Listeria monocytogenes consists of at least 4 evolutionary lineages (I, II, III, and IV) with
different but overlap** ecological niches. Most L. monocytogenes isolates seem to belong …

DNA tandem repeats (TRs), also designated as satellite DNA, are inter-or intragenic
nucleotide sequences that are repeated two or more times in a head-to-tail manner …

Phthiocerol dimycocerosate (PDIM) is an essential virulence lipid of Mycobacterium
tuberculosis. In vitro culturing rapidly selects for spontaneous PDIM-negative mutants that …

The length and complexity of tuberculosis (TB) therapy, as well as the propensity of
Mycobacterium tuberculosis to develop drug resistance, are major barriers to global TB …

Renal oncocytomas are benign tumors characterized by a marked accumulation of
mitochondria. We report a combined exome, transcriptome, and metabolome analysis of …

Background Acinetobacter baumannii is a significant hospital pathogen, particularly due to
the dissemination of highly multidrug resistant isolates. Genome data have revealed that A …

Listeria-infecting phages are readily isolated from Listeria-containing environments, yet little
is known about the selective forces they exert on their host. Here, we identified that two …

Listeria monocytogenes is a pathogenic foodborne bacterium whose persistence in food
processing environments is in part attributed to its biofilm formation. Most biofilm studies …

Bacteriophages (phages) are currently available for use by the food industry to control the
foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes. Although phage biocontrols are effective …

The prfA-virulence gene cluster (p VGC) is the main pathogenicity island in Listeria
monocytogenes, comprising the prfA, plcA, hly, mpl, actA, and plcB genes. In this study, the p …