Tuberculosis diagnosis, drug resistance, and drug target discovery

Robert Jansen, Xueqiong Wu, Lin Fan, Ranjan Nanda, Raquel Villar-Hernández

Frontiers Media SA

Tuberculosis (TB) threatens global public health and remains one of the major infectious diseases...

Science Microbiology Infectious Agents and Disease

Keywords: Tuberculosis,­diagnosis,­M. tuberculosis,­Drug Resistance,­Drug susceptibility test,­Drug target discovery

Immunotherapies Against Infectious Diseases

Saba Tufail, Mohammad Asif Sherwani, Najmul Islam

Frontiers Media SA

Infectious diseases have jeopardized human health significantly as evidenced by the ongoing...

Health Medicine Infectious Agents and Disease

Keywords: Immunotherapy,­preventative vaccine,­Therapeutic vaccine,­infectious diseases,­delivery system,­intracellular pathogens,­adjuvants,­humoral immunity,­Cellular immunity,­mAb based therapy,­T cell based therapy,­Cytokines,­Checkpoint inhibitors

Mobile DNA Element-Driven Evolution of Bacterial Pathogens

Axel Cloeckaert, Michel Stanislas Zygmunt, Filipa F. Vale, Eric Altermann

Frontiers Media SA

Mobile DNA elements, such as Insertion Sequence (IS) elements, transposons, integrative elements...

Science Microbiology Infectious Agents and Disease

Keywords: insertion sequence,­Bacterial pathogen,­genome evolution,­chromosome,­Plasmid,­antimicrobial resistance,­Virulence,­adaptation,­regulation,­Mobile DNA,­Transposon,­Genomic island,­prophage

Reviews in Microbial Pathogenesis

Axel Cloeckaert, Daniel Pletzer, Svetlana Khaiboullina

Frontiers Media SA

The current research topic aims to publish high-quality scholarly review papers on key topics in...

Science Microbiology Infectious Agents and Disease

Keywords: Microbiology,­review,­Infectious Disease,­pathogens,­Microbial Pathogenesis,­Virulence

Acute/Chronic Pathogen Infections: Roles of Resident, Probiotic, and Live Biotherapeutic Microbes in Limiting or Preventing Disease

George Grant, Jean-Philippe Lavigne, Alina Maria Holban, Meina Neumann-Schaal

Frontiers Media SA

Bacteria, viruses, fungi, and protists are present on all epithelia of the human body, including...

Science Microbiology Infectious Agents and Disease

Keywords: pathogen infection,­host susceptibility,­Dysbiosis,­epithelial and immune function,­modulation of resident microbes,­use of probiotics and live biotherapeutic products,­host-pathogen interaction,­microbiome

Salmonella spp.- Transmission, Pathogenesis, Host-pathogen interaction, Prevention and Treatment

Sébastien Holbert, George Grant, Patrick J. Naughton

Frontiers Media SA

Salmonella infection, also known as Salmonellosis, is a common zoonotic food-borne infection in...

Science Microbiology Infectious Agents and Disease

Keywords: Pathogenesis,­host-pathogen interaction,­Prevention and treatment,­salmonella infection,­salmonellosis,­enteric fever,­Typhoid Fever,­transmission

Host-pathogen crosstalk: implications in host cellular processes by intracellular pathogens

Rajni Garg, Deeksha Tripathi, Saurabh Mishra, Imtiyaz Yaseen

Frontiers Media SA

Infectious diseases are still leading cause of mortality around the world. Of particular importance...

Science Microbiology Infectious Agents and Disease

Keywords: host-pathogen interaction,­intracellular pathogens,­Infections,­Genomics,­epigenetics,­Metabolomics,­Virulence

Recent Advancements in mycobacterial diseases research

Vishwanath Venketaraman, Jotam G. Pasipanodya, Matt Johansen, Selvakumar Subbian

Frontiers Media SA

The Mycobacterium genus is comprised of approximately 200 species to date, which can be broadly...

Science Microbiology Infectious Agents and Disease

Keywords: Mycobacterial diseases,­TB,­NTM diseases,­Mycobacterium,­Tuberculosis,­Non-tuberculous mycobacteria,­Mycobacterium leprae,­mycobacterial drug resistance,­diagnostic,­therapies,­Vaccine

Zoonotic Diseases: Epidemiology, Multi-omics, and Host-pathogen interactions

Lei Deng, Hong Yin, Kevin S. W. Tan, Anastasios D. Tsaousis

Frontiers Media SA

Zoonotic diseases are infections that can be transmitted between people and animals. These...

Science Microbiology Infectious Agents and Disease

Keywords: zoonotic diseases,­Public Health,­Gut Microbiota