Veillonella species are obligate anaerobes which are part of the human oral, gut and vaginal microbiota. The genus Veillonella consists of 16 characte......
Objectives: Butyrate producing bacteria are promising candidates for next-generation probiotics. How-ever, they are extremely sensitive to oxygen, whi......
Objectives: We set out to survey the capacities of bacterial isolates from the human gut microbiome to reduce common azo food dyes in vitro. Methods: ......
Objectives: - Antimicrobial susceptibility testing (AST) of anaerobic bacteria has until recently been done by MIC methods. We have carried out a mult......
Objectives: Clostridium perfringens epsilon-toxin is considered to be a crucial agent in enterotoxemia in domestic animals. Epsilon-toxin enters host ......
Objectives: A better understanding of host-microbe interactions as a cross-talk between the gastrointestinal (GI) tract and the gut microbiota can hel......
Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is an important cause of diarrhea in hospitals worldwide. The incidence of CDI in Latin America has not yet b......
Objective: The study aimed to investigate the role of the PGN2012 gene of the periodontitis contributing pathobiont Porphyromonas gingivalis. PGN2012 ......
Objectives: This retrospective study analyzed the susceptibility levels of Bacteroides fragilis group (BFG) in a hospital-based laboratory where disk ......
Objectives: Teicoplanin is a potential antimicrobial candidate for Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) treatment. However, the therapeutic potent......
Objectives: In this work, an isothermal microcalorimeter was applied to investigate the antipathogenic activity of three probiotics (Lactobacillus aci......
Anaerobiospirillum succiniciproducens is a rare anaerobic pathogen that is implicated in sporadic cases of bacteremia and diarrhea, usually in immunoc......
Prosthetic joint infection is a common clinical orthopedic problem but infections caused by Actinomyces species have been rarely reported. An increasi......
Bacteroides fragilis (B. fragilis) is an uncommon cause of spinal abscess. We present a case of an 18 -month-old child, with spinal dysraphism-Spina b......
Objectives: We set out to identify and characterize prophages within genomes of published Fusobacte-rium strains, and to develop qPCR-based methods to......