Pneumonia is a type of acute lower respiratory infection that is common and severe. The
outcome of lower respiratory infection is determined by the degrees to which immunity is …

Highlights•Antibiotic resistance is a serious problem of our era.•Antimicrobial peptides are
important templates for developing new antibiotics.•Both peptide discovery and application …

Lower respiratory tract infections (LRTIs) lead to more deaths each year than any other
infectious disease category. Despite this, etiologic LRTI pathogens are infrequently …

Nipah virus is a bat-borne paramyxovirus that produces yearly outbreaks of fatal
encephalitis in Bangladesh. Understanding the ecological conditions that lead to spillover …

Clostridioides difficile infection (CDI) is a health care-associated infection associated with
significant morbidity and cost, with highly varied risk across populations. More effective, risk …

Japanese encephalitis is a mosquito-borne disease caused by the Japanese encephalitis
virus (JEV) that is prevalent in Asia and the Western Pacific. Currently, there is no effective …

This paper offers projections of future transmission dynamics for SARS-CoV-2 in an SEIRS
model with demographics and waning immunity. In a stylized optimal control setting …

Objective We aim to familiarize the application status of metagenomic sequencing in
diagnosing pulmonary infections, to compare metagenomic sequencing with traditional …

Recent findings will direct research into fundamental mechanisms of lung protection. Over
the longer term, manipulating these pathways has implications for clinical practice, as …

Municipal wastewater includes human waste that contains both commensal and pathogenic
enteric microorganisms, and this collective community microbiome can be monitored for …