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Actinonin kills malaria parasites by targeting the apicoplast-associated metalloprotease FTSH1.

Myristoylation of a secreted protein, identified in a global myristoylation analysis of the eukaryotic parasite Toxoplasma gondii, is important for host cell invasion.

Novel segmental chromosome amplifications in Candida albicans provide rapid adaptation to the most widely used antifungal drugs.

First influenza infections determine susceptibility to future seasonal influenza infection throughout life, and may impact vaccine effectiveness.

Correct cell wall synthesis in bacteria depends on flotillin-mediated membrane fluidity.

High-throughput droplet-based cultivation of gut microbes reduces biases of traditional cultivation strategies and thereby enables detection of difficult-to-culture organisms, which is required in applications such as antibiotic screening.

Exchange of the I domain in the Plasmodium surface protein TRAP against evolutionary distant I domains rescues infectivity of sporozoites.

Interactions were visualized between the nuclear egress complex from herpes simplex virus and a capsid protein that could promote nucleocytoplasmic translocation of the capsid in infected cells.

Sampling informed by pathogen genomic data may facilitate more efficient detection of novel antibiotic resistance than random sampling.

Surveillance strategies based on whole genome sequencing could help with the early identification and detection of new forms of drug-resistant gonorrhoea.