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Bhawna, Swapnava Basu, Syed Yusuf Mian, Sanchi Arora + 6 more
Viruses transit from a low to high multiplicity of infection (MOI) regime in infected tissues. Type-1 interferons (IFNs) enforce a cellular state refractory to virus multiplication, while the death of infected cells eliminates viral replicative niche. Here, we investigated how these two innate antiviral mechanisms…
Bhawna, Swapnava Basu, Syed Yusuf Mian, Sanchi Arora + 7 more
Viruses transit from a low to high multiplicity of infection (MOI) regime in infected tissues. Type-1 interferons (IFNs) enforce a cellular state refractory to virus multiplication, while the death of infected cells eliminates viral replicative niche. Here, we investigated how these two innate antiviral mechanisms…
Bhawna, Swapnava Basu, Syed Yusuf Mian, Sanchi Arora + 6 more
Viruses transit from a low to high multiplicity of infection (MOI) regime in infected tissues. Type-1 interferons (IFNs) enforce a cellular state refractory to virus multiplication, while the death of infected cells eliminates viral replicative niche. Here, we investigated how these two innate antiviral mechanisms…
Wenjing Zhang, Pei Yu, Lindi M. Wahl
In this paper, dynamical systems theory and bifurcation theory are applied to investigate the rich dynamical behaviours observed in three simple disease models. The 2- and 3-dimensional models we investigate have arisen in previous investigations of epidemiology, in-host disease, and autoimmunity. These closely related…
Eric Ávila-Vales, Noé Chan-Chí, Gerardo García-Almeida, Cruz Vargas‐De‐León
'Cruz Vargas‐De‐León'] In this paper we study a model of HCV with mitotic proliferation, a saturation infection rate and a discrete intracellular delay: the delay corresponds to the time between infection of a infected target hepatocytes and production of new HCV particles. We establish the global stability of the…
Francisco F. S. Paupério, Erida Gjini
Understanding bacterial infection is challenging because it involves a complex interplay of host, pathogen, and intervention factors. To design successful control measures, mathematical models that quantify such interplay at the level of populations and phenotypes are needed. Here, we study a key aspect of…
Hayk Minasyan
In bacteremia the majority of bacterial species are killed by oxidation on the surface of erythrocytes and digested by local phagocytes in the liver and the spleen. Sepsis-causing bacteria overcome this mechanism of human innate immunity by versatile respiration, production of antioxidant enzymes, hemolysins, exo- and…
Rebecca Yee, Yuting Yuan, Cory Brayton, Andreina Tarff Leal + 4 more
Staphylococcus aureus is an opportunistic pathogen that can cause persistent infections clinically. Treatment for chronic S. aureus infections ranges from at least one week to several months and such infections are prone to relapse likely due to the presence of persistent forms of bacteria such as persister cells.…
Shanisa Naidoo, Arnold M. Zwane, Ahmed Paruk, Timothy Craig Hardcastle + 1 more
'Timothy Craig Hardcastle' 'Evangelos Terpos'] Background: Skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) are common presentations in the emergency department. However, this is less common after contact with contaminated saltwater or freshwater. This review presents the diagnosis and management of water-related soft tissue…
E. Scarpa, D. Oliveri, G. Moschetti, A. Griego + 11 more
Chronic infections with intracellular pathogens such as Mycobacterium abscessus (Mab) pose significant health challenges due to their capacity to persist within host cells and evade immune responses. This study investigates the cellular responses to chronic Mab infection in macrophages, particularly focusing on…
Wenjing Zhang
Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection can involve all immune system components and can result in different disease outcomes. The antibiotic TB drugs require strict adherence to prevent both disease relapse and mutation of drug- and multidrug-resistant strains. To overcome the constraints of pathogen-directed therapy…
Paul Roberts, Ryan M. Huebinger, Emma Keen, Anne Marie Krachler + 1 more
'Sara Jabbari'] As the development of new classes of antibiotics slows, bacterial resistance to existing antibiotics is becoming an increasing problem. A potential solution is to develop treatment strategies with an alternative mode of action. We consider one such strategy: anti-adhesion therapy. Whereas antibiotics…
Aakansha Nangarlia, Farah Fazloon Hassen, Gabriela Canziani, Praneeta Bandi + 10 more
Host cell infection by SARS-CoV-2, similar to that by HIV-1, is driven by a conformationally metastable and highly glycosylated surface entry protein complex, and infection by these viruses has been shown to be inhibited by the mannose-specific lectins Cyanovirin-N (CV-N) and Griffithsin (GRFT). We discovered in this…
wenzhong liu, hualan li
Malaria symptoms are very similar to those of COVID-19, and infections can be symptomatic or asymptomatic. Common immunodominant epitopes are shared by the SARS-CoV-2 proteins and the Plasmodium falciparum antigen. Through bioinformatics methods such as domain search, this study discovered that the S, ORF3a proteins…
Hasan Ahmed, Mia Moore, Balaji Manicassamy, Adolfo García‐Sastre + 2 more
'Andreas Handel' 'Rustom Antia'] How important is resource depletion (e.g. depletion of target cells) in controlling infection within a host? And how can we distinguish between resource depletion and other mechanisms that may contribute to decline of pathogen load or lead to pathogen clearance? In this paper we examine…
Christian Quirouette, Nada P. Younis, Micaela B. Reddy, Catherine A. A. Beauchemin
'Catherine A. A. Beauchemin'] Within the human respiratory tract (HRT), viruses diffuse through the periciliary fluid (PCF) bathing the epithelium, and travel upwards via advection towards the nose and mouth, as the mucus escalator entrains the PCF. While many mathematical models (MMs) to date have described the course…
Xiang Li, John Cole, Diane Vaughan, Yinbo Xiao + 2 more
Bacterial infection is a dynamic process resulting in a heterogenous population of infected and uninfected cells. These cells respond differently based on their bacterial load and duration of infection. In the case of infection of macrophages with Crohn’s disease (CD) associated adherent-invasive Escherichia coli…
Amey Nitin Agharkar, Dipasree Hajra, Durbar Roy, Vivek Jaiswal + 3 more
'Prasenjit Kabi' 'Dipshikha Chakravortty' 'Saptarshi Basu'] The transmission of viruses/ bacteria cause infection predominantly via aerosols. The transmission mechanism of respiratory diseases is complex, including direct or indirect contact, large droplet, and airborne routes apart from close contact transmission.…
Peter MacPherson, Katherine Valentine, Victoria Chadderton, Evdokia Dardamissis + 7 more
'Evdokia Dardamissis' 'Ian Doig' 'Andrew Fox' 'Sam Ghebrehewet' 'Tom Hampton' 'Ken Mutton' 'Claire Sherratt' 'Catherine M. McCann'] Introduction Outbreaks linked to cosmetic piercing are rare, but can cause significant illness. We report the investigation and management of a point-source outbreak that occurred during a…
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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is one of a leading cause of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections. Based on our previous findings, we utilized thiazole-fused nootkatone hit compounds to develop a simple phenol-substituted thiazole scaffold as potent antibacterial agents, particularly active…