Mycobacterium marinum is an opportunistic pathogen inducing infection in fresh and marine
water fish. This pathogen causes necrotizing granuloma like tuberculosis, morbidity and …

Galleria mellonella (greater wax moth) larvae are used widely as surrogate infectious
disease models, due to ease of use and the presence of an innate immune system …

The soil-dwelling social amoeba Dictyostelium discoideum feeds on bacteria. Each meal is
a potential infection because some bacteria have evolved mechanisms to resist predation …

Transposon insertion sequencing is a high-throughput technique for assaying large libraries
of otherwise isogenic transposon mutants providing insight into gene essentiality, gene …

Mycobacteria possess different type VII secretion (T7S) systems to secrete proteins across
their unusual cell envelope. One of these systems, ESX-5, is only present in slow-growing …

Free-living amoebas (FLA) are ubiquitous environmental protists that have enormously
contributed to the microbiological contamination of water sources. FLAs have displayed …

Mycobacterium abscessus, a rapidly growing mycobacterium (RGM) and an opportunistic
human pathogen, is responsible for a wide spectrum of clinical manifestations ranging from …

Steroids are abundant growth substrates for bacteria in natural, engineered, and host-
associated environments. This study analyzed the distribution of the aerobic 9, 10-seco …

The Mycobacteriaceae constitute a family of varied Gram-positive organisms that include a
large number of pathogenic bacteria. Among these, non-tuberculous mycobacteria are …

The critical role of the intestinal microbiota in human health and disease is well recognized.
Nevertheless, there are still large gaps in our understanding of the functions and …