In Brief in 2019

This study shows that a plant pathogen uses extracellular DNases as a defence mechanism against host-secreted extracellular DNA.

This study shows that naked and quasi-enveloped hepatitis A virus virions enter cells via similar endocytic pathways, but uncoating of capsids is temporally and spatially different.

This study shows that staphylococcal leukocidins target endothelial cells to cause host lethality.

The findings of this study suggest that Zika virus differentially reprogrammes glucose metabolism in humans and mosquitoes, which affects host cell death and survival.

This study reports that the incorporation of antimalarial drugs into insecticide-treated bed nets could be a promising transmission-blocking strategy.

This study reports that the phosphorylation of a paramyxovirus protein switches the infection phenotype from lytic to persistent.

A recent study finds that pre-existing immunity to dengue virus is associated with a reduction in Zika virus transmission.

This study found that a lipase secreted by the opportunistic pathogen Staphylococcus aureus promotes immune evasion.

This study shows that the interaction between two sessile soil bacteria leads to emergence of interspecies social spreading.

This study reports a large population cohort study in which the authors correlate microbial taxa with quality of life and the incidence of depression.

The description of a method to measure the HIV-1 reservoir that quantifies intact and defective proviruses.

This study reveals the effector repertoire of the Legionella genus.

This report shows that a non-structural protein of a persistent plant virus can induce the apoptotic response to promote viral transmission.

This study used a large-scale metagenomic-assembly approach and uncovered thousands of new species associated with the human microbiome.