Natural products have served as powerful therapeutics against pathogenic bacteria since
the golden age of antibiotics of the mid-20th century. However, the increasing frequency of …

Corals live in a complex, multipartite symbiosis with diverse microbes across kingdoms,
some of which are implicated in vital functions, such as those related to resilience against …

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) represent one of the most common infections that are
frequently encountered in health care facilities. One of the main mechanisms used by …

Lyme disease Borrelia are obligately parasitic, tick-transmitted, invasive, persistent bacterial
pathogens that cause disease in humans and non-reservoir vertebrates primarily through …

Marine algal seaweed species are often regarded as an underutilized bioresource, many
have been used as a source of food, industrial raw materials, and in therapeutic and …

Vibrio anguillarum, also known as Listonella anguillarum, is the causative agent of vibriosis,
a deadly haemorrhagic septicaemic disease affecting various marine and fresh/brackish …

Bacterial virulence is highly dynamic and context-dependent. For this reason, it is
challenging to predict how molecular changes affect the growth of a pathogen in a host and …

The development of bacterial resistance to antibiotics is an increasing public health issue
that worsens with the formation of biofilms. Quorum sensing (QS) orchestrates the bacterial …

Quorum sensing (QS) is a mechanism of microbial communication dependent on cell
density that can regulate several behaviors in bacteria such as secretion of virulence factors …

Many bacteria use N-acyl homoserine lactone (AHL) signals to coordinate the behavior of
individual cells in a local population. The successful infection of eukaryotic hosts by bacteria …