[HTML][HTML] Phage susceptibility determinants of the opportunistic pathogen Staphylococcus epidermidis

C Beck, J Krusche, AMA Elsherbini, X Du… - Current Opinion in …, 2024 - Elsevier
Highlights•Temperate phages of Staphylococcus epidermidis facilitate horizontal gene
transfer.•Wall teichoic acid glycosylation determines binding of S. epidermidis phages.•The …

Bacteriophages from human skin infecting coagulase-negative Staphylococcus: diversity, novelty and host resistance

SE Alsaadi, H Lu, M Zhang, GF Dykes, HE Allison… - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The human skin microbiome comprises diverse populations that differ temporally between
body sites and individuals. The virome is a less studied component of the skin microbiome …

[HTML][HTML] Intraspecies warfare restricts strain coexistence in human skin microbiomes

CP Mancuso, JS Baker, E Qu, AD Tripp, IO Balogun… - bioRxiv, 2024 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Determining why only a fraction of encountered or applied bacterial strains engraft in a given
person's microbiome is crucial for understanding and engineering these communities 1 …