Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Multi-tiered actions of Legionella effectors to modulate host Rab10 dynamics

    Tomoko Kubori, Kohei Arasaki ... Hiroki Nagai
    Interplay between multiple Legionella pneumophila effector proteins lead to spatial and temporal regulation of the host Rab10 localization to the bacterial vacuole by controlling noncanonical ubiquitin modifications.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Signatures of transposon-mediated genome inflation, host specialization, and photoentrainment in Entomophthora muscae and allied entomophthoralean fungi

    Jason E Stajich, Brian Lovett ... Carolyn Elya
    Entomophthora muscae has one of the largest fungal genomes (1.03 Gb) owing to extensive proliferation of transposable elements.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Decoding the complexity of delayed wound healing following Enterococcus faecalis infection

    Cenk Celik, Stella Tue Ting Lee ... Guillaume Thibault
    Enterococcus faecalis infection elicits a cellular response marked by novel bacterial-host interactions, revealing insights into immune evasion mechanisms in chronic wound infections.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Disease Surveillance: Monitoring livestock pregnancy loss

    Clara Akpan
    Systematically tracking and analysing reproductive loss in livestock helps with efforts to safeguard the health and productivity of food animals by identifying causes and high-risk areas.
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    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States
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    University of Michigan, United States
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    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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