Microbiology and Immunology

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Gold nanoparticle‐adjuvanted S protein induces a strong antigen‐specific IgG response against severe acute respiratory syndrome‐related coronavirus infection, but fails to induce protective antibodies	124
Inflammasome‐associated cell death: Pyroptosis, apoptosis, and physiological implications	124
Proteolytic activation of SARS‐CoV‐2 spike protein	82
Effect of cinnamon essential oil on gut microbiota in the mouse model of dextran sodium sulfate‐induced colitis	72
Antiviral activities of mycophenolic acid and IMD‐0354 against SARS‐CoV‐2	57
Animal infection models using non‐mammals	37
Advances on Vibrio parahaemolyticus research in the postgenomic era	31
Human immune responses elicited by an intranasal inactivated H5 influenza vaccine	25
Protective effect of surfactin on copper sulfate‐induced inflammation, oxidative stress, and hepatic injury in zebrafish	24
Current situation of viral hepatitis in Egypt	22
Caspase‐7 mediates caspase‐1‐induced apoptosis independently of Bid	21
Reduction of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus‐2 infectivity by admissible concentration of ozone gas and water	20
Coprobacter secundus subsp. similis subsp. nov. and Solibaculum mannosilyticum gen. nov., sp. nov., isolated from human feces	19
Intracellular survival and innate immune evasion of Burkholderia cepacia: Improved understanding of quorum sensing‐controlled virulence factors, biofilm, and inhibitors	15
Host innate and adaptive immunity shapes the gut microbiota biogeography	14
Molecular epidemiology of clinically high‐risk Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains: Practical overview	14
Genomic characterization of antibiotic resistance‐encoding genes in clinical isolates of Vibrio cholerae non‐O1/non‐O139 strains from Kolkata, India: generation of novel types of genomic island	13
Biogenesis of Type V pili	13
The impact of cytomegalovirus infection on clinical severity and outcomes in kidney transplant recipients with Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia	12
Development of a double‐antibody sandwich ELISA for sensitive detection of Yersinia pestis	12
Detection rates of periodontal bacteria and herpesviruses in different forms of periodontal disease	11
Achievements in bacterial flagellar research with focus on Vibrio species	11
CXC chemokine ligand 5 (CXCL5) disrupted the permeability of human brain microvascular endothelial cells via regulating p38 signal	11
Oncolytic viruses: what to expect from their use in cancer treatment	11
Current situation of carbapenem‐resistant Enterobacteriaceae and Acinetobacter in Japan and Southeast Asia	10

Pathogenicity of clinical Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium isolates from Thailand in a mouse colitis model	10
Virucidal activity and the antiviral mechanism of acidic polysaccharides against Enterovirus 71 infection in vitro	10
Amelioration of colitis in mice by Leuconostoc lactis EJ‐1 by M1 to M2 macrophage polarization	10
Secondary streptococcal infection following influenza	9
Systematic research to overcome newly emerged multidrug‐resistant bacteria	9
Measuring the subgingival microbiota in periodontitis patients: Comparison of the surface layer and the underlying layers	9
Azole‐resistant Aspergillus fumigatus as an emerging worldwide pathogen	9
Cytokines profile in patients with acute and chronic hepatitis B infection	9
Dectin‐2‐mediated signaling triggered by the cell wall polysaccharides of Cryptococcus neoformans	9
The candidate vaccine strain Brucella ovis ∆abcBA is protective against Brucella melitensis infection in mice	9
Changes of frequency and expression level of CD161 in CD8+ T cells and natural killer T cells in peripheral blood of patients with systemic lupus erythematosus	8
Recombinant Rv1654 protein of Mycobacterium tuberculosis induces mitochondria‐mediated apoptosis in macrophage	8
A synthetic peptide analog of in silico‐predicted immunogenic epitope unique to dengue virus serotype 2 NS1 antigen specifically binds immunoglobulin G antibodies raised in rabbits	8
Rimonabant suppresses RNA transcription of hepatitis B virus by inhibiting hepatocyte nuclear factor 4α	8
Subtractive proteomic analysis of antigenic extracellular proteins and design a multi‐epitope vaccine against Staphylococcus aureus	8
In vitro vRNA–vRNA interactions in the H1N1 influenza A virus genome	8
E190V substitution of H6 hemagglutinin is one of key factors for binding to sulfated sialylated glycan receptor and infection to chickens	8
Recent advances in structural studies of the Legionella pneumophila Dot/Icm type IV secretion system	7
Bacterial infections in the early period after liver transplantation in adults: A prospective single‐center cohort study	7
Epidemiology and molecular characterization of chikungunya virus from human cases in North India, 2016	7
BUD23–TRMT112 interacts with the L protein of Borna disease virus and mediates the chromosomal tethering of viral ribonucleoproteins	7
The role of C/EBP homologous protein (CHOP) in regulating macrophage polarization in RAW264.7 cells	6
Molecular signatures in cetacean morbillivirus and host species proteomes: Unveiling the evolutionary dynamics of an enigmatic pathogen?	6
Diversity of β‐hemolysins produced by the human opportunistic streptococci	6
Oral mitis group streptococci: A silent majority in our oral cavity	6
Antibacterial potential of selected phytomolecules: An experimental study	6
Actinomyces capricornis sp. nov., isolated from the oral cavity of a Japanese serow	6
Expression of small RNAs of Bordetella pertussis colonizing murine tracheas	6
TIMM29 interacts with hepatitis B virus preS1 to modulate the HBV life cycle	6
16S rRNA‐based amplicon analysis of changes in the bacterial population in the lesions of papillomatous digital dermatitis in dairy cattle after topical treatment with allyl isothiocyanate	6
Phocine distemper virus uses phocine and other animal SLAMs as a receptor but not human SLAM	6
Prevalence and genomic characterization of Group A Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis isolated from patients with invasive infections in Toyama prefecture, Japan	6
Evaluation of CHROMagar™ Candida Plus chromogenic agar for the presumptive identification of Candida auris	5
An efflux inhibitor of the MacAB pump in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium	5
Detection of the serological markers hepatitis B virus surface antigen (HBsAg) and hepatitis B core IgM antibody (anti‐HBcIgM) in the diagnosis of acute hepatitis B virus infection after recent exposu	5
Reverse genetics system for human rotaviruses	5
Proteomic analysis of CHIKV‐infected human fibroblast‐like synoviocytes: Identification of host factors potentially associated with CHIKV replication and cellular pathogenesis	5
Intracellular proliferation of Anaplasma phagocytophilum is promoted via modulation of endoplasmic reticulum stress signaling in host cells	5
Persistence of extended‐spectrum β‐lactamase plasmids among Enterobacteriaceae in commercial broiler farms	5
Functional roles of GRP78 in hepatitis B virus infectivity and antigen secretion	5
Susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa veterinary isolates to Pbunavirus PB1‐like phages	5
Resveratrol ameliorates thymus senescence changes in D‐galactose induced mice	5
Seven years of progress in determining fungal diversity and characterization of fungi isolated from the Japanese Experiment Module KIBO, International Space Station	5
A comprehensive profiling of innate immune responses in Eptesicus bat cells	5
Therapeutic effect of omega‐3 fatty acids on T cell‐mediated autoimmune diseases	5
Host phospholipase C‐γ1 impairs phagocytosis and killing of mycobacteria by J774A.1 murine macrophages	4
Molecular characteristics of an adhesion molecule containing cholesterol‐dependent cytolysin‐motif produced by mitis group streptococci	4
Hepatitis C virus, insulin resistance, and diabetes: A review	4
SdsA1, a secreted sulfatase, contributes to the in vivo virulence of Pseudomonas aeruginosa in mice	4
Identification of fungi isolated from astronaut nasal and pharyngeal smears and saliva	4

Probiotics as a biotherapeutics for the management and prevention of respiratory tract diseases	4
Novel and classical morbilliviruses: Current knowledge of three divergent morbillivirus groups	4
Targeting of neutrophil activation in the early phase of the disease for prevention of Coronavirus disease‐19 severity	4
Plasmodium infection cure cycles induce modulation of conventional dendritic cells	4
Antibacterial activity of phellodendron bark against Streptococcus mutans	4
Translocation domain of botulinum neurotoxin A subtype 2 potently induces entry into neuronal cells	4
Effects of immune checkpoint blockade on antigen‐specific CD8+ T cells for use in adoptive cellular therapy	4
Crawling motility of Treponema denticola modulated by outer sheath protein	4
Abiotrophia defectiva adhere to saliva‐coated hydroxyapatite beads via interactions between salivary proline‐rich‐proteins and bacterial glyceraldehyde‐3‐phosphate dehydrogenase	4
Smoking enhances the expression of angiotensin‐converting enzyme 2 involved in the efficiency of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 infection	4
Influenza A virus protein PA‐X suppresses host Ankrd17‐mediated immune responses	3
Meningitis and bacteremia by nonhemolytic Group B Streptococcus strain: A whole genome analysis	3
Prevalence of saliva immunoglobulin A antibodies reactive with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 among Japanese people unexposed to the virus	3
Continuous prevalence of VEB‐3 extended‐spectrum β‐lactamase‐producing Aeromonas hydrophila in a local river in gifu city, Japan	3
Hepatitis A virus and hepatitis E virus prevalence relates to human immunodeficiency virus infection in Japanese male blood donors	3
Host response to the subtilase cytotoxin produced by locus of enterocyte effacement‐negative Shiga‐toxigenic Escherichia coli	3
Vibrio cholerae toxin coregulated pilus provokes inflammatory responses in Coculture model of Caco‐2 and peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) leading to increased colonization	3
Identification potential epigenetic biomarkers of a human immunodeficiency virus/tuberculosis co‐infection based on weighted gene co‐expression network analysis	3
Duck Tembusu virus induces stronger cellular responses than Japanese encephalitis virus in primary duck neurons and fibroblasts	3
Rapid prototyping vaccine approach in mice against multi‐drug resistant Gram‐negative organisms from clinical isolates based on outer membrane vesicles	3
Comprehensive characterization of sortase A‐dependent surface proteins in Streptococcus mutans	3
cydA, spdC, and mroQ are novel genes involved in the plasma coagulation of Staphylococcus aureus	3
A comparative study of valaciclovir, valganciclovir, and artesunate efficacy in reactivated HHV‐6 and HHV‐7 infections associated with chronic fatigue syndrome/myalgic encephalomyelitis	3
Macrophage colony‐stimulating factor potentially induces recruitment and maturation of macrophages in recurrent pituitary neuroendocrine tumors	3
Conserved immunogenic peptides of Ebola glycoprotein elicit immune response in human peripheral blood mononuclear cells	3
The changes of respiratory microbiome between mild and severe asthma patients	3
Expression of virulence factors under different environmental conditions in Aggregatibacter actinomycetemcomitans	3
Identification of the minimum region of Bordetella pertussis Vag8 required for interaction with C1 inhibitor	3
β‐Glycyrrhetinic acid inhibits the bacterial growth and biofilm formation by supragingival plaque commensals	3
Downregulation of hepatitis C virus replication by miR‐196a using lentiviral vectors	3
Human cytomegalovirus UL42 protein inhibits the degradation of glycoprotein B through inhibition of Nedd4 family ubiquitin E3 ligases	3
Induction of antibody responses in mice immunized intranasally with Type I interferon as adjuvant and synergistic effect of chitosan	3
The risk of unintentional propagation of poliovirus can be minimized by using human cell lines lacking the functional CD155 gene	3
Gene expression in lung epithelial cells following interaction with Pneumocystis carinii and its specific life forms yields insights into host gene responses to infection	3
Phenotypic characterization of human peripheral γδT‐cell subsets in glioblastoma	2
Advances of genetic engineering in streptococci and enterococci	2
Infectious sporozoite challenge modulates radiation attenuated sporozoite vaccine–induced memory CD8+ T cells for better survival characteristics	2
Interaction of Escherichia coli and its culture supernatant with Vibrio vulnificus during biofilm formation	2
Multiple clades of SARS‐CoV‐2 were introduced to Thailand during the first quarter of 2020	2
Serological survey of influenza A virus infection in Japanese wild boars (Sus scrofa leucomystax)	2
Comparison of abacavir‐specific effector and proliferating functions of CD8 T cells in abacavir‐treated HIV‐1 patients	2
Pneumococcal proteins ClpC and UvrC as novel host plasminogen binding factors	2
Study of surface activation markers on CD3−CD16+ NK cells and their correlation with clinical manifestations in children with infectious mononucleosis	2
Effect of mTOR inhibitors during CMV disease in kidney transplant recipients: Results of a pilot retrospective study	2
Change in membrane potential induced by streptolysin O, a pore‐forming toxin: flow cytometric analysis using a voltage‐sensitive fluorescent probe and rat thymic lymphocytes	2
Nicotinamide phosphoribosyltransferase inhibitor is a novel therapeutic candidate in LPS‐induced neutrophil extracellular traps	2
Deneddylation by SENP8 restricts hepatitis B virus propagation	2
Human cytomegalovirus infection activates NLRP3 inflammasome by releasing mtDNA into the cytosol in human THP‐1 cells	2
Toll‐interacting protein in the freshwater fish Labeo rohita exhibits conserved structural motifs of higher eukaryotes and is distinctly expressed in pathogen‐associated molecular pattern stimu	2
Sulfated vizantin inhibits biofilm maturation by Streptococcus mutans	2
Potential role of green tea amino acid l‐theanine in the activation of innate immune response by enhancing expression of cytochrome b558 responsible for the reactiv	2
The landscape of extrapulmonary manifestations of human parainfluenza viruses: A systematic narrative review	2
Antimicrobial resistance in Enterobacteriaceae isolated from arthropods in Gifu City, Japan	2
Expression and diversity of the sialic acid–binding adhesin and its homologs associated with oral streptococcal infection	2
Emergence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus serotype O10:K4 in Thailand	2
Monoclonal antibodies against foot‐and‐mouth disease virus RNA polymerase for detection of virus infection	2
Interleukin IL‐1B gene polymorphism in Tunisian patients with chronic hepatitis B infection: Association with replication levels	2
Establishment of a system to quantify wild‐type herpes simplex virus–induced cell–cell fusion reveals a role of N‐glycosylation of HSV‐1 envelope glycoprotein B in cell–cell fusion	2
Prospective study of ALDH1A1 gene polymorphisms associated with antituberculosis drug‐induced liver injury in western Chinese Han population	2
Antimicrobial peptide HI‐3 from Hermetia illucens alleviates inflammation in lipopolysaccharide‐stimulated RAW264.7 cells via suppression of the nuclear factor kappa‐B signaling pathway	2
Large‐scale investigation of zoonotic viruses in the era of high‐throughput sequencing	2
Corrigendum	2
Tacrolimus inhibits stress responses and hyphal formation via the calcineurin signaling pathway in Trichosporon asahii	2
Establishment of monoclonal antibodies broadly neutralize infection of hepatitis B virus	2
Transforming growth factor‐β promotes the function of HIV‐specific CXCR5+CD8 T cells	2
Promising whole‐cell vaccines against cryptococcosis	2
A retrospective study of DNA prevalence of porcine parvoviruses in Mexico and its relationship with porcinecircovirusassociated disease	2
Next‐generation sequencing for typing human papillomaviruses and predicting multi‐infections and their clinical symptoms	2
Immune response variations and intestinal flora changes in mastitis induced by three Streptococcus uberis strains	1
Molecular characterization of rotaviruses obtained from patients with rotavirus‐associated encephalitis/encephalopathy	1
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SlyA regulates virulence gene expressions through activation of pchA regulatory gene in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli	1
Elizabethkingia anophelis, an emerging pathogen, inhibits RAW 264.7 macrophage function	1
Differential activation of innate and adaptive lymphocytes during latent or active infection with Mycobacterium tuberculosis	1
Coccomyxa sp.KJ extract affects the fate of T cells stimulated by toxic shock syndrome toxin‐1, a superantigen secreted by Staphylococcus aureus	1
Comparison of cytokine production in mice inoculated with messenger RNA vaccines BNT162b2 and mRNA‐1273	1
The immunoregulatory axis (programmed death‐1/programmed death ligand‐1) on CD4+ T cells in lupus nephritis: association with vitamin D and chemokine C‐X‐C motif ligand 12	1
Association of the rs4143815 polymorphism of PDL1 gene with HTLV‐1 infection and proviral load in asymptomatic blood donors in northeast Iran	1
Human leptospirosis in the Marche region: Over 10 years of surveillance	1
Molecular characterization of infectious bronchitis virus based on RNA‐dependent RNA polymerase gene	1

Telmisartan ameliorates LPS‐induced pneumonia in rats through regulation of the PPARγ/NF‐κB pathway	1
Development of a novel T cell‐oriented vaccine using CTL/Th‐hybrid epitope long peptide and biodegradable microparticles, against an intracellular bacterium	1
Human herpesvirus 6A U27 plays an essential role for the virus propagation	1
What is the clinical impact of occult HBV infections and anti‐HBc positivity in patients with chronic hepatitis C?	1
Prevalence of human immunodeficiency virus among pulmonary tuberculosis patients: A cross‐sectional study	1
Mannose binding lectin‐associated serine protease 2 (MASP2) gene polymorphism and susceptibility to human T‐lymphotropic virus type 1 (HTLV‐1) infection in blood donors from Mashhad, Iran	1
The autotransporter BafA contributes to the proangiogenic potential of Bartonella elizabethae	1
Ceramic absorbed with calcium bicarbonate mesoscopic crystals partially inactivate scrapie prions	1
Short sequence repeats of the intergenic spacer regions of ribosomal RNA genes in Malassezia globosa and Malassezia restricta colonizing the scalps of male individuals with and without a	1
Differences in the sequence of PlcR transcriptional regulator–binding site affect sphingomyelinase production in Bacillus cereus	1
Viral shedding and the durability of immunoglobulin G antibodies to severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2	1
Hepatitis C virus genotypes in patients with chronic hepatitis C infection in southern Iran from 2016 to 2019	1
Neurotrophic factor levels in the serum and cerebrospinal fluid of neonates infected with human cytomegalovirus	1
The Guinea pig cytomegalovirus GP119.1 gene encodes an IgG‐binding glycoprotein that is incorporated into the virion	1
Epidemiological and hematological investigation of dengue virus infection	1
Human serum albumin stabilizes streptolysin S activity secreted in the extracellular milieu by streptolysin S‐producing streptococci	1
Chronic hepatitis C virus infection impairs natural killer cells–dendritic cells cross‐talk: An in vitro culture study	1
Nationwide prevalence of Torque teno sus virus 1 and k2a in pig populations in Japan	1
The relevance between anti‐rods/rings antibody and different treatment regimens in chronic hepatitis C virus infection	1
Sendai virus C protein affects macrophage function, which plays a critical role in modulating disease severity during Sendai virus infection in mice	1
Production of high‐titer transmission‐defective RNA virus‐based episomal vector using tangential flow filtration	1
Diagnostic reference value of antibody levels measured using enzyme immunoassay for subacute sclerosing panencephalitis	1
Rhodococcus equiU19 strain harbors a nonmobilizable virulence plasmid	1
Detection and quantification of Epstein–Barr virus, cytomegalovirus, and human herpesvirus‐6 in stomach frozen tissue of chronic gastritis and gastric cancer patients	1
ldhA‐induced persister in Escherichia coli is formed through accidental SOS response via intracellular metabolic perturbation	1
Involvement of ribonuclease Y in pilus production by M49 Streptococcus pyogenes strain via modulation of messenger RNA level of transcriptional regulator	1
Basic reproduction numbers of three strains of mouse hepatitis viruses in mice	1
Diagnostic value of lncRNA NORAD in pulmonary tuberculosis and its regulatory role in Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection of macrophages	1
Inhibition of JC polyomavirus infectivity by the retrograde transport inhibitor Retro‐2.1	1
Effects of antibiotics on the viability of and toxin production by Clostridium botulinum	1
Analysis of the upstream genetic structures of the ISEcp1‐blaCTX‐M transposition units in Escherichia coli isolates carrying blaCTX‐M obtained from th	1
Seroepidemiology of hepatitis A virus infection in Japan: An area of very low endemicity	1
High mobility group nucleosomal binding 2 reduces integrin α5/β1‐mediated adhesion of Klebsiella pneumoniae on human pulmonary epithelial cells via nuclear factor I	1
Intracellular proliferation of clover yellow vein virus is unaffected by the recessive resistance gene cyv1 of Pisum sativum	1
Prediction of putative epitope‐based vaccine against all corona virus strains for the Chinese population: Approach toward development of vaccine	1
Immunization with autotransporter Vag8 prevents coughing induced by Bordetella pertussis infection in mice	1