Identification of secretion systems in bacterial genomes http://www.nature.com/articles/srep23080 This relatively recent publication deals with computational methods for identifying secretion system genes in genomic sequences. Bacterial secretion systems review https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4804464/ This review is on bacterial secretion systems with a major focus on their role in...

Species-specific bacterial identification of clinical specimens is often limited to a few species due to the difficulty of performing multiplex reactions. In addition, discrimination of amplicons is time-consuming and laborious, consisting of gel electrophoresis, probe hybridization, or sequencing technology. In order to simplify the process of bacterial identification, we combined anchored in ...

Highly specific, sensitive and rapid tests are required for the detection and identification of covert bacterial contaminations in plant tissue cultures. Current methods available for this purpose are tedious, time consuming, highly error prone, expensive, require advanced technical expertise and are sometimes ineffective. We report here the development of a sensitive polymerase chain reaction ...

BACKGROUND & OBJECTIVES Pathogenic bacteria often cause life threatening infections especially in immunocompromised individuals. Therefore, rapid and reliable species identification is essential for a successful treatment and disease management. We evaluated a rapid, proteomic based technique for identification of clinical bacterial isolates by protein profiling using matrix-assisted laser deso...

Raman spectroscopy is an emerging tool for fast bacterial identification. However, depending on suitable preprocessing of the spectra, thereby background removal a decisive step conventional spectroscopy. The has to be estimated, which challenging especially high fluorescence backgrounds. Shifted excitation difference (SERDS) eliminates through experimental procedure and holds as promising appr...

BACKGROUND Broad-range PCR provides valuable information for detecting bacterial infections. This study assesses the combined use of broad-range real-time PCR and high-resolution melting analysis for rapid detection and identification of clinically important bacteria. METHODS We subjected 46 bacterial culture colonies representing 25 clinically important bacterial species to LightCycler real-...

Rapid identification of bacterial species is crucial in medicine and food hygiene. In order to achieve rapid and label-free identification of bacterial species at the single bacterium level, we propose and experimentally demonstrate an optical method based on Fourier transform light scattering (FTLS) measurements and statistical classification. For individual rod-shaped bacteria belonging to fo...

BACKGROUND In patients, rapid identification of bacterial species may help to guide treatment at early stages. New protocols for the identification directly from positive blood culture flasks significantly helped in the presented case report. CASE PRESENTATION Two patients (a father and son) presented with diarrhea, malaise, and fever of 3 to 4 days duration. Blood cultures from both patients...