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BMC Microbiology is an open access journal publishing original peer-reviewed research articles in analytical and functional studies of prokaryotic and eukaryotic microorganisms, viruses and small parasites, as well as host and therapeutic responses to them, and their interaction with the environment.
BMC Microbiology (ISSN 1471-2180) is indexed/tracked/covered by PubMed, MEDLINE, BIOSIS, CAS, EMBASE, Scopus, FSTA, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
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BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :222
The phenylacetic acid catabolic genes of an opportunistic pathogen of patients with cystic fibrosis, Burkholderia cenocepacia K56-2, are induced by phenylacetic acid, negatively regulated by a TetR-type regulator and catabolically repressed by glucose and succinate.
BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :221
Gene expression profiling of the microbial content of the periodontal pockets of patients with the inflammatory gum disease periodontitis, shows that colonization levels of several bacteria correlate with gene expression in the adjacent gum tissue.
BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :216
The cytoplasmic membrane protein RipA in the gram-negative bacteria Francisella tularensis is required for growth, its expression is pH sensitive and it is negatively regulated by the transcriptional regulators MglA and SspA.
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Genomic and phenotypic variation in epidemic-spanning Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis isolates Laura Betancor, Lucia Yim, Maria Fookes, Araci Martinez, Nicholas R. Thomson, Alasdair Ivens, Sarah Peters, Clare Bryant, Gabriela Algorta, Samuel Kariuki, Felipe Schelotto, Duncan Maskell, Gordon Dougan, Jose A. Chabalgoity BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :237 (18 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Methodology article
Reverse genetics through random mutagenesis in Histoplasma capsulatum Brian H Youseff, Julie A Dougherty, Chad A Rappleye BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :236 (17 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Correction
Correction: Invasiveness as a putative additional virulence mechanism of some atypical Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli strains with different uncommon intimin types Denise Yamamoto, Rodrigo T Hernandes, Miguel Blanco, Lilo Greune, M Alexander Schmidt, Sylvia M Carneiro, Ghizlane Dahbi, Jesus E Blanco, Azucena Mora, Jorge Blanco, Tania AT Gomes BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :235 (11 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
Methodology article
Performance of optimized McRAPD in identification of 9 yeast species frequently isolated from patient samples: potential for automation Jitka Trtkova, Petr Pavlicek, Lenka Ruskova, Petr Hamal, Dagmar Koukalova, Vladislav Raclavsky BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :234 (10 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Topological analysis of a haloacid permease of a Burkholderi a sp. bacterium with a PhoA-LacZ reporter Yuk Man Tse, Manda Yu, Jimmy SH Tsang BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :233 (31 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Evolutionary relationships among salivarius streptococci as inferred from multilocus phylogenies based on 16S rRNA-encoding, recA, secA, and secY gene sequences Jean-Fran BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :232 (30 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Environmental stresses inhibit splicing in the aquatic fungus Blastocladiella emersonii Raphaela Castro Georg, Rosane MP Stefani, Suely Lopes Gomes BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :231 (29 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Application and evaluation of the MLVA typing assay for the Brucella abortus strains isolated in Korea Moon Her, Sung-Il Kang, Dong-Hee Cho, Yun-Sang Cho, In-Yeong Hwang, Young-Ran Heo, Suk-Chan Jung, Han-Sang Yoo BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :230 (29 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation at the physiologic glucose concentration depends on the S. aureus lineageSander Croes, Ruud H Deurenberg, Marie-Louise L Boumans, Patrick S Beisser, Cees Neef, Ellen E Stobberingh BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :229 (28 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Influences of naturally occurring agents in combination with fluoride on gene expression and structural organization of Streptococcus mutans in biofilms Jae-Gyu Jeon, Marlise I Klein, Jin Xiao, Stacy Gregoire, Pedro L Rosalen, Hyun Koo BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :228 (28 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Genome reannotation of Escherichia coli CFT073 with new insights into virulence Chengwei Luo, Gang-Qing Hu, Huaiqiu Zhu BMC Genomics 2009, 10 :552 (22 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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New tools for detecting latent tuberculosis infection: Evaluation of RD1-specific long-term response Ornella Butera, Teresa Chiacchio, Stefania Carrara, Rita Casetti, Valentina Vanini, Serena Meraviglia, Giuliana Guggino, Francesco Dieli, Marco Vecchi, Francesco Lauria, Almerico Marruchella, Patrizia Laurenti, Mahavir Singh, Nadia Caccamo, Enrico Girardi, Delia Goletti BMC Infectious Diseases 2009, 9 :182 (21 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Cytotoxic and antibacterial activities of endophytic fungi isolated from plants at the National Park, Pahang, Malaysia Nurul AMN Hazalin, Kalavathy Ramasamy, Lim SIONG Meng, Ibtisam Abdul Wahab, Anthony LJ Cole, Abu BAKAR Abdul Majeed BMC Complementary and Alternative Medicine 2009, 9 :46 (21 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Research
Silencing of a putative immunophilin gene in the cattle tick Rhipicephalus (Boophilus) microplus increases the infection rate of Babesia bovis in larval progeny Reginaldo G Bastos, Massaro W Ueti, Felix D Guerrero, Donald P Knowles, Glen A Scoles Parasites & Vectors 2009, 2 :57 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Quantifying and resolving multiple vector transformants in S. cerevisiae plasmid libraries Thomas C Scanlon, Elizabeth C Gray, Karl E Griswold BMC Biotechnology 2009, 9 :95 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Case report
A fatal case of spinal tuberculosis mistaken for metastatic lung cancer: recalling ancient Pott's disease Felix C Ringshausen, Andrea Tannapfel, Volkmar Nicolas, Andreas Weber, Hans-Werner Duchna, Gerhard Schultze-Werninghaus, Gernot Rohde Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2009, 8 :32 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Distribution of Helicobacter pylori virulence markers in patients with gastroduodenal diseases in Pakistan Javed Yakoob, Shahab Abid, Zaigham Abbas, Wasim Jafri, Zubair Ahmad, Rashida Ahmed, Muhammad Islam BMC Gastroenterology 2009, 9 :87 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Environmentally-acquired bacteria influence microbial diversity and natural innate immune responses at gut surfaces Imke E Mulder, Bettina Schmidt, Christopher R Stokes, Marie Lewis, Mick Bailey, Rustam I Aminov, James I Prosser, Bhupinder P Gill, John R Pluske, Claus-Dieter Mayer, Corran Musk, Denise Kelly BMC Biology 2009, 7 :79 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Review
Viral and host proteins involved in picornavirus life cycle Jing-Yi Lin, Tzu-Chun Chen, Kuo-Feng Weng, Shih-Cheng Chang, Li-Lien Chen, Shin-Ru Shih Journal of Biomedical Science 2009, 16 :103 (20 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
Research
Overexpression and characterization of medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoate granule bound polymerases from Pseudomonas putida GPo1 Qun Ren, Guy de Roo, Bernard Witholt, Manfred Zinn, Linda Thony-Meyer Microbial Cell Factories 2009, 8 :60 (19 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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