Bendová, Barbora Piálek, Jaroslav Ďureje, Ľudovít Schmiedová, Lucie Čížková, Dagmar Martin, Jean-Francois Kreisinger, Jakub
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BackgroundThe vertebrate gastrointestinal tract is colonised by microbiota that have a major effect on the host’s health, physiology and phenotype. Once introduced into captivity, however, the gut microbial composition of free-living individuals can change dramatically. At present, little is known about gut microbial changes associated with adaptat...
Sukumaran, A. Pladwig, S. Geddes-McAlister, J.
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BMC Microbiology
BackgroundMicrobial organisms encounter a variety of environmental conditions, including changes to metal ion availability. Metal ions play an important role in many biological processes for growth and survival. As such, microbes alter their cellular protein levels and secretion patterns in adaptation to a changing environment. This study focuses o...
Kitisin, T. Ampawong, S. Muangkaew, W. Sukphopetch, P.
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BackgroundScedosporium species are a group of pathogenic fungi, which can be found worldwide around high human-impacted areas. Infections of Scedosporium have been reported in several immunocompromised and immunocompetent patients with a high mortality rate. Recently, we have isolated and identified several Scedosporium strains during an environmen...
Maeno, Shintaro Nishimura, Hiroya Tanizawa, Yasuhiro Dicks, Leon Arita, Masanori Endo, Akihito
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BackgroundFructophilic lactic acid bacteria (FLAB) found in D-fructose rich niches prefer D-fructose over D-glucose as a growth substrate. They need electron acceptors for growth on D-glucose. The organisms share carbohydrate metabolic properties. Fructobacillus spp., Apilactobacillus kunkeei, and Apilactobacillus apinorum are members of this uniqu...
Yu, Yang Teng, Zhaowei Mou, Zongmin Lv, Yan Li, Tao Chen, Suiyun Zhao, Dake Zhao, Zhiwei
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BackgroundMelatonin (MT), ubiquitous in almost all organisms, functions as a free radical scavenger. Despite several reports on its role as an antioxidant in animals, plants, and some microorganisms, extensive studies in filamentous fungi are limited. Based upon the role of melatonin as an antioxidant, we investigated its role in heavy metal-induce...
Sharma, Preeti Kaur, Sumanpreet Chadha, Bhupinder Singh Kaur, Raminderjit Kaur, Manpreet Kaur, Sukhraj
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BMC Microbiology
BackgroundIncrease in the number of infections caused by Gram-negative bacteria in neutropenic cancer patients has prompted the search for novel therapeutic agents having dual anticancer and antimicrobial properties. Bacteriocins are cationic proteins of prokaryotic origin that have emerged as one of the most promising alternative antimicrobial age...
Albasha, Aalaa Mahgoub Elnosh, Maram M. Osman, Esraa Hassan Zeinalabdin, Duha M. Fadl, Amira A. M. Ali, Musa Abdalla Altayb, Hisham N.
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BackgroundClarithromycin resistant Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) strains represent a worldwide health problem. These stains are usually carrying mutations within the 23S rRNA gene associated with clarithromycin resistance. This study aimed to detect H. pylori and clarithromycin resistant associated mutations from Sudanese patients with gastritis ...
Chen, Chun-mei Wang, Min Li, Xian-ping Li, Peng-ling Tian, Jing-jing Zhang, Kan Luo, Can
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BMC Microbiology
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Kulecka, Maria Waker, Edyta Ambrozkiewicz, Filip Paziewska, Agnieszka Skubisz, Karolina Cybula, Patrycja Targoński, Łukasz Mikula, Michał Walewski, Jan Ostrowski, Jerzy
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BMC Microbiology
BackgroundClostridium difficile (C. difficile) is a major source of healthcare-associated infection with a high risk of recurrence, attributable to many factors such as usage of antibiotics, older age and immunocompromised status of the patients. C. difficile has also a highly diverse genome, which may contribute to its high virulence. Herein we ex...
Matsuo, Yoshiyuki Komiya, Shinnosuke Yasumizu, Yoshiaki Yasuoka, Yuki Mizushima, Katsura Takagi, Tomohisa Kryukov, Kirill Fukuda, Aisaku Morimoto, Yoshiharu Naito, Yuji
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BackgroundSpecies-level genetic characterization of complex bacterial communities has important clinical applications in both diagnosis and treatment. Amplicon sequencing of the 16S ribosomal RNA (rRNA) gene has proven to be a powerful strategy for the taxonomic classification of bacteria. This study aims to improve the method for full-length 16S r...
