Timmis, Kenneth
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Environmental Microbiology
Imposition of restrictions on civil liberties in response to epi/pandemic crises provokes collateral health, economic and social crises. Moreover, as a result of the societal distress engendered, they become less effective over time, reflected in reducing acceptability, public protests, lack of compliance and civil disobedience, as evidenced by cur...
Tarazona, Natalia A. Hernández‐Arriaga, Ana M. Kniewel, Ryan Prieto, M. Auxiliadora
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Environmental Microbiology
Phasin PhaF, a multifunctional protein associated with the surface of polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) granules that also interacts with the nucleoid, contributes significantly to PHA biogenesis in pseudomonads. As a protein present on the surface of PHA granules, PhaF participates in granule stabilization and segregation, whereas its deletion has a nota...
Olivenza, David R. Casadesús, Josep Ansaldi, Mireille
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Environmental Microbiology
Environmental monitoring of bacteria using phage‐based biosensors has been widely developed for many different species. However, there are only a few available methods to detect specific bacteriophages in raw environmental samples. In this work, we developed a simple and efficient assay to rapidly monitor the phage content of a given sample. The as...
Gdaniec, Bartosz Gerard Allard, Pierre‐Marie Queiroz, Emerson Ferreira Wolfender, Jean‐Luc van Delden, Christian Köhler, Thilo
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Environmental Microbiology
Interspecies bacterial competition may occur via cell‐associated or secreted determinants and is key to successful niche colonization. We previously evolved Pseudomonas aeruginosa in the presence of Staphylococcus aureus and identified mutations in the Wsp surface‐sensing signalling system. Surprisingly, a Δ wspF mutant, characterized by increased ...
Alonso, Pascal Blondin, Laurence Gladieux, Pierre Mahé, Frédéric Sanguin, Hervé Ferdinand, Romain Filloux, Denis Desmarais, Eric Cerqueira, Frédérique Jin, Baihui
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Environmental Microbiology
The Honghe Hani rice terraces system (HHRTS) is a traditional rice cultivation system where Hani people cultivate remarkably diverse rice varieties. Recent introductions of modern rice varieties to the HHRTS have significantly increased the severity of rice diseases within the terraces. Here, we determine the impacts of these recent introductions o...
Tian, Maolu Long, Yanjun Hong, Yang Zhang, Xiangyan Zha, Yan
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Environmental Microbiology
We reported 20 cases of discharged COVID‐19 patients whose RT‐PCR test results showed “re‐positive”. After finding “re‐positive ”, these patients were admitted to hospital for the second time and were followed up until the end of May 2020. Methods: Record detailed treatment and follow‐up process, and collect relevant data. The possible causes and p...
Brüssow, Harald
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Environmental microbiology
In the absence of an efficient drug treatment or a vaccine, the control of the COVID-19 pandemic relies on classic infection control measures. Since these means are socially disruptive and come with substantial economic loss for societies, a better knowledge of the epidemiology of the new coronavirus epidemic is crucial to achieve control at a sust...
Perri, Riccardo Kolvenbach, Boris A Corvini, Philippe F X
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Environmental microbiology
There are a multitude of resistance strategies that microbes can apply to avoid inhibition by antimicrobials. One of these strategies is the enzymatic modification of the antibiotic, in a process generally termed inactivation. Furthermore, some microorganisms may not be limited to the mere inactivation of the antimicrobial compounds. They can conti...
Bischofberger, Anna M Baumgartner, Michael Pfrunder-Cardozo, Katia R Allen, Richard C Hall, Alex R
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Environmental microbiology
Bacteria in nature often encounter non-antibiotic antibacterials (NAAs), such as disinfectants and heavy metals, and they can evolve resistance via mechanisms that are also involved in antibiotic resistance. Understanding whether susceptibility to different types of antibacterials is non-randomly associated across natural and clinical bacteria is t...
Ortega‐Beltran, Alejandro Callicott, Kenneth A. Cotty, Peter J.
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Environmental Microbiology
In warm regions, agricultural fields are occupied by complex Aspergillus flavus communities composed of isolates in many vegetative compatibility groups (VCGs) with varying abilities to produce highly toxic, carcinogenic aflatoxins. Aflatoxin contamination is reduced with biocontrol products that enable atoxigenic isolates from atoxigenic VCGs to d...
