mBio

Medical research

Fungal protein found to cross blood-brain barrier

In a remarkable series of experiments on a fungus that causes cryptococcal meningitis, a deadly infection of the membranes that cover the spinal cord and brain, investigators at UC Davis have isolated a protein that appears ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

'Bad' antibodies let blood infections rage

Certain antibodies in a patient's blood stream may enable life-threatening bacterial infections to spread instead of fighting them off, a University of Queensland study has found.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Ebola, Marburg viruses edit genetic material during infection

Filoviruses like Ebola "edit" genetic material as they invade their hosts, according to a study published this week in mBio®, the online open-access journal of the American Society for Microbiology. The work, by researchers ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Vaccine candidate for gonorrhea shows preclinical effectiveness

A report in the journal mBio, published by the American Society for Microbiology, describes a prototype vaccine candidate for Neisseria gonorrhoeae, the bacterium that causes gonorrhea, a sexually transmitted infection that ...

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