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Kanazawa University. (2019, May 20). Virulence factor of the influenza A virus mapped in real-time. ScienceDaily. Retrieved June 2, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2019 / 05 ...

Molecules known as virulence factors are produced by bacteria, viruses, and fungi to help them to infect host cells. One of virulence factors found in the influenza A viruses is hemagglutinin (HA).

A recent study has revealed alarming developments in the world of fungal pathogens, showing that some fungi are adapting to ...

Like weeds in a lawn, pathogenic fungi and yeasts can invade and overtake our bodies. In people with healthy immune systems, cells called macrophages and neutrophils engulf these pathogens ...

Fungi have long plagued plants—famously felling the towering elm and chestnut trees of the eastern U.S. and beyond. More recently, fungal epidemics have become alarmingly common among animals.

Researchers have discovered an anti-virulence factor in Salmonella, knowledge that could be used to design improved Salmonella vaccines. Virulence factors allow a pathogen to thrive in the host ...

Fatima Lizeth Gandarilla-Pacheco, Erick de Jesús de Luna-Santillana, María Elizabeth Alemán-Huerta, Ricardo Pérez-Rodríguez, Isela Quintero-Zapata, Isolation of native strains of entomopathogenic ...