Relative survival of wild-type B. anthracis Sterne (WT) and either ΔhtrA or ΔyceGH after being mixed at a 1:1 ratio and injected into each larva. Assays were repeated three independent times.
Shiga toxin is the major virulence factor of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC), and the gene encoding it is carried within the genome of Shiga toxin-converting phages (Stx phages). Numerous St
The increased use of molecular identification methods and mass spectrometry has revealed that Acinetobacter spp. of the A. baumannii (Ab) group other than A. baumannii are increasingly being recovered
Burkholderia pseudomallei, the etiologic agent of melioidosis, is a gram-negative facultative intracellular bacterium. This bacterium is endemic in Southeast Asia and Northern Australia and can infect
This study used transgenic mice expressing human transferrin to compare the virulence of carriage and invasive meningococcal isolates by following the outcome of infection after intraperitoneal infect