1. Personal reflections on Cletus P. Kurtzman (July 19 1938–November 27 2017)

   • Marc-André Lachance

   Obituary 16 December 2017 Pages: 1 - 4

   

2. The role of natural antimicrobial peptides during infection and chronic inflammation

   • Xiaojing Xia
   • Likun Cheng
   • Jianhe Hu

   Review Paper 30 August 2017 Pages: 5 - 26

3. Phytoactinopolyspora halotolerans sp. nov., a halotolerant actinobacterium isolated from a saline soil in Xinjiang, northwest of China

   • Yang Ji
   • Wei-Xun Chunyu
   • Shu-Kun Tang

   Original Paper 20 August 2017 Pages: 27 - 34

   

4. Microbial diversity in acidic thermal pools in the Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka

   • Andrey V. Mardanov
   • Vadim M. Gumerov
   • Nikolai V. Ravin

   Original Paper 16 August 2017 Pages: 35 - 43

   

5. Bacterial community structures in air conditioners installed in Japanese residential buildings

   • Kouta Hatayama
   • Yurika Oikawa
   • Hiroyuki Ito

   Original Paper 16 August 2017 Pages: 45 - 53

   

6. Revisiting the taxonomy of the genus Elizabethkingia using whole-genome sequencing, optical mapping, and MALDI-TOF, along with proposal of three novel Elizabethkingia species: Elizabethkingia bruuniana sp. nov., Elizabethkingia ursingii sp. nov., and Elizabethkingia occulta sp. nov.

   • Ainsley C. Nicholson
   • Christopher A. Gulvik
   • John R. McQuiston

   Original Paper 30 August 2017 Pages: 55 - 72

   

7. Spatio-temporal study of environmental nontuberculous mycobacteria isolated from Wardha district in Central India

   • Pranava S. Mishra
   • Pratibha Narang
   • Deepak K. Mendiratta

   Original Paper 23 August 2017 Pages: 73 - 87

   

8. Zinc oxide nanoparticle inhibits the biofilm formation of Streptococcus pneumoniae

   • Purnita Bhattacharyya
   • Bikash Agarwal
   • Prosun Tribedi

   Original Paper 09 September 2017 Pages: 89 - 99

   

9. Distinct taxonomic and functional composition of soil microbiomes along the gradient forest-restinga-mangrove in southeastern Brazil

   • Lucas William Mendes
   • Siu Mui Tsai

   Original Paper 22 August 2017 Pages: 101 - 114

   

10. Methanogenic community compositions in surface sediment of freshwater aquaculture ponds and the influencing factors

    • Limin Fan
    • Wei Wu
    • Jiazhang Chen

    Original Paper 24 August 2017 Pages: 115 - 124

    

11. Verrucosispora rhizosphaerae sp. nov., isolated from mangrove rhizosphere soil

    • Qing-yi Xie
    • Xiao-dong Bao
    • You-xing Zhao

    Original Paper Open access 22 September 2017 Pages: 125 - 133

    

12. Molecular diversity and phylogeny of indigenous Rhizobium leguminosarum strains associated with Trifolium repens plants in Romania

    • Rodica C. Efrose
    • Craita M. Rosu
    • Emmanouil Flemetakis

    Original Paper 13 September 2017 Pages: 135 - 153

    

13. Kondoa gutianensis f.a. sp. nov., a novel ballistoconidium-forming yeast species isolated from plant leaves

    • Xin-Zhan Liu
    • Marizeth Groenewald
    • Feng-Yan Bai

    Original Paper 04 September 2017 Pages: 155 - 160