Horizontal gene transfer (HGT) plays an important role in the evolution of life on the Earth.
This view is supported by numerous occasions of HGT that are recorded in the genomes of …

Neisseria gonorrhoeae infection is an important public health issue, with an annual global
incidence of 87 million. N. gonorrhoeae infection causes significant morbidity and can have …

Biofilms are surface-associated, multicellular communities of bacteria. Once established,
they are extremely difficult to eradicate by antimicrobial treatment. It has been demonstrated …

Bacterial peroxidases are responsible for the reduction of hydrogen peroxide to water.
Found in the periplasm of gram-negative bacteria, they are one of the defense mechanisms …

Gonorrhea is a major, global public health problem for which there is no vaccine. The
continuing emergence of antibiotic-resistant strains raises concerns that untreatable …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilms contribute heavily to chronic lung infection in cystic
fibrosis patients, leading to morbidity and mortality. Nitric oxide (NO) has been shown to …

Nitrite, previously considered physiologically irrelevant and a simple end product of
endogenous nitric oxide (NO) metabolism, is now envisaged as a reservoir of NO to be …

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a global health problem. Despite the enormous efforts
made in the last decade, threats from some species, including drug-resistant Neisseria …

Neisseria gonorrhoeae has been shown to produce biofilms both in experimental flow
chambers and in the human host. Our laboratory has shown that extracellular DNA is an …

Aims Comparative genomics analyses indicated that the Flavobacterium columnare genome
has unique denitrification genes relative to Flavobacterium psychrophilum and …