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How does reinfection impact ongoing pathogen transmission? Using a songbird species & strains of its common bacterial pathogen, scientists find that reinfections may favor more harmful pathogen strains that can better overcome immune defenses. @mSphereJ: asm.social/2kl

ALT Experimental design and timeline. Index individuals (housed alone for the priming portion) were given one of three priming treatments (y-axis) with the M. gallisepticum strain VA94 (blue squares), with treatments varying by the number of priming exposures and dose (the color gradient indicates variation in dose, with more intense color indicating increasing dose concentration). On day 39 post-priming treatment, all index birds were challenged with one of two strains: one homologous to that used in priming exposures (VA94, shown in blue) or a heterologous strain (NC06, shown in yellow) and then pair-housed with an MG-naive cagemate to assess pairwise transmission success.
L-threonine and L-serine as new players in the bioenergetics of Trypanosoma cruzi. Read more here: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
#mSphere of Influence: Stephanie Langel reflects on how 3 papers made an impact on her by uncovering critical pathways & mechanisms through which gut-derived IgA-secreting cells migrate to the mammary gland & secrete antibodies against intestinal microbes. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
#mSphere of Influence: Luisa Berná reflects on how advances in three-dimensional genome organization have reshaped our understanding of parasite biology. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
#mSphere Editor's Pick: Cell differentiation controls iron assimilation in the choanoflagellate Salpingoeca rosetta. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
#mSphere of Influence: Pengjie Hu reflects on how three works have impacted his work on the evolution of virulence, resistance, and adaptation in human fungal pathogens. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
#mSphere Editor's Pick: Exploring the differential localization of protein kinase A isoforms in Candida albicans. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
#mSphere Meeting Highlight: First-ever ASM Global Research Symposium on Microbes in Human Health in Tsinghua, Beijing, China journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
A call for the United States to continue investing in science: journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128… @ASMicrobiology #mSphere
#mSphere of Influence: Andrew Swafford reflects on how the simultaneous introduction to the evolution of vision, the sensory biology of chytrid fungi, and a classic paper by Vrba and Gould helped shape his thinking about sensory evolution. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
#mSphere Editor's Pick: Detection of chronic wasting disease prions in the farm soil of the Republic of Korea. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
#mSphere Editor's Pick: Dysregulation of lung epithelial cell homeostasis and immunity contributes to Middle East respiratory syndrome coronavirus disease severity. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
#mSphere of Influence: Ningning Liu reflects on how two papers emphasized the non-negligible role of fungi in the host and demonstrated a connection between fungi and cancer. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
#mSphere of Influence: Miguel Chiurillo reflects on how two articles made an impact on his understanding of the complexity of the Trypanosoma cruzi kinome and the challenges to unravel it. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
#mSphere of Influence: Lori Huberman reflects on how an article impacted her by establishing technologies that open realistic possibilities for developing high-throughput screening methods to correlate phenotype to genotype in diverse fungal species. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
#mSphere of Influence: Jigar V. Desai reflects on how three papers made an impact on his ongoing work investigating the cell-intrinsic and extrinsic regulation of complement and studying its impacts on mucosal and systemic immunity. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128…
#mSphere is excited to announce that Senior Editor Ira Blader will be taking the reins as Editor in Chief on July 1. Congratulations, Ira! asm.org/Press-Releases/2025/…






