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This section aims to publish studies looking at all aspects of microbe-host interactions and pathogenicity including pathogenic mechanisms, virulence factors, host invasion, immune evasion, host defence, immunity, immunology and symbiotic interactions.
Research article
Penicillium marneffei (P. marneffei) is a thermally dimorphic fungus pathogen that causes fatal infection. Alveolar macrophages are innate immune cells that have critical roles in prot...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:177
Published on: 18 August 2017
Research article
Probiotics are increasingly applied to prevent and treat a range of infectious, immune related and gastrointestinal diseases. Despite this, the mechanisms behind the putative effects of probiotics are poorly u...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:175
Published on: 17 August 2017
Research article
Bacterial blight of rice caused by Xanthomonas oryzae pv. oryzae (Xoo) is one of the most important crop diseases in the world. More insights into the mechanistic regulation of bacterial pathogenesis will help us...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:171
Published on: 9 August 2017
Research article
The World Health Organization has categorized plague as a re-emerging disease and the potential for Yersinia pestis to also be used as a bioweapon makes the identification of new drug targets against this pathoge...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:163
Published on: 21 July 2017
Research article
Group B Streptococcus (GBS) is a major cause of invasive disease especially in neonates. In GBS three structurally distinct pilus polymers have been identified as important virulence factors and promising vacc...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:148
Published on: 3 July 2017
Research article
By the search for new natural compounds with beneficial health effects, cephalopod ink has been considered as an attempt to develop new drugs and functional foods, which is an especially active field in Asia, ...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:147
Published on: 3 July 2017
Research article
The objective of this study was to better understand the effects of soluble factors from biofilm of single- and mixed-species Candida albicans (C. albicans) and methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus (MSSA) ...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:146
Published on: 30 June 2017
Research article
The phytopathogenic Xanthomonas campestris pv.campestris is a gram-negative bacterium and the causal agent of black-rot disease of cruciferous crops. Many gram-negative bacteria possess a family of proteins, call...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:142
Published on: 27 June 2017
Methodology Article
The Gram-negative bacterium Vibrio vulnificus can cause severe disease in humans who consume undercooked, contaminated seafood. To study food-borne V. vulnificus disease in the laboratory, mouse virulence studies...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:136
Published on: 19 June 2017
Research article
We aimed to investigate the effect of early-life diverse microbial exposures on gut microbial colonization in an OVA-induced asthma model in BALB/c mice.
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:135
Published on: 17 June 2017
Research article
The work was undertaken to expand the tools available for researching Burkholderia pseudomallei (Bp), the etiological agent of the tropical disease melioidosis. Melioidosis has the potential to pose a severe thre...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:132
Published on: 7 June 2017
Research article
Urinary tract infections (UTI) are among the most common and costly infections in both hospitalized and ambulatory patients. Uropathogenic E. coli (UPEC) represent the majority of UTI isolates and are a diverse g...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:127
Published on: 25 May 2017
Research article
Brucellosis is a severe zoonotic disease worldwide. Detection and identification of Brucella species are essential to prevent or treat brucellosis in humans and animals. The outer membrane protein-31 (Omp31) is a...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:115
Published on: 15 May 2017
Research article
Chlamydia species are obligate intracellular bacteria that infect a broad range of mammalian hosts. Members of related genera are pathogens of a variety of vertebrate and invertebrate ...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:98
Published on: 24 April 2017
Research article
During infection of the urinary tract, uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) are exposed to different environments, such as human urine and the intracellular environments of bladder epithelial cells. Each environ...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:99
Published on: 24 April 2017
Research article
Critical to the development of Salmonellosis in humans is the interaction of the bacterium with the epithelial lining of the gastrointestinal tract. Traditional scientific reasoning held type III secretion sys...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:88
Published on: 5 April 2017
Research article
Colonization of the body is an important step in Staphylococcus aureus infection. S. aureus colonizes skin and mucous membranes in humans and several animal species. One important ecological niche of S. aureus is...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:89
Published on: 5 April 2017
Research article
Our previous research on the diversity of microbiota in the endotracheal tubes (ETTs) of neonates in the neonatal intensive care unit found that Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) and Streptococcus mitis (S. ...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:82
Published on: 4 April 2017
Research article
Salmonella enterica infections often exhibit a form of immune evasion. We previously observed that probiotic bacteria could prevent inhibition of lymphoproliferation and apoptosis resp...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:77
Published on: 29 March 2017
Research article
Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli (EIEC) may be the causative agent of part of those million cases of diarrhea illness reported worldwide every year and attributable to Shigella. That is because both enteropathogen...
BMC Microbiology 2017 17:68
Published on: 16 March 2017
