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  1. While particular strains within the Bacillus species, such as Bacillus subtilis, have been commercially utilised as probiotics, it is critical to implement screening assays and evaluate the safety to identify pot...

    Authors: Zhongtian Zhao, Wenrui Li, The Thien Tran and Say Chye Joachim Loo
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:104
  2. Vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are major opportunistic pathogens and the causative agents of serious diseases, such as urinary tract infections and endocarditis. VRE strains mainly include species of Ente...

    Authors: David Hourigan, Ewelina Stefanovic, Colin Hill and R. Paul Ross
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:103
  3. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global threat driven mainly by horizontal gene transfer (HGT) mechanisms through mobile genetic elements (MGEs) including integrons. The variable region (VR) of an integron ...

    Authors: Gauri Kumar, Keshava Balakrishna, Chiranjay Mukhopadhyay and Vandana Kalwaje Eshwara
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:102
  4. N-acetylmuramyl-L-alanine amidases are cell wall modifying enzymes that cleave the amide bond between the sugar residues and stem peptide in peptidoglycan. Amidases play a vital role in septal cell wall cleavag.....

    Authors: Malvika Modi, Menaka Thambiraja, Archana Cherukat, Ragothaman M Yennamalli and Richa Priyadarshini
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:101
  5. Cameroon is a tuberculosis (TB) burden country with a 12% positivity among TB presumptive cases. Of the presumptive cases with a negative TB test, some are infected with Non-tuberculous Mycobacteria (NTM). How...

    Authors: Valerie Flore Donkeng Donfack, Thierry Anicet Zemo Fokou, Lazare Eric Noche Wadje, Yves Le Grand Napa Tchuedji, Yvonne Josiane Djieugoue, Sorelle Nguimfack Teagho, Brenda Shile Takong, Yannick Patrick Assolo, Suzanne Magloire Ongboulal, Yannick Willy Kamdem Simo, Stanley Nkemnji Awungafac and Sara Eyangoh
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:100
  6. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic pathogen in the health-care systems and one of the primary causative agents with high mortality in hospitalized patients, particularly immunocompromised. The limitation ...

    Authors: Jaber Hemmati, Mohsen Nazari, Fatemeh Sadat Abolhasani, Amjad Ahmadi and Babak Asghari
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:99
  7. Primary nephrotic syndrome (PNS) is a common glomerular disease in children. Clostridium butyricum (C. butyricum), a probiotic producing butyric acid, exerts effective in regulating inflammation. This study was d...

    Authors: Ting Li, Xiaolong Ma, Ting Wang, Wenyan Tian, Jian Liu, Wenke Shen, Yuanyuan Liu, Yiwei Li, Xiaoxu Zhang, Junbai Ma, Xiaoxia Zhang, Jinhai Ma and Hao Wang
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:97
  8. Unbalanced gut microbiota is considered as a pivotal etiological factor in colitis. Nevertheless, the precise influence of the endogenous gut microbiota composition on the therapeutic efficacy of probiotics in...

    Authors: Juanjuan Dai, Mingjie Jiang, Xiaoxin Wang, Tao Lang, Leilei Wan and Jingjing Wang
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:96
  9. The emergence of antimicrobial resistance in bacterial pathogens is a growing concern worldwide due to its impact on the treatment of bacterial infections. The "Trojan Horse" strategy has been proposed as a po...

    Authors: Mohamed T. Khazaal, Ahmed H. I. Faraag and Hoda H. El-Hendawy
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:95
  10. Cervicovaginal microbiome plays an important role in the persistence of HPV infection and subsequent disease development. However, cervicovaginal microbiota varied cross populations with different habits and r...

    Authors: Yao Zhang, Xu Wu, Dan Li, Rong Huang, Xiangyu Deng, Mingxing Li, Fukuan Du, Yueshui Zhao, Jing Shen, Yu Chen, Pingxiu Zhang, Congcui Hu, Zhangang Xiao and Qinglian Wen
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:94
  11. Plant growth promoting microbe assisted phytoremediation is considered a more effective approach to rehabilitation than the single use of plants, but underlying mechanism is still unclear. In this study, we co...

    Authors: DaWei Chen, YiHan Wang, Ni Li, YaLi Huang, YiFan Mao, XiaoJun Liu, YaRong Du and Kun Sun
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:93
  12. The soil biota consists of a complex assembly of microbial communities and other organisms that vary significantly across farming systems, impacting soil health and plant productivity. Despite its importance, ...

    Authors: Abdul A. Jalloh, Fathiya Mbarak Khamis, Abdullahi Ahmed Yusuf, Sevgan Subramanian and Daniel Munyao Mutyambai
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:92
  13. Probiotics are a potentially effective therapy for inflammatory bowel disease (IBD); IBD is linked to impaired gut microbiota and intestinal immunity. However, the utilization of an antibiotic cocktail (Abx) p...

    Authors: Jing Xu, Haoming Xu, Xue Guo, Hailan Zhao, Jiaqi Wang, Jianhong Li, Jie He, Hongli Huang, Chen Huang, Chong Zhao, Yingfei Li, Youlian Zhou, Yao Peng and Yuqiang Nie
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:91
  14. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a challenging global health threat, resulting in significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. This study aims to determine the molecular characteristics and...

    Authors: Qing Zhan, Gaoqin Teng, Weiwei Chen and Xiao Yu
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:89
  15. Oral microbiome dysbacteriosis has been reported to be associated with the pathogenesis of advanced esophageal cancer. However, few studies investigated the potential role of oral and gastric microbiota in ear...

    Authors: Han Chen, Xingzhou Jiang, Fengyi Zhu, Ruoyun Yang, Xin Yu, Xiaoying Zhou and Nana Tang
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:88
  16. Listeria monocytogenes is a foodborne pathogen, which can cause a severe illness, especially in people with a weakened immune system or comorbidities. The interactions between host and pathogens and between patho...

    Authors: Giulia Baldelli, Mauro De Santi, Collins Njie Ateba, Giorgia Cifola, Giulia Amagliani, Christ-Donald Kaptchouang Tchatchouang, Peter Kotsoana Montso, Giorgio Brandi and Giuditta Fiorella Schiavano
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:87
  17. Psittacosis is a zoonosis caused by Chlamydia psittaci, the clinical manifestations of Psittacosis range from mild illness to fulminant severe pneumonia with multiple organ failure. This study aimed to evaluate t...

    Authors: Lei Yuan, Qiang Chen, Xin Yu Zhu, Lan Min Lai, Rui Zhao and Yang Liu
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:86
  18. Antimicrobial peptides, such as bacteriocin, produced by probiotics have become a promising novel class of therapeutic agents for treating infectious diseases. Selected lactic acid bacteria (LAB) isolated from...

    Authors: Tran Thi Dieu Thuy, Hsu-Feng Lu, Carl Jay Ballena Bregente, Fong-Chi Annabelle Huang, Pei-Chun Tu and Cheng-Yen Kao
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:85
  19. Although the pathology of multiple chemical sensitivity (MCS) is unknown, the central nervous system is reportedly involved. The gut microbiota is important in modifying central nervous system diseases. Howeve...

    Authors: Kentaro Watai, Wataru Suda, Rina Kurokawa, Kiyoshi Sekiya, Hiroaki Hayashi, Maki Iwata, Kisako Nagayama, Yuto Nakamura, Yuto Hamada, Yosuke Kamide, Yuma Fukutomi, Takeru Nakabayashi, Kosei Tanaka, Masahiro Kamita, Masami Taniguchi and Masahira Hattori
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:84
  20. The interplay between gut microbiota (GM) and the metabolization of dietary components leading to the production of short-chain fatty acids (SCFAs) is affected by a range of factors including colonic pH and ca...

    Authors: Zhuqing Xie, Weiwei He, Alex Gobbi, Hanne Christine Bertram and Dennis Sandris Nielsen
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:83
  21. Extrauterine growth restriction (EUGR) represents a prevalent condition observed in preterm neonates, which poses potential adverse implications for both neonatal development and long-term health outcomes. The...

    Authors: Yumei Liang, Xiaomin Yao, Zida Meng, Jinyun Lan, Yanqing Qiu, Chao Cen and Yanni Feng
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:82
  22. Copper-induced gene expression in Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris (Xcc) is typically evaluated using targeted approaches involving qPCR. The global response to copper stress in Xcc and resistance to metal i...

    Authors: Stephen D. B. Ramnarine Jr., Omar Ali, Jayaraj Jayaraman and Adesh Ramsubhag
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:81
  23. Chryseobacterium arthrosphaerae strain FS91703 was isolated from Rana nigromaculata in our previous study. To investigate the genomic characteristics, pathogenicity-related genes, antimicrobial resistance, and ph...

    Authors: Lihong Zhu, Hao Liu, Xiaohui Li, Yuefeng Shi, Xiaoliang Yin and Xionge Pi
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:80
  24. To explore the changes and potential mechanisms of microbiome in different parts of the upper airway in the development of pediatric OSA and observe the impact of surgical intervention on oral microbiome for p...

    Authors: Lucheng Fang, Aikebaier Tuohuti, Wanyue Cai and Xiong Chen
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:79
  25. Microbial cells capability to tolerate the effect of various antimicrobial classes represent a major worldwide health concern. The flexible and multi-components nanocomposites have enhanced physicochemical cha...

    Authors: Fathy M. Elkady, Amr H. Hashem, Salem S. Salem, Gharieb S. El-Sayyad, Ahmed Abdel Tawab, Mohammad M. Alkherkhisy and Mohammed S. Abdulrahman
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:78
  26. Aeromonas dhakensis (A. dhakensis) is becoming an emerging pathogen worldwide, with an increasingly significant role in animals and human health. It is a ubiquitous bacteria found in terrestrial and aquatic milie...

    Authors: Chenxu Zhao, Panpan Qin, Shuai Li, Zilu Chen, Tianliang Wang, Qunchao Liang, Weishi He, Zeyu Peng, Yurong Yang, Zhifeng Peng and Yongtao Li
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:76
  27. The mycotoxin zearalenone (ZEA) produced by toxigenic fungi is widely present in cereals and its downstream products. The danger of ZEA linked to various human health issues has attracted increasing attention....

    Authors: Zongping Sun, Yuting Fang, Yaohuan Zhu, Wen Tian, Junjie Yu and Jun Tang
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:75
  28. Multi-drug resistance (MDR) has notably increased in community acquired uropathogens causing urinary tract infections (UTIs), predominantly Escherichia coli. Uropathogenic E. coli causes 80% of uncomplicated comm...

    Authors: Ayesha Khan, Viqar Sayeed Saraf, Fariha Siddiqui, Tahira Batool, Zobia Noreen, Sundus Javed, Aftab Ahmad, Wadi B. Alonazi, Muhammad Ibrahim, Sandra Pucciarelli and Habib Bokhari
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:74
  29. Undernutrition (UN) is a critical public health issue that threatens the lives of children under five in developing countries. While evidence indicates the crucial role of the gut microbiome (GM) in UN pathoge...

    Authors: Lili Wang, Wenjie Zhang, Yinan Wang, Yuanzheng Zhang, Shilin Zhong, Peng Gao, Bingmei Chang and Zicheng Zhao
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:73
  30. The intrinsic concentration of RpoS, the second most abundant sigma factor, varies widely across the E. coli species. Bacterial isolates that express high levels of RpoS display high resistance to environmental s...

    Authors: Estela Ynés Valencia, Felipe de Moraes Gomes, Katia Ospino and Beny Spira
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:72
  31. Studies have elucidated the importance of gut microbiota for an organism, but we are still learning about the important influencing factors. Several factors have been identified in helping shape the microbiome...

    Authors: Jonathan J. Fong, Yik-Hei Sung and Li Ding
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:71
  32. Perioperative neurocognitive dysfunction (PND) emerges as a common postoperative complication among elderly patients. Currently, the mechanism of PND remains unclear, but there exists a tendency to believe tha...

    Authors: Yanfang Yang, Na Li, Yubo Gao, Fanning Xu, Hui Chen, Chun Zhang and Xinli Ni
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:70
  33. Liver steatosis is the most frequent liver disorder and its advanced stage, non-alcoholic steatohepatitis (NASH), will soon become the main reason for liver fibrosis and cirrhosis. The “multiple hits hypothesi...

    Authors: Jacqueline Wyss, Tina Raselli, Annika Wyss, Anja Telzerow, Gerhard Rogler, Niklas Krupka, Bahtiyar Yilmaz, Thomas S. B. Schmidt and Benjamin Misselwitz
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:69
  34. In the current study, for the first time, we reported a novel HCV molecular diagnostic approach termed reverse transcription loop-mediated isothermal amplification integrated with a gold nanoparticles-based la...

    Authors: Yuanfang Shi, Qingxue Zhou, Shilei Dong, Qi Zhao, Xue Wu, Peng Yang, Xiaoyan Zeng, Xinggui Yang, Yan Tan, Xinhua Luo, Zhenghua Xiao and Xu Chen
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:68
  35. Carbapenems represent the first line treatment of serious infections caused by drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae. Carbapenem-resistant K. pneumoniae (CRKP) is one of the urgent threats to human health worldwid...

    Authors: Mahmoud Saad Abdel-Halim, Amira M. El-Ganiny, Basem Mansour, Galal Yahya, Hemat K. Abd El Latif and Momen Askoura
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:67
  36. Candida albicans is a fungal pathogen causing human infections. Here we investigated differential gene expression patterns and functional enrichment in C. albicans strains grown under different conditions.

    Authors: Zeinab Abdelmoghis Hefny, Boyang Ji, Ibrahim E. Elsemman, Jens Nielsen and Patrick Van Dijck
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:66
  37. Camels harbouring multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacteria are capable of transmitting various microorganisms to humans. This study aimed to determine the distribution of anti-microbial resistance among Escheri...

    Authors: Marwa youseef, Fatma Karam, Mona Kadry, Mahmoud Elhariri and Rehab Elhelw
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:65
  38. Multi-drug-resistant organisms (MDROs) in gram-negative bacteria have caused a global epidemic, especially the bacterial resistance to carbapenem agents. Plasmid is the common vehicle for carrying antimicrobia...

    Authors: Ruyan Chen, Chenyu Li, Haoyu Ge, Jie Qiao, Lei Fang, Cailin Liu, Jianjun Gou and Xiaobing Guo
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:64
  39. Amplicon-based mycobiome analysis has the potential to identify all fungal species within a sample and hence could provide a valuable diagnostic assay for use in clinical mycology settings. In the last decade,...

    Authors: Danielle Weaver, Lilyann Novak-Frazer, Maisie Palmer, Malcolm Richardson, Mike Bromley and Paul Bowyer
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:63
  40. In this study, we investigated the effects of alpine meadow in different phenological periods on ruminal fermentation, serum biochemical indices, and gastrointestinal tract microbes in grazing yak on the Qingh...

    Authors: Tongqing Guo, Xungang Wang, Qian Zhang, Yuna Jia, Yalin Wang, Lin Wei, Na Li, Xianli Xu, Hongjin Liu, Linyong Hu, Na Zhao and Shixiao Xu
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:62
  41. Antimicrobial resistance poses a huge risk to human health worldwide, while Bangladesh is confronting the most severe challenge between the food supply and the huge consumption of antibiotics annually. More im...

    Authors: Md Atiqul Haque, Huilong Hu, Jiaqi Liu, Md Aminul Islam, Foysal Hossen, Md Arifur Rahman, Firoz Ahmed and Cheng He
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:61
  42. The impact of probiotic strains on host health is widely known. The available studies on the interaction between bacteria and the host are focused on the changes induced by bacteria in the host mainly. The stu...

    Authors: Dominika Jakubczyk, Katarzyna Leszczyńska, Katarzyna Pacyga-Prus, Dominika Kozakiewicz, Wioletta Kazana-Płuszka, Dominika Gełej, Paweł Migdał, Roksana Kruszakin, Agnieszka Zabłocka and Sabina Górska
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:60
  43. Colistin and carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (Col-CRKP) represent a significant and constantly growing threat to global public health. We report here an outbreak of Col-CRKP infections during the fifth...

    Authors: Rahimeh Sanikhani, Mojtaba Akbari, Majid Hosseinzadeh, Mansour Siavash, Farzad Badmasti and Hamid Solgi
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:59
  44. Accurate identification of bacterial communities is crucial for research applications, diagnostics, and clinical interventions. Although 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene sequencing is a widely employed technique ...

    Authors: Alessandro Bertolo, Ezra Valido and Jivko Stoyanov
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:58
  45. Sesarmid crabs dominate mangrove habitats as the major primary consumers, which facilitates the trophic link and nutrient recycling in the ecosystem. Therefore, the adaptations and mechanisms of sesarmid crabs...

    Authors: Tom Kwok Lun Hui, Irene Ching Nam Lo, Karen Ka Wing Wong, Chandler Tsz To Tsang and Ling Ming Tsang
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:57
  46. The occurrence of multidrug-resistant and hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (MDR-hvKp) worldwide poses a great challenge for public health. Few studies have focused on ST218 MDR-hvKp.

    Authors: Ping Yang, Chao Liu, Pengcheng Du, Juan Yi, Zhenchao Wu, Jiajia Zheng, Ning Shen, Liyan Cui and Ming Lu
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:56
  47. Candida albicans is the most common fungus that causes vaginal candidiasis in immunocompetent women and catastrophic infections in immunocompromised patients. The treatment of such infections is hindered due to t...

    Authors: Salwa E. Gomaa, Hisham A. Abbas, Fatma A. Mohamed, Mohamed A. M. Ali, Tarek M. Ibrahim, Alyaa S. Abdel Halim, Mashael A. Alghamdi, Basem Mansour, Anis Ahmad Chaudhary, Amr Elkelish, Fehmi Boufahja, Wael A. H. Hegazy and Fatma Al-zahraa A. Yehia
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:54

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