Several promising strategies based on combining or cycling different antibiotics have been
proposed to increase efficacy and counteract resistance evolution, but we still lack a deep …

Lactic acid bacteria (LAB) are important starter, commensal, or pathogenic microorganisms.
The stress physiology of LAB has been studied in depth for over 2 decades, fueled mostly by …

Bacteria encounter a myriad of stresses in their natural environments, including, for
pathogens, their hosts. These stresses elicit a variety of specific and highly regulated …

Bacteria can be adapted to adverse and detrimental conditions that induce general and
specific responses to DNA damage as well as acid, heat, cold, starvation, oxidative …

Bacteria encounter a myriad of potentially growth-compromising conditions in nature and in
hosts of pathogenic bacteria. These 'stresses' typically elicit protective and/or adaptive …

Background. Changes in serotype prevalence among pneumococcal populations result from
both serotype replacement and serotype (capsular) switching. Temporal changes in …

Alterations in the target enzymes for β-lactam antibiotics, the penicillin-binding proteins
(PBPs), have been recognized as a major resistance mechanism in Streptococcus …

The food-borne pathogen Listeria (L.) monocytogenes is often found in food production
environments. Thus, controlling the occurrence of L. monocytogenes in food production is a …

Most human listeriosis is foodborne, and ready-to-eat (RET) foods contaminated by Listeria
monocytogenes during processing are found to be common vehicles. In this study, a total of …

Antibiotic tolerance—the ability of bacteria to survive for an extended time in the presence of
bactericidal antibiotics—is an understudied contributor to antibiotic treatment failure. Herein …