Aeromonas species are ubiquitous Gram‐negative bacteria that inhabit a wide range of aquatic and terrestrial environments. Initially recognised as pathogens in fish, their role as opportunistic ...

Dokland’s study, “Shape shifter: redirection of prolate phage capsid assembly by staphylococcal pathogenicity islands” was published in Nature Communications. Dokland said that Bacteriophages or ...

A pathogen is a term that refers to a microorganism that causes disease in an organism. Pathogenicity is the ability of the pathogen to produce disease. Pathogenicity is expressed by microbes using ...

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 105, No. 11 (Mar. 18, 2008), pp. 4381-4386 (6 pages) The virulence of influenza virus is a multigenic trait. One ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Harbouring a plasmid often imposes a fitness cost on the bacterial host. Motivated by implications for public health, the majority of studies ...

Candida spp are opportunistic fungi responsible for a wide range of infections, from superficial mucosal candidiasis to life-threatening invasive ...

Researchers have used high-speed microscopy to investigate native structure and conformational dynamics of hemagglutinin in influenza A. The influenza A viruses, which have instigated deadly pandemics ...

Adhesins are proteins that are present on the surface of bacteria or fungi that help in attaching to biotic or abiotic surfaces Many pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria associate with surfaces, and ...