Monoderm bacteria possess a cell envelope made of a cytoplasmic membrane and a cell
wall, whereas diderm bacteria have and extra lipid layer, the outer membrane, covering the …

The emergence of bacteria resistance to most of the currently available antibiotics has
become a critical therapeutic problem. The bacteria causing both hospital and community …

Bacteriophages have developed multiple host cell lysis strategies to promote release of
descendant virions from infected bacteria. This review is focused on the lysis mechanisms …

Antibiotics have saved millions of lives. However, the overuse and misuse of antibiotics have
contributed to a rapid emergence of antibiotic resistance worldwide. In addition, there is an …

Mycobacterial infections are considered to a serious challenge of medicine, and the
emergence of MDR and XDR tuberculosis is a serious public health problem. Tuberculosis …

One of the last untapped reservoirs in nature for the identification of new anti-microbials is
bacteriophages, the natural killers of bacteria. Lytic bacteriophages encode peptidoglycan …

Foodborne pathogens and microbial toxins are the main causes of foodborne illness.
However, trace pathogens and toxins in foods are difficult to detect. Thus, techniques for …

The mycobacterial cell wall presents significant challenges to mycobacteriophages–viruses
that infect mycobacterial hosts–because of its unusual structure containing a mycolic acid …

Recombineering, a recently developed technique for efficient genetic manipulation of
bacteria, is facilitated by phage-derived recombination proteins and has the advantage of …

The genus Mycobacterium comprises not only the deadliest of bacterial pathogens,
Mycobacterium tuberculosis, but several other pathogenic species, including M. avium and …