Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America, Vol. 105, No. 11 (Mar. 18, 2008), pp. 4381-4386 (6 pages) The virulence of influenza virus is a multigenic trait. One ...

A pathogen is a term that refers to a microorganism that causes disease in an organism. Pathogenicity is the ability of the pathogen to produce disease. Pathogenicity is expressed by microbes using ...

Leptospira spp. belong to the bacterial phylum Spirochaetes, which contains evolutionary and structurally unique bacteria. The genus Leptospira is composed of saprophytic and pathogenic bacterial ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Harbouring a plasmid often imposes a fitness cost on the bacterial host. Motivated by implications for public health, the majority of studies ...

The influenza A viruses, which have instigated deadly pandemics in the past, still remain a major global public health problem until today. Molecules known as virulence factors are produced by ...

Researchers examined the fungal cell biology of rice blast fungus pathogenesis and recently published the first systematic and comprehensive report on the molecular mechanism of the actin-binding ...

Fusarium oxysporum is a soil-borne fungal pathogen that causes a group of serious plant diseases known as Fusarium wilts. As one of most economically important plant pathogens worldwide, it can infect ...

Adhesins are proteins that are present on the surface of bacteria or fungi that help in attaching to biotic or abiotic surfaces Many pathogenic and non-pathogenic bacteria associate with surfaces, and ...

Researchers have used high-speed microscopy to investigate native structure and conformational dynamics of hemagglutinin in influenza A. The influenza A viruses, which have instigated deadly pandemics ...