Group A Streptococcus (GAS) causes the life‐threatening infection in humans known as
necrotizing fasciitis (NF). Infected subcutaneous tissues from an NF patient and mice challenged …

Background There is a growing interest in using gut commensal bacteria as “next generation”
probiotics. However, this approach is still hampered by the fact that there are few or no …

Successful infection depends on the ability of the pathogen to gain nutrients from the host.
The extracellular pathogenic bacterium group A Streptococcus (GAS) causes a vast array of …

Shigella and enteroinvasive Escherichia coli (EIEC) are gram-negative bacteria responsible
for bacillary dysentery (shigellosis) in humans, which is characterized by invasion and …

Antibody-mediated immunity to Shigella, the causative agent of bacillary dysentery, requires
several episodes of infection to get primed and is short-lasting, suggesting that the B cell …

In the last two decades an increasing number of local outbreaks of invasive group A streptococcus
(GAS) infections including necrotizing fasciitis (NF) have been reported. We identified …

Group A streptococcus (GAS) causes a wide variety of human diseases, and at the same
time, GAS can also circulate without producing symptoms, similar to its close commensal …

Direct interactions between bacterial and host glycans have been recently reported to be
involved in the binding of pathogenic bacteria to host cells. In the case of Shigella, the Gram-…

The enteroinvasive bacterium Shigella is a facultative intracellular bacterium known, in vitro,
to invade a large diversity of cells through the delivery of virulence effectors into the cell …

Salmonella targets and enters epithelial cells at permissive entry sites: some cells are more
likely to be infected than others. However, the parameters that lead to host cell heterogeneity …