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  1. The use of food-grade Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) as DNA delivery vehicles represents an attractive strategy to deliver DNA vaccines at the mucosal surfaces as they are generally regarded as safe (GRAS). We pre...

    Authors: Marcela de Azevedo, Jurgen Karczewski, François Lefévre, Vasco Azevedo, Anderson Miyoshi, Jerry M Wells, Philippe Langella and Jean-Marc Chatel
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:299
  2. In eukaryotic cells, dynamin and flotillin are involved in processes such as endocytosis and lipid raft formation, respectively. Dynamin is a GTPase that exerts motor-like activity during the pinching off of v...

    Authors: Felix Dempwolff, Hanna M Wischhusen, Mara Specht and Peter L Graumann
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:298
  3. Toxin complex (Tc) family proteins were first identified as insecticidal toxins in Photorhabdus luminescens and have since been found in a wide range of bacteria. The genome of Yersinia pestis, the causative agen...

    Authors: Justin L Spinner, Clayton O Jarrett, Doris L LaRock, Samuel I Miller, Carleen M Collins and B Joseph Hinnebusch
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:296
  4. Fermentative bacteria offer the potential to convert lignocellulosic waste-streams into biofuels such as hydrogen (H2) and ethanol. Current fermentative H2 and ethanol yields, however, are below theoretical maxim...

    Authors: Carlo R Carere, Thomas Rydzak, Tobin J Verbeke, Nazim Cicek, David B Levin and Richard Sparling
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:295
  5. To derive post-genomic, neutral insight into the peptidoglycan (PG) distribution among organisms, we mined 1,644 genomes listed in the Carbohydrate-Active Enzymes database for the presence of a minimal 3-gene ...

    Authors: Caroline Cayrou, Bernard Henrissat, Philippe Gouret, Pierre Pontarotti and Michel Drancourt
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:294

    The Erratum to this article has been published in BMC Microbiology 2014 14:123

  6. Streptococcus canis is an important opportunistic pathogen of dogs and cats that can also infect a wide range of additional mammals including cows where it can cause mastitis. It is also an emerging human pathoge...

    Authors: Vincent P Richards, Ruth N Zadoks, Paulina D Pavinski Bitar, Tristan Lefébure, Ping Lang, Brenda Werner, Linda Tikofsky, Paolo Moroni and Michael J Stanhope
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:293
  7. Arcobacter spp. (family Campylobacteraceae) are ubiquitous zoonotic bacteria that are being increasingly recognised as a threat to human health. A previously published 16S rRNA-RFLP Arcobacter spp. identification...

    Authors: María José Figueras, Arturo Levican and Luis Collado
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:292
  8. Leptospires lack many of the homologs for oxidative defense present in other bacteria, but do encode homologs of the Bacteriodes aerotolerance (Bat) proteins, which have been proposed to fulfill this function. Ba...

    Authors: Philip E Stewart, James A Carroll, David W Dorward, Hunter H Stone, Amit Sarkar, Mathieu Picardeau and Patricia A Rosa
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:290
  9. Burkholderia pseudomallei and B. mallei are closely related Category B Select Agents of bioterrorism and the causative agents of the diseases melioidosis and glanders, respectively. Rapid phage-based diagnostic t...

    Authors: Brian H Kvitko, Christopher R Cox, David DeShazer, Shannon L Johnson, Kent J Voorhees and Herbert P Schweizer
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:289
  10. Staphylococcus aureus is an important pathogen that causes biofilm-associated infection in humans. Autoinducer 2 (AI-2), a quorum-sensing (QS) signal for interspecies communication, has a wide range of regulatory...

    Authors: Dan Yu, Liping Zhao, Ting Xue and Baolin Sun
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:288
  11. In a previous study, we demonstrated that Vibrio scophthalmi, the most abundant Vibrio species among the marine aerobic or facultatively anaerobic bacteria inhabiting the intestinal tract of healthy cultured turb...

    Authors: Cristina García-Aljaro, Silvia Melado-Rovira, Debra L Milton and Anicet R Blanch
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:287
  12. Controlling fish disease is one of the major concerns in contemporary aquaculture. The use of antibiotics or chemical disinfection cannot provide a healthy aquaculture system without residual effects. Water qu...

    Authors: Sadia J Khan, Robert H Reed and Mohammad G Rasul
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:285
  13. Regulation of surface antigenic variation in Giardia lamblia is controlled post-transcriptionally by an RNA-interference (RNAi) pathway that includes a Dicer-like bidentate RNase III (gDicer). This enzyme, howeve...

    Authors: Pablo R Gargantini, Marianela C Serradell, Alessandro Torri and Hugo D Lujan
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:284
  14. Pseudomonas putida exerts a filamentous phenotype in response to environmental stress conditions that are encountered during its natural life cycle. This study assessed whether P. putida filamentation could confe...

    Authors: Aurélie Crabbé, Baptiste Leroy, Ruddy Wattiez, Abram Aertsen, Natalie Leys, Pierre Cornelis and Rob Van Houdt
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:282
  15. Candida albicans is a human fungal pathogen, able to cause both superficial and serious, systemic diseases and is able to switch from yeast cells to long, tube-like hyphae, depending on the prevailing environment...

    Authors: Ekaterina S Ovchinnikova, Bastiaan P Krom, Henk J Busscher and Henny C van der Mei
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:281
  16. A few lineages of Group A streptococci (GAS) have been associated with a reemergence of severe invasive streptococcal disease in developed countries. However, the majority of the comparisons between invasive a...

    Authors: Ana Friães, Francisco R Pinto, Catarina Silva-Costa, Mario Ramirez and José Melo-Cristino
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:280
  17. Bats (Chiroptera) are one of the most diverse groups of mammals which carry out important ecological and agricultural functions that are beneficial to humans. However, they are increasingly recognized as natural ...

    Authors: Babatunji Akobi, Oladipo Aboderin, Takashi Sasaki and Adebayo Shittu
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:279
  18. The food-borne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is the causative agent of listeriosis. The β-lactam antibiotics penicillin G and ampicillin are the current drugs of choice for the treatment of listerial infections...

    Authors: Agata Krawczyk-Balska, Julia Marchlewicz, Dorota Dudek, Katarzyna Wasiak and Anna Samluk
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:278
  19. An increasing number of studies have implicated the microbiome in certain diseases, especially chronic diseases. In this study, the bacterial communities in the sputum of pulmonary tuberculosis patients were e...

    Authors: Zelin Cui, Yuhua Zhou, Hong Li, Yan Zhang, Shulin Zhang, Shenjie Tang and Xiaokui Guo
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:276
  20. Immunomagnetic separation (IMS) and immunoassays are widely used for pathogen detection. However, novel technology platforms with highly selective antibodies are essential to improve detection sensitivity, spe...

    Authors: Marcelo Mendonça, Neida L Conrad, Fabricio R Conceição, Ângela N Moreira, Wladimir P da Silva, José AG Aleixo and Arun K Bhunia
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:275
  21. Staphylococcus aureus strains with distinct genetic backgrounds have shown different virulence in animal models as well as associations with different clinical outcomes, such as causing infection in the hospital ...

    Authors: Kaiyu Wu, John Conly, Michael Surette, Christopher Sibley, Sameer Elsayed and Kunyan Zhang
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:274
  22. Haemophilus influenzae is an important human commensal pathogen associated with significant levels of disease. High-throughput DNA sequencing was used to investigate differences in genome content within this spec...

    Authors: Peter M Power, Stephen D Bentley, Julian Parkhill, E Richard Moxon and Derek W Hood
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:273
  23. The taxis signaling system of the extreme halophilic archaeon Halobacterium (Hbt.) salinarum differs in several aspects from its model bacterial counterparts Escherichia coli and Bacillus subtilis. We studied the...

    Authors: Matthias Schlesner, Arthur Miller, Hüseyin Besir, Michalis Aivaliotis, Judith Streif, Beatrix Scheffer, Frank Siedler and Dieter Oesterhelt
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:272
  24. Protist communities inhabiting oxygen depleted waters have so far been characterized through both microscopical observations and sequence based techniques. However, the lack of cultures for abundant taxa sever...

    Authors: Claudia Wylezich, Sergey A Karpov, Alexander P Mylnikov, Ruth Anderson and Klaus Jürgens
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:271
  25. Transition from planktonic cells to biofilm is mediated by production of adhesion factors, such as extracellular polysaccharides (EPS), and modulated by complex regulatory networks that, in addition to control...

    Authors: Thomas Carzaniga, Davide Antoniani, Gianni Dehò, Federica Briani and Paolo Landini
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:270
  26. Prophages of enteric bacteria are frequently of key importance for the biology, virulence, or host adaptation of their host. Some C. jejuni isolates carry homologs of the CJIE1 (CMLP 1) prophage that carry cargo ...

    Authors: Clifford G Clark, Christopher CR Grant, Frank Pollari, Barbara Marshall 3, Jason Moses, Dobryan M Tracz and Matthew W Gilmour
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:269
  27. Ribonuclease R (RNase R) is an exoribonuclease that recognizes and degrades a wide range of RNA molecules. It is a stress-induced protein shown to be important for the establishment of virulence in several pat...

    Authors: Ricardo N Moreira, Susana Domingues, Sandra C Viegas, Mónica Amblar and Cecília M Arraiano
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:268
  28. The ecology of columnaris disease, caused by Flavobacterium columnare, is poorly understood despite the economic losses that this disease inflicts on aquaculture farms worldwide. Currently, the natural reservoir ...

    Authors: Covadonga R Arias, Stacey LaFrentz, Wenlong Cai and Oscar Olivares-Fuster
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:266
  29. The morphogenesis of herpes simplex virus type 1 (HSV-1) comprises several events, of which some are not completely understood. It has been shown that HSV-1 glycoproteins accumulate in the trans-Golgi network (TG...

    Authors: Raquel Bello-Morales, Antonio Jesús Crespillo, Alberto Fraile-Ramos, Enrique Tabarés, Antonio Alcina and José Antonio López-Guerrero
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:265
  30. Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (Map) is the aetiological agent of Johne’s disease or paratuberculosis and is included within the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC). Map strains are of two major ty...

    Authors: Franck Biet, Iker A Sevilla, Thierry Cochard, Louise H Lefrançois, Joseba M Garrido, Ian Heron, Ramón A Juste, Joyce McLuckie, Virginie C Thibault, Philip Supply, Desmond M Collins, Marcel A Behr and Karen Stevenson
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:264
  31. Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi) is a significant human pathogen responsible for respiratory tract infections and the most common cause of recurrent otitis media. Type II toxin-antitoxin (TA) systems are...

    Authors: Dabin Ren, Anna N Walker and Dayle A Daines
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:263
  32. Poly(3-hydroxybutyrate) (PHB) granules are important storage compounds of carbon and energy in many prokaryotes which allow survival of the cells in the absence of suitable carbon sources. Formation and subcel...

    Authors: Andreas Wahl, Nora Schuth, Daniel Pfeiffer, Stephan Nussberger and Dieter Jendrossek
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:262
  33. E. coli O157:H7 (EHEC) is an important human pathogen. The antibiotic treatment of EHEC reportedly results in release of Shiga toxin and is therefore discouraged. Consequently, alternative preventive or therapeut...

    Authors: Amit Vikram, Palmy R Jesudhasan, Suresh D Pillai and Bhimanagouda S Patil
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:261
  34. Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) can be isolated from traditional milk products. LAB that secrete substances that inhibit pathogenic bacteria and are resistant to acid, bile, and pepsin but not vancomycin may have p...

    Authors: Sahar Abbasiliasi, Joo Shun Tan, Tengku Azmi Tengku Ibrahim, Ramakrishnan Nagasundara Ramanan, Faezeh Vakhshiteh, Shuhaimi Mustafa, Tau Chuan Ling, Raha Abdul Rahim and Arbakariya B Ariff
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:260
  35. There are several methods for quantitating bacterial cells, each with advantages and disadvantages. The most common method is bacterial plating, which has the advantage of allowing live cell assessment through...

    Authors: Ronen Hazan, Yok-Ai Que, Damien Maura and Laurence G Rahme
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:259
  36. The genetic features that facilitate Campylobacter jejuni’s adaptation to a wide range of environments are not completely defined. However, whole genome expression studies showed that respiratory proteins (RPs) w...

    Authors: Issmat I Kassem, Mahesh Khatri, Malak A Esseili, Yasser M Sanad, Yehia M Saif, Jonathan W Olson and Gireesh Rajashekara
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:258
  37. The evolution of mycoplasmas from a common ancestor with Firmicutes has been characterized not only by genome down-sizing but also by horizontal gene transfer between mycoplasma species sharing a common host. The...

    Authors: Marc Breton, Florence Tardy, Emilie Dordet-Frisoni, Eveline Sagne, Virginie Mick, Joël Renaudin, Pascal Sirand-Pugnet, Christine Citti and Alain Blanchard
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:257
  38. [NiFe] hydrogenases are enzymes that catalyze the oxidation of hydrogen into protons and electrons, to use H2 as energy source, or the production of hydrogen through proton reduction, as an escape valve for the e...

    Authors: Marta Albareda, Hamid Manyani, Juan Imperial, Belén Brito, Tomás Ruiz-Argüeso, August Böck and Jose-Manuel Palacios
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:256
  39. Fungal load quantification is a critical component of fungal community analyses. Limitation of current approaches for quantifying the fungal component in the human microbiome suggests the need for new broad-co...

    Authors: Cindy M Liu, Sergey Kachur, Michael G Dwan, Alison G Abraham, Maliha Aziz, Po-Ren Hsueh, Yu-Tsung Huang, Joseph D Busch, Louis J Lamit, Catherine A Gehring, Paul Keim and Lance B Price
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:255
  40. Cheese contamination can occur at numerous stages in the manufacturing process including the use of improperly pasteurized or raw milk. Of concern is the potential contamination by Listeria monocytogenes and othe...

    Authors: Tina S Lusk, Andrea R Ottesen, James R White, Marc W Allard, Eric W Brown and Julie A Kase
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:254
  41. Streptomyces species are widely distributed in natural habitats, such as soils, lakes, plants and some extreme environments. Replication loci of several Streptomyces theta-type plasmids have been reported, but ar...

    Authors: Tao Wang, Zhenhua Chen, Qiuxiang Cheng, Min Zhou, Xinli Tian, Pengfei Xie, Li Zhong, Meijuan Shen and Zhongjun Qin
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:253
  42. Bacillus sp. H2O-1, isolated from the connate water of a Brazilian reservoir, produces an antimicrobial substance (denoted as AMS H2O-1) that is active against sulfate reducing bacteria, which are the major bacte...

    Authors: Elisa Korenblum, Livia Vieira de Araujo, Carolina Reis Guimarães, Lauro M de Souza, Guilherme Sassaki, Fernanda Abreu, Márcia Nitschke, Ulysses Lins, Denise Maria Guimarães Freire, Eliana Barreto-Bergter and Lucy Seldin
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:252
  43. Antarctica has been successfully colonized by microorganisms despite presenting adverse conditions for life such as low temperatures, high solar radiation, low nutrient availability and dryness. Although these...

    Authors: Mario Carrasco, Juan Manuel Rozas, Salvador Barahona, Jennifer Alcaíno, Víctor Cifuentes and Marcelo Baeza
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:251
  44. Burkholderia pseudomallei is the etiological agent of melioidosis and a CDC category B select agent with no available effective vaccine. Previous immunizations in mice have utilized the lipopolysaccharide (LPS) a...

    Authors: Joshua K Stone, Mark Mayo, Stephanie A Grasso, Jennifer L Ginther, Stephanie D Warrington, Christopher J Allender, Adina Doyle, Shalamar Georgia, Mirjam Kaestli, Stacey M Broomall, Mark A Karavis, Joseph M Insalaco, Kyle S Hubbard, Lauren A McNew, Henry S Gibbons, Bart J Currie…
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:250
  45. Different systems contributing to copper homeostasis in bacteria have been described in recent years involving periplasmic and transport proteins that provide resistance via metal efflux to the extracellular m...

    Authors: Georgina Hernández-Montes, José M Argüello and Brenda Valderrama
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2012 12:249

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