Bacteria

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  • 2004 ASM Conference on the New Phage Biology: the 'Phage Summit'. 
  • A CDC6 protein-binding peptide selected using a bacterial two-hybrid-like system is a cell cycle inhibitor. 
  • A comparative study of gut microbiomes in captive nocturnal strepsirrhines. 
  • A gain-of-function mutation in a plant disease resistance gene leads to constitutive activation of downstream signal transduction pathways in suppressor of npr1-1, constitutive 1. 
  • A multifactor analysis of fungal and bacterial community structure in the root microbiome of mature Populus deltoides trees. 
  • A new framework for approaching precision bioremediation of PAH contaminated soils. 
  • A novel PCR-clamping assay reducing plant host DNA amplification significantly improves prokaryotic endo-microbiome community characterization. 
  • A novel approach for fouling mitigation in anaerobic-anoxic-oxic membrane bioreactor (A2O-MBR) by integrating worm predation. 
  • A novel thermostable branching enzyme from an extremely thermophilic bacterial species, Rhodothermus obamensis. 
  • A pooled analysis of patients with wound infections in the Phase 3 REVIVE trials: randomized, double-blind studies to evaluate the safety and efficacy of iclaprim versus vancomycin for treatment of acute bacterial skin and skin structure infections. 
  • A power-law dependence of bacterial invasion on mammalian host receptors. 
  • A three-stage symbiosis forms the foundation of seagrass ecosystems. 
  • Acetate promotes microbial reductive debromination of tetrabromobisphenol A during the startup phase of anaerobic wastewater sludge bioreactors. 
  • 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. 
  • Aging of fullerene C₆₀ nanoparticle suspensions in the presence of microbes. 
  • Alkaline biofiltration of H2S odors. 
  • 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. 
  • Annual community patterns are driven by seasonal switching between closely related marine bacteria. 
  • Antibacterial susceptibility testing in the clinical laboratory. 
  • Antibiotic development - economic, regulatory and societal challenges. 
  • Antibiotic-resistant bacteria on personal devices in hospital intensive care units: Molecular approaches to quantifying and describing changes in the bacterial community of personal mobile devices. 
  • Antimicrobial activity of a continuous visible light disinfection system. 
  • Application of a moving bed biofilm reactor for tertiary ammonia treatment in high temperature industrial wastewater. 
  • Application of ion trap-MS with H/D exchange and QqTOF-MS in the identification of microbial degradates of trimethoprim in nitrifying activated sludge. 
  • Applying ecological resistance and resilience to dissect bacterial antibiotic responses. 
  • Archaeal cells share common size control with bacteria despite noisier growth and division. 
  • 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. 
  • Association of prenatal antibiotics with measures of infant adiposity and the gut microbiome. 
  • 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 associated with bacterial vaginosis. 
  • Bacteria localization and chorion thinning among preterm premature rupture of membranes. 
  • Bacterial Aggregation Leads to Collective Elimination. 
  • Bacterial CRISPR/Cas DNA endonucleases: A revolutionary technology that could dramatically impact viral research and treatment. 
  • Bacterial Nucleoid Occlusion: Multiple Mechanisms for Preventing Chromosome Bisection During Cell Division. 
  • Bacterial and fungal contamination of human fetal liver collected transvaginally for hematopoietic stem cell transplantation. 
  • Bacterial biofilm within diseased pancreatic and biliary tracts. 
  • Bacterial colonization of amniotic fluid from intact fetal membranes. 
  • Bacterial colonization of amniotic fluid in the presence of ruptured membranes. 
  • 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 infections in Lilongwe, Malawi: aetiology and antibiotic resistance. 
  • Bacterial lipids: metabolism and membrane homeostasis. 
  • Bacterial lipopolysaccharides and mycoplasmal lipoglycans: a comparison between their abilities to induce macrophage-mediated tumor cell killing and Limulus amebocyte lysate clotting. 
  • Bacterial pathogenesis: Pathogenic bacteria attack RHIM. 
  • 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. 
  • Bamboo Specialists from Two Mammalian Orders (Primates, Carnivora) Share a High Number of Low-Abundance Gut Microbes. 
  • Battle for survival: plants and their allies and enemies. 
  • 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. 
  • Biofilms in the large bowel suggest an apparent function of the human vermiform appendix. 
  • Biogeography and ecological setting of Indian Ocean hydrothermal vents. 
  • Biological Co-treatment of H2S and reduction of CO2 to methane in an anoxic biological trickling filter upgrading biogas. 
  • Biological charge transfer via flickering resonance. 
  • Biological waste air treatment in biofilters. 
  • Biomimetic strategies based on viruses and bacteria for the development of immune evasive biomaterials. 
  • Biotreatment of groundwater contaminated with MTBE: interaction of common environmental co-contaminants. 
  • Captivity humanizes the primate microbiome. 
  • Cardiolipin and the osmotic stress responses of bacteria. 
  • 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 lipid values and lipoprotein patterns of serum samples contaminated with bacteria. 
  • Chemical logic of MraY inhibition by antibacterial nucleoside natural products. 
  • Chemistry and biology of the molybdenum cofactors. 
  • Chemistry and biology of the ramoplanin family of peptide antibiotics. 
  • Chimpanzees and humans harbour compositionally similar gut enterotypes. 
  • 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. 
  • Common bacterial responses in six ecosystems exposed to 10 years of elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide. 
  • Community analysis of chronic wound bacteria using 16S rRNA gene-based pyrosequencing: impact of diabetes and antibiotics on chronic wound microbiota. 
  • Comparative evaluation of Oxoid Signal and BACTEC radiometric blood culture systems for the detection of bacteremia and fungemia. 
  • Comparative evaluation of a new magnetic bead-based DNA extraction method from fecal samples for downstream next-generation 16S rRNA gene sequencing. 
  • 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 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 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. 
  • Composition of gut microbiota in infants in China and global comparison. 
  • Computational design of receptor and sensor proteins with novel functions. 
  • Continuous operation of foamed emulsion bioreactors treating toluene vapors. 
  • 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). 
  • Control of electron transfer in nitrogenase. 
  • 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 Influences the Antibacterial Outcomes of a β-Lactamase-Activated Prochelator against Drug-Resistant Bacteria. 
  • Copper complexes containing thiosemicarbazones derived from 6-nitropiperonal: Antimicrobial and biophysical properties. 
  • Corneoscleral rim cultures: lack of utility and implications for clinical decision-making and infection prevention in the care of patients undergoing corneal transplantation. 
  • Correlation between sinus and lung cultures in lung transplant patients with cystic fibrosis. 
  • Correlation of serum bactericidal activity with antimicrobial agent level and minimal bactericidal concentration. 
  • 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. 
  • 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. 
  • Damage- and pathogen-associated molecular patterns play differential roles in late mortality after critical illness. 
  • Deciphering the tête-à-tête between the microbiota and the immune system. 
  • Destabilization of the gut microbiome marks the end-stage of simian immunodeficiency virus infection in wild chimpanzees. 
  • 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. 
  • Detection of cytosolic bacteria by inflammatory caspases. 
  • Determinations of restriction fragment length polymorphism in bacteria using ribosomal RNA genes. 
  • Development, diet and dynamism: longitudinal and cross-sectional predictors of gut microbial communities in wild baboons. 
  • 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. 
  • Digging the New York City Skyline: soil fungal communities in green roofs and city parks. 
  • Discovery of Antimicrobial Lipodepsipeptides Produced by a Serratia sp. within Mosquito Microbiomes. 
  • Discovery of a novel superfamily of type III polyketide synthases in Aspergillus oryzae. 
  • Disrupted Maturation of the Microbiota and Metabolome among Extremely Preterm Infants with Postnatal Growth Failure. 
  • Dissecting the effects of antibiotics on horizontal gene transfer: Analysis suggests a critical role of selection dynamics. 
  • Dissecting the in vivo metabolic potential of two human gut acetogens. 
  • Distinct microbial communities within the endosphere and rhizosphere of Populus deltoides roots across contrasting soil types. 
  • Diversity and detection of nitrate assimilation genes in marine bacteria. 
  • 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. 
  • Early-life skin microbiota in hospitalized preterm and full-term infants. 
  • Ecological and Genomic Attributes of Novel Bacterial Taxa That Thrive in Subsurface Soil Horizons. 
  • Ecology drives a global network of gene exchange connecting the human microbiome. 
  • Editorial overview: Biological pathways for electrons, protons and photo-excitations. 
  • 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. 
  • Effect of starvation on the performance and re-acclimation of biotrickling filters for air pollution control. 
  • Effect of the Intelligent Health Messenger Box on health care professionals' knowledge, attitudes, and practice related to hand hygiene and hand bacteria counts. 
  • 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. 
  • Effects of storage in an anaerobic transport system on bacteria in known polymicrobial mixtures and in clinical specimens. 
  • Emission Factors of Microbial Volatile Organic Compounds from Environmental Bacteria and Fungi. 
  • Endophthalmitis after penetrating trauma. Risk factors and visual acuity outcomes. 
  • Endosymbiosis. 
  • Engineered cell-cell communication and its applications. 
  • Engineering life: building a fab for biology. 
  • Enhanced denitrifying phosphorus removal and mass balance in a worm reactor. 
  • Enhancement of experimental anaerobic infections by blood, hemoglobin, and hemostatic agents. 
  • 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. 
  • Environmental controls on the landscape-scale biogeography of stream bacterial communities. 
  • 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. 
  • Eukaryotic Sexual Reproduction Evoked "with a Little Help from My Friends". 
  • Evaluation of 23S rRNA PCR primers for use in phylogenetic studies of bacterial diversity. 
  • Evaluation of cefazolin, a new cephalosporin antibiotic. 
  • Evaluation of modified trypticase soy broth versus supplemented peptone broth in the detection of bacteremia and fungemia. 
  • 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. 
  • Exploration of broadly neutralizing antibody fragments produced in bacteria for the control of HIV. 
  • Expression of nifH genes in natural microbial assemblages in Lake George, New York, detected by reverse transcriptase PCR. 
  • Fabrication of an autoclavable one-way valve for venting fermentation gases. 
  • 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. 
  • Feeding strategy shapes gut metagenomic enrichment and functional specialization in captive lemurs. 
  • Feeling the Burn: Intestinal Epithelial Cells Modify Their Lipid Metabolism in Response to Bacterial Fermentation Products. 
  • Fetal exposure to the maternal microbiota in humans and mice. 
  • Fine-scale phylogenetic architecture of a complex bacterial community. 
  • 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. 
  • Gastrointestinal microbiota alteration induced by Mucor circinelloides in a murine model. 
  • Gene expression levels influence amino acid usage and evolutionary rates in endosymbiotic bacteria. 
  • Generators of phenotypic diversity in the evolution of pathogenic microorganisms. 
  • Genes, geology and germs: gut microbiota across a primate hybrid zone are explained by site soil properties, not host species. 
  • Genome evolution in bacterial endosymbionts of insects. 
  • Genomes and gene expression across light and productivity gradients in eastern subtropical Pacific microbial communities. 
  • Glycosylphosphatidylinositol-anchored receptor-mediated bacterial endocytosis. 
  • Gut Colonization Preceding Mucosal Barrier Injury Bloodstream Infection in Pediatric Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplantation Recipients. 
  • Gut bacteria that prevent growth impairments transmitted by microbiota from malnourished children. 
  • Gut immune maturation depends on colonization with a host-specific microbiota. 
  • HGT in the human and skin commensal Malassezia: A bacterially derived flavohemoglobin is required for NO resistance and host interaction. 
  • Heteroaggregation, transformation and fate of CeO₂ nanoparticles in wastewater treatment. 
  • High-dose cefamandole therapy in obstetric and gynecologic infections. 
  • High-fat diet: bacteria interactions promote intestinal inflammation which precedes and correlates with obesity and insulin resistance in mouse. 
  • Host lifestyle affects human microbiota on daily timescales. 
  • How bacterial cell division might cheat turgor pressure - a unified mechanism of septal division in Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria. 
  • Human colonic biota studied by ribosomal DNA sequence analysis. 
  • Human secretory immunoglobulin A may contribute to biofilm formation in the gut. 
  • Hybrid error correction and de novo assembly of single-molecule sequencing reads. 
  • IGHV1-69 B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia antibodies cross-react with HIV-1 and hepatitis C virus antigens as well as intestinal commensal bacteria. 
  • Identification and antibiotic susceptibility of bacterial isolates from burned patients. 
  • 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 ZnO and ZnS nanoparticles in sewage sludge-amended soil on bacteria, plant and invertebrates. 
  • 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 it for the long haul: evolutionary consequences of persistent endosymbiosis. 
  • In search of microbial indicator taxa: shifts in stream bacterial communities along an urbanization gradient. 
  • In situ transformation of ethoxylate and glycol surfactants by shale-colonizing microorganisms during hydraulic fracturing. 
  • 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 and iron. Too much of a good thing? 
  • 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. 
  • Infective endocarditis: diagnosis, antimicrobial therapy, and management of complications: a statement for healthcare professionals from the Committee on Rheumatic Fever, Endocarditis, and Kawasaki Disease, Council on Cardiovascular Disease in the Young, and the Councils on Clinical Cardiology, Stroke, and Cardiovascular Surgery and Anesthesia, American Heart Association: endorsed by the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 
  • Innate and adaptive immunity cooperate flexibly to maintain host-microbiota mutualism. 
  • Innate antimicrobial immunity in the skin: A protective barrier against bacteria, viruses, and fungi. 
  • Innate immune detection of bacterial virulence factors via the NLRC4 inflammasome. 
  • Innate immunity in plants: an arms race between pattern recognition receptors in plants and effectors in microbial pathogens. 
  • Insensitivity of Diverse and Temporally Variable Particle-Associated Microbial Communities to Bulk Seawater Environmental Parameters. 
  • Interactions of NO with hemoglobin: from microbes to man. 
  • Interpretive criteria and quality control parameters for determining bacterial susceptibility to fosfomycin tromethamine. 
  • Intersection of salt- and immune-mediated mechanisms of hypertension in the gut microbiome. 
  • Intestinal microbiota composition in fishes is influenced by host ecology and environment. 
  • Intravesical instillation of gentamicin sulfate: in vitro, rat, canine, and human studies. 
  • Invasive bacterial and fungal infections among hospitalized HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected adults and adolescents in northern Tanzania. 
  • Inverse correlation of maturity and antibacterial activity in human dendritic cells. 
  • Investigating pathogen burden in relation to a cumulative deficits index in a representative sample of US adults. 
  • Investigating the mycobiome of the Holcomb Creosote Superfund Site. 
  • 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. 
  • Linking patterns of net community production and marine microbial community structure in the western North Atlantic. 
  • Liposome division by a simple bacterial division machinery. 
  • Liquid chromatography/tandem mass spectrometry of dolichols and polyprenols, lipid sugar carriers across evolution. 
  • Looking for Darwin's footprints in the microbial world. 
  • Love at First Taste: Induction of Larval Settlement by Marine Microbes. 
  • Low-shear modeled microgravity: a global environmental regulatory signal affecting bacterial gene expression, physiology, and pathogenesis. 
  • Macroscale spatial variation in chronic wound microbiota: a cross-sectional study. 
  • 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. 
  • Megaphages infect Prevotella and variants are widespread in gut microbiomes. 
  • Meiotic sister chromatid recombination. 
  • Metabarcoding and machine learning analysis of environmental DNA in ballast water arriving to hub ports. 
  • Metabolic division of labor in microbial systems. 
  • Methyl tert-butyl ether (MTBE) degradation by a microbial consortium. 
  • Methylfolate Trap Promotes Bacterial Thymineless Death by Sulfa Drugs. 
  • Microbial biofilms in the gut: visualization by electron microscopy and by acridine orange staining. 
  • Microbial entry through caveolae: variations on a theme. 
  • Microbial nitrogen limitation in the mammalian large intestine. 
  • 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. 
  • Molecular microbiology: new dimensions for cutaneous biology and wound healing. 
  • 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. 
  • Nanoantibiotics: a new paradigm for the treatment of surgical infection. 
  • Nanometric Considerations in Biofilm Formation. 
  • 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. 
  • Novel bacterial P-type ATPases with histidine-rich heavy-metal-associated sequences. 
  • Off the Shelf Fouling Management. 
  • Ofloxacin, a new broad-spectrum fluoroquinolone. Results from a Multicenter, National Comparative Activity Surveillance Study. The Ofloxacin Surveillance Group. 
  • Order out of disorder: working cycle of an intrinsically unfolded chaperone. 
  • Paradigm Shift for Radical S-Adenosyl-l-methionine Reactions: The Organometallic Intermediate Ω Is Central to Catalysis. 
  • 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 mechanisms of genetic and phenotypic differentiation in marine microbes. 
  • Patterns and scales in gastrointestinal microbial ecology. 
  • Phenotypic signatures arising from unbalanced bacterial growth. 
  • Photoautotrophic symbiont and geography are major factors affecting highly structured and diverse bacterial communities in the lichen microbiome. 
  • Phylogenetic placement of community members of human colonic biota. 
  • Physiological mechanisms of sustained fumagillin-induced weight loss. 
  • 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. 
  • Pneumococcal Colonization and the Nasopharyngeal Microbiota of Children in Botswana. 
  • Post-fabrication QAC-functionalized thermoplastic polyurethane for contact-killing catheter applications. 
  • Post-transcriptional operons and regulons co-ordinating gene expression. 
  • Preparation and Analysis of Peanut Flour Used in Oral Immunotherapy Clinical Trials. 
  • Prior Dietary Practices and Connections to a Human Gut Microbial Metacommunity Alter Responses to Diet Interventions. 
  • Probing bacterial gene expression within host cells. 
  • Programmed cell death in bacteria and implications for antibiotic therapy. 
  • Programmed evolution for optimization of orthogonal metabolic output in bacteria. 
  • Progressive nitrogen limitation of ecosystem processes under elevated CO2 in a warm-temperate forest. 
  • 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 enteric testing to permit targeted antimicrobial therapy, with and without Lactobacillus reuteri probiotics, for paediatric acute diarrhoeal disease in Botswana: A pilot, randomized, factorial, controlled trial. 
  • Rapid purification of microtubule motor domain proteins expressed in bacteria. 
  • Rare microbial taxa emerge when communities collide: freshwater and marine microbiome responses to experimental mixing. 
  • Reciprocal gut microbiota transplants from zebrafish and mice to germ-free recipients reveal host habitat selection. 
  • Reconstitution of the bacterial chemotaxis signal transduction system from purified components. 
  • 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 plant stomata in bacterial invasion. 
  • Role of the CD19 and CD21/35 receptor complex in innate immunity, host defense and autoimmunity. 
  • SIV-induced instability of the chimpanzee gut microbiome. 
  • Seasonal changes in airborne fungi and bacteria at a dairy cattle concentrated animal feeding operation in the southwest United States. 
  • Seasonal influence of scallop culture on nutrient flux, bacterial pathogens and bacterioplankton diversity across estuaries off the Bohai Sea Coast of Northern China. 
  • 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. 
  • Should Y stay or should Y go: the evolution of non-recombining sex chromosomes. 
  • Siroheme and sirohydrochlorin. The basis for a new type of porphyrin-related prosthetic group common to both assimilatory and dissimilatory sulfite reductases. 
  • SnapShot: Origins of DNA replication. 
  • Social networks predict gut microbiome composition in wild baboons. 
  • Social odours covary with bacterial community in the anal secretions of wild meerkats. 
  • Spatial organisation of microbiota in quiescent adenoiditis and tonsillitis. 
  • 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. 
  • Stomatal Defense a Decade Later. 
  • Strategies of genomic integration within insect-bacterial mutualisms. 
  • Structural and functional analyses of microbial metabolic networks reveal novel insights into genome-scale metabolic fluxes. 
  • Structural insights into inhibition of lipid I production in bacterial cell wall synthesis. 
  • Structural mechanisms of multidrug recognition and regulation by bacterial multidrug transcription factors. 
  • Structure-Activity Relationship of Sulfonyl Piperazine LpxH Inhibitors Analyzed by an LpxE-Coupled Malachite Green Assay. 
  • Structures of archaeal DNA segregation machinery reveal bacterial and eukaryotic linkages. 
  • Studies of the multifaceted mast cell response to bacteria. 
  • Studies on sequence recognition by type II restriction and modification enzymes. 
  • Study of host-microbe interactions in zebrafish. 
  • Successful chemoprophylaxis for Pneumocystis carinii pneumonitis. 
  • Sulfur dioxide treatment from flue gases using a biotrickling filter-bioreactor system. 
  • Suppression of Clostridium difficile by normal hamster cecal flora and prevention of antibiotic-associated cecitis. 
  • Sweet host revenge: Galectins and GBPs join forces at broken membranes. 
  • Synergistic effect of dexamethasone and isoproterenol on the expression of angiotensinogen in immortalized rat proximal tubular cells. 
  • Synergy and duality in peptide antibiotic mechanisms. 
  • Synthesis of empty bacterial microcompartments, directed organelle protein incorporation, and evidence of filament-associated organelle movement. 
  • The Impact of Prefilled Syringes on Endophthalmitis Following Intravitreal Injection of Ranibizumab. 
  • The Nasopharyngeal Microbiota of Children With Respiratory Infections in Botswana. 
  • The Populus holobiont: dissecting the effects of plant niches and genotype on the microbiome. 
  • The TetR family of transcriptional repressors. 
  • 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 control of mercury vapor using biotrickling filters. 
  • The effect of pulmonary surfactant on the in vitro activity of Iclaprim against common respiratory bacterial pathogens. 
  • The effects of selection against spurious transcription factor binding sites. 
  • The global stoichiometry of litter nitrogen mineralization. 
  • The gut microbiome of nonhuman primates: Lessons in ecology and evolution. 
  • The importance of a multifaceted approach to characterizing the microbial flora of chronic wounds. 
  • 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 kinetics of dimethylhydroxypyridinone interactions with iron(iii) and the catalysis of iron(iii) ligand exchange reactions: implications for bacterial iron transport and combination chelation therapies. 
  • The long-term effects of phage concentration on the inhibition of planktonic bacterial cultures. 
  • The nature of immune responses to urinary tract infections. 
  • The oral microbiota in patients with pancreatic cancer, patients with IPMNs, and controls: a pilot study. 
  • 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. 
  • The spatial factor, rather than elevated CO₂, controls the soil bacterial community in a temperate Forest Ecosystem. 
  • The uses of green fluorescent protein in prokaryotes. 
  • Towards Quantitative Microbiome Community Profiling Using Internal Standards. 
  • 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. 
  • Type III protein secretion in plant pathogenic bacteria. 
  • Understanding how microbiomes influence the systems they inhabit. 
  • Unisexual reproduction drives evolution of eukaryotic microbial pathogens. 
  • United States geographic bacteria susceptibility patterns. 1997 ASCP Susceptibility Testing Group. 
  • Update on infective endocarditis. 
  • Urinary tract infection concordance with positive blood and cerebrospinal fluid cultures in the neonatal intensive care unit. 
  • Using laboratory-generated biosolids to evaluate the microbial ecotoxicity of triclosan in a simulated land application scenario. 
  • 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. 
  • Viable bacterial colonization is highly limited in the human intestine in utero. 
  • Viral and bacterial abundance and production in the Western Pacific Ocean and the relation to other oceanic realms. 
  • 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. 
  • White paper on microbial anti-cancer therapy and prevention. 
  • Wound microbiology: tabula rosa, a blank slate. 
  • [Analysis of incidence patterns and bacterial sensitivity in a surgical unit using microcomputers]. 
  • [Standardization of antimicrobial procedures using computers]. 
  • [Vaginal flora in healthy sexually mature women]. 
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  Keywords of People

  • 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 Distinguished Professor of Cell Biology, Cell Biology
  • Hunt, Dana E., Associate 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, Lee Hill Snowdon Associate Professor, Environmental Sciences and Policy
  • Wray, Gregory Allan, Professor of Biology, Duke Innovation & Entrepreneurship