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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…
Lorena Mori, Rosa Perales, Jorge Rodríguez, Carlos Shiva, Ysabel Koga, Geraldine Choquehuanca, Cesar Palacios
Isolation and biochemical and molecular identification of 303 strains of Escherichia coli obtained from diarrheic and healthy young alpacas of Puno-Peru, were realized. PCR amplification for 7 virulence factor genes associated with STEC, STEC O157:H7, EPEC: s…
Abigail L. Male, Petra C. F. Oyston, Ali Tavassoli
The Phage shock protein (Psp) response is an extracytoplasmic stress response. The central component of this system is PspA, a protein that mediates the physiological response to membrane stress. PspA is also involved in regulating its own transcription and t…
V. N. Anakwenze, C. C. Ezemba, I. A. Ekwealor
Bacillus thuringiensis EC1, isolated from the fermented oil bean seed, Pentachletra macrophila Benthan, produced a methionine yield of 1.89 mg/ml. The influence of cultural conditions on methionine accumulation by B. thuringiensis EC1 showed that a 20% medium…
Annie B. Leonard, Jeanette M. Carlson, Dayna E. Bishoff, Sarah I. Sendelbach, Sonja B. Yung, Sonya Ramzanali, Ananda B. W. Manage, Embriette R. Hyde, Joseph F. Petrosino, Todd P. Primm
Metagenomics and bacterial culture were used to determine the normal skin microbiome of the Western mosquitofish (Gambusia affinis). This is the first study of G. affinis, and the most in-depth study of any fish skin, utilizing a combination of 16S profile py…
Jayshree D. Patel, Mahesh Parmar, Purshottam Patel, Pravin Rohit, Ramesh Taviyad, Parveen Ansari, Bipasha Bhattacharya, Dhaval Vyas, Vipin Kumar, Nirmal S. Sahay, Pawan K. Singh
Escalation of drug resistant microbes (bacteria) had forced researchers to search new and improved therapeutic compounds from different possible sources, including metabolites secreted by the actinomycetes. The aim of this study was to evaluate the pattern of…
Alejandro Palma-Ramos, Samantha Reyes-Mayén, Laura Estela Castrillón-Rivera, Silvia Elena Fernández-López, Carmen Padilla-Desgarennes, María Elisa Vega-Memije, Roberto Arenas-Guzmán, María Elisa Drago-Serrano, Teresita Sainz-Espuñes
Actinomycetoma syndrome by Actinomadura ( A. ) madurae is characterized by a subcutaneous chronic lesion that affects fascia, muscle and bone. A. madurae produces colonies that form grains of less than 1 mm in diameter. Grains are surrounded and infiltrated b…
Özlem Öner, Güner Ekiz, E. Esin Hameş, Volkan Demir, Özkan Gübe, F. Can Özkaya, M. Baki Yokeş, Ataç Uzel, Erdal Bedir
In this study, 16 marine sponge samples collected from Eastern Mediterranean Sea were used for the isolation of sponge-associated Actinobacteria . Different media and pre-treatment methods were applied for the isolation experiments. In total, 7578 actinomycet…
Alejandro Palma-Ramos, Violeta Karen Espinosa-Antunez, Laura Estela Castrillón-Rivera, Oralia Nájera-Medina, María Elisa Vega-Memije, Roberto Arenas-Guzmán, María Elisa Drago-Serrano, Teresita Sainz-Espuñes
Actinomycetoma is a chronic subcutaneous lesion caused by the pathogenic bacterium Nocardia ( N .) brasiliensis . Yeast antigens of Candida ( C .) albicans increase the interferon (IFN)- γ and TCD4+ cells levels that enhance the phagocytic killing of N . bras…
Tatiana Alves Rigamonte Fernandes, Wendel Batista da Silveira, Flávia Maria Lopes Passos, Tiago Domingues Zucchi
Laccases are blue multicopper enzymes, capable of oxidizing diverse aromatic and non-aromatic compounds of industrial interest, concomitantly with reduction of molecular oxygen to water. Tolerance to extreme conditions, such as high temperature, salinity or e…
Sideney Becker Onofre, Taismara Bonfante, Zípora Morgana Quinteiro dos Santos, Marielly Coradin de Moura, Aline Filakowski Cardoso
Cellulases are enzymes responsible for the degradation of cellulose, the major compound in plant cells. Cellulose is a polysaccharide composed of several glucose units linked together by chemical bonds. Cellulases, such as endoglucanases, beta-glucosidase and…
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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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