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UK 'could face 50,000 Covid cases and 200 deaths a day'
Britain could be facing 50,000 new Covid-19 cases a day within weeks if the current rate of infection is not halted, the Government’s Chief Scientific Adviser has warned. Sir Patrick Vallance told a televised briefing that the UK could see 200...
Longitudinal observation and decline of neutralizing antibody responses in the three months following SARS-CoV-2 infection in humans
Neutralizing antibody responses of patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 peak at 3–4 weeks post onset of symptoms, then decline to low levels over the course of 3 months in some individuals.
Norovirus
Noroviruses are a group of related viruses that are highly contagious. Commonly referred to as “food poisoning” or a “stomach bug,” noroviruses are the most common cause of gastroenteritis in the U…
CDC - Leishmaniasis - Biology
Education and information about Leishmaniasis biology and life cycle.
Get the Facts about Listeria
Listeriosis is caused by the bacteria Listeria monocytogenes and is a leading cause of hospitalization and death due to foodborne illness.
Pathogen & Environment | Giardia | Parasites | CDC
Education and information about giardia biology and life cycle.
Study sheds light on how food bugs infect cells
Research shows how some gut bacteria with long corkscrew-like structures stick to cells and help cause disease.
Swab and Send
Swab and Send. 2,529 likes · 69 talking about this. Swab and Send is a citizen science and crowdfunding initiative aimed at spreading the word of how important it is to find new antibiotics.
Insights into bacterial cell division from a structure of EnvC bound to the FtsX periplasmic domain
The peptidoglycan layer is a core component of the bacterial cell envelope that provides a barrier to the environment and protection from osmotic shock. During division, bacteria must break and rebuild the peptidoglycan layer to enable separation of...
Limited and strain-specific transcriptional and growth responses to acquisition of a multidrug resistance plasmid in genetically diverse Escherichia coli lineages
Multi-drug resistant (MDR) Escherichia coli are a major global threat to human health, wherein multi-drug resistance is primarily spread by MDR plasmid acquisition. MDR plasmids are not widely distributed across the entire E. coli species, but...
Innovations to culturing the uncultured microbial majority
Culturing microorganisms is a priority to complement the flood of genomic data illuminating archaeal and bacterial diversity. In this Review, Ettema and colleagues highlight recent successes in culturing elusive lineages, innovative methods and key...
An Advanced Human Intestinal Coculture Model Reveals Compartmentalized Host and Pathogen Strategies during Salmonella Infection
A major obstacle in infection biology is the limited ability to recapitulate human disease trajectories in traditional cell culture and animal models, which impedes the translation of basic research into clinics. Here, we introduce a...
Genome‐wide identification of Streptococcus sanguinis fitness genes in human serum and discovery of potential selective drug targets
The fitness of S. sanguinis mutants in human serum was screened by Km‐seq. The biological functions of these fitness genes were analyzed. The virulence factors in rabbit endocarditis model and potent...
The Case Against Donald Trump
The president of the United States poses a threat to our collective existence. The choice voters face is spectacularly obvious.
Health A Political Choice Act Now Together
Health A Political Choice Act Now Together - 06/10/2020
Buying the New Book
The book has now been printed – Walking Home. In which we walk home, beneath the vapour trails to create communities in which both work and pleasure are walking distance from Everyone’s…