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Featured article: Gut microbiome in asthma patients

This article explores the human gut microbiome of asthma patients in order to determine if it may be involved in the development of asthma

Content type: Research article
| 16 October 2018

Biocontrol traits of Bacillus licheniformis GL174, a culturable endophyte of Vitis vinifera cv. Glera

Authors: Sebastiano Nigris, Enrico Baldan, Alessandra Tondello, Filippo Zanella, Nicola Vitulo, Gabriella Favaro, Valerio Guidolin, Nicola Bordin, Andrea Telatin, Elisabetta Barizza, Stefania Marcato, Michela Zottini, Andrea Squartini, Giorgio Valle and Barbara Baldan
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| 11 October 2018

The gut bacteria across life stages in the synanthropic fly Chrysomya megacephala

Authors: Xiaoyun Wang, Qiao Gao, Wanqiang Wang, Xiaoping Wang, Chaoliang Lei and Fen Zhu
Content type: Methodology article
| 11 October 2018

An improved assay for rapid detection of viable Staphylococcus aureus cells by incorporating surfactant and PMA treatments in qPCR

Authors: Chen Zi, Dexin Zeng, Nan Ling, Jianjun Dai, Feng Xue, Yuan Jiang and Baoguang Li
Content type: Research article
| 10 October 2018

Escovopsioides as a fungal antagonist of the fungus cultivated by leafcutter ants

Authors: Julio Flavio Osti and Andre Rodrigues
Content type: Research article
| 10 October 2018

Architecture of divergent flagellar promoters controlled by CtrA in Rhodobacter sphaeroides

Authors: Anet Rivera-Osorio, Aurora Osorio, Sebastian Poggio, Georges Dreyfus and Laura Camarena

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| 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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Aims and scope

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

Section Editors

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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Biocontrol traits of Bacillus licheniformis GL174, a culturable endophyte of Vitis vinifera cv. Glera

The gut bacteria across life stages in the synanthropic fly Chrysomya megacephala

An improved assay for rapid detection of viable Staphylococcus aureus cells by incorporating surfactant and PMA treatments in qPCR

Escovopsioides as a fungal antagonist of the fungus cultivated by leafcutter ants

Architecture of divergent flagellar promoters controlled by CtrA in Rhodobacter sphaeroides

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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Relationships between neurological and psychiatric disorders: Could migraine and ADHD be correlated?

Media multitasking may be linked to altered perception of other people

Increase in non-drinking widespread among young people

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