This difference, researchers say, is likely the result of the host cell "starving" the pathogen of magnesium, an essential cofactor in hundreds of chemical reactions that fuel multiple cellular ...

College of Science, Institute of Biology (UPD-CS IB) call for further and more in-depth surveillance of foodborne pathogens like the bacterium Salmonella in poultry products. Infections ...

aeruginosa readily adapts to the airway environment integrating into the local microbiome as discrete communities to thrive. These findings highlight the clinical significance of host bioenergetics ...

Ranavirus infections are emerging as significant threats to amphibian, reptilian, and fish populations worldwide, causing severe declines in biodiversity ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that kills more than a million people worldwide every year. The pathogen that ...

For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive — and thrive — in human ... observed in Salmonella in laboratory settings don’t necessarily reflect ...

Tuberculosis (TB) is an infectious disease that kills more than a million people worldwide every year. The pathogen that causes the disease, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, is deadly in part because of ...

Researchers have developed a chemical probe to study a key component of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis envelope. Their ...

A study by former Junior Associate Professor Kazuo Takayama, currently a professor of the Institute of Science Tokyo, ...