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  1. Herbaspirillum rubrisubalbicans was first identified as a bacterial plant pathogen, causing the mottled stripe disease in sugarcane. H. rubrisubalbicans can also associate with various plants of economic interest...

    Authors: Maria Augusta Schmidt, Eduardo Balsanelli, Hellison Faoro, Leonardo M Cruz, Roseli Wassem, Valter A de Baura, Vinícius Weiss, Marshall G Yates, Humberto M F Madeira, Lilian Pereira-Ferrari, Maria H P Fungaro, Francine M de Paula, Luiz F P Pereira, Luiz G E Vieira, Fábio L Olivares, Fábio O Pedrosa…
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:98
  2. Lysostaphin and the catalytic domain of LytM cleave pentaglycine crossbridges of Staphylococcus aureus peptidoglycan. The bacteriocin lysostaphin is secreted by Staphylococcus simulans biovar staphylolyticus and ...

    Authors: Izabela Sabala, Ing-Marie Jonsson, Andrej Tarkowski and Matthias Bochtler
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:97
  3. Lamivudine (LAM) is associated with the highest known rate of resistance mutations among nucleotide analogs used to treat chronic hepatitis B virus (HBV) infection. Despite this, LAM continues in widespread us...

    Authors: Francisco C A Mello, Bárbara V Lago, Lia L Lewis-Ximenez, Carlos A Fernandes and Selma A Gomes
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:96
  4. Playing a strategic role in the host immune function, the intestinal microbiota has been recently hypothesized to be involved in the etiology of atopy. In order to investigate the gastrointestinal microbial ec...

    Authors: Marco Candela, Simone Rampelli, Silvia Turroni, Marco Severgnini, Clarissa Consolandi, Gianluca De Bellis, Riccardo Masetti, Giampaolo Ricci, Andrea Pession and Patrizia Brigidi
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:95
  5. The mucus layer covering the human intestinal epithelium forms a dynamic surface for host-microbial interactions. In addition to the environmental factors affecting the intestinal equilibrium, such as diet, it...

    Authors: Harri Mäkivuokko, Sampo J Lahtinen, Pirjo Wacklin, Elina Tuovinen, Heli Tenkanen, Janne Nikkilä, Marika Björklund, Kari Aranko, Arthur C Ouwehand and Jaana Mättö
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:94
  6. Tuber magnatum, the Italian white truffle, is the most sought-after edible ectomycorrhizal mushroom. Previous studies report the difficulties of detecting its mycorrhizas and the widespread presence of its myceli...

    Authors: Mirco Iotti, Marco Leonardi, Marilena Oddis, Elena Salerni, Elena Baraldi and Alessandra Zambonelli
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:93
  7. Coxiella burnetii is a highly clonal microorganism which is difficult to culture, requiring BSL3 conditions for its propagation. This leads to a scarce availability of isolates worldwide. On the other hand, publi...

    Authors: Isabel Jado, Cristina Carranza-Rodríguez, Jesús Félix Barandika, Álvaro Toledo, Cristina García-Amil, Beatriz Serrano, Margarita Bolaños, Horacio Gil, Raquel Escudero, Ana L García-Pérez, A Sonia Olmeda, Ianire Astobiza, Bruno Lobo, Manuela Rodríguez-Vargas, José Luis Pérez-Arellano, Fernando López-Gatius…
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:91
  8. Drug resistance displays a problem for the therapy of Mycobacterium tuberculosis infections. For molecular resistance testing, it is essential to have precise knowledge on genomic variations involved in resistanc...

    Authors: Silke Feuerriegel, Barbara Oberhauser, Abu Garawani George, Foday Dafae, Elvira Richter, Sabine Rüsch-Gerdes and Stefan Niemann
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:90
  9. Intragenomic recombination between babA and babB mediates antigenic variations and may help H. pylori colonization. This study determined whether variable genotypes of babA and babB correlate to different clinica...

    Authors: Shew-Meei Sheu, Bor-Shyang Sheu, Wen-Cheng Chiang, Cheng-Yen Kao, Hsiu-Mei Wu, Hsiao-Bai Yang and Jiunn-Jong Wu
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:89
  10. Ureaplasma urealyticum (UUR) and Ureaplasma parvum (UPA) are sexually transmitted bacteria among humans implicated in a variety of disease states including but not limited to: nongonococcal urethritis, infertilit...

    Authors: Vanya Paralanov, Jin Lu, Lynn B Duffy, Donna M Crabb, Susmita Shrivastava, Barbara A Methé, Jason Inman, Shibu Yooseph, Li Xiao, Gail H Cassell, Ken B Waites and John I Glass
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:88
  11. Recent studies have identified in Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis (MAP), already known as a pathogen in ruminants, a potential zoonotic agent of some autoimmune diseases in humans. Therefore, consider...

    Authors: Andrea Cossu, Leonardo Antonio Sechi, Stefania Zanetti and Valentina Rosu
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:87
  12. Metal ions are important micronutrients in cellular metabolism, but excess ions that cause toxic reactive oxygen species are harmful to cells. In bacteria, Fur family proteins such as Fur, Zur and PerR manage ...

    Authors: Tengfei Zhang, Yi Ding, Tingting Li, Yun Wan, Wei Li, Huanchun Chen and Rui Zhou
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:85
  13. Rhizobium tropici strain PRF 81 (= SEMIA 4080) has been used in commercial inoculants for application to common-bean crops in Brazil since 1998, due to its high efficiency in fixing nitrogen, competitiveness agai...

    Authors: Douglas Fabiano Gomes, Jesiane Stefânia da Silva Batista, Aline Luiza Schiavon, Diva Souza Andrade and Mariangela Hungria
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:84
  14. The vaginal microbiome plays an important role in urogenital health. Quantitative real time Polymerase Chain Reaction (qPCR) assays for the most prevalent vaginal Lactobacillus species and bacterial vaginosis spe...

    Authors: Vicky Jespers, Joris Menten, Hilde Smet, Sabrina Poradosú, Saïd Abdellati, Rita Verhelst, Liselotte Hardy, Anne Buvé and Tania Crucitti
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:83
  15. Detection of unculturable bacteria and their localization in the host, by fluorescent in-situ hybridization (FISH), is a powerful technique in the study of host-bacteria interaction. FISH probes are designed to t...

    Authors: Natarajan Gayatri Priya, Neeti Pandey and Raman Rajagopal
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:81
  16. During the past years, yeast has been successfully established as a model to study mechanisms of programmed cell death regulation. Saccharomyces cerevisiae commits to cell death showing typical hallmarks of metaz...

    Authors: Joana Tulha, Fábio Faria-Oliveira, Cândida Lucas and Célia Ferreira
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:80
  17. Hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and hypochlorous acid (HOCl) are reactive oxygen species that are part of the oxidative burst encountered by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium (S. Typhimurium) upon internalization ...

    Authors: Eduardo H Morales, Iván L Calderón, Bernardo Collao, Fernando Gil, Steffen Porwollik, Michael McClelland and Claudia P Saavedra
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:63
  18. Rapid detection and therapeutic intervention for infectious and emerging diseases is a major scientific goal in biodefense and public health. Toward this end, cytokine profiles in human blood were investigated...

    Authors: Brett A Chromy, Imola K Fodor, Nancy K Montgomery, Paul A Luciw and Sandra L McCutchen-Maloney
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:79
  19. Plant-associated bacterial communities caught the attention of several investigators which study the relationships between plants and soil and the potential application of selected bacterial species in crop im...

    Authors: Francesco Pini, Arcangela Frascella, Luisa Santopolo, Marco Bazzicalupo, Emanuele G Biondi, Carla Scotti and Alessio Mengoni
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:78
  20. The skin commensal and opportunistic pathogen Staphylococcus epidermidis is a leading cause of hospital-acquired and biomaterial-associated infections. The polysaccharide intercellular adhesin (PIA), a homoglycan...

    Authors: Anastasia I Spiliopoulou, Maria I Krevvata, Fevronia Kolonitsiou, Llinos G Harris, Thomas S Wilkinson, Angharad P Davies, Georgios O Dimitracopoulos, Nikos K Karamanos, Dietrich Mack and Evangelos D Anastassiou
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:76
  21. Indigenous fermented food products play an essential role in the diet of millions of Africans. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are among the predominant microbial species in African indigenous fermented food produc...

    Authors: David B Adimpong, Dennis S Nielsen, Kim I Sørensen, Patrick MF Derkx and Lene Jespersen
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:75
  22. We have used the genomic data in the Integrated Microbial Genomes system of the Department of Energy’s Joint Genome Institute to make predictions about rhizobial open reading frames that play a role in nodulat...

    Authors: Clothilde Queiroux, Brian K Washburn, Olivia M Davis, Jamie Stewart, Tess E Brewer, Michael R Lyons and Kathryn M Jones
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:74
  23. Recent studies suggest that the reported protective effects of statins (HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors) against community-acquired pneumonia (CAP) and sepsis in humans may be due to confounders and a healthy use...

    Authors: Angela R Boyd, Cecilia A Hinojosa, Perla J Rodriguez and Carlos J Orihuela
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:73
  24. Corynebacterium ulcerans can cause a diphtheria-like illness, especially when the bacterium is lysogenized with a tox gene-carrying bacteriophage that produces diphtheria toxin. Acquisition of toxigenicity upon p...

    Authors: Tsuyoshi Sekizuka, Akihiko Yamamoto, Takako Komiya, Tsuyoshi Kenri, Fumihiko Takeuchi, Keigo Shibayama, Motohide Takahashi, Makoto Kuroda and Masaaki Iwaki
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:72
  25. Bacteria release a wide variety of small molecules including cell- to- cell signaling compounds. Gram-negative bacteria use a variety of self-produced autoinducers such as acylated homoserine lactones (acyl- HSLs...

    Authors: Shu Minagawa, Hiroyuki Inami, Tomohisa Kato, Shinji Sawada, Tatsuya Yasuki, Shinichi Miyairi, Manabu Horikawa, Jun Okuda and Naomasa Gotoh
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:70
  26. A class of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) shows resistance to vancomycin only in the presence of β-lactam antibiotics (BIVR). This type of vancomycin resistance is mainly attributable to the r...

    Authors: Yuriko Hirao, Yurika Ikeda-Dantsuji, Hidehito Matsui, Masaki Yoshida, Seiji Hori, Keisuke Sunakawa, Taiji Nakae and Hideaki Hanaki
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:69
  27. Procalcitonin (PCT) is a polypeptide with several cationic aminoacids in its chemical structure and it is a well known marker of sepsis. It is now emerging that PCT might exhibit some anti-inflammatory effects...

    Authors: Giovanni Matera, Angela Quirino, Aida Giancotti, Maria Concetta Pulicari, Linda Rametti, Maria Luz Rodríguez, Maria Carla Liberto and Alfredo Focà
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:68
  28. Extensive genetic diversity and rapid allelic diversification are characteristics of the human gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori, and are believed to contribute to its ability to cause chronic infections. Both...

    Authors: Claudia Moccia, Juliane Krebes, Stefan Kulick, Xavier Didelot, Christian Kraft, Christelle Bahlawane and Sebastian Suerbaum
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:67
  29. Genetic heterogeneity has become a major inconvenience in the genotyping and molecular epidemiology of the intestinal protozoan parasite Giardia intestinalis, in particular for the major human infecting genotype,...

    Authors: Johan Ankarklev, Staffan G Svärd and Marianne Lebbad
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:65
  30. Diseases from Staphylococcus aureus are a major problem in Indian hospitals and recent studies point to infiltration of community associated methicillin resistant S. aureus (CA-MRSA) into hospitals. Although CA-M...

    Authors: Srikanth Shambat, Savitha Nadig, Sushma Prabhakara, Michele Bes, Jerome Etienne and Gayathri Arakere
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:64
  31. Aeromonas spp. are versatile bacteria that exhibit a wide variety of lifestyles. In an attempt to improve the understanding of human aeromonosis, we investigated whether clinical isolates displayed specific chara...

    Authors: Frédéric Roger, Hélène Marchandin, Estelle Jumas-Bilak, Angeli Kodjo and Brigitte Lamy
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:62
  32. Acellular Pertussis vaccines against whooping cough caused by Bordetella pertussis present a much-improved safety profile compared to the original vaccine of killed whole cells. The principal antigen of acellular...

    Authors: Wasin Buasri, Attawut Impoolsup, Chuenchit Boonchird, Anocha Luengchaichawange, Pannipa Prompiboon, Jean Petre and Watanalai Panbangred
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:61
  33. Similar to Gram-negative bacteria, the outer membrane (OM) of the pathogenic spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi, contains integral OM-spanning proteins (OMPs), as well as membrane-anchored lipoproteins. Although th...

    Authors: Tiffany R Lenhart, Melisha R Kenedy, Xiuli Yang, Utpal Pal and Darrin R Akins
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:60
  34. Several strain-specific Klebsiella pneumoniae virulence determinants have been described, though these have almost exclusively been linked with hypervirulent liver abscess-associated strains. Through PCR interrog...

    Authors: Jon J van Aartsen, Steen G Stahlhut, Ewan M Harrison, Marialuisa Crosatti, Hong-Yu Ou, Karen A Krogfelt, Carsten Struve and Kumar Rajakumar
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:59
  35. Penicillin binding protein 3 (PBP3) of L. monocytogenes has long been thought of as the primary lethal target for β-lactam antibiotics due to the excellent correlation between the MICs of different β-lactams and ...

    Authors: Agata Krawczyk-Balska, Magdalena Popowska and Zdzislaw Markiewicz
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:57
  36. Bacterial load quantification is a critical component of bacterial community analysis, but a culture-independent method capable of detecting and quantifying diverse bacteria is needed. Based on our analysis of...

    Authors: Cindy M Liu, Maliha Aziz, Sergey Kachur, Po-Ren Hsueh, Yu-Tsung Huang, Paul Keim and Lance B Price
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:56
  37. The maternally inherited α-Proteobacteria Wolbachia pipientis is an obligate endosymbiont of nematodes and arthropods, in which they induce a variety of reproductive alterations, including Cytoplasmic Incompatibi...

    Authors: Samuel Pichon, Didier Bouchon, Chao Liu, Lanming Chen, Roger A Garrett and Pierre Grève
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:55
  38. Enzybiotics are becoming increasingly recognized as potential alternative therapies for drug-resistant bacteria. Although only a few enzybiotics are currently well characterized, much information is still miss...

    Authors: Hongyu Wu, Hairong Lu, Jinjiang Huang, Guodong Li and Qingshan Huang
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:54
  39. Understanding the survival of resistance plasmids in the absence of selective pressure for the antibiotic resistance genes they carry is important for assessing the value of interventions to combat resistant b...

    Authors: Bruce Humphrey, Nicholas R Thomson, Christopher M Thomas, Karen Brooks, Mandy Sanders, Anne A Delsol, John M Roe, Peter M Bennett and Virve I Enne
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:53
  40. The genus Corynebacterium is composed of Gram-positive bacteria that are widely distributed throughout the environment; these bacteria are also part of the normal microbiota of human skin and mucous membranes. Mu...

    Authors: Margarita Gomila, Feliu Renom, Maria del Carmen Gallegos, Margarita Garau, Dolores Guerrero, Joan B Soriano and Jorge Lalucat
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:52
  41. Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli are important pathogens of human and animal hosts. Some human and avian extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli are indistinguishable on the basis of diseases caused, multil...

    Authors: Ganwu Li, Subhashinie Kariyawasam, Kelly A Tivendale, Yvonne Wannemuehler, Christa Ewers, Lothar H Wieler, Catherine M Logue and Lisa K Nolan
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:51
  42. Leptospirosis is considered a re-emerging infectious disease caused by pathogenic spirochaetes of the genus Leptospira. Pathogenic leptospires have the ability to survive and disseminate to multiple organs after ...

    Authors: Renan F Domingos, Monica L Vieira, Eliete C Romero, Amane Paldes Gonçales, Zenaide M de Morais, Silvio A Vasconcellos and Ana L T O Nascimento
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:50
  43. A powerful approach to understanding complex processes such as aging is to use model organisms amenable to genetic manipulation, and to seek relevant phenotypes to measure. Caenorhabditis elegans is particularly ...

    Authors: Cynthia Portal-Celhay, Ellen R Bradley and Martin J Blaser
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:49
  44. Characterising the overlap of C. difficile genotypes in different reservoirs can improve our understanding of possible transmission routes of this pathogen. Most of the studies have focused on a comparison of the...

    Authors: Sandra Janezic, Matjaz Ocepek, Valerija Zidaric and Maja Rupnik
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:48
  45. Antibiotic associated diarrhea and Clostridium difficile infection are frequent complications of broad spectrum antibiotic therapy. Probiotic bacteria are used as therapeutic and preventive agents in these disord...

    Authors: Ateequr Rehman, Femke-Anouska Heinsen, Marjorie E Koenen, Koen Venema, Henrik Knecht, Stephan Hellmig, Stefan Schreiber and Stephan J Ott
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:47
  46. Since 2001, several studies have reported high rifampicin resistance rates (45 - 100%) among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates from South Africa. The authors previously characterised 100...

    Authors: Melissa J Jansen van Rensburg, Andrew C Whitelaw and Brenda G Elisha
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:46

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