1. Bird feathers as potential sources of pathogenic microorganisms: a new look at old diseases

   • Andrzej Miskiewicz
   • Paweł Kowalczyk
   • Anna Misiewicz

   Review Paper Open access 19 February 2018 Pages: 1493 - 1507

2. Testing culture purity in prokaryotes: criteria and challenges

   • Alexander V. Pinevich
   • Eugeny E. Andronov
   • Helena Y. Dmitrieva

   Review Paper 27 February 2018 Pages: 1509 - 1521

3. Amycolatopsis vastitatis sp. nov., an isolate from a high altitude subsurface soil on Cerro Chajnantor, northern Chile

   • Hamidah Idris
   • Imen Nouioui
   • Michael Goodfellow

   Original Paper 10 February 2018 Pages: 1523 - 1533

   

4. Paracoccus pueri sp. nov., isolated from Pu’er tea

   • Yu-Shuai Wang
   • Zheng-Fei Yan
   • Tae-Hoo Yi

   Original Paper 26 February 2018 Pages: 1535 - 1542

   

5. Phylogeny and bioactivity of epiphytic Gram-positive bacteria isolated from three co-occurring antarctic macroalgae

   • Pamela Alvarado
   • Ying Huang
   • Sergio Leiva

   Original Paper 19 February 2018 Pages: 1543 - 1555

   

6. Negative pressure wound therapy reduces the motility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and enhances wound healing in a rabbit ear biofilm infection model

   • Wang Guoqi
   • Li Zhirui
   • Tang Peifu

   Original Paper Open access 21 February 2018 Pages: 1557 - 1570

   

7. Streptomyces tunisialbus sp. nov., a novel Streptomyces species with antimicrobial activity

   • Ameni Ayed
   • Nedra Slama
   • Ferid Limam

   Original Paper 20 February 2018 Pages: 1571 - 1581

   

8. Phylogenetic framework for the phylum Tenericutes based on genome sequence data: proposal for the creation of a new order Mycoplasmoidales ord. nov., containing two new families Mycoplasmoidaceae fam. nov. and Metamycoplasmataceae fam. nov. harbouring Eperythrozoon, Ureaplasma and five novel genera

   • Radhey S. Gupta
   • Sahil Sawnani
   • Aharon Oren

   Original Paper 20 March 2018 Pages: 1583 - 1630

   

9. Biofilm formation and antimicrobial sensitivity of lactobacilli contaminants from sugarcane-based fuel ethanol fermentation

   • Marina de Toledo Ferraz Dellias
   • Clóvis Daniel Borges
   • Siu Mui Tsai

   Original Paper 24 February 2018 Pages: 1631 - 1644

   

10. Indole acetic acid overproduction transformants of the rhizobacterium Pseudomonas sp. UW4

    • Daiana R. Duca
    • David R. Rose
    • Bernard R. Glick

    Original Paper 28 February 2018 Pages: 1645 - 1660

    

11. Interaction of Saccharomyces cerevisiae–Lactobacillus fermentum–Dekkera bruxellensis and feedstock on fuel ethanol fermentation

    • Ana Paula Guarnieri Bassi
    • Leticia Meneguello
    • Sandra Regina Ceccato-Antonini

    Original Paper 27 February 2018 Pages: 1661 - 1672

    

12. Differences in gut microbiota composition in finishing Landrace pigs with low and high feed conversion ratios

    • Zhen Tan
    • Yuan Wang
    • Chuduan Wang

    Original Paper Open access 01 March 2018 Pages: 1673 - 1685

    

13. Ascidiaceibacter salegens gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from an ascidian

    • Lei Chen
    • Shi-Cheng Wang
    • Guang-Yu Wang

    Original Paper 03 March 2018 Pages: 1687 - 1695

    

14. Aureobasidium mangrovei sp. nov., an ascomycetous species recovered from Hara protected forests in the Persian Gulf, Iran

    • Shaghayegh Nasr
    • Mona Mohammadimehr
    • Seyed Abolhassan Shahzadeh Fazeli

    Original Paper 06 March 2018 Pages: 1697 - 1705

    

15. Assessing bat droppings and predatory bird pellets for vector-borne bacteria: molecular evidence of bat-associated Neorickettsia sp. in Europe

    • Sándor Hornok
    • Krisztina Szőke
    • Regina Hofmann-Lehmann

    Short Communication 28 February 2018 Pages: 1707 - 1717

    

16. Use of antibiotic disks to evolve drug-resistant bacteria

    • J. Nicole Flanagan
    • Todd R. Steck

    Short Communication 01 March 2018 Pages: 1719 - 1722