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Vibrio parahaemolyticus strain M0904 harbors the pVA1 plasmid, which encodes virulence factors, including the Bacillus thuringiensis Cry (δ-endotoxin)-like binary toxins PirA and PirB, responsible for acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease (AH...
The deliberate inactivation of probiotic cultures requires conditions that guarantee the absence of viable cells; however, inactivation kinetics are seldom characterized in the food matrices used at production scale. This work determined the thermal...
Stability is an important characteristic of phages in terms of their use in phage therapy and storage in collections. Therefore, the choice of storage conditions is an essential stage for ensuring this parameter. The conditions for the long-term stor...
Phosphorus (P) and potassium (K) are essential nutrients for plant growth, but most soil P and K exist in insoluble minerals, restricting plant uptake and driving higher chemical fertilizer use. Phosphate-solubilizing fungi (PSF) are recognized as ef...
Streptococcosis caused by oxytetracycline (OTC)-resistant Streptococcus agalactiae is a major constraint in Nile tilapia aquaculture, where antibiotic options are increasingly limited. This study evaluated the in vitro antibacterial activity of canna...
Ventilator-associated pneumonia (VAP) is a serious lung infection that develops in patients receiving mechanical ventilation for at least 48 h. Critically ill COVID-19 patients admitted to intensive care units (ICUs) are particularly vulnerable to VA...
Aspergillus oryzae XJ-1 is a highly pathogenic fungus against locusts. Many Aspergillus flavus strains could produce aflatoxin (AF), a serious toxin and unsafe for mammals. Due to belonging to the same genus as A. flavus, whether A. oryzae XJ-1 produ...
This study analyzed phenotypic and genotypic antimicrobial resistance (AMR) among commonly isolated anaerobes from southern Croatia. Over two years, 176 isolates (Bacteroides spp., Prevotella spp. and Finegoldia magna) were tested for antimicrobial s...
Candida species may be detected on clinically unaffected skin and in inflamed body folds, complicating interpretation of their contribution to inflammation. This critical narrative review examined Candida findings in selected skin folds and the diape...
Salmonella enterica requires integrated phenotypic and genomic surveillance to characterize antimicrobial susceptibility and genetic diversity. This retrospective study analyzed 14 selected archived isolates from Kazakhstan using conventional and gen...
Thermophilic microbial electrolysis cells (MECs) may couple wastewater valorization with hydrogen production, but the microbial dynamics influencing their performance remain poorly understood. This study investigated microbial succession and biofilm...
Despite substantial advances in cancer therapy, clinical outcomes remain limited by intratumoral heterogeneity, therapeutic resistance, impaired drug penetration, and an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment. This narrative review examines bacteri...
Acinetobacter baumannii (A. baumannii) is a notorious nosocomial pathogen known for its ability to form biofilms, which contribute to its high resistance to conventional antibiotics and immune clearance. This study aimed to evaluate the antibiofilm a...
Epizootic rabbit enteropathy (ERE) is a gastrointestinal disorder affecting rabbits during the post-weaning period. This study aimed to describe cultivable bacterial isolates recovered from the cecal contents of 31 rabbits in Hidalgo, Mexico, with cl...
Date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) is an economically important crop in Sudan, and symptoms of decline may be associated with diverse and poorly understood fungal communities. An unclassified agaricoid fungus was consistently isolated from basidiomat...
Anaerobic Cutibacterium species and facultatively anaerobic coagulase-negative staphylococci (CoNS) are numerically abundant members of the human skin microbiota. Cutibacterium acnes can form biofilms under aerobic conditions when co-cultured with Co...
Polypropylene (PP) is widely used, but its fragmentation into microplastics raises concerns about environmental accumulation and potential human exposure through ingestion and medical settings. These microplastics may disrupt microbiota composition a...
The WHO ranks carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales, including carbapenemase-producing Enterobacterales (CPE), among its critical-priority pathogens. This systematic review synthesizes a decade of the published global whole-genome sequencing (WGS) st...
Fungal contamination of maize can threaten crop health and food safety, motivating the search for alternatives to synthetic fungicides. Here, zinc oxide (ZnO) nanomaterials with nanorod (ZnO-R), lamellar (ZnO-L), and undefined (ZnO-N) morphologies we...
Microbiological verification of reprocessed mechanical ventilators serves as a quality control measure aimed at interrupting potential transmission routes of pathogens before patient intubation. The aim of this study was to describe the microbiologic...
Microbial inoculation may support crop growth under salinity, but general growth promotion must be distinguished from salinity-dependent responses. Pseudomonas sp. JP1-10 was evaluated in greenhouse-grown peanut at 0, 2.5, and 5 g NaCl kg−1 dry...
Alternaria leaf blight (ALB) has emerged as a serious foliar disease limiting groundnut productivity in the semi-arid region of North Gujarat, India. The present investigation was conducted for three consecutive kharif seasons (2016–2018) to el...
The Pitt Bacteremia Score (PBS) grades bedside severity, but its discrimination varies across settings and its conventional threshold of 4 has been questioned. This single-centre retrospective cohort study included 74 randomly sampled adults with cul...
The causative agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, poses significant health and economic problems in the United States and elsewhere. Developing borreliastatic or borreliacidal agents requires the use of solvent vehicles. Vehicle tolerance ca...
Traditional meat and dairy products are widely consumed in Kosovo, but information on their microbiological safety, particularly regarding coagulase-positive staphylococci and Staphylococcus aureus, remains limited. This study evaluated the occurrenc...
This study investigated culturable bacteria isolated from the commercial oil palm biofertilizer CRPO for antagonistic activity against Ganoderma boninense and plant growth-promoting traits. Based on 16S rRNA gene sequencing, the isolates were putativ...
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an opportunistic Gram-negative bacillus responsible for several infectious conditions, including ventilator-associated pneumonia, acute pneumonia, and chronic pulmonary infections. The emergence and spread of antibiotic-resi...
Malaria causes high mortality and morbidity globally, despite progress stalling due to parasite and vector resistance to current strategies. Hence, alternative interventions like vaccines and microbiome-based interventions are proposed to be useful t...
Tap water quality is a critical public health concern because microbiological contamination in water distribution systems may pose risks to consumers. Therefore, this study seeks to integrate conventional and molecular approaches. Traditional methods...
Recombination is one of the mechanisms driving SARS-CoV-2 evolution and can generate genomes with novel combinations of characteristics inherited from parental lineages. We analyzed a total of 1963 genomes available SARS-CoV-2 genome sequences collec...
Paracoccidioidomycosis (PCM) is a neglected tropical disease and the most prevalent systemic mycosis in Latin America. Infection is caused by thermally dimorphic fungi of the genus Paracoccidioides, and disease outcome is largely determined by the na...
Cesarean section accounts for 21.1% of births worldwide and 13.4 million infants were born preterm in 2020, yet pathobiont carriage and resistance genes are usually reported separately, from stool alone. This review maps that interface across four an...
Equine herpesvirus type 1 (EHV-1) is a major viral pathogen of horses, causing respiratory disease, abortion, and neurological disorders, while current vaccines provide only limited protection. This study aimed to evaluate the in vitro cytoprotective...
Acute kidney injury (AKI) is a frequent, life-threatening complication in people living with HIV (PLWH), particularly those with disseminated histoplasmosis (DH), yet the determinants of severe AKI and the role of endothelial dysfunction remain poorl...
Axenic and gnotobiotic aquatic animals provide direct experimental access to the causal roles of microorganisms in host physiology, nutrition, immunity and disease. Fish are particularly suitable vertebrate models because fertilization and embryogene...
The rapid emergence of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major challenge to sustainable poultry production, food safety, and public health. It reduces the effectiveness of conventional antibiotics and highlights the need for alternative approaches...
Infectious bronchitis remains one of the most economically significant viral diseases in commercial poultry farming, despite the widespread implementation of vaccination programs. The high genetic variability of the infectious bronchitis virus (IBV)...
Cordyceps fumosorosea (Wise) is a prominent entomopathogenic fungus with a broad host spectrum. The specificity of its infection mechanisms across different hosts, especially among lepidopteran species, remains largely enigmatic. This study employed...
Tomato production is severely affected by bacterial wilt caused by Ralstonia solanacearum. This study assessed the biocontrol potential of bacterial strains isolated from the cladodes, roots, and rhizosphere of Opuntia dillenii for the sustainable ma...
Fresh fruits may act as vehicles for microorganisms introduced during cultivation, harvest, and handling, especially in settings where crop production occurs close to animal farming. In this study, three Gram-negative strains incidentally recovered d...
Background: Phage–antibiotic combinations (PACs) are increasingly proposed for difficult biofilm infections, but planktonic synergy does not reliably predict activity in mature multidrug-resistant (MDR) biofilms. Objective: To identify the biol...
Campylobacter spp. are major foodborne pathogens, and their increasing antimicrobial resistance poses a growing public health concern in sub-Saharan Africa, where surveillance remains limited. This study investigated the occurrence and antimicrobial...
Rapid and reliable molecular detection of Salmonella is important for laboratory investigation and infectious disease surveillance. This study compared six candidate molecular targets (hilA, invA, phoP, fimA, rpoS, and spvA) and developed a hilA-targ...
The Candida parapsilosis complex (CPC), comprising Candida parapsilosis sensu stricto, Candida orthopsilosis, and Candida metapsilosis, is a significant cause of nosocomial candidemia worldwide. Because species-specific drug resistance profiles vary,...
Chronic granulomatous disease (CGD) is a primary immunodeficiency characterized by impaired innate immune responses and frequent gastrointestinal involvement, yet the reorganization of gut microbiome–metabolome interactions in CGD remains poorl...
This study evaluated the effect of different lactic acid bacteria (LAB) strains on the fatty acid composition and volatile profile of reduced-sodium fermented sausages. Six treatments were produced: a control with a standard sodium content (Con) and...
Selenium (Se) biotransformation by microorganisms determines how inorganic selenium is redistributed into organic selenium, selenium nanoparticles (SeNPs), methylated species, and other intracellular or extracellular pools. Although microbial seleniu...
The prevalence and characteristics of resistant, biofilm-forming Candida strains in healthy individuals remain poorly understood. In this work, Candida strains from 23 healthy volunteers and 11 candidiasis patients (n = 34) were isolated and characte...
The gut microbiota plays an important role in immune homeostasis, allergic disease pathogenesis, and drug metabolism, potentially influencing therapeutic efficacy and safety. Conversely, pharmacotherapy may modify gut microbial composition and functi...
Ultraviolet B (UV-B) irradiation has been investigated as a non-thermal treatment for fresh produce, but its antimicrobial effectiveness may vary during storage. This study evaluated the effects of UV-B irradiation on microbial populations and qualit...
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