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Research
The incidence of gastric cancer in the Northern city, Hanoi is higher than in the Southern city, Ho Chi Minh, Vietnam. We previously reported that Helicobacter pylori vacA m1 genotype might be responsible for the...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:46
Published on: 17 August 2017
Short report
Campylobacter concisus and C. ureolyticus have emerged in recent years as being associated with acute and prolonged gastroenteritis and implicated in the development of inflammatory bo...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:47
Published on: 17 August 2017
Research
Clostridium difficile is the causative agent of C. difficile infection (CDI) that could be manifested by diarrhea, pseudomembranous colitis or life-threatening toxic megacolon. The spr...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:45
Published on: 14 August 2017
Commentary
The gut microbiota plays an essential role in health and disease of humans. Bacteriophages are the most abundant members of the gut virobiota and display great diversity. Phages can translocate through the muc...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:44
Published on: 10 August 2017
Research
Clostridium difficile is an anaerobic Gram-positive spore-forming gut pathogen that causes antibiotic-associated diarrhea worldwide. A small number of C. difficile strains express the ...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:42
Published on: 7 August 2017
Short report
Dysbiosis is linked to the cause of several human diseases, many of which having an immunity related component. This work investigated whether mice genetically selected for low or high antibody production disp...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:43
Published on: 7 August 2017
Genome Report
Members of the genus Hafnia have been isolated from the feces of mammals, birds, reptiles, and fish, as well as from soil, water, sewage, and foods. Hafnia alvei is an opportunistic pathogen that has been implica...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:41
Published on: 27 July 2017
Research
The serine protease HtrA is an important factor for regulating stress responses and protein quality control in bacteria. In recent studies, we have demonstrated that the gastric pathogen Helicobacter pylori can s...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:40
Published on: 25 July 2017
Letter to the Editor
Unrelated spore-forming bacteria share unique characteristics stemming from the presence of highly resistant endospores, leading to similar challenges in health and disease. These characteristics are related t...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:38
Published on: 30 June 2017
Research
Klebsiella pneumoniae (K. pneumoniae) is an opportunistic pathogen associated with community-acquired infections and nosocomial infections. From 2010 to 2015, K. pneumoniae testing was...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:39
Published on: 30 June 2017
Research
Campylobacter is a well-known bacterial pathogen for triggering acute gastroenteritis in humans both in developed and developing countries. This organism is highly resistant to fluoroq...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:37
Published on: 21 June 2017
Research
The pH of the human gastric mucosa varies around 2.5 so that only bacteria with strong acidic stress tolerance can colonize it. The ulcer causing Helicobacter pylori thrives in the gastric mucosa. We analyse the ...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:36
Published on: 12 June 2017
Research
Recent studies show that some Escherichia coli strains possessing a gene cluster named the pks island might have a causative role in the development of human colorectal cancer (CRC). In several reports from Europ...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:35
Published on: 12 June 2017
Research
Mycobacterium avium subspecies paratuberculosis (MAP) is the causative agent of Johne’s disease in ruminants and is associated with Crohn’s disease (CD) in humans, although the latter ...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:34
Published on: 10 June 2017
Research
Campylobacter jejuni infections are of rising importance worldwide. Given that innate immune receptors including nucleotide-oligomerization-domain-2 (Nod2) are essentially involved in ...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:33
Published on: 6 June 2017
Genome report
Clostridium perfringens is an opportunistic human pathogen that causes necrotic enteritis, mild diarrhea, clostridial myonecrosis or gas gangrene, sepsis, etc. In this study, we aim to...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:32
Published on: 2 June 2017
Genome Report
Vibrio campbellii is widely distributed in the marine environment and is an important pathogen of aquatic organisms such as shrimp, fish, and mollusks. An isolate of V. campbellii carr...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:31
Published on: 1 June 2017
Research
Shiga toxin (Stx) producing Escherichia coli (E. coli) (STEC) is the most frequent cause of diarrhoea-positive haemolytic uraemic syndrome (D + HUS) in humans. In 2011, a huge outbreak with an STEC O104:H4 strain...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:30
Published on: 25 May 2017
Genome Report
Bacillus cereus is well known as a gastrointestinal pathogen that causes food-borne illness. In the present study, we sequenced the complete genome of B. cereus FORC_013 isolated from ...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:29
Published on: 15 May 2017
Review
There is a growing concern about the increase in human morbidity and mortality caused by foodborne pathogens. Antibiotics were and still are used as the first line of defense against these pathogens, but an in...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:28
Published on: 8 May 2017
Research
Coeliac disease is an autoimmune disorder resulting from an interaction between diet, genome and immunity. The treatment of CoeD is lifelong adherence to a gluten free diet, which is associated with clinical a...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:26
Published on: 5 May 2017
Research
Bifidobacterium longum 105-A produces markedly high amounts of capsular polysaccharides (CPS) and exopolysaccharides (EPS) that should play distinct roles in bacterial–host interaction...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:27
Published on: 1 May 2017
Research
In 2007, a nationwide Salmonella Tennessee outbreak occurred via contaminated peanut butter. Here, we developed a single-nucleotide polymorphism (SNP)-typing method for S. Tennessee to determine the clonal subtyp...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:25
Published on: 1 May 2017
Research
Ruminants serve as one of the most important reservoirs for pathogenic Escherichia coli. Infection with E. coli, a foodborne enteropathogen, can lead to asymptomatic infections that can cause life-threatening com...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:24
Published on: 28 April 2017
Research
Rotavirus (RV) induces diarrhoea through a sequence of enterotoxic and cytotoxic effects. The former are NSP4-dependent, induce calcium-dependent chloride secretion and involve oxidative stress. Diosmectite (D...
Gut Pathogens 2017 9:23
Published on: 24 April 2017
