Table of Contents

Volume 3, Issue 1

  January/February 2012

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EDITOR'S CORNER

Getting grants

Victoria McGovern


Coming of AGE: Facile generation of attenuated vaccine strains through heterologous gene expression

Carlos C. Goller and Patrick C. Seed


Shedding natural light on fungal infections

Anna Vecchiarelli and Christophe d’Enfert





REVIEW

Association between antimicrobial resistance and virulence in Escherichia coli

Gabriela Jorge da Silva and Nuno Mendonça





RESEARCH PAPERS

Expression of Escherichia coli virulence usher protein attenuates wild-type Salmonella

Xinghong Yang, Zhiyong Suo, Theresa Thornburg, Kathryn Holderness, Ling Cao, Timothy Lim, Nancy Walters, Laura Kellerman, Linda Loetterle, Recep Avci and David W. Pascual


Duality of liver and kidney lesions after systemic infection of immunosuppressed and immunocompetent mice with Aspergillus fumigatus

Gregory Jouvion, Matthias Brock, Sabrina Droin-Bergere and Oumaima Ibrahim-Granet


Surface display of Gaussia princeps luciferase allows sensitive fungal pathogen detection during cutaneous aspergillosis

Stefanie Donat, Mike Hasenberg, Tina Schäfer, Knut Ohlsen, Matthias Gunzer, Hermann Einsele, Jürgen Löffler, Andreas Beilhack and Sven Krappmann





BRIEF REPORT

Nitric oxide nanoparticles: Pre-clinical utility as a therapeutic for intramuscular abscesses

David Schairer, Luis Martinez, Karin Blecher, Jason Chouake, Parimala Nacharaju, Philip Gialanella, Joel M. Friedman, Josh Nosanchuk and Adam Friedman





ARTICLE ADDENDA

Turnabout is fair play: Use of the bacterial Multivalent Adhesion Molecule 7 as an antimicrobial agent

Anne Marie Krachler, Hyeilin Ham and Kim Orth


Haptoglobin-hemoglobin receptor independent killing of African trypanosomes by human serum

Whitney Bullard, Rudo Kieft, Paul Capewell, Nicola J. Veitch, Annette Macleod and Stephen Hajduk


Inhibition of ATF6β-dependent host adaptive immune response by a Toxoplasma virulence factor ROP18

Masahiro Yamamoto and Kiyoshi Takeda


A novel contractility pathway operating in Salmonella invasion

Jan Hänisch, Theresia E.B. Stradal and Klemens Rottner


Bacteria tune interferon responses by playing with chromatin

Alice Lebreton, Pascale Cossart and Hélène Bierne





NEWS AND VIEWS

Pathogenic streptococci speak, but what are they saying?

Michael Federle


Resistance to echinocandins comes at a cost: The impact of FKS1 hotspot mutations on Candida albicans fitness and virulence

Ronen Ben-Ami and Dimitrios P. Kontoyiannis





PROTOCOL

Identification of predominant SNPs as a novel method for genotyping bovine Staphylococcus aureus isolates

Jeffrey Hall and Yinduo Ji