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Living in your Skin: Microbes, Molecules and Mechanisms.

Murine intrarectal instillation of purified recombinant C. difficile toxins enables mechanistic studies of pathogenesis.

A SNP in the Cache 1 Signaling Domain of Diguanylate Cyclase STM1987 Leads to Increased in Vivo Fitness of Invasive Salmonella Strains.

The benefits of exporting: engineered extracellular vesicles as promising vaccine candidates against enteric fever.

Ectopic expression of human thymosinβ4 confers resistance to L. pneumophila during pulmonary and systemic infection in mice.

The increased accumulation of Staphylococcus aureus virulence factors is maximized in a purR mutant by the increased production of SarA and decreased production of extracellular proteases.

Cutibacterium acnes, the urgent need to identify diagnosis markers.

c-di-AMP-regulated K+ importer KtrAB affects biofilm formation, stress response, and SpeB expression in Streptococcus pyogenes.

Sex differences in population dynamics during formation of kidney bacterial communities by uropathogenic Escherichia coli.

Differential Roles of a Family of Flavodoxin-Like Proteins That Promote Resistance to Quinone Mediated Oxidative Stress in Candida albicans.

Depletion of Alveolar Macrophages Increases Pulmonary Neutrophil Infiltration, Tissue Damage, and Sepsis in a Murine Model of Acinetobacter baumannii Pneumonia.

Achromobacter xylosoxidans Cellular Pathology Is Correlated with Activation of a Type III Secretion System.

Biting Off What Can Be Chewed: Trogocytosis in Health, Infection, and Disease.

Small Noncoding RNA CjNC110 Influences Motility, Autoagglutination, AI-2 Localization, Hydrogen Peroxide Sensitivity, and Chicken Colonization in Campylobacter jejuni.

Histidine Utilization Is a Critical Determinant of Acinetobacter Pathogenesis.

Innate Lymphoid Cells Are Required for Endometrial Resistance to Chlamydia trachomatis Infection.

Cathelicidins Mitigate Staphylococcus aureus Mastitis and Reduce Bacterial Invasion in Murine Mammary Epithelium.

MicroRNA-155 Deficiency Exacerbates Trypanosoma cruzi Infection.

Contribution of Severe Dental Caries Induced by Streptococcus mutans to the Pathogenicity of Infective Endocarditis.

Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae Inhibits Porcine Beta-Defensin 2 Production by Blocking the Unfolded Protein Response To Facilitate Epithelial Adhesion and Infection.

Differential Regulation of l-Arginine Metabolism through Arginase 1 during Infection with Leishmania mexicana Isolates Obtained from Patients with Localized and Diffuse Cutaneous Leishmaniasis.

Salmonella enterica Infection of Murine and Human Enteroid-Derived Monolayers Elicits Differential Activation of Epithelium-Intrinsic Inflammasomes.

A CpxR-Regulated zapD Gene Involved in Biofilm Formation of Uropathogenic Proteus mirabilis.

Opsonophagocytosis of Chlamydia pneumoniae by Human Monocytes and Neutrophils.

Role of the ESCRT Pathway in Laccase Trafficking and Virulence of Cryptococcus neoformans.

Regulation of Virulence by Two-Component Systems in Pathogenic Burkholderia.

Coxiella burnetii Requires Host Eukaryotic Initiation Factor 2α Activity for Efficient Intracellular Replication.

Outer Membrane Lipid Secretion and the Innate Immune Response to Gram-Negative Bacteria.

NOD1 and NOD2 Activation by Diverse Stimuli: a Possible Role for Sensing Pathogen-Induced Endoplasmic Reticulum Stress.

Early-Career Scientists Shaping the New Microbiology.

Illuminating Macrophage Contributions to Host-Pathogen Interactions In Vivo: the Power of Zebrafish.

Bacterial Defense Systems against the Neutrophilic Oxidant Hypochlorous Acid.

Gut Epithelial Metabolism as a Key Driver of Intestinal Dysbiosis Associated with Noncommunicable Diseases.

From Nursery to Nursing Home: Emerging Concepts in Clostridioides difficile Pathogenesis.

Staphylococcus aureus Osteomyelitis: Bone, Bugs, and Surgery.

Fitness Trade-Offs Resulting from Bacteriophage Resistance Potentiate Synergistic Antibacterial Strategies.

Fighting Persistence: How Chronic Infections with Mycobacterium tuberculosis Evade T Cell-Mediated Clearance and New Strategies To Defeat Them.

For the Greater (Bacterial) Good: Heterogeneous Expression of Energetically Costly Virulence Factors.

Two-Component Signal Transduction Systems in the Human Pathogen Streptococcus agalactiae.

Regulation of the Nfkbiz gene and its protein product lkBζ in animal models of sepsis and endotoxic shock.

Increased Listeria monocytogenes dissemination and altered population dynamics in Muc2-deficient mice.

Protein and DNA biosynthesis demonstrated in host cell-free phagosomes containing Anaplasma phagocytophilum or Ehrlichia chaffeensis in axenic media.

Polymicrobial interactions in the urinary tract: is the enemy of my enemy my friend?

Elevated Extracellular cGMP Produced after Exposure to Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli (ETEC) Heat-Stable Toxin (ST) Induces Epithelial IL-33 Release and Alters Intestinal Immunity.

Functional Properties of Helicobacter pylori VacA Toxin m1 and m2 Variants.

A Peptidoglycan Amidase Activator Impacts Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Gut Infection.

Role of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Glutathione Biosynthesis in Lung and Soft Tissue Infection.

Vibrio cholerae OmpR Contributes to Virulence Repression and Fitness at Alkaline pH.

Aging Dampens the Intestinal Innate Immune Response during Severe Clostridioides difficile Infection and Is Associated with Altered Cytokine Levels and Granulocyte Mobilization.

The ESX-1 Virulence Factors Downregulate miR-147-3p in Mycobacterium marinum-Infected Macrophages.