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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.

Metagenomics revealing molecular profiling of community structure and metabolic pathways in natural hot springs of the Sikkim Himalaya

Authors: Nitish Sharma, Jitesh Kumar, Md. Minhajul Abedin, Dinabandhu Sahoo, Ashok Pandey, Amit K. Rai and Sudhir P. Singh

Content type: Research article

10 August 2020
Peptidorhamnomannan from Lomentospora prolificans modulates the inflammatory response in macrophages infected with Candida albicans

Authors: Mariana Ingrid Dutra da Silva Xisto, Suelen S. Santos, Luana Rossato, Fábio Seiti Yamada Yoshikawa, Rosa Maria Tavares Haido, Sandro Rogério de Almeida and Eliana Barreto-Bergter

Content type: Research article

6 August 2020
Physiological change alters endophytic bacterial community in clubroot of tumorous stem mustard infected by Plasmodiophora brassicae

Authors: Diandong Wang, Tingting Sun, Songyu Zhao, Limei Pan, Hongfang Liu and Xueliang Tian

Content type: Research article

6 August 2020
Identification of protein complexes and functional modules in E. coli PPI networks

Authors: Ping Kong, Gang Huang and Wei Liu

Content type: Research article

6 August 2020
Performance of penicillinase detection tests in Staphylococcus epidermidis: comparison of different phenotypic methods

Authors: Benjamin Aubry, Carole Lemarié, Rachel Chenouard, Marie Kempf, Matthieu Eveillard and Hélène Pailhoriès

Content type: Research article

5 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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