SAY you're a disease organism -- a rhinovirus, perhaps, the cause of one of the many varieties of the common cold; or the mycobacterium that causes tuberculosis; or perhaps the pathogen that immobilized Ewald with diarrhea. Your best bet is to multiply inside your host as fast as you ca...
The ongoing severe acute respiratory syndrome-coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2) has triggered the coronavirus pandemic (COVID-19) that has claimed hundreds of thousands of lives worldwide. This virus spreads predominantly by human-to-human transmission via respir
Malaria is caused by Plasmodium species and remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality globally. Gut bacteria can influence the severity of malaria, but the contribution of specific bacteria to the risk of severe malaria is unknown. Here, mul
Their animus was trained on the very concept of obligatory mask-wearing, whatever its effect on transmission of the unidentified influenza microbe. At a protest of January 27, “freedom and liberty” was their mantra. Throwing public health to the wind, they lumped together mask-wearing, the ...
21 Infective agents can come from anywhere, and frequently do. Monkeypox appeared in this country because of people's passion for exotic pets. But the connection between man and microbe was not always so apparent. Disease was something that just happened to a person, and there was little thou...
Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 2003, 16: 226-237. 10.1094/MPMI.2003.16.3.226. Article CAS Google Scholar Liao CH, Hung HY, Chatterjee AK: An extracellular pectate lyase is the pathogenicity factor of the soft-rotting bacterium Pseudomonas viridiflava. Mol Plant Microbe Interact. 1988, 1: 199-...
Dysregulated Type I Interferon and Inflammatory Monocyte-Macrophage Responses Cause Lethal Pneumonia in SARS-CoV-Infected Mice Cell Host Microbe, 19 (2016), pp. 181-193 View PDFView articleView in ScopusGoogle Scholar 58 R. Channappanavar, J. Zhao, S. Perlman T cell-mediated immune response ...
Bacteria of the genusShigellaare fastidious Gram-negative organisms that cause an estimated 164.7 million cases of shigellosis annually worldwide, and are responsible for 1.1 million deaths [1]. Shigellosis is an acute intestinal infectious disease. Its symptoms range from mild watery diarrhea to a ...
Microbes can defend their host against virulent infections, but direct evidence for the adaptive origin of microbe-mediated protection is lacking. Using experimental evolution of a novel, tripartite interaction, we demonstrate that mildly pathogenic bacteria (Enterococcus faecalis) living in worms (Caenorha...
Geographical proximity could affect gut microbiota similarity through, for instance, similar vegetation type and thus diet as well as population mixing and gut microbe transmission9,28. Due to the opportunistic nature of sampling and the tendency of the Saiga to avoid people, we were unable to ...