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…
Aztreonam intervention recalibrates microbial interactions between Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Streptococcus salivarius | BMC Microbiology
Treatment with aztreonam affects the interspecific interaction of bacteria The interaction between P. aeruginosa and S. salivarius was…
Rare spacecraft bacterium found to evade detection by playing dead
A rare microorganism found in an unexpected environment may be evading detection by “playing dead,” according to microbiologists…
The mitochondrial genome sequence of the Bornean orang-utan (Pongo pygmaeus) malaria parasite, Plasmodium pitheci | Malaria Journal
Duval L, Ariey F. Ape Plasmodium parasites as a source of human outbreaks. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2012;18:528–32. CAS …
Unraveling the pathogenic potential, virulence traits, and antibiotic resistance genes of multidrug-resistant Streptococcus agalactiae strains retrieved from Nile tilapia | BMC Microbiology
Bonham V. Oreochromis niloticus (Nile tilapia). Oxfordshire, UK: CABI Compendium; Wallingford; 2022. Google Scholar El-Sayed AFM, Fitzsimmons K.…
Biologists Baffled by Never-Before-Seen Structure in a Tiny Organism
Scientists have identified a previously unknown tubular structure inside a symbiotic bacterium that lives within the Asian citrus…