In the presence of a warmer climate, increase comparative abundance fungal plant pathogens. Many most aggressive pathogens are soil-borne fungi. Alternaria species threaten food security as chemical fungicides currently used against them mostly ineffective because acquired resistance to active compounds. Broadleaf plantain (Plantago major L.) and rosemary (Rosmarinus officinalis extracts, obtai...

Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis is a food-borne pathogen that causes salmonellosis in the United States. Bacteriophages are emerging as viable biocontrol agents against this pathogen. Here, we present the complete annotated genome sequence of Salmonella Enteritidis T4-like myophage Marshall, which has potential as a phage therapy agent.

Rickettsia slovaca is a tick-borne human pathogen that is associated with scalp eschars and neck lymphadenopathy known as tick-borne lymphadenopathy (TIBOLA) or Dermacentor-borne necrosis erythema and lymphadenopathy (DEBONEL). Originally, R. slovaca was described in Eastern Europe, but since recognition of its pathogenicity, human cases have been reported throughout Europe. European vertebrate...

Fusarium moniliforme is one of the major seed borne pathogen rice in Bangladesh that causes significant yield loss. To observe incidence and transmission this pathogen, farmers saved seeds from BADC were collected pathogens detected by blotter method. The prevalence F. varied according to locations seasons. highest 18% infection was recorded Boro Netrakona district lowest 2% Gazipur district. E...

Soil-borne pathogens are a key component of the belowground community because of the significance of their ecological and socio-economic impacts. However, very little is known about the complexity of their distribution patterns in natural systems. Here, we explored the patterns, causes and ecological consequences of spatial variability in pathogen abundance in Mediterranean forests affected by ...

Ixodes scapularis ticks feed on humans and other vertebrate hosts transmit several pathogens of public health concern. Tick saliva is a complex mixture bioactive proteins, lipids immunomodulators, such as I. sphingomyelinase ( Is SMase) ‐ like protein, an ortholog dermonecrotoxin SMase D found in the venom Loxosceles spp. spiders. modulates host immune response towards Th2, which suppresses Th1...

Tick-borne diseases are on the rise. Lyme borreliosis is prevalent throughout the Northern Hemisphere, and the same Ixodes tick species transmitting the etiologic agents of this disease also serve as vectors of pathogens causing human babesiosis, human granulocytic anaplasmosis, and tick-borne encephalitis. Recently, several novel agents of rickettsial diseases have been described. Despite an e...

Fresh fruits, nuts and vegetables are increasingly linked to food-borne illnesses, outbreaks and recalls. The trend represents a modern-day public health conundrum wherein consumers are encouraged to eat more fresh produce to help prevent chronic health problems such as obesity and heart disease, but at the same time consumption of contaminated produce can lead to potentially life-threatening a...

establishment of a vector-borne disease. For example, tick-derived saliva factors appear to inhibit inflammatory cytokine secretion thus preventing efficient immune responses against tick-borne Rickettsia (4); a defined molecule in the saliva of the Aedes aegypti mosquito (SAAG-4) has the potential to alter the Th-profile of the bite-induced immune response likely rendering the host unable to e...