Escherichia coli is a versatile bacterial species that includes both harmless commensal
strains and pathogenic strains found in the gastrointestinal tract in humans and warm …

Shigella spp. are gram-negative pathogenic bacteria that evolved from harmless
enterobacterial relatives and may cause devastating diarrhea upon ingestion. Research …

The evolutionary relationships of 46 Shigella strains representing each of the serotypes
belonging to the four traditional Shigella species (subgroups), Dysenteriae, Flexneri, Boydii …

Bacteriophages (phages) are selective viral predators of bacteria. Abundant and ubiquitous
in nature, phages can be used to treat bacterial infections (phage therapy), including …

This review covers the O antigens of the 46 serotypes of Shigella, but those of most Shigella
flexneri are variants of one basic structure, leaving 34 Shigella distinct O antigens to review …

O-antigen modification (serotype conversion) in Shigella flexneri, which is an important
virulence determinant, is conferred by temperate bacteriophages. Several serotype …

Shigella, the leading cause of bacillary dysentery, uses a type III secretion system (TTSS) to
inject proteins into human cells, leading to bacterial invasion and a vigorous inflammatory …

Shigella spp. are some of the key pathogens responsible for the global burden of diarrhoeal
disease. These facultative intracellular bacteria belong to the family Enterobacteriaceae …

The discovery that the surfaces of Gram-negative bacteria often carry unique polysaccharide
signatures pre-dates most seminal discoveries of molecular biology and biochemistry of the …

Similarity between the DNA substrates and products of integrase-mediated site-specific
recombination reactions results in a single recombinase enzyme being able to catalyze both …