Biodeterioration of polymeric materials affect a wide range of industries. Degradability of
polymeric materials is a function of the structures of polymeric materials, the presence of …

Helicobacter pylori, a member of Epsilonproteobacteria, is a Gram-negative microaerophilic
bacterium that colonizes gastric mucosa of about 50% of the human population. Although …

An ad hoc committee for the re-evaluation of the species definition in bacteriology met in
Gent, Belgium, in February 2002. The committee made various recommendations regarding …

Given the explosive development of new molecular marker techniques over the last decade,
newcomers and experts alike in the field of DNA fingerprinting will find an easy-to-follow …

Epithelial cells can respond to conserved bacterial products that are internalized after either
bacterial invasion or liposome treatment of cells. We report here that the noninvasive Gram …

The presence of spiral-shaped bacteria on human gastric mucosa was first recognized
nearly one hundred years ago (Pel, 1899). These bacteria were isolated for the first time in …

Several virulence factors of Listeria monocytogenes have been identified and extensively
characterized at the molecular and cell biologic levels, including the hemolysin (listeriolysin …

The introduction of in vitro nucleic acid amplification techniques, led by real-time PCR, into
the clinical microbiology laboratory has transformed the laboratory detection of viruses and …

Persistent bacterial infections involving Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Salmonella enterica
serovar Typhi (S. typhi) and Helicobacter pylori pose significant public-health problems …

Within each bacterial species, different strains may vary in the set of genes they encode or in
the copy number of these genes. Yet, taxonomic characterization of the human microbiota is …