How does the structure of cytolysins influence their activity?
Credit: Jillian Nickel Although Enterococcus faecalis is usually an innocuous member of the bacterial community in the human gut, it ...
Tag: Parasitology
A new avenue for fighting drug-resistant bacteria
Targeting an RNA sequence in pathogenic bacteria could make them more sensitive to antibioticsCredit: Christian Fleury (INRS) A small regulatory ...
Neonatal meningitis: the immaturity of microbiota and epithelial barriers implicated
Credit: Biology of Infection Unit, Institut Pasteur Meningitis is associated with high mortality and frequently causes severe sequelae. Newborn infants ...
‘Smart collar’ could prevent tapeworms in dogs
Credit: Yang S-J et al., 2021, PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases, CC-BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) Dogs infected with echinococcosis play a major ...
Parasites manipulate praying mantis’s polarized-light perception, causing it to jump into water
Credit: Takuya Sato Researchers have revealed that praying mantis (mantids) infected with parasitic hairworms are attracted to horizontally polarized light ...
Preventing the break-in of the toxoplasmosis parasite
Scientists from the universities of Geneva and Zurich and the PSI have identified the structure and functions of RON13, an ...
Cat-borne parasite Toxoplasma induces fatally bold behavior in hyena cubs
Credit: Zach Laubach Best known for its presence in house cats and a tendency to infect and alter the behaviors ...
Mushroom growing out of fossilized ant reveals new genus and species of fungal parasite
Credit: George Poinar Jr., OSU CORVALLIS, Ore. - Oregon State University research has identified the oldest known specimen of a ...
VIMS study uncovers new cause for intensification of oyster disease
Rise in disease virulence due to evolving parasite, not just droughtCredit: © R. Carnegie/VIMS. A new paper in Scientific Reports ...
New beetle-dwelling roundworm species discovered in Japan
Cryptaphelenchus abietis, a new nematode species isolated from bark beetles that emerged from a dead log in Nagano, Japan, may ...
Why do some people get sick while others feel fine?
Credit: Provided by Dr. McCall The answer is something infectious disease experts are working to uncover. As COVID-19 revealed, the ...
Fungus creates a fast track for carbon
Stanford scientists find epidemics of fungal infections in algae alter carbon cyclingCredit: Klawonn et al. 2021, PNAS Tiny algae in ...
Beneficial arthropods find winter sanctuary in uncultivated field edges, study finds
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- Many species of ground-dwelling beetles, ladybugs, hoverflies, damsel bugs, spiders and ...
Malaria parasite’s partiality for the spleen
Credit: Woodford J, Gillman A, Jenvey P, Roberts J, Woolley S, Barber BE, et al. (2021) Positron emission tomography and ...