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  1. Wolbachia are bacterial endosymbionts of many arthropod species in which they manipulate reproductive functions. The distribution of these bacteria in the Drosophila ovarian cells at different stages of oogenesis...

    Authors: Mariya V Zhukova and Elena Kiseleva
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12(Suppl 1):S15
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  2. Insects thriving on nutritionally poor habitats have integrated mutualistic intracellular symbiotic bacteria (endosymbionts) in a bacteria-bearing tissue (the bacteriome) that isolates the endosymbionts and pr...

    Authors: Aurélien Vigneron, Delphine Charif, Carole Vincent-Monégat, Agnès Vallier, Frédérick Gavory, Patrick Wincker and Abdelaziz Heddi
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12(Suppl 1):S14
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  3. Wolbachia and Cardinium are endosymbiotic bacteria infecting many arthropods and manipulating host reproduction. Although these bacteria are maternally transmitted, incongruencies between phylogenies of host and ...

    Authors: Vera I D Ros, Vicki M Fleming, Edward J Feil and Johannes A J Breeuwer
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12(Suppl 1):S13
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  4. Strains of the endosymbiotic bacterium Wolbachia pipientis are extremely diverse both genotypically and in terms of their induced phenotypes in invertebrate hosts. Despite extensive molecular characterisation of

    Authors: Markus Riegler, Iñaki Iturbe-Ormaetxe, Megan Woolfit, Wolfgang J Miller and Scott L O’Neill
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12(Suppl 1):S12
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  5. There has been a rising incidence of invasive aspergillosis (IA) in critically ill patients, even in the absence of an apparent predisposing immunodeficiency. The diagnosis of IA is difficult because clinical ...

    Authors: Li-ning Shi, Fang-qiu Li, Mei Huang, Jing-fen Lu, Xiao-xiang Kong, Shi-qin Wang and Hai-feng Shao
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:11
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  6. Maternally inherited bacterial symbionts infecting arthropods have major implications on host ecology and evolution. Among them, the genus Arsenophonus is particularly characterized by a large host spectrum and a...

    Authors: Laurence Mouton, Magali Thierry, Hélène Henri, Rémy Baudin, Olivier Gnankine, Bernard Reynaud, Einat Zchori-Fein, Nathalie Becker, Frédéric Fleury and Hélène Delatte
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12(Suppl 1):S10
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  7. The predatory mirids of the genus Macrolophus are key natural enemies of various economically important agricultural pests. Both M. caliginosus and M. pygmaeus are commercially available for the augmentative biol...

    Authors: Thijs Machtelinckx, Thomas Van Leeuwen, Tom Van De Wiele, Nico Boon, Winnok H De Vos, Juan-Antonio Sanchez, Mauro Nannini, Godelieve Gheysen and Patrick De Clercq
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12(Suppl 1):S9
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  8. Wolbachia are intracellular bacteria known to be facultative reproductive parasites of numerous arthropod hosts. Apart from these reproductive manipulations, recent findings indicate that Wolbachia may also modif...

    Authors: Natacha Kremer, Delphine Charif, Hélène Henri, Frédérick Gavory, Patrick Wincker, Patrick Mavingui and Fabrice Vavre
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12(Suppl 1):S7
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  9. Cockroaches are terrestrial insects that strikingly eliminate waste nitrogen as ammonia instead of uric acid. Blattabacterium cuenoti (Mercier 1906) strains Bge and Pam are the obligate primary endosymbionts of t...

    Authors: Carmen Maria González-Domenech, Eugeni Belda, Rafael Patiño-Navarrete, Andrés Moya, Juli Peretó and Amparo Latorre
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12(Suppl 1):S5
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  10. Bacteria of the genus Asaia have been recently recognized as secondary symbionts of different sugar-feeding insects, including the leafhopper Scaphoideus titanus, vector of Flavescence dorée phytoplasmas. Asaia h...

    Authors: Elena Gonella, Elena Crotti, Aurora Rizzi, Mauro Mandrioli, Guido Favia, Daniele Daffonchio and Alberto Alma
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12(Suppl 1):S4
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  11. Wolbachia is a genus of endosymbiotic α-Proteobacteria infecting a wide range of arthropods and filarial nematodes. Wolbachia is able to induce reproductive abnormalities such as cytoplasmic incompatibility (CI),...

    Authors: Vangelis Doudoumis, George Tsiamis, Florence Wamwiri, Corey Brelsfoard, Uzma Alam, Emre Aksoy, Stelios Dalaperas, Adly Abd-Alla, Johnson Ouma, Peter Takac, Serap Aksoy and Kostas Bourtzis
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12(Suppl 1):S3
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  12. Mangotoxin is an antimetabolite toxin that is produced by strains of Pseudomonas syringae pv. syringae; mangotoxin-producing strains are primarily isolated from mango tissues with symptoms of bacterial apical nec...

    Authors: Eva Arrebola, Víctor J Carrión, Francisco M Cazorla, Alejandro Pérez-García, Jesús Murillo and Antonio de Vicente
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:10
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  13. The association between Helicobacter pylori infection and upper gastrointestinal disease is well established. However, only a small fraction of H. pylori carriers develop disease, and there are great geographical...

    Authors: Lars L Eftang, Ying Esbensen, Tone M Tannæs, Ida RK Bukholm and Geir Bukholm
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:9
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  14. The Gram-positive bacterium Staphylococcus saprophyticus is the second most frequent causative agent of community-acquired urinary tract infections (UTI), accounting for up to 20% of cases. A common feature of st...

    Authors: Nathan P King, Türkan Sakinç, Nouri L Ben Zakour, Makrina Totsika, Begoña Heras, Pavla Simerska, Mark Shepherd, Sören G Gatermann, Scott A Beatson and Mark A Schembri
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:8
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  16. The amino acid-producing Gram-positive Corynebacterium glutamicum is auxotrophic for biotin although biotin ring assembly starting from the precursor pimeloyl-CoA is still functional. It possesses AccBC, the α-su...

    Authors: Jens Schneider, Petra Peters-Wendisch, K Corinna Stansen, Susanne Götker, Stanislav Maximow, Reinhard Krämer and Volker F Wendisch
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:6
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  17. Outbreaks of infectious diseases by microbial pathogens can cause substantial losses of stock in aquaculture systems. There are several ways to eliminate these pathogens including the use of antibiotics, bioci...

    Authors: Sadia J Khan, Robert H Reed and Mohammad G Rasul
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:5
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  19. Endophytic fungi are little known for exogenous secretion of phytohormones and mitigation of salinity stress, which is a major limiting factor for agriculture production worldwide. Current study was designed t...

    Authors: Abdul Latif Khan, Muhammad Hamayun, Sang-Mo Kang, Yoon-Ha Kim, Hee-Young Jung, Joong-Hwan Lee and In-Jung Lee
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:3
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  20. A common finding amongst patients with inhalational anthrax is a paucity of polymorphonuclear leukocytes (PMNs) in infected tissues in the face of abundant circulating PMNs. A major virulence determinant of an...

    Authors: Chinh Nguyen, Chiguang Feng, Min Zhan, Alan S Cross and Simeon E Goldblum
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:2
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  22. Shigella flexneri is the major pathogen causing bacillary dysentery. Fifteen serotypes have been recognized up to now. The genesis of new S. flexneri serotypes is commonly mediated by serotype-converting bacterio...

    Authors: Qiangzheng Sun, Ruiting Lan, Yiting Wang, Jianping Wang, Xia Luo, Shaomin Zhang, Peijing Li, Yan Wang, Changyun Ye, Huaiqi Jing and Jianguo Xu
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:269
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  23. The gene YCL047C, which has been renamed promoter of filamentation gene (POF1), has recently been described as a cell component involved in yeast filamentous growth. The objective of this work is to understand th...

    Authors: Iris M Costa, Tallybia HT Nasser, Marilene Demasi, Rafaella MP Nascimento, Luis ES Netto, Sayuri Miyamoto, Fernanda M Prado and Gisele Monteiro
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:268
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  24. The genus Brucella contains highly infectious species that are classified as biological threat agents. The timely detection and identification of the microorganism involved is essential for an effective response ...

    Authors: Florigio Lista, Frans AG Reubsaet, Riccardo De Santis, Rene R Parchen, Ad L de Jong, Jasper Kieboom, Anton L van der Laaken, Ingrid AI Voskamp-Visser, Silvia Fillo, Hugo-Jan Jansen, Jan Van der Plas and Armand Paauw
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:267
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  25. Botrytis cinerea is a haploid necrotrophic ascomycete which is responsible for 'grey mold' disease in more than 200 plant species. Broad molecular research has been conducted on this pathogen in recent years, res...

    Authors: Shahar Ish - Shalom, Aviva Gafni, Amnon Lichter and Maggie Levy
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:266
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  26. Aggregation may play a main role in the adhesion of bacteria to the gastrointestinal epithelium and their colonization ability, as well as in probiotic effects through co-aggregation with intestinal pathogens ...

    Authors: Milan Kojic, Branko Jovcic, Ivana Strahinic, Jelena Begovic, Jelena Lozo, Katarina Veljovic and Ljubisa Topisirovic
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:265
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  27. Accurate assessment of probiotics with targeted anti-Salmonella activity requires suitable models accounting for both, microbe-microbe and host-microbe interactions in gut environments. Here we report the combina...

    Authors: Annina Zihler, Mélanie Gagnon, Christophe Chassard and Christophe Lacroix
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:264
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  28. Staphylococcus aureus is a well-armed pathogen prevalent in severe infections such as endocarditis and osteomyelitis. Fibronectin-binding proteins A and B, encoded by fnbA/B, are major pathogenesis determinants i...

    Authors: Jean Philippe Rasigade, Abdelmalek Moulay, Yannick Lhoste, Anne Tristan, Michele Bes, François Vandenesch, Jerome Etienne, Gerard Lina, Frederic Laurent and Oana Dumitrescu
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:263
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  29. Group A Streptococcus (GAS) is a human-specific pathogen responsible for a number of diseases characterized by a wide range of clinical manifestations. During host colonization GAS-cell aggregates or microcolonie...

    Authors: Heaven A Oliver-Kozup, Meenal Elliott, Beth A Bachert, Karen H Martin, Sean D Reid, Diane E Schwegler-Berry, Brett J Green and Slawomir Lukomski
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:262
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  30. Accumulation of gyrase cleavage complex in Escherichia coli from the action of quinolone antibiotics induces an oxidative damage cell death pathway. The oxidative cell death pathway has also been shown to be invo...

    Authors: I-Fen Liu, Sandra Aedo and Yuk-Ching Tse-Dinh
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:261
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  31. Microorganisms produce cell-wall-degrading enzymes as part of their strategies for plant invasion/nutrition. Among these, pectin lyases (PNLs) catalyze the depolymerization of esterified pectin by a β-eliminat...

    Authors: Alicia Lara-Márquez, María G Zavala-Páramo, Everardo López-Romero, Nancy Calderón-Cortés, Rodolfo López-Gómez, Ulises Conejo-Saucedo and Horacio Cano-Camacho
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:260
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  32. Acidithiobacillus ferrooxidans is an acidophilic, chemolithoautotrophic bacterium that has been successfully used in metal bioleaching. In this study, an analysis of the A. ferrooxidans ATCC 23270 genome revealed...

    Authors: Daniela A Ribeiro, Luiz EV Del Bem, Renato Vicentini, Lúcio FC Ferraz, Mario T Murakami and Laura MM Ottoboni
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:259
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  34. Brucella abortus is the etiological agent of a worldwide zoonosis called brucellosis. This alpha-proteobacterium is dividing asymmetrically, and PdhS, an essential histidine kinase, was reported to be an old pole...

    Authors: Delphine Dotreppe, Caroline Mullier, Jean-Jacques Letesson and Xavier De Bolle
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:257
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  35. Since 1950, Brucella melitensis has been the predominant strain associated with human brucellosis in China. In this study we investigated the genotypic characteristics of B. melitensis isolates from China using a...

    Authors: Hai Jiang, Mengguang Fan, Jingdiao Chen, Jingchuan Mi, Ruiping Yu, Hongyan Zhao, Dongri Piao, Changwen Ke, Xiaoling Deng, Guozhong Tian and Buyun Cui
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:256
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  36. The siphonous green macroalga Bryopsis has some remarkable characteristics. Besides hosting a rich endophytic bacterial flora, Bryopsis also displays extraordinary wound repair and propagation mechanisms. This la...

    Authors: Joke Hollants, Helen Decleyre, Frederik Leliaert, Olivier De Clerck and Anne Willems
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:255
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  37. Culture and quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) assays for the detection of Legionella were compared on samples from a residential area before and after two interventions. A total of 84 samples were col...

    Authors: Louise H Krøjgaard, Karen A Krogfelt, Hans-Jørgen Albrechtsen and Søren A Uldum
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:254
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  38. Lateral Gene Transfer (LGT) is a major contributor to bacterial evolution and up to 25% of a bacterium's genome may have been acquired by this process over evolutionary periods of time. Successful LGT requires...

    Authors: Maurizio Labbate, Yan Boucher, Piklu Roy Chowdhury and Hatch W Stokes
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:253
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  40. The alphaproteobacterium Wolbachia pipientis, the most common endosymbiont in eukaryotes, is found predominantly in insects including many Drosophila species. Although Wolbachia is primarily vertically transmitte...

    Authors: Jennifer A Biliske, Philip D Batista, Chantalle L Grant and Harriet L Harris
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:251
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  41. Sphingomonas wittichii strain RW1 can completely oxidize dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans, which are persistent contaminants of soils and sediments. For successful application in soil bioremediation systems, s...

    Authors: David R Johnson, Edith Coronado, Silvia K Moreno-Forero, Hermann J Heipieper and Jan Roelof van der Meer
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:250
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  43. Microbiological studies frequently involve exchanges of strains between laboratories and/or stock centers. The integrity of exchanged strains is vital for archival reasons and to ensure reproducible experiment...

    Authors: Beny Spira, Rodrigo de Almeida Toledo, Ram P Maharjan and Thomas Ferenci
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:248
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  44. Candida can cause mucocutaneous and/or systemic infections in hospitalized and immunosuppressed patients. Most individuals are colonized by Candida spp. as part of the oral flora and the intestinal tract. We comp...

    Authors: Juliana C Junqueira, Beth B Fuchs, Maged Muhammed, Jeffrey J Coleman, Jamal MAH Suleiman, Simone FG Vilela, Anna CBP Costa, Vanessa MC Rasteiro, Antonio OC Jorge and Eleftherios Mylonakis
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:247
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  45. Enterovirus 71 (EV71) and Coxsackievirus A16 (CA16) are two major etiological agents of Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease (HFMD). EV71 is associated with severe cases but not CA16. The mechanisms contributed to the...

    Authors: Yuyun Li, Runan Zhu, Yuan Qian, Jie Deng, Yu Sun, Liying Liu, Fang Wang and Linqing Zhao
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:246
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  46. Streptococcus pneumoniae (the pneumococcus) is the leading cause of otitis media, community-acquired pneumonia (CAP), sepsis, and meningitis. It is now evident that S. pneumoniae forms biofilms during nasopharyng...

    Authors: Carlos J Sanchez, Brady J Hurtgen, Anel Lizcano, Pooja Shivshankar, Garry T Cole and Carlos J Orihuela
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:245
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  47. Urine within the urinary tract is commonly regarded as "sterile" in cultivation terms. Here, we present a comprehensive in-depth study of bacterial 16S rDNA sequences associated with urine from healthy females...

    Authors: Huma Siddiqui, Alexander J Nederbragt, Karin Lagesen, Stig L Jeansson and Kjetill S Jakobsen
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:244
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  48. Streptomyces species are a major source of antibiotics. They usually grow slowly at their optimal temperature and fermentation of industrial strains in a large scale often takes a long time, consuming more energy...

    Authors: Weihua Chen and Zhongjun Qin
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:243
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  49. Antimicrobial resistance mediated by efflux systems is still poorly characterized in Staphylococcus aureus, despite the description of several efflux pumps (EPs) for this bacterium. In this work we used several m...

    Authors: Sofia Santos Costa, Celeste Falcão, Miguel Viveiros, Diana Machado, Marta Martins, José Melo-Cristino, Leonard Amaral and Isabel Couto
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:241
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    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Microbiology 2013 13:127

  50. Kaposi's sarcoma-associated herpesvirus (KSHV) is causally linked to several acquired immunodeficiency syndrome-related malignancies, including Kaposi's sarcoma (KS), primary effusion lymphoma (PEL) and a subs...

    Authors: Di Qin, Ninghan Feng, Weifei Fan, Xinting Ma, Qin Yan, Zhigang Lv, Yi Zeng, Jianzhong Zhu and Chun Lu
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2011 11:240
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