojas J,Fuentes LE,Martínez J,Munive JA

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:[This corrects the article DOI: 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00780.]. ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Merino N,Aronson HS,Bojanova DP,Feyhl-Buska J,Wong ML,Zhang S,Giovannelli D

更新日期：2019-08-13 00:00:00

abstract：:Soil bacterial communities have long been recognized as important ecosystem components, and have been the focus of many local and regional studies. However, there is a lack of data at large spatial scales, on the biodiversity of soil microorganisms; national or more extensive studies to date have typically consisted o...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Hermans SM,Buckley HL,Lear G

更新日期：2019-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:A popular pre-harvest strategy to mitigate aflatoxin contamination of corn involves field application of non-aflatoxigenic strains of Aspergillus flavus. The basis of this biological control may involve multiple factors, but competitive displacement of aflatoxigenic strains by the biocontrol strains is a likely mechan...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Weaver MA,Abbas HK

更新日期：2019-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Despite being one of the most important human fungal pathogens, Candida albicans has not been studied extensively at the level of protein-protein interactions (PPIs) and data on PPIs are not readily available in online databases. In January 2018, the database called "Biological General Repository for Interaction Datas...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Schoeters F,Van Dijck P

更新日期：2019-08-07 00:00:00

abstract：:Foodborne diseases (FBDs) are infections of the gastrointestinal tract caused by foodborne pathogens (FBPs) such as bacteria [Salmonella, Listeria monocytogenes and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC)] and several viruses, but also parasites and some fungi. Artificial intelligence (AI) and its sub-discipline machine ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Vilne B,Meistere I,Grantiņa-Ieviņa L,Ķibilds J

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Corynebacterium glutamicum is a commonly applied host for the industrial production of amino acids. While valued for its robustness, it is somewhat inferior to competing strains such as Escherichia coli because of the relatively low growth rate of 0.40 h-1 in synthetic, industrial media. Accordingly, adaptive laborato...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Graf M,Haas T,Müller F,Buchmann A,Harm-Bekbenbetova J,Freund A,Nieß A,Persicke M,Kalinowski J,Blombach B,Takors R

更新日期：2019-08-06 00:00:00

abstract：:Verticillium wilts caused by Verticillium spp. are among the most challenging plant diseases to control and affect numerous hosts worldwide. Due to the lack of effective, conventional control methods, integrated control strategies provide a promising approach to manage these diseases. The non-pathogenic Fusarium oxysp...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Mulero-Aparicio A,Cernava T,Turrà D,Schaefer A,Di Pietro A,López-Escudero FJ,Trapero A,Berg G

更新日期：2019-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Biofilms provide cells favorable growth conditions, which have been exploited in industrial biotechnological processes. However, industrial application of the biofilm has not yet been reported in Escherichia coli, one of the most important platform strains, though the biofilm has been extensively studied for pathogeni...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen T,Liu N,Ren P,Xi X,Yang L,Sun W,Yu B,Ying H,Ouyang P,Liu D,Chen Y

更新日期：2019-08-02 00:00:00

abstract：:Background: Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) is a viable and financially feasible tool for timely and comprehensive diagnosis of drug resistance in developed countries. With the increase in the incidence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB), second-line anti-TB drugs are gaining importance. However, genetic resis...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Chen X,He G,Wang S,Lin S,Chen J,Zhang W

更新日期：2019-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is an endemic mycosis in Latin American caused by the thermodimorphic fungi of the genus Paracoccidioides spp. Notably, a Th1 immune response is required to control PCM. In this context, dendritic cells (DCs) seem to be essential players in capture, processing and presentation of Paracocci...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Silva LBR,Taira CL,Dias LS,Souza ACO,Nosanchuk JD,Travassos LR,Taborda CP

更新日期：2019-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:Brown macroalgae are an essential component of temperate coastal ecosystems and a growing economic sector. They harbor diverse microbial communities that regulate algal development and health. This algal holobiont is dynamic and achieves equilibrium via a complex network of microbial and host interactions. We now repo...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Tourneroche A,Lami R,Hubas C,Blanchet E,Vallet M,Escoubeyrou K,Paris A,Prado S

更新日期：2019-07-31 00:00:00

abstract：:In most bacteria, iron plays a vital role in pathogenesis processes. To support survival and infection, Streptococcus pneumoniae has evolved three ABC transporters, PiaABC, PiuABC, and PitABC. Moreover, indirect evidence supports that operon 804 may be a novel ABC transporter in S. pneumoniae. We have recently describ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yang XY,Li N,Xu JY,Sun X,He QY

更新日期：2019-07-30 00:00:00

abstract：:There is a concerted understanding of the accumulation of soil pathogens as the major driving factor of negative plant-soil feedback (NPSF). However, our knowledge of the connection between plant growth, pathogen build-up and soil microbiome assemblage is limited. In this study, significant negative feedback between t...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Luo L,Guo C,Wang L,Zhang J,Deng L,Luo K,Huang H,Liu Y,Mei X,Zhu S,Yang M

更新日期：2019-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:Campylobacter is one of the most commonly reported foodborne human bacterial gastrointestinal pathogens. Campylobacter is the etiological agent of campylobacteriosis, which is generally a self-limited illness and therefore does not require treatment. However, when patients are immunocompromised or have other co-morbid...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Yang Y,Feye KM,Shi Z,Pavlidis HO,Kogut M,J Ashworth A,Ricke SC

更新日期：2019-07-26 00:00:00

abstract：:The Eurasian or European beaver (Castor fiber) is the second-largest living rodent after the capybara. It is a semi-aquatic animal known for building dams and lodges. They strictly feed on lignocellulose-rich plants and correspondingly harbor cellulolytic microbial communities in their digestive tract. In this study, ...

journal_title：Frontiers in microbiology

authors： Pratama R,Schneider D,Böer T,Daniel R

更新日期：2019-07-25 00:00:00