An Increasing Danger of Zoonotic Orthopoxvirus Infections

Sergei N. Shchelkunov

PLOS Pathogens: published December 5, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003756

Host Susceptibility Factors to Bacterial Infections in Type 2 Diabetes

Yunn-Hwen Gan

PLOS Pathogens: published December 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003794

Shaping Up for Battle: Morphological Control Mechanisms in Human Fungal Pathogens

David Kadosh

PLOS Pathogens: published December 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003795

Host Defense via Symbiosis in Drosophila

Phineas T. Hamilton, Steve J. Perlman

PLOS Pathogens: published December 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003808

Zinc Sequestration: Arming Phagocyte Defense against Fungal Attack

Kavitha Subramanian Vignesh, Julio A. Landero Figueroa, Aleksey Porollo, Joseph A. Caruso, George S. Deepe Jr

PLOS Pathogens: published December 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003815

Novel Strategies to Enhance Vaccine Immunity against Coccidioidomycosis

Garry T. Cole, Chiung-Yu Hung, Sam D. Sanderson, Brady J. Hurtgen, Marcel Wüthrich, Bruce S. Klein, George S. Deepe, Gary R. Ostroff, Stuart M. Levitz

PLOS Pathogens: published December 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003768

Regulatory Circuits That Enable Proliferation of the Fungus Candida albicans in a Mammalian Host

J. Christian Pérez, Alexander D. Johnson

PLOS Pathogens: published December 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003780

Influence of Mast Cells on Dengue Protective Immunity and Immune Pathology

Ashley L. St. John

PLOS Pathogens: published December 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003783

Immune Therapeutic Strategies in Chronic Hepatitis B Virus Infection: Virus or Inflammation Control?

Antonio Bertoletti, Adam J. Gehring

PLOS Pathogens: published December 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003784

Burning Down the House: Cellular Actions during Pyroptosis

Christopher N. LaRock, Brad T. Cookson

PLOS Pathogens: published December 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003793

Innate Lymphoid Cells: New Players in IL-17-Mediated Antifungal Immunity

André Gladiator, Salomé LeibundGut-Landmann

PLOS Pathogens: published December 12, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003763

Balancing Stability and Flexibility within the Genome of the Pathogen Cryptococcus neoformans

Kate L. Ormerod, James A. Fraser

PLOS Pathogens: published December 12, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003764

CRISPR-Cas Immunity against Phages: Its Effects on the Evolution and Survival of Bacterial Pathogens

Luciano A. Marraffini

PLOS Pathogens: published December 12, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003765

LysM Effectors: Secreted Proteins Supporting Fungal Life

Anja Kombrink, Bart P. H. J. Thomma

PLOS Pathogens: published December 12, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003769

Aspergillus fumigatus—What Makes the Species a Ubiquitous Human Fungal Pathogen?

Kyung J. Kwon-Chung, Janyce A. Sugui

PLOS Pathogens: published December 5, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003743

The Evolution of Transmissible Prions: The Role of Deformed Templating

Natallia Makarava, Ilia V. Baskakov

PLOS Pathogens: published December 5, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003759

Coronaviruses as DNA Wannabes: A New Model for the Regulation of RNA Virus Replication Fidelity

Everett Clinton Smith, Mark R. Denison

PLOS Pathogens: published December 5, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003760

Cytoplasmic Viruses: Rage against the (Cellular RNA Decay) Machine

Stephanie L. Moon, Jeffrey Wilusz

PLOS Pathogens: published December 5, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003762

Interference with the Host Haemostatic System by Schistosomes

Mirjam M. Mebius, Perry J. J. van Genderen, Rolf T. Urbanus, Aloysius G. M. Tielens, Philip G. de Groot, Jaap J. van Hellemond

PLOS Pathogens: published December 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003781

Emerging Functions for the Staphylococcus aureus RNome

Julien Guillet, Marc Hallier, Brice Felden

PLOS Pathogens: published December 12, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003767

Gene Fitness Landscapes of Vibrio cholerae at Important Stages of Its Life Cycle

Heather D. Kamp, Bharathi Patimalla-Dipali, David W. Lazinski, Faith Wallace-Gadsden, Andrew Camilli

PLOS Pathogens: published December 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003800

Systematic MicroRNA Analysis Identifies ATP6V0C as an Essential Host Factor for Human Cytomegalovirus Replication

Jon Pavelin, Natalie Reynolds, Stephen Chiweshe, Guanming Wu, Rebecca Tiribassi, Finn Grey

PLOS Pathogens: published December 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003820

The Toxoplasma gondii Cyst Wall Protein CST1 Is Critical for Cyst Wall Integrity and Promotes Bradyzoite Persistence

Tadakimi Tomita, David J. Bzik, Yan Fen Ma, Barbara A. Fox, Lye Meng Markillie, Ronald C. Taylor, Kami Kim, Louis M. Weiss

PLOS Pathogens: published December 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003823

Cyclin A Degradation by Primate Cytomegalovirus Protein pUL21a Counters Its Innate Restriction of Virus Replication

Nicolas Caffarelli, Anthony R. Fehr, Dong Yu

PLOS Pathogens: published December 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003825

An In-Depth Comparison of Latent HIV-1 Reactivation in Multiple Cell Model Systems and Resting CD4+ T Cells from Aviremic Patients

Celsa A. Spina, Jenny Anderson, Nancie M. Archin, Alberto Bosque, Jonathan Chan, Marylinda Famiglietti, Warner C. Greene, Angela Kashuba, Sharon R. Lewin, David M. Margolis, Matthew Mau, Debbie Ruelas, Suha Saleh, Kotaro Shirakawa, Robert F. Siliciano, Akul Singhania, Paula C. Soto, Valeri H. Terry, Eric Verdin, Christopher Woelk, Stacey Wooden, Sifei Xing, Vicente Planelles

PLOS Pathogens: published December 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003834

Pfit Is a Structurally Novel Crohn's Disease-Associated Superantigen

Lihui Liu, Hui Chen, Matthew B. Brecher, Zhong Li, Bo Wei, Bisweswar Nandi, Jing Zhang, Hua Ling, Gary Winslow, Jonathan Braun, Hongmin Li

PLOS Pathogens: published December 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003837

Overcoming Antigenic Diversity by Enhancing the Immunogenicity of Conserved Epitopes on the Malaria Vaccine Candidate Apical Membrane Antigen-1

Sheetij Dutta, Lisa S. Dlugosz, Damien R. Drew, Xiopeng Ge, Diouf Ababacar, Yazmin I. Rovira, J. Kathleen Moch, Meng Shi, Carole A. Long, Michael Foley, James G. Beeson, Robin F. Anders, Kazutoyo Miura, J. David Haynes, Adrian H. Batchelor

PLOS Pathogens: published December 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003840

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The CD8-Derived Chemokine XCL1/Lymphotactin Is a Conformation-Dependent, Broad-Spectrum Inhibitor of HIV-1

Christina Guzzo, Jamie Fox, Yin Lin, Huiyi Miao, Raffaello Cimbro, Brian F. Volkman, Anthony S. Fauci, Paolo Lusso

PLOS Pathogens: published December 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003852

KSHV MicroRNAs Mediate Cellular Transformation and Tumorigenesis by Redundantly Targeting Cell Growth and Survival Pathways

Rosalie Moody, Ying Zhu, Yufei Huang, Xiaodong Cui, Tiffany Jones, Roble Bedolla, Xiufen Lei, Zhiqiang Bai, Shou-Jiang Gao

PLOS Pathogens: published December 26, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003857

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Transcriptional Analysis of Murine Macrophages Infected with Different Toxoplasma Strains Identifies Novel Regulation of Host Signaling Pathways

Mariane B. Melo, Quynh P. Nguyen, Cynthia Cordeiro, Musa A. Hassan, Ninghan Yang, Renée McKell, Emily E. Rosowski, Lindsay Julien, Vincent Butty, Marie-Laure Dardé, Daniel Ajzenberg, Katherine Fitzgerald, Lucy H. Young, Jeroen P. J. Saeij

PLOS Pathogens: published December 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003779

Hypoxia Inducible Factor Signaling Modulates Susceptibility to Mycobacterial Infection via a Nitric Oxide Dependent Mechanism

Philip M. Elks, Sabrina Brizee, Michiel van der Vaart, Sarah R. Walmsley, Fredericus J. van Eeden, Stephen A. Renshaw, Annemarie H. Meijer

PLOS Pathogens: published December 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003789

Parental Transfer of the Antimicrobial Protein LBP/BPI Protects Biomphalaria glabrata Eggs against Oomycete Infections

Olga Lucia Baron, Pieter van West, Benoit Industri, Michel Ponchet, Géraldine Dubreuil, Benjamin Gourbal, Jean-Marc Reichhart, Christine Coustau

PLOS Pathogens: published December 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003792

Intestinal CD103+ Dendritic Cells Are Key Players in the Innate Immune Control of Cryptosporidium parvum Infection in Neonatal Mice

Louis Lantier, Sonia Lacroix-Lamandé, Laurent Potiron, Coralie Metton, Françoise Drouet, William Guesdon, Audrey Gnahoui-David, Yves Le Vern, Edith Deriaud, Aurore Fenis, Sylvie Rabot, Amandine Descamps, Catherine Werts, Fabrice Laurent

PLOS Pathogens: published December 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003801

αvβ6- and αvβ8-Integrins Serve As Interchangeable Receptors for HSV gH/gL to Promote Endocytosis and Activation of Membrane Fusion

Tatiana Gianni, Stefano Salvioli, Liudmila S. Chesnokova, Lindsey M. Hutt-Fletcher, Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume

PLOS Pathogens: published December 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003806

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Toxoplasma gondii-Induced Activation of EGFR Prevents Autophagy Protein-Mediated Killing of the Parasite

Luis Muniz-Feliciano, Jennifer Van Grol, Jose-Andres C. Portillo, Lloyd Liew, Bing Liu, Cathleen R. Carlin, Vern B. Carruthers, Stephen Matthews, Carlos S. Subauste

PLOS Pathogens: published December 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003809

Biphasic Euchromatin-to-Heterochromatin Transition on the KSHV Genome Following De Novo Infection

Zsolt Toth, Kevin Brulois, Hye-Ra Lee, Yoshihiro Izumiya, Clifford Tepper, Hsing-Jien Kung, Jae U. Jung

PLOS Pathogens: published December 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003813

A Human Torque Teno Virus Encodes a MicroRNA That Inhibits Interferon Signaling

Rodney P. Kincaid, James M. Burke, Jennifer C. Cox, Ethel-Michele de Villiers, Christopher S. Sullivan

PLOS Pathogens: published December 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003818

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The Staphylococcus aureus ArlRS Two-Component System Is a Novel Regulator of Agglutination and Pathogenesis

Jennifer N. Walker, Heidi A. Crosby, Adam R. Spaulding, Wilmara Salgado-Pabón, Cheryl L. Malone, Carolyn B. Rosenthal, Patrick M. Schlievert, Jeffrey M. Boyd, Alexander R. Horswill

PLOS Pathogens: published December 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003819

Identification of the Virulence Landscape Essential for Entamoeba histolytica Invasion of the Human Colon

Roman Thibeaux, Christian Weber, Chung-Chau Hon, Marie-Agnès Dillies, Patrick Avé, Jean-Yves Coppée, Elisabeth Labruyère, Nancy Guillén

PLOS Pathogens: published December 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003824

A Toxin-Antitoxin Module of Salmonella Promotes Virulence in Mice

Miguel A. De la Cruz, Weidong Zhao, Carine Farenc, Grégory Gimenez, Didier Raoult, Christian Cambillau, Jean-Pierre Gorvel, Stéphane Méresse

PLOS Pathogens: published December 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003827

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Genome-Wide RNAi Screen Identifies Novel Host Proteins Required for Alphavirus Entry

Yaw Shin Ooi, Katie M. Stiles, Catherine Y. Liu, Gwen M. Taylor, Margaret Kielian

PLOS Pathogens: published December 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003835

HrpA, an RNA Helicase Involved in RNA Processing, Is Required for Mouse Infectivity and Tick Transmission of the Lyme Disease Spirochete

Aydan Salman-Dilgimen, Pierre-Olivier Hardy, Justin D. Radolf, Melissa J. Caimano, George Chaconas

PLOS Pathogens: published December 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003841

RocA Truncation Underpins Hyper-Encapsulation, Carriage Longevity and Transmissibility of Serotype M18 Group A Streptococci

Nicola N. Lynskey, David Goulding, Magdalena Gierula, Claire E. Turner, Gordon Dougan, Robert J. Edwards, Shiranee Sriskandan

PLOS Pathogens: published December 19, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003842

Serotonergic Chemosensory Neurons Modify the C. elegans Immune Response by Regulating G-Protein Signaling in Epithelial Cells

Alexandra Anderson, Henry Laurenson-Schafer, Frederick A. Partridge, Jonathan Hodgkin, Rachel McMullan

PLOS Pathogens: published December 12, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003787

Enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli Hemolysin Employs Outer Membrane Vesicles to Target Mitochondria and Cause Endothelial and Epithelial Apoptosis

Martina Bielaszewska, Christian Rüter, Lisa Kunsmann, Lilo Greune, Andreas Bauwens, Wenlan Zhang, Thorsten Kuczius, Kwang Sik Kim, Alexander Mellmann, M. Alexander Schmidt, Helge Karch

PLOS Pathogens: published December 12, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003797

The Genetic Basis of Escherichia coli Pathoadaptation to Macrophages

Migla Miskinyte, Ana Sousa, Ricardo S. Ramiro, Jorge A. Moura de Sousa, Jerzy Kotlinowski, Iris Caramalho, Sara Magalhães, Miguel P. Soares, Isabel Gordo

PLOS Pathogens: published December 12, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003802

Semen CD4⁺ T Cells and Macrophages Are Productively Infected at All Stages of SIV infection in Macaques

Sibylle Bernard-Stoecklin, Céline Gommet, Aurélien B. Corneau, Sabrina Guenounou, Claire Torres, Nathalie Dejucq-Rainsford, Antonio Cosma, Nathalie Dereuddre-Bosquet, Roger Le Grand

PLOS Pathogens: published December 12, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003810

The Malarial Serine Protease SUB1 Plays an Essential Role in Parasite Liver Stage Development

Catherine Suarez, Katrin Volkmann, Ana Rita Gomes, Oliver Billker, Michael J. Blackman

PLOS Pathogens: published December 12, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003811

Phagocytosis Escape by a Staphylococcus aureus Protein That Connects Complement and Coagulation Proteins at the Bacterial Surface

Ya-Ping Ko, Annemarie Kuipers, Claudia M. Freitag, Ilse Jongerius, Eva Medina, Willemien J. van Rooijen, András N. Spaan, Kok P. M. van Kessel, Magnus Höök, Suzan H. M. Rooijakkers

PLOS Pathogens: published December 12, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003816

Placental Syncytium Forms a Biophysical Barrier against Pathogen Invasion

Varvara B. Zeldovich, Casper H. Clausen, Emily Bradford, Daniel A. Fletcher, Emin Maltepe, Jennifer R. Robbins, Anna I. Bakardjiev

PLOS Pathogens: published December 12, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003821

Nodular Inflammatory Foci Are Sites of T Cell Priming and Control of Murine Cytomegalovirus Infection in the Neonatal Lung

Felix R. Stahl, Katrin Heller, Stephan Halle, Kirsten A. Keyser, Andreas Busche, Anja Marquardt, Karen Wagner, Jasmin Boelter, Yvonne Bischoff, Elisabeth Kremmer, Ramon Arens, Martin Messerle, Reinhold Förster

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Hepatitis B Virus Disrupts Mitochondrial Dynamics: Induces Fission and Mitophagy to Attenuate Apoptosis

Seong-Jun Kim, Mohsin Khan, Jun Quan, Andreas Till, Suresh Subramani, Aleem Siddiqui

PLOS Pathogens: published December 5, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003722

Dual Expression Profile of Type VI Secretion System Immunity Genes Protects Pandemic Vibrio cholerae

Sarah T. Miyata, Daniel Unterweger, Sydney P. Rudko, Stefan Pukatzki

PLOS Pathogens: published December 5, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003752

The Type-Specific Neutralizing Antibody Response Elicited by a Dengue Vaccine Candidate Is Focused on Two Amino Acids of the Envelope Protein

Laura A. VanBlargan, Swati Mukherjee, Kimberly A. Dowd, Anna P. Durbin, Stephen S. Whitehead, Theodore C. Pierson

PLOS Pathogens: published December 5, 2013 | https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.ppat.1003761

Tmprss2 Is Essential for Influenza H1N1 Virus Pathogenesis in Mice

Bastian Hatesuer, Stephanie Bertram, Nora Mehnert, Mahmoud M. Bahgat, Peter S. Nelson, Stefan Pöhlman, Klaus Schughart

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Sara Garamszegi, Eric A. Franzosa, Yu Xia

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Real-Time Imaging of the Intracellular Glutathione Redox Potential in the Malaria Parasite Plasmodium falciparum

Denis Kasozi, Franziska Mohring, Stefan Rahlfs, Andreas J. Meyer, Katja Becker

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Brucella Induces an Unfolded Protein Response via TcpB That Supports Intracellular Replication in Macrophages

Judith A. Smith, Mike Khan, Diogo D. Magnani, Jerome S. Harms, Marina Durward, Girish K. Radhakrishnan, Yi-Ping Liu, Gary A. Splitter

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Genome-Wide Detection of Fitness Genes in Uropathogenic Escherichia coli during Systemic Infection

Sargurunathan Subashchandrabose, Sara N. Smith, Rachel R. Spurbeck, Monica M. Kole, Harry L. T. Mobley

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Combining Regulatory T Cell Depletion and Inhibitory Receptor Blockade Improves Reactivation of Exhausted Virus-Specific CD8⁺ T Cells and Efficiently Reduces Chronic Retroviral Loads

Kirsten K. Dietze, Gennadiy Zelinskyy, Jia Liu, Freya Kretzmer, Simone Schimmer, Ulf Dittmer

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