Progress on techniques for improving output performance of triboelectric nanogenerators

C Cao, Z Li, F Shen, Q Zhang, Y Gong, H Guo… - Energy & …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
As a new technology based on the coupled effects of contact electrification and electrostatic
induction, triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) are already widely studied for energy …

Fast, accurate, point-of-care COVID-19 pandemic diagnosis enabled through advanced lab-on-chip optical biosensors: Opportunities and challenges

A Asghari, C Wang, KM Yoo, A Rostamian… - Applied physics …, 2021 - pubs.aip.org
The sudden rise of the worldwide severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-
CoV-2) pandemic in early 2020 has called into drastic action measures to perform instant …

Memory effects on epidemic evolution: The susceptible-infected-recovered epidemic model

M Saeedian, M Khalighi, N Azimi-Tafreshi, GR Jafari… - Physical Review E, 2017 - APS
Memory has a great impact on the evolution of every process related to human societies.
Among them, the evolution of an epidemic is directly related to the individuals' experiences …

The type VII secretion system of Staphylococcus aureus secretes a nuclease toxin that targets competitor bacteria

Z Cao, MG Casabona, H Kneuper, JD Chalmers… - Nature …, 2016 - nature.com
The type VII protein secretion system (T7SS) plays a critical role in the virulence of human
pathogens including Mycobacterium tuberculosis and Staphylococcus aureus. Here, we …

Recent advances and current challenges in magnetophoresis based micro magnetofluidics

A Munaz, MJA Shiddiky, NT Nguyen - Biomicrofluidics, 2018 - pubs.aip.org
The combination of magnetism and microscale fluid flow has opened up a new era for
handling and manipulation of samples in microfluidics. In particular, magnetophoresis, the …

The Type VII Secretion System of Staphylococcus

L Bowman, T Palmer - Annual review of microbiology, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The type VII protein secretion system (T7SS) of Staphylococcus aureus is encoded at the
ess locus. T7 substrate recognition and protein transport are mediated by EssC, a …

Contribution of quorum sensing to virulence and antibiotic resistance in zoonotic bacteria

Q Fan, J Zuo, H Wang, D Grenier, L Yi, Y Wang - Biotechnology advances, 2022 - Elsevier
Quorum sensing (QS), which is a key part of cell/cell communication, is widely distributed in
microorganisms, especially in bacteria. Bacteria can produce and detect the presence of QS …

A type VII-secreted lipase toxin with reverse domain arrangement

SR Garrett, N Mietrach, J Deme, A Bitzer… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The type VII protein secretion system (T7SS) is found in many Gram-positive bacteria and in
pathogenic mycobacteria. All T7SS substrate proteins described to date share a common …

Decreasing methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections is attributable to the disappearance of predominant MRSA ST239 clones, Shanghai, 2008 …

Y Dai, J Liu, W Guo, H Meng, Q Huang… - Emerging microbes & …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT A consistently decreasing prevalence of MRSA infections in China has been
reported, however, the underlying mechanism of molecular processes responsible for this …

Virulence attributes of successful methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus lineages

JH Jiang, DR Cameron, C Nethercott… - Clinical microbiology …, 2023 - Am Soc Microbiol
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a leading cause of severe and often
fatal infections. MRSA epidemics have occurred in waves, whereby a previously successful …