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  1. In neutralophilic bacteria, monovalent metal cation/H+ antiporters play a key role in pH homeostasis. In Escherichia coli, only four antiporters (NhaA, NhaB, MdfA and ChaA) are identified to function in maintenan...

    Authors: Scarlett R Holdsworth and Christopher J Law
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:1987
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Microbiology 2017 17:91

  2. Huanglongbing (HLB) is a worldwide devastating disease of citrus. There are no effective control measures for this newly emerging but century-old disease. Previously, we reported a combination of Penicillin G ...

    Authors: Muqing Zhang, Charles A Powell, Ying Guo, Lesley Benyon and Yongping Duan
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:112
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  3. Pseudomonas fluorescens SBW25 has been extensively studied because of its plant growth promoting properties and potential as a biocontrol agent. The genome of SBW25 has been sequenced, and among sequenced strains...

    Authors: Kristin Trippe, Kerry McPhail, Donald Armstrong, Mark Azevedo and Gary Banowetz
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:111
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Microbiology 2013 13:263

  5. We determined the prevalence and evidence for physical linkage amongst integrons, insertion sequences, Tn21 and Tn7 transposons in a collection of 1327 E. coli obtained over a 19-year period from patients in Keny...

    Authors: John Kiiru, Patrick Butaye, Bruno M Goddeeris and Samuel Kariuki
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:109
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  6. Eukaryotic organisms employ cell surface receptors such as the seven-transmembrane G protein-coupled receptors (GPCRs) as sensors to connect to the environment. GPCRs react to a variety of extracellular cues a...

    Authors: Sabine Gruber, Markus Omann and Susanne Zeilinger
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:108
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  7. The fungus Paracoccidioides spp is the agent of paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM), a pulmonary mycosis acquired by the inhalation of fungal propagules. Paracoccidioides malate synthase (PbMLS) is important in the infe...

    Authors: Karine Martins de Oliveira, Benedito Rodrigues da Silva Neto, Juliana Alves Parente, Roosevelt Alves da Silva, Guilherme Oliveira Quintino, Aline Raquel Voltan, Maria José Soares Mendes-Giannini, Célia Maria de Almeida Soares and Maristela Pereira
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:107
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  8. Pasteurella multocida is the etiologic agent of fowl cholera, a highly contagious and severe disease of poultry causing significant mortality and morbidity throughout the world. All types of poultry are susceptib...

    Authors: Timothy J Johnson, Juan E Abrahante, Samuel S Hunter, Melissa Hauglund, Fred M Tatum, Samuel K Maheswaran and Robert E Briggs
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:106
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  9. Considerable attention has been paid to actinomycetes, especially the secondary metabolites obtained from Streptomyces species, as the best alternatives to chemicals as biological control agents for polyphagous p...

    Authors: Mariadhas Valan Arasu, Naif Abdullah Al-Dhabi, Valsalam Saritha, Veeramuthu Duraipandiyan, Chinnasamy Muthukumar and Sun-Ju Kim
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:105
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  10. Avian influenza remains a serious threat to human health. The consequence of human infection varies markedly among different subtypes of avian influenza viruses. In addition to viral factors, the difference in...

    Authors: Wai-Yip Lam, Apple Chung-Man Yeung, Karry Lei-Ka Ngai, Man-Shan Li, Ka-Fai To, Stephen Kwok-Wing Tsui and Paul Kay-Sheung Chan
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:104
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  11. Helicobacter pylori is known to be a gastric pathogen of humans. Eradication regimens for H. pylori infection have some side effects, compliance problems, relapses, and antibiotic resistance. Therefore, the need ...

    Authors: Carlo Bisignano, Angela Filocamo, Erminia La Camera, Sebastiana Zummo, Maria Teresa Fera and Giuseppina Mandalari
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:103
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  12. Leishmania parasites are transmitted to their vertebrate hosts by infected Phlebotomine sand flies during the blood meal of the flies. Sand fly saliva is known to enhance Leishmania spp. infection, while pre-expo...

    Authors: Vanessa Carregaro, Diego Luis Costa, Claudia Brodskyn, Aldina Maria Barral, Manuel Barral-Netto, Fernando Q Cunha and João Santana Silva
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:102
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  13. Arginine methylation is a post-translational modification that expands the functional diversity of proteins. Kinetoplastid parasites contain a relatively large group of protein arginine methyltransferases (PRM...

    Authors: Michel Pelletier, Alyssa S Frainier, Dominic N Munini, Jenna M Wiemer, Amber R Karpie and Jeff J Sattora
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:101
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  14. Lyme borreliosis, caused by tick-borne Borrelia burgdorferi, is a multi-phasic, multi-system disease in humans. Similar to humans, C3H mice develop arthritis and carditis, with resolution and periodic bouts of re...

    Authors: Denise Imai, Kevin Holden, Eric M Velazquez, Sunlian Feng, Emir Hodzic and Stephen W Barthold
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:100
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  16. The ATP-Binding Cassette (ABC) functional superfamily includes integral transmembrane exporters that have evolved three times independently, forming three families termed ABC1, ABC2 and ABC3, upon which monoph...

    Authors: Wei Hao Zheng, Åke Västermark, Maksim A Shlykov, Vamsee Reddy, Eric I Sun and Milton H Saier
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:98
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  17. Cystic fibrosis (CF) lung microbiota consists of diverse species which are pathogens or opportunists or have unknown pathogenicity. Here we report the full characterization of a recently described multidrug re...

    Authors: Poonam Sharma, Seydina M Diene, Sandrine Thibeaut, Fadi Bittar, Véronique Roux, Carine Gomez, Martine Reynaud-Gaubert and Jean-Marc Rolain
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:97
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  18. Many Gram-negative bacteria rely on a type VI secretion system (T6SS) to infect eukaryotic cells or to compete against other microbes. Common to these systems is the presence of two conserved proteins, in Vibrio ...

    Authors: Jeanette E Bröms, Takahiko Ishikawa, Sun N Wai and Anders Sjöstedt
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:96
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  19. Microcin J25 (MccJ25) is a plasmid-encoded antibiotic peptide produced by Escherichia coli (E. coli). MccJ25 enters into the sensitive E. coli strains by the outer membrane receptor FhuA and the inner membrane pr...

    Authors: María Fernanda Pomares, Natalia S Corbalán, Conrado Adler, Ricardo de Cristóbal, Ricardo N Farías, Mónica A Delgado and Paula A Vincent
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:95
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  20. The catabolic pathways of N-acetyl-D-galactosamine (Aga) and D-galactosamine (Gam) in E. coli were proposed from bioinformatic analysis of the aga/gam regulon in E. coli K-12 and later from studies using E. coli ...

    Authors: Zonglin Hu, Isha R Patel and Amit Mukherjee
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:94
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Microbiology 2014 14:127

  21. A novel variant of the ST1-SCCmecIV methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) lineage, mostly associated with nosocomial bloodstream infections (BSI), has emerged in Rio de Janeiro. Bacterial biofilm has...

    Authors: Fabienne Antunes Ferreira, Raquel Rodrigues Souza, Bruno de Sousa Moraes, Ana Maria de Amorim Ferreira, Marco Antônio Américo, Sérgio Eduardo Longo Fracalanzza, José Nelson dos Santos Silva Couceiro and Agnes Marie Sá Figueiredo
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:93
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  22. Pseudomonas fluorescens is a common inhabitant of soil and the rhizosphere environment. In addition to potential applications in biocontrol and bioremediation, P. fluorescens is of interest as a model for studyin...

    Authors: Katila Varivarn, Lindsey A Champa, Mark W Silby and Eduardo A Robleto
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:92
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  23. Secondary metabolite production, a hallmark of filamentous fungi, is an expanding area of research for the Aspergilli. These compounds are potent chemicals, ranging from deadly toxins to therapeutic antibiotics t...

    Authors: Diane O Inglis, Jonathan Binkley, Marek S Skrzypek, Martha B Arnaud, Gustavo C Cerqueira, Prachi Shah, Farrell Wymore, Jennifer R Wortman and Gavin Sherlock
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:91
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  24. The bacterial surface protein internalin (InlA) is a major virulence factor of the food-born pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. It plays a critical role in the bacteria crossing the host intestinal barrier by a spe...

    Authors: Silke Bergmann, Philippa M Beard, Bastian Pasche, Stefan Lienenklaus, Siegfried Weiss, Cormac G M Gahan, Klaus Schughart and Andreas Lengeling
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:90
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  25. Nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) are normal inhabitants of a variety of environmental reservoirs including natural and municipal water. The aim of this study was to document the variety of species of NTM in p...

    Authors: Rachel M Thomson, Robyn Carter, Carla Tolson, Chris Coulter, Flavia Huygens and Megan Hargreaves
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:89
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  26. Legionellosis is an uncommon form of pneumonia. After a clinical encounter, the necessary antibiotic treatment is available if the diagnosis is made early in the illness. Before the clinical encounter, early d...

    Authors: Begoña Bedrina, Sonia Macián, Inmaculada Solís, Roberto Fernández-Lafuente, Eva Baldrich and Guillermo Rodríguez
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:88
    Content type: Methodology article Published on:

  27. The prevalence of drug-resistant bacteria has encouraged the search for novel antimicrobial compounds. Food-associated microorganisms, as a source of new antibiotics, have recently received considerable attent...

    Authors: Zhaohui Huang, Yu Hu, Linfei Shou and Mingxu Song
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:87
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  28. For the disruption of a target gene in molecular microbiology, unmarked mutagenesis is preferable to marked mutagenesis because the former method raises no concern about the polar effect and leaves no selectio...

    Authors: Masahito Ishikawa and Katsutoshi Hori
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:86
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  29. We investigated the molecular characteristics of multidrug-resistant, extended-spectrum β-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Enterobacteriaceae isolated in community settings and in hospitals in Antananarivo, Madagascar.

    Authors: Hanitra C Rakotonirina, Benoît Garin, Frédérique Randrianirina, Vincent Richard, Antoine Talarmin and Guillaume Arlet
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:85
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  30. The prevalence and type of plasmids, resistance genes and integrons carried by two collections of multiresistant E. coli producing or not extended-spectrum β-lactamases have been compared. Rep-PCR was used to det...

    Authors: Belén Ruiz del Castillo, Laura Vinué, Elena Jesús Román, Beatriz Guerra, Alessandra Carattoli, Carmen Torres and Luis Martínez-Martínez
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:84
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  31. Genes encoding Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamases are usually located on transferable plasmids. Each plasmid contains its own replication mechanism. Carattoli et al. developed an extended PCR-based replicon typing...

    Authors: Maikel Boot, Susanne Raadsen, Paul HM Savelkoul and Christina Vandenbroucke-Grauls
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:83
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  32. Bacterial vaginosis (BV) is a common vaginal infection occurring in women of reproductive age. It is widely accepted that the microbial switch from normal microflora to BV is characterized by a decrease in vag...

    Authors: António Machado, Carina Almeida, Débora Salgueiro, Ana Henriques, Mario Vaneechoutte, Freddy Haesebrouck, Maria João Vieira, Ligia Rodrigues, Nuno Filipe Azevedo and Nuno Cerca
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:82
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  33. Low temperatures play key roles in the development of most plant diseases, mainly because of their influence on the expression of various virulence factors in phytopathogenic bacteria. Thus far, studies regard...

    Authors: Jackeline Lizzeta Arvizu-Gómez, Alejandro Hernández-Morales, Juan Ramiro Pacheco Aguilar and Ariel Álvarez-Morales
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:81
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  34. Phylogenetic hypotheses based on complete genome data are presented for the Gammaproteobacteria family Vibrionaceae. Two taxon samplings are presented: one including all those taxa for which the genome sequenc...

    Authors: Rebecca B Dikow and William Leo Smith
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:80
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  35. Heavy metal Resistance-Nodulation-Division (HME-RND) efflux systems help Gram-negative bacteria to keep the intracellular homeostasis under high metal concentrations. These proteins constitute the cytoplasmic ...

    Authors: Estela Y Valencia, Vânia S Braz, Cristiane Guzzo and Marilis V Marques
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:79
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  36. Human activities have greatly increased nitrogen (N) levels in natural habitats through atmospheric N deposition and nutrient leaching, which can have large effects on N cycling and other ecosystem processes. ...

    Authors: Sarah R Carrino-Kyker, Kurt A Smemo and David J Burke
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:78
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  37. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important opportunistic human pathogen and is extremely difficult to treat due to its high intrinsic and adaptive antibiotic resistance, ability to form biofilms in chronic infections...

    Authors: Anke Neidig, Amy TY Yeung, Thibaut Rosay, Beatrix Tettmann, Nikola Strempel, Martina Rueger, Olivier Lesouhaitier and Joerg Overhage
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:77
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  38. The poor reproducibility of matrix-assisted desorption/ionization time-of-flight (MALDI-TOF) spectra limits the effectiveness of the MALDI-TOF MS-based identification of filamentous fungi with highly heterogen...

    Authors: Anne-Cécile Normand, Carole Cassagne, Stéphane Ranque, Coralie L’Ollivier, Patrick Fourquet, Sam Roesems, Marijke Hendrickx and Renaud Piarroux
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:76
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  39. Sustained human leptospirosis as well as death cases has been reported in Qiandongnan Prefecture, Southeast of Guizhou, China, recently, but these human patients were only clinically diagnosed, and leptospires...

    Authors: Shijun Li, Dingming Wang, Cuicai Zhang, Xiaoyu Wei, Kecheng Tian, Xiuwen Li, Yixin Nie, Ying Liu, Guanghai Yao, Jingzhu Zhou, Guangpeng Tang, Xiugao Jiang and Jie Yan
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:75
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  40. In all branches of life there are plenty of symbiotic associations. Insects are particularly well suited to establishing intracellular symbiosis with bacteria, providing them with metabolic capabilities they l...

    Authors: Sergio López-Madrigal, Amparo Latorre, Manuel Porcar, Andrés Moya and Rosario Gil
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:74
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  41. Porphyromonas gingivalis lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a crucial virulence factor strongly associated with chronic periodontitis which is the primary cause of tooth loss in adults. It exhibits remarkable heterogene...

    Authors: Thanuja D K Herath, Yu Wang, Chaminda J Seneviratne, Richard P Darveau, Cun-Yu Wang and Lijian Jin
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:73
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  42. GeoChip 3.0, a microbial functional gene array, containing ~28,000 oligonucleotide probes and targeting ~57,000 sequences from 292 functional gene families, provided a powerful tool for researching microbial c...

    Authors: Yuguang Zhang, Zhenmei Lu, Shanshan Liu, Yunfeng Yang, Zhili He, Zuohua Ren, Jizhong Zhou and Diqiang Li
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:72
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  43. Endophytic fungi represent underexplored resource of novel lead compounds and have a capacity to produce diverse class of plant secondary metabolites. Here we investigated endophytic fungi diversity and screen...

    Authors: Zhi-Qiang Xiong, Ying-Ying Yang, Na Zhao and Yong Wang
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:71
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  44. The microbiota has been shown to play an important role in the biology of insects. In recent decades, significant efforts have been made to better understand the diversity of symbiotic bacteria associated with...

    Authors: Claire Valiente Moro, Florence Hélène Tran, Fara Nantenaina Raharimalala, Pierre Ravelonandro and Patrick Mavingui
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:70
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  45. Bovicin HC5 is an antimicrobial peptide that shows a broad spectrum of activity and potential for biotechnological and therapeutic applications. To gain insight about the safety of bovicin HC5 application, the...

    Authors: Aline Dias Paiva, Kenner Morais Fernandes, Roberto Sousa Dias, Alípio dos Santos Rocha, Leandro Licursi de Oliveira, Clóvis Andrade Neves, Sérgio Oliveira de Paula and Hilário Cuquetto Mantovani
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:69
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  46. Lactococcus lactis is used in dairy food fermentation and for the efficient production of industrially relevant enzymes. The genome content and different phenotypes have been determined for multiple L. lactis str...

    Authors: Jumamurat R Bayjanov, Marjo JC Starrenburg, Marijke R van der Sijde, Roland J Siezen and Sacha AFT van Hijum
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:68
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  47. The importance of flagella and chemotaxis genes in host pathogen interaction in Salmonella enterica is mainly based on studies of the broad host range serovar, S. Typhimurium, while little is known on the importa...

    Authors: John Elmerdahl Olsen, Kirsten Hobolt Hoegh-Andersen, Josep Casadesús, Jesper T Rosenkrantz, Mark Simon Chadfield and Line Elnif Thomsen
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:67
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  48. It is widely believed that integral outer membrane (OM) proteins in bacteria are able to diffuse laterally in the OM. However, stable, immobile proteins have been identified in the OM of Escherichia coli. In expl...

    Authors: Gertjan S Verhoeven, Marileen Dogterom and Tanneke den Blaauwen
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:66
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  49. Methicillin resistance determinant mecA is generally transferred by SCCmec elements. However, the mecA gene might not be carried by a SCCmec in a Staphylococcus haemolyticus clinical isolate, WCH1, as no cassette...

    Authors: Zhiyong Zong
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:64
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  50. The ability to distinguish nonself from self is a fundamental characteristic of biological systems. In the filamentous fungus Neurospora crassa, multiple incompatibility genes mediate nonself recognition during v...

    Authors: Robert Phillip Smith, Kenji Wellman and Myron L Smith
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2013 13:63
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