The Gram-negative bacterial lipopolysaccharide (LPS) is a major component of the outer
membrane that plays a key role in host–pathogen interactions with the innate immune …

Bacteria in the genus Brucella are important human and veterinary pathogens. The abortion
and infertility they cause in food animals produce economic hardships in areas where the …

Two Gram-negative, non-motile, non-spore-forming coccoid bacteria (strains F8/08-60T and
F8/08-61) isolated from clinical specimens obtained from baboons (Papio spp.) that had …

To promote agronomic sustainability, extensive research is being carried out globally,
investigating biofertilizer development. Recently, it has been realized that some …

The ability to build accurate protein families is a fundamental operation in bioinformatics that
influences comparative analyses, genome annotation, and metabolic modeling. For several …

An extended multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) scheme applicable to the Brucella, an
expanding genus that includes zoonotic pathogens that severely impact animal and human …

Remarkable genetic diversity and breadth of host species has been uncovered in the
Brucella genus over the past decade, fundamentally changing our concept of what it means …

Brucellosis is a serious infectious disease which causes great direct and indirect economic
loses for animal holders worldwide such as the reduction of milk and meat production …

The intrinsic virulence of extra-intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli is associated with
numerous chromosomal and/or plasmid-borne genes, encoding diverse functions such as …

The intracellular pathogens of the genus Brucella are phylogenetically close to
Ochrobactrum, a diverse group of free-living bacteria with a few species occasionally …