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Exploring the Potential Role of the Genus Kudoa (Myxosporea: Kudoidae) as an Emerging Seafood-Borne Parasite in Humans
Exploring the Potential Role of the Genus Kudoa (Myxosporea: Kudoidae) as an Emerging Seafood-Borne Parasite in Humans
This article reviews and summarises the recent findings on emerging seafood-borne parasites, Kudoa spp., that have receive...
Occurrence of Genetic Diversity, Virulence, and Resistance Genes Among Campylobacter species in Nigeria: A Review
Occurrence of Genetic Diversity, Virulence, and Resistance Genes Among Campylobacter species in Nigeria: A Review
Infectious diseases are serious threats to public health globally. Therefore, regional understanding of pathogens in Niger...
The Ecology of Pathogenic Onygenales Fungi and the Impacts of Climate Change
The Ecology of Pathogenic Onygenales Fungi and the Impacts of Climate Change
Onygenalean fungi have the potential to cause disease in vertebrates, including humans, due to their possession of various...
Molecular Mechanisms of KSHV Latency Establishment and Maintenance
Molecular Mechanisms of KSHV Latency Establishment and Maintenance
This review summarizes results from recent studies that shed light on viral and cellular mechanisms that contribute to lat...
Myeloid Cell Reservoirs: Role in HIV-Host Interplay and Strategies for Myeloid Reservoir Elimination
Myeloid Cell Reservoirs: Role in HIV-Host Interplay and Strategies for Myeloid Reservoir Elimination
Despite host antiviral responses and antiretroviral therapy, HIV-1 continues to persist in myeloid cell reservoirs. Hence,...
SARS-CoV-2 Resistance to Small Molecule Inhibitors
SARS-CoV-2 Resistance to Small Molecule Inhibitors
SARS-CoV-2 undergoes genetic mutations like many other viruses. Some mutations lead to the emergence of new Variants of Co...
Foodborne Helminthiasis
Foodborne Helminthiasis
This review focuses on key foodborne helminths: providing an overview of their lifecycles and major transmission routes to...
Update on the Regulation and Maintenance of Epstein-Barr Virus Latency
Update on the Regulation and Maintenance of Epstein-Barr Virus Latency
As the first identified human oncogenic virus, Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is widely circulating in humans. EBV presents main...
Modulation of Wnt Signaling Pathway during Cytomegalovirus Latency and Reactivation
Modulation of Wnt Signaling Pathway during Cytomegalovirus Latency and Reactivation
The Wnt signaling pathway is one of the key pathways involved in hematopoietic progenitor cell (HPC) proliferation and dif...
Candida auris Resistance Mechanisms to Amphotericin B Alternative Treatments Development
Candida auris Resistance Mechanisms to Amphotericin B Alternative Treatments Development
Systemic fungal infections caused by Candida auris have been identified since 2009, with mortality rates and drug resistan...
Gut Microbiota and Autoimmune Diseases: Mechanisms, Treatment, Challenges, and Future Recommendations
Gut Microbiota and Autoimmune Diseases: Mechanisms, Treatment, Challenges, and Future Recommendations
This review provides an overview of the role of dysbiosis (imbalanced gut microbiota) in the maintenance of host homeostas...
Bringing Balance: Immune Interactions Regulating Murine Gammaherpesvirus 68 Latency
Bringing Balance: Immune Interactions Regulating Murine Gammaherpesvirus 68 Latency
Gammaherpesviruses constitute the chief virus family that is capable of exhibiting true latency. Latency allows the viral ...
The Impact of Climate Change on Human Fungal Pathogen Distribution and Disease Incidence
The Impact of Climate Change on Human Fungal Pathogen Distribution and Disease Incidence
This review aims to compile the current knowledge on the impact of climate change on human pathogenic fungi. Ongoing surve...
Host-vaginal microbiota interaction: shaping the vaginal microenvironment and bacterial vaginosis
Host-vaginal microbiota interaction: shaping the vaginal microenvironment and bacterial vaginosis
This review comprehensively examines host-vaginal microbiota interactions, the composition of the vaginal microbiota, and ...
Fish Acanthocephalans as Potential Human Pathogens
Fish Acanthocephalans as Potential Human Pathogens
Acanthocephalans attach to the gastro-intestinal mucosa of the host (mammals, birds, reptiles, amphibians, fish) by use of...
Post-COVID Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome and Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia in the Pediatric Population
Post-COVID Postural Orthostatic Tachycardia Syndrome and Inappropriate Sinus Tachycardia in the Pediatric Population
Long COVID, or post-COVID Condition, is increasingly recognized in children and adolescents, despite being less studied co...
Nutritional Immunity and Fungal Pathogens: A New Role for Manganese
Nutritional Immunity and Fungal Pathogens: A New Role for Manganese
Copper, zinc, iron, and manganese are essential micronutrients for all living organisms. Microbial pathogens must acquire ...
Porin-Mediated Carbapenem Resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae: an Alarming Threat to Global Health
Porin-Mediated Carbapenem Resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae: an Alarming Threat to Global Health
Carbapenem resistance among Gram-negative bacteria is becoming a global threat to community health and elevates the antibi...
Engineered Therapeutic Antibody Against SARS-CoV-2
Engineered Therapeutic Antibody Against SARS-CoV-2
The success and failure of therapeutic antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 offer a lesson on therapeutic antibody design and dev...
Bacterial and Fungal Keratitis: Current Trends in Its Diagnosis and Management
Bacterial and Fungal Keratitis: Current Trends in Its Diagnosis and Management
Infectious keratitis is the fifth most prevalent cause of blindness worldwide. The primary diagnostic test to identify the...
Molecular Mechanisms of HIV-1 Latency from a Chromatin and Epigenetic Perspective
Molecular Mechanisms of HIV-1 Latency from a Chromatin and Epigenetic Perspective
The main obstacle to an HIV-1 cure is the reservoir of HIV-1 infected cells. While antiretroviral therapy (ART) eliminates...
Gut Microbiota Resilience Mechanisms Against Pathogen Infection and its Role in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Gut Microbiota Resilience Mechanisms Against Pathogen Infection and its Role in Inflammatory Bowel Disease
Although extensive research has been conducted on microbial resilience, numerous unanswered questions persist. In this stu...
Insight into the Physiological and Molecular Crosstalk During Bacterial-Fungal Interactions
Insight into the Physiological and Molecular Crosstalk During Bacterial-Fungal Interactions
Bacterial-fungal interaction (BFI) is a complex biological crosstalk that influences the ecological processes in the field...
Symbiotic Interactions of Archaea in Animal and Human Microbiomes
Symbiotic Interactions of Archaea in Animal and Human Microbiomes
Since the introduction of Archaea as a new domain of life more than 45 years ago, progress in their phylogenetic classific...
The Application Potential of Synthetic Biology in Microbial Communication
The Application Potential of Synthetic Biology in Microbial Communication
Quorum sensing (QS) signals are very important in microbial communication. In recent years, some new technologies, such as...
Molecular Mechanisms of Severe Diseases Caused by Epstein-Barr Virus Infection
Molecular Mechanisms of Severe Diseases Caused by Epstein-Barr Virus Infection
Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) is a ubiquitous virus that infects > 90% of individuals. EBV has been linked t...
Contagion Went Viral: Microbiology, Entertainment Media and the Public Understanding of Science
Contagion Went Viral: Microbiology, Entertainment Media and the Public Understanding of Science
How has the COVID-19 pandemic influenced how movies are used in public health crises? What made Contagion (2011) the key e...
Conserved and Divergent Features of pH Sensing in Major Fungal Pathogens
Conserved and Divergent Features of pH Sensing in Major Fungal Pathogens
For human fungal pathogens, sensory perception of extracellular pH is essential for colonisation of mammalian tissues and ...