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Microorganisms, Volume 9, Issue 7

July 2021 - 200 articles

Cover Story: Similar to the "gut-brain axis", which emphasizes the bidirectional communication between the central nervous system and the gut microbiota, the specific dysbiotic signature of the oral cavity of patients with mental disorders suggests the concept of an "oral–brain axis". The effects of prebiotic and probiotic strains on the oral microbial flora make it possible to envisage the prevention and stabilization of mental disorders by modulating oral dysbiosis. View this paper
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Articles (200)

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,789 Views
17 Pages

Beating the Bio-Terror Threat with Rapid Antimicrobial Susceptibility Testing

  • Shahar Rotem,
  • Ida Steinberger-Levy,
  • Ofir Israeli,
  • Eran Zahavy and
  • Ronit Aloni-Grinstein

A bioterror event using an infectious bacterium may lead to catastrophic outcomes involving morbidity and mortality as well as social and psychological stress. Moreover, a bioterror event using an antibiotic resistance engineered bacterial agent may...

  • Review
  • Open Access
84 Citations
10,433 Views
16 Pages

Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) Analysis for the Identification of Pathogenic Microorganisms: A Review

  • Xin-Fei Chen,
  • Xin Hou,
  • Meng Xiao,
  • Li Zhang,
  • Jing-Wei Cheng,
  • Meng-Lan Zhou,
  • Jing-Jing Huang,
  • Jing-Jia Zhang,
  • Ying-Chun Xu and
  • Po-Ren Hsueh

Matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization time-of-flight mass spectrometry (MALDI-TOF MS) has been used in the field of clinical microbiology since 2010. Compared with the traditional technique of biochemical identification, MALDI-TOF MS has many a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,765 Views
20 Pages

Coxsackievirus B4 Transplacental Infection Severely Disturbs Central Tolerogenic Mechanisms in the Fetal Thymus

  • Aymen Halouani,
  • Hélène Michaux,
  • Habib Jmii,
  • Charlotte Trussart,
  • Ahlem Chahbi,
  • Henri Martens,
  • Chantal Renard,
  • Mahjoub Aouni,
  • Didier Hober and
  • Vincent Geenen
  • + 1 author

Thymus plays a fundamental role in central tolerance establishment, especially during fetal life, through the generation of self-tolerant T cells. This process consists in T cells education by presenting them tissue-restricted autoantigens promiscuou...

  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
4,091 Views
14 Pages

Analyses of Virulence Genes of Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis Strains Reveal Heterogeneity and Deletions That Correlate with Pathogenicity

  • Miryam Valenzuela,
  • Marianela González,
  • Alexis Velásquez,
  • Fernando Dorta,
  • Iván Montenegro,
  • Ximena Besoain,
  • Francisco Salvà-Serra,
  • Daniel Jaén-Luchoro,
  • Edward R. B. Moore and
  • Michael Seeger

Clavibacter michiganensis subsp. michiganensis (Cmm) is the causal agent of bacterial canker of tomato. Differences in virulence between Cmm strains have been reported. The aim of this study was the characterization of nine Cmm strains isolated in Ch...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
3,578 Views
10 Pages

Invasive Species as Hosts of Zoonotic Infections: The Case of American Mink (Neovison vison) and Leishmania infantum

  • Iris Azami-Conesa,
  • Jose Sansano-Maestre,
  • Rafael Alberto Martínez-Díaz and
  • María Teresa Gómez-Muñoz

Leishmania infantum produces an endemic disease in the Mediterranean Basin that affects humans and domestic and wild mammals, which can act as reservoir or minor host. In this study, we analyzed the presence of the parasite in wild American minks, an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,061 Views
17 Pages

As the immune system is not fully developed during the larval stage, hatchery culture of bivalve larvae is characterized by frequent mass mortality caused by bacterial pathogens, especially Vibrio spp. However, the knowledge is limited to the pathoge...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,618 Views
9 Pages

The biogeochemical consequences of denitrification and dissimilatory nitrate reduction to ammonium (DNRA) have a significant influence on nitrogen (N) cycling in the ecosystem. Many researchers have explored these two pathways in soil and sediment ec...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,350 Views
18 Pages

Prokaryotic communities and physico-chemical characteristics of 30 brine samples from the thalassohaline Tuz Lake (Salt Lake), Deep Zone, Kayacik, Kaldirim, and Yavsan salterns (Turkey) were analyzed using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing and standard me...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,488 Views
18 Pages

Exploring the Individual Bacterial Microbiota of Questing Ixodes ricinus Nymphs

  • Aurélien Alafaci,
  • Alexandre Crépin,
  • Sabine Beaubert,
  • Jean-Marc Berjeaud,
  • Vincent Delafont and
  • Julien Verdon

Ixodes ricinus is the most common hard tick species in Europe and an important vector of pathogens of human and animal health concerns. The rise of high-throughput sequencing has facilitated the identification of many tick-borne pathogens and, more g...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,458 Views
16 Pages

Characterization of Two New Shiga Toxin-Producing Escherichia coli O103-Infecting Phages Isolated from an Organic Farm

  • Yujie Zhang,
  • Yen-Te Liao,
  • Alexandra Salvador,
  • Valerie M. Lavenburg and
  • Vivian C. H. Wu

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) O103 strains have been recently attributed to various foodborne outbreaks in the United States. Due to the emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains, lytic phages are considered as alternative biocontrol...

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