The population genetics of pathogenic Escherichia coli

E Denamur, O Clermont, S Bonacorsi… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Escherichia coli is a commensal of the vertebrate gut that is increasingly involved in various
intestinal and extra-intestinal infections as an opportunistic pathogen. Numerous pathotypes …

[HTML][HTML] Foodborne pathogens

T Bintsis - AIMS microbiology, 2017 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
Foodborne pathogens are causing a great number of diseases with significant effects on
human health and economy. The characteristics of the most common pathogenic bacteria …

Environmental Escherichia coli: ecology and public health implications—a review

J Jang, HG Hur, MJ Sadowsky… - Journal of applied …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Escherichia coli is classified as a rod‐shaped, Gram‐negative bacterium in the family
Enterobacteriaceae. The bacterium mainly inhabits the lower intestinal tract of warm …

Host DNases prevent vascular occlusion by neutrophil extracellular traps

M Jiménez-Alcázar, C Rangaswamy, R Panda… - Science, 2017 - science.org
Platelet and fibrin clots occlude blood vessels in hemostasis and thrombosis. Here we report
a noncanonical mechanism for vascular occlusion based on neutrophil extracellular traps …

Anti-infective properties of the golden spice curcumin

D Praditya, L Kirchhoff, J Brüning… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The search for novel anti-infectives is one of the most important challenges in natural
product research, as diseases caused by bacteria, viruses, and fungi are influencing the …

World Health Organization estimates of the global and regional disease burden of 22 foodborne bacterial, protozoal, and viral diseases, 2010: a data synthesis

MD Kirk, SM Pires, RE Black, M Caipo, JA Crump… - PLoS …, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Background Foodborne diseases are important worldwide, resulting in considerable
morbidity and mortality. To our knowledge, we present the first global and regional estimates …

Haemolytic uraemic syndrome

F Fakhouri, J Zuber, V Frémeaux-Bacchi, C Loirat - The Lancet, 2017 - thelancet.com
Haemolytic uraemic syndrome is a form of thrombotic microangiopathy affecting
predominantly the kidney and characterised by a triad of thrombocytopenia, mechanical …

Antibiotics and bacterial resistance in the 21st century

RJ Fair, Y Tor - Perspectives in medicinal chemistry, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
Dangerous, antibiotic resistant bacteria have been observed with increasing frequency over
the past several decades. In this review the factors that have been linked to this …

How sex and age affect immune responses, susceptibility to infections, and response to vaccination

C Giefing‐Kröll, P Berger, G Lepperdinger… - Aging cell, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Do men die young and sick, or do women live long and healthy? By trying to explain the
sexual dimorphism in life expectancy, both biological and environmental aspects are …

Chronic kidney disease: global dimension and perspectives

V Jha, G Garcia-Garcia, K Iseki, Z Li, S Naicker… - The Lancet, 2013 - thelancet.com
Chronic kidney disease is defined as a reduced glomerular filtration rate, increased urinary
albumin excretion, or both, and is an increasing public health issue. Prevalence is estimated …