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 ...

Medical schools must make microbiology a prerequisite — to prepare students not just for school but for practicing medicine.

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center have identified a previously unknown family of virulence factors that make the bacterium responsible for the plague especially efficient at killing ...

Two-for-one bacterial virulence factor revealed Antivirulence antibiotics could dodge resistance longer than traditional antibiotics Date: January 16, 2016 Source: Washington University in St ...

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).

In recent years, the regulatory role of the gut microbiota in the initiation and progression of colorectal cancer (CRC) has attracted growing attention. Among the key microbial contributors, ...

The results reveal not only a novel aspect of anthrax virulence, they also suggest a new target, known as bacterial nitric oxide synthase (bNOS), for fighting the pathogen, said study leader ...

Several medically important Gram-negative bacterial pathogens inject virulence factors into host cells through a type III secretion system and specialized bacterial chaperones are required for ...

How a bacterial virulence factor promotes its own secretion by University of Oslo In adhering to body cells, many bacteria cause disease.

The influenza A viruses, which have instigated deadly pandemics in the past, still remain a major global public health problem until today. Molecules known as virulence factors are produced by ...

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, bacteria would be rapidly cleared by the ...