Bacterial fruit blotch (BFB) is a devastating disease primarily affecting cucurbit crops such as watermelon and melon, caused by the seed‐borne bacterium Acidovorax citrulli. The pathogen employs an ...

Acute-on-chronic liver failure (ACLF) is a critical and often fatal syndrome characterized by a sudden exacerbation of chronic liver disease, leading to multi-organ failure and high short-term ...

Future Microbiol. 2014;9(9):1039-1051. The role of sialic acids in the immune defense is of great importance, and in bacterial vaginosis, which is a polymicrobial imbalance of the vaginal flora, ...

In a recent study published in Scientific Reports, researchers examined the role of specific gut microbes in the secretion of cytokines by peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs), monocyte-derived ...

The acute hot, swollen joint is a common medical presentation. It has a broad differential diagnosis, the most serious of which is bacterial septic arthritis. This article will discuss the ...

For very long, researchers have hypothesized that lipopolysaccharide (LPS) endotoxins shed from the outer membrane of Gram-negative bacteria, e.g., gut-resident Bacteroides fragilis and Escherichia ...

Sepsis, a common complication following burns, trauma, and major surgery, remains the leading cause of death among critically ill patients. Globally, there are about 48.9 million sepsis patients and ...

A pioneering study by researchers from Finland and the UK has demonstrated for the first time that myocardial infarction may be an infectious disease. This discovery challenges the conventional ...

Inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) encompasses a spectrum of disorders characterized by chronic inflammation of the digestive tract, driven in part by a dysregulated immune response to the gut ...