Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Evaluation of antibiotic and peptide vaccine strategies for mirror bacterial infections

    Alexander Kleinman, Joe Torres, Brian Wang
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Solid
    • Incomplete
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Chemostat culturing reduces fecal eukaryotic virus load and delays diarrhea after virome transplantation

    Simone Margaard Offersen, Signe Adamberg ... Anders Brunse
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Physics of Living Systems

    Should I stay or should I go? Spatiotemporal dynamics of bacterial biofilms in confined flows

    Massinissa Benbelkacem, Gabriel Ramos ... Yohan Davit
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Global transcription factors analyses reveal hierarchy and synergism of regulatory networks and master virulence regulators in Pseudomonas aeruginosa

    Jiadai Huang, Yue Sun ... Xin Deng
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    An abundant merozoite surface protein of Plasmodium falciparum modulates susceptibility to inhibitory antibodies

    Isabelle G Henshall, Jill Chmielewski ... Danny W Wilson
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Important
    • Compelling
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Fine-tuning of outer membrane–peptidoglycan tethering by the redox-active lipoprotein LppB from Salmonella enterica

    Elisa S Pierre Despas, Seung-Hyun Cho ... Jean-François Collet
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    • Solid
    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Synaptotagmin 1 and Synaptotagmin 7 promote MR1-mediated presentation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis antigens

    Se-Jin Kim, Jessie C Peterson ... David M Lewinsohn
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Useful
    • Solid
    1. Biochemistry and Chemical Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Screening the MMV Pathogen Box reveals the mitochondrial bc1-complex as a drug target in mature Toxoplasma gondii bradyzoites

    Deborah Maus, Elyzana Putrianti ... Martin Blume
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A Novel Rapid Host Cell Entry Pathway Determines Intracellular Fate of Staphylococcus aureus

    Marcel Rühling, Fabio Schmelz ... Martin J Fraunholz
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Cell surface localisation of GPI-anchored receptors in Trypanosoma brucei

    Sourav Banerjee, Nicola Minshall ... Mark Carrington
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Compelling
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Exploring the evolution of influenza

    Lin Wang, Henrik Salje
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Malaria: explore our collection of articles

    Edited by Olivier Silvie et al.
    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
    2. Medicine
    3. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    Edited by Diane M Harper et al.

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    Wendy S Garrett
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States
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    University of Michigan, United States
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