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Featured article: Drug resistant bacteria found in the International Space Station

Scientists have isolated drug resistant Enterobacter strains from two locations on the International Space Station, which could be pathogenic to humans.

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Call for papers: Veterinary antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial use

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Content type: Research article
| 18 January 2019

Paromomycin production from Streptomyces rimosus NRRL 2455: statistical optimization and new synergistic antibiotic combinations against multidrug resistant pathogens

Authors: Asmaa A. Ibrahim, Ghadir S. El-Housseiny, Khaled M. Aboshanab, Mahmoud A. Yassien and Nadia A. Hassouna
Content type: Research article
| 17 January 2019

Comparative study of vulva and abdominal skin microbiota of healthy females with high and average BMI

Authors: Rebecca Vongsa, Doug Hoffman, Kristin Shepard and David Koenig
Content type: Research article
| 17 January 2019

Genome sequencing of strains of the most prevalent clonal group of O1:K1:H7 Escherichia coli that causes neonatal meningitis in France

Authors: Guillaume Geslain, André Birgy, Sandrine Adiba, Mélanie Magnan, Céline Courroux, Corinne Levy, Robert Cohen, Philippe Bidet and Stéphane Bonacorsi
Content type: Research article
| 14 January 2019

Transcriptomic and proteomic analyses reveal new insights into the regulation of immune pathways during adenovirus type 2 infection

Authors: Hongxing Zhao, Maoshan Chen, Alberto Valdés, Sara Bergström Lind and Ulf Pettersson
Content type: Research article
| 14 January 2019

Vaginal pH measured in vivo: lactobacilli determine pH and lactic acid concentration

Authors: Deirdre Elizabeth O’Hanlon, Richard A. Come and Thomas R. Moench

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Content type: Research article
| 9 June 2009

The Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio of the human microbiota changes with age

Authors: D Mariat, O Firmesse, F Levenez, VD Guimarăes, H Sokol, J Doré, G Corthier and J-P Furet
Content type: Methodology article
| 18 May 2005

Fungal-specific PCR primers developed for analysis of the ITS region of environmental DNA extracts

Authors: Kendall J Martin and Paul T Rygiewicz
Content type: Review
| 19 February 2009

Protein secretion systems in bacterial-host associations, and their description in the Gene Ontology

Authors: Tsai-Tien Tseng, Brett M Tyler and João C Setubal
Content type: Research article
| 14 December 2014

Rapid species-level identification of vaginal and oral lactobacilli using MALDI-TOF MS analysis and 16S rDNA sequencing

Authors: Annette Carola Anderson, Mohamed Sanunu, Christian Schneider, Andreas Clad, Lamprini Karygianni, Elmar Hellwig and Ali Al-Ahmad
Content type: Research article
| 8 October 2013

Standardisation of disk diffusion results for antibiotic susceptibility testing using the sirscan automated zone reader

Authors: Michael Hombach, Reinhard Zbinden and Erik C Böttger

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BMC Microbiology is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on analytical and functional studies of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms, viruses and small parasites, as well as host and therapeutic responses to them and their interaction with the environment.

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Cecilia Devoto, BioMed Central

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Stéphane Aymerich, INRA
Ralf Heermann, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet
Igor Mokrousov, St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute
Hirotada Mori, Nara Institute of Science and Technology
David Nelson, University of Rhode Island
Marco Ventura, University of Parma
Raffaele Zarrilli, Università di Napoli Federico II
Jizhong Zhou, University of Oklahoma

Igor Mokrousov, Section Editor

Igor Mokrousov, PhD, DSc/HDR is Head of the Laboratory of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics at St. Petersburg Pasteur Institute, Russia. Dr. Mokrousov joined the BMC Microbiology Editorial Board initially in 2009, as Associate Editor; since 2014, he serves as Section Editor.

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Paromomycin production from Streptomyces rimosus NRRL 2455: statistical optimization and new synergistic antibiotic combinations against multidrug resistant pathogens

Comparative study of vulva and abdominal skin microbiota of healthy females with high and average BMI

Genome sequencing of strains of the most prevalent clonal group of O1:K1:H7 Escherichia coli that causes neonatal meningitis in France

Transcriptomic and proteomic analyses reveal new insights into the regulation of immune pathways during adenovirus type 2 infection

Vaginal pH measured in vivo: lactobacilli determine pH and lactic acid concentration

The Firmicutes/Bacteroidetes ratio of the human microbiota changes with age

Fungal-specific PCR primers developed for analysis of the ITS region of environmental DNA extracts

Protein secretion systems in bacterial-host associations, and their description in the Gene Ontology

Rapid species-level identification of vaginal and oral lactobacilli using MALDI-TOF MS analysis and 16S rDNA sequencing

Standardisation of disk diffusion results for antibiotic susceptibility testing using the sirscan automated zone reader

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Igor Mokrousov, Section Editor

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Highlights of the BMC series: December 2018

Succeeding as a woman in biomedical engineering

Lessons learned and best practices from the Polio Eradication Programme in Nigeria

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