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Explaining microbial population genomics through phage predation
The remarkable diversity of genes within the pool of prokaryotic genomes belonging to the same species or pan-genome is difficult to reconcile with the widely accepted paradigm which asserts that p…
Received 28 July 2009 11:18 UTC; Posted 29 July 2009
Posted to: Microbiology
Magnetic Resonance imaging (MRI) in detection of Bifidobacterium longum and Clostridium novyi-NT labeled with superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) nanoparticle
Purpose: To investigate the MR imaging of Bifidobacterium longum and Clostridium novyi-NT labeling with superparamagnetic iron oxide (SPIO) nanoparticles.Materials and methods: Tubes co…
Received 16 July 2009 08:25 UTC; Posted 22 July 2009
Posted to: Biotechnology, Cancer, Microbiology
Rescue with an anti-inflammatory peptide of chickens infected H5N1 avian flu
Chickens suffering from avian flu caused by H5N1 influenza virus are destined to die within 2 days due to a systemic inflammatory response. Since HVJ infection (1,2) and influenza virus infection (...
Received 14 July 2009 11:43 UTC; Posted 17 July 2009
Posted to: Immunology, Microbiology, Pharmacology
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 08:10 UTC; 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 07:09 UTC; 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 14:40 UTC; 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 14:40 UTC; 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 08:14 UTC; 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 19:21 UTC; 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 08:59 UTC; Posted 31 March 2009
Posted to: Microbiology
