Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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    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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    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. Computational and Systems Biology

    REPOP: bacterial population quantification from plate counts

    Pedro Pessoa, Carol Lu ... Steve Pressé
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    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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    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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    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.

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