Journal of bacteriology

The genus Akkermansia was first described in 2004 following the identification of Akkermansia muciniphila, a Gram-negative, mucin-degrading bacterium of the intestine that constitutes 1-3% of the total adult fecal content. Since the interes…

For much of the 20th century, the field of bacteriology was dominated by a pathogen-centric view, which rightly focused scientific resources on identifying, characterizing, and eliminating the agents of infectious disease. However, this per…

Biofilms are a major contributor to antibiotic resistance and persistence in hospital environments. These bacterial communities form protective structures that shield microbes from various stressors, such as oxidative stress, pH fluctuation…

UNLABELLED: Many pathogens use homologous recombination to vary surface antigens in order to avoid immune surveillance. Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium responsible for the sexually transmitted infection gonorrhea, achieves this in part…