Microbe Magazine

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Microbial Recognition of Antibiotics: Ecological, Physiological, and Therapeutic Implications
Microbes release innumerable products into their environment, including many antibiotics. This fact has captivated scientists and clinicians for more than a century, and many of the details of the early history of antibiotics are familiar even to beginning students of microbiology and pharmacolog...
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Versatile Type III Effector Mechanisms Can Disrupt Target-Cell Functions
Some animal and plant gram-negative bacterial pathogens directly inject their proteins into host cells by using a type III secretion system (TTSS). The TTSS is a syringe-like structure that translocates virulence factors, also called effectors, from the cytosol of a bacterium to that of a eukaryo...
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From Marinum to Ulcerans: a Mycobacterial Human Pathogen Emerges
Have you heard of Buruli ulcer? Probably not, unless you come from equatorial Africa, Papua New Guinea, the Daintree region in tropical Northern Australia, or seaside towns in temperate South Eastern Australia. Other than sporadic cases among visitors to these endemic zones, Buruli ulcer does not...
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