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  1. Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae colonizes and infects the airways of adults with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, the fourth most common cause of death worldwide.Thus, H. influenzae, an exclusively human...

    Authors: Jun Qu, Alan J Lesse, Aimee L Brauer, Jin Cao, Steven R Gill and Timothy F Murphy
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:162
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  2. Escherichia coli strains are commonly found in the gut microflora of warm-blooded animals. These strains can be assigned to one of the four main phylogenetic groups, A, B1, B2 and D, which can be divided into sev...

    Authors: Camila Carlos, Mathias M Pires, Nancy C Stoppe, Elayse M Hachich, Maria IZ Sato, Tânia AT Gomes, Luiz A Amaral and Laura MM Ottoboni
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:161
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  3. Fibronectin binding proteins A and B (FnBPA and FnBPB) mediate adhesion of S. aureus to fibrinogen, elastin and fibronectin. We previously identified seven different isotypes of FnBPA based on divergence in the f...

    Authors: Fiona M Burke, Niamh McCormack, Simonetta Rindi, Pietro Speziale and Timothy J Foster
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:160
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  4. Staphylococcus aureus is a highly adaptable human pathogen and there is a constant search for effective antibiotics. Fosfomycin is a potent irreversible inhibitor of MurA, an enolpyruvyl transferase that uses pho...

    Authors: Marko Petek, Špela Baebler, Drago Kuzman, Ana Rotter, Zdravko Podlesek, Kristina Gruden, Maja Ravnikar and Uroš Urleb
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:159
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  5. Genetic relationships among 81 strains of Y. enterocolitica biovar 1A isolated from clinical and non-clinical sources were discerned by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis (MLEE) and multilocus restriction typing (...

    Authors: Sarita Mallik and Jugsharan S Virdi
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:158
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  7. Pseudomonas savastanoi pv. savastanoi is the causal agent of olive knot disease. The strains isolated from oleander and ash belong to the pathovars nerii and fraxini, respectively. When artificially inoculated, p...

    Authors: Stefania Tegli, Matteo Cerboneschi, Ilaria Marsili Libelli and Elena Santilli
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:156
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  9. In recent years genome sequencing has been used to characterize new bacterial species, a method of analysis available as a result of improved methodology and reduced cost. Included in a constantly expanding li...

    Authors: Bradd J Haley, Christopher J Grim, Nur A Hasan, Seon-Young Choi, Jongsik Chun, Thomas S Brettin, David C Bruce, Jean F Challacombe, J Chris Detter, Cliff S Han, Anwar Huq and Rita R Colwell
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:154
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  10. Integrative and conjugative elements (ICE) form a diverse group of DNA elements that are integrated in the chromosome of the bacterial host, but can occasionally excise and horizontally transfer to a new host ...

    Authors: Muriel Gaillard, Nicolas Pradervand, Marco Minoia, Vladimir Sentchilo, David R Johnson and Jan Roelof van der Meer
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:153
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  11. The periodontal pathogen Porphyromonas gingivalis is an obligate anaerobe that requires heme for growth. To understand its heme acquisition mechanism, we focused on a hemin-binding protein (HBP35 protein), posses...

    Authors: Mikio Shoji, Yasuko Shibata, Teruaki Shiroza, Hideharu Yukitake, Benjamin Peng, Yu-Yen Chen, Keiko Sato, Mariko Naito, Yoshimitsu Abiko, Eric C Reynolds and Koji Nakayama
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:152
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  12. The Beijing lineage of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is causing concern due to its global distribution and its involvement in severe outbreaks. Studies focused on this lineage are mainly restricted to geographical s...

    Authors: M Alonso, N Alonso Rodriguez, C Garzelli, M Martínez Lirola, M Herranz, S Samper, MJ Ruiz Serrano, E Bouza and D García de Viedma
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:151
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  14. Communities of microorganisms control the rates of key biogeochemical cycles, and are important for biotechnology, bioremediation, and industrial microbiological processes. For this reason, we constructed a mo...

    Authors: Lance D Miller, Jennifer J Mosher, Amudhan Venkateswaran, Zamin K Yang, Anthony V Palumbo, Tommy J Phelps, Mircea Podar, Christopher W Schadt and Martin Keller
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:149
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  15. E. coli cells are rich in thiamine, most of it in the form of the cofactor thiamine diphosphate (ThDP). Free ThDP is the precursor for two triphosphorylated derivatives, thiamine triphosphate (ThTP) and the newly...

    Authors: Tiziana Gigliobianco, Bernard Lakaye, Pierre Wins, Benaïssa El Moualij, Willy Zorzi and Lucien Bettendorff
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:148
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  16. The effects of acetic acid, a common food preservative, on the bacteriophage-encoded enterotoxin A (SEA) expression and production in Staphylococcus aureus was investigated in pH-controlled batch cultures carried...

    Authors: Nina Wallin-Carlquist, Rong Cao, Dóra Márta, Ayla Sant'Ana da Silva, Jenny Schelin and Peter Rådström
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:147
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  17. Porcine reproductive and respiratory syndrome (PRRS) has now been widely recognized as an economically important disease. The objective of this study was to compare the molecular and biological characteristics...

    Authors: Chengmin Wang, Bin Wu, Said Amer, Jing Luo, Hongmei Zhang, Yunhai Guo, Guoying Dong, Baohua Zhao and Hongxuan He
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:146
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  18. Poorly understood but highly diverse microbial communities exist within anoxic and oxygen-depleted marine sediments. These communities often harbour single-celled eukaryotes that form symbiotic associations wi...

    Authors: Susana A Breglia, Naoji Yubuki, Mona Hoppenrath and Brian S Leander
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:145
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  19. NAD-glycohydrolase (NADase) secreted by M-1 group A streptococcal (GAS) isolates are suspected as one of the virulence factors to cause severe invasive disease including streptococcal toxic shock-like syndrome...

    Authors: Ichiro Tatsuno, Masanori Isaka, Masaaki Minami and Tadao Hasegawa
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:144
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  20. To evaluate the antibiogram and antibiotic resistance genes of some Vibrio strains isolated from wastewater final effluents in a rural community of South Africa. V. vulnificus (18), V. metschnikovii (3), V. fluvi...

    Authors: Anthony I Okoh and Etinosa O Igbinosa
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:143
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  21. Whiteflies are cosmopolitan phloem-feeding pests that cause serious damage to many crops worldwide due to direct feeding and vectoring of many plant viruses. The sweetpotato whitefly Bemisia tabaci (Gennadius) an...

    Authors: Marisa Skaljac, Katja Zanic, Smiljana Goreta Ban, Svetlana Kontsedalov and Murad Ghanim
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:142
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  22. Photorhabdus are Gram-negative nematode-symbiotic and insect-pathogenic bacteria. The species Photorhabdus asymbiotica is able to infect humans as well as insects. We investigated the secreted proteome of a clini...

    Authors: Robert T Jones, Maria Sanchez-Contreras, Isabella Vlisidou, Matthew R Amos, Guowei Yang, Xavier Muñoz-Berbel, Abhishek Upadhyay, Ursula J Potter, Susan A Joyce, Todd A Ciche, A Toby A Jenkins, Stefan Bagby, Richard H ffrench-Constant and Nicholas R Waterfield
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:141
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  24. Bacterial bodies (colonies) can develop complex patterns of color and structure. These patterns may arise as a result of both colony-autonomous developmental and regulatory processes (self-patterning) and envi...

    Authors: Jaroslav J Čepl, Irena Pátková, Anna Blahůšková, Fatima Cvrčková and Anton Markoš
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:139
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  25. The assimilation of nitrogen is an essential process in all prokaryotes, yet a relatively limited amount of information is available on nitrogen metabolism in the mycobacteria. The physiological role and patho...

    Authors: Catriona J Harper, Don Hayward, Martin Kidd, Ian Wiid and Paul van Helden
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:138
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  26. While most gamma proteobacteria have a single circular chromosome, Vibrionales have two circular chromosomes. Horizontal gene transfer is common among Vibrios, and in light of this genetic mobility, it is an open...

    Authors: Benjamin C Kirkup Jr, LeeAnn Chang, Sarah Chang, Dirk Gevers and Martin F Polz
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:137
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  27. Telomeres are specialized structures at the end of chromosomes essential for maintaining genome stability and cell viability. The importance of telomeric proteins for telomere maintenance has increased our int...

    Authors: Marcelo S da Silva, Arina M Perez, Rita de Cássia V da Silveira, Camila E de Moraes, Jair L Siqueira-Neto, Lucio H Freitas-Junior and Maria Isabel N Cano
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:136
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  28. Zymomonas mobilis produces near theoretical yields of ethanol and recombinant strains are candidate industrial microorganisms. To date, few studies have examined its responses to various stresses at the gene leve...

    Authors: Shihui Yang, Dale A Pelletier, Tse-Yuan S Lu and Steven D Brown
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:135
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  29. Porphyromonas gingivalis is a major etiological agent of chronic periodontitis. The aim of this study was to examine the species specificity, surface exposure, protein expression, immunogenicity, and participatio...

    Authors: Teresa Olczak, Halina Wójtowicz, Justyna Ciuraszkiewicz and Mariusz Olczak
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:134
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  31. Membrane- and membrane-associated proteins are important for the pathogenicity of bacteria. We have analysed the content of these proteins in virulent Mycobacterium tuberculosis H37Rv using Triton X-114 detergent...

    Authors: Hiwa Målen, Sharad Pathak, Tina Søfteland, Gustavo A de Souza and Harald G Wiker
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:132
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  33. The RNA interference (RNAi) pathway acts as an innate antiviral immune response in Aedes aegypti, modulating arbovirus infection of mosquitoes. Sindbis virus (SINV; family: Togaviridae, genus: Alphavirus) is an a...

    Authors: Cynthia CH Khoo, Joseph Piper, Irma Sanchez-Vargas, Ken E Olson and Alexander WE Franz
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:130
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  34. The gut comprises an essential barrier that protects both invertebrate and vertebrate animals from invasion by microorganisms. Disruption of the balanced relationship between indigenous gut microbiota and thei...

    Authors: Nichole A Broderick, Kenneth F Raffa and Jo Handelsman
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:129
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  35. The mce operons play an important role in the entry of M. tuberculosis into macrophages and non-phagocytic cells. Their non-redundant function as well as complex regulation is implied by the phenotype of mce muta...

    Authors: Monika Joon, Shipra Bhatia, Rashmi Pasricha, Mridula Bose and Vani Brahmachari
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:128
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  37. The immune stimulating bacterium Propionibacterium acnes is a frequent colonizer of benign and malignant prostate tissue. To understand the pathogenesis of the earliest phase of this infection, we examined the...

    Authors: Johanna B Drott, Oleg Alexeyev, Patrik Bergström, Fredrik Elgh and Jan Olsson
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:126
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  38. Elucidation of the communal behavior of microbes in mixed species biofilms may have a major impact on understanding infectious diseases and for the therapeutics. Although, the structure and the properties of m...

    Authors: HMHN Bandara, JYY Yau, RM Watt, LJ Jin and LP Samaranayake
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:125
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  39. MFN1032 is a clinical Pseudomonas fluorescens strain able to grow at 37°C. MFN1032 cells induce necrosis and apoptosis in rat glial cells at this temperature. This strain displays secretion-mediated hemolytic act...

    Authors: Daniel Sperandio, Gaelle Rossignol, Josette Guerillon, Nathalie Connil, Nicole Orange, Marc GJ Feuilloley and Annabelle Merieau
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:124
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  41. The C10 family of cysteine proteases includes enzymes that contribute to the virulence of bacterial pathogens, such as SpeB in Streptococcus pyogenes. The presence of homologues of cysteine protease genes in huma...

    Authors: Roibeard F Thornton, Todd F Kagawa, Paul W O'Toole and Jakki C Cooney
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:122
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  43. Lactobacillus sakei is an important food-associated lactic acid bacterium commonly used as starter culture for industrial meat fermentation, and with great potential as a biopreservative in meat and fish products...

    Authors: Anette McLeod, Monique Zagorec, Marie-Christine Champomier-Vergès, Kristine Naterstad and Lars Axelsson
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:120
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  44. Fluoroquinolones are potent antimicrobial agents used for the treatment of a wide variety of community- and nosocomial- infections. However, resistance to fluoroquinolones in Enterobacteriaceae is increasingly...

    Authors: Lorenzo Drago, Lucia Nicola, Roberto Mattina and Elena De Vecchi
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:119
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  46. Carcinoembryonic antigen-related cell adhesion molecule 1 (CEACAM1), an immunoglobulin (Ig)-related glycoprotein, serves as cellular receptor for a variety of Gram-negative bacterial pathogens associated with ...

    Authors: Maike Voges, Verena Bachmann, Robert Kammerer, Uri Gophna and Christof R Hauck
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:117
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  47. Affecting the core functional microbiome, peculiar high level taxonomic unbalances of the human intestinal microbiota have been recently associated with specific diseases, such as obesity, inflammatory bowel d...

    Authors: Marco Candela, Clarissa Consolandi, Marco Severgnini, Elena Biagi, Bianca Castiglioni, Beatrice Vitali, Gianluca De Bellis and Patrizia Brigidi
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:116
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  48. The effects of enterolignans, e.g., enterodiol (END) and particularly its oxidation product, enterolactone (ENL), on prevention of hormone-dependent diseases, such as osteoporosis, cardiovascular diseases, hyp...

    Authors: Cheng-Zhi Wang, Xiao-Qing Ma, Dong-Hui Yang, Zhi-Rong Guo, Gui-Rong Liu, Ge-Xin Zhao, Jie Tang, Ya-Nan Zhang, Miao Ma, Shao-Qing Cai, Bao-Shan Ku and Shu-Lin Liu
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:115
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  49. Candida albicans infections are often associated with biofilm formation. Previous work demonstrated that the expression of HWP1 (hyphal wall protein) and of genes belonging to the ALS (agglutinin-like sequence),

    Authors: Heleen Nailis, Soňa Kucharíková, Markéta Řičicová, Patrick Van Dijck, Dieter Deforce, Hans Nelis and Tom Coenye
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:114
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  50. Haemophilus influenzae has an absolute aerobic growth requirement for either heme, or iron in the presence of protoporphyrin IX. Both iron and heme in the mammalian host are strictly limited in their availability...

    Authors: Daniel J Morton, Elizabeth J Turman, Patrick D Hensley, Timothy M VanWagoner, Thomas W Seale, Paul W Whitby and Terrence L Stull
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:113
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