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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 November 2018

Taxonomic classification for microbiome analysis, which correlates well with the metabolite milieu of the gut

Authors: Yoshihisa Wakita, Yumi Shimomura, Yusuke Kitada, Hiroyuki Yamamoto, Yoshiaki Ohashi and Mitsuharu Matsumoto
Content type: Research article
| 14 November 2018

Multi-drug resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi isolates with reduced susceptibility to ciprofloxacin in Kenya

Authors: Winnie C. Mutai, Anne W. T. Muigai, Peter Waiyaki and Samuel Kariuki
Content type: Research article
| 14 November 2018

Characteristics of NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST234 and ST1412 isolates spread in a neonatal unit

Authors: Xu Huang, Xiangjun Cheng, Pengfei Sun, Chenjie Tang, Fang Ni and Genyan Liu
Content type: Research article
| 13 November 2018

Gut microbiota of preterm infants supplemented with probiotics: sub-study of the ProPrems trial

Authors: Erica L. Plummer, Dieter M. Bulach, Gerald L. Murray, Susan E. Jacobs, Sepehr N. Tabrizi and Suzanne M. Garland
Content type: Research article
| 13 November 2018

MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry-based serotyping of V. parahaemolyticus isolated from the Zhejiang province of China

Authors: Ping Li, Wenwen Xin, Susu Xia, Yun Luo, Zhongwen Chen, Dazhi Jin, Shan Gao, Hao Yang, Bin Ji, Henghui Wang, Yong Yan, Lin Kang and Jinglin Wang

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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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Taxonomic classification for microbiome analysis, which correlates well with the metabolite milieu of the gut

Multi-drug resistant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi isolates with reduced susceptibility to ciprofloxacin in Kenya

Characteristics of NDM-1-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae ST234 and ST1412 isolates spread in a neonatal unit

Gut microbiota of preterm infants supplemented with probiotics: sub-study of the ProPrems trial

MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry-based serotyping of V. parahaemolyticus isolated from the Zhejiang province of China

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: October 2018

Breech birth at home: a new study of safety outcomes

What is inside the head of the fossil predatory fish †Saurichthys?

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