Microbiological and molecular insights on rare Actinobacteria harboring bioactive prospective

DH Amin, NA Abdallah, A Abolmaaty, S Tolba… - Bulletin of the National …, 2020‏ - Springer
Background Actinobacteria is as a group of advanced filamentous bacteria. Rare
Actinobacteria are of special interest as they are rarely isolated from the environments. They …

Beginner's guide to comparative bacterial genome analysis using next-generation sequence data

DJ Edwards, KE Holt - Microbial informatics and experimentation, 2013‏ - Springer
High throughput sequencing is now fast and cheap enough to be considered part of the
toolbox for investigating bacteria, and there are thousands of bacterial genome sequences …

Uncovering Listeria monocytogenes hypervirulence by harnessing its biodiversity

MM Maury, YH Tsai, C Charlier, M Touchon… - Nature …, 2016‏ - nature.com
Microbial pathogenesis studies are typically performed with reference strains, thereby
overlooking within-species heterogeneity in microbial virulence. Here we integrated human …

Measurement of bacterial replication rates in microbial communities

CT Brown, MR Olm, BC Thomas, JF Banfield - Nature biotechnology, 2016‏ - nature.com
Culture-independent microbiome studies have increased our understanding of the
complexity and metabolic potential of microbial communities. However, to understand the …

Tracking a Hospital Outbreak of Carbapenem-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae with Whole-Genome Sequencing

ES Snitkin, AM Zelazny, PJ Thomas, F Stock… - Science translational …, 2012‏ - science.org
The Gram-negative bacteria Klebsiella pneumoniae is a major cause of nosocomial
infections, primarily among immunocompromised patients. The emergence of strains …

ALLMAPS: robust scaffold ordering based on multiple maps

H Tang, X Zhang, C Miao, J Zhang, R Ming… - Genome biology, 2015‏ - Springer
The ordering and orientation of genomic scaffolds to reconstruct chromosomes is an
essential step during de novo genome assembly. Because this process utilizes various …

IslandViewer 3: more flexible, interactive genomic island discovery, visualization and analysis

BK Dhillon, MR Laird, JA Shay, GL Winsor… - Nucleic acids …, 2015‏ - academic.oup.com
Abstract IslandViewer (http://pathogenomics. sfu. ca/islandviewer) is a widely used web-
based resource for the prediction and analysis of genomic islands (GIs) in bacterial and …

Lactate-and acetate-based cross-feeding interactions between selected strains of lactobacilli, bifidobacteria and colon bacteria in the presence of inulin-type fructans

F Moens, M Verce, L De Vuyst - International Journal of Food Microbiology, 2017‏ - Elsevier
Cross-feeding interactions were studied between selected strains of lactobacilli and/or
bifidobacteria and butyrate-producing colon bacteria that consume lactate but are not able to …

Bacterial virulence phenotypes of Escherichia coli and host susceptibility determine risk for urinary tract infections

HL Schreiber IV, MS Conover, WC Chou… - Science translational …, 2017‏ - science.org
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are caused by uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) strains.
In contrast to many enteric E. coli pathogroups, no genetic signature has been identified for …

Stable high-density and maternally inherited Wolbachia infections in Anopheles moucheti and Anopheles demeilloni mosquitoes

T Walker, S Quek, CL Jeffries, J Bandibabone… - Current Biology, 2021‏ - cell.com
Wolbachia, a widespread bacterium that can reduce pathogen transmission in mosquitoes,
has recently been reported to be present in Anopheles (An.) species. In wild populations of …