Microbe Magazine

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FEATURES
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H5N1 Influenza Continues To Circulate and Change
The spread of the highly pathogenic H5N1 influenza virus from eastern Asia to India, Europe, and Africa raises concern that it will become endemic in wild birds throughout the world. Wild aquatic birds are reservoirs for all 16 subtypes of influenza virus, many of which rarely harm these hosts. H...
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Life Redesigned To Suit the Engineering Crowd
Engineers known as biosynthesists are leading a revolution in molecular biology. Instead of old-fashioned genetic engineering—last generation’s revolution—where one gene at a time is moved between microbial species, these engineers have far more radical plans.
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P. aeruginosa in Cystic Fibrosis Patients Resists Host Defenses, Antibiotics
Cystic fibrosis (CF) patients have mutations in the cystic fibrosis trans-membrane conductance regulator (CFTR) gene that affect chloride channels, decreasing paraciliary fluid in the lower respiratory tract and impairing clearance there of inhaled microbes. This impairment leads to early recruit...
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