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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…
Erica Renata Nogueira Sá, Cássio Ilan Soares Medeiros, Juliana Raquel de Morais Santos Oliveira, Antonio José de Jesus Evangelista, Maria Iranilda Silva Magalhães, Geraldo Gonçalves de Almeida Filho, Andréa Maria Rolim da Paz, Hilzeth de Luna Freire Pessôa
The Schinus terebinthifolius Raddi is a native plant of South America popularly known in Brazil as aroeira. It is a medium-sized plant, which demonstrates a high adaptive potential in various environments, besides having various medicinal properties such as a…
Valérie Lalande, Simon Barnabé, Jean-Charles Côté
Biofouling, the accumulation of microorganisms, is a major problem in paper mills processing paper and cardboard. This leads to the production of lower quality recycled products. Several studies have focused on the microbial content in the paper mill and the…
Huiling Fu, Yanfei Wei, Yanyan Zou, Mingzhi Li, Fangyuan Wang, Jianrong Chen, Lixin Zhang, Zhiheng Liu, Linxian Ding
The genus Arthrobacter was established in 1947 by Conn & Dimmick. So far, more than 70 recognized species of the genus Arthrobacter have been certified. Its special functions have been widely known by researchers, such as, in agricultural, in medical, in indu…
Rebecca J. Brown, Victoria J. Chalker, Owen B. Spiller
Mycoplasma hominis is a member of the genus mycoplasma and has only been isolated from humans. It is most frequently isolated from the urogenital tract in the absence of symptoms, but has been isolated from wounds, brain abscess, inflamed joints, blood and pl…
Mónica Rosales-Pérez, Silvia Giono-Cerezo, Jorge Girón, Antonio Yáñez, Lilia Cedillo
This study compares the kinetics of adherence of both the prototype strain PG-18 and the recently clinically isolated strain P-140 of Mycoplasma fermentans to HEp-2 cells. M. fermentans may induce respiratory and genitourinary tract infections. We investigate…
Muñoz-Zurita Guillermo, Paz Martínez David, Yáñez Santos Jorge Antonio, Gil Juárez Constantino, Cedillo Ramírez María Lilia
Objective: To compare the presence of Mycoplasma spp. in pharyngeal swabs of patients with asthma, allergic rhinitis and controls, also to compare the reactivity to allergens in the three groups. Material and Methods: Throat swabs of 120 patients with asthma,…
Constantino Gil, Alma Aurora Sánchez González, Isidro Lecona León, Antonio Rivera, Rayo Santellán Olea, Lilia Cedillo
Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS) is a progressive degenerative disease of the motor neurons and the cause is unknown. Diverse factors such as genetic defects, nutritional deficiencies, head trauma, environmental toxin, autoimmune responses and viral and ba…
Qiang Qin, Baoping Xu, Xiuyun Liu, Kunling Shen
Mycoplasma pneumoniae pneumonia (MPP) becomes one of the most important health problems in China recently. Date for MPP inChinais scarce. Although macrolides and/or cortical steroids had been reported to be effective treatment for MPP, the long-term outcome r…
Hiroshi Tanaka, Hisato Sadakata, Tae Nagami, Shun Miyazaki, Tsutomu Tomita, Shuhei Shirata, Takehiro Yamagishi
To analyze the bronchial epithelial cell damage induced by Mycoplasma pneumonia and the therapeutic effects of clarithromycin, we observed bronchial tissue damage by using a mouse model and performing immunostaining and scanning electron microscopy. The immun…
Peter S. Nyasulu, Christine Paszko, Nontombi Mbelle
A laboratory information system (LIS) established in a microbiology department has the potential to play an important role in the quality of microbiology data such as culture of blood, urine, stool, pus swab samples etc. Such data could b e effectively utilis…
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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.
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