Streptococci are a group of Gram-positive bacteria belonging to the family Streptococcaceae, which are responsible of multiple diseases. Some of these species can cause invasive infection that may result in life-threatening illness. Moreover, antibio...
Retroviruses, a form of mobile genetic elements, have important roles in disease and primate evolution. Exogenous retroviruses, such as human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), have significant pathological implications that have created a massive public...
Social diversification in microbes is an evolutionary process where lineages bifurcate into distinct populations that cooperate with themselves but not with other groups. In bacteria, this is frequently driven by horizontal transfer of mobile genetic...
In this paper, we study mobile element (ME)-based data-gathering schemes in wireless sensor networks. Due to the physical speed limits of mobile elements, the existing data-gathering schemes that usemobile elements can suffer from high data-gathering...
Transposable elements (TEs, or mobile genetic elements, MGEs) are ubiquitous genetic elements that make up a substantial proportion of the genome of many species. The recent growing interest in understanding the evolution and function of TEs has reve...
Three mobile element classes, namely Alu, LINE-1 (L1), and SVA elements, remain actively mobile in human genomes and continue to produce new mobile element insertions (MEIs). Historically, MEIs have been discovered and studied using several methods,...
Visual complexity has significant research value across various fields, influencing both first impressions and user experiences. In the context of human–computer interactions, studies on visual complexity in user interface design have evolved p...
Streptococcal infections are usually treated with beta-lactam antibiotics, but, in case of allergic patients or reduced antibiotic susceptibility, macrolides and fluoroquinolones are the main alternatives. This work focuses on studying macrolide resi...
Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) play an essential role in bacterial adaptation and evolution. These elements are enriched within bacterial communities from extreme environments. However, very little is known if specific genes co-occur with MGEs in ext...
Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a notable opportunistic pathogen in the ESKAPE group due to its multidrug resistance (MDR) and its ability to cause severe healthcare-associated infections. Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) facilitates the dissemination of ant...
Among clinically relevant lineages of Staphylococcus aureus, the lineage or clonal complex 398 (CC398) is of particular interest. Strains from this lineage were only described as livestock colonizers until 2007. Progressively, cases of infection were...
Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) drive antibiotic resistance gene (ARG) dissemination, but whether mobile genetic elements (MGEs) selectively transfer ARGs and how organic amendment affects MGE-mediated ARG dissemination remain unclear. Using soil from...
Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) represents a global health crisis, driven largely by the mobility of resistance determinants through mobile genetic elements (MGEs). These include plasmids, integrons, insertion sequences, transposons, integrative and c...
Background: High infectious disease burden and uncontrolled antibiotic usage across human, animal, and environmental contaminants make antimicrobial resistance (AMR) a growing public health problem in Africa. Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) such plasm...
Carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae (CRKP) has become one of the most serious problems confronting modern healthcare, particularly in intensive care units where patients are highly susceptible, procedures are frequent, and antibiotic exposure...
Antibiotic-resistant pathogens claim the lives of thousands of people each year and are currently considered as one of the most serious threats to public health. Apart from clinical environments, soil ecosystems also represent a major source of antib...
This study investigated the genetic diversity, antimicrobial resistance profiles, and virulence characteristics of Acinetobacter non-baumannii isolates obtained from four hospitals in southern Thailand. Clinical data, genome information, and average...
Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) have been widely recognized as emerging environmental contaminants due to their potential threats to public health and ecosystems. Owing to the extensive use of antibiotics in clinical, agricultural, and aquaculture...
Extensive use of antibiotics in human healthcare as well as in agricultural and environmental settings has led to the emergence and spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria, rendering many infections increasingly difficult to treat. Coupled with the l...
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Municipal sewage treatment plants (MSTPs) are environmental pools for antibiotic resistant bacteria (ARB) and antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs), which is cause for growing environmental-health concerns. In this study, the effects of different wastew...
Background/Objectives: The Stenotrophomonas maltophilia complex (Smc) comprises opportunistic bacteria with substantial antimicrobial resistance and genomic diversity. This study investigated the antimicrobial susceptibility and genomic characteristi...
The impact of antibiotic therapy on the spread of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) and its relationship to gut microbiota remains unclear. This study investigated changes in ARGs, mobile genetic elements (MGEs), and gut microbial composition follow...
Recently developed nanopore sequencing technologies offer a unique opportunity to rapidly close the genome and to identify complete sequences of mobile genetic elements (MGEs). In this study, 17 isolates of Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) epidemic clone...
Plasmids occur frequently in Archaea. A novel plasmid (denoted pTC1) containing typical conjugation functions has been isolated from Sulfolobus tengchongensis RT8-4, a strain obtained from a hot spring in Tengchong, China, and characterized. The plas...
24 November 2022
The application of livestock manure is the leading cause of antibiotic and heavy metal pollution in agricultural soil. However, the effects of oxytetracycline (OTC) and lead (Pb) pollution in the single or combined form on antibiotic resistance genes...
Vibrio parahaemolyticus exhibits severe pathogenicity in humans and animals worldwide. In this study, genome sequencing and comparative analyses were conducted for in-depth characterization of the virulence factor (VF) repertoire of V. parahaemolytic...
The dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in riverine ecosystems poses a pressing public health threat, while the mechanisms governing the assembly of the gut resistome in wild fish remain poorly elucidated. This study aimed to elucidat...
Proteus mirabilis is a zoonotic pathogen that poses a growing threat to both animal and human health due to rising antimicrobial resistance (AMR). It is widely found in animals, including China’s nationally protected captive giant and red panda...
Besides neodymium, the chemical composition of Neodymium–Iron–Boron (NdFeB) permanent magnets possibly contains other rare earth elements (REEs) such as praseodymium, dysprosium, and terbium. Among its applications, NdFeB magnets are essential for Ha...
The presence of impurities in medicinal products have to be controlled within safety limits from a pharmaceutical quality perspective. This matter is of special significance for those countries and regions where the directives, guidelines, or legisla...
The double-crested cormorant (Nannopterum auritum), a piscivorous bird endemic to North America, frequently forages in aquaculture ponds during migration and wintering, contributing to economic losses in catfish-producing regions of the southern Unit...
The phenotypic resistance of 56 Enterococcus faecalis isolates from Eurasian griffon vultures was subjected to surveillance testing with the microdilution method using a standardized panel of antimicrobials. Isolates were also characterized by MLST....
Introduction: Streptococcus uberis is a poorly controlled cause of bovine intramammary infections and a common motivation for the use antibiotics in dairy farms worldwide. Therefore, studying the genomic characteristics of this pathogen is funda...
ICEpMERPH, the first integrative conjugative element (ICE) of the SXT/R391 family isolated in the United Kingdom and Europe, was analyzed to determine the nature of its adaptive functions, its genetic structure, and its homology to related elements n...
Data gathering is a key operator for applications in wireless sensor networks; yet it is also a challenging problem in mobile sensor networks when considering that all nodes are mobile and the communications among them are opportunistic. This paper p...
Smartphones have become increasingly powerful and widespread, enabling complex numerical computations that were once limited to desktop systems. However, implementing high-precision Finite Element Analysis (FEA) on mobile devices remains challenging...
Nitrate (NO3−)-polluted groundwater treatment by enhanced denitrification is becoming increasingly important due to rising NO3− concentrations and decreasing degradation capacities in aquifers. Besides evaluating the efficacy of substrates added to t...
In this manuscript, samples of Kupa River sediments were examined using three different extraction agents. The aim of this study was to evaluate the applicability of single extraction procedures to investigate the bioavailability and mobility of majo...
Land mobility, particularly in the agricultural sector, is a critical factor for rural development and the maintenance of the supply chain. In the EU, the dominant form of agricultural land mobility is succession. This study examines the impact of fo...
The mobile genetic element s2m has been described in several families of single-stranded RNA viruses. The function remains elusive, but an increasing number of s2m-containing sequences are being deposited in publicly available databases. Currently, m...
This study extends previous investigations of soils in Zagreb, the capital of Croatia, by focusing on 25 urban samples selected on the basis of their magnetic susceptibility values. A single-step extraction was performed using 1 M HCl, 2 M HNO3, and...
Antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) are undergoing a remarkably rapid geographic expansion in various ecosystems, including pristine environments such as Antarctica. The study of ARGs and environmental resistance genes (ERGs) mechanisms could provide...
Some families of mobile elements in bacterial genomes encode not only a transposase but also an accessory TnpB gene. This gene has been shown to encode an RNA-guided DNA endonuclease, co-evolving with Y1 transposase and serine recombinase in mobile e...
A diverse set of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) transmit between Streptococcus pneumoniae cells, but many isolates remain uninfected. The best-characterised defences against horizontal transmission of MGEs are restriction-modification systems (RMSs),...
The transfer of mobile genetic elements (MGEs) has been known as a strategy adopted by organisms for survival and adaptation to the environment. The rhizosphere, where microbes and plants coexist, is a hotspot of MGE transfers. In this review, we dis...
We propose a hypothesis for the simultaneous emergence of bacteria, archaea, viruses, and mobile elements by sequential and concrete biochemical pathways. The emergence process can be considered analogous to crystallization, where genetic and biochem...
This research introduces a compact, self-isolated, 12 × 12 multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna array designed for 5G mobile applications, operating within the 3.5 GHz band (3.42–3.62 GHz). The array consists of two distinct sets...
This report presents new data on U-Pb geochronology, oxygen isotopes, and trace element composition of zircon from a pegmatite vein crosscutting an eclogite boudin on Stolbikha Island, Gridino area, Belomorian mobile belt (BMB). The zircon grains occ...
The railway structures need constant monitoring and maintenance to ensure the train circulation safety. Quality information concerning the infrastructure geometry, namely the three-dimensional linear elements, are crucial for that processes. Along wi...
In recent years, the numerical theory of fractional models has received more and more attention from researchers, due to the broad and important applications in materials and mechanics, anomalous diffusion processes and other physical phenomena. In t...
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