Molecular Detection of Candida tropicalis Isolated from Immunocompromised Patients with Otitis Media by Aymen Nazar Khalil, Abbas M. Ammari

“…Als2 gene may be play an important role in the virulence of C. tropicalis among immunocompromised patients with otitis media. …”
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Resistance of modern spring barley cultivars to harmful organisms by A. G. Semenova, A. V. Anisimova, O. N. Kovaleva

“…In 2019 and 2020, the incidence of brown rust and powdery mildew was significant, and the virulence of fritfly increased greatly in the same years. …”
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COVID-19 and Decision-Making for Pregnant Women: Taking or Relinquishing Control in Response to a Pandemic by Elizabeth Kaselitz, Chelsea Finkbeiner, Sarah Javaid, Sarah Barringer, Sarah D. Compton, Maria Muzik, Cheryl A. Moyer

“…From the initial unknowns about its virulence during pregnancy, to frequent and rapidly changing hospital guidelines for prenatal care and delivery, pregnant women have felt intense uncertainty and, based on recent research, increased anxiety. …”
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Isolation and Characterization of Gram-Negative Bacterial Species from Pasteurized Dairy Products: Potential Risk to Consumer Health by Solomon H. Mariam

“…Here, samples of pasteurized dairy products were subjected to enrichment/selective cultures to test for possible Salmonella contamination, followed by growth on/in various media to test for phenotypic properties and some virulence characteristics of isolates (catalase, urease, oxidase, gelatinase, etc.). …”
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Parasitological, Hematological, and Immunological Response of Experimentally Infected Sheep with Venezuelan Isolates of Trypanosoma evansi, Trypanosoma equiperdum, and Trypanosoma... by Nereida Parra-Gimenez, Armando Reyna-Bello

“…In order to evaluate the parasitological, hematological, and serological response of sheep infected with T. vivax, T. evansi, and T. equiperdum, four female sheep were experimentally infected with Venezuelan trypanosome field isolates: two T. evansi of differing virulences, one T. equiperdum; one T. vivax. Parasitemia and clinical parameters such as hematocrit, red blood cell count, hemoglobin, and body temperature were measured. …”
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Dissection of Ire1 functions reveals stress response mechanisms uniquely evolved in Candida glabrata. by Taiga Miyazaki, Hironobu Nakayama, Yohsuke Nagayoshi, Hiroshi Kakeya, Shigeru Kohno

“…We also uncovered the attenuated virulence of the C. glabrata Δire1 mutant in a mouse model of disseminated candidiasis. …”
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Functional genomic insights into Floricoccus penangensis ML061-4 isolated from leaf surface of Assam tea by Patthanasak Rungsirivanich, Elvina Parlindungan, Jennifer Mahony, Witsanu Supandee, Narumol Thongwai, Douwe van Sinderen

“…The ML061-4 genome was evaluated for genes associated with complex carbohydrate metabolism, bacterial adhesion, virulence factors, pathogenicity, bacteriophages, antiviral defence systems as well as toxin- and antibiotic-resistance associated genes, and genes involved in toxin production, secondary metabolite biosynthesis and xenobiotics biodegradation. …”
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Pooled PPIseq: Screening the SARS-CoV-2 and human interface with a scalable multiplexed protein-protein interaction assay platform. by Darach Miller, Adam Dziulko, Sasha Levy

“…In particular, viral-host PPI networks can be used to further our understanding of the molecular mechanisms of tissue specificity, host range, and virulence. At higher scales, viral-host PPI screening could also be used to screen for small-molecule antivirals that interfere with essential viral-host interactions, or to explore how the PPI networks between interacting viral and host genomes co-evolve. …”
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Saturated Transposon Analysis in Yeast as a one-step method to quantify the fitness effects of gene disruptions on a genome-wide scale. by Enzo Kingma, Floor Dolsma, Leila Iñigo de la Cruz, Liedewij Laan

“…For example, TIS has been used to identify essential genes of Saccharomyces cerevisiae, screen for antibiotic resistance genes in Klebsiella pneumoniae and determine the set of genes required for virulence of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. While providing valuable insights, these applications of TIS focus on (conditional) gene essentiality and neglect possibly interesting but subtle differences in the importance of genes for fitness. …”
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Challenges and prospects for developing genetic resistance in common wheat against stem rust in Western Siberia by V. N. Kelbin, E. S. Skolotneva, E. A. Salina

“…To achieve adequate genetic control of the disease, an integral approach is important, incorporating both data on sources of resistance and relevant information on pathogenic populations existing in the region, their race composition and dynamics of virulence genes. The analysis of experimental data on field screening of bread wheat varieties from the CIMMYT nursery germplasm for stem rust resistance in the Omsk and Novosibirsk regions, together with laboratory testing of infection samples on the international set of wheat differential lines, suggests that a separate “Asian” population of Puccinia graminis f. sp. tritici exists in Western Siberia and the Altai Territory. …”
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African swine fever clinical scoring system by M. E. Vlasov, V. M. Balyshev, A. D. Sereda

“…The study of twelve ASFV strains of various virulence revealed that acute and subacute ASF produce the maximum clinical scores ranged from 13 to 22, chronic form gives 6–18 points, subclinical form is scored 0–8.…”
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Pathogenicity and transmissibility of North American triple reassortant swine influenza A viruses in ferrets. by Subrata Barman, Petr S Krylov, Thomas P Fabrizio, John Franks, Jasmine C Turner, Patrick Seiler, David Wang, Jerold E Rehg, Gene A Erickson, Marie Gramer, Robert G Webster, Richard J Webby

“…Therefore, understanding of these viruses' pathogenicity and transmissibility may help to identify determinants of virulence of the 2009 H1N1 pandemic viruses and to elucidate potential human health threats posed by the TRS viruses. …”
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Characterization of Carbapenem-Resistant Acinetobacter baumannii Strains Isolated from Hospitalized Patients in Palestine by Regeen Handal, Lulu Qunibi, Ibrahim Sahouri, Maha Juhari, Rula Dawodi, Hiyam Marzouqa, Musa Hindiyeh

“…The ompA biofilm-producing virulence gene was detected in all isolates. Finally, Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) of 13 isolates revealed that more than one strain of A. baumannii was circulating in Palestinian hospitals as results revealed that 7 isolates were of ST208, 2 isolates ST218, 1 isolate ST231, 1 isolate ST348, and 2 new Sequence Types. …”
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INHIBITION OF METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS (MRSA) BIOFILM: THE ESSENTIAL ROLE AND POTENTIAL USAGE OF BACTERIOCINS by Tati Febrianti, Conny Riana Tjampakasari

“…Biofilm, as one of the virulence factors of MRSA, can result in the failure of antibiotic therapy. …”
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Disseminated Candida lusitaniae: Nosocomial Acquisition Secondary to an Indwelling Urinary Catheter by Ali Raja, Julia Park

“…This particular fungal agent is especially difficult to treat due to its multiple virulence factors. Additionally, the use of indwelling urinary catheters should only occur when proper indications are present and should be promptly discontinued when their placement is no longer necessary.…”
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The Japanese encephalitis virus NS1' protein facilitates virus infection in mosquitoes. by Yuwei Liu, Yutian Huang, Ruidong Li, Chang Miao, Yi He, Changhao Xu, Xi Zhu, Bowen Li, Rui Wu, Qin Zhao, Yiping Wen, Xiaobo Huang, Qi-Gui Yan, Yi-Fei Lang, Shan Zhao, Yiping Wang, Yajie Hu, San-Jie Cao, Senyan Du

“…The NS1' protein consists of the full NS1 protein with an additional 52 amino acid extension at the C-terminus and has been demonstrated to exhibit virulence in mammalian hosts upon infection. However, the precise role of the NS1' protein in the mosquito vectors has yet to be elucidated.…”
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Diversity of Stemphylium spp. of onion and garlic revealed the differential pathogenicity and in vitro efficacy of different growth suppressors by Md. Morshedul Islam, Sabmira Showkat Silvi, Shila Chakraborty, Md. Atiqur Rahman Khokon

“…Isolate GNMM-42 (OR923573) had the highest virulence. Salicylic acid (SA), benzoic acid (BA), and chitosan (CHI) exhibited in vitro antifungal effects against S. vesicarium. …”
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The Passage of Chaperonins to Extracellular Locations in <i>Legionella pneumophila</i> Requires a Functional Dot/Icm System by Peter Robertson, David S. Allan, Rafael A. Garduño

“…Although chaperonins have an essential cytoplasmic function in protein folding, HtpB exits the cytoplasm to perform extracellular virulence-related functions that support <i>L. pneumophila</i>’s lifestyle. …”
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Contrastive-learning of language embedding and biological features for cross modality encoding and effector prediction by Yue Peng, Junze Wu, Yi Sun, Yuanxing Zhang, Qiyao Wang, Shuai Shao

“…Abstract Identifying and characterizing virulence proteins secreted by Gram-negative bacteria are fundamental for deciphering microbial pathogenicity as well as aiding the development of therapeutic strategies. …”
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Immunotherapy with IgY Antibodies toward Outer Membrane Protein F Protects Burned Mice against Pseudomonas aeruginosa Infection by Fatemeh Norouzi, Bahador Behrouz, Mahya Ranjbar, Seyed Latif Mousavi Gargari

“…Outer membrane protein F (OprF), as a main outer membrane porin, is required for full virulence expression of P. aeruginosa. The aim of this study was to evaluate the protective efficacy of egg yolk-specific antibody (IgY) raised against recombinant OprF (r-OprF) protein in a murine burn model of infection. …”
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