The UF/IFAS Strawberry Clean Plant Program by Catalina Moyer, Natalia Peres, Vance M Whitaker

“…The Clean Plant Program generates the pathogen-tested planting stock that nurseries and growers require. …”
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Spontaneous Bacterial Peritonitis due to Lactobacillus paracasei in Cirrhosis by Emily Harding-Theobald, Bharat Maraj

“…Lactobacillus species colonize the human gastrointestinal tract and are rarely pathogenic. We present a case involving a cirrhotic patient who presented with sepsis and was found to have peritoneal cultures demonstrating Lactobacillus as the sole pathogen concerning for spontaneous bacterial peritonitis. …”
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Development and Validation of Chlamydia muridarum Mouse Models for Studying Genital Tract Infection Pathogenesis by Yihui Wang, Zixuan Han, Luying Wang, Xin Sun, Qi Tian, Tianyuan Zhang

“…Animal infection models play significant roles in the study of bacterial pathogenic mechanisms and host–pathogen interactions, as well as in evaluating drug and vaccine efficacies. …”
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Digital Melting Curve Analysis for Multiplex Quantification of Nucleic Acids on Droplet Digital PCR by Xiaoqing Dai, Meng Cao, Zunliang Wang

“…Our method overcomes the multiplexing limitations of ddPCR, facilitating its application in multi-target pathogen detection.…”
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Antimicrobial Peptides in Gastrointestinal Inflammation by Simon Jäger, Eduard F. Stange, Jan Wehkamp

“…In this paper, we focus on the role of antimicrobial peptides in inflammatory processes along the gastrointestinal tract, while considering the resident and pathogenic flora encountered at the specific sites. …”
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A Case of Newcastle Disease Virus in Red-Headed Lovebird in Sudan by Egbal Sidahmed Abdelrahim, Jedda Elhag

“…The isolate agglutinated equine RBCs but failed to agglutinate sheep and bovine RBCs. The pathogenicity of the NDV isolate was studied, the mean death time was 96 hours, and the intracerebral pathogenicity index (ICPI) value was 0.9, indicating the isolate of lentogenic type.…”
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FIELD ASSESSMENT OF ACCESSIONS FROM THE MAIZE COLLECTION FOR RESISTANCE TO BOIL SMUT by V. N. Boyko

“…The weather conditions (downpours and abrupt daily temperature fluctuations) were favorable for severe infection of maize plants with the pathogen.Results and conclusion. No disease symptoms were found in 173 accessions; 162 genotypes were affected only slightly. …”
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An insight into the genome-wide analysis of bacterial defense mechanisms in a uropathogenic Morganella morganii isolate from Bangladesh. by Syed Muktadir Al Sium, Barna Goswami, Sanjana Fatema Chowdhury, Showti Raheel Naser, Mihir Kanti Sarkar, Md Jobaid Faruq, Md Ahashan Habib, Shahina Akter, Tanjina Akhtar Banu, Md Murshed Hasan Sarkar, Md Salim Khan

“…This thorough investigation sheds important light on M. morganii's pathogenicity and adaptive tactics by revealing its genetic characteristics, AMR, virulence components, and defense mechanisms. …”
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The First Infant Bloodstream Infection Caused by Pantoea dispersa in China: A Case Report and Literature Review by Yu W, Sun Z, Wang M, Li Z, Zhang C, Sun Y, Wang S

“…Pantoea is typically considered a potential pathogen that may cause infections in plants and animals. …”
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Winter rye cultivars moderately resistant to ergot by L. M. Shchekleina, T. K. Sheshegova

“…Fourteen cultivars least affected by the pathogen were identified: ‘Flora’, ‘Kiprez’, ‘Grafinya’, ‘Lika’, ‘Batist’, ‘Simfoniya’, ‘Garmoniya’, ‘Sadko’, ‘Parom’, ‘Virazh’, ‘Saratovskaya 7’, ‘Volkhova’, ‘Novaya Era’, and ‘Podarok’. …”
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Assessment of breeding lines of rice (Oryza sativa L.) carrying the Pi-40 gene for resistance to rice blast strains from Krasnodar region by I. I. Suprun, V. S. Kovalyev, E. S. Kharchenko, E. G. Savenko

“…Blast caused by fungal pathogen Magnaporthe oryzae B.C. Couch, 2002, is one of the most harmful diseases of rice (Oryza sativa L.), and so the development of resistant varieties is important in rice breeding. …”
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Influence of bovine blood serum on growth properties of nutrient media for <i>Mycoplasma gallisepticum</i> and <i>Mycoplasma synoviae</i> cultivation by D. A. Kozlov, M. S. Volkov, T. Yu. Chernyayeva, M. I. Sorokina, V. N. Irza

“…The growth properties of the nutrient medium for the cultivation of pathogenic mycoplasmas depend on the type of blood serum it is supplemented with. …”
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Mutational Profile and Retinal Phenotypes of PCARE-Related Cone-Rod Dystrophies in a Mexican Cohort by Víctor R. López-Rodríguez, Rocío Arce-González, Alan Martínez-Aguilar, Carlos E. Rodríguez-López, Sergio Groman-Lupa, M. Isabel Neria-González, Genaro Rodríguez-Uribe, Juan C. Zenteno

“…Six different PCARE pathogenic alleles were identified in our cohort, including three novel mutations: c.3048_3049del (p.Tyr1016∗), c.3314_3315del (p.Ser1105∗), and c.551A > G (p.His184Arg). …”
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Comparative genomics reveals low levels of inter- and intraspecies diversity in the causal agents of dwarf and common bunt of wheat and hint at conspecificity of Tilletia caries an... by Somayyeh Sedaghatjoo, Bagdevi Mishra, Monika K. Forster, Yvonne Becker, Jens Keilwagen, Berta Killermann, Marco Thines, Petr Karlovsky, Wolfgang Maier

“…The majority of functionally characterized genes involved in pathogenicity, life cycle, and infection of corn smut, Ustilago maydis, were found to be absent or poorly conserved in the draft genomes and the biosynthetic pathway for trimethylamine in Tilletia spp. could be different from bacteria. …”
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Fortifying plant fortresses: siderophores in defense against Cercospora leaf spot disease in Vigna radiata L. by Anushree Kamath, Abhishek Sharma, Arpit Shukla, Arpit Shukla, Arpit Shukla, Paritosh Parmar, Dhara Patel

“…Siderophores were extracted and purified using Amberlite XAD-4 and applied to plants at concentrations of 5, 10, and 15 µg/mL, followed by pathogen inoculation. The treatments significantly influenced enzymatic activities and defense-related gene expression. …”
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Brucella osteoarthritis: recent progress and future directions by Jinlei Chen, Jinlei Chen, Jinlei Chen, Jinlei Chen, Jinlei Chen, Feijie Zhi, Feijie Zhi, Feijie Zhi, Guanghai Zhao, Guanghai Zhao, Mengru Su, Mengru Su, Mengru Su, Hao Geng, Hao Geng, Hao Geng, Wei Song, Wei Song, Yuefeng Chu, Yuefeng Chu, Yuefeng Chu, Haihong Zhang, Haihong Zhang

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Geosmithia Species in Florida: Common Fungal Symbionts of Wood-Boring Bark Beetles by Yin-Tse Huang, Jiri Hulcr

“…These native species look similar to the pathogenic fungus but are harmless to their plant hosts. …”
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Biofilm architecture and dynamics of the oral ecosystem by Rina Rani Ray

“…Noteworthy pathogenic bacteria, such as Porphyromonas gingivalis, Fusobacterium nucleatum, and Streptococcus mutans , often initiate biofilm formation. …”
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Validation of <i>Monilinia fructicola</i> Putative Effector Genes in Different Host Peach (<i>Prunus persica</i>) Cultivars and Defense Response Investigation by Lucia Landi, Annamaria Lucrezia D’Ortenzio, Sarah Mojela Makau, Rita Milvia De Miccolis Angelini, Gianfranco Romanazzi

“…Knowledge of gene expression mediating host–pathogen interaction is essential to manage fungal plant diseases. …”
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Loss-of-function variant in MAGT1 leading to XMEN disease in a Colombian patient with a common variable immunodeficiency by Sebastián Gutiérrez-Hincapié, Julio César Orrego, José Luis Franco, Claudia M. Trujillo-Vargas

“…The mother also carried the pathogenic variant in a heterozygous state. Conclusions. …”
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