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Homologous recombination rates tend to be highest in the most conserved parts of bacterial genomes.

Vaccination has the potential to decrease swine influenza diversification by restricting influenza virus co-infections and reassortment events in pigs.

Time-resolved phosphoproteomics and thermal proteome profiling reveal the Ca²⁺-responsive proteome of the model apicomplexan Taxoplasma gondii, identifying PP1 as a Ca²⁺-responsive enzyme that regulates Ca²⁺ uptake to promote parasite motility.

A smart combination of machine learning and high-throughput data generation of bacterial population dynamics successfully leads to an intriguing finding of the differentiation in decision-making components for bacterial growth.

Future vaccination strategies in pneumococcal disease should target specific bacterial serotypes for different host age groups.

Bacteriophage can rapidly evolve resistance to anti-phage defense elements in bacteria by amplifying latent counter-defense genes, though this amplification comes at a cost of compensatory deletions that eliminate other counter-defense genes.

Defining the probability of bacterial disease among children with severe malaria allows the integration of bacteraemia and severe malaria genome-wide association study data, identifying a novel risk locus for invasive bacterial disease.

Zika virus infection induces the gasdermin E-mediated pyroptosis in placental cells through TNF-α-caspase-8-caspase-3 signaling pathway, which contributes to adverse fetal outcomes in pregnant mouse model.

High-throughput single-cell based, genome-wide gene silencing screening (sCRilecs-seq) revealed that drugging the mevalonate pathway resensitizes amoxicillin-resistant pneumococci.

Interactions between a mobile resistance gene and chromosomal mutations drive the evolution of high-level antibiotic resistance.