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  1. Hosts, parasites, and microbiota interact with each other, forming a complex ecosystem. Alterations to the microbial structure have been observed in various enteric parasitic infections (e.g. parasitic protist...

    Authors: Weishan Zhao, Xialian Bu, Weitian Zhou, Qingwen Zeng, Tian Qin, Shangong Wu, Wenxiang Li, Hong Zou, Ming Li and Guitang Wang
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:7
  2. Uterine infections, primarily caused by bacterial pathogens, pose a significant problem for dairy farmers worldwide, leading to poor reproductive performance and economic losses. However, the bacteria responsi...

    Authors: Berhanu Mekibib, Mesfin Belachew, Biruhtesfa Asrade, Girma Badada and Rahmeto Abebe
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:4
  3. The zoonotic pathogen Wohlfahrtiimonas chitiniclastica can cause several diseases in humans, including sepsis and bacteremia. Although the pathogenesis is not fully understood, the bacterium is thought to enter t...

    Authors: Anna Kopf, Boyke Bunk, Thomas Riedel and Percy Schröttner
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:3
  4. Staphylococcus aureus isolates are the leading cause of diabetic foot infections (DFIs). Identification of specific virulence factors of S. aureus involved in the pathogenesis of DFIs may help control the infecti...

    Authors: Samaneh Shahrokh, Aliye Tabatabaee, Maryam Yazdi and Mansour Siavash
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2024 24:1
  5. Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a significant global health threat, and an accurate prediction of bacterial resistance patterns is critical for effective treatment and control strategies. In recent years,...

    Authors: Alper Yurtseven, Sofia Buyanova, Amay Ajaykumar Agrawal, Olga O. Bochkareva and Olga V. Kalinina
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:404
  6. Contaminated meat has been implicated in many cases of foodborne illness and poses serious challenges in developing countries. This study aimed to assess the quality and safety of raw beef meat in Assosa Town....

    Authors: Mohammed Tesfaye Kebede and Asmamaw Abat Getu
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:403
  7. The clam Chamelea gallina is an ecologically and economically important marine species in the Northwestern Adriatic Sea, which currently suffers from occasional, and still unexplained, widespread mortality events...

    Authors: Giulia Trapella, Nicolò Cinti, Luca Parma, Antonina De Marco, Andrea Nicolò Dell’Acqua, Silvia Turroni, Simone Rampelli, Daniel Scicchitano, Letizia Iuffrida, Alessio Bonaldo, Silvia Franzellitti, Marco Candela and Giorgia Palladino
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:402
  8. Two important virulence factors, urease and cagA, play an important role in Helicobacter pylori (H. pylori) gastric cancer. Aim of this study was to investigate the expression level and function of ureB and cagA ...

    Authors: Hamid Motamedi, Ramin Abiri, Farhad Salari, Cyrus Jalili and Amirhoushang Alvandi
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:401
  9. Authors: Bassma Mahmoud Elkhairy, Nabil Mohamed Salama, Abdalrahman Mohammad Desouki, Ashraf Bakry Abdelrazek, Khaled Abdelaziz Soliman, Samir Abdelaziz Ibrahim and Hala Badr Khalil
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:400

    The original article was published in BMC Microbiology 2023 23:356

  10. Microbial communities are of critical importance in the human host. The lung and gut microbial communities represent the most essential microbiota within the human body, collectively referred to as the gut-lun...

    Authors: Piaopiao Zhou, Zhiqiang Zou, Wenwei Wu, Hui Zhang, Shuling Wang, Xiaoyan Tu, Weibin Huang, Cunrong Chen, Shuaijun Zhu, Qinyong Weng and Shixiang Zheng
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:399
  11. Cutaneous Leishmaniasis (CL) is a parasitic disease with diverse outcomes. Clinical diversity is influenced by various factors such as Leishmania species and host genetic background. The role of Leishmania RNA vi...

    Authors: Zahra Mirabedini, Hamed Mirjalali, Elham Kazemirad, Ali Khamesipour, Katayoun Samimirad, Mona Koosha, Reza Saberi, Hanieh Mohammad Rahimi, Mehdi Mohebali and Homa Hajjaran
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:398
  12. Orthokeratology (OK) lens wear increases the risk of bacterial infection, but little is known about the microbiota of the conjunctival sac in myopic children wearing OK lenses. This study aimed to investigate ...

    Authors: Ju Zhang, Xiuhai Lu, Zhiwei Cheng, Dulei Zou, Weiyun Shi and Ting Wang
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:397
  13. Malaria is a persistent illness that is still a public health issue. On the other hand, marine organisms are considered a rich source of anti‑infective drugs and other medically significant compounds. Herein, ...

    Authors: Noha M. Gamaleldin, Hebatallah S. Bahr, Natalie Millán-Aguiñaga, Mahshid Danesh, Eman M. Othman, Thomas Dandekar, Hossam M. Hassan and Usama Ramadan Abdelmohsen
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:396
  14. Certain strains of probiotic bacteria can secret functional substances namely digestive enzymes and functional peptides to regulate physiological conditions such as digestion and anti-oxidation, which are ofte...

    Authors: Jiajun Yang, Jing Wang, Zongliang Liu, Jun Chen, Jiajing Jiang, Minmeng Zhao and Daoqing Gong
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:395
  15. Intrinsic metabolism shapes the immune environment associated with immune suppression and tolerance in settings such as organ transplantation and cancer. However, little is known about the metabolic activities...

    Authors: Bing Ma, Samuel J. Gavzy, Michael France, Yang Song, Hnin Wai Lwin, Allison Kensiski, Vikas Saxena, Wenji Piao, Ram Lakhan, Jegan Iyyathurai, Lushen Li, Christina Paluskievicz, Long Wu, Marina WillsonShirkey, Emmanuel F. Mongodin, Valeria R. Mas…
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:394
  16. The rising prevalence of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase and carbapenemase-producing Enterobacteriaceae (ESβL-PE) in street foods poses a significant risk to human health due to its epidemiological significance....

    Authors: Dagninet Alelign and Aschalew Kidanewold
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:393
  17. Colistin is an antibiotic used as a last-resort to treat multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections. Colistin had been used for a long time in veterinary medicine for disease control and as a growt...

    Authors: Mulu Lemlem, Erkihun Aklilu, Maizan Mohamed, Nor Fadhilah Kamaruzzaman, Zunita Zakaria, Azian Harun, Susmita Seenu Devan, Intan Noor Aina Kamaruzaman, Mohd Farhan Hanif Reduan and Muthupandian Saravanan
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:392
  18. The promising yet barely investigated anaerobic species Phocaeicola vulgatus (formerly Bacteroides vulgatus) plays a vital role for human gut health and effectively produces organic acids. Among them is succinate...

    Authors: Laura Keitel, Kristina Braun, Maurice Finger, Udo Kosfeld, Stanislav Yordanov and Jochen Büchs
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:391
  19. Depression and anxiety are common comorbid diseases of constipation. Fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) significantly relieves gastrointestinal-related symptoms, but its impact on psychiatric symptoms rema...

    Authors: Chuanli Yang, Tianjiao Hu, Xin Xue, Xiaohu Su, Xuan Zhang, Yunhe Fan, Xiaobing Shen and Xiushan Dong
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:389
  20. Mounting evidence indicates that the gut microbiota influences the neurodevelopment and behavior of insects through the gut-brain axis. However, it is currently unclear whether the gut microbiota affect the he...

    Authors: Junrui-Fu, Zixia Rong, Ximei Huang, Junhan Wang, Xiaoyan Long, Qili Feng and Huimin Deng
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:388
  21. The goal of this study was to comprehensively investigate the characteristics of gut microbiota dysbiosis and metabolites levels in very low or extremely low birth weight (VLBW/ELBW) infants with white matter ...

    Authors: Ling Liu, Min Xiang, Xiangsheng Cai, Benqing Wu, Chaohong Chen, Nali Cai and Dang Ao
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:387
  22. Corynebacterium pyruviciproducens is a recently described species of Corynebacterium. There are few reports on the microbiological characteristics of the new species, and there is a lack of reports on the genomic...

    Authors: Jiaqi Wang, Jiajia Feng, Wei Jia, Tingxun Yuan, Xinyu He, Qianqian Wu, Fujun Peng, Wei Gao, Zhongfa Yang, Yuanyong Tao and Qian Li
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:385
  23. Administering probiotic strains of Limosilactobacillus reuteri to poultry has been shown to improve poultry performance and health. Some strains of L. reuteri taxa can produce reuterin, a broad-spectrum antimicro...

    Authors: Paul Tetteh Asare, Anna Greppi, Annelies Geirnaert, Alessia Pennacchia, Angela Babst and Christophe Lacroix
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:384
  24. Musca domestica larvae are common saprophytes in nature, promoting the material—energy cycle in the environment. However, heavy metal pollution in the environment negatively affects their function in material cir...

    Authors: Yansong Yin, Shumin Wang, Kexin Zhang, Ying Li, WenJuan Liu, Qian Zhang, Xinyu Zhang, Xinxin Kong, Sha An, Ruiling Zhang and Zhong Zhang
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:383
  25. In bioethanol production, the main by-product, 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF), significantly hinders microbial fermentation. Therefore, it is crucial to explore genes related to HMF tolerance in Saccharomyces cere...

    Authors: Qian Li, Peng Feng, Hao Tang, Fujia Lu, Borui Mou, Lan Zhao, Nan Li, Yaojun Yang, Chun Fu, Wencong Long, Ximeng Xiao, Chaohao Li, Wei Wu, Gang Wang, Beidong Liu, Tianle Tang…
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:382
  26. The extremely halophilic archaeon Haloferax (Hfx.) alexandrinus DSM 27206 T was previously documented for the ability to biosynthesize silver nanoparticles while mechanisms underlying its silver tolerance were ov...

    Authors: Doriana Mădălina Buda, Edina Szekeres, Lucian Barbu Tudoran, Julia Esclapez and Horia Leonard Banciu
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:381
  27. Fatty acid metabolism greatly promotes the virulence and pathogenicity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis (M.tb). However, the regulatory mechanism of fatty acid metabolism in M.tb remains to be elucidated, and limite...

    Authors: Yameng Li, Xianglong Kong, Yifan Li, Ningning Tao, Tingting Wang, Yingying Li, Yawei Hou, Xuehan Zhu, Qilin Han, Yuzhen Zhang, Qiqi An, Yao Liu and Huaichen Li
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:379

    The Correction to this article has been published in BMC Microbiology 2024 24:2

  28. There is a global need to develop new therapies to treat infectious diseases and tackle the rise in antimicrobial resistance. To date, the larvae of the Black Solider Fly, Hermetia illucens, have the largest repe...

    Authors: Leila Fahmy, Youssif M. Ali, David Seilly, Reece McCoy, Róisín M. Owens, Miha Pipan, Graham Christie and Andrew J Grant
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:378
  29. Growing evidence suggests that soil microbes can improve plant fitness under drought. However, in potato, the world’s most important non-cereal crop, the role of the rhizosphere microbiome under drought has be...

    Authors: Benoit Renaud Martins, Roberto Siani, Krzysztof Treder, Dorota Michałowska, Viviane Radl, Karin Pritsch and Michael Schloter
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:377
  30. The fecal carriage of extended-spectrum β-lactamase-producing Enterobacterales (ESBL-PE) is a major driver of the global spread of these antibiotic resistance determinants. Here we determined the rate of fecal...

    Authors: Nabil Abdullah El Aila, Nahed Ali Al Laham, Basim Mohammed Ayesh and Thierry Naas
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:376
  31. The fungus Trichoderma reesei is one of the most used industrial cellulase producers due to its high capacity of protein secretion. Strains of T. reesei with enhanced protein secretion capacity, such as Rut-C30, ...

    Authors: Jawad Alharake, Frédérique Bidard, Thiziri Aouam, Catherine Sénamaud-Beaufort, Antoine Margeot and Senta Heiss-Blanquet
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:374
  32. Peutz–Jeghers Syndromeis a rare autosomal dominant genetic disease characterized by gastrointestinal hamartomatous polyps and skin and mucous membrane pigmentation. The pathogenesis of PJS remains unclear; how...

    Authors: An Zhou, Bo Tang, Yuhong Xie, Shengpeng Li, Xu Xiao, Lingyi Wu, Dianji Tu, Sumin Wang, Yunxuan Feng, Xiaojie Feng, Yi Lai, Shoubin Ning and Shiming Yang
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:373
  33. Staphylococcus aureus (S. aureus) is a highly virulent pathogen that causes food-borne illness, food poisoning, skin and soft tissue infections, abscesses, mastitis, and bacteremia. It is common for meat and meat...

    Authors: Amgalanzaya Dorjgochoo, Anujin Batbayar, Altansukh Tsend-Ayush, Otgontsetseg Erdenebayar, Bayarlakh Byambadorj, Sarantuya Jav and Munkhdelger Yandag
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:372
  34. The current overview on published systematic reviews (SRs) and meta-analysis (MAs) aimed to systematically gather, evaluate, and synthesize solid evidence for using fecal microbiota transplantation (FMT) to tr...

    Authors: Haixia Liu, Jing Li, Jiaxin Yuan, Jinke Huang and Youqi Xu
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:371
  35. Salmonella enterica are important foodborne pathogens and the third leading cause of death among diarrheal infections worldwide. This cross-sectional study investigated the frequency of antibiotic-resistant Salmo...

    Authors: Linda Aurelia Ofori, Dennis Fosu, Seth Ofori, Charity Wiafe Akenten, Antje Flieger, Sandra Simon, Anna Jaeger, Maike Lamshöft, Juergen May, Kwasi Obiri-Danso, Richard Phillips, Daniel Haile Chercos, Ellis Kobina Paintsil and Denise Dekker
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:370
  36. Currently, clinical laboratories lack an effective method to differentiate between classical Klebsiella pneumoniae (cKP) and hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (hvKP) strains, leading to delays in diagnosing and...

    Authors: Dongmei Mai, Anqi Wu, Ran Li, Donghao Cai, Huichun Tong, Nan Wang and Junqing Tan
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:369
  37. Staphylococcus aureus, one of the most prevalent opportunistic pathogens, mainly colonizes the nasal cavity and is a risk factor for severe infections. Virulence factors and accessory gene regulator (agr) are key...

    Authors: Hao Cai, Xueying Li, Chao Zhang, Huamin Zhong, Yongqiang Xie, Lianfen Huang, Baidu Zhang, Yan Long, Zhenwen Zhou and Bingshao Liang
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:368
  38. Yeast infections have gained significant attention in the field of marine biology in recent years. Among the broad diversity of marine organisms affected by these infections, elasmobranchs (sharks and rays) ha...

    Authors: Maria Carolina Peixoto-Rodrigues, Gisela Lara da Costa, Tatiane Nobre Pinto, Daniel Adesse, Manoel Marques Evangelista Oliveira and Rachel Ann Hauser-Davis
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:367
  39. Sequencing of the human skin microbiome revealed that Corynebacterium is an ubiquitous and abundant bacterial genus on human skin. Shotgun sequencing further highlighted the microbial “dark matter” of the skin mi...

    Authors: Mie Gammelgaard Jensen, Lejla Svraka, Elena Baez, Michael Lund, Anja Poehlein and Holger Brüggemann
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:366
  40. Gut microbiome is critical to our human health and is related to postmenopausal osteoporosis (PMO). Strontium ranelate (SrR) is an anti-osteoporosis oral drug that can promote osteoblast formation and inhibit ...

    Authors: Xiao Xiao, Yuanyuan Cui, Huigai Lu, Jiaqi Wang, Jing Yang, Long Liu, Zhixin Liu, Xiaohong Peng, Hong Cao, Xinghui Liu and Xiuli Wei
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:365
  41. Probiotics have gained attention for their potential maintaining gut and immune homeostasis. They have been found to confer protection against pathogen colonization, possess immunomodulatory effects, enhance g...

    Authors: Tales Fernando da Silva, Rafael de Assis Glória, Thiago Jesus de Sousa, Monique Ferrary Americo, Andria dos Santos Freitas, Marcus Vinicius Canário Viana, Luís Cláudio Lima de Jesus, Ligia Carolina da Silva Prado, Nathalie Daniel, Olivia Ménard, Marie-Françoise Cochet, Didier Dupont, Julien Jardin, Amanda Dias Borges, Simone Odília Antunes Fernandes, Valbert Nascimento Cardoso…
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:364
  42. The gut microbial composition has been linked to metabolic and autoimmune diseases, including arthritis. However, there is a dearth of knowledge on the gut bacteriome, mycobiome, and virome in patients with go...

    Authors: Changming Chen, Yue Zhang, Xueming Yao, Qiulong Yan, Shenghui Li, Qin Zhong, Zhengqi Liu, Fang Tang, Can Liu, Hufan Li, Dan Zhu, Weiya Lan, Yi Ling, Daomin Lu, Hui Xu, Qiaoyi Ning…
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:363
  43. Dental caries is a chronic oral disease caused by microbial infections, which result in erosion of the dental enamel and cause irreversible damage. Therefore, proper disease management techniques and the creat...

    Authors: Hyeoungeun Kim, Chi-Young Han, Su-Hyeon Eun, Min-Goo Kim, A-Rang Im and Byeonghun Lee
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:362
  44. In investigating of (exopolysaccharide) EPS from unconventional sources, lactic acid bacteria have a vital role due to their generally recognized as safe (GRAS) status. EPSs have diverse applications such as d...

    Authors: Eman Ahmed Elmansy, Ebtsam M. Elkady, Mohsen S. Asker, Nagwa A. Abdallah, Bigad E. Khalil and Shaimaa k. Amer
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:361
  45. Helicobacter pylori lipopolysaccharide (LPS) structures vary among strains of different geographic origin. The aim of this study was to characterize the LPS O-antigen profiles of H. pylori strains isolated from S...

    Authors: Xiaoqiong Tang, Peng Wang, Yalin Shen, Xiaona Song, Mohammed Benghezal, Barry J. Marshall, Hong Tang and Hong Li
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:360
  46. A molecular surveillance of tick-borne diseases was performed in Hulunbuir City, Inner Mongolia. A total of 149 ticks including three species (Ixodes persulcatus, Haemaphysalis concinna, and Dermacentor silvarum)...

    Authors: Junhua Tian, Jing Liu, Hongqing Zhao, Xiaomin Chen, Xueqin Geng, Miao Lu and Kun Li
    Citation: BMC Microbiology 2023 23:359

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