Bacteria

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  Subject Areas on Research

  • A CDC6 protein-binding peptide selected using a bacterial two-hybrid-like system is a cell cycle inhibitor. 
  • A heteroduplex method for detection of targeted sub-populations of bacterial communities. 
  • A novel thermostable branching enzyme from an extremely thermophilic bacterial species, Rhodothermus obamensis. 
  • A power-law dependence of bacterial invasion on mammalian host receptors. 
  • Activity of cefamandole, cefoxitin, ampicillin and gentamicin against 419 bacteria isolated from blood of patients with sepsis. 
  • Adhesion and motility of gliding bacteria on substrata with different surface free energies. 
  • Afforestation alters the composition of functional genes in soil and biogeochemical processes in South American grasslands. 
  • Aging of fullerene C₆₀ nanoparticle suspensions in the presence of microbes. 
  • Alteration of the rat cecal microbiome during colonization with the helminth Hymenolepis diminuta. 
  • Animals in a bacterial world, a new imperative for the life sciences. 
  • Antibacterial susceptibility testing in the clinical laboratory. 
  • Antimicrobial resistance trends and outbreak frequency in United States hospitals. 
  • Application of a moving bed biofilm reactor for tertiary ammonia treatment in high temperature industrial wastewater. 
  • Aspiration of the knee joint before revision arthroplasty. 
  • Assessing the effects of silver nanoparticles on biological nutrient removal in bench-scale activated sludge sequencing batch reactors. 
  • Assessment of soil microbial community structure by use of taxon-specific quantitative PCR assays. 
  • Axon-like basal processes in enteroendocrine cells: characteristics and potential targets. 
  • BacT/Alert: an automated colorimetric microbial detection system. 
  • Bacteremia, central catheters, and neonates: when to pull the line. 
  • Bacteria and diatom co-occurrence patterns in microbial mats from polar desert streams. 
  • Bacterial CRISPR/Cas DNA endonucleases: A revolutionary technology that could dramatically impact viral research and treatment. 
  • Bacterial and fungal contamination of human fetal liver collected transvaginally for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. 
  • Bacterial community responses to a gradient of alkaline mountaintop mine drainage in Central Appalachian streams. 
  • Bacterial conversion of folinic acid is required for antifolate resistance. 
  • Bacterial expression and characterization of proteins derived from the chicken calmodulin cDNA and a calmodulin processed gene. 
  • Bacterial expression vectors for calmodulin. 
  • Bacterial penetration of the mucosal barrier by targeting lipid rafts. 
  • Bacterial photosynthesis in surface waters of the open ocean. 
  • Bacterial plasmid partition machinery: a minimalist approach to survival. 
  • Bayesian learning from marginal data in bionetwork models. 
  • Beyond bacteria: a study of the enteric microbial consortium in extremely low birth weight infants. 
  • Biliary flora and antimicrobial concentrations after Kasai's operation. 
  • Biogeochemical consequences of rapid microbial turnover and seasonal succession in soil. 
  • Biogeography and ecological setting of Indian Ocean hydrothermal vents. 
  • Biological charge transfer via flickering resonance. 
  • Biomimetic strategies based on viruses and bacteria for the development of immune evasive biomaterials. 
  • Caveolae as portals of entry for microbes. 
  • Ceftaroline fosamil for treatment of community-acquired pneumonia: findings from FOCUS 1 and 2 and potential role in therapy. 
  • Cell biology. Caveolae--not just craters in the cellular landscape. 
  • Cell division without FtsZ--a variety of redundant mechanisms. 
  • Changes in assembly processes in soil bacterial communities following a wildfire disturbance. 
  • Changes in lipid values and lipoprotein patterns of serum samples contaminated with bacteria. 
  • Chemistry and biology of the molybdenum cofactors. 
  • Clinical comparison of an agar slide blood culture bottle with tryptic soy broth and a conventional blood culture bottle with supplemented peptone broth. 
  • Clinical impact of bacteria and fungi recovered only from broth cultures. 
  • Clinical implications of mast cell-bacteria interaction. 
  • Clinical importance of increased sensitivity of BacT/Alert FAN aerobic and anaerobic blood culture bottles. 
  • Clinical practice. Acute infectious diarrhea. 
  • Collective antibiotic tolerance: mechanisms, dynamics and intervention. 
  • Combating antimicrobial resistance: policy recommendations to save lives. 
  • Comparative evaluation of Oxoid Signal and BACTEC radiometric blood culture systems for the detection of bacteremia and fungemia. 
  • Comparative evaluation of radiometric tryptic soy broth versus radiometric tryptic soy broth with 10% sucrose for detection of bacteremia and fungemia in pediatric patients. 
  • Comparative in-vitro activity of MK0787 (N-formimidoyl thienamycin) against 540 blood culture isolates. 
  • Comparison of acridine orange and Gram stains for detection of microorganisms in cerebrospinal fluid and other clinical specimens. 
  • Comparison of acridine orange, methylene blue, and Gram stains for blood cultures. 
  • Comparison of bulb syringe, pressurized pulsatile, and hydrosurgery debridement methods for removing bacteria from fracture implants. 
  • Comparison of conventional and integrated fixed-film activated sludge systems: attached- and suspended-growth functions and quantitative polymerase chain reaction measurements. 
  • Comparison of direct and standard antimicrobial disk susceptibility testing for bacteria isolated from blood. 
  • Comparison of direct antimicrobial susceptibility testing methods for rapid analysis of bronchial secretion samples in ventilator-associated pneumonia. 
  • Comparison of in vitro activity of moxalactam (LY127935) with cefazolin, amikacin, tobramycin, carbenicillin, piperacillin, and ticarcillin against 420 blood culture isolates. 
  • Comparison of iodophor and alcohol pledgets with the Medi-Flex blood culture prep kit II for preventing contamination of blood cultures. 
  • Complement and bacteria: chemistry and biology in host defense. 
  • Complement resistance in microbes. 
  • Computational design of receptor and sensor proteins with novel functions. 
  • Contribution of neutral processes to the assembly of gut microbial communities in the zebrafish over host development. 
  • Control of IFN-gamma-mediated host resistance to intracellular pathogens by immunity-related GTPases (p47 GTPases). 
  • Controlled clinical comparison of BACTEC plus anaerobic/F to standard anaerobic/F as the anaerobic companion bottle to plus aerobic/F medium for culturing blood from adults. 
  • Controlled clinical comparison of BacT/ALERT standard aerobic and standard anaerobic blood culture bottles inoculated directly or after transport in sodium polyanethol sulfonate tubes. 
  • Controlled clinical comparison of BacT/ALERT standard aerobic medium with BACTEC standard aerobic medium for culturing blood. 
  • Controlled clinical comparison of BacT/alert FA plus and FN plus blood culture media with BacT/alert FA and FN blood culture media. 
  • Controlled clinical comparison of VersaTREK and BacT/ALERT blood culture systems. 
  • Controlled clinical comparison of bioMérieux VITAL and BACTEC NR-660 blood culture systems for detection of bacteremia and fungemia in adults. 
  • Controlled clinical comparison of plastic and glass bottles of BacT/ALERT FA medium for culturing organisms from blood of adult patients. 
  • Controlled clinical comparison of plastic versus glass bottles of BacT/ALERT PF medium for culturing blood from children. 
  • Controlled clinical comparison of the BacT/ALERT FN and the standard anaerobic SN blood culture medium. 
  • Controlled comparison of a new Becton Dickinson agar slant blood culture system with Roche Septi-Chek for the detection of bacteremia and fungemia. 
  • Controlled comparison of bioMérieux VITAL and BACTEC NR-660 systems for detection of bacteremia and fungemia in pediatric patients. 
  • Controlled comparison of original vented aerobic fan medium with new nonvented BacT/ALERT FA medium for culturing blood. 
  • Controlled comparison of the BACTEC high-blood-volume fungal medium, BACTEC Plus 26 aerobic blood culture bottle, and 10-milliliter isolator blood culture system for detection of fungemia and bacteremia. 
  • Controlled comparison of the BacT/Alert and BACTEC 660/730 nonradiometric blood culture systems. 
  • Controlled evaluation of 5 versus 10 milliliters of blood cultured in aerobic BacT/Alert blood culture bottles. 
  • Controlled evaluation of BacT/Alert standard aerobic and FAN aerobic blood culture bottles for detection of bacteremia and fungemia. 
  • Controlled evaluation of BacT/alert standard anaerobic and FAN anaerobic blood culture bottles for the detection of bacteremia and fungemia. 
  • Controlled evaluation of Trypticase soy broth in agar slide and conventional blood culture systems. 
  • Controlled evaluation of blood culture medium containing gelatin and V-factor-analog for detection of septicemia in children. 
  • Controlled evaluation of hypertonic sucrose medium at a 1:5 ratio of blood to broth for detection of bacteremia and fungemia in supplemented peptone broth. 
  • Controlled evaluation of hypertonic sucrose medium for detection of bacteremia and fungemia in supplemented peptone broth. 
  • Controlled evaluation of modified radiometric blood culture medium supplemented with gelatin for detection of bacteremia and fungemia. 
  • Controlled evaluation of supplemented peptone and Bactec blood culture broths for the detection of bacteremia and fungemia. 
  • Controlled evaluation of the agar-slide and radiometric blood culture systems for the detection of bacteremia and fungemia. 
  • Controlled evaluation of the effect of atmosphere of incubation on detection of bacteremia and fungemia in supplemented peptone broth. 
  • Controlled evaluation of the volume of blood cultured in detection of bacteremia and fungemia. 
  • Controlled evaluation of trypticase soy broth with and without gelatin and yeast extract in the detection of bacteremia and fungemia. 
  • Copper at the front line of the host-pathogen battle. 
  • Copper: an essential metal in biology. 
  • Corneoscleral rim cultures: lack of utility and implications for clinical decision-making and infection prevention in the care of patients undergoing corneal transplantation. 
  • Correlation of serum bactericidal activity with antimicrobial agent level and minimal bactericidal concentration. 
  • Covariation of branch lengths in phylogenies of functionally related genes. 
  • Crystal structure of MraY, an essential membrane enzyme for bacterial cell wall synthesis. 
  • Crystal structure of alkaline phosphatase from the Antarctic bacterium TAB5. 
  • Crystal structure of the MOP flippase MurJ in an inward-facing conformation. 
  • Crystallization and preliminary X-ray analysis of the ATPase domain of the σ(54)-dependent transcription activator NtrC1 from Aquifex aeolicus bound to the ATP analog ADP-BeFx. 
  • Cytoskeleton. Evolution in bacteria. 
  • Cytotoxic, antifouling bromotyramines: a synthetic study on simple marine natural products and Their analogues. 
  • DNA damage responses in prokaryotes: regulating gene expression, modulating growth patterns, and manipulating replication forks. 
  • Decreases in average bacterial community rRNA operon copy number during succession. 
  • Detection and identification of bacteria using antibiotic susceptibility and a multi-array electrochemical sensor with pattern recognition. 
  • Detection of culture-resistant bacterial pathogens by amplification and sequencing of ribosomal DNA. 
  • Determinations of restriction fragment length polymorphism in bacteria using ribosomal RNA genes. 
  • Diagnostic methods current best practices and guidelines for isolation of bacteria and fungi in infective endocarditis. 
  • Diagnostic methods. Current best practices and guidelines for isolation of bacteria and fungi in infective endocarditis. 
  • Dicranin, an antimicrobial and 15-lipoxygenase inhibitor from the moss Dicranum scoparium. 
  • Diet rapidly and reproducibly alters the human gut microbiome. 
  • Direct sequencing of the human microbiome readily reveals community differences. 
  • Dissecting the in vivo metabolic potential of two human gut acetogens. 
  • Diversity and detection of nitrate assimilation genes in marine bacteria. 
  • Do bacterial and fungal communities assemble differently during primary succession? 
  • Doing molecular biophysics: finding, naming, and picturing signal within complexity. 
  • Dynamic control and quantification of bacterial population dynamics in droplets. 
  • Dynamic surface deformation of silicone elastomers for management of marine biofouling: laboratory and field studies using pneumatic actuation. 
  • Dynamin and FtsZ. Missing links in mitochondrial and bacterial division. 
  • Ecology drives a global network of gene exchange connecting the human microbiome. 
  • Effect of agitation and terminal subcultures on yield and speed of detection of the Oxoid Signal blood culture system versus the BACTEC radiometric system. 
  • Effect of altered headspace atmosphere on yield and speed of detection of the Oxoid Signal blood culture system versus the BACTEC radiometric system. 
  • Effective cohorting and "superisolation" in a single intensive care unit in response to an outbreak of diverse multi-drug-resistant organisms. 
  • Effects of selected pharmaceutically active compounds on treatment performance in sequencing batch reactors mimicking wastewater treatment plants operations. 
  • Endophthalmitis after penetrating trauma. Risk factors and visual acuity outcomes. 
  • Endosymbiosis. 
  • Engagement of arginine finger to ATP triggers large conformational changes in NtrC1 AAA+ ATPase for remodeling bacterial RNA polymerase. 
  • Engineered cell-cell communication and its applications. 
  • Environmental and anthropogenic controls over bacterial communities in wetland soils. 
  • Environmental and stoichiometric controls on microbial carbon-use efficiency in soils. 
  • Environmental biodegradability of [¹⁴C] single-walled carbon nanotubes by Trametes versicolor and natural microbial cultures found in New Bedford Harbor sediment and aerated wastewater treatment plant sludge. 
  • Epidemiology and outcome of major postoperative infections following cardiac surgery: risk factors and impact of pathogen type. 
  • Etiology of severe non-malaria febrile illness in Northern Tanzania: a prospective cohort study. 
  • Evaluation of a Fully Automated Research Prototype for the Immediate Identification of Microorganisms from Positive Blood Cultures under Clinical Conditions. 
  • Evaluation of cefazolin, a new cephalosporin antibiotic. 
  • Evaluation of preservative fluid for urine collected for culture. 
  • Evidence for a core gut microbiota in the zebrafish. 
  • Evidence for genetic drift in endosymbionts (Buchnera): analyses of protein-coding genes. 
  • Expression of nifH genes in natural microbial assemblages in Lake George, New York, detected by reverse transcriptase PCR. 
  • Factors from saliva and oral bacteria, chemotactic for polymorphonuclear leukocytes: their possible role in gingival inflammation. 
  • Features of the bronchial bacterial microbiome associated with atopy, asthma, and responsiveness to inhaled corticosteroid treatment. 
  • Frontiers in electron probe microanalysis: application to cell physiology. 
  • FtsZ in bacterial cytokinesis: cytoskeleton and force generator all in one. 
  • FtsZ, a prokaryotic homolog of tubulin? 
  • Functional advantages conferred by extracellular prokaryotic membrane vesicles. 
  • GATA transcription factor required for immunity to bacterial and fungal pathogens. 
  • Genome evolution in bacterial endosymbionts of insects. 
  • Genomes and gene expression across light and productivity gradients in eastern subtropical Pacific microbial communities. 
  • Global patterns in the biogeography of bacterial taxa. 
  • Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored receptor-mediated bacterial endocytosis. 
  • Gut bacteria that prevent growth impairments transmitted by microbiota from malnourished children. 
  • Heteroaggregation, transformation and fate of CeO₂ nanoparticles in wastewater treatment. 
  • High dose intravenous immunoglobulin does not affect complement-bacteria interactions. 
  • Host lifestyle affects human microbiota on daily timescales. 
  • Human colonic biota studied by ribosomal DNA sequence analysis. 
  • Human secretory immunoglobulin A may contribute to biofilm formation in the gut. 
  • IGHV1-69 B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia antibodies cross-react with HIV-1 and hepatitis C virus antigens as well as intestinal commensal bacteria. 
  • Image segmentation and dynamic lineage analysis in single-cell fluorescence microscopy. 
  • Imaging of musculoskeletal bacterial infections by [124I]FIAU-PET/CT. 
  • Immunological mechanisms of periodontal tissue destruction. 
  • Impact of central venous catheter type and methods on catheter-related colonization and bacteraemia. 
  • Impact of cultures on management decisions following surgical repair of penetrating ocular trauma. 
  • Impacts of organic carbon availability and recipient bacteria characteristics on the potential for TOL plasmid genetic bioaugmentation in soil slurries. 
  • In vitro effects of lidocaine on anaerobic respiratory pathogens and strains of Hemophilus influenzae. 
  • Increased rectal microbial richness is associated with the presence of colorectal adenomas in humans. 
  • Infections caused by multidrug resistant organisms are not associated with overall, all-cause mortality in the surgical intensive care unit: the 20,000 foot view. 
  • Innate and adaptive immunity cooperate flexibly to maintain host-microbiota mutualism. 
  • Insights and inferences about integron evolution from genomic data. 
  • Integron diversity in heavy-metal-contaminated mine tailings and inferences about integron evolution. 
  • Interactions of NO with hemoglobin: from microbes to man. 
  • Interpretive criteria and quality control parameters for determining bacterial susceptibility to fosfomycin tromethamine. 
  • Intestinal microbiota composition in fishes is influenced by host ecology and environment. 
  • Invasive bacterial and fungal infections among hospitalized HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected adults and adolescents in northern Tanzania. 
  • Iron deficiency anemia: its relationship to infection susceptibility and host defense. 
  • Iron requirement in the bactericidal mechanism of streptonigrin. 
  • Isolation of an etiologic agent of acute respiratory disease (rhinotracheitis) of turkey poults. 
  • Lack of efficacy for conventional gamma irradiation of platelet concentrates to abrogate bacterial growth. 
  • Landscape position influences microbial composition and function via redistribution of soil water across a watershed. 
  • Layer-by-layer click deposition of functional polymer coatings for combating marine biofouling. 
  • Linear population allocation by bistable switches in response to transient stimulation. 
  • Linking microbial community structure and microbial processes: an empirical and conceptual overview. 
  • Liposome division by a simple bacterial division machinery. 
  • Liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry of dolichols and polyprenols, lipid sugar carriers across evolution. 
  • Litter quality versus soil microbial community controls over decomposition: a quantitative analysis. 
  • Looking for Darwin's footprints in the microbial world. 
  • Management of abdominal aortic graft complications. 
  • Mast cell modulation of immune responses to bacteria. 
  • Mechanistic characterization of the tetraacyldisaccharide-1-phosphate 4'-kinase LpxK involved in lipid A biosynthesis. 
  • Meiotic sister chromatid recombination. 
  • Methylfolate Trap Promotes Bacterial Thymineless Death by Sulfa Drugs. 
  • Microbial activity and diversity during extreme freeze-thaw cycles in periglacial soils, 5400 m elevation, Cordillera Vilcanota, Perú. 
  • Microbial biofilms in the gut: visualization by electron microscopy and by acridine orange staining. 
  • Microbial community shifts influence patterns in tropical forest nitrogen fixation. 
  • Microbial community succession in an unvegetated, recently deglaciated soil. 
  • Microbial entry through caveolae: variations on a theme. 
  • Microbial keratitis trends following refractive surgery: results of the ASCRS infectious keratitis survey and comparisons with prior ASCRS surveys of infectious keratitis following keratorefractive procedures. 
  • Microbiomic differences in tumor and paired-normal tissue in head and neck squamous cell carcinomas. 
  • Modeling spatiotemporal dynamics of bacterial populations. 
  • Modeling the function of bacterial virulence factors in Saccharomyces cerevisiae. 
  • Modification of Silicone Elastomer Surfaces with Zwitterionic Polymers: Short-Term Fouling Resistance and Triggered Biofouling Release. 
  • Molecular biology as a tool for taxonomy. 
  • Molecular characterization of mucosal adherent bacteria and associations with colorectal adenomas. 
  • Multifactorial determinants of protein expression in prokaryotic open reading frames. 
  • Multiple horizontal gene transfers of ammonium transporters/ammonia permeases from prokaryotes to eukaryotes: toward a new functional and evolutionary classification. 
  • Multiplex PCR to diagnose bloodstream infections in patients admitted from the emergency department with sepsis. 
  • Neonatal meningitis: what is the correlation among cerebrospinal fluid cultures, blood cultures, and cerebrospinal fluid parameters? 
  • Net methylation of mercury in estuarine sediment microcosms amended with dissolved, nanoparticulate, and microparticulate mercuric sulfides. 
  • Nitric oxide production and nitric oxide synthase type 2 expression by human mononuclear phagocytes: a review. 
  • Nitrogen fertilization has a stronger effect on soil nitrogen-fixing bacterial communities than elevated atmospheric CO2. 
  • Nontuberculous mycobacterial infection after fractionated CO(2) laser resurfacing. 
  • Ofloxacin, a new broad-spectrum fluoroquinolone. Results from a Multicenter, National Comparative Activity Surveillance Study. The Ofloxacin Surveillance Group. 
  • Parasitism in species of Bathymodiolus (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) mussels from deep-sea seep and hydrothermal vents. 
  • Pathogen-specific burdens of community diarrhoea in developing countries: a multisite birth cohort study (MAL-ED). 
  • Pathologic features of enteric infection with Yersinia enterocolitica. 
  • Patterns and scales in gastrointestinal microbial ecology. 
  • Phenotypic signatures arising from unbalanced bacterial growth. 
  • Phylogenetic limiting similarity and competitive exclusion. 
  • Phylogenetic placement of community members of human colonic biota. 
  • Plant community and soil chemistry responses to long-term nitrogen inputs drive changes in alpine bacterial communities. 
  • Plant host and soil origin influence fungal and bacterial assemblages in the roots of woody plants. 
  • Plasticity in mast cell responses during bacterial infections. 
  • Platelet transfusion reactions: febrile nonhemolytic reaction or bacterial contamination? Diagnosis, detection, and current preventive modalities. 
  • Post-transcriptional operons and regulons co-ordinating gene expression. 
  • Probing bacterial gene expression within host cells. 
  • Programmed cell death in bacteria and implications for antibiotic therapy. 
  • Proline isomerases in microorganisms and small eukaryotes. 
  • Purifying selection, sequence composition, and context-specific indel mutations shape intraspecific variation in a bacterial endosymbiont. 
  • Rapid changes in the gut microbiome during human evolution. 
  • Rapid in vitro assembly of Caulobacter crescentus FtsZ protein at pH 6.5 and 7.2. 
  • Rapid purification of microtubule motor domain proteins expressed in bacteria. 
  • Reciprocal gut microbiota transplants from zebrafish and mice to germ-free recipients reveal host habitat selection. 
  • Recovery of clinically important microorganisms from the BacT/Alert blood culture system does not require testing for seven days. 
  • Relationship between abundance and specific activity of bacterioplankton in open ocean surface waters. 
  • Remaining flexible in old alliances: functional plasticity in constrained mutualisms. 
  • Responses of soil microbial communities to water stress: results from a meta-analysis. 
  • Rhythmic bacterial susceptibility to antibiotics at a large hospital. 
  • Risk factors and clinical outcomes between fungal and bacterial keratitis: a comparative study. 
  • Risk factors for sternal wound and other infections in pediatric cardiac surgery patients. 
  • Role of the CD19 and CD21/35 receptor complex in innate immunity, host defense and autoimmunity. 
  • Role of the nervous system in the control of proteostasis during innate immune activation: insights from C. elegans. 
  • Seasonal changes in airborne fungi and bacteria at a dairy cattle concentrated animal feeding operation in the southwest United States. 
  • Serum dilution test for bactericidal activity. I. Selection of a physiologic diluent. 
  • Serum dilution test for bactericidal activity. II. Standardization and correlation with antimicrobial assays and susceptibility tests. 
  • SnapShot: Origins of DNA replication. 
  • Social networks predict gut microbiome composition in wild baboons. 
  • Spatial organization and composition of the mucosal flora in patients with inflammatory bowel disease. 
  • Spatial organization of bacterial flora in normal and inflamed intestine: a fluorescence in situ hybridization study in mice. 
  • Species-specific and inhibitor-dependent conformations of LpxC: implications for antibiotic design. 
  • Spiral gradient endpoint: a new method of susceptibility testing. 
  • Spontaneous bacterial cell lysis and biofilm formation in the colon of the Cape Dune mole-rat and the laboratory rabbit. 
  • Standardization of bacterial numbers of penicylinders used in disinfectant testing: interlaboratory study. 
  • Strategies of genomic integration within insect-bacterial mutualisms. 
  • Structural insights into inhibition of lipid I production in bacterial cell wall synthesis. 
  • Structure and function of alpine and arctic soil microbial communities. 
  • Structures of archaeal DNA segregation machinery reveal bacterial and eukaryotic linkages. 
  • Studies of the biologic effects of selective C4 deficiency. 
  • Studies of the multifaceted mast cell response to bacteria. 
  • Study of host-microbe interactions in zebrafish. 
  • Successful chemoprophylaxis for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonitis. 
  • Suppression of Clostridium difficile by normal hamster cecal flora and prevention of antibiotic-associated cecitis. 
  • The clinical significance of positive blood cultures: a comprehensive analysis of 500 episodes of bacteremia and fungemia in adults. I. Laboratory and epidemiologic observations. 
  • The composition of the zebrafish intestinal microbial community varies across development. 
  • The diversity and biogeography of soil bacterial communities. 
  • The effects of chronic nitrogen fertilization on alpine tundra soil microbial communities: implications for carbon and nitrogen cycling. 
  • The effects of selection against spurious transcription factor binding sites. 
  • The global stoichiometry of litter nitrogen mineralization. 
  • The importance of initial management in the treatment of severe infectious corneal ulcers. 
  • The importance of repairing stalled replication forks. 
  • The inoculum effect and band-pass bacterial response to periodic antibiotic treatment. 
  • The long-term effects of phage concentration on the inhibition of planktonic bacterial cultures. 
  • The nature of immune responses to urinary tract infections. 
  • The rate and pattern of cladogenesis in microbes. 
  • The role of FeS clusters for molybdenum cofactor biosynthesis and molybdoenzymes in bacteria. 
  • The role of mast cells in host defense and their subversion by bacterial pathogens. 
  • The role of smears, cultures, and antibiotic sensitivity testing in the management of suspected infectious keratitis. 
  • Time-dependent rates of molecular evolution. 
  • Transcription-associated mutagenesis. 
  • Transformation of pristine and citrate-functionalized CeO2 nanoparticles in a laboratory-scale activated sludge reactor. 
  • Treatment of bacterial prostatitis. Comparison of cephalexin and minocycline. 
  • Update on infective endocarditis. 
  • Urinary tract infection concordance with positive blood and cerebrospinal fluid cultures in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Validation of performance of plastic versus glass bottles for culturing anaerobes from blood in BacT/ALERT SN medium. 
  • Validity of cultures of fluid collected through drainage catheters versus those obtained by direct aspiration. 
  • Varying cecal bacterial loads influences colitis and gastritis in HLA-B27 transgenic rats. 
  • Watershed urbanization alters the composition and function of stream bacterial communities. 
  • When the Cat's Out of the Bag: Searching for Portals of Entry in Infective Endocarditis. 
  • Worms and flies as genetically tractable animal models to study host-pathogen interactions. 
  • [Analysis of incidence patterns and bacterial sensitivity in a surgical unit using microcomputers]. 
  • [Standardization of antimicrobial procedures using computers]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • Aballay, Alejandro, Adjunct Professor in the Department of Molecular Genetics and Microbiology, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
  • Bohorquez, Diego V., Assistant Professor in Medicine, Neurobiology
  • Bradford, William Dalton, Professor of Pathology, Pathology
  • Cohen-Wolkowiez, Michael, Professor of Pediatrics, Pediatrics, Infectious Diseases
  • Cunningham, Coleen Kathryn, Professor of Pediatrics, Pathology
  • Deshusses, Marc, Professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Duke University Energy Initiative
  • Erickson, Harold Paul, James B. Duke Professor of Medicine, Cell Biology
  • Hunt, Dana E., Assistant Professor of Microbial Ecology, Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Kuehn, Margarethe Joanna, Associate Professor of Biochemistry, Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
  • Sullivan, Daniel Carl, Professor Emeritus of Radiology, Radiology
  • Wernegreen, Jennifer Jo, Associate Professor of Environmental and Evolutionary Genomics in the Division of Environmental Sciences and Policy, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Wray, Gregory Allan, Professor of Biology, Evolutionary Anthropology