A global study uncovers the hidden role of viruses in driving bacterial evolution and highlights a surprising bacterial gene ...

Virulence in pathogenic microbes changes under the influence of natural conditions. It can be increased by a sequence of ...

Virulence in pathogenic microbes changes under the influence of natural conditions. It can be increased by a sequence of ...

A new study by the Genomics and Microbial Evolution Group at the Miguel Hernández University of Elche (UMH) together with the ...

A change to a single gene in the bacterium Yersinia pestis has enabled one of the world’s most notorious pathogens to survive for centuries.

H. pylori likely belongs to the indigenous microflora of humans but it is also an important human pathogen. New virulence genes are described each year, and the biology of H. pylori is a fertile ...

Streptococcus suis ( S. suis) is an important zoonotic pathogen causing substantial economic losses in the swine industry. S. suis serotype 2 (SS2) is often isolated from the diseased. S. suis ...

Opportunistic pathogens are typically benign microbes that can sometimes cause infections in individuals with weakened immune systems or when they gain access to sterile areas of the body.

Providencia rustigianii has virulence gene akin to Salmonella's Pathogenic system found on plasmid can lead to severe food poisoning symptoms Date: October 17, 2024 Source: Osaka Metropolitan ...

“This is one of the first research studies to directly examine changes in an ancient pathogen, one we still see today, in an attempt to understand what drives the virulence, persistence and/or ...

CsrA plays a key role in helping bacteria decide which genes to turn on or off, particularly those linked to bacterial virulence - the ability to cause disease.. While scientists have long ...

Yersinia pestis continued infecting people in three separate pandemics over more than a thousand years. Read more at ...