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Legionella pneumophila modulates host energy metabolism by targeting the ADP/ATP translocase carrier proteins with an effector of ADP-ribosyltransferase activity.

Blocking the bacterial lipid flippase MprF by monoclonal antibodies enhance staphylococcal clearance by host defense and antibiotics providing a novel proof of concept for antivirulence approaches targeting bacterial resistance mechanisms.

A forward genetic screen in Caenorhabditis elegans identifies a secreted host protein that ensures proper microsporidia spore orientation, resulting in efficient invasion of intestinal cells.

Structures of a gamete fusogen and antibody fragments bound to its domain 3, and inhibition of parasite fertilization, bring us closer to creating a vaccine to block transmission by mosquitoes of malaria from one person to another.

We are writing to comment on the article by Schuster et al., 2021 about the life cycle of Trypanosoma brucei.

We are writing to respond to the comment by Matthews and Larcombe, 2022 on our article about the life cycle of Trypanosoma brucei (Schuster et al., 2021).

Following exposure of Leishmania culture promastigotes to DNA stress, single-cell RNA sequencing reveals discrete clusters of cells associated with efficient generation of hybrids between different species and strains in vitro marked by expression of the ancestral gamete fusogen HAP2.

SARS-CoV-2 infection in hamsters causes cardiovascular pathologies.

Integration of clinical patient data, pathogen information and a multi-omic analysis of the gut microbiome reveals key determinants of disease in C. difficile-colonized patients.

A mechanism whereby aminoglycosides-mediated SOS induction in Escherichia coli also promote high-level fluoroquinolone resistance.