Microbiology and Infectious Disease

Microbiology and Infectious Disease

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Latest articles

    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Paracrine rescue of MYR1-deficient Toxoplasma gondii mutants reveals limitations of pooled in vivo CRISPR screens

    Francesca Torelli, Diogo M da Fonseca ... Moritz Treeck
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Cell Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Zika virus remodels and hijacks IGF2BP2 ribonucleoprotein complex to promote viral replication organelle biogenesis

    Clément Mazeaud, Stefan Pfister ... Laurent Chatel-Chaix
    Through interactions with viral RNA and NS5, Zika virus changes the composition of the IGF2BP2-containing ribonucleoprotein complex for the benefit of the viral RNA amplification step of its life cycle.
    1. Genetics and Genomics
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Genetic stability of Mycobacterium smegmatis under the stress of first-line antitubercular agents

    Dániel Molnár, Éva Viola Surányi ... Judit Toth
    A combined approach of genome sequencing and fluctuation assays shows that antibiotic pressure does not induce adaptive mutations in Mycobacterium smegmatis, supporting drug resistance as a consequence of phenotypic tolerance.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Tuberculosis susceptibility in genetically diverse mice reveals functional diversity of neutrophils

    Mariëtta M Ravesloot-Chávez, Erik Van Dis ... Sarah A Stanley
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    Reviewed Preprint v1
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    Bacillus velezensis HBXN2020 alleviates Salmonella Typhimurium infection in mice by improving intestinal barrier integrity and reducing inflammation

    Linkang Wang, Haiyan Wang ... Ping Qian
    Bacillus velezensis has broad-spectrum antibacterial activity and can reduce the colonization of Salmonella Typhimurium in the intestinal tract of mice.
    1. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    An Advanced Bacterial Single-cell RNA-seq Reveals Biofilm Heterogeneity

    Yingying Pu, Xiaodan Yan ... Chunming Guo
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    Reviewed Preprint v2
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    1. Computational and Systems Biology
    2. Microbiology and Infectious Disease

    An antimicrobial drug recommender system using MALDI-TOF MS and dual-branch neural networks

    Gaetan De Waele, Gerben Menschaert, Willem Waegeman
    It is possible to accurately recommend antimicrobial drugs from mass spectra using neural networks and large datasets, paving the way for more efficient clinical diagnostics.

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