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February 2015

Balla et al. show that a strain of the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans from Hawaii is able to clear intracellular infection by its natural microsporidian pathogen Nematocida parisii. The top image labels N. parisii inside the C. elegans intestine, using fluorescent in situ hybridization staining the pathogen in red and DAPI staining DNA in blue—lower images show alternate color schemes for the intestinal infection.

Image Credit: Keir Balla

Editorial

Opinion

A Working Model of How Noroviruses Infect the Intestine

Stephanie M. Karst, Christiane E. Wobus

Pearls

Prions—Not Your Immunologist’s Pathogen

Mark D. Zabel, Anne C. Avery

Telomeric ORFS in Candida albicans: Does Mediator Tail Wag the Yeast?

Derek J. Sullivan, Judith Berman, Lawrence C. Myers, Gary P. Moran

Yeast Prions: Proteins Templating Conformation and an Anti-prion System

Reed B. Wickner, Herman K. Edskes, David A. Bateman, Anton Gorkovskiy, Yaron Dayani, Evgeny E. Bezsonov, Maryam Mukhamedova

Review

G-Quadruplexes in Pathogens: A Common Route to Virulence Control?

Lynne M. Harris, Catherine J. Merrick

Research Articles

Identification of Effective Subdominant Anti-HIV-1 CD8+ T Cells Within Entire Post-infection and Post-vaccination Immune Responses

Gemma Hancock, Hongbing Yang, Elisabeth Yorke, Emma Wainwright, Victoria Bourne, Alyse Frisbee, Tamika L. Payne, Mark Berrong, Guido Ferrari, Denis Chopera, Tomas Hanke, Beatriz Mothe, Christian Brander, M. Juliana McElrath, Andrew McMichael, Nilu Goonetilleke, Georgia D. Tomaras, Nicole Frahm, Lucy Dorrell

Revealing the Sequence and Resulting Cellular Morphology of Receptor-Ligand Interactions during Plasmodium falciparum Invasion of Erythrocytes

Greta E. Weiss, Paul R. Gilson, Tana Taechalertpaisarn, Wai-Hong Tham, Nienke W. M. de Jong, Katherine L. Harvey, Freya J. I. Fowkes, Paul N. Barlow, Julian C. Rayner, Gavin J. Wright, Alan F. Cowman, Brendan S. Crabb

A Novel Mechanism of Bacterial Toxin Transfer within Host Blood Cell-Derived Microvesicles

Anne-lie Ståhl, Ida Arvidsson, Karl E. Johansson, Milan Chromek, Johan Rebetz, Sebastian Loos, Ann-Charlotte Kristoffersson, Zivile D. Békássy, Matthias Mörgelin, Diana Karpman

Characterization of Metabolically Quiescent Leishmania Parasites in Murine Lesions Using Heavy Water Labeling

Joachim Kloehn, Eleanor C. Saunders, Sean O’Callaghan, Michael J. Dagley, Malcolm J. McConville

Prion Infections and Anti-PrP Antibodies Trigger Converging Neurotoxic Pathways

Uli S. Herrmann, Tiziana Sonati, Jeppe Falsig, Regina R. Reimann, Paolo Dametto, Tracy O’Connor, Bei Li, Agnes Lau, Simone Hornemann, Silvia Sorce, Uli Wagner, Despina Sanoudou, Adriano Aguzzi

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The Neurotrophic Receptor Ntrk2 Directs Lymphoid Tissue Neovascularization during Leishmania donovani Infection

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Role of Pentraxin 3 in Shaping Arthritogenic Alphaviral Disease: From Enhanced Viral Replication to Immunomodulation

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