New biofilm discovery may pave way to undermining antibiotic-resistant Pseudomonas
The bacterium known as Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an unwelcome visitor in the human body. Serious infections can result…
High-resolution profiling of bacterial and fungal communities using pangenome-informed taxon-specific long-read amplicons | Microbiome
Song S, Liu Y, Wang NR, Haney CH. Mechanisms in plant-microbiome interactions: lessons from model systems. Curr Opin…
Scientists uncover the gut’s hidden hydrogen engine and how it falters in Crohn’s disease
A global research team has pinpointed the enzyme fueling hydrogen production in healthy guts and shown how its…
Advances in biomanufacturing and recent biological applications of the fundamental bacterial carotenoids: a comprehensive review | Microbial Cell Factories
Abdelaziz AA, Kamer AMA, Al-Monofy KB, et al. Pseudomonas aeruginosa’s greenish-blue pigment pyocyanin: its production and biological activities.…
Natural sex reversal imparts permanent compositional changes to the swamp eel gonadal microbiome | Microbiome
Fish maintenance and trial design The sourcing of swamp eel and the rearing procedures employed in this study…
Do Kākāpōs Have Superbugs?
So far, so good: Aotearoa New Zealand’s critically endangered kākāpō parrots are not showing signs of antibiotic resistant…
Endophytic bacterial communities associated with halophytic plants in kebili and Gabes regions of Southern Tunisia | BMC Microbiology
Physicochemical characteristics of soil of five locations in Tunisia As described in the Materials and Methods, we assessed…
The effects of the secondary metabolites of the citrus endophytic fungus Nemania sp. LJZ-Y-11 on the citrus canker disease-causing pathogen Xanthomonas citri subsp. citri | BMC Microbiology
Reagents and equipment Beef extract and bacteriological peptone purchased from Guangdong Huankai Microbial Sci. & Tech. Co., Ltd.,…
Genotyping of Coxiella burnetii isolates in Iran using Multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) | BMC Microbiology
Samples This study included 119 C. burnetii-positive samples that had been previously confirmed using molecular methods, including nested…
Genomics study detects rare diarrheal infections
Google’s new AI tool can read DNA like a language, and see immediately if a word substitution will…
Determinants of timely malaria treatment among under-five children attending public health facilities in Kisumu East sub-county, Kenya: a health facility-based cross-sectional study | Malaria Journal
Conceptual framework This study employed Levesque et al. Conceptual Framework for Patient-centred access to health to define access…
Ecological factors that drive microbial communities in culturally diverse fermented foods | BMC Microbiology
Traditional fermented foods vary by raw ingredients and fermentation methods We collected 90 samples of 24 different types…