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Infect Immun
September 2025
Department of Microbiology, Biology of Gram-Positive Pathogens Unit, Institut Pasteur, Université Paris Cité, CNRS UMR2001, Paris, France.
Mobile genetic elements play an essential part in the infectious process of major pathogens, yet the role of prophage dynamics in pathogenesis is still not well understood. Here, we studied the impact of the Φ13 converting prophage, whose integration inactivates the β-toxin gene, on staphylococcal pathogenesis. We showed that prophage Φ13 is lost in approximately half the bacterial population during the course of infection.
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December 2025
National Key Laboratory of Intelligent Tracking and Forecasting for Infectious Diseases, National Institute for Communicable Disease Control and Prevention, Chinese Center for Disease Control and Prevention, Beijing, China.
Staphylococcal enterotoxin-like W (SElW) is a novel, widely prevalent enterotoxin-like protein that functions as a classical staphylococcal superantigen (SAg) and has been shown to exacerbate infections caused by the epidemic clone CC398. However, the genetic distribution and amino acid polymorphisms, biological and antitumor activity, and T cell receptor (TCR) binding sites of SElW in strains prevalent in China have not been investigated. The carrier rate and distribution of were determined by PCR, the stability and antitumor activity of recombinant SElW (rSElW) protein were evaluated.
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August 2025
State Key Laboratory of Pathogen and Biosecurity, Academy of Military Medical Sciences, Beijing, 100071, China.
Objective: Culturomics and 16 S rDNA sequencing were applied to identify lung tumor-resident microorganisms. In vitro characterization revealed potential functions of these cancer-associated microorganisms.
Methods: Eighteen clinical lung cancer (LC) tissues samples were collected.
Allergol Int
August 2025
Department of Pediatrics, Soonchunhyang University Gumi Hospital, Gumi, South Korea; Department of Pediatrics, National Jewish Health, Denver, CO, USA. Electronic address:
Background: Recent findings suggest skin microbiota is closely linked to the aggravation of atopic dermatitis (AD) and skin barrier dysfunction.
Methods: This prospective cross-sectional study included 52 children: 35 with AD flare (F) and non-flare (NF), and 17 without AD (non-AD). Microbes in the skin samples from the three groups were analyzed using 16S rRNA amplicon sequencing.
Vet Sci
August 2025
Institute of Oncology "Prof. Dr. Alexandru Trestioreanu", 252 Fundeni Road, District 2, 022328 Bucharest, Romania.
Toxic shock syndrome (TSS) is a serious, often fatal disease, rarely occurring in dogs via infection with and . The development of TSS is mainly dependent on the presence of bacterial toxins recognized to be potent superantigens causing the release of massive amounts of host inflammatory cytokines, notably TNF-α, progressing to high fever, hypotension, haemoconcentration, thrombosis and neutrophil and endothelial activation with multiple organ failure. Rarely, TSS is associated with erythematous and exfoliative dermatitis progressing to ulceration with extremely extensive dermo-epidermal detachment, which is often very painful.
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