The Host-Microbe Interface: A New Voyage of Discovery

Microbial Biodiversity: a New Voyage of Discovery

Cell biology at the host–microbe interface

Manipulation of membrane dynamics Nihal Altan-Bonnet (National Institutes of Health) described positive-sense RNA enteroviruses that manipulate the host to generate phosphatidylinositol 4-phosphate (PI4P) and cholesterol-rich membrane platforms for efficient viral replication. The enzyme PI4KIIIβ is hijacked by the enteroviral protein 3A to generate new pools of PI4P at these membrane platforms...

The Microbe-Host Interface in Respiratory Tract Infections

Professional journals these days brim with new developments in the field of antimicrobial resistance, and scarcely a week goes by without a flurry of new reports on “super bugs” in popular media. Given the unrelenting blitz of information, that 2 selfproclaimed “fusty old pedants” could produce a fresh perspective in the ongoing arms race between man and microbe is all the more noteworthy. Alth...

Nurses as patients: the voyage of discovery.

To facilitate an enhanced understanding of the experience of being a patient, an inquiry was undertaken into the experience of nurses receiving nursing care when hospitalized. Using a hermeneutic-phenomenological approach, an exploration was undertaken of registered nurses' interpretations of their experiences of receiving nursing care, as described in their individual stories. By interpreting ...

Host Specificity in Microbe-Microbe Interactions

ventional monocultural crop systems often supported by high inputs of pesticides and fertilizers to sustainable agriculture. Although precise definitions of sustainable agriculture vary, one key aspect is a reduction in agrichemical inputs with a corresponding shift to alternative crop protection strategies, such as cultural practices, organic amendments, resistant or tolerant crop varieties, a...