1. Display of Human Proinsulin on the Bacillus subtilis Spore Surface for Oral Administration

   • Fan Feng
   • Ping Hu
   • Keping Chen

   OriginalPaper 05 February 2013 Pages: 1 - 8

   

2. Spreading of AbaR-type Genomic Islands in Multidrug Resistance Acinetobacter baumannii Strains Belonging to Different Clonal Complexes

   • María Soledad Ramírez
   • Elisabet Vilacoba
   • Daniela Centrón

   OriginalPaper 09 February 2013 Pages: 9 - 14

   

3. Genetic Relatedness of Clinical and Environmental Vibrio cholerae Isolates Based on Triple Housekeeping Gene Analysis

   • Abolfazl Dashtbani-Roozbehani
   • Bita Bakhshi
   • Mohammad Reza Pourshafie

   OriginalPaper 09 February 2013 Pages: 15 - 20

   

4. A Novel EPS-Producing Strain of Bacillus licheniformis Isolated from a Shallow Vent Off Panarea Island (Italy)

   • Antonio Spanò
   • Concetta Gugliandolo
   • Barbara Nicolaus

   OriginalPaper 10 February 2013 Pages: 21 - 29

   

5. Microbial Consortia for Hydrogen Production Enhancement

   • Haifa Rajhi
   • Emiliano E. Díaz
   • José L. Sanz

   OriginalPaper 09 February 2013 Pages: 30 - 35

   

6. Uptake and Retention of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in a Cohabitating Population of Ruditapes decussatus and Ruditapes philippinarum Under Experimental Conditions

   • Carmen Lopez-Joven
   • Ana Roque
   • Ignacio de Blas

   OriginalPaper 10 February 2013 Pages: 36 - 40

   

7. Stratified Communities of Active Archaea in Shallow Sediments of the Pearl River Estuary, Southern China

   • Jinquan Chen
   • Fengping Wang
   • Xiang Xiao

   OriginalPaper 13 February 2013 Pages: 41 - 50

   

8. Phylogenetic Analysis of Burkholderia Species by Multilocus Sequence Analysis

   • Paulina Estrada-de los Santos
   • Pablo Vinuesa
   • Jesús Caballero-Mellado

   OriginalPaper 13 February 2013 Pages: 51 - 60

   

9. Increased Bacterial Hemolytic Activity is Conferred by Expression of TlyA Methyltransferase but not by its 2′-O-methylation of the Ribosome

   • Tanakarn Monshupanee

   OriginalPaper 16 February 2013 Pages: 61 - 68

   

10. In Vitro α-Glucosidase Inhibition and Antioxidative Potential of an Endophyte Species (Streptomyces sp. Loyola UGC) Isolated from Datura stramonium L

    • I. V. S. Nimal Christhudas
    • P. Praveen Kumar
    • P. Agastian

    OriginalPaper 17 February 2013 Pages: 69 - 76

    

11. Characterization and Comparison of Bacterial Communities Selected in Conventional Activated Sludge and Membrane Bioreactor Pilot Plants: A Focus on Nitrospira and Planctomycetes Bacterial Phyla

    • Carolina Chiellini
    • Giulio Munz
    • Claudia Vannini

    OriginalPaper 19 February 2013 Pages: 77 - 90

    

12. Suicide Plasmid-Dependent IS1-Element Untargeted Integration into Aeromonas veronii bv. sobria Generates Brown Pigment-Producing and Spontaneous Pelleting Mutant

    • Said Kamal Abolghait

    OriginalPaper 23 February 2013 Pages: 91 - 99

    

13. Chromobacterium violaceum: Important Insights for Virulence and Biotechnological Potential by Exoproteomic Studies

    • Alessandra Ciprandi
    • Wanderson Marques da Silva
    • Artur Silva

    OriginalPaper Open access 28 February 2013 Pages: 100 - 106

    

14. Isolation and Identification of Environmental Mycobacteria in the Waters of a Hemodialysis Center

    • Flávio Garcia Sartori
    • Luís Fernando Leandro
    • Carlos Henrique Gomes Martins

    Letter 05 March 2013 Pages: 107 - 111

15. Changes in Membrane Fatty Acid Composition of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in Response to UV-C Radiations

    • Salma Kloula Ben Ghorbal
    • Abdelwaheb Chatti
    • Abdennaceur Hassen

    OriginalPaper 06 March 2013 Pages: 112 - 117

    

16. Proteome Analysis of the Two-Component SalK/SalR System in Epidemic Streptococcus suis Serotype 2

    • Xiaodong Shen
    • Qiu Zhong
    • Ming Li

    OriginalPaper 06 March 2013 Pages: 118 - 122