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August: Health Disparities

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With World Humanitarian Day falling on 19th August, the BMC Series decided to focus on health disparities in August’s focus issue. Browse our biology, chemistry and medical titles for insight into health disparities, including racial health disparities, socioeconomic health disparities and regional disparities

Featured Articles

Soil microbes and deterioration

This study finds that changes in soil microbial communities can influence and are associated with deterioration of the earthen site over time.

Paternal weight influences offspring's intestines

In this recent study, authors find that paternal weight of ducks influence the offspring's small intestine function and cecal microbiome.

How to keep the honeybees healthy during winter?

This recent study finds that feeding the honeybees sucrose during the winter alters their gut microbiome helping them survive the cold.

SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19

Find a selection of articles published across Springer Nature, as well as additional commentary and books relevant to SARS-CoV-2 and COVID-19 research.

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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.

FocSge1 in Fusarium oxysporum f. sp. cubense race 1 is essential for full virulence

Authors: Vartika Gurdaswani, Siddhesh B. Ghag and Thumballi R. Ganapathi

Content type: Research article

14 August 2020
Impact of long-term industrial contamination on the bacterial communities in urban river sediments

Authors: Lei Zhang, Demei Tu, Xingchen Li, Wenxuan Lu and Jing Li

Content type: Research article

14 August 2020
Antimicrobial resistance and molecular detection of extended spectrum β-lactamase producing Escherichia coli isolates from raw meat in Greater Accra region, Ghana

Authors: Esther Dsani, Edwin Andrews Afari, Anthony Danso-Appiah, Ernest Kenu, Basil Benduri Kaburi and Beverly Egyir

Content type: Research article

14 August 2020
Genetic diversity of aflatoxin-producing Aspergillus flavus isolated from selected groundnut growing agro-ecological zones of Uganda

Authors: Amos Acur, Renée S. Arias, Steven Odongo, Samuel Tuhaise, Joseph Ssekandi, John Adriko, Dennis Muhanguzi, Stephen Buah and Andrew Kiggundu

Content type: Research article

14 August 2020
S-layer associated proteins contribute to the adhesive and immunomodulatory properties of Lactobacillus acidophilus NCFM

Authors: Courtney Klotz, Yong Jun Goh, Sarah O’Flaherty and Rodolphe Barrangou

Content type: Research article

12 August 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
ITS as an environmental DNA barcode for fungi: an in silico approach reveals potential PCR biases

Authors: Eva Bellemain, Tor Carlsen, Christian Brochmann, Eric Coissac, Pierre Taberlet and Håvard Kauserud

Content type: Research article

9 July 2010

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