https://www.usgs.gov/publications/reversion-virulence-and-efficacy-attenuated-canarypox-vaccine-hawaii-amakihi
Vaccines may be effective tools for protecting small populations of highly susceptible endangered, captive-reared, or translocated Hawaiian honeycreepers from...
reversionvirulenceefficacyattenuatedcanarypox
https://microbe.net/2020/03/10/story-behind-the-paper-rtxa-type-1-secretion-system-and-other-virulence-factors-in-legionella/
So this work is a spinoff of a big project that we were involved in (but almost all of the work was done by Amy Pruden’s lab at Virginia Tech). In the...
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https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2017/02/170202090817.htm
Beginning in the mid-1980s, an epidemic of severe invasive infections caused by Streptococcus pyogenes (S. pyogenes), also known as group A streptococcus...
bacterial infectionscytotoxinscontributevirulencedeadly
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34451445/
Alphaviruses are important pathogens that continue to cause outbreaks of disease in humans and animals worldwide. Diseases caused by alphavirus infections...
alphavirusvirulencedeterminants
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20670890/
We report an interaction between poxA, encoding a paralog of lysyl tRNA-synthetase, and the closely linked yjeK gene, encoding a putative 2,3-beta-lysine...
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https://www.frontiersin.org/research-topics/17389/omics-approach-to-study-the-biology-and-virulence-of-microorganisms-causing-zoonotic-diseases/magazine
Zoonotic diseases (i.e., diseases passed between animals and humans) represent a major public health problem worldwide. Bacteria, viruses, parasites, and fungi...
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https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cellular-and-infection-microbiology/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2014.00114/full
A longstanding question in infection biology addresses the genetic basis for invasive behaviour in commensal pathogens. A prime example for such a pathogen i...
neisseria meningitidisfrontiersmetabolismvirulence
https://www.usgs.gov/publications/virulence-correlates-fitness-vivo-two-m-group-genotypes-infectious-hematopoietic
The nature of the association between viral fitness and virulence remains elusive in vertebrate virus systems, partly due to a lack of in vivo experiments...
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https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/cellular-and-infection-microbiology/articles/10.3389/fcimb.2025.1524197/full
In natural ecosystems, parasites often infect multiple host species, particularly when hosts share habitats, facilitating host-to-host transmission and alter...
parasite inhoney beesfrontiersdistinctvirulence
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/journal.pbio.3003224
Thermally dimorphic fungi like Histoplasma switch between an environmental filamentous form and a host-associated yeast in response to temperature. This study...
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