Various microbes, including several human pathogens, hijack the cell’s skeleton, membranes, and protein-making machinery to make themselves at home. Intracellular bacteria use various tricks to ...

But in 2008, Mukherjee stumbled across a new and much faster way to cause intracellular mayhem. Studying bacterial interactions with actin is still throwing up new mysteries. These microbes all enjoy ...

First described for rickettsiae, the plaque assay methods have been adapted to other intracellular bacterial pathogens. There is no single model, thus each assay should be refined depending on the ...