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  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
9,950 Views
18 Pages

Advancements in Immunology and Microbiology Research: A Comprehensive Exploration of Key Areas

  • Angel Justiz-Vaillant,
  • Darren Gopaul,
  • Sachin Soodeen,
  • Chandrashekhar Unakal,
  • Reinand Thompson,
  • Shalini Pooransingh,
  • Rodolfo Arozarena-Fundora,
  • Odalis Asin-Milan and
  • Patrick Eberechi Akpaka

Immunology and microbiology research has witnessed remarkable growth and innovation globally, playing a pivotal role in advancing our understanding of immune mechanisms, disease pathogenesis, and therapeutic interventions. This manuscript presents a...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
2,739 Views
18 Pages

The Study of the Cytotoxicity, Proliferative and Microbiological Activity of the Medicated Chewing Gum with Ascorbic Acid and Lysozyme Hydrochloride Using Different Culture of Cells

  • Yuliia Maslii,
  • Liudmyla Garmanchuk,
  • Olena Ruban,
  • Taisa Dovbynchuk,
  • Nataliia Herbina,
  • Giedre Kasparaviciene and
  • Jurga Bernatoniene

Medicated chewing gum with lysozyme hydrochloride and ascorbic acid as active pharmaceutical ingredients was developed for application in dentistry. The aim of this research was to study the cytotoxicity, proliferative, and microbiological activities...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
10,930 Views
31 Pages

14 May 2021

The health monitoring of laboratory rodents is essential for ensuring animal health and standardization in biomedical research. Progress in housing, gnotobiotic derivation, and hygienic monitoring programs led to enormous improvement of the microbiol...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
11,803 Views
41 Pages

Microfluidic Bioreactors for Cellular Microarrays

  • Ronnie G. Willaert and
  • Katty Goossens

Living cell microarrays have been combined with microfluidic bioreactors, which provide multiple advantages for multiplex dynamic analyses and high-throughput screening. In the last decade, many developments in this new field have been introduced. Th...

  • Perspective
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,575 Views
15 Pages

Proteomics of Brucella: Technologies and Their Applications for Basic Research and Medical Microbiology

  • Gamal Wareth,
  • Mathias W. Pletz,
  • Heinrich Neubauer and
  • Jayaseelan Murugaiyan

Brucellosis is a global zoonosis caused by Gram-negative, facultative intracellular bacteria of the genus Brucella (B.). Proteomics has been used to investigate a few B. melitensis and B. abortus strains, but data for other species and biovars are li...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,959 Views
12 Pages

BacSPaD: A Robust Bacterial Strains’ Pathogenicity Resource Based on Integrated and Curated Genomic Metadata

  • Sara Ribeiro,
  • Guillaume Chaumet,
  • Karine Alves,
  • Julien Nourikyan,
  • Lei Shi,
  • Jean-Pierre Lavergne,
  • Ivan Mijakovic,
  • Simon de Bernard and
  • Laurent Buffat

The vast array of omics data in microbiology presents significant opportunities for studying bacterial pathogenesis and creating computational tools for predicting pathogenic potential. However, the field lacks a comprehensive, curated resource that...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,476 Views
21 Pages

Are the Organoid Models an Invaluable Contribution to ZIKA Virus Research?

  • Pasquale Marrazzo,
  • Monica Cricca and
  • Claudia Nastasi

24 September 2021

In order to prevent new pathogen outbreaks and avoid possible new global health threats, it is important to study the mechanisms of microbial pathogenesis, screen new antiviral agents and test new vaccines using the best methods. In the last decade,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,052 Views
21 Pages

Study of Mechanical and Sanitary Properties of Artificial Cast Stone Products

  • Regita Bendikiene,
  • Audrius Jutas,
  • Paulius Nagys and
  • Ausra Sipailiene

21 January 2023

This paper aimed to analyse the mechanical and sanitary properties of artificial cast stone. To create an artificial stone product of the desired shape and design, a thermoforming process is used, during which heavy presses shape the artificial stone...

  • Article
  • Open Access
95 Citations
6,947 Views
16 Pages

Oral Microbiota and Immune System Crosstalk: A Translational Research

  • Andrea Ballini,
  • Gianna Dipalma,
  • Ciro Gargiulo Isacco,
  • Mariarosaria Boccellino,
  • Marina Di Domenico,
  • Luigi Santacroce,
  • Kieu C.D. Nguyễn,
  • Salvatore Scacco,
  • Maura Calvani and
  • Francesco Inchingolo
  • + 4 authors

16 June 2020

Background: Oral pathogens may exert the ability to trigger differently the activation of local macrophage immune responses, for instance Porphyromonas gingivalis and Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans induce predominantly pro-inflammatory (M1-lik...

  • Review
  • Open Access
171 Citations
25,347 Views
16 Pages

The Human Respiratory System and its Microbiome at a Glimpse

  • Luigi Santacroce,
  • Ioannis Alexandros Charitos,
  • Andrea Ballini,
  • Francesco Inchingolo,
  • Paolo Luperto,
  • Emanuele De Nitto and
  • Skender Topi

1 October 2020

The recent COVID-19 pandemic promoted efforts to better understand the organization of the respiratory microbiome and its evolution from birth to adulthood and how it interacts with external pathogens and the host immune system. This review aims to d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,062 Views
10 Pages

Utility of Continuous Disease Subtyping Systems for Improved Evaluation of Etiologic Heterogeneity

  • Ruitong Li,
  • Tomotaka Ugai,
  • Lantian Xu,
  • David Zucker,
  • Shuji Ogino and
  • Molin Wang

2 April 2022

Molecular pathologic diagnosis is important in clinical (oncology) practice. Integration of molecular pathology into epidemiological methods (i.e., molecular pathological epidemiology) allows for investigating the distinct etiology of disease subtype...

  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,343 Views
22 Pages

The Critical Role of Consumers in the Prevention of Foodborne Diseases: An Ethnographic Study of Italian Families

  • Alessio Menini,
  • Giulia Mascarello,
  • Mosè Giaretta,
  • Alice Brombin,
  • Silvia Marcolin,
  • Fabrizio Personeni,
  • Anna Pinto and
  • Stefania Crovato

29 March 2022

A high incidence of foodborne diseases occurs in the home setting because consumers adopt inappropriate preparation, consumption, and storage procedures. The present study applies an ethnographic approach to identify inadequate practices that could i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
46 Citations
5,400 Views
26 Pages

The Intestinal Microbiota May Be a Potential Theranostic Tool for Personalized Medicine

  • Marina Di Domenico,
  • Andrea Ballini,
  • Mariarosaria Boccellino,
  • Salvatore Scacco,
  • Roberto Lovero,
  • Ioannis Alexandros Charitos and
  • Luigi Santacroce

24 March 2022

The human intestine is colonized by a huge number of microorganisms from the moment of birth. This set of microorganisms found throughout the human body, is called the microbiota; the microbiome indicates the totality of genes that the microbiota can...

  • Review
  • Open Access
91 Citations
26,401 Views
18 Pages

Kombucha: Production and Microbiological Research

  • Boying Wang,
  • Kay Rutherfurd-Markwick,
  • Xue-Xian Zhang and
  • Anthony N. Mutukumira

31 October 2022

Kombucha is a sparkling sugared tea commonly prepared using a sugared tea infusion and fermented at ambient temperature for several days using a cellulose pellicle also called tea fungus that is comprised of acetic acid bacteria and yeast. Consumptio...

  • Meeting Report
  • Open Access
3,206 Views
18 Pages

International Conference and Expo on Microbiology (Microbiology 2019) organized by Coalesce Research Group was held on November 18–19, 2019 at Hotel Novotel Barcelona Sant Joan Despi, Barcelona, Spain. The conference highlighted the theme, &ldq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,356 Views
7 Pages

Influence of Biodestructors on the Wear Resistance of Polyester Geotextile Materials

  • Lesya V. Pelyk,
  • Volodymyr O. Vasylechko and
  • Olena V. Kyrychenko

Changes in the structure and properties of geotextile nonwoven materials after microbiological load under natural conditions have been studied. Microbiological research of samples was conducted after testing for 12 and 24 months. The results of the r...

  • Opinion
  • Open Access
2,890 Views
8 Pages

Agricultural, Food and Environmental Microbiology at the University of Padova: An Evolutionary Journey from Lag Phase to Exponentiality

  • Lorenzo Favaro,
  • Marina Basaglia,
  • Viviana Corich,
  • Alessio Giacomini,
  • Sergio Casella and
  • Andrea Squartini

9 September 2022

This paper is a microbiological voyage throughout the main discoveries and research activities of scholars who studied or taught in this field at Padova University during its 800-year history. The ancient practice of variolization, the so-called mira...

  • Editorial
  • Open Access
4 Citations
7,874 Views
4 Pages

Recent Advances in Applied Microbiology: Editorial

  • Letícia M. Estevinho,
  • Patrícia Combarros-Fuertes and
  • Vanessa Branco Paula

The importance of microbiology has grown exponentially since the development of genomics, transcriptomics, and proteomics, making it possible to clarify microbial biogeochemical processes and their interactions with macroorganisms in both health and...

  • Review
  • Open Access
29 Citations
6,396 Views
19 Pages

Diagnostic Advances in Childhood Tuberculosis—Improving Specimen Collection and Yield of Microbiological Diagnosis for Intrathoracic Tuberculosis

  • Eric Wobudeya,
  • Maryline Bonnet,
  • Elisabetta Ghimenton Walters,
  • Pamela Nabeta,
  • Rinn Song,
  • Wilfred Murithi,
  • Walter Mchembere,
  • Bunnet Dim,
  • Jean-Voisin Taguebue and
  • Olivier Marcy
  • + 1 author

There is no microbiological gold standard for childhood tuberculosis (TB) diagnosis. The paucibacillary nature of the disease, challenges in sample collection in young children, and the limitations of currently available microbiological tests restric...

  • Brief Report
  • Open Access
2,557 Views
7 Pages

Perspectives of Statistician, Microbiologist, and Clinician Stakeholders on the Use of Microbiological Outcomes in Randomised Trials of Antimicrobial Stewardship Interventions

  • Tin Man Mandy Lau,
  • Rhian Daniel,
  • Kerenza Hood,
  • Mandy Wootton,
  • Kathryn Hughes,
  • Beth Stuart,
  • Gail Hayward,
  • Tamas Szakmany and
  • David Gillespie

Microbiological data are used as indicators of infection, for diagnosis, and the identification of antimicrobial resistance in trials of antimicrobial stewardship interventions. However, several problems have been identified in a recently conducted s...

  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
87 Citations
19,700 Views
12 Pages

Oral Microbiome and Dental Caries Development

  • Josie Shizhen Zhang,
  • Chun-Hung Chu and
  • Ollie Yiru Yu

30 September 2022

Dental caries remains the most prevalent oral disease worldwide. The development of dental caries is highly associated with the microbiota in the oral cavity. Microbiological research of dental caries has been conducted for over a century, with conve...

  • Commentary
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,927 Views
9 Pages

Bronisława Fejgin (1883–1943): Forgotten Important Contributor to International Microbiology and Phage Therapy

  • Andrzej Grzybowski,
  • Maciej Żaczek,
  • Andrzej Górski,
  • Beata Weber-Dąbrowska and
  • Ryszard Międzybrodzki

5 November 2021

Bronisława Brandla Fejgin was a Polish-born Jewish female physician. Among Fejgin’s numerous articles in the field of microbiology, her later work was almost entirely devoted to phage research. Although not equally famous as the phage pioneers from W...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3,330 Views
26 Pages

Explaining and Predicting Microbiological Water Quality for Sustainable Management of Drinking Water Treatment Facilities

  • Goran Volf,
  • Ivana Sušanj Čule,
  • Nataša Atanasova,
  • Sonja Zorko and
  • Nevenka Ožanić

22 July 2025

The continuous variability in the microbiological quality of surface waters presents significant challenges for ensuring the production of safe drinking water in compliance with public health regulations. Inadequate treatment of surface waters can le...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,948 Views
15 Pages

4 July 2024

Vegetation coverage of metal tailings is an important method for environmental governance. Colonization of plants on some nutrient-poor tailings is difficult. Therefore, the addition of clean soil (CSA) is needed to support plant growth. However, the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,284 Views
22 Pages

Markers for the Comparison of the Performances of Anoxic Biotrickling Filters in Biogas Desulphurisation: A Critical Review

  • Emky Valdebenito-Rolack,
  • Rosario Díaz,
  • Felipe Marín,
  • Daniel Gómez and
  • Felipe Hansen

23 March 2021

The agriculture and livestock industry generate waste used in anaerobic digestion to produce biogas containing methane (CH4), useful in the generation of electricity and heat. However, although biogas is mainly composed of CH4 (~65%) and CO2 (~34%),...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,685 Views
16 Pages

Comprehensive Assessment of Environmental Pollution in a Poultry Farm Depending on the Season and the Laying Hen Breeding System

  • Tomasz Szablewski,
  • Kinga Stuper-Szablewska,
  • Renata Cegielska-Radziejewska,
  • Łukasz Tomczyk,
  • Lidia Szwajkowska-Michałek and
  • Sebastian Nowaczewski

16 March 2022

The odors and dust emitted from hen houses affect human health and the condition of crops. The source of fumes is an element of the poultry house environment that affects the level of dust (litter and feed), the concentration of volatile compounds an...

  • Review
  • Open Access
58 Citations
13,258 Views
15 Pages

13 December 2023

Microbial shelf life refers to the duration of time during which a food product remains safe for consumption in terms of its microbiological quality. Predictive microbiology is a field of science that focuses on using mathematical models and computat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,725 Views
15 Pages

Formation of Predictive-Based Models for Monitoring the Microbiological Quality of Beef Meat Processed for Fast-Food Restaurants

  • Olja Šovljanski,
  • Lato Pezo,
  • Ana Tomić,
  • Aleksandra Ranitović,
  • Dragoljub Cvetković and
  • Siniša Markov

Consumption of raw or undercooked meat is responsible for 2.3 million foodborne illnesses yearly in Europe alone. The greater part of this illness is associated with beef meat, which is used in many traditional dishes across the world. Beneath the lo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,421 Views
14 Pages

Microbiological Biostimulants in the Improvement of Extended Storage Quality of In Vitro-Derived Plants of Popular Ornamental Perennials

  • Natalia Miler,
  • Alicja Tymoszuk,
  • Anita Woźny,
  • Tomasz Michalik,
  • Justyna Wiśniewska and
  • Dariusz Kulus

27 January 2024

In vitro propagation is a crucial method for the mass production of high-quality plants, but the impact of microbiological interventions during ex vitro storage remains an underexplored aspect. This study aims to assess the effects of three commercia...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,775 Views
19 Pages

Ancient Grain Flours with Different Degrees of Sifting: Advances in Knowledge of Nutritional, Technological, and Microbiological Aspects

  • Tiziana Di Renzo,
  • Giovanni Cascone,
  • Giuseppina Crescente,
  • Anna Reale,
  • Valeria Menga,
  • Maria D’Apolito,
  • Stefania Nazzaro,
  • Maria Grazia Volpe and
  • Stefania Moccia

11 November 2023

Ancient grains have gained considerable attention in recent years, as some research suggests they may be healthier than modern wheat. The present study aims to evaluate the chemical, rheological, and microbiological features of three Southern Italian...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
3,653 Views
10 Pages

Effect of Nano Silicon Dioxide Coating Films on the Quality Characteristics of Fresh-Cut Cantaloupe

  • Rokayya Sami,
  • Manal Almatrafi,
  • Abeer Elhakem,
  • Mona Alharbi,
  • Nada Benajiba and
  • Mahmoud Helal

17 February 2021

The prime objective of the research was to explore the coating effects of chitosan and nano-silicon dioxide with nisin as an antimicrobial agent on physicochemical properties, microbiological stability, and sensorial quality changes during the storag...

  • Review
  • Open Access
27 Citations
11,026 Views
28 Pages

The cultivation and investigation of strictly anaerobic microorganisms belong to the fields of anaerobic microbial physiology, microbiology, and biotechnology. Anaerobic cultivation methods differ from classic microbiological techniques in several as...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,560 Views
13 Pages

29 July 2020

The benefits of regular exercise include improved physical and mental health. The school gym is a particular micro-environment where students perform intensive physical training. The question is if there is an increased risk of microbiological contam...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,076 Views
14 Pages

Comparison of Susceptibility to Microbiological Contamination in FAMEs Synthesized from Residual and Refined Lard During Simulated Storage

  • Samuel Lepe-de-Alba,
  • Conrado Garcia-Gonzalez,
  • Fernando A. Solis-Dominguez,
  • Rafael Martínez-Miranda,
  • Mónica Carrillo-Beltrán,
  • José L. Arcos-Vega,
  • Carlos A. Sagaste-Bernal,
  • Armando Pérez-Sánchez,
  • Marcos A. Coronado-Ortega and
  • José R. Ayala-Bautista

The present research features an experimental comparative design and the objective of this work was to determine the susceptibility to microbiological contamination in fatty acid methyl esters (FAMEs) and the FAME–water interface of residual an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,195 Views
22 Pages

The Impact of Anthropopressure on the Health Condition of Ancient Roadside Trees for a Sustainable City: Example of the Silver Maples (Acer saccharinum L.) Alley in Łódź (Central Poland)

  • Andrzej Długoński,
  • Jan Łukaszkiewicz,
  • Beata Fortuna-Antoszkiewicz,
  • Jacek Krych,
  • Przemysław Bernat,
  • Katarzyna Paraszkiewicz,
  • Aleksandra Walaszczyk and
  • Justyna Marchewka

20 April 2025

This pilot study aims to evaluate the state of the natural environment in the Silver Maples Alley (SMA) in Łódź, Poland, by using interdisciplinary research methods combining landscape architecture and environmental microbiology. The research focuses...

  • Review
  • Open Access
123 Citations
23,147 Views
24 Pages

31 August 2022

Next-generation sequencing (NGS) technologies have become increasingly available for use in the clinical microbiology diagnostic environment. There are three main applications of these technologies in the clinical microbiology laboratory: whole genom...

  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,325 Views
13 Pages

Bacteria Living in Biofilms in Fluids: Could Chemical Antibiofilm Pretreatment of Culture Represent a Paradigm Shift in Diagnostics?

  • Lorenzo Drago,
  • Andrea Fidanza,
  • Alessio Giannetti,
  • Alessio Ciuffoletti,
  • Giandomenico Logroscino and
  • Carlo Luca Romanò

Biofilms are multicellular aggregates of bacteria immersed in an extracellular matrix that forms on various surfaces, including biological tissues and artificial surfaces. However, more and more reports point out the fact that even biological fluids...

  • Conference Report
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,677 Views
52 Pages

The current proceedings summarize the presentations delivered during the third International Electronic Conference on Microbiology (ECM 2025), which was held online from 1 to 3 April 2025, via the SciForum platform. This virtual event brought togethe...

  • Review
  • Open Access
57 Citations
10,989 Views
33 Pages

Microbiological Sensing Technologies: A Review

  • Firouz Abbasian,
  • Ebrahim Ghafar-Zadeh and
  • Sebastian Magierowski

Microorganisms have a significant influence on human activities and health, and consequently, there is high demand to develop automated, sensitive, and rapid methods for their detection. These methods might be applicable for clinical, industrial, and...

  • Abstract
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,841 Views
1 Page

A challenge in the development process for the new products is represented by the stability study and the determination of the shelf-life of the products that will be launched on the market. Often, these important characteristics, for success on the...

  • Article
  • Open Access
44 Citations
5,227 Views
22 Pages

10 April 2020

Loss of organic matter content of cultivated soils is observed in many regions of Europe. The possibility of using organic waste as a soil additive that enriches the soil with organic matter and essential components is important in soil quality prote...

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