Nature Reviews Microbiology
Volume 7, No 12 December 2009
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The spectrum of latent tuberculosis: rethinking the biology and intervention strategies
Clifton E. Barry 3rd, Helena I. Boshoff, Véronique Dartois, Thomas Dick, Sabine Ehrt, JoAnne Flynn, Dirk Schnappinger, Robert J. Wilkinson & Douglas Young
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Dancing genomes: fungal nuclear positioning
Amy Gladfelter & Judith Berman
In fungi, nuclei move in a microtubule- and microtubule motor-dependent manner. In this Review, Judith Berman and Amy Gladfelter discuss how fungi use the movement of intact nuclei within and between cells to control the integrity, ploidy and assortment of specific genomes or individual chromosomes.
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What are the consequences of the disappearing human microbiota?
Martin J. Blaser & Stanley Falkow
The increase in allergic diseases that has occurred in developing countries in recent years has been attributed to a decrease in exposure to the microorganisms in the environment. Blaser and Falkow reflect that this increase, as well as the ongoing obesity epidemic and increased susceptibility to infectious disease, might instead be the result of changes in the human microbiota.
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Artemisinin-based combination therapies: a vital tool in efforts to eliminate malaria
Richard T. Eastman & David A. Fidock
The emergence of drug-resistant Plasmodium parasites has made the treatment of malaria difficult in some areas. One of the last drugs to which there is no full resistance is artemisinin. Fidock and Eastman describe artemisinin-based combination therapies that aim to decrease the occurrence of drug resistance and that have raised the possibility of malaria eradication.
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Nature Reviews Microbiology invites you to explore the microscopic world of microbial invaders and take an animated tour featuring the lifestyles of three disease-causing bacteria: Listeria monocytogenes, Legionella pneumophila and Mycobacterium tuberculosis.
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Microbial symbioses include beneficial, harmful and neutral relationships and are important in animal and plant health, immunity and disease and in ecology and the environment. This special Focus issue highlights exciting advances in our understanding of partnerships between organisms and their environments.
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Systems microbiology aims to integrate basic biological information with genomics, transcriptomics, metabolomics, glycomics, proteomics and other data to create an integrated model of how a microbial cell or community functions. This series examines some of the latest developments in this fast–moving field.
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