Microbe Magazine

The state of Wisconsin received considerable media publicity last spring when the Wisconsin Assembly voted to select a state microbe. Not surprisingly, the number one cheese-producing state, where Green Bay Packers fans call themselves “cheese heads,” chose Lactococcus lac... More...

Science has evolved into two basic divisions, the applied and research sciences. Whereas instruction could be considered to be a third division, it is usually integral to both applied and research science, so I will address only the two.

Vibrio cholerae still infects roughly 5 million annually, and kills about 100,000, according to the World Health Organization. Sanjat Kanjilal and Stephen B. Calderwood of the Harvard Medical School, Boston, Mass., et al. investigated wild-type More...

Viruses can serve as model systems for describing macromolecular interactions through analysis of their architecture. Little is known about viruses that infect archaea as compared to those that infect bacteria and eukarya. Mark J. Young of Montana State University, Bozeman, John E. Johnson of The... More...

Roughly 2 million people die annually of tuberculosis, despite the availability of effective drug treatment. Recent evidence indicates that M. tuberculosis has evolved into several large, genetically diverse families of strains possessing unique attributes potential... More...

Candida species are the fourth leading cause of hospital-acquired infections in the United States, with a ∼40% mortality rate associated with systemic candidiasis, which translates to more than 10,000 deaths annually. The ability to form and extend h... More...

Acinetobacter baumannii is a rapidly emerging, often antibiotic-resistant nosocomial pathogen in hospitals throughout the world. Previous multilocus sequence typing (MLST), which examines a few short genomic segments, showed that some strains from Wa... More...

25–29 October 2010.