Microbe Magazine

Cover: False-color scanning electron micrograph of a colony of Neisseria meningitidis. Researchers are seeking broader coverage for vaccines against this pathogen, which causes sepsis and meningitis and is a significant public health concern (see p. 321). (Image © CNRI/Science Source)..
Cover: False-color scanning electron micrograph of a colony of Neisseria meningitidis. Researchers are seeking broader coverage for vaccines against this pathogen, which causes sepsis and meningitis and is a significant public health concern (see p. 321). (Image © CNRI/Science Source)..
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Milestones in Nucleotide Signaling Research
About a half century ago, Earl Sutherland, then at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, and his collaborators identified a nucleotide in eukaryotic cells with the capacity to react to signals received outside cells and then activate intracellular enzymes. Such nucleotides are now c...
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Improving Safety and Efficacy of Meningococcal Vaccines
The gram-negative bacterium Neisseria meningitidis, which causes sepsis and meningitis, erupts periodically in Sub-Saharan Africa, where 100,000 cases can arise within a few months. While meningococcal epidemics in the United States and Europe last arose in the 1940...
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MALDI-TOF Mass Spectrometry in a Clinical Lab Setting
When medical microbiology students are learning about small, aerobic, gram-positive bacillary pathogens, the standard approach is to tell them about well-known organisms such as Corynebacterium diphtheriae, Listeria monocytogenes, and ...
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