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A recent paper inMolecular Microbiology sheds new light on the involvement of MxiC in the regulation of secretion through the Shigella flexneritype III secretion system.
Recent outbreaks involving multidrug-resistant bacteria have prompted governments to alter the regulations governing antibiotic sales. By combining the new regulations with calls for new drug development and dispensing regimes, can antibiotic resistance be managed?
Interest in the human intestinal microbiota has intensified in recent years, but research has been largely focused on bacteriology. This month's Genome Watch reviews a recent metagenomics study that instead aims to better characterize the viruses that inhabit our guts.
A new paper in theISME Journalprovides the first evidence for a role of a bacterial type III secretion system (T3SS) in an interaction between a bacterium and a fungus.
Following on from last month's discussion of sequence assembly and correction, this month's Genome Watch examines genome annotation in the context of advances in second-generation sequencing.
A look back at the microbiologists who have won a Nobel Prize, and at those who have been overlooked, provides a wonderful view of the recent history of microbiology and reveals the central place of microbiology in past and current biological science.
Our monthly round up of infectious diseases news, which this month includes an outbreak of chikungunya fever in France, the origin of human malaria and the first description of an intrinsic mechanism of retrovirus recognition.
The identification and characterization of bacterial lipid rafts and their role in the signalling pathways that regulate biofilm formation inBacillus subtilis.
