Physiology of mycobacteria

GM Cook, M Berney, S Gebhard, M Heinemann… - Advances in microbial …, 2009 - Elsevier
Mycobacterium tuberculosis is a prototrophic, metabolically flexible bacterium that has
achieved a spread in the human population that is unmatched by any other bacterial …

Heterogeneous host-pathogen encounters: act locally, think globally

D Bumann - Cell host & microbe, 2015 - cell.com
Recent studies are revealing astonishing heterogeneity in host-pathogen interactions
occurring simultaneously within the same host tissue. As highlighted in this review, growing …

A universal method for the identification of bacteria based on general PCR primers

SA Barghouthi - Indian journal of microbiology, 2011 - Springer
Abstract The Universal Method (UM) described here will allow the detection of any bacterial
rDNA leading to the identification of that bacterium. The method should allow prompt and …

Quantitative relationships for specific growth rates and macromolecular compositions of Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Streptomyces coelicolor A3 (2) and Escherichia …

RA Cox - Microbiology, 2004 - microbiologyresearch.org
Further understanding of the physiological states of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and other
mycobacteria was sought through comparisons with the genomic properties and …

Structure of a Mycobacterium tuberculosis NusA–RNA complex

B Beuth, S Pennell, KB Arnvig, SR Martin… - The EMBO …, 2005 - embopress.org
NusA is a key regulator of bacterial transcriptional elongation, pausing, termination and
antitermination, yet relatively little is known about the molecular basis of its activity in these …

Genome-Wide Discovery of Small RNAs in Mycobacterium tuberculosis

P Miotto, F Forti, A Ambrosi, D Pellin, DF Veiga… - PLoS one, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Only few small RNAs (sRNAs) have been characterized in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and
their role in regulatory networks is still poorly understood. Here we report a genome-wide …

The complex architecture of mycobacterial promoters

M Newton-Foot, NCG van Pittius - Tuberculosis, 2013 - Elsevier
The genus Mycobacterium includes a variety of species with differing phenotypic properties,
including growth rate, pathogenicity and environment-and host-specificity. Although many …

Compiling a Molecular Inventory for Mycobacterium bovis BCG at Two Growth Rates: Evidence for Growth Rate-Mediated Regulation of Ribosome Biosynthesis and …

DJV Beste, J Peters, T Hooper… - Journal of …, 2005 - Am Soc Microbiol
An experimental system of Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth in a carbon-limited
chemostat has been established by the use of Mycobacterium bovis BCG as a model …

Metagenomic next-generation sequencing improves diagnosis of osteoarticular infections from abscess specimens: a multicenter retrospective study

M Zhao, K Tang, F Liu, W Zhou, J Fan, G Yan… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Background: We conducted this retrospective study to reveal the accuracy of metagenomic
next-generation sequencing (mNGS) for diagnosing osteoarticular infections from fresh …

A fully integrated rapid on-chip antibiotic susceptibility test–A case study for Mycobacterium smegmatis

H Ghorbanpoor, AN Dizaji, I Akcakoca, EO Blair… - Sensors and Actuators A …, 2022 - Elsevier
Antibiotic resistance is one of the most pressing scientific and societal issues of our age.
There is an urgent need to develop new diagnostic technologies which can quickly …