Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

eLife reviews research covering virology, bacteriology and mycology. Learn more about what we review and sign up for the latest research.
Illustration by Davide Bonazzi

Latest articles

    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
    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    RNA Selectively Modulates Activity of Virulent Amyloid PSMα3 and Host Defense LL-37 via Phase Separation and Aggregation Dynamics

    Bader Rayan, Eilon Barnea ... Meytal Landau
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Incomplete
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A Conserved Mycobacterial Nucleomodulin Hijacks the Host COMPASS Complex to Reprogram Pro-Inflammatory Transcription and Promote Intracellular Survival

    Liu Chen, Baojie Duan ... Aizhen Guo
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v3
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Mycobacterial Metallophosphatase MmpE acts as a Nucleomodulin to Regulate Host Gene Expression and Promote Intracellular Survival

    Liu Chen, Baojie Duan ... Aizhen Guo
    Revised
    Reviewed Preprint v2
    Updated
    • Valuable
    • Convincing
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Virus Evolution: Scaling up efforts to target evolving viruses

    Lin Wang, Henrik Salje
    High-throughput neutralisation tests could lead to a better understanding of the evolution of human influenza.
    Version of Record
    Insight
Load more

Highlights

    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

    COVID-19: A collection of articles

    Edited by Diane M Harper et al.

Senior editors

  1. Wendy S Garrett
    Wendy S Garrett
    Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, United States
  2. Bavesh Kana
    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
  3. Joshua T Schiffer
    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
  4. See more editors