Frontiers in microbiology
Dec 5, 2023
A highly complex, diverse, and dense community of more than 1,000 different gut bacterial species constitutes the human gut microbiome that harbours vast metabolic capabilities encoded by more than 300,000 bacterial enzymes to metabolise complex poly...
Frontiers in microbiology
Nov 30, 2023
The efficacy of antibiotics and other antimicrobial agents in combating bacterial infections faces a grave peril in the form of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), an exceedingly pressing global health issue. The emergence and dissemination of drug-resis...
Frontiers in microbiology
Nov 30, 2023
BACKGROUND: Quorum sensing is bacteria's ability to communicate and regulate their behavior based on population density. Anti-quorum sensing agents (anti-QSA) is promising strategy to treat resistant infections, as well as reduce selective pressure t...
Frontiers in microbiology
Nov 24, 2023
INTRODUCTION: Malaria is one of the most prevalent infectious diseases in sub-Saharan Africa, with 247 million cases reported worldwide in 2021 according to the World Health Organization. Optical microscopy remains the gold standard technique for mal...
Frontiers in microbiology
Nov 23, 2023
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimated that pathogens like Escherichia coli, primarily linked to food and water contamination, are associated with 485,000 deaths from diarrheal diseases annually, translating to a staggering worldwide economic ...
Frontiers in microbiology
Nov 6, 2023
Bioremediation by biostimulation is an attractive alternative to excavation of contaminated soil. Many remediation methods have been tested with some success; however, due to highly variable results in realistic field conditions, they have not been...
Frontiers in microbiology
Jan 5, 2023
Although drugs have been reported to modulate the gut microbiota, the effects of anti-obesity drugs on the gut microbiota remain unclear. Lorcaserin (LS) and phentermine (PT) are commonly used anti-obesity drugs. However, to our best knowledge, no st...
Frontiers in microbiology
Feb 18, 2022
While MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry (MS) is widely considered as the reference method for the rapid and inexpensive identification of microorganisms in routine laboratories, less attention has been addressed to its ability for detection of antimicrobia...
Frontiers in microbiology
Feb 8, 2022
Type 1 secretion systems play important roles in pathogenicity of Gram-negative bacteria. However, the substrate secretion mechanism remains largely unknown. In this research, we observed the sequence features of repeats-in-toxin (RTX) proteins, a ma...
Frontiers in microbiology
Feb 4, 2022
A majority of microbial infections are associated with biofilms. Targeting biofilms is considered an effective strategy to limit microbial virulence while minimizing the development of antibiotic resistance. Toward this need, antibiofilm peptides are...