Hi all,

Today I’m just playing with different layouts for my digests, by splitting them up into smaller groups of topics. In this post, you will find dengue, phages, and infection/host response papers.

Dengue

• Lots of Dengue abstracts from the 16th International Congress on Infectious Diseases (ICID) Abstracts in a April Supplement 2014 issue of the International Journal of Infectious Diseases
• The Journal of Infectious Diseases has a Dengue special this month. Dengue Human Infection Model – Journal of Infectious Diseases
• Clinical characteristics, risk factors and outcome in elderly experiencing dengue infections – S. Iqtadar – International Journal of Infectious Diseases
• Stumbles on the path to dengue control – Scott B Halstead – The Lancet Infectious Diseases
• Fans’ World Cup trip could be dampened by dengue – editorial in New Scientist
• Efficacy and safety of celgosivir in patients with dengue fever (CELADEN): a phase 1b, randomised, double-blind, placebo-controlled, proof-of-concept trial – Jenny G Low – The Lancet Infectious Diseases
• Dynamics of interleukin-21 production during the clinical course of primary and secondary dengue virus infections – H. Vivanco-Cid – Immunology Letters

Phages and viruses

• A theoretical analysis of how strain-specific viruses can control microbial species diversity – T. Frede Thingstad – PNAS

Infection and Host Reponse

• High specificity in plant leaf metabolic responses to arbuscular mycorrhiza – Rabea Schweiger – Nature Communications
• Bacterial fight-and-flight responses enhance virulence in a polymicrobial infection – Apollo Stacy – PNAS

Staphylococcus aureus

• Mobile elements drive recombination hotspots in the core genome of Staphylococcus aureus – Richard G. Everitt – Nature Communications

Arsenic metabolism

• Arsenic uptake and depuration kinetics in Microcystis aeruginosa under different phosphate regimes – Zhenhong Wang – Journal of Hazardous Materials

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