Rice blast incidence and morphological variation of Magnaporthe oryzae, Cav. in Ebonyi State, Nigeria by Buliaminu Adeniyi Yekini, Olaitan Chinenye Okechukwu, Clement Gboyega Afolabi

“…The twenty-two isolates, identified as Magnaporthe oryzae (Mo), grown on potato dextrose agar showed various differences in their cultural and morphological characters such as colony colour, margin, pigmentation, surface texture, shapes, septate and cells. Pathogenicity study revealed the five isolates Mo-03, Mo-05, Mo-06, Mo-10 and Mo-17 where more virulent than others. …”
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A scientometric visualization analysis of the gut microbiota and gestational diabetes mellitus by Zehao Su, Zehao Su, Lina Liu, Jian Zhang, Jian Zhang, Jingjing Guo, Jingjing Guo, Guan Wang, Xiaoxi Zeng, Xiaoxi Zeng

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Study on the effects of Massa Medicata Fermentata with different formulations on the intestinal microbiota and enzyme activities in mice with spleen deficiency constipation by Xuejuan Liang, Dan Wan, Xinliang Li, Yanmei Peng, Linglong Chen

“…The CS3 group significantly upregulated the chloroalkane and chloroalkene degradation and vibrio cholerae pathogenic cycle pathways compared to the CM group. …”
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Effects of Fishmeal Substitution with Mealworm Meals (Tenebrio molitor and Alphitobius diaperinus) on the Growth, Physiobiochemical Response, Digesta Microbiome, and Immune Genes E... by H-Michael Habte-Tsion, Matt Hawkyard, Wendy M. Sealey, David Bradshaw, Kala-Mallik Meesala, Deborah A. Bouchard

“…The most common genus in all treatments was Pseudomonas, which has been previously shown to have both commensal and pathogenic members. The relative expressions of growth (IGF-I) and protein synthesis (TIPRL) were not significantly different between the treatments, whereas immunoglobulin genes (IgM, IgD, and IgT) were significantly upregulated in fish fed the DMM diets when compared to fish fed the control diet. …”
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Molecular identification and antibiotic clearance of Mycoplasma arginini and Mycoplasma orale from cell cultures infected with Rickettsia or Ehrlichia species by Michelle E. J. Allerdice, Savannah L. Shooter, Maria F. B. M. Galletti, Joy A. Hecht, Sandor E. Karpathy, Christopher D. Paddock

“…Mycoplasma clearance via mouse inoculation requires a patent infection of murine central nervous system endothelial cells, which may not occur with some mildly pathogenic or nonpathogenic rickettsial species. In vitro antibiotic treatment represents an alternate method to eliminate contaminating mycoplasmas from rickettsial cultures. …”
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Maladie, médecine et migration au prisme de l’écriture migrante sino-française: une contribution à la médecine transculturelle? by Julia Pröll

“…L’objectif sera de montrer dans quelle mesure ces auteurs, contrairement à Spiel, parviennent à une dépathologisation de l’expérience migratoire ne le considérant plus exclusivement en termes de crise et d’événement à portée pathogène. Ce sont en particulier les parcours biculturels et bilingues des auteurs mentionnés qui leur permettent d’évoquer, et souvent aussi de croiser de façon productive, différentes conceptions de la maladie, y compris son étiologie, ses symptômes et son traitement – un « double regard » entraînant, dans le meilleur des cas, une relativisation salutaire de toute « grande narration » médicale qui se veut hégémonique. …”
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Endogenous endophthalmitis associated with autoimmune hepatitis: case report by D.F. Belov, V.G. Korotkov, P.A. Nikitin, I.V. Terekhova, Ya.S. Konenkova

“…Petrovskiy Russian Scientific Center of Surgery, Moscow, Russian Federation </p> <p> <br> </p> <p> Endogenous endophthalmitis (EE) is a severe inflammatory disease resulting from hematogenous dissemination of pathogenic agents (bacteria, fungi) from the primary focus into the choroid due to impaired permeability of blood-ocular barrier. …”
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Inflammatory Monocyte Subsets Correlation with Iron Levels in Low Vitamin D Pediatric Transfusion-Dependent Thalassemia by Ghozali M, Matahari M, Cahyadi AI, Agustini SD, Ghrahani R, Reniarti L, Setiabudiawan B, Panigoro R

“…Considering the immunomodulatory role of vitamin D through monocyte modulation during pathogen insult, further research utilizing a whole-blood stimulation assay is imperative.Keywords: ferritin, hemoglobin, iron, monocyte, thalassemia, vitamin D…”
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Profiles and natural drivers of antibiotic resistome in multiple environmental media in penguin-colonized area in Antarctica by Yongpeng Zhang, Bo Zhang, Imtiaz Ahmed, Hanshu Zhang, Yiliang He

“…Primary medium-risk ARGs associated with human pathogenic bacteria were multidrug resistance genes, and main low-risk ARGs associated with mobile genetic elements (MGEs) were aminoglycoside resistance genes. …”
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Detection of Antimicrobial Resistance Genes Associated with Carbapenem Resistance from the Whole-Genome Sequence of Acinetobacter baumannii Isolates from Malaysia by Mohan Rao, Fairuz A. Rashid, Surianti Shukor, Rohaidah Hashim, Norazah Ahmad

“…The spread of carbapenem-resistant A. baumannii (CrAb) is gaining worldwide attention. The spread of this pathogen is largely due to its ability to acquire various resistance genes of intrinsic and extrinsic origins that confer unpredictable susceptibility to β-lactams. …”
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The Prevalence and Risk Factors Associated with the Presence of Antibiotic Residues in Milk from Peri-Urban Dairy Cattle Farms in Kathmandu, Nepal by Erda E. Rame Hau, Minu Sharma, Bal K. Sharma Khanal, Peter D. Sly, Deirdre Mikkelsen, Nicholas Clark, Ricardo J. Soares Magalhães

“…<b>Background/Objectives:</b> The presence of antibiotic residues (ARs) in animal products such as milk can be an important driver of antimicrobial resistance in commensal and pathogenic bacteria. Previous studies on ARs in Nepal have demonstrated the presence of ARs in milk samples but without further characterization of the samples for risk factor analysis. …”
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Woxuanzhongzhou formula improves DHEAS and high-fat diet-induced IR and anovulatory mice via AMPK/PGC1- α/Irisin pathway by Haijuan Liu, Guohua Wang, Conglu Sui, Yanan Guo, Xiangyu He

“…Anovulation is one of the most important clinical features of PCOS, and insulin resistance (IR) is one of the critical pathogenic factors. Woxuanzhongzhou (WXZZ) is a traditional herbal formulation that has shown efficacy in treating PCOS combined with IR, but the underlying mechanism is not clear. …”
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Virulence factor discovery identifies associations between the Fic gene family and Fap2+ fusobacteria in colorectal cancer microbiomes by Geicho Nakatsu, Duhyun Ko, Monia Michaud, Eric A. Franzosa, Xochitl C. Morgan, Curtis Huttenhower, Wendy S. Garrett

“…Our genomic analysis and expression assays in fusobacteria identify Fic domain-containing genes, well-studied virulence factors in pathogenic bacteria, as potential fusobacterial virulence features. …”
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Phenotypic Characterization and Antibiotic Resistance Patterns of Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase- and AmpC β-Lactamase-Producing Gram-Negative Bacteria in a Referral Hospital, Saudi... by Mutasim E. Ibrahim, Mohammed Abbas, Abdullah M. Al-Shahrai, Bahaeldin K. Elamin

“…Background. Emergence of pathogenic bacteria carrying β-lactamase-resistant determinants has become a major health problem in the hospital setting. …”
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TAB2 deficiency induces dilated cardiomyopathy by promoting mitochondrial calcium overload in human iPSC-derived cardiomyocytes by Wenrui Sun, Jianchao Zhang, Shuang Li, Wanrong Fu, Yangyang Liu, Mengduan Liu, Jianzeng Dong, Xiaoyan Zhao, Xiaowei Li

“…More importantly, the discovery of a unique pathogenic pathway introduces a new notion for the future management of dilated cardiomyopathy.…”
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Recalcitrant Female Pattern Hair Loss Like Alopecia Unveils Unexpected Rare Entity by Nouh AH, Elgendy FM, Gobran FA, Zhuravlova MS

“…Genetic testing confirmed a heterozygous pathogenic variant in the HRURF gene, associated with autosomal dominant Marie Unna Hereditary Hypotrichosis. …”
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Exome sequencing reveals IFT172 variants in patients with non-syndromic cholestatic liver disease. by Magdaléna Neřoldová, Elżbieta Ciara, Janka Slatinská, Soňa Fraňková, Petra Lišková, Radana Kotalová, Janka Globinovská, Markéta Šafaříková, Lucie Pfeiferová, Hana Zůnová, Lenka Mrázová, Viktor Stránecký, Alena Vrbacká, Ondřej Fabián, Eva Sticová, Daniela Skanderová, Jan Šperl, Marta Kalousová, Tomáš Zima, Milan Macek, Joanna Pawlowska, A S Knisely, Stanislav Kmoch, Milan Jirsa

“…Nasopharyngeal swab mRNA was analysed to address variant pathogenicity in two families.<h4>Results</h4>WES revealed biallelic variation in 3 ciliopathy genes (PKHD1, TMEM67 and IFT172) in 4 clinically unrelated index subjects (3 children and 1 adult), heterozygosity for a known variant in PPOX in one adult index subject, and homozygosity for an unreported splice-site variation in F11R in one child. …”
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Antimicrobial and antioxidant study of combined essential oils of Anethum Sowa Kurz. and Trachyspermum ammi (L.) along with quality determination, comparative histo-anatomical feat... by S.A. Wasim Akram, Mary Shamya Arokiarajan, J. John Christopher, Mohammad Jameel, Mohd Saquib, Tirumala Santosh Kumar Saripally, Noman Anwar, Mohd Asif, Kabiruddin Ahmed K

“…Combined essential oils (EOs 1 + 2) of both fruits showed excellent antimicrobial activity against various clinical pathogenic strains such as K. pneumoniae at 10 µL/mL, S. aureus at 2.5 µL/mL, E. coli and E. faecalis at 1.25 µL/mL, and MRSA and Bcereus at 0.625 µL/mL and (C) albicans at 0.312 µL/mL as the MIC. …”
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Improvement of a MALDI-TOF database for the reliable identification of Candidozyma auris (formally Candida auris) and related species by Hui-Hui Zhu, Miao-Miao Liu, Teun Boekhout, Qi-Ming Wang

“…Moreover, potential pathogenic species of Candidozyma can be effectively identified by MALDI-TOF MS, and differentiated from non-clinically relevant phylogenetic relatives. …”
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Advancing dental biofilm models: the integral role of pH in predicting S. mutans colonization by Jay S. Sangha, Valentina Gogulancea, Thomas P. Curtis, Nicholas S. Jakubovics, Paul Barrett, Aline Metris, Irina D. Ofiţeru

“…Our work demonstrates the utility of individual-based models for simulating diverse conditions affecting dental biofilm scenarios, such as the frequency of glucose intake, sucrose pulsing, or integration of pathogenic or probiotic species. Although in silico models are reductionist approaches, they have the advantage of not being limited in the scenarios they can test by the ethical consideration of an in vivo system, thus significantly contributing to dental biofilm research.…”
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