Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Immunogenicity and safety of a live-attenuated SARS-CoV-2 vaccine candidate based on multiple attenuation mechanisms

    Mie Suzuki Okutani, Shinya Okamura ... Hirotaka Ebina
    The novel live-attenuated SARS-CoV-2 nasal vaccine candidate is highly safe, induces robust cellular and mucosal immunity, and generates long-lasting neutralizing antibody titers.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    FtsK is Critical for the Assembly of the Unique Divisome Complex of the FtsZ-less Chlamydia trachomatis

    McKenna Harpring, Junghoon Lee ... John V Cox
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Frequent intertrophic transmission of Wolbachia by parasitism but not predation

    Zhi-Chao Yan, Lan-Da Qi ... Yuan-Xi Li
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    • Valuable
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Neuroscience

    Enteric glia regulate Paneth cell secretion and intestinal microbial ecology

    Aleksandra Prochera, Anoohya N Muppirala ... Meenakshi Rao
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    • Important
    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    HIV-1 Vif disrupts phosphatase feedback regulation at the kinetochore, leading to a pronounced pseudo-metaphase arrest

    Dhaval Ghone, Edward L Evans ... Aussie Suzuki
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Scrutinized lipid utilization disrupts Amphotericin-B responsiveness in clinical isolates of Leishmania donovani

    Supratim Pradhan, Dhruba Dhar ... Budhaditya Mukherjee
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
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