With the onset of climate change, new microbial threats are emerging that can compromise food safety and quality, lead to environmental degradation, and have an overall adverse effect on human health.

Abstract: Chlamydiae are a group of obligate intracellular microorganisms with a homogeneous group-specific antigenic structure, and a unique mode of development. The infections caused by them are ...

S. marcescens exposed to Drosophila larvae lost virulence to flies and could promote larval growth similar to typical Drosophila gut commensals. These phenotypic changes were reflected in the ...

A group of Brazilian researchers has found a potential target for novel therapeutic strategies to combat fungal ...

Overall, the novel APEC strains exhibited different degrees of pathogenicity in both in vivo and in vitro assays. Some strains showed high virulence in all assays while some were less virulent ...

Future Microbiol. 2012;7(1):111-127.

Various bacterial virulence factors are associated with the development of such gastric diseases, and the characterization of these markers could aid medical prognosis, which could be extremely ...