Escherichia coli and other Proteobacteria are augmented and several other bacteria are diminished in Crohn’s (CD) disease patients’ intestine. This imbalance in bacterial species composition—termed dysbiosis—seems to be determinant of CD manifestation. Since a great part of intestinal bacteria are not cultivable, detection of CD dysbiosis is accomplished by molecular tools, involving sequences ...

With the development of genome sequencing more whole genomes of microorganisms were completed, many methods wereintroduced to reconstruct the phylogenetic tree of those microorganismswith the information extracted from the whole genomes through variousways of transforming or mapping the whole genome sequences into otherforms which can describe the evolutionary distance in a new way. We thinkit ...

We studied the molecular phylogeny of the carabid subgenus Ohomopterus (genus Carabus), using two mitochondrial (mt) DNA regions (16SrRNA and NADH dehydrogenase subunit 5) and three nuclear DNA regions (wingless, phosphoenolpyruvate carboxykinase, and an anonymous locus). We revisited the previously reported incongruence between the distribution of mtDNA markers and morphologically defined spec...

Herbaspirillum seropedicae is an endophytic diazotrophic bacterium, which associates with important agricultural plants. In the present study, we have investigated the attachment to and internal colonization of Phaseolus vulgaris roots by the H. seropedicae wild-type strain SMR1 and by a strain of H. seropedicae expressing a red fluorescent protein (DsRed) to track the bacterium in the plant ti...

Advancement of Nucleic Acid-Based Tools for Monitoring In Situ Reductive Dechlorination Vangelas, K., E. Edwards, F. Loeffler, B.B. Looney. Paper No: WSRC-STI-2006-00332, 23 pp, Nov 2006 Regulatory protocols generally recognize that destructive processes are the most effective mechanisms that support natural attenuation of chlorinated solvents. In many cases, these destructive processes will be...

BACKGROUND Accurate and early diagnosis of tuberculosis (TB) is of major importance in the control of TB. One of the most important technical advances in diagnosis of tuberculosis is the development of nucleic acid amplification (NAA) tests. However, the choice of the target sequence remains controversial in NAA tests. Recently, interesting alternatives have been found in hypothetical protein c...

Cholera is a significant public health threat across the globe, especially in coastal regions with poor water supply. This study was carried out to determine antibiogram, genomic, and phylogeny of stool seafood isolates from some cholera-prone communities Rivers State, Nigeria. A total 400 samples 42 different were aseptically collected examined using standard microbiology molecular techniques....

Q fever is an infectious zoonotic disease characterized by sudden fever, headache, and atypical pneumonia, caused by Coxiella burneti--an obligatory intracellular parasite. Based on phylogenetic analysis of the genes sequences, the classification was changed and C. burnetii species was included to the gamma subgroup of the proteobacteria, Legionellales order and Coxiellaceae family. This analys...