OOIR: Observatory of International Research

Papers

(The median citation count of Infection and Immunity is 3. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-03-01 to 2025-03-01.)

Article	Citations
Editorial Board	90
Mucosal Infection with Unmasked Candida albicans Cells Impacts Disease Progression in a Host Niche-Specific Manner	79
Articles of Significant Interest In This Issue	75
Unveiling the immune dynamics of Neisseria persistent oral colonization	56
Identification of Babesia microti immunoreactive antigens by phage display cDNA screen	53
Function and contribution of two putative Enterococcus faecalis glycosaminoglycan degrading enzymes to bacteremia and catheter-associated urinary tract infection	53
Investigating the importance of selected surface-exposed loops in HpuB for hemoglobin binding and utilization by Neisseria gonorrhoeae	51
The Klebsiella pneumoniae ter Operon Enhances Stress Tolerance	43
The Chlamydia trachomatis IncM Protein Interferes with Host Cell Cytokinesis, Centrosome Positioning, and Golgi Distribution and Contributes to the Stability of the Pathogen-Containing Vacuole	42
Articles of Significant Interest in This Issue	41
Differential Roles of a Family of Flavodoxin-Like Proteins That Promote Resistance to Quinone-Mediated Oxidative Stress in Candida albicans	41
Expression of CD117 (c-Kit) on Circulating B Cells in Pediatric Schistosomiasis	40
In Vitro Selection Identifies Staphylococcus aureus Genes Influencing Biofilm Formation	32
Editorial Board	31
Articles of Significant Interest in This Issue	29
The Use of the Antigenically Variable Major Surface Protein 2 in the Establishment of Superinfection during Natural Tick Transmission of Anaplasma marginale in Southern Ghana	29
Type VI Secretion System and Its Effectors PdpC, PdpD, and OpiA Contribute to Francisella Virulence in Galleria mellonella Larvae	28
Social networking at the microbiome-host interface	28
bb0689 contributes to the virulence of Borrelia burgdorferi in a murine model of Lyme disease	27
Nitric Oxide Inhibition of Rickettsia rickettsii	27
Editorial Board	27
Polycytotoxic T cells mediate antimicrobial activity against intracellular Mycobacterium tuberculosis	26
Rickettsia disrupts and reduces endothelial tight junction protein zonula occludens-1 in association with inflammasome activation	26
The Role of 17β-Estrogen in Escherichia coli Adhesion on Human Vaginal Epithelial Cells via FAK Phosphorylation	25
Fatty Acid Homeostasis Tunes Flagellar Motility by Activating Phase 2 Flagellin Expression, Contributing to Salmonella Gut Colonization	24

Effects of Dihydroartemisinin against Cystic Echinococcosis In Vitro and In Vivo	24
Redistribution of the Novel Clostridioides difficile Spore Adherence Receptor E-Cadherin by TcdA and TcdB Increases Spore Binding to Adherens Junctions	23
Increased Pulmonary Pneumococcal Clearance after Resolution of H9N2 Avian Influenza Virus Infection in Mice	21
Editorial Board	21
Mcc1229, an Stx2a-Amplifying Microcin, Is Produced In Vivo and Requires CirA for Activity	20
Role of NK-Like CD8⁺T Cells during Asymptomatic Borrelia burgdorferi Infection	20
Vimentin Regulates Chemokine Expression and NOD2 Activation in Brain Endothelium during Group B Streptococcal Infection	20
Egress of Listeria monocytogenes from Mesenteric Lymph Nodes Depends on Intracellular Replication and Cell-to-Cell Spread	19
para -Aminobenzoic Acid Biosynthesis Is Required for Listeria monocytogenes Growth and Pathogenesis	19
Cage Environment Regulates Gut Microbiota Independent of Toll-Like Receptors	19
Tolerogenic Immunoregulation towards Salmonella Enteritidis Contributes to Colonization Persistence in Young Chicks	17
Host Genome-Wide Association Study of Infant Susceptibility toShigella-Associated Diarrhea	17
Articles of Significant Interest in This Issue	17
Borrelia burgdorferi Is a Poor Inducer of Gamma Interferon: Amplification Induced by Interleukin-12	17
An rfuABCD -Like Operon and Its Relationship to Riboflavin Utilization and Mammalian Infectivity by Borrelia burgdorferi	17
Article of Significant Interest in This Issue	16
SalmonellaParatyphi A Outer Membrane Vesicles Displaying Vi Polysaccharide as a Multivalent Vaccine against Enteric Fever	16
Recombinant Fusion Protein Vaccine Containing Clostridioides difficile FliC and FliD Protects Mice against C. difficile Infection	16
Chemotaxis Coupling Protein CheW ₂ Is Not Required for the Chemotaxis but Contributes to the Full Pathogenicity of Borreliella burgdorferi	15
Drosophila melanogaster Sting mediates Coxiella burnetii infection by reducing accumulation of reactive oxygen species	15
Distinct Group B Streptococcus Sequence and Capsule Types Differentially Impact Macrophage Stress and Inflammatory Signaling Responses	15
Arginine Metabolism Powers Salmonella Resistance to Oxidative Stress	15
Editorial Board	15
Article of Significant Interest in This Issue	15
Erp and Rev Adhesins of the Lyme Disease Spirochete’s Ubiquitous cp32 Prophages Assist the Bacterium during Vertebrate Infection	15
Effect of Probiotic E. coli Nissle 1917 Supplementation on the Growth Performance, Immune Responses, Intestinal Morphology, and Gut Microbes of Campylobacter jejuni Infected Chickens	15
Staphylococcus aureus senses human neutrophils via PerR to coordinate the expression of the toxin LukAB	15
Editorial Board	14
Host F-Box Protein 22 Enhances the Uptake of Brucella by Macrophages and Drives a Sustained Release of Proinflammatory Cytokines through Degradation of the Anti-Inflammatory Effector Proteins of Bruce	14
A Member of an Ancient Family of Bacterial Amino Acids Transporters Contributes to Chlamydia Nutritional Virulence and Immune Evasion	14
Editorial Board	14
Acquired Clinical Immunity to Malaria in Nonhuman Primates Coinfected with Schistosoma and Plasmodium Parasites	14
Inclusion Membrane Growth and Composition Are Altered by Overexpression of Specific Inclusion Membrane Proteins in Chlamydia trachomatis L2	13
Editorial Board	13
Getting Your Neutrophil: Neutrophil Transepithelial Migration in the Lung	13
TargeTron Inactivation of Chlamydia trachomatis gseA Results in a Lipopolysaccharide 3-Deoxy- d -Manno-Oct-2-Ulosonic Acid-Deficient S	13
Chlamydia Spreads to the Large Intestine Lumen via Multiple Pathways	13
Surface Glycans Regulate Salmonella Infection-Dependent Directional Switch in Macrophage Galvanotaxis Independent of NanH	13
Articles of Significant Interest in This Issue	13
MASP1 modulation as a novel therapeutic target in severe pediatric pertussis: insights from a multi-omics approach	12
Immunostimulatory effects of Streptococcus sanguinis extracellular membrane vesicles protect oral gingival epithelial cells from periodontal pathobiont damage	12
Antibody-Dependent Enhancement of Bacterial Disease: Prevalence, Mechanisms, and Treatment	12
TLR7 Expression Aggravates Invasive Pulmonary Aspergillosis by Suppressing Anti- Aspergillus Immunity of Macrophages	12
Effect of tryptophan starvation on inclusion membrane composition and chlamydial-host interactions	12
Functional Properties of Oligomeric and Monomeric Forms of Helicobacter pylori VacA Toxin	12
Assessing the Role of Cold-Shock Protein C: a Novel Regulator of Acinetobacter baumannii Biofilm Formation and Virulence	12
Cutibacterium acnes : the Urgent Need To Identify Diagnosis Markers	12
Orientia tsutsugamushi alters the intranuclear balance of cullin-1 and c-MYC to inhibit apoptosis	12
Candida albicans enhances iron uptake to maintain fluconazole resistance	12
Legionella pneumophila Cas2 Promotes the Expression of Small Heat Shock Protein C2 That Is Required for Thermal Tolerance and Optimal Intracellular Infection	12

Streptococcus pyogenes TrxSR Two-Component System Regulates Biofilm Production in Acidic Environments	12
Hypoxia-Inducible Factor Signaling in Macrophages Promotes Lymphangiogenesis in Leishmania major Infection	11
FlgM is required to evade NLRC4-mediated host protection against flagellated Salmonella	11
Progress toward a vaccine for extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli (ExPEC) II: efficacy of a toxin-autotransporter dual antigen approach	11
Inducible MicroRNA-132 Inhibits the Production of Inflammatory Cytokines by Targeting TRAF6, TAK1, and TAB1 in Teleost Fish	11
Host Immunity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection Is Similar in Simian Immunodeficiency Virus (SIV)-Infected, Antiretroviral Therapy-Treated and SIV-Naïve Juvenile Macaques	11
Transcriptional and Translational Responsiveness of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae Type IV Secretion System to Conditions of Host Infections	11
Mucosal vaccination in a murine gnotobiotic model of Giardia lamblia infection	11
AB569, a Novel, Topical Bactericidal Gel Formulation, Kills Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Promotes Wound Healing in a Murine Model of Burn Wound Infection	11
The Transcriptional Regulator SpxA1 Influences the Morphology and Virulence of Listeria monocytogenes	11
Bacterial surface lipoproteins mediate epithelial microinvasion by Streptococcus pneumoniae	11
NLRP3 Plays a Key Role in Antihelminth Immunity in the Enteral and Parenteral Stages of Trichinella spiralis-Infected Mice	11
Legionella pneumophila inhibits type I interferon signaling to avoid cell-intrinsic host cell defense	10
Effects of Trichinella spiralis and its serine protease inhibitors on autophagy of host small intestinal cells	10
Echinococcus multilocularis serpin regulates macrophage polarization and reduces gut dysbiosis in colitis	10
The SapM phosphatase can arrest phagosome maturation in an ESX-1 independent manner in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and BCG	10
ER-transiting bacterial toxins amplify STING innate immune responses and elicit ER stress	10
Drosophila melanogaster as an organism model for studying cystic fibrosis and its major associated microbial infections	10
Specific interaction between Group B Streptococcus CC17 hypervirulent clone and phagocytes	10
Fungal mechanisms of intracellular survival: what can we learn from bacterial pathogens?	10
Brachyspira Species Avidity to Colonic Mucins from Pigs with and without Brachyspira hyodysenteriae Infection Is Species Specific and Varies between Strains	10
Metabolic diversity of human macrophages: potential influence on Staphylococcus aureus intracellular survival	10
Single-domain antibodies reveal unique borrelicidal epitopes on the Lyme disease vaccine antigen, outer surface protein A (OspA)	10
Apolipoprotein E genotype affects innate susceptibility to Listeria monocytogenes infection in aged male mice	10
The Rrp2-RpoN-RpoS pathway plays an important role in the blood-brain barrier transmigration of the Lyme disease pathogen	10
Salmonella Typhimurium infection inhibits macrophage IFNβ signaling in a TLR4-dependent manner	10
Monoclonal Antibody Therapy against Acinetobacter baumannii	10
Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection drives differential responses in the bone marrow hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells	10
Critical roles of Rickettsia parkeri outer membrane protein B (OmpB) in the tick host	10
IL-23 receptor signaling licenses group 3-like innate lymphoid cells to restrict a live-attenuated oral Chlamydia vaccine in the gut	10
Protection Induced by Oral Vaccination with a Recombinant Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Delivering Yersinia pestis LcrV and F1 Antigens in M	10
Co-infection dynamics of B. afzelii and TBEV in C3H mice: insights and implications for future research	10
Immunobiology of the Classical Lancefield Group A Streptococcal Carbohydrate Antigen	10
Distribution characteristics of the Legionella CRISPR-Cas system and its regulatory mechanism underpinning phenotypic function	9
Spatiotemporal Variations in Growth Rate and Virulence Plasmid Copy Number during Yersinia pseudotuberculosis Infection	9
Resistance of Streptococcus pneumoniae to Hypothiocyanous Acid Generated by Host Peroxidases	9
Preclinical Immunogenicity and Efficacy of Optimized O25b O-Antigen Glycoconjugates To Prevent MDR ST131 E. coli Infections	9
Single-Cell Heterogeneity of the Liver-Infiltrating Lymphocytes in Individuals with Chronic Echinococcus multilocularis Infection	9
Toxoplasma gondii infection induces the expression of the chemokine CXCL16 in macrophages to promote chemoattraction of CXCR6 ⁺ cells	9
Genomic Analysis of MSM Rectal Chlamydia trachomatis Isolates Identifies Predicted Tissue-Tropic Lineages Generated by Intraspecies Lateral Gene Transfer-Mediated Evolution	9
Listeria monocytogenes requires DHNA-dependent intracellular redox homeostasis facilitated by Ndh2 for survival and virulence	9
Host Chromatin Regulators Required for Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans Cytolethal Distending Toxin Activity in Saccharomyces cerevisiae Model	9
The choline-binding proteins PspA, PspC, and LytA of Streptococcus pneumoniae and their interaction with human endothelial and red blood cells	9
The Glycoprotein 340’s Scavenger Receptor Cysteine-Rich Domain Promotes Adhesion of Staphylococcus aureus and Pseudomonas aeruginosa to Contact Lens Polymers	9
Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha Contributes to Inflammatory Pathology in the Placenta during Brucella abortus Infection	9
NanJ Is the Major Sialidase for Clostridium perfringens Type F Food Poisoning Strain 01E809	9
A Staphylococcal Glucosaminidase Drives Inflammatory Responses by Processing Peptidoglycan Chains to Physiological Lengths	9
Crossing Kingdoms: How the Mycobiota and Fungal-Bacterial Interactions Impact Host Health and Disease	9
Detoxification of reactive oxygen species by the hyaluronic acid capsule of group A Streptococcus	9
Contribution of Hfq to gene regulation and virulence in Histophilus somni	9
Identification of Two Variants of Acinetobacter baumannii Strain ATCC 17978 with Distinct Genotypes and Phenotypes	9
Persistence Alters the Interaction between Chlamydia trachomatis and Its Host Cell	9
The Metabolic Adaptation in Response to Nitrate Is Critical for Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae Growth and Pathogenicity under the Regulation of NarQ/P	9
Molecular mechanisms of Coxiella burnetii formalin-fixed cellular vaccine reactogenicity	9
Inhibition of transient receptor potential vanilloid 1 reduces shedding and transmission during Streptococcus pneumoniae co-infection with influenza	9
Acute Infection with a Tobramycin-Induced Small Colony Variant of Staphylococcus aureus Causes Increased Inflammation in the Cystic Fibrosis Rat Lung	8
Protein-based vaccine candidate MecVax broadly protects against enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli intestinal colonization in a rabbit model	8
Distinct Molecular Features of NleG Type 3 Secreted Effectors Allow for Different Roles during Citrobacter rodentium Infection in Mice	8
Legionella pneumophila Rhizoferrin Promotes Bacterial Biofilm Formation and Growth within Amoebae and Macrophages	8
Articles of Significant Interest in This Issue	8
Articles of Significant Interest In This Issue	8
Molecular Dynamics for Antimicrobial Peptide Discovery	8
Loss of Interleukin-10 (IL-10) Signaling Promotes IL-22-Dependent Host Defenses against Acute Clostridioides difficile Infection	8
A call for the United States to continue investing in science	8
The Enhancer-Binding Protein MifR, an Essential Regulator of α-Ketoglutarate Transport, Is Required for Full Virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PAO1 in a Mouse Model of Pneumonia	8
Methamphetamine Enhances Cryptococcus neoformans Melanization, Antifungal Resistance, and Pathogenesis in a Murine Model of Drug Administration and Systemic Infection	8
A Co-Association of Streptococcus mutans and Veillonella parvula/dispar in Root Caries Patients and In Vitro Biofilms	8
Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Induces NAIP/NLRC4- and NLRP3/ASC-Independent, Caspase-4-Dependent Inflammasome Activation in Human Intestinal Epithelial Cells	8
Identification of Multiple Iron Uptake Mechanisms in Enterococcus faecalis and Their Relationship to Virulence	8
Two MP2CL5 Antigen Vaccines from Naegleria fowleri Stimulate the Immune Response against Meningitis in the BALB/c Model	8
Differential Response to the Course of Cryptosporidium parvum Infection and Its Impact on Epithelial Integrity in Differentiated versus Undifferentiated Human Intestinal Enteroids	8
Editorial Board	8
Neutrophil-Derived Oncostatin M Triggers Diverse Signaling Pathways during Pneumonia	8
Meet the Future Leaders in the Field of Host-Microbe Interactions	8
Localization and RNA Interference-Driven Inhibition of a Brugia malayi-Encoded Interleukin-5 Receptor Binding Protein	8
Expression of Concern for Dellacasagrande et al., “α _v β ₃ Integrin and Bacterial Lipopolysaccharide Are Involved in <	8
Categorizing Sequences of Concern by Function To Better Assess Mechanisms of Microbial Pathogenesis	8
ToxR Mediates the Antivirulence Activity of Phenyl-Arginine-β-Naphthylamide To Attenuate Vibrio cholerae Virulence	8
VAMP3 and VAMP8 Regulate the Development and Functionality of Parasitophorous Vacuoles Housing Leishmania amazonensis	8
Class-Driven Synergy and Antagonism between a Pseudomonas Phage and Antibiotics	8

Characterization of Pathogenic CD8 ⁺ T cells in Chlamydia-Infected OT1 Mice	8
Novel Pneumococcal Protein-Polysaccharide Conjugate Vaccine Based on Biotin-Streptavidin	8
Roles of Eicosanoids in Regulating Inflammation and Neutrophil Migration as an Innate Host Response to Bacterial Infections	8
Acquisition of Gonococcal AniA-NorB Pathway by the Neisseria meningitidis Urethritis Clade Confers Denitrifying and Microaerobic Respiration Advantages for Urogenital Adaptation	8
Editorial Board	8
Risky Business: Oropharyngeal Bacteria Linked to Risk for Invasive Fungal Infection	8
Proteomics Profiling Reveals Regulation of Immune Response to Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Infection in Mice	8
W. LaJean Chaffin (1942–2021)	8
Identification of Listeria monocytogenes Genes Contributing to Oxidative Stress Resistance under Conditions Relevant to Host Infection	8
Development of a Tag/Catcher-mediated capsid virus-like particle vaccine presenting the conserved Neisseria gonorrhoeae SliC antigen that blocks human lysozyme	8
Identification of the glycopeptide epitope recognized by a protective Cryptosporidium monoclonal antibody	8
Plasmodium falciparum Cysteine-Rich Protective Antigen (CyRPA) Elicits Detectable Levels of Invasion-Inhibitory Antibodies during Natural Infection in Humans	8
Human Intelectin-1 Promotes Cellular Attachment and Neutrophil Killing of Streptococcus pneumoniae in a Serotype-Dependent Manner	8
Trypanosoma cruzi Exploits E- and P-Selectins To Migrate Across Endothelial Cells and Extracellular Matrix Proteins	8
A Comparative Study of Body Lice and Bed Bugs Reveals Factors Potentially Involved in Differential Vector Competence for the Relapsing Fever Spirochete Borrelia recurrentis	8
Type I Interferon Signaling on Antigen-Presenting Cells Blunts Cell-Mediated Immunity toward Listeria monocytogenes	8
Isolate-Dependent Differences in Clinical, Pathological, and Transcriptional Profiles followingIn VitroandIn VivoInfections with Rickettsia rickettsii	8
Adherence Enables Neisseria gonorrhoeae to Overcome Zinc Limitation Imposed by Nutritional Immunity Proteins	7
The Innate Immune Response in the Marmoset during the Acute Pneumonic Disease Caused by Burkholderia pseudomallei	7
IFN-γ ^–/– Mice Resist Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae Infection by Promoting Early Lung IL-18 Release and PMN-I Accumulation	7
Articles of Significant Interest in This Issue	7
Prophylactic Inhibition of Colonization by Streptococcus pneumoniae with the Secondary Bile Acid Metabolite Deoxycholic Acid	7
Deficiency of Innate Immunity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa Enhances Behavioral Avoidance via the HECW-1/NPR-1 Module in Caenorhabditis elegans	7
Living in Your Skin: Microbes, Molecules, and Mechanisms	7
Type-I Interferon Signaling Protects against Chlamydia trachomatis Infection in the Female Lower Genital Tract	7
Editorial Board	7
The Kingella kingae PilC1 MIDAS Motif Is Essential for Type IV Pilus Adhesive Activity and Twitching Motility	7
Erratum for Noh et al., “Identification of Anaplasma marginale adhesins for entry into Dermacentor andersoni tick cells using phage displa	7
Gut Microbiota and Development of Vibrio cholerae-Specific Long-Term Memory B Cells in Adults after Whole-Cell Killed Oral Cholera Vaccine	7
Mitochondrial Fusion Mediated by Mitofusin 1 Regulates Macrophage Mycobactericidal Activity by Enhancing Autophagy	7
Inhibition of the Classical Pathway of Complement Activation Impairs Bacterial Clearance during Enterococcus faecalis Infection	7
Lipid A modification of colistin-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae does not alter innate immune response in a mouse model of pneumonia	7
Long-term changes in the phenotype and cytokine production of monocytes in COVID-19 recovered and vaccinated individuals	7
Phospholipase C epsilon-1 (PLCƐ1) mediates macrophage activation and protection against tuberculosis	7
Article of Significant Interest in This Issue	7
Staphylococcus aureus Fibronectin-Binding Proteins Contribute to Colonization of the Female Reproductive Tract	7
Article of Significant Interest in This Issue	7
Development of Two Mouse Models for Vaccine Evaluation against Cryptosporidiosis	7
Plasmodium yoelii surface-related antigen (PySRA) modulates the host pro-inflammatory responses via binding to CD68 on macrophage membrane	7
Vaccination with a ZNF2 ^oe Strain of Cryptococcus Provides Long-Lasting Protection against Cryptococcosis and Is Effective in Immunocompromised Ho	7
The Benefits of Exporting: Engineered Extracellular Vesicles as Promising Vaccine Candidates against Enteric Fever	7
Articles of Significant Interest in This Issue	7
Examining the Distribution and Impact of Single-Nucleotide Polymorphisms in the Capsular Locus of Streptococcus pneumoniae Serotype 19A	7
Distinct Serotypes of Streptococcal M Proteins Mediate Fibrinogen-Dependent Platelet Activation and Proinflammatory Effects	7
MRSA Isolates from Patients with Persistent Bacteremia Generate Nonstable Small Colony Variants In Vitro within Macrophages and Endothelial Cells during Prolonged Vancom	7
Ostertagia ostertagiMediates Early Host Immune Responses via Macrophage and Toll-Like Receptor Pathways	7
Pseudomonas Synergizes with Fluconazole against Candida during Treatment of Polymicrobial Infection	7
Bile Salts Promote ToxR Regulon Activation during Growth under Virulence-Inducing Conditions	7
Manganese uptake by MtsABC contributes to the pathogenesis of human pathogen group A streptococcus by resisting host nutritional immune defenses	7
Analysis of the Brucella suis Twin Arginine Translocation System and Its Substrates Shows That It Is Essential for Viability	7
Oral streptococci S. anginosus and S. mitis induce distinct morphological, inflammatory, and metabolic signatures in macrophages	7
The Diadenylate Cyclase CdaA Is Critical for Borrelia turicatae Virulence and Physiology	7
Class B Scavenger Receptors BI and BII Protect against LPS-Induced Acute Lung Injury in Mice by Mediating LPS	7
Early Activation of iNKT Cells Increased Survival Time of BALB/c Mice in a Murine Model of Melioidosis	7
Purinergic P2X7 Receptor Mediates the Elimination of Trichinella spiralis by Activating NF-κB/NLRP3/IL-1β Pathway in Macrophages	7
The Interplay between Gut Microbiota and the Immune System in Liver Transplant Recipients and Its Role in Infections	7
Correction for Barrios et al., “Mucins Shed from the Laminated Layer in Cystic Echinococcosis are Captured by Kupffer Cells via the Lectin Receptor Clec4F”	7
Vibrio cholerae Infection Induces Strain-Specific Modulation of the Zebrafish Intestinal Microbiome	7
Surviving Serum: the Escherichia coli iss Gene of Extraintestinal Pathogenic E. coli Is Required for the Synthesis of Group 4 Capsule	7
Cathelicidin boosts the antifungal activity of neutrophils and improves prognosis during Aspergillus fumigatus keratitis	7
Crucial Role for Lipoteichoic Acid Assembly in the Metabolic Versatility and Antibiotic Resistance of Staphylococcus aureus	7
Bacterial Chitinases and Their Role in Human Infection	6
Lipid Transport by Candida albicans Dnf2 Is Required for Hyphal Growth and Virulence	6
Macrophages in Microbial Pathogenesis: Commonalities of Defense Evasion Mechanisms	6
Bacillus -Based Direct-Fed Microbial Reduces the Pathogenic Synergy of a Coinfection with Salmonella enterica Serovar Choleraesuis and Porcine Reproductive and Respiratory Syndrome	6
Convergent Evolution of Antibiotic Tolerance in Patients with Persistent Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia	6
Evaluating small extracellular vesicle-based vaccination across heterologous Salmonella strains isolated from wastewater	6
The Type 7b Secretion System of S. aureus and Its Role in Colonization and Systemic Infection	6
Functional Characterization of Non-Ankyrin Repeat Domains of Orientia tsutsugamushi Ank Effectors Reveals Their Importance for Molecular Pathogenesis	6
Article of Significant Interest in This Issue	6
Expression of Concern for Galdiero et al., “Role of Surface-Exposed Loops of Haemophilus influenzae Protein P2 in the Mitogen-Activated Protein Kinase Cascade”	6
Finding Order in the Chaos: Outstanding Questions in Klebsiella pneumoniae Pathogenesis	6
Global Transcriptomic Study of Circular-RNA Expression Profile in Osteoclasts Infected by Intracellular Staphylococcus aureus	6
Coxiella burnetii Virulent Phase I and Avirulent Phase II Variants Differentially Manipulate Autophagy Pathway in Neutrophils	6
The Small RNA Teg41 Is a Pleiotropic Regulator of Virulence in Staphylococcus aureus	6
miR-495 Regulates Cellular Reactive Oxygen Species Levels by Targeting sod2 To Inhibit Intracellular Survival of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in Macrophages	6
Cyclopropane Fatty Acids Are Important for Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Virulence	6
Dectin-1/CARD9 induction of the TFEB and TFE3 gene network is dispensable for phagocyte anti- Aspergillus activity in the lung	6
Immunometabolic reprogramming in macrophages infected with active and dormant Cryptococcus neoformans : differential modulation of respiration, glycolysis, and fatty aci	6
Orientia tsutsugamushi OtDUB Is Expressed and Interacts with Adaptor Protein Complexes during Infection	6
Ferrous Iron Uptake Is Required for Salmonella to Persist within Vacuoles of Host Cells	6
Correction for Popov et al., “Distinct Molecular Features of NleG Type 3 Secreted Effectors Allow for Different Roles during Citrobacter rodentium Infection in Mice”	6
Broadly Reactive Human Monoclonal Antibodies Targeting the Pneumococcal Histidine Triad Protein Protect against Fatal Pneumococcal Infection	6
Identification of Leptospiral Protein Antigens Recognized by WC1 ⁺ γδ T Cell Subsets as Target for Development of Recombinant Vaccines	6
Neonatal Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli Infection Disrupts Microbiota-Gut-Brain Axis Signaling	6
Evolutionary Insights into the Microneme-Secreted, Chitinase-Containing High-Molecular-Weight Protein Complexes Involved in Plasmodium Invasion of the Mosquito Midgut	6
Associations between prenatal malaria exposure, maternal antibodies at birth, and malaria susceptibility during the first year of life in Burkina Faso	6
PET Imaging of Translocator Protein as a Marker of Malaria-Associated Lung Inflammation	6
The Rcs Stress Response System Regulator GumB Modulates Serratia marcescens-Induced Inflammation and Bacterial Proliferation in a Rabbit Keratitis Model and Cytotoxicity In Vitro	6
Morphogenetic penicillin-binding proteins control virulence-associated type III secretion systems in Salmonella	6
Evidence that staphylococcal superantigens promote within-patient bacterial persistence following post-operative surgical site infection	6
TSST-1 promotes colonization of Staphylococcus aureus within the vaginal tract by activation of CD8 ⁺ T cells	6
Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli Enterotoxins Regulate Epithelial to Immune Relay of IL-33 and IL-1Ra Cytokines	6
Short-Chain Fatty Acids as a Potential Treatment for Infections: a Closer Look at the Lungs	6
The Intestinal Commensal, Bacteroides fragilis, Modulates Host Responses to Viral Infection and Therapy: Lessons for Exploration during Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection	6