ArticlesArchiveAboutEditorial BoardAuthor Guidelines
Call for papersThe 2026 special issue on Climate & Health is open for submissions.Learn more
Advances in Microbiology (AIM) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in Microbiology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of Microbiology. Al…
Ammar AlGburi, 1 1, Anna Volski, Carla Cugini, Emily M. Walsh, Vladimir A. Chistyakov, Maria S. Mazanko, Anzhelica B. Bren, Leon M. T. Dicks, Michael L. Chikindas, 1 1, 1 1
This study reports on the safety and putative probiotic properties of Bacillus amyloliquefaciens B-1895 and Bacillus subtilis KATMIRA1933. According to the bacterial reverse mutation (Ames) test, cell-free supernatants of B. amyloliquefaciens B-1895 and B. su…
Umme Salma Zohora, Takashi Ano, Mohammad Shahedur Rahman
Bacillus subtilis RB14 was used as an antagonist against fungal pathogen Rhizoctonia solani K1 to control damping-off diseases in tomato plants. Tomato seeds were treated with B. subtilis RB1 4 culture. The concentration of bacterial cells for the treatment w…
Yendi E. Navarro-Noya, Marco Luna-Guido, Luc Dendooven
Three soils with different Electrolytic Conductivity (EC) from the former Lake Texcoco (soil with low EC 1.2 dS · m -1 , medium with EC 83.1 - 107.8 dS · m -1 , and high with EC 137.3 - 152.5 dS •m -1 ) were used to isolate nitrogen-fixing bacterial stra…
Frans J. de Bruijn
Biological nitrogen fixation is a very valuable alternative to nitrogen fertilizer. This process will be discussed in the “Biological Nitrogen Fixation” book. A wide array of free-living and associative nitrogen fixing organisms (diazotrophs) will be covered.…
Lekshmi R. G. Kumar, Anas K. Kasim, Manjusha Lekshmi, Binaya Bhusan Nayak, Sanath Kumar
The occurrence of methicillin-resistant staphylococci was investigated in fresh seafood, seafood products and related samples. Staphylococci were isolated from 13 (68.42%) fresh seafood samples, while 3 (15.78%) samples harbored coagulase-positive S. aureus.…
Sabrina Gemma, Monica Molteni, Carlo Rossetti
Cyanobacteria are an interesting group of photosynthetic prokaryotes with a great potential in drug discovery and scientific research. Due to their high degree of diversification, they have been able to adapt to almost all ecological niches. Similarly to Gram…
Ángel Barón-Sola, Francisca F. del Campo, Soledad Sanz-Alférez
Aphanizomenon ovalisporum is a cylindrospermopsin (CYN)-producing cyanobacteria species that due to its increasing worldwide distribution has become an important health alarm in the last few years. Several clusters of genes involved in CYN production have bee…
Dante S. Videla Pereyra, Susana G. Ferrari
A study of the influence of different laboratory growth conditions on the biomass and EPS production by Nostoc minutum , a diazothophic cyanobacterium locally isolated, was carried out. Two culture media were tested, with or without NaNO3 addition, and three…
Tomoyasu Nishizawa, Takamasa Miura, 1 1, Ayana Futamura, Makoto Shirai, 1 1
The gene cluster for the biosynthetic of a nonribosomal peptide, cyanopeptolins and micropeptin (MCN), was identified in Microcystis strains and halogenated MCN-producing Microcystis were found to possess the halogenase gene, mcnD , between nonribosomal pepti…
Anne Wilkinson, Miki Hondzo, Michele Guala
Microcystis aeruginosa is a single-celled cyanobacterium, forming large colonies on the surface of freshwater ecosystems during summer, and producing a toxin (microcystin) that in high concentration can be harmful to humans and animals. These toxic effects ca…
No articles in this issue.
Advances in Microbiology (AIM) is an international journal dedicated to the latest advancements in Microbiology. The goal of this journal is to provide a platform for scientists and academicians all over the world to promote, share, and discuss various new issues and developments in different areas of Microbiology. Al… All articles are open access under a CC BY 4.0 licence, with authors retaining copyright.
Authors submit their manuscript, metadata, and declarations through the portal. There is no submission fee.
The editorial office screens the manuscript for scope, completeness, and formatting before assigning a handling editor.
At least two independent reviewers evaluate the manuscript under single-blind review. Where revisions are required, authors respond point by point.
On acceptance the article processing charge is invoiced and the CC BY 4.0 copyright handover is signed.
The article is copyedited, typeset, and given a DOI, then publishes open access with a permanent link.
Manuscripts must be original and not under consideration elsewhere. Submit in Microsoft Word or LaTeX with figures at 300 dpi minimum. Structure research articles as Abstract, Introduction, Methods, Results, Discussion, and References.
Use the journal's numbered (Vancouver) reference style. Cite sources consecutively in the order they appear, and ensure every reference is complete and retrievable.
Declare all funding sources, conflicts of interest, and ethical approvals (including informed consent and animal-care statements where applicable).