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  1. The highly conserved macromolecular synthesis operon (MMSO) contains both dnaG (primase) and sigA (primary sigma factor). However, in previously evaluated gram-positive species, the MMSO is divergent upstream of

    Authors: Kendall A Bryant, Lauren C Kinkead, Marilynn A Larson, Steven H Hinrichs and Paul D Fey
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:8
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  2. Inorganic polyphosphate (polyP), a polymer of tens or hundreds of phosphate residues linked by ATP-like bonds, is found in all organisms and performs a wide variety of functions. PolyP is synthesized in bacter...

    Authors: Cristian Varela, Cecilia Mauriaca, Alberto Paradela, Juan P Albar, Carlos A Jerez and Francisco P Chávez
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:7
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  3. Periodontitis is a bacterial infection of the periodontal tissues. The Gram-negative anaerobic bacterium Porphyromonas gingivalis is considered a major causative agent. One of the virulence factors of P. gingival...

    Authors: Jorg Brunner, Nina Scheres, Nawal B El Idrissi, Dong M Deng, Marja L Laine, Arie J van Winkelhoff and Wim Crielaard
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:5
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  4. The human gut harbors a diverse community of microorganisms which serve numerous important functions for the host wellbeing. Functional foods are commonly used to modulate the composition of the gut microbiota...

    Authors: Beatrice Vitali, Maurice Ndagijimana, Federica Cruciani, Paola Carnevali, Marco Candela, Maria Elisabetta Guerzoni and Patrizia Brigidi
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:4
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  6. Corynebacterium diphtheriae, the causative agent of diphtheria, is well-investigated in respect to toxin production, while little is known about C. diphtheriae factors crucial for colonization of the host. In thi...

    Authors: Lisa Ott, Martina Höller, Roman G Gerlach, Michael Hensel, Johannes Rheinlaender, Tilman E Schäffer and Andreas Burkovski
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:2
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  7. Legionella pneumophila is the causative agent of human Legionnaire's disease. During infection, the bacterium invades macrophages and lung epithelial cells, and replicates intracellularly. However, little is know...

    Authors: Reika Takamatsu, Hiromitsu Teruya, Eriko Takeshima, Chie Ishikawa, Kunihiro Matsumoto, Naofumi Mukaida, Jian-Dong Li, Klaus Heuner, Futoshi Higa, Jiro Fujita and Naoki Mori
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2010 10:1
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    The Retraction Note to this article has been published in BMC Microbiology 2011 11:127

  8. Fumonisins are economically important mycotoxins which until recently were considered to originate from only a few Fusarium species. However recently a putative fumonisin gene cluster was discovered in two differ...

    Authors: Jesper M Mogensen, Kristian F Nielsen, Robert A Samson, Jens C Frisvad and Ulf Thrane
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:281
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  9. Microbial biofilms are known to cause an increasing number of chronic inflammatory and infectious conditions. A classical example is chronic periodontal disease, a condition initiated by the subgingival dental...

    Authors: Bernhard Guggenheim, Rudolf Gmür, Johnah C Galicia, Panagiota G Stathopoulou, Manjunatha R Benakanakere, André Meier, Thomas Thurnheer and Denis F Kinane
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:280
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  10. rRNA adenine dimethyltransferases, represented by the Escherichia coli KsgA protein, are highly conserved phylogenetically and are generally not essential for growth. They are responsible for the post-transcripti...

    Authors: Rachel Binet and Anthony T Maurelli
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:279
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  11. Shigella flexneri is one of the causative agents of shigellosis, a major cause of childhood mortality in developing countries. Multilocus variable-number tandem repeat (VNTR) analysis (MLVA) is a prominent subtyp...

    Authors: You-Wun Wang, Haruo Watanabe, Dac Cam Phung, Sheng Kai Tung, Yeong-Sheng Lee, Jun Terajima, Shiu-Yun Liang and Chien-Shun Chiou
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:278
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  12. Paracoccidioides brasiliensis is a thermo-dimorphic fungus that causes paracoccidiodomycosis (PCM). Glycoprotein gp43 is the fungal main diagnostic antigen, which can also protect against murine PCM and interact ...

    Authors: Antonio A Rocha, Flávia V Morais and Rosana Puccia
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:277
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  13. Escherichia coli O157 is an important cause of acute diarrhoea, haemorrhagic colitis and, especially in children, haemolytic uraemic syndrome (HUS). Incidence rates for human E. coli O157 infection in Scotland ar...

    Authors: Michael C Pearce, Margo E Chase-Topping, Iain J McKendrick, Dominic J Mellor, Mary E Locking, Lesley Allison, Helen E Ternent, Louise Matthews, Hazel I Knight, Alastair W Smith, Barti A Synge, William Reilly, J Christopher Low, Stuart WJ Reid, George J Gunn and Mark EJ Woolhouse
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:276
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  14. Over the last decade, cholera outbreaks in parts of Kenya have become common. Although a number of recent studies describe the epidemiology of cholera in Kenya, there is paucity of information concerning the d...

    Authors: John N Kiiru, Suleiman M Saidi, Bruno M Goddeeris, Njeri C Wamae, Patrick Butaye and Samuel M Kariuki
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:275
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  15. Bordetella pertussis is a causative agent of pertussis or whooping cough in humans. Pertactin (Prn), fimbriae 2 (Fim2) and fimbriae 3 (Fim3) of B. pertussis are important virulence factors and immunogens which ha...

    Authors: Yinghua Xu, Yaying Wang, Yajun Tan, Huajie Zhang, Lijie Wu, Lichan Wang, Qiming Hou and Shumin Zhang
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:274
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  16. Previous studies have established a correlation between electrophoretic polymorphism of esterase B, and virulence and phylogeny of Escherichia coli. Strains belonging to the phylogenetic group B2 are more frequen...

    Authors: Mathilde Lescat, Claire Hoede, Olivier Clermont, Louis Garry, Pierre Darlu, Pierre Tuffery, Erick Denamur and Bertrand Picard
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:273
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  17. The pathogenic fungus Paracoccidioides brasiliensis is the agent of paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM). This is a pulmonary mycosis acquired by inhalation of fungal airborne propagules that can disseminate to several o...

    Authors: Benedito Rodrigues da Silva Neto, Julhiany de Fátima da Silva, Maria José Soares Mendes-Giannini, Henrique Leonel Lenzi, Célia Maria de Almeida Soares and Maristela Pereira
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:272
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  19. Acinetobacter baumannii is emerging as an important nosocomial pathogen. Multidrug resistance, as well as ability to withstand environmental stresses, makes eradication of A. baumannii difficult, particularly fro...

    Authors: Elisabetta Nucleo, Laura Steffanoni, Giulia Fugazza, Roberta Migliavacca, Ernesto Giacobone, Antonella Navarra, Laura Pagani and Paolo Landini
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:270
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  20. The roles of diffusely-adherent Escherichia coli (DAEC) and enteroaggregative E. coli (EAEC) in disease are not well understood, in part because of the limitations of diagnostic tests for each of these categories...

    Authors: Anna M Snelling, Louissa R Macfarlane-Smith, Jonathan N Fletcher and Iruka N Okeke
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:269
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  21. Salmonella is a highly successful parasite of reptiles, birds and mammals. Its ability to infect and colonise such a broad range of hosts coincided with the introduction of new genetic determinants, among them 5 ...

    Authors: Ivan Rychlik, Daniela Karasova, Alena Sebkova, Jiri Volf, Frantisek Sisak, Hana Havlickova, Vladimir Kummer, Ariel Imre, Annamaria Szmolka and Bela Nagy
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:268
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  22. Ochrobactrum anthropi is a versatile bacterial species with strains living in very diverse habitats. It is increasingly recognized as opportunistic pathogen in hospitalized patients. The population biology of the...

    Authors: Sara Romano, Fabien Aujoulat, Estelle Jumas-Bilak, Agnès Masnou, Jean-Luc Jeannot, Enevold Falsen, Hélène Marchandin and Corinne Teyssier
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:267
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  24. The Roseobacter clade represents one of the most abundant, metabolically versatile and ecologically important bacterial groups found in marine habitats. A detailed molecular investigation of the regulatory and me...

    Authors: Tanja Piekarski, Ina Buchholz, Thomas Drepper, Max Schobert, Irene Wagner-Doebler, Petra Tielen and Dieter Jahn
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:265
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  25. Nontyphoidal Salmonella is the main cause of human salmonellosis. In order to study the prevalent serogroups and serovars of clinical isolates in Taiwan, 8931 Salmonellae isolates were collected from 19 medical c...

    Authors: Chien-Shun Chiou, Jui-Ming Lin, Cheng-Hsun Chiu, Chi-Hong Chu, Shu-Wun Chen, Yung-Fu Chang, Bor-Chun Weng, Jwu-Guh Tsay, Chyi-Liang Chen, Chien-Hsing Liu and Chishih Chu
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:264
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  26. Rhamnolipids are surface active molecules composed of rhamnose and β-hydroxydecanoic acid. These biosurfactants are produced mainly by Pseudomonas aeruginosa and have been thoroughly investigated since their earl...

    Authors: Danielle Dubeau, Eric Déziel, Donald E Woods and François Lépine
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:263
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  27. Yersinia enterocolitica, an important food- and water-borne enteric pathogen is represented by six biovars viz. 1A, 1B, 2, 3, 4 and 5. Despite the lack of recognized virulence determinants, some biovar 1A strains...

    Authors: Neeru Bhagat and Jugsharan S Virdi
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:262
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  28. Serratia marcescens is a gram-negative bacterium and often causes nosocomial infections. There have been few studies of the virulence factors of this bacterium. The only S. marcescens hemolytic and cytotoxic fact...

    Authors: Ken Shimuta, Makoto Ohnishi, Sunao Iyoda, Naomasa Gotoh, Nobuo Koizumi and Haruo Watanabe
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:261
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  29. Dengue (DEN) is a serious cause of mortality and morbidity in the world including Mexico, where the infection is endemic. One of the states with the highest rate of dengue cases is Oaxaca. The cause of DEN is ...

    Authors: Gerardo Perez-Ramirez, Alvaro Diaz-Badillo, Minerva Camacho-Nuez, Alejandro Cisneros and Maria de Lourdes Munoz
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:260
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  30. Most studies examining the commensal human oral microbiome are focused on disease or are limited in methodology. In order to diagnose and treat diseases at an early and reversible stage an in-depth definition ...

    Authors: Egija Zaura, Bart JF Keijser, Susan M Huse and Wim Crielaard
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:259
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  31. Helicobacter pylori specifically takes up cholesterol and incorporates it into the bacterial membrane, yet little is currently known about cholesterol's physiological roles. We compared phenotypes and in vivo col...

    Authors: Ellen Hildebrandt and David J McGee
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:258
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  32. Pseudomonas syringae pv. phaseolicola is a Gram-negative plant-pathogenic bacterium that causes "halo blight" disease of beans (Phaseolus vulgaris L.). This disease affects both foliage and pods, and is a major p...

    Authors: Alejandro Hernández-Morales, Susana De la Torre-Zavala, Enrique Ibarra-Laclette, José Luis Hernández-Flores, Alba Estela Jofre-Garfias, Agustino Martínez-Antonio and Ariel Álvarez-Morales
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:257
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  33. Identification and characterization of intervening sequences (IVSs) within 23S rRNA genes from Campylobacter organisms including atypical campylobacters were carried out using two PCR primer pairs, designed to ge...

    Authors: Akihiro Tazumi, Yuki Kakinuma, Naoaki Misawa, John E Moore, Beverley C Millar and Motoo Matsuda
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:256
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  34. Aspergillus niger is a filamentous fungus found in the environment, on foods and feeds and is used as host for production of organic acids, enzymes and proteins. The mycotoxin fumonisin B2 was recently found to b...

    Authors: Louise M Sørensen, Rene Lametsch, Mikael R Andersen, Per V Nielsen and Jens C Frisvad
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:255
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  35. Mycobacteria have been shown to contain an apparent redundancy of high-affinity phosphate uptake systems, with two to four copies of such systems encoded in all mycobacterial genomes sequenced to date. In addi...

    Authors: Susanne Gebhard, Nandula Ekanayaka and Gregory M Cook
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:254
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  36. Pathogenic Leptospira species cause leptospirosis, a zoonotic disease of global importance. The spirochete displays active rotative mobility which may contribute to invasion and diffusion of the pathogen in hosts...

    Authors: Sumei Liao, Aihua Sun, David M Ojcius, Senlin Wu, Jinfang Zhao and Jie Yan
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:253
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  37. Homologous recombination mediated by the λ-Red genes is a common method for making chromosomal modifications in Escherichia coli. Several protocols have been developed that differ in the mechanisms by which DNA, ...

    Authors: David J Lee, Lewis EH Bingle, Karin Heurlier, Mark J Pallen, Charles W Penn, Stephen JW Busby and Jon L Hobman
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:252
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  38. The Lactic Acid Bacteria (LAB) are important components of the healthy gut flora and have been used extensively as probiotics. Understanding the cultivable diversity of LAB before and after probiotic administr...

    Authors: Eshwar Mahenthiralingam, Angela Marchbank, Pavel Drevinek, Iveta Garaiova and Sue Plummer
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:251
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  39. The bacteriology during storage of the North-Atlantic cod has been investigated for the past decades using conventional cultivation strategies which have generated large amount of information. This paper prese...

    Authors: Eyjólfur Reynisson, Hélène L Lauzon, Hannes Magnússon, Rósa Jónsdóttir, Guðrún Ólafsdóttir, Viggó Marteinsson and Guðmundur Óli Hreggviðsson
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:250
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  40. Porcine rotavirus infection is a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in the swine industry necessitating the development of effective vaccines for the prevention of infection. Immune responses associa...

    Authors: Xinyuan Qiao, Guiwei Li, Xiangqing Wang, Xiaojing Li, Min Liu and Yijing Li
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:249
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  41. The homB gene is a Helicobacter pylori disease-marker candidate, strongly associated with peptic ulcer disease, while homA, its paralogue gene with 90% sequence identity, is correlated with non-ulcer dyspepsia. T...

    Authors: Mónica Oleastro, Rita Cordeiro, Armelle Ménard, Yoshio Yamaoka, Dulciene Queiroz, Francis Mégraud and Lurdes Monteiro
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:248
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  42. The marine cyanobacterium Lyngbya majuscula is a prolific producer of bioactive secondary metabolites. Although biosynthetic gene clusters encoding several of these compounds have been identified, little is known...

    Authors: Adam C Jones, Lena Gerwick, David Gonzalez, Pieter C Dorrestein and William H Gerwick
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:247
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  43. Pseudorabies virus (PRV) is an alphaherpesviruses whose native host is pig. PRV infection mainly causes signs of central nervous system disorder in young pigs, and respiratory system diseases in the adult.

    Authors: JF Yuan, SJ Zhang, O Jafer, RA Furlong, OE Chausiaux, CA Sargent, GH Zhang and NA Affara
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:246
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  44. Prebiotics are non-digestible food ingredients believed to beneficially affect host health by selectively stimulating the growth of the beneficial bacteria residing in the gut. Such beneficial bacteria have be...

    Authors: Anne Petersen, Peter MH Heegaard, Anna L Pedersen, Jens B Andersen, Rikke B Sørensen, Hanne Frøkiær, Sampo J Lahtinen, Arthur C Ouwehand, Morten Poulsen and Tine R Licht
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:245
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  45. Pseudomonas aeruginosa is the major pathogen involved in the decline of lung function in cystic fibrosis (CF) patients. Early aggressive antibiotic therapy has been shown to be effective in preventing chronic col...

    Authors: Pieter Deschaght, Thierry De Baere, Leen Van Simaey, Sabine Van daele, Frans De Baets, Daniel De Vos, Jean-Paul Pirnay and Mario Vaneechoutte
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:244
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  46. Wolbachia (wBm) is an obligate endosymbiotic bacterium of Brugia malayi, a parasitic filarial nematode of humans and one of the causative agents of lymphatic filariasis. There is a pressing need for new drugs aga...

    Authors: Alexander G Holman, Paul J Davis, Jeremy M Foster, Clotilde KS Carlow and Sanjay Kumar
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:243
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  48. In forest ecosystems, communities of ectomycorrhizal fungi (ECM) are influenced by several biotic and abiotic factors. To understand their underlying dynamics, ECM communities have been surveyed with ribosomal...

    Authors: Marlis Reich, Annegret Kohler, Francis Martin and Marc Buée
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:241
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  49. Staphylococcus aureus methicillin-resistant (MRSA) has been frequently isolated from endotracheal and lung puncture aspirates in malnourished children with pneumonia. In this work we evaluated the susceptibility ...

    Authors: Thais Graziela Donegá França, Larissa Lumi Watanabe Ishikawa, Sofia Fernanda Gonçalves Zorzella-Pezavento, Fernanda Chiuso-Minicucci, Clara Pires Fujiara Guerino, Maria de Lourdes Ribeiro de Souza da Cunha and Alexandrina Sartori
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2009 9:240
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