COCCIDIOIDES ENDOSPORES AND SPHERULES DRAW STRONG CHEMOTACTIC, ADHESIVE, AND PHAGOCYTIC RESPONSES BY INDIVIDUAL HUMAN NEUTROPHILS.

Coccidioides Endospores and Spherules Draw Strong Chemotactic, Adhesive, and Phagocytic Responses by Individual Human Neutrophils.

Coccidioides spp.are dimorphic pathogenic fungi whose parasitic forms cause coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever) in mammalian hosts.We use an realistic-dildos innovative interdisciplinary approach to analyze one-on-one encounters between human neutrophils and two forms of Coccidioides posadasii.To examine the mechanisms by which the innate immune syst

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Transmission of pLVPK-like virulence plasmid in Klebsiella pneumoniae mediated by an Incl1 conjugative helper plasmid

Summary: We previously reported the recovery of five ST11 carbapenem resistant hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae (CR-HvKP) strains that harbored pLVPK-like virulence plasmids, yet molecular mechanisms underlying acquisition of virulence plasmid by ST11 K.pneumoniae have not been characterized.In this study, we showed that virulence plasmids in th

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