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Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) operating with complex microbial communities have been extensively reported in the past, and are commonly used in applications such as wastewater treatment, bioremediation or in-sit...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:208
Published on: 18 October 2017
Research article
Bacterial nucleoid consists of genome DNA, RNA, and hundreds of nucleoid-associated proteins (NAPs). Escherichia coli nucleoid is compacted towards the stationary phase, replacing most log-phase NAPs with the maj...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:207
Published on: 2 October 2017
Research article
Anthrax is a globally distributed disease affecting primarily herbivorous mammals. It is caused by the soil-dwelling and spore-forming bacterium Bacillus anthracis. The dormant B. anthracis spores become vegetati...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:206
Published on: 26 September 2017
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Breast milk is a rich nutrient with a temporally dynamic nature. In particular, numerous alterations in the nutritional, immunological and microbiological content occur during the transition from colostrum to ...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:205
Published on: 25 September 2017
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Dysbiosis of gut microbiota are commonly reported in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and may contribute to behavioral impairment. Vitamin A (VA) plays a role in regulation of gut microbiota. This study was perf...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:204
Published on: 22 September 2017
Research article
Total community rDNA was used to determine the diversity of bacteria and archaea from water, wet sediment and microbial mats samples of hot springs in the Eastern lowlands of Eritrea. The temperatures of the s...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:203
Published on: 22 September 2017
Research article
Caseous lymphadenitis (CLA) is a disease that affects sheep, goats and occasionally humans. The etiologic agent is the Corynebacterium pseudotuberculosis bacillus. The objective of this study was to build a gene ...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:202
Published on: 21 September 2017
Methodology Article
Urinary tract infection (UTI) is one of the most common diagnoses in girls and women, and to a lesser extent in boys and men younger than 50 years. Escherichia coli, followed by Klebsiella spp. and Proteus spp., ...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:201
Published on: 21 September 2017
Methodology Article
Outbreaks of Kingella kingae infection are an emerging public health concern among daycare attendees carrying epidemic clones in the oropharynx. However, genotyping of such epidemic clones from affected cases is ...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:200
Published on: 21 September 2017
Methodology Article
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a model organism for the study of quorum sensing, biofilm formation, and also leading cause of nosocomial infections in immune compromised patients. As such P...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:199
Published on: 19 September 2017
Research article
Autoinducer-2 (AI-2) is a universal signal molecule and enables an individual bacteria to communicate with each other and ultimately control behaviors of the population. Harnessing the character of AI-2, two k...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:198
Published on: 19 September 2017
Research article
The aminoglycoside antibiotic gentamicin was supposed to induce a crosstalk between the Cpx- and the Arc-two-component systems (TCS). Here, we investigated the physical interaction of the respective TCS compon...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:197
Published on: 18 September 2017
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Famous Chinese strong-flavored liquor (CSFL) is brewed by microbial consortia in a special fermentation pit (FT). However, the fermentation process was not fully understood owing to the complicate community st...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:196
Published on: 15 September 2017
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Outbreaks of infections caused by rapidly growing mycobacteria have been reported worldwide generally associated with medical procedures. Mycobacterium abscessus subsp. massiliense CRM0019 was obtained during an ...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:195
Published on: 13 September 2017
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Advancements in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) technologies regarding throughput, read length and accuracy had a major impact on microbiome research by significantly improving 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing. A...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:194
Published on: 13 September 2017
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Benthic ciliates and the environmental factors shaping their distribution are far from being completely understood. Likewise, deep-sea systems are amongst the least understood ecosystems on Earth. In this stud...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:192
Published on: 12 September 2017
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The complexity of the pathogenic mechanism underlying the host immune response to Actinobacillus pleuropneumonia (App) makes the use of preventive measures difficult, and a more global view of the host-pathogen i...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:193
Published on: 12 September 2017
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Non-structural protein 1 (NS1) is a multifunctional protein and a crucial regulatory factor in the replication and pathogenesis of avian influenza virus (AIV). Studies have shown that NS1 can interact with a v...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:191
Published on: 11 September 2017
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The purpose of this study was to compare the rumen bacterial composition in high and low yielding dairy cows within and between two dairy herds. Eighty five Holstein dairy cows in mid-lactation (79–179 days in...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:190
Published on: 30 August 2017
Research article
Improved methods with better separation and concentration ability for detection of foodborne pathogens are in constant need. The aim of this study was to evaluate microplate immunocapture (IC) method for detec...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:189
Published on: 29 August 2017
Research article
H-NS family proteins are nucleoid-associated proteins that form oligomers on DNA and function as global regulators. They are found in both bacterial chromosomes and plasmids, and were suggested to be candidate...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:188
Published on: 29 August 2017
Research article
The bronchial epithelium serves as the first defendant line of host against respiratory inhaled pathogens, mainly through releasing chemokines (e.g. interleukin-8 (IL-8), interferon-induced protein 10 (IP-10) ...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:187
Published on: 24 August 2017
Research article
Intracellular bacterium, Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb), infects specifically macrophages as host cells. IRAK-M, a member of IRAK family, is a negative regulator in TLR signaling and specifically expresses in...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:185
Published on: 23 August 2017
Research article
The microbial composition of the equine respiratory tract, and differences due to mild equine asthma (also called Inflammatory Airway Disease (IAD)) have not been reported. The primary treatment for control of...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:184
Published on: 23 August 2017
Erratum
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:186
Published on: 23 August 2017
The original article was published in BMC Microbiology 2010 10:281
