There is still a low level of clinical awareness regarding Legionnaires' disease 25 years after
it was first detected. The causative agents, legionellae, are freshwater bacteria with a …

Free-living amoebae feed on bacteria, fungi, and algae. However, some microorganisms
have evolved to become resistant to these protists. These amoeba-resistant microorganisms …

Why do bacteria have shape? Is morphology valuable or just a trivial secondary
characteristic? Why should bacteria have one shape instead of another? Three broad …

Many bacteria that cause diseases of humans, animals and plants use flagella to move. This
review summarises recent studies that have analysed the role of motility and chemotaxis in …

Four epidemiological categories were initially devised for classifying water-related infectious
“diseases” with regard to the engineering technologies required to prevent or control them …

The environments we humans encounter daily are sources of exposure to diverse microbial
communities, some of potential concern to human health. In this study, we used culture …

The late twentieth century witnessed the emergence of numerous infectious diseases that
are caused by microorganisms that rarely cause disease in normal, healthy …

Water is the major natural reservoir for legionellae, and the bacteria are found worldwide in
many different natural and artificial aquatic environments, such as cooling towers, water …

Free-living amoebae are widely distributed in soil and water. Small number of them was
implicated in human disease: Acanthamoeba spp., Naegleria fowleri, Balamuthia …

Macrophages and protozoa ingest bacteria by phagocytosis and destroy these microbes
using a conserved pathway that mediates fusion of the phagosome with lysosomes. To …