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Microorganisms, Volume 7, Issue 4

April 2019 - 20 articles

Cover Story: Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) are important foodborne pathogens that can cause enteric disease and kidney failure in humans. Biofilms contribute to the persistence of STEC in food processing environments. Several factors, including nutrient profile, temperature, physical, and chemical properties of contact surfaces and the genomics of the strain can influence biofilm formation. Identification of the conditions that promote STEC biofilm formation in food processing facilities, is key to developing disinfection and production conditions that reduce the risk of adulteration of food. View this paper.
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Articles (20)

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
4,870 Views
14 Pages

Sex-Specific Asymmetrical Attack Rates in Combined Sexual-Vectorial Transmission Epidemics

  • Ana Carolina W. G. de Barros,
  • Kaline G. Santos,
  • Eduardo Massad and
  • Flávio Codeço Coelho

In 2015–2016, South America went through the largest Zika epidemic in recorded history. One important aspect of this epidemic was the importance of sexual transmission in combination with the usual vectorial transmission, with asymmetrical tran...

  • Article
  • Open Access
19 Citations
5,600 Views
12 Pages

The potential of the plasma membrane (Δψ) regulates the electrochemical potential between the outer and inner sides of cell membranes. The opportunistic fungal pathogen, Candida albicans, regulates the membrane potential in response to envi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
4,450 Views
13 Pages

Among the Microbacteriaceae the species of Subtercola and Agreia form closely associated clusters. Phylogenetic analysis demonstrated three major phylogenetic branches of these species. One of these branches contains the two psychrophilic species Sub...

  • Article
  • Open Access
7 Citations
4,275 Views
8 Pages

Rotavirus infection is the most common diarrheal disease worldwide in children under five years of age, and it often results in death. In recent years, research on the relationship between rotavirus and probiotics has shown that probiotics are effect...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
6,484 Views
10 Pages

In this study, lactic acid bacteria (LAB) with antioxidative and probiotic activities were isolated from the vaginas of Korean women and from fermented food. Among 34 isolated LAB strains, four strains (MG4221, MG4231, MG4261, and MG4270) exhibited i...

  • Article
  • Open Access
31 Citations
7,233 Views
16 Pages

Reproduction of Large-Scale Bioreactor Conditions on Microfluidic Chips

  • Phuong Ho,
  • Christoph Westerwalbesloh,
  • Eugen Kaganovitch,
  • Alexander Grünberger,
  • Peter Neubauer,
  • Dietrich Kohlheyer and
  • Eric von Lieres

Microbial cells in industrial large-scale bioreactors are exposed to fluctuating conditions, e.g., nutrient concentration, dissolved oxygen, temperature, and pH. These inhomogeneities can influence the cell physiology and metabolism, e.g., decelerate...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,379 Views
17 Pages

Phages greatly influence the ecology and evolution of their bacterial hosts; however, compared to hosts, a relatively low number of phages, especially halophilic phages, have been studied. This study describes a comparative investigation of physicoch...

  • Review
  • Open Access
97 Citations
20,649 Views
20 Pages

Probiotics: If It Does Not Help It Does Not Do Any Harm. Really?

  • Aaron Lerner,
  • Yehuda Shoenfeld and
  • Torsten Matthias

Probiotics per definition should have beneficial effects on human health, and their consumption has tremendously increased in the last decades. In parallel, the amount of published material and claims for their beneficial efficacy soared continuously...

  • Review
  • Open Access
49 Citations
12,692 Views
13 Pages

Functional Genomics of Aspergillus oryzae: Strategies and Progress

  • Bin He,
  • Yayi Tu,
  • Chunmiao Jiang,
  • Zhe Zhang,
  • Yongkai Li and
  • Bin Zeng

Aspergillus oryzae has been used for the production of traditional fermentation and has promising potential to produce primary and secondary metabolites. Due to the tough cell walls and high drug resistance of A. oryzae, functional genomic characteri...

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