BMC Microbiology

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SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19

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March: Senescence and Aging

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Collection: Veterinary antimicrobial resistance and antimicrobial use

BMC Microbiology and BMC Veterinary Research are happy to join forces and present a cross-journal collection that focuses on veterinary antimicrobial resistance. Click to view and read the articles in the collection.

Widespread occurrence of ‘Candidatus Phytoplasma ulmi’ in elm species in Germany

Authors: Bernd Schneider, Ralf Kätzel and Michael Kube

Content type: Research article

31 March 2020
Clinical and microbiological characteristics of Cryptococcus gattii isolated from 7 hospitals in China

Authors: Liang Jin, Jing-Rong Cao, Xin-Ying Xue, Hua Wu, Li-Feng Wang, Ling Guo and Ding-Xia Shen

Content type: Research article

30 March 2020
First evidence showing that Pepper vein yellows virus P4 protein is a movement protein

Authors: Sangsang Li, Xianyan Su, Xiangwen Luo, Yu Zhang, Deyong Zhang, Jiao Du, Zhanhong Zhang, Xian OuYang, Songbai Zhang and Yong Liu

Content type: Research article

30 March 2020
The molecular characters and antibiotic resistance of Clostridioides difficile from economic animals in China

Authors: Wen-Zhu Zhang, Wen-Ge Li, Yu-Qing Liu, Wen-Peng Gu, Qing Zhang, Hu Li, Zheng-Jie Liu, Xin Zhang, Yuan Wu and Jin-Xing Lu

Content type: Research article

30 March 2020
Vibiro vulnificus hemolysin associates with gangliosides

Authors: Takashige Kashimoto, Hiroyuki Sugiyama, Keigo Kawamidori, Kohei Yamazaki, Takehiro Kado, Kaho Matsuda, Toshio Kodama, Takao Mukai and Shunji Ueno

Content type: Research article

30 March 2020

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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: Research article

9 June 2009
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: Methodology article

18 May 2005
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: Review

19 February 2009
Standardisation of disk diffusion results for antibiotic susceptibility testing using the sirscan automated zone reader

Authors: Michael Hombach, Reinhard Zbinden and Erik C Böttger

Content type: Research article

8 October 2013
Overproduction of Toxoplasma gondii cyclophilin-18 regulates host cell migration and enhances parasite dissemination in a CCR5-independent manner

Authors: Hany M Ibrahim, Maki Nishimura, Sachi Tanaka, Walaa Awadin, Hidefumi Furuoka, Xuenan Xuan and Yoshifumi Nishikawa

Content type: Research article

25 March 2014

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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.