Microbe Magazine

The first North American instance of an individual infected with Pseudomonas aeruginosa that is resistant to colistin and also carries the resistance gene NDM-1 was documented last year, according to Johann Pitout of the Cumming School of Medicine at the University ... More...

There is a critical gap in understanding the events surrounding the final membrane fusion step of Ebola virus entry into its host cell. Kartik Chandran's group at Albert Einstein College of Medicine in the Bronx, N.Y., have addressed this gap by developing a real-time assay that allows visua... More...

Zika virus and zika fever have gained notoriety in nearly unprecedented fashion. But before proper epidemiologic studies can be done, including those that assess vulnerable populations, outbreak potential, and risk of syndromes such as microencephaly, proper diagnostic tools are needed. In this r... More...

Bats have been found to carry numerous viruses that affect human health, including MERS-CoV and Ebola, yet little is known about how the bat immune system interacts with viruses. Studying this interaction will be facilitated by the discovery of a new bat virus in an established line of bat cells ... More...

An outbreak of Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus (MERS-CoV) in 2015 left 38 dead. In an effort to better understand the virus and how it causes disease, scientists sequenced viral isolates from patients. The research was done in collaboration between Pohang University of Science and Te... More...

Fecal microbiota transplants (FMTs) are growing in popularity as a means to treat recurrent Clostridium difficile infection. FMT is the process of replacing the gut microbiota of a sick patient with that of a healthy donor. While hospitals where these patients stay ... More...

In an effort to standardize recommendations for urine sample collection and storage, ASM and the Center for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) sponsored a meta-analysis of available studies on the matter. A panel of experts led by first author Mark LaRocco of M.T.L. Consulting in Erie, Pa., and... More...

Part of the difficulty in building systems-level tools is separating significant findings from background noise while sifting through large amounts of data. This is a problem that a team of scientists at University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Pa., and Dartmouth College in Hanover, N.H., are ... More...