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  1. Surface layer protein A (SlpA), the primary outermost structure of Clostridioides difficile, plays an essential role in C. difficile pathogenesis, although its interaction with host i...

    Authors: Maryam Noori, Masoumeh Azimirad, Gita Eslami, Mehdi Azizmohammad Looha, Abbas Yadegar, Zohreh Ghalavand and Mohammad Reza Zali
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:259
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  2. Moraxella bovis and Moraxella bovoculi both associate with infectious bovine keratoconjunctivitis (IBK), an economically significant and painful ocular disease that affects cattle worldwide. There are two genoty...

    Authors: Emily L. Wynn, Matthew M. Hille, John Dustin Loy, Gennie Schuller, Kristen L. Kuhn, Aaron M. Dickey, James L. Bono and Michael L. Clawson
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:258
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  3. The overuse of biocides in healthcare-facilities poses risk for emergence and spread of antibiotic resistance among nosocomial pathogens. Hospital-acquired infections due to S. maltophilia have been increased in ...

    Authors: Raana Kazemzadeh Anari, Farhad Nikkhahi, Amir Javadi, Mehdi Bakht, Mohammad Rostamani, Fatemeh Zeynali Kelishomi and Safar Ali Alizadeh
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:257
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  6. Peste des petits ruminants virus (PPRV) causes a highly devastating disease of sheep and goats, peste des petits ruminants (PPR), which is targeted for global control and eradication by 2030. The serological d...

    Authors: Kumela Lelisa, Tesfaye Rufael Chibssa, Fanta Desissa, Kemal Emiyu, Ayelech Muluneh, Demeke Sibhatu Lobago, Dereje Shegu Gebreweld, Kebede Debebe and Abde Aliy Mohammed
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:254
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  7. Thailand is undergoing rapid intensification of livestock production where small subsistence farms and medium sized commercial farms coexist. In medium farms, antimicrobials are prescribed by a veterinarian, w...

    Authors: João Pires, Laura Huber, Rachel A. Hickman, Simon Dellicour, Kamonwan Lunha, Thongpan Leangapichart, Jatesada Jiwakanon, Ulf Magnusson, Marianne Sunde, Josef D. Järhult and Thomas P. Van Boeckel
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:253
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  8. The contribution of the microbiome to pesticide breakdown in agricultural pests remains unclear. We analyzed the effect of pirimiphos-methyl (PM) on four geographically different cultures of the stored product...

    Authors: Jan Hubert, Blanka Navratilova, Bruno Sopko, Marta Nesvorna and Thomas W. Phillips
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:252
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  9. The microbial symbionts of macrofungal fruiting body have been shown to play momentous roles in host growth, development, and secondary metabolism. Nevertheless, there is no report on the fungal diversity of Sang...

    Authors: Yanjun Ma, Weiqian Gao, Fan Zhang, Xuetai Zhu, Weibao Kong, Shiquan Niu, Kun Gao and Hongqin Yang
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:251
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  10. Infection of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Typhi is the primary etiology of typhoid fever globally and is common in many developing countries, especially those with dense populations and poor enviro...

    Authors: Ignes Nathania, Ita M. Nainggolan, Andi Yasmon, Angela Ch. M. Nusatia, Enty Tjoa, Wani D. Gunardi and Lucky H. Moehario
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:250
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  11. Tuberculosis (TB) caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M. tb) remains a global health issue. The characterized virulent M. tb H37Rv, avirulent M. tb H37Ra and BCG strains are widely used as reference strains to ...

    Authors: Guohui Xiao, Su Zhang, Like Zhang, Shuyan Liu, Guobao Li, Min Ou, Xuan Zeng, Zhaoqin Wang, Guoliang Zhang and Shuihua Lu
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:249
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  12. Carbapenemase-producing Gram-negative (CPGN) bacteria impose life-threatening infections with limited treatment options. Rigor and rapid detection of CPGN-associated infections is usu...

    Authors: Noha A. Kamel, Sally T. Tohamy, Ibrahim S. Yahia and Khaled M. Aboshanab
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:248
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  13. Proteus mirabilis is an opportunistic pathogen, causing a variety of community-acquired and nosocomial illnesses. It poses a potential threat to patients via the production of β-lactamases, which decrease the eff...

    Authors: Mona Shaaban, Soha Lotfy Elshaer and Ola A. Abd El-Rahman
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:247
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  14. Azolla is a small floating fern living in symbiosis with nitrogen-fixing cyanobacteria and provides a variety of important ecosystem benefits. Previous studies have presented that Azolla harbors diverse bacteria ...

    Authors: Yan-Qiu Yang, Su-Fang Deng, You-Quan Yang and Zhao-Yang Ying
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:246
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  15. Antimicrobial resistance is associated with increased morbidity in secondary infections and is a global threat owning to the ubiquitous nature of resistance genes in the environment. Recent estimate put the de...

    Authors: Bill Clinton Aglomasa, Cynthia Kyerewaa Adu-Asiamah, Samuel Opoku Asiedu, Priscilla Kini, Emmanuel Kobla Atsu Amewu, Kennedy Gyau Boahen, Solomon Wireko, Isaac Kingsley Amponsah, Yaw Duah Boakye, Vivian Etsiapa Boamah and Alexander Kwarteng
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:245
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  16. Biofilm-related infections are difficult to be treated because of higher resistance to antimicrobial agents. Current study aims to characterize the influence of zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO-NPs) on both S. aureu...

    Authors: Aliaa Abdelghafar, Nehal Yousef and Momen Askoura
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:244
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  17. . Microbiological quality of drinking water supplied in Moamba, a small town in southern Mozambique, was assessed by collecting and analyzing 91 water sample from 5 sampling sites: raw or inlet water, treated ...

    Authors: Elisa Taviani, Harold van den Berg, Fernando Nhassengo, Eugenia Nguluve, Jussa Paulo, Olivia Pedro and Giuliana Ferrero
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:243
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  18. The current methods for detecting pathogenic bacteria in feed require high technique and take a long time. The Micro Biological Survey (MBS) rapid detection system is a simple, economical and rapid microbial d...

    Authors: Linlin Jiang, Beibei Zhang, Shuitao Liu, Lianqin Zhu and Fenghua Zhu
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:242
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  19. Lysophosphatidic acid acyltransferase (LPAAT) is a phospholipid biosynthesis enzyme that introduces a particular set of fatty acids at the sn-2 position of phospholipids. Many bacteria have multiple LPAAT paralog...

    Authors: Takuya Ogawa, Misaki Kuboshima, Nittikarn Suwanawat, Jun Kawamoto and Tatsuo Kurihara
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:241
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  20. The Bacillus cereus group, also known as B. cereus sensu lato (s.l.) contains ubiquitous spore-forming bacteria found in the environment including strains from the B. cereus sensu stricto (s.s.) species. They occ...

    Authors: Nadine Yossa, Rebecca Bell, Sandra Tallent, Eric Brown, Rachel Binet and Thomas Hammack
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:240
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  21. Fruit bagging is an effective technique for fruit protection in the orchard management. Bagging can create a micro-environment for fruit growth and affect fruit quality during storage, in which the diversity o...

    Authors: Congcong Gao, Yang Zhang, Huimin Li, Qi Gao, Yudou Cheng, Solabomi Olaitan Ogunyemi and Junfeng Guan
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:239
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  22. Campylobacter spp. are the leading cause of bacterial food-borne illness in humans worldwide, with Campylobacter jejuni responsible for 80% of these infections. There is an urgent need to understand fundamental C...

    Authors: Ruby Costigan, Emily Stoakes, R. Andres Floto, Julian Parkhill and Andrew J. Grant
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:238
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  23. Processes of soil restoration in anthropogenically disturbed soils is an urgent topic in modern ecology and nature management. Being mediator between mineral soil composition and plant vegetation, soil microbi...

    Authors: Aleksei Zverev, Anastasiia Kimeklis, Arina Kichko, Grigory Gladkov, Evgeny Andronov and Evgeny Abakumov
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:237
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  24. The emergence of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis (MDR-TB) has complicated the situation due to the decline in potency of second-line anti-tubercular drugs. This limits the treatment option for extensively dru...

    Authors: Kamal Singh, Swati Sharma, Tuhina Banerjee, Ankush Gupta and Shampa Anupurba
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:236
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  25. Ginseng, an important traditional Chinese medicine and a new resource food, has two production modes: farmland ginseng and forestland ginseng. Ginseng faces many problems such as high soil bulk density, easy h...

    Authors: Jiyue Zhang, Pin Liu, Botao Nie, Xinxin Liu, Zhen Zhang, Runlong He, Weiwei Dong and Wenxiu Ji
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:235
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  26. Data on antibiotic resistance is essential to adapt treatment strategies against the rapidly changing reality of antimicrobial resistance.

    Authors: Peiyao Jia, Ying Zhu, Hui Zhang, Bin Cheng, Ping Guo, Yingchun Xu and Qiwen Yang
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:234
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  27. Compared to the clinical sector, the prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in the food sector is relatively low. However, their presence in seafood is a significant public health concer...

    Authors: Gopalan Krishnan Sivaraman, Sobin Sonu Gupta, S Visnuvinayagam, T Muthulakshmi, Ravikrishnan Elangovan, Vivekanandan Perumal, Ganesh Balasubramanium, Tushar Lodha and Amit Yadav
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:233
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  28. Weedy rice competes for nutrients and living space with cultivated rice, which results in serious reductions in rice production. The rhizosphere bacterial community plays an important role in nutrient competit...

    Authors: Yue Wu, Jian Sun, Pengcheng Yu, Weiliang Zhang, Youze Lin and Dianrong Ma
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:232
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  29. S. miltiorrhiza root rot is a soil-borne disease mainly caused by Fusarium solani and Fusarium oxysporum, which has spread rapidly in China in recent years. To reduce the amount of pesticides to control this plan...

    Authors: Rongbo Sa, Song He, Dongdong Han, Mengjiao Liu, Yunxia Yu, Rongen Shang and Meimei Song
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:231
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  30. Sequence-based methods for the detection of bacteria such as 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing and metagenomics can provide a comprehensive view of the bacterial microbiome of food. These methods rely on the detect...

    Authors: Annika Flint, Anna Laidlaw, Leo Li, Courtney Raitt, Mary Rao, Ashley Cooper, Kelly Weedmark, Catherine Carrillo and Sandeep Tamber
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:230
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  31. Fusarium root rot, caused by Fusarium solani (Mart.) Sacc., represents one of the most damaging diseases of maize affecting plant growth and yield. In this study, the antagonistic potential of a non-aflatoxigenic...

    Authors: Younes M. Rashad, Sara A. Abdalla and Ahmed S. Shehata
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:229
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  32. Soumbala is a highly loved alkaline traditional fermented food condiment in Burkina Faso. It harbors various microbiota dominated by fermentative Bacillus spp. as functional microorganism with little confirmed he...

    Authors: Yérobessor Dabiré, Namwin Siourimè Somda, Marius K. Somda, Clarisse B. Compaoré, Iliassou Mogmenga, Lewis I. Ezeogu, Alfred S. Traoré, Jerry O. Ugwuanyi and Mamoudou H. Dicko
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:228
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  33. Environmental contamination from synthetic plastics and their additives is a widespread problem. Phthalate esters are a class of refractory synthetic organic compounds which are widely used in plastics, coatin...

    Authors: Madan Junghare, Jasmin Frey, Khalid M. Naji, Dieter Spiteller, Gustav Vaaje-Kolstad and Bernhard Schink
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:227
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  34. Excessive fat and protein in food can cause diarrhea by disturbing the intestinal microecology. Lactase is a functional enzyme strongly associated with diarrhea, while lactase bacteria in the intestine are an ...

    Authors: Kang Zhou, Maijiao Peng, Na Deng, Zhoujin Tan and Nenqun Xiao
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:226
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  35. Folic acid (FA) is a synthetic vitamin (B9) and the oxidized form of a metabolic cofactor that is essential for life. Although the biosynthetic mechanisms of FA are established, its environmental degradation mech...

    Authors: Yungmi You, Yuki Doi, Norifumi Maeda, Shunsuke Masuo, Norio Takeshita and Naoki Takaya
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:225
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  36. The palatine tonsils are part of the mucosal immune system and stimulate immune responses through M cell uptake sampling of antigens and bacteria in the tonsillar crypts. Little is known about the development ...

    Authors: Simen Fredriksen, Xiaonan Guan, Jos Boekhorst, Francesc Molist, Peter van Baarlen and Jerry M. Wells
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:224
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  37. The effects of cropping practices on the rhizosphere soil physical properties and microbial communities of Bupleurum chinense have not been studied in detail. The chemical properties and the microbiome of rhizosp...

    Authors: Li Liu, Hailu Cao, Yannan Geng, Quanfang Zhang, Xun Bu and Demin Gao
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:223
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  38. Pseudomonas spp. promotes plant growth and colonizes a wide range of environments. During the annotation of a Coffea arabica ESTs database, we detected a considerable number of contaminant Pseudomonas sequences, ...

    Authors: Leandro Pio de Sousa, Matheus Aparecido Pereira Cipriano, Marcio José da Silva, Flávia Rodrigues Alves Patrício, Sueli dos Santos Freitas, Marcelo Falsarella Carazzolle and Jorge Maurício Costa Mondego
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:222
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  40. The widespread use of antibiotics has led to the emergence of many drug-resistant strains; thus, the development of new antibacterial drugs is essential with antimicrobial peptides becoming the focus of resear...

    Authors: Lingling Zhou, Kaiqi Lian, Mengting Wang, Xueyi Jing, Yuanchen Zhang and Jinling Cao
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:220
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  41. The prevalence of Staphylococcus aureus isolates carrying the Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL) gene is higher in Africa (≈50%) compared to Europe (< 5%). The study aimed to measure anti-PVL-antibodies in African...

    Authors: Tobias Grebe, Viktoria Rudolf, Christiane Sidonie Gouleu, Bettina Löffler, Ayola Akim Adegnika, Adebayo Osagie Shittu, Stefanie Deinhardt-Emmer, Silke Niemann and Frieder Schaumburg
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:219
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  42. Rhizosphere microorganisms play a crucial role in plant health and development. Plant root exudates (PRE) are a complex mixture of organic molecules and provide nutritional and signaling information to rhizosp...

    Authors: Javier Ignacio Cillero, Pablo Andrés Henríquez, Thomas Warwick Ledger, Gonzalo Andrés Ruz and Bernardo González
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:218
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  43. Probiotics contain beneficial live bacteria that confer several health benefits to the host. For the past 50 years, spore-forming Bacillus species have been used in the form of probiotics. Among these, Bacillus c...

    Authors: Akash Kharwar, Mohd Rabi Bazaz and Manoj P. Dandekar
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:217
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  44. Colibacillosis is a frequent enteric disease in the pig industry that causes significant economic losses. The objective of this study was to investigate the molecular characteristics of fluoroquinolone (FQ)-re...

    Authors: Kwangwon Seo, Kyung-Hyo Do and Wan-Kyu Lee
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:216
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  45. Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is an opportunistic pathogen and has emerged as one of the most troublesome pathogens. Drug resistance in A. baumannii has been reported on a global scale. Minocycline was f...

    Authors: Tingting Guo, Xiaoli Sun, Jie Yang, Liying Yang, Mengying Li, Yuhang Wang, Hongmei Jiao and Guocai Li
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:215
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  46. Tongue coating is an important health indicator in traditional Chinese medicine (TCM). The tongue coating microbiome can distinguish disease patients from healthy controls. To study the relationship between di...

    Authors: Caihong He, Qiaoyun Liao, Peng Fu, Jinyou Li, Xinxiu Zhao, Qin Zhang and Qifeng Gui
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:214
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  47. Rumen microbes play an important role in ruminant energy supply and animal performance. Previous studies showed that the rumen microbiome of Mongolian cattle has adapted to degrade the rough forage to provide ...

    Authors: Anum Ali Ahmad, Jianbo Zhang, Zeyi Liang, Mei Du, Yayuan Yang, Juanshan Zheng, Ping Yan, RuiJun Long, Bin Tong, Jianlin Han and Xuezhi Ding
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:213
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  49. Macrophages play an essential role in the process of recognition and containment of microbial infections. These immune cells are recruited to infectious sites to reach and phagocytose pathogens. Specifically, ...

    Authors: Sandra Pérez-Rodríguez, Carlos Borau, José Manuel García-Aznar and Jesús Gonzalo-Asensio
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2022 22:211
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