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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, Scopus, EMBASE, Thomson Reuters (ISI) and Google Scholar.
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 TetT-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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Topological analysis of a haloacid permease of a
Burkholderia sp. bacterium with a PhoA-LacZ reporter
Yuk Man Tse, Manda Yu, Jimmy SH Tsang BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :233 (31 [Abstract ] [Provisional 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-Francois Pombert, Viridiana Sistek, Maurice Boissinot, Michel Frenette BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :232 (30 [Abstract ] [Provisional 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 ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation at the physiologic glucose concentration depends on the S. aureus lineage Sander Croes, Ruud H Deurenberg, Marie-Louise L Boumans, Patrick S Beisser, Cees Neef, Ellen E Stobberingh BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :229 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional 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 ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Response of Bacillus cereus ATCC 14579 to challenges with sublethal concentrations of enterocin AS-48 Maria J Grande Burgos, Akos T Kovacs, Aleksandra M Mironczuk, Hikmate Abriouel, Antonio Galvez, Oscar P Kuipers BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :227 (28 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Evaluation of the bacterial diversity among and within individual venous leg ulcers using bacterial tag-encoded FLX and Titanium amplicon pyrosequencing and metagenomic approaches Randall D Wolcott, Viktoria Gontcharova, Yan Sun, Scot E Dowd BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :226 (27 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Isolation of Cronobacter spp. (formerly Enterobacter sakazakii) from infant food, herbs and environmental samples and the subsequent identification and confirmation of the isolates using biochemical, chromogenic assays, PCR and 16S rRNA sequencing Ziad W Jaradat, Qotaiba O Ababneh, Ismail M Saadoun, Nawal A Samara, Abrar M Rashdan BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :225 (27 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Classification of Myoviridae bacteriophages using protein sequence similarity Rob Lavigne, Paul Darius, Elizabeth J Summer, Donald Seto, Padmanabhan Mahadevan, Anders S Nilsson, Hans W Ackermann, Andrew M Kropinski BMC Microbiology 2009, 9 :224 (26 [Abstract ] [Full text ] [PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Characterization of low pathogenicity avian influenza viruses isolated from wild birds in Mongolia 2005 through 2007 Erica Spackman, David E. Swayne, Martin Gilbert, Damien O. Joly, William B. Karesh, David L. Suarez, Ruuragchaa Sodnomdarjaa, Purevtseren Dulam, Carol Cardona Virology Journal 2009, 6 :190 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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RT-SHIV, an infectious CCR5-tropic chimeric virus suitable for evaluating HIV reverse transcriptase inhibitors in macaque models Yonghou Jiang, Baoping Tian, Mohammed Saifuddin, Michael B Agy, Peter Emau, J Scott Cairns, Che-Chung Tsai AIDS Research and Therapy 2009, 6 :23 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Activity of tannins from Stryphnodendron adstringens on Cryptococcus neoformans: effects on growth, capsule size and pigmentation Kelly Ishida, Sonia Rozental, Joao CARLOS PALAZZO de Mello, Celso VATARU Nakamura Annals of Clinical Microbiology and Antimicrobials 2009, 8 :29 (5 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Bovine viral diarrhea virus NS4B protein is an integral membrane protein associated with Golgi markers and rearranged host membranes Erica Weiskircher, Jason Aligo, Gang Ning, Kouacou V Konan Virology Journal 2009, 6 :185 (3 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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TRIM5alpha and TRIMCyp form apparent hexamers and their multimeric state is not affected by exposure to restriction-sensitive viruses or by treatment with pharmacological inhibitors Marie-Edith Nepveu-Traversy, Julie Berube, Lionel Berthoux Retrovirology 2009, 6 :100 (3 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Massively parallel tag sequencing reveals the complexity of anaerobic marine protistan communities Thorsten Stoeck, Anke Behnke, Richard Christen, Linda Amaral-Zettler, Maria J Rodriguez-Mora, Andrei Chistoserdov, William Orsi, Virginia P Edgcomb BMC Biology 2009, 7 :72 (3 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ]
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Network dynamics of eukaryotic LTR retroelements beyond phylogenetic trees Carlos Llorens, Alfonso Munoz-Pomer, Lucia Bernad, Hector Botella, Andres Moya Biology Direct 2009, 4 :41 (2 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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A model invalidation-based approach for elucidating biological signalling pathways, applied to the chemotaxis pathway in R. sphaeroides Mark AJ Roberts, Elias August, Abdullah Hamadeh, Philip K Maini, Patrick E McSharry, Judith P Armitage, Antonis Papachristodoulou BMC Systems Biology 2009, 3 :105 (31 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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Experimental infection in calves with a specific subtype of verocytotoxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 of bovine origin Malin E Jonsson, Erik Eriksson, Sofia Boqvist, Anne Margrete Urdahl, Anna Aspan Acta Veterinaria Scandinavica 2009, 51 :43 (31 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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High yield recombinant thermostable alpha-amylase production using an improved Bacillus licheniformis system Dandan Niu, Zhirui Zuo, Gui-Yang Shi, Zheng-Xiang Wang Microbial Cell Factories 2009, 8 :58 (31 [Abstract ] [Provisional PDF ] [PubMed ] [Related articles ]
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