Archives of Microbiology Research

We read with interest the article by Yin et al analyzing the changing characteristic of gut microbiota of hand, foot, and mouth disease (HFMD). In the last ten years, gut microbiota has attracted a great deal of academic interest which was linked to the occurrence, the development and progression of various diseases, including enterovirus infection.

A reactor microbial sensor device and a membrane microbial sensor device are low-cost and convenient analytical tools, which are useful for assessment of constitutiveness and inducibility of enzyme systems for transport and initial metabolism of substrate in microbial cells.