In recent years, the regulatory role of the gut microbiota in the initiation and progression of colorectal cancer (CRC) has ...

Virulence factors and treatments. Finding treatment options for pathogens is a constant struggle, especially in the age of antibiotic resistance.It is becoming increasingly common that virulence ...

Researchers have discovered an anti-virulence factor in Salmonella, knowledge that could be used to design improved Salmonella vaccines. Virulence factors allow a pathogen to thrive in the host ...

Virulence factors allow bacteria to evade the human immune system, to infect tissues and cells and to establish a foothold within the body. Without them, ...

DURHAM, N.C. – Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have identified a previously unknown family of virulence factors that make the bacterium responsible for the plague especially ...

Molecules known as virulence factors are produced by bacteria, viruses, and fungi to help them to infect host cells. The influenza A viruses, which have instigated deadly pandemics in the past, ...

Figure 1: The type III secretion system of Gram-negative bacterial pathogens injects virulence factors into host cells. The second class of TTSS-associated chaperones, which are the subject of ...

More information: Jack C. Leo et al. Secretion of the Intimin Passenger Domain Is Driven by Protein Folding, Journal of Biological Chemistry (2016).DOI: 10.1074/jbc.M116.731497 ...

Molecules known as virulence factors are produced by bacteria, viruses, and fungi to help them to infect host cells. One of virulence factors found in the influenza A viruses is hemagglutinin (HA).

Mar. 23 -- THURSDAY, Jan. 24 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have discovered how the anthrax bacterium protects itself from the immune system's biochemical assault. The results reveal not only a ...

We’ve all seen the headlines. “Man found to be shedding virulent strain of polio”; “Virulent flu strain in Europe hits the economy”; “Most virulent strain of E. coli ever seen contains DNA sequences ...