Dokland: Pathogenicity islands encode virulence factors that affect the bacteria’s pathogenicity and disease progression. Bacteriophages represent the main mechanism by which these islands are ...

Worldwide, infectious diseases cause over 10 million deaths each year. Learn how pathogenicity islands and bacteriophage genes end up making these potent viruses. As the genomic sequences of ...

Differentially evolved genes of Salmonella pathogenicity islands: insights into the mechanism of host specificity in Salmonella. PLoS One. 2008;3(12):e3829. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0003829.

Strains that cause cholera pandemics have acquired pathogenicity islands through a process known as "horizontal gene transfer," by which bacteria share genes both within and across species.

Conversion of staphylococcal pathogenicity islands to CRISPR-carrying antibacterial agents that cure infections in mice. Nature Biotechnology , 2018; DOI: 10.1038/nbt.4203 Cite This Page : ...

Strains that cause cholera pandemics have acquired pathogenicity islands through a process known as “horizontal gene transfer”, by which bacteria share genes both within and across species.

Back in the 1980s, Dr. Novick and colleagues discovered that Staph bacteria contain pathogenicity islands that carry TSST1, a gene that causes a dangerous complication of Staph infections called ...

Pathogenicity islands are already primed for such inside jobs: The stretches of DNA naturally get bundled into small parcels that can easily enter bacteria to deliver new genes.

The department of forestry, fisheries and environment has confirmed the presence of the high pathogenicity avian influenza (HPAI) H5N1 virus on South Africa’s sub-Antarctic territory of Marion ...

Terje Dokland, Ph.D. Terje Dokland, Ph.D., professor in the Department of Microbiology, is the latest winner of the Heersink School of Medicine’s Featured Discovery. This initiative celebrates ...