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Using advanced volume electron microscopy, the ultrastructural and spatial organisation of Leishmania parasites strongly adhered to the gut of its sand fly vector was defined.

Pseudogenization of rcsD alters canonical Rcs phosphorelay signalling and marks a significant adaptive evolutionary step in the emergence of ubiquitous extant branches of Yersinia pestis that can maintain stable plague outbreaks.

There are fourteen genomic variants of Mycobacterium tuberculosis that are significantly associated with poor treatment outcomes in drug-susceptible TB patients, but their predictive value is limited.

The Dictyostelium discoideum TRAF6 homolog TrafE coordinates the autophagy and ESCRT membrane repair machineries and works in the major cell-autonomous restriction pathway to control Mycobacterium marinum intracellular infection.

The growth environment driven ratio of ATP to growth rate, called absolute growth, determines the final population composition of Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa when in co-culture.

Genetic analysis and host colonization assays reveal a regulatory mechanism that enables a bacterial symbiont to bypass the constraints of quorum sensing to activate specific cellular traits necessary to colonize its host.

Benzene mapping simulations of envelope protein rafts from six different flaviviruses reveal a conserved cryptic site whose cluster of ionisable residues is likely responsible for orchestrating pH-dependent conformational changes during fusion, thereby representing an attractive target for antiviral development.

Human macrophages infected with Mycobacterium tuberculosis present peptides derived from substrates of type VII secretion systems on MHC class I via a pathway dependent on the ESX-1 secretion system and independent of antigen processing by the proteasome and cathepsins.

Sertraline, a widely used antidepressant, enhances the potency of the standard antimycobacterial therapy in preclinical models of TB infection.

Genetic and biochemical analyses reveal an important role for the translesion DNA polymerase DinB2 in mycobacterial mutagenesis, including in the insertion/deletion events that are an increasingly recognized type of diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis genomes.