A concise Digest today featuring a novel approach to targeting antibiotic resistance, and some cool art by a Healthcare company to promote infectious disease awareness. Enjoy reading! (Apologies for the tight formatting, technological difficulty…)

Review: Fungal evolution: major ecological adaptations and evolutionary transitions – Miguel A. Naranjo-Ortiz and Toni Gabaldón – Biological Reviews

Preprint: Evolution and global transmission of a multidrug-resistant, community-associated MRSA lineage from the Indian subcontinent – Eike J Steinig et al. – bioRxiv

* Exploitation of Antibiotic Resistance as a Novel Drug Target: Development of a β-Lactamase-Activated Antibacterial Prodrug – Lindsay E. Evans et al. – Journal of Medicinal Chemistry

Correlating Infant Fecal Microbiota Composition and Human Milk Oligosaccharide Consumption by Microbiota of 1-Month-Old Breastfed Infants – Klaudyna Borewicz et al. – Molecular Nutrition & Food Research

Household composition and the infant fecal microbiome: The INSPIRE study – Avery A. Lane et al. – American Journal of Physical Anthropology

Quorum sensing between bacterial species on the skin protects against epidermal injury in atopic dermatitis – Michael R. Williams et al. – Science Translational Medicine

Press: Eczema-associated bacteria may be kept in check by a different microbe – Chelsea Whyte – New Scientist

Impact of Herpes Simplex Virus Type 2 and HIV Dual Infection on Female Genital Tract Mucosal Immunity and the Vaginal Microbiome – Marla J Keller et al. – The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Integrated In Vitro and In Silico Modeling Delineates the Molecular Effects of a Synbiotic Regimen on Colorectal-Cancer-Derived Cells – Kacy Greenhalgh et al. – Cell Reports

Press: Right combination of diet and bacteria limits cancer progression – Medical Xpress

Review: Culture-independent studies on bacterial dysbiosis in oral and oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinoma: A systematic review – Divya Gopinatha & Rohit Kunnath Menonb et al. – Critical reviews Oncology Hematology

Using fish models to investigate the links between microbiome and social behaviour: The next step for translational microbiome research? – Marta C. Soares et al. – Fish and Fisheries

Unimodal productivity ‐ diversity relationships among bacterial communities in a simple polar soil ecosystem – Kevin M. Geyer & J. E. Barrett – Environmental Microbiology

Bioaugmentation of exogenous strain Rhodococcus sp. 2G can efficiently mitigate DEHP contamination to vegetable cultivation – Hai-Ming Zhao et al. – Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry

* Infectious Art – Medcare’s infectious idea to promote awareness – UAENEWS247

‘Microbiome’ May Be Key to Autism Symptoms – Serena Gordon – Health Day