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Open AccessThe management of grapevine downy mildew: from anti-resistance strategies to innovative approaches for fungicide resistance monitoring
Efficient grapevine downy mildew control necessitates the implementation of anti-resistance strategies to ensure the ongoing efficacy of available substances and optimal disease control. With the gradual disap...
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Open AccessEffect of a multi-strain probiotic mixture consumption on anxiety and depression symptoms induced in adult mice by postnatal maternal separation
Intestinal microbial composition not only affects the health of the gut but also influences centrally mediated systems involved in mood, through the “gut-brain” axis, a bidirectional communication between gut ...
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Extreme Rainfall Variations Under Climate Change Scenarios. Case of Study in an Andean Tropical River Basin
Maximum rainfall events have triggered hazards that harm ecosystems and populations. Climate change could modify these extreme events, becoming more severe and frequent. Knowing the patterns of Spatio-temporal...
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Open AccessCharacterization of antibiotic-resistance traits in Akkermansia muciniphila strains of human origin
Akkermansia muciniphila, a commensal bacterium commonly found in healthy gut microbiota, is widely considered a next-generation beneficial bacterium candidate to improve metabolic and inflammatory disorders. Rece...
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Open AccessAuthor Correction: Listeria monocytogenes sensitivity to antimicrobial treatments depends on cell origin
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Postbiotics — when simplification fails to clarify
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Open AccessListeria monocytogenes sensitivity to antimicrobial treatments depends on cell origin
In this study we investigated how cell origin could affect the efficacy of an antimicrobial treatment (mild heating combined with terpenoids) in Listeria monocytogenes Scott A, considering cells from: 1. single c...
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Virus-like particles isolated from reactivated biological soil crusts
A novel method was developed for virus-like particle (VLP) extraction and characterization from biological soil crust (BSC) after microbial community reactivation. The method consisted of a single cell analysi...
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Open AccessAntimicrobial activity of resveratrol-derived monomers and dimers against foodborne pathogens
Plant polyphenolic compounds are considered a promising source for new antibacterial agents. In this study, we evaluated the antimicrobial activity of a collection of resveratrol-derived monomers and dimers sc...
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Open AccessPromysalin is a salicylate-containing antimicrobial with a cell-membrane-disrupting mechanism of action on Gram-positive bacteria
Promysalin was previously described as a narrow spectrum molecule with a unique species-specific activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Here we demonstrate that promysalin is active against Gram-positive and Gr...
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Open AccessBifidobacteria exhibit social behavior through carbohydrate resource sharing in the gut
Bifidobacteria are common and frequently dominant members of the gut microbiota of many animals, including mammals and insects. Carbohydrates are considered key carbon sources for the gut microbiota, imposing ...
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Study of the Adhesion of Bifidobacterium bifidum MIMBb75 to Human Intestinal Cell Lines
The aim of this study was to investigate the adhesive phenotype of the human intestinal isolate Bifidobacterium bifidum MIMBb75 to human colon carcinoma cell lines. We have previously shown that the adhesion of t...
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Open AccessFluorescent-BOX-PCR for resolving bacterial genetic diversity, endemism and biogeography
BOX-A1R-based repetitive extragenic palindromic-PCR (BOX-PCR) is one of the most used techniques in biogeography studies of microbial isolates. However the traditional separation of BOX-PCR patterns by agarose...
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Generation and Comparison of Bioluminescent and Fluorescent Bacillus licheniformis
The environmental bacterium Bacillus licheniformis was transformed with two different shuttle-vectors (pCSS810 and pGFPratiometric) containing insect luciferase and green fluorescent prote...
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Complete nucleotide sequence of pGS18, a 62.8-kb plasmid from Geobacillus stearothermophilus strain 18
The complete nucleotide sequence (62.8 kb) of pGS18, the largest sequenced plasmid to date from the species Geobacillus stearothermophilus, was determined. Computational analysis of sequence data revealed 65 puta...
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Identification andin silico characterisation of putative conjugative transfer genes onGeobacillus stearothermophilus plasmids
We repor the first data demonstrating the presence of putative conjugative transfer genes on plasmids of the speciesGeobacillus stearothermophilus. Partial sequence analysis of the plasmid pGS18 fromG. stearother...
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Molecular characterization of Bifidobacterium longum biovar longum NAL8 plasmids and construction of a novel replicon screening system
In this study, we performed molecular characterization and sequence analysis of three plasmids from the human intestinal isolate Bifidobacterium longum biovar longum NAL8 and developed a novel vector screening sy...
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Conditions affecting cell surface properties of human intestinal bifidobacteria
The cell surface properties of human intestinal bifidobacteria have been characterized for 30 strains isolated from a fecal sample. Strain identification to the species level was obtained by restriction analys...
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Development of Genus/Species-Specific PCR Analysis for Identification of Carnobacterium Strains
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Multilocus Hybridization Ty** in Pediococcus acidilactici Strains
