Month: September 2023

September 30, 2023September 30, 2023

Systemic and Ophthalmic Manifestations of Chikungunya Fever.

Publication date: Sep 29, 2023 Chikungunya is a re-emerging viral infection across the globe. The purpose of this article is to review the systemic and ophthalmic manifestations associated with chikungunya ... Read more

September 30, 2023September 30, 2023

A Chemoproteomic Approach to Elucidate the Mechanism of Action of 6-Azasteroids with Unique Activity in Mycobacteria.

Tuberculosis Literature

Publication date: Sep 29, 2023 By illuminating key 6-azasteroid-protein interactions in both Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) and the closely related model organism Mycobacterium marinum (Mm), we sought to improve the antimycobacterial ... Read more

September 30, 2023September 30, 2023

An N-acetyltransferase required for ESAT-6 N-terminal acetylation and virulence in Mycobacterium marinum.

Tuberculosis Literature

Publication date: Sep 29, 2023 N-terminal protein acetylation is a ubiquitous post-translational modification that impacts diverse cellular processes in higher organisms. Bacterial proteins are also N-terminally acetylated, but the mechanisms ... Read more

September 30, 2023September 30, 2023

Estimating post-treatment recurrence after multidrug-resistant tuberculosis treatment among patients with and without HIV: the impact of assumptions about death and missing follow-up.

Tuberculosis Literature

Publication date: Sep 29, 2023 Quantification of recurrence risk following successful treatment is crucial to evaluating regimens for multidrug- or rifampicin-resistant (MDR/RR) tuberculosis (TB). However, such analyses are complicated when ... Read more

September 30, 2023September 30, 2023

Mycobacteria modulate SUMOylation to suppresses protective responses in dendritic cells.

Tuberculosis Literature

Publication date: Sep 29, 2023 Post translational modifications (PTMs) are exploited by various pathogens in order to escape host immune responses. SUMOylation is one of the PTMs which is involved ... Read more

September 30, 2023September 30, 2023

Prevalence and risk factors of M tuberculosis infection in young people across 14 communities in Zambia and South Africa.

Tuberculosis Literature

Publication date: Sep 29, 2023 From 2018-2021 the TB Reduction through Expanded Antiretroviral Treatment and TB Screening (TREATS) project took place in 21 Zambian and South African communities. The TREATS ... Read more

September 30, 2023September 30, 2023

Nipah virus infection: A review

Nipah Virus News

Publication date: Sep 28, 2023 Nipah virus (NiV) is an emerging bat-borne pathogen. It was first identified 20 years ago in Malaysia and has since caused outbreaks in other parts ... Read more

September 29, 2023September 29, 2023

Epidemiological and genomic investigation of chikungunya virus in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil, between 2015 and 2018.

Chikungunya Literature

Publication date: Sep 28, 2023 Since 2014, Brazil has experienced an unprecedented epidemic caused by chikungunya virus (CHIKV), with several waves of East-Central-South-African (ECSA) lineage transmission reported across the country. ... Read more

September 29, 2023September 29, 2023

Phylodynamics of dengue virus 2 in Nicaragua leading up to the 2019 epidemic reveals a role for lineage turnover.

Chikungunya Literature

Publication date: Sep 28, 2023 Dengue is a mosquito-borne viral disease posing a significant threat to public health. Dengue virus (DENV) evolution is often characterized by lineage turnover, which, along ... Read more

September 29, 2023September 29, 2023

SIRT1(rs7069102 ) Gene Polymorphism in Chronic Obstructive Pulmonary Disease at Egyptian Patients

Tuberculosis News

Publication date: Sep 27, 2023 Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) prevalence, morbidity, and mortality vary across countries and across different groups within countries with a direct relation to the prevalence ... Read more