Non-Invasive Colorimetric Magneto Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification (CM-LAMP) Method for Detection.

More than half the world's population is thought to be infected with . Although the majority of infected people are asymptomatic, infection may cause gastric ulcers and deadly gastric cancer. Owing to the difficulty and invasiveness of current routine culture and diagnostic methods, a highly sensitive and specific noninvasive assay for is of interest.

Correction to: CRISPR-like sequences in and application in genotyping.

[This corrects the article DOI: 10.1186/s13099-017-0215-8.].

CRISPR-like sequences in and application in genotyping.

Background: Many bacteria and archaea possess a defense system called clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPR) associated proteins (CRISPR-Cas system) against invaders such as phages or plasmids. This system has not been demonstrated in . The numbers of spacer in CRISPR array differ among bacterial strains and can be used as a genetic marker for bacterial typing.

Isolation of Bdellovibrio and like organisms and potential to reduce acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease caused by Vibrio parahaemolyticus.

Acute hepatopancreatic necrosis disease, a severe disease of shrimp, is caused by Vibrio parahaemolyticus (AHPND Vp), a halophilic bacterium harboring a plasmid that contains toxin genes homologous to Photorhabdus insect-related toxins. We obtained 9 isolates of Bdellovibrio and like organisms (BALOs) from water and sediment samples in Thailand. Using 16S rRNA sequencing, all of the organisms were identified as Bacteriovorax spp.