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Loss of T cell control during persistent polyomavirus infection, in the setting of a limited antiviral antibody response, facilitates emergence of antibody-escape viruses carrying the potential for neurovirulence.

Using bacteriophages as probes, new genes involved in cell surface construction were identified in a class of bacteria that includes important pathogens like Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Microbiome-diet interactions shape microglia reactivity in a mouse model of Parkinson's disease.

The ParABS system positions plasmids precisely within the cell but just below the threshold for oscillatory dynamics.

Evolution-guided functional analyses identify an activating adaptor of the dynein intracellular transportation machinery, NINL, as a novel component of the antiviral immune response and reveal a mechanism by which viruses antagonize NINL function in a species-specific manner.

CD169⁺ macrophages in the bone marrow of malaria-infected mice uptake infected red blood cells, and establish a functional interaction that is required to activate plasmacytoid dendritic cells to secrete type I interferon and leave the bone marrow.

The two global regulators CRP and PhoP interact with each other to coordinate expression of essential virulence determinants of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Biological wastewater treatment plants are critical reservoirs of antimicrobial resistance (AMR), allowing for early detection and monitoring of resistant pathogens, whilst serving as models for understanding the segregation of mobile genetic elements through AMR.

Hybridization probe capture is useful for discovery and surveillance of novel coronaviruses, and its unique strengths complement existing methods like amplicon sequencing and deep metagenomic sequencing.

Helminth infected hosts are an important cause of variation in the level, frequency and duration of Bordetella bronchiseptica shedding and dynamics of infection.