Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Chalkophore mediated respiratory oxidase flexibility controls M. tuberculosis virulence

    John A Buglino, Yaprak Ozakman ... Michael S Glickman
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Household clustering and seasonal genetic variation of Plasmodium falciparum at the community-level in The Gambia

    Marc-Antoine Guery, Sukai Ceesay ... Antoine Claessens
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Salmonella exploits host- and bacterial-derived β-alanine for replication inside host macrophages

    Shuai Ma, Bin Yang ... Lingyan Jiang
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    1. Medicine
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    HERV activation segregates ME/CFS from fibromyalgia while defining a novel nosologic entity

    Karen Giménez-Orenga, Eva Martín-Martínez ... Elisa Oltra
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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A modular platform to display multiple hemagglutinin subtypes on a single immunogen

    Dana Thornlow Lamson, Faez Amokrane Nait Mohamed ... Aaron G Schmidt
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Serial ‘deep-sampling’ PCR of fragmented DNA reveals the wide range of Trypanosoma cruzi burden among chronically infected human, macaque, and canine hosts, and allows accurate monitoring of parasite load following treatment

    Brooke E White, Carolyn L Hodo ... Rick L Tarleton
    A vastly improved PCR-based approach provides a long-sought test of cure and parasite load monitoring tool for Chagas disease.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Complex system modelling reveals oxalate homeostasis is driven by diverse oxalate-degrading bacteria

    Sromona D Mukherjee, Carlos A Batagello ... Aaron W Miller
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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
    Genetic depletion of enteric glia in vivo disrupts antimicrobial peptide secretion by Paneth cells to change fecal microbial composition but does not broadly alter other intestinal programs.

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    University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, United States
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