Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    1. Structural Biology and Molecular Biophysics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Navigating contradictions: Salmonella Typhimurium chemotaxis amidst conflicting stimuli of the intestinal environment

    Kailie Franco, Zealon Gentry-Lear ... Arden Baylink
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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Malnutrition drives infection susceptibility and dysregulated myelopoiesis that persists after refeeding intervention

    Alisa Sukhina, Clemence Queriault ... Will Bailis
    Dysregulated myelopoiesis is identified as a driver of nutritionally acquired immunodeficiency that persists after refeeding and nutritional recovery, indicating exposure to food scarcity may be an immunologic risk factor.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Secreted small RNAs of Naegleria fowleri are biomarkers for diagnosis of primary amoebic meningoencephalitis

    A Cassiopeia Russell, Joseph Dainis ... Dennis E Kyle
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    1. Immunology and Inflammation
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Glycosylated IgG antibodies accelerated the recovery of haemorrhagic fever with renal syndrome patients

    Chuansong Quan, Lu Wang ... Haifeng Hou
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    • Useful
    • Incomplete
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Bacteriophage infection drives loss of β-lactam resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    My Tran, Angel J Hernandez Viera ... Charlie Y Mo
    In methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, evolution of bacteriophage resistance causes trade-offs that re-sensitize the bacteriato β-lactam antibiotics.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease
    2. Ecology

    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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    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

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

    Isabelle G Henshall, Jill Chmielewski ... Danny W Wilson
    Not revised
    Reviewed Preprint v1
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    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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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    • Valuable
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