Chlamydia psittaci, a strictly intracellular bacterium, is an underestimated etiologic agent
leading to infections in a broad range of animals and mild illness or pneumonia in humans …

Intracellular bacterial pathogens have developed mechanisms to enter and invade cells, to
survive the immune response and to replicate inside the host. We studied the innate …

Chlamydia psittaci is an avian pathogen with zoonotic potential. In Australia, C. psittaci has
been well reported as a cause of reproductive loss in mares which subsequently have been …

Background: Scrub typhus is a neglected rickettsial vector-borne disease especially
prominent in Asia Pacific region caused by pathogen Orientia tsutsugamushi which is a …

The study of how microbes cause disease has initiated unique research avenues in both
infection biology and cell biology. As our knowledge of the infected cell improves and …

The common false dichotomy is that bacteria grow either intracellularly or extracellularly,
and though there are some bacteria that have an almost viral-like dependency on host cells …

These four families encompass obligate intracellular Gram-negative bacteria that infect
eukaryotic cells, from animals and insects to protozoa. All the Chlamydiales share a highly …

Microbes gain access to eukaryotic cells as food for bacteria-grazing protists, for host
protection by microbe-killing immune cells, or for microbial benefit when pathogens enter …

Study of microbial genomes has provided new insight into the functions that pathogens
require for survival in the animal host. Small genome bacterial pathogens, defined as …

INTRODUCTION In the last decade, we have experienced a major revolution in the
biological sciences resulting from a tremendous flux of genome sequence information …