Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
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    Effects of parental care on skin microbial community composition in poison frogs

    Marie-Therese Fischer, Katherine S Xue ... Lauren A O’Connell
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    • Solid
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Computational and Systems Biology

    REPOP: bacterial population quantification from plate counts

    Pedro Pessoa, Carol Lu ... Steve Pressé
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Important
    • Convincing
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Fast evolution of SOS-independent multi-drug resistance in bacteria

    Le Zhang, Yunpeng Guan ... Dayong Jin
    A single β-lactam exposure rapidly drives stable multidrug resistance in RecA-deficient bacteria through an SOS-independent mechanism involving oxidative stress-induced mutagenesis and antibiotic-driven selection.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    A Novel Rapid Host Cell Entry Pathway Determines Intracellular Fate of Staphylococcus aureus

    Marcel Rühling, Fabio Schmelz ... Martin J Fraunholz
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    An abundant merozoite surface protein of Plasmodium falciparum modulates susceptibility to inhibitory antibodies

    Isabelle G Henshall, Jill Chmielewski ... Danny W Wilson
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Function and firing of the Streptomyces coelicolor contractile injection system requires the membrane protein CisA

    Bastien Casu, Joseph W Sallmen ... Susan Schlimpert
    CryoEM, genetic, and cell biological analyses reveal that the conserved membrane protein CisA mediates membrane recruitment of contractile injection systems Streptomyces coelicolor, enabling their activation under stress.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Unraveling CRP/cAMP-mediated metabolic regulation in Escherichia coli persister cells

    Han G Ngo, Sayed Golam Mohiuddin ... Mehmet Orman
    CRP/cAMP plays a crucial role in the metabolic shift of Escherichia coli persisters from an anabolic state to oxidative phosphorylation, which is essential for their survival during antibiotic treatment.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Cancer Biology

    The lnc-FANCI-2 intrinsically restricts RAS signaling in HPV16-infected cervical cancer

    Haibin Liu, Lulu Yu ... Zhi-Ming Zheng
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    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Benchmarking and Optimization of Methods for the Detection of Identity-By-Descent in High-Recombining Plasmodium falciparum Genomes

    Bing Guo, Shannon Takala-Harrison, Timothy D O’Connor
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Heat stress induces phage tolerance in Enterobacteriaceae

    Fan Zhang, Hao-Ze Chen ... Jia-Feng Liu
    Bacterial persistence against phages enables survival under infection, and heat treatment enhances this tolerance, facilitating resistance evolution and influencing the effectiveness of phage therapy.
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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Epidemiology and Global Health
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    3. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
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    University of Michigan, United States
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    University of the Witwatersrand, South Africa
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    Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, United States
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