Viral piracy of host RNA phosphatase DUSP11 by avipoxviruses. by Kayla H Szymanik, Emily A Rex, Vamshikrishna R Pothireddy, Don B Gammon, Dustin C Hancks, Christopher S Sullivan

“…We have previously shown that host RNA triphosphatase dual-specificity phosphatase 11 (DUSP11) can act on both host and viral RNAs, altering their levels and reducing their ability to induce RIG-I activation. …”
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Of exiles and hosts: inbound student surges in South Africa, Chile and Romania in the 2020s, and the contrasting case of Mauritius by Pete Leihy, Upasana Singh, Suriamurthee Moonsamy Maistry, Andreea Buzduga, Avinash Oojorah

“…While they share a common thread of exile and migration, their transitions to educational hosting reveal unique challenges rooted in historical legacies, economic conditions, and policy responses. …”
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Evolutionary and structural basis of SLAMF1 utilization in morbilliviruses-Implications for host range and cross-species transmission. by Ayumu Hyodo, Fumio Seki, Kento Fukuda, Kaede Tashiro, Yuki Kitai, Yukiko Akahori, Hideko Watabe, Hiroshi Katoh, Rikuto Osaki, Daisuke Takaya, Norihito Kawashita, Hideo Fukuhara, Satoshi Ikegame, Tomoki Yoshikawa, Park Eunsil, Shigeru Morikawa, Ryoji Yamaguchi, Benhur Lee, Katsumi Maenaka, Tsuyoshi Shirai, Kaori Fukuzawa, Shigenori Tanaka, Makoto Takeda

“…As an example of morbillivirus adaptation to non-host animal SLAM, we conducted an MV adaptation experiment with Myotis bat SLAM. …”
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Isolation and Characterization of a Novel Jumbo Phage HPP-Temi Infecting <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> Pa9 and Increasing Host Sensitivity to Ciprofloxacin by Olufunke Olufunmilola Olorundare, Nikita Zrelovs, Dennis Kabantiyok, Karina Svanberga, Juris Jansons, Andris Kazaks, Godwin Ojonugwa Agada, Chibuzor Gerald Agu, Oluwatoyin Ruth Morenikeji, Ogundeji Alice Oluwapelumi, Thomas Dung, Shedrach Benjamin Pewan

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Nocardia pneumonia in immunocompetent host: An uncommon mimic of common disease by Shobitha Rao

“…Nocardia pneumonia is rare in immunocompetent hosts. Here, we present a case of a woman who presented to us with a chronic cough, fever, and weight loss of 2 months duration. …”
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Human gut commensal Alistipes timonensis modulates the host lipidome and delivers anti-inflammatory outer membrane vesicles to suppress colitis in an Il10-deficient mouse model by Ethan A. Older, Mary K. Mitchell, Andrew Campbell, Xiaoying Lian, Michael Madden, Yuzhen Wang, Lauren E. van de Wal, Thelma Zaw, Brandon N. VanderVeen, Rodney Tatum, E. Angela Murphy, Yan-Hua Chen, Daping Fan, Melissa Ellermann, Jie Li

“…Colonization does not significantly alter the gut microbiome composition, but instead shifts the host plasma lipidome, increasing phosphatidic acids while decreasing triglycerides. …”
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Brood parasitism and host-parasite relationships: Cuckoos adapt to reduce the time of hatching ahead of host nestlings by increasing egg thickness by Valeriy G. Narushin, Michael N. Romanov, Nili Avni-Magen, Darren K. Griffin

“…An average calculated I value for cuckoo eggs was one day less than that for host eggs. Our findings unravel additional details of how cuckoos adapt to brood parasitism and specific host-parasite relationships.…”
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New larval host plants of Euchrysops cnejus (Fabricius, 1798) and Rapala manea schistacea (Moore, 1879) from Eastern India (Lepidoptera: Lycaenidae) by Arajush Payra, Chintan Bhatt

“… In the present communication we report Vigna stipulacea (Lam). Kuntze as a larval host plant of Euchrysops cnejus (Fabricius, 1798) and Caesalpinia bonduc (L.) …”
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Understanding socialbot behavior on end hosts by Yukun He, Qiang Li, Jian Cao, Yuede Ji, Dong Guo

“…The fundamental to design host-side detecting approaches is to gain an insight into the behaviors of socialbots on host. …”
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Outer membrane tube formation by Francisella novicida involves extensive envelope modifications and is linked with type VI secretion and alterations to the host phagosomal membrane by Maheen Rashid, Shoichi Tachiyama, Shiwei Zhu, Hang Zhao, William D. McCaig, Jingchuan Sun, Huilin Li, Jun Liu, David G. Thanassi

“…Following uptake by host cells, the bacteria rapidly escape the phagosome and replicate intracellularly. …”
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Observational Evidence for a Correlation between the Magnetic Field of Jets and Star Formation Rate in Host Galaxies by Yongyun Chen, Qiusheng Gu, Junhui Fan, Xiaotong Guo, Xiaoling Yu, Nan Ding, Dingrong Xiong

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An integrated systems biology approach establishes arginine biosynthesis as a metabolic weakness in Candida albicans during host infection by Shuvechha Chakraborty, Indumathi Palanikumar, Yash Gune, K. V. Venkatesh, Karthik Raman, Susan Idicula-Thomas

“…Condition-specific genome-scale metabolic models (GSMMs), along with a novel integrated host-CAL model developed in this study, highlighted the central role of arginine (Arg) metabolism and uncovered ALT1, an arginine biosynthesis enzyme, as a critical metabolic vulnerability in CAL virulence. …”
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Enhance the therapeutic efficacy of human umbilical cord-derived mesenchymal stem cells in prevention of acute graft-versus-host disease through CRISPLD2 modulation by Qing Xu, Rui Wang, Ke Sui, Yuxi Xu, Ya Zhou, Yuxuan He, Ziyi Hu, Qi Wang, Xiaodong Xie, Xiaoqi Wang, Shijie Yang, Lingyu Zeng, Jiang F. Zhong, Zheng Wang, Qingxiao Song, Xi Zhang

Subjects: “…Acute graft-versus-host disease (aGVHD)…”
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Ectoparasites associated with rodents (Rodentia) and marsupials (Didelphimorphia) from northeastern Argentina: new host and locality records by Alicia Paola Benitez-Ibalo, Leonardo Dionel Aguiar, Ingrid Maria Desireé Di Benedetto, Atilio José Mangold, Francisca Milano, Valeria Natalia Debárbora

“…These results provide host and locality records and new parasite-host associations. …”
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Coinfection of Aspergillus and Cryptococcus in Immunocompromised Host: A Case Report and Review of Literature by Daniel W. Awari, Aditya S. Shah, Amber M. Sexton, Matthew A. Sexton

“…Management of infections in the immunocompromised patient requires unique considerations that are not typically seen in the immunocompetent. Immunocompromised hosts require a broad set of differential diagnoses when presenting with febrile illness involving a wide variety of microbiology. …”
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Comparative Effectiveness of Remestemcel-L-rknd versus Ruxolitinib in Pediatric Patients with Steroid-Refractory Acute Graft-Versus-Host Disease using Simulated Treatment Comparisons by Gabriel Tremblay, Dimitrios Tomaras, Eric Strati, Anna Forsythe

“…# Background Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-HSCT) can be a lifesaving treatment for hematologic malignancies, but acute graft-versus-host-disease (aGVHD) is a potentially deadly adverse effect experienced by up to half of allo-HSCT recipients. …”
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