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(Cell Reports, 2022-12-13)Dengue is a major public health threat. There are four dengue virus (DENV) serotypes; therefore, efforts are focused on developing safe and effective tetravalent DENV vaccines. While neutralizing antibodies contribute to ...
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(Case Reports In Pathology, 2022-12-14)A 74-year-old man with a medical history significant for papillary thyroid cancer (PTC) presented with a rapidly enlarging grape-sized mass in his right medial arm with paresthesia in the ulnar nerve distribution. Imaging ...
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(Clinical Infectious Diseases, 2020-03-15)Background. Public health and infection control prevention and surveillance efforts in the United States have primarily focused on methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). We describe the public health importance ...
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(PLoS Pathogens, 2020-01)Author summary With limited success of traditional vector control methods to curb dengue infections and more than half of the world's population still at risk, there is a need for novel strategies to reduce its impact on ...
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(Microbiology Resource Announcements, 2019-09)Descriptions of resources, like the genome assemblies reported in Microbiology Resource Announcements, are often frozen at their time of publication, yet they will need to be interpreted in the midst of continually evolving ...
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(mSphere, 2019-07)The virulence of the human pathogen Staphylococcus aureus is supported by many heme-dependent proteins, including key enzymes of cellular respiration. Therefore, synthesis of heme is a critical component of staphylococcal ...
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(mSphere, 2019-07)The genetic stability of every living organism depends on accurate DNA replication and repair systems. Here, we investigated the Aspergillus fumigatus MSH2 mismatch repair (MMR) gene MshA and how it impacts virulence and ...
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(mSphere, 2019-07)Trypanosoma brucei, the infectious agent of a deadly disease known as African trypanosomiasis, undergoes various stresses during its digenetic life cycle. We previously showed that downregulation of T. brucei mitochondrial ...
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(MBIO, 2019-07)The filamentous fungal family Aspergillaceae contains >1,000 known species, mostly in the genera Aspergillus and Penicillium. Several species are used in the food, biotechnology, and drug industries (e.g., Aspergillus ...
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(PLOS Pathogens, 2019-06)Precise promoter annotation is required for understanding the mechanistic basis of transcription initiation. In the context of complex genomes, such as herpesviruses where there is extensive genic overlap, identification ...
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(MBIO, 2019-05)Helicobacter pylori colonizes about half of humans worldwide, and its presence in the gastric mucosa is associated with an increased risk of gastric adenocarcinoma, gastric lymphoma, and peptic ulcer disease. H. pylori ...
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(ELIFE, 2019-06-18)Bacterial type IV secretion systems (T4SSs) are molecular machines that can mediate interbacterial DNA transfer through conjugation and delivery of effector molecules into host cells. The Helicobacter pylori Cag T4SS ...