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Chromobacterium violaceum ATCC12472: Multi-drug and ethidium bromide resistant
Chromobacterium violaceum is an opportunistic human pathogen causing a range of gastric infections and occasionally septicemia. This Gram-negative bacillus is a common inhabitant of soil and wate…
Received 23 June 2009 08:03 GMT; Posted 23 June 2009
Posted to: Microbiology, Pharmacology
Varicella notification in immigrants: a brief report from Ferrara, Italy
Background and Aim of the work – We conducted a survey of varicella cases’ notifications in the immigrant population in the province of Ferrara, Italy.Materials and Methods – We collected notif…
Received 22 June 2009 06:40 GMT; Posted 22 June 2009
Posted to: Immunology, Microbiology
Small critical RNAs in the scrapie agent
Unconventional infectious agents cause transmissible spongiform encephalopathy (TSE) diseases including scrapie and bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) in animals and Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease i…
Received 16 June 2009 14:17 GMT; Posted 16 June 2009
Posted to: Microbiology, Neuroscience
Small Colony Variants and Senescent Bacteria
Small colony variants (SCVs) are bacterial subpopulation that grow slowly and form smaller colonies. They have been described for a wide range of bacterial species, but most extensively studied for…
Received 21 April 2009 14:18 GMT; Posted 22 April 2009
Posted to: Microbiology, Pharmacology
Transduction Pathways Regulating The Trophic effects of Saccharomyces boulardii in Rat small intestinal mucosa
S . boulardii is a probiotic yeast widely prescribed in a lyophilized form that determines in human and rat small intestine several effects including endoluminal secretion of enzymes and of polya…
Received 11 April 2009 08:05 GMT; Posted 14 April 2009
Posted to: Developmental Biology, Microbiology
Persisters show heritable phenotype and generate bacterial heterogeneity and noise in protein expression
Persisters are a small subpopulation of bacteria that survive a lethal concentration of antibiotic without antibiotic resistance genes. Isolation of persisters from normally dividing population is …
Received 06 April 2009 19:03 GMT; Posted 06 April 2009
Posted to: Microbiology
Description of variation of genlculate’s features of Phyllodiaptomustunguidus shen et Tai and sex-linked inheritance of Calanoida in freshwater
In the present paper, variation of genlculate’s features of Phyllodiaptomustunguidus shen et Tai of Calanoida are described.The authors find that the right first antenna of female species has cha…
Received 30 March 2009 08:57 GMT; Posted 31 March 2009
Posted to: Microbiology
Protective vaccination in the horse against Streptococcus equi with recombinant antigens
Streptococcus equi subspecies equi (S. equi) is a clonal, equine host-adapted pathogen of global importance that causes a highly contagious suppurative lymphodendopathy of the head and neck, ...
Received 26 March 2009 13:20 GMT; Posted 26 March 2009
Posted to: Immunology, Microbiology
Pyrolysis of asphaltenes and biomarkers for the fingerprinting of the Amoco Cadiz oil spill after 23 years
The chemical composition of the petroleum products accidently or deliberately released in the environment varies considerably with time under the action of biological (biodegradation) and physico-c…
Received 25 March 2009 09:23 GMT; Posted 25 March 2009
Posted to: Chemistry, Microbiology, Earth & Environment
Myosin II isoforms with separate but linked functions determine the fate of lamellipodia extension during cell spreading
Non-muscle myosin II role has been implicated in the extension of lamellipodia, a critical step in the initiation of directed cell migration, invasion and other cellular processes, but the mechanis…
Received 11 February 2009 23:36 GMT; Posted 18 February 2009
Posted to: Cancer, Microbiology, Molecular Cell Biology
