Enteric Escherichia coli (E. coli) are both natural flora of humans and important pathogens
causing significant morbidity and mortality worldwide. Traditionally enteric E. coli have been …

Host cell death is an intrinsic immune defense mechanism in response to microbial infection.
However, bacterial pathogens use many strategies to manipulate the host cell death and …

The human pathogens enteropathogenic and enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EPEC
and EHEC) share a unique mechanism of colonization that results from the concerted action …

Escherichia coli is the most abundant facultative anaerobic gram-negative bacterium of the
intestinal microffora, naturally colonizing the mucous layer of the colon. A conserved core …

Caspase-mediated inflammatory cell death acts as an intrinsic defense mechanism against
infection. Bacterial pathogens deploy countermeasures against inflammatory cell death, but …

Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) remains an important cause of diarrheal disease
worldwide. Research into EPEC is intense and provides a good virulence model of other E …

Porphyromonas gingivalis, an important periodontal pathogen, infects primary gingival
epithelial cells (GECs). Despite the large number of bacteria that replicate inside the GECs …

Many Gram‐negative pathogens use a type III secretion apparatus to deliver effector
molecules into host cells to subvert cellular processes in favour of the pathogen …

Use of the nonpathogenic yeast Saccharomyces boulardii in the treatment of infectious
diarrhea has attracted growing interest. The present study designed to investigate the effect …

Background The probiotic Saccharomyces boulardii CNCM I-745 (also known as
Saccharomyces cerevisiae HANSEN CBS 5926; in the following S. boulardii) has proven its …