Hankel, Julia Abd El-Wahab, Amr Grone, Richard Keller, Birgit Galvez, Eric Strowig, Till Visscher, Christian
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Microorganisms
Anthropomorphism of dogs has affected feeding and the choice of components present in diets for dogs. Conflicting trends are present: raw or vegetarian appear more prevalent. Animal-derived proteins seem to have unfavourable impacts on intestinal microflora by decreasing the presence of Bacteroidetes. This preliminary study evaluates whether effect...
Gómez-Velásquez, Juan C Loaiza-Díaz, Natalia Norela Hernández, Gilma Lima, Nelson Mesa-Arango, Ana C
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Microorganisms
Identification of filamentous fungi by conventional phenotypic methods are time-consuming, and a correct identification at the species level is prone to errors. Therefore, a more accurate and faster time-to-results, and cost-effective technique, is required, such as the Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry (M...
Shih, Ching-Tang Yeh, Yao-Tsung Lin, Ching-Chiang Yang, Lin-Yu Chiang, Chih-Po
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Microorganisms
Patients with refractory diabetes are defined as type 2 diabetes (T2D) patients; they cannot achieve optimal glycemic control and exhibit persistent elevations of hemoglobin A1c (HbA1c) ≥8% while on appropriate therapy. Hyperglycemia can lead to severe microvascular/macrovascular complications. However, in contrast to T2D, few studies have focused ...
Soh, Kar Yan Loh, Jacelyn Mei San Hall, Christopher Proft, Thomas
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Microorganisms
Streptococcus iniae is a major fish pathogen that contributes to large annual losses in the aquaculture industry, exceeding US$100 million. It is also reported to cause opportunistic infections in humans. We have recently identified two novel S. iniae virulence factors, an extracellular nuclease (SpnAi) and a secreted nucleotidase (S5nAi), and veri...
Prudêncio, Cristina Vieira, Mónica Van der Auweraer, Seppe Ferraz, Ricardo
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Antibiotics (Basel, Switzerland)
Antibiotics are considered one of the great "miracles" of the 20th century. Now in the 21st century in the post-antibiotic era, the miracle is turning into a nightmare, due to the growing problem of the resistance of microorganisms to classic antimicrobials and the non-investment by the pharmaceutical industry in new antimicrobial agents. Unfortuna...
Khiralla, Afra Spina, Rosella Varbanov, Mihayl Philippot, Stéphanie Lemiere, Pascal Slezack-Deschaumes, Sophie André, Philippe Mohamed, Ietidal Yagi, Sakina Mohamed Laurain-Mattar, Dominique
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Microorganisms
An endophytic fungus isolated from Vernonia amygdalina, a medicinal plant from Sudan, was taxonomically characterized as Curvularia papendorfii. Ethyl acetate crude extract of C. papendorfii revealed an important antiviral effect against two viral pathogens, the human coronavirus HCoV 229E and a norovirus surrogate, the feline coronavirus FCV F9. F...
Benedetti, Francesca Curreli, Sabrina Zella, Davide
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Microorganisms
Mycoplasmas are the smallest and simplest self-replicating prokaryotes. Located everywhere in nature, they are widespread as parasites of humans, mammals, reptiles, fish, arthropods, and plants. They usually exhibiting organ and tissue specificity. Mycoplasmas belong to the class named Mollicutes (mollis = soft and cutis = skin, in Latin), and thei...
Giulietti, Lucilla Karlsbakk, Egil Cipriani, Paolo Shayo, Salome Daniel Storesund, Julia E Levsen, Arne
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Microorganisms
Myxosporean parasites of the genus Kudoa are fish parasites of great economic importance, as some species can affect the fish fillet quality by producing macroscopic cysts or generating post mortem myoliquefaction, commonly referred to as 'soft flesh'. Kudoa mirabilis is a 'soft flesh'-inducing species originally described based on morphology in th...
Ayala-Muñoz, Diana Burgos, William D Sánchez-España, Javier Couradeau, Estelle Falagán, Carmen Macalady, Jennifer L
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Microorganisms
Cueva de la Mora (CM) is an acidic, meromictic pit lake in the Iberian Pyrite Belt characterized by extremely high metal(loid) concentrations and strong gradients in oxygen, metal, and nutrient concentrations. We hypothesized that geochemical variations with depth would result in differences in community composition and in metal resistance strategi...
Gandhi, Chintan K Mikerov, Anatoly N Durrani, Faryal Umstead, Todd M Hu, Sanmei Wang, Guirong Phelps, David S Floros, Joanna
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Microorganisms
Surfactant protein A (SP-A) plays an important role in innate immunity. The sex-dependent survival of infected SP-A knockout (KO) mice has been observed. Our goal was to study the impact of ozone (O3) and sex, as well as gonadal hormones, on the bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) readouts and survival, respectively, of Klebsiella pneumoniae-infected SP-A...
