Background: Staphylococcus epidermidis is the predominating etiology of neonatal septicemia in industrilized countries, but specific virulence factors associated with S. epidermidis are incompletely ...

Dokland’s study, “Shape shifter: redirection of prolate phage capsid assembly by staphylococcal pathogenicity islands” was published in Nature Communications. Dokland said that Bacteriophages or ...

Announcing a new article publication for Zoonoses journal. The objective of this study was to determine the prevalence, antimicrobial resistance, virulence profiles, and molecular characteristics of ...

A research team has characterized a Staphylococcus aureus gene involved in virulence, biofilm formation and resistance to certain antibiotics. These results open up new avenues for understanding the ...

An epidemic strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolated from patients at the University of Virginia Hospital in Charlottesville (MRSA-Va) was characterized, and virulence ...

A pathogen's ability to infect or damage its host tissues is determined by the virulence factors. These are often molecules synthesized by bacteria or viruses and encoded in their genome, but they may ...

Challenging Issues in Diagnosis and Screening of BK Virus Nephropathy in Kidney Transplant Recipients, A Multicenter Experience in Iranian Population. Virulence Factors of Staphylococcus Aureus ...