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Pearls: Host-Interactions

Published June 6, 2019

PLOS Pathogens presents an Open Access compendium of the "lessons-that-last." This section, founded by Dr. Hiten Madhani and now led by Dr. Joseph Heitman and a team of twelve Pearls Editors, is a living collection of short educational and highly useful articles that address topics of relevance and importance within the wide-ranging field of pathogens research, with insights for trainees and scientists at all career stages.

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PLOS Pathogens Vitamin A at the interface of host–commensal–pathogen interactions
June 6, 2019 Namrata Iyer, Shipra Vaishnava
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PLOS Pathogens The ABCs of wheeze: Asthma and bacterial communities
April 25, 2019 Naomi Wilson, Ariel Hernandez-Leyva, Andrew Kau
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PLOS Pathogens Covert pathogenesis: Transient exposures to microbes as triggers of disease
March 28, 2019 Nicole M. Gilbert, Amanda L. Lewis
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PLOS Pathogens The founder hypothesis: A basis for microbiota resistance, diversity in taxa carriage, and colonization resistance against pathogensrn
February 21, 2019 Yael Litvak, Andreas Baumler
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1007411

PLOS Pathogens Deacetylated microbial biofilm exopolysaccharides: It pays to be positive
December 27, 2018 Hanna Ostapska, P. Lynne Howell, Donald C. Sheppard
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1007479

PLOS Pathogens To B₁₂ or not to B₁₂: Five questions on the role of cobalamin in host-microbial interactions
January 3, 2019 Carol A. Rowley, Melissa M. Kendall
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PLOS Pathogens Innate antimicrobial immunity in the skin: A protective barrier against bacteria, viruses, and fungi
December 6, 2018 Margaret Coates, Sarah Blanchard, Amanda MacLeod
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1007098

PLOS Pathogens The devil is in the details: Genomics of transmissible cancers in Tasmanian devils
August 2, 2018 Andrew Storfer, Paul A. Hohenlohe, Mark J. Margres, Austin Patton, Alexandra K. Fraik, Matthew Lawrance, Lauren E. Ricci, Amanda R. Stahlke, Hamish I. McCallum, Menna E. Jones
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1006424

PLOS Pathogens Multikingdom microscale models
August 24, 2017 Layla Barkal, Erwin Berthier, Ashleigh Theberge, Nancy Keller, David Beebe
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1006408

PLOS Pathogens Molecular mechanisms of mucormycosis—The bitter and the sweet
August 3, 2017 Clara Baldin, Ashraf S. Ibrahim
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1006336

PLOS Pathogens Developing transmission-blocking strategies for malaria control
July 6, 2017 Robert Sinden
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1006303

PLOS Pathogens Leishmania enriettii (Muniz & Medina, 1948): A highly diverse parasite is here to stay
May 25, 2017 Larissa F. Paranaiba, Lucélia J. Pinheiro, Ana C. Torrecilhas, Diego H. Macedo, Armando Menezes-Neto, Wagner L. Tafuri, Rodrigo P. Soares
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PLOS Pathogens Drosophila as a model for homeostatic, antibacterial, and antiviral mechanisms in the gut
May 4, 2017 Xi Liu, Jeffrey Hodgson, Nicolas Buchon
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1006149

PLOS Pathogens Environmental pH modulation by pathogenic fungi as a strategy to conquer the host
February 23, 2017 Slavena Vylkova
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1006077

PLOS Pathogens Zoonotic Epidemic of Sporotrichosis: Cat to Human Transmission
January 19, 2017 Isabella Gremião, Luisa Helena Miranda, Erica Reis, Anderson Rodrigues, Sandro Pereira
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005978

PLOS Pathogens Molecular Parasitic Plant–Host Interactions
December 15, 2016 Simon B. Saucet, Ken Shirasu
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005904

PLOS Pathogens A Sixth Modality of Infectious Disease: Contagious Cancer from Devils to Clams and Beyond
October 27, 2016 Michael J. Metzger, Stephen P. Goff
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005795

PLOS Pathogens Surveillance Immunity: An Emerging Paradigm of Innate Defense Activation in Caenorhabditis elegans
September 15, 2016 Read Pukkila-Worley
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005776

PLOS Pathogens Viral Manipulation of Host Inhibitory Receptor Signaling for Immune Evasion
September 1, 2016 Eugenia Ong, Kuan Rong Chan, Eng Eong Ooi
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005680

PLOS Pathogens The Legacy of Past Pandemics: Common Human Mutations That Protect against Infectious Disease
July 21, 2016 Kelly Pittman, Luke Glover, Liuyang Wang, Dennis Ko
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PLOS Pathogens Location, Location, Location: Five Facts about Tissue Tropism and Pathogenesis
May 26, 2016 Laura-Isobel McCall, Jair L. Siqueira-Neto, James H. McKerrow
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PLOS Pathogens Thermal Restriction as an Antimicrobial Function of Fever
May 5, 2016 Arturo Casadevall
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005385

PLOS Pathogens Innate Resistance and Susceptibility to Norovirus Infection
April 26, 2016 Johan Nordgren, Sumit Sharma, Anita Kambhampati, Ben Lopman, Lennart Svensson
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005488

PLOS Pathogens Tick–Host–Pathogen Interactions: Conflict and Cooperation
April 21, 2016 José de la Fuente, Margarita Villar, Alejandro Cabezas-Cruz, Agustin Estrada-Pena, Nieves Ayllon, Pilar Alberdi
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005479

PLOS Pathogens Modulation of Host Angiogenesis as a Microbial Survival Strategy and Therapeutic Target
April 14, 2016 Nir Osherov, Ronen Ben-Ami
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005471

PLOS Pathogens In Vivo Transcriptional Profiling of Human Pathogenic Fungi during Infection: Reflecting the Real Life?
April 14, 2016 Stefanie Allert, Sascha Brunke, Bernhard Hube
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005464

PLOS Pathogens Fusarium: Molecular Diversity and Intrinsic Drug Resistance
April 7, 2016 Abdullah Al-Hatmi, Jacques Meis, G. Sybren de Hoog
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PLOS Pathogens Viruses Utilize Cellular Cues in Distinct Combination to Undergo Systematic Priming and Uncoating
April 7, 2016 Madhu Sudhan Ravindran, Billy Tsai
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PLOS Pathogens Virus–Host Interactions and the ARTD/PARP Family of Enzymes
March 24, 2016 Chad V. Kuny, Christopher S. Sullivan
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005452

PLOS Pathogens Cooperation and Conflict in the Plant Immune System
March 17, 2016 Eunyoung Chae, Diep Tran, Detlef Weigel
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005449

PLOS Pathogens The Herpes Simplex Virus Neurovirulence Factor γ34.5: Revealing Virus–Host Interactions
March 10, 2016 Douglas Wilcox, Richard Longnecker
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005374

PLOS Pathogens SeXX Matters in Infectious Disease Pathogenesis
February 18, 2016 Landon G. vom Steeg, Sabra L. Klein
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005295

PLOS Pathogens SOD Enzymes and Microbial Pathogens: Surviving the Oxidative Storm of Infection
January 7, 2016 Chynna N. Broxton, Valeria C. Culotta
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005208

PLOS Pathogens The Divergent Intracellular Lifestyle of Francisella tularensis in Evolutionarily Distinct Host Cells
December 3, 2015 Mateja Ozanic, Valentina Marecic, Yousef Abu Kwaik, Marina Santic
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005156

PLOS Pathogens Dimensions of Horizontal Gene Transfer in Eukaryotic Microbial Pathogens
October 29, 2015 Emile Gluck-Thaler, Jason C. Slot
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003144

PLOS Pathogens Noncanonical Inflammasomes: Caspase-11 Activation and Effector Mechanisms
February 28, 2013 Denise Monack, Petr Broz
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004017

PLOS Pathogens Plastic Proteins and Monkey Blocks: How Lentiviruses Evolved to Replicate in the Presence of Primate Restriction Factors
April 17, 2014 Kevin McCarthy, Welkin Johnson
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PLOS Pathogens An Overview of Respiratory Syncytial Virus
April 24, 2014 Jia Meng, Christopher Stobart, Anne Hotard, Martin Moore
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PLOS Pathogens Catching Fire: Candida albicans, Macrophages, and Pyroptosis
June 26, 2014 Damian Krysan, Fayyaz Sutterwala, Melanie Wellington
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004154

PLOS Pathogens Molecular and Cellular Mechanisms of KSHV Oncogenesis of Kaposi’s Sarcoma Associated with HIV/AIDS
July 10, 2014 Lucas E. Cavallin, Pascal Goldschmidt-Clermont, Enrique A. Mesri
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PLOS Pathogens Bacteriophages as Vehicles for Antibiotic Resistance Genes in the Environment
July 31, 2014 Jose Luis Balcazar
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PLOS Pathogens Teaching Fido New ModiFICation Tricks
September 25, 2014 Jonathan Cruz, Nancy Woychik
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PLOS Pathogens Defensins and Viral Infection: Dispelling Common Misconceptions
July 17, 2014 Mayim Wiens, Sarah Wilson, Carissa Lucero, Jason Smith
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004255

PLOS Pathogens Hell’s BELs: Bacterial E3 Ligases That Exploit the Eukaryotic Ubiquitin Machinery
August 14, 2014 Jon Huibregtse, John Rohde
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004283

PLOS Pathogens Mother–Infant HIV Transmission: Do Maternal HIV-Specific Antibodies Protect the Infant?
August 21, 2014 Julie Overbaugh, Julie Overbaugh
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004624

PLOS Pathogens Prions—Not Your Immunologist’s Pathogen
February 19, 2015 Mark Zabel, Anne Avery
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PLOS Pathogens Exploring Host–Pathogen Interactions through Biological Control
June 25, 2015 Francesca Di Giallonardo, Edward Holmes
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004252

PLOS Pathogens Disruption of Fas-Fas Ligand Signaling, Apoptosis, and Innate Immunity by Bacterial Pathogens
August 7, 2014 Adam Caulfield, Wyndham Lathem
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PLOS Pathogens Fungi That Infect Insects: Altering Host Behavior and Beyond
August 6, 2015 Chengshu Wang, Yanfang Shang, Peng Feng
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004912

PLOS Pathogens Deploying FLAREs to Visualize Functional Outcomes of Host—Pathogen Encounters
July 9, 2015 Lena Heung, Anupam Jhingran, Tobias Hohl
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PLOS Pathogens On and Under the Skin: Emerging Basidiomycetous Yeast Infections Caused by Trichosporon Species
July 30, 2015 Marçal Mariné, Neil Brown, Diego Riaño-Pachón, Gustavo Goldman
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004073

PLOS Pathogens HIV-1 Envelope gp41 Broadly Neutralizing Antibodies: Hurdles for Vaccine Development
May 22, 2014 Laurent Verkoczy, Garnett Kelsoe, Barton Haynes
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004120

PLOS Pathogens Multimeric Assembly of Host-Pathogen Adhesion Complexes Involved in Apicomplexan Invasion
June 12, 2014 May Paing, Niraj Tolia
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004129

PLOS Pathogens Crossing the Interspecies Barrier: Opening the Door to Zoonotic Pathogens
June 19, 2014 Christian Gortazar, Leslie Reperant, Thijs Kuiken, Jose de la Fuente, Mariana Boadella, Beatriz Martinez, Jose Ruiz-Fons, Agustin Estrada-Peña, Christian Drosten, Graham Medley, Richard Ostfeld, Townsend Peterson, Kurt VerCauteren, Christian Menge, Marc Artois, Constance Schultsz, Richard Delahay, Jordi Serra-Cobo, Robert Poulin, Frederic Keck, Alonso Aguirre, Heikki Henttonen, Andrew Dobson, Susan Kutz, Juan Lubroth, Atle Mysterud
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004201

PLOS Pathogens Microbial Egress: A Hitchhiker’s Guide to Freedom
July 24, 2014 Ana Traven, Thomas Naderer
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004140

PLOS Pathogens Helminth Infections, Type-2 Immune Response, and Metabolic Syndrome
July 3, 2014 Aprilianto Wiria, Erliyani Sartono, Taniawati Supali, Maria Yazdanbakhsh
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004329

PLOS Pathogens The Ins and Outs of Rust Haustoria
September 11, 2014 Diana Garnica, Adnane nemri, Narayana Upadhyaya, John Rathjen, Peter Dodds
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004356

PLOS Pathogens Adaptive Prediction As a Strategy in Microbial Infections
October 2, 2014 Sascha Brunke, Bernhard Hube
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004546

PLOS Pathogens Virus-Induced NETs – Critical Component of Host Defense or Pathogenic Mediator?
January 8, 2015 Craig Jenne, Paul Kubes
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004397

PLOS Pathogens Paracoccidioides Species Complex: Ecology, Phylogeny, Sexual Reproduction, and Virulence
October 30, 2014 Marcus Teixeira, Raquel Theodoro, Gustavo Nino-Vega, Eduardo Bagagli, Maria Felipe
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004425

PLOS Pathogens Genomic Insights into the Fungal Pathogens of the Genus Pneumocystis: Obligate Biotrophs of Humans and Other Mammals
November 6, 2014 Philippe Hauser
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004539

PLOS Pathogens The Shear Stress of Host Cell Invasion: Exploring the Role of Biomolecular Complexes
January 28, 2015 Michelle Tonkin, Martin Boulanger
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004608

PLOS Pathogens Dimorphism in Fungal Pathogens of Mammals, Plants, and Insects
February 12, 2015 Gregory Gauthier
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004661

PLOS Pathogens The Great Escape: Pathogen Versus Host
March 12, 2015 Eric Kong, Mary Ann Jabra-Rizk
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004644

PLOS Pathogens Bacterial Immune Evasion through Manipulation of Host Inhibitory Immune Signaling
March 5, 2015 Kristof Van Avondt, Nina M. Sorge, Linde Meyaard
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004367

PLOS Pathogens Chrysosporium-Related Fungi and Reptiles: A Fatal Attraction
October 16, 2014 F. Javier Cabañes, Deanna Sutton, Josep Guarro
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004866

PLOS Pathogens Host Delivery of Favorite Meals for Intracellular Pathogens
June 25, 2015 Yousef Abu Kwaik, Dirk Bumann
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004714

PLOS Pathogens Pathogens as Biological Weapons of Invasive Species
April 9, 2015 Andreas Vilcinskas
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004823

PLOS Pathogens Analysis of Bottlenecks in Experimental Models of Infection
June 11, 2015 Sören Abel, Pia Abel zur Wiesch, Brigid Davis, Matthew Waldor
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004833

PLOS Pathogens Archaea in and on the Human Body: Health Implications and Future Directions
June 11, 2015 Mor Lurie-Weinberger, Uri Gophna
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1004786

PLOS Pathogens Systems Biology for Biologists
May 14, 2015 Rachel Hillmer
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PLOS Pathogens Risks of Antibiotic Exposures Early in Life on the Developing Microbiome
July 2, 2015 Anjelique Schulfer, Martin Blaser
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PLOS Pathogens The Skin Microbiome: A Focus on Pathogens and Their Association with Skin Disease
November 13, 2014 Keisha Findley, Elizabeth Grice
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005039

PLOS Pathogens Are Human Intestinal Eukaryotes Beneficial or Commensals?
August 13, 2015 Julius Lukeš, Christen Stensvold, Kateřina Jirků-Pomajbíková, Laura Wegener Parfrey
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1005113

PLOS Pathogens Chronobiomics: The Biological Clock as a New Principle in Host–Microbial Interactions
October 8, 2015 Christoph Thaiss, Maayan Levy, Eran Elinav
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PLOS Pathogens Toll-Like Receptors Promote Mutually Beneficial Commensal-Host Interactions
July 26, 2012 June Round, Jason Kubinak
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1000510

PLOS Pathogens The Inflammasomes
December 24, 2009 Mohamed Lamkanfi, Vishva M. Dixit
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003424

PLOS Pathogens Understanding Human Variation in Infectious Disease Susceptibility through Clinical and Cellular GWAS
August 1, 2013 Dennis Ko, Thomas Urban
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002349

PLOS Pathogens Zebrafish: A See-Through Host and a Fluorescent Toolbox to Probe Host–Pathogen Interaction
January 5, 2012 David Tobin, Robin May, Robert Wheeler
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1001067

PLOS Pathogens Antimicrobial Peptides: Primeval Molecules or Future Drugs?
October 28, 2010 Brian M. Peters, Mark E. Shirtliff, Mary Ann Jabra-Rizk
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PLOS Pathogens The Microbiota and Allergies/Asthma
May 27, 2010 Gary B. Huffnagle
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002887

PLOS Pathogens Copper at the Front Line of the Host-Pathogen Battle
September 20, 2012 Richard Festa, Dennis Thiele
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1000886

PLOS Pathogens Candida albicans Interactions with Bacteria in the Context of Human Health and Disease
April 29, 2010 Diana K. Morales, Deborah A. Hogan
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003080

PLOS Pathogens Innate Sensing of Chitin and Chitosan
January 10, 2013 Chelsea Bueter, Charles Specht, Stuart Levitz
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003417

PLOS Pathogens Signalling C-Type Lectins in Antimicrobial Immunity
July 25, 2013 Rebecca Drummond, Gordon Brown
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003230

PLOS Pathogens Polyphosphate and Its Diverse Functions in Host Cells and Pathogens
May 2, 2013 Silvia Moreno, Roberto Docampo
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1001310

PLOS Pathogens Innate Immune Sensing of DNA
April 21, 2011 Shruti Sharma, Katherine A. Fitzgerald
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PLOS Pathogens Sleeping with the Enemy: How Intracellular Pathogens Cope with a Macrophage Lifestyle
March 22, 2012 Emily Thi, Ulrike Lambertz, Neil Reiner
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002804

PLOS Pathogens Host Defense and Tolerance: Unique Challenges in the Placenta
August 9, 2012 Varvara Zeldovich, Anna Bakardjiev
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003552

PLOS Pathogens Feeding Uninvited Guests: mTOR and AMPK Set the Table for Intracellular Pathogens
October 3, 2013 Jason Brunton, Shaun Steele, Benjamin Ziehr, Nathaniel Moorman, Thomas Kawula
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002003

PLOS Pathogens Evolution of Th2 Immunity: A Rapid Repair Response to Tissue Destructive Pathogens
May 12, 2011 Judith Allen, Thomas Wynn
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003110

PLOS Pathogens Fifty Shades of Immune Defense
February 7, 2013 Michael Criscitiello, Paul de Figueiredo
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002619

PLOS Pathogens The Role of Mast Cells in the Defence against Pathogens
April 26, 2012 Mirjam Urb, Donald Sheppard
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003793

PLOS Pathogens Burning Down the House: Cellular Actions during Pyroptosis
December 19, 2013 Christopher LaRock, Brad Cookson
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PLOS Pathogens Exploiting and Subverting Tor Signaling in the Pathogenesis of Fungi, Parasites, and Viruses
September 29, 2011 Cecelia Shertz, Maria Cardenas
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003538

PLOS Pathogens Self and Non-self Discrimination of Intracellular Membranes by the Innate Immune System
September 19, 2013 Jorn Coers
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003433

PLOS Pathogens Role of the Nervous System in the Control of Proteostasis during Innate Immune Activation: Insights from C. elegans
August 8, 2013 Alejandro Aballay
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003143

PLOS Pathogens Bacterial Survival Amidst an Immune Onslaught: The Contribution of the Staphylococcus aureus Leukotoxins
February 21, 2013 Francis Alonzo, Victor Torres
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002907

PLOS Pathogens How to Make It in the Urinary Tract: A Tutorial by Escherichia coli
October 4, 2012 Ine Jorgensen, Patrick Seed
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002823

PLOS Pathogens Five Mechanisms of Manipulation by Bacterial Effectors: A Ubiquitous Theme
August 23, 2012 David Anderson, Dara Frank
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1000949

PLOS Pathogens The Battle for Iron between Bacterial Pathogens and Their Vertebrate Hosts
August 12, 2010 Eric P. Skaar
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PLOS Pathogens Igniting the Fire: Staphylococcus aureus Virulence Factors in the Pathogenesis of Sepsis
February 13, 2014 Michael Powers, Juliane Bubeck Wardenburg
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003794

PLOS Pathogens Host Susceptibility Factors to Bacterial Infections in Type 2 Diabetes
December 26, 2013 Yunn-Hwen Gan
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003740

PLOS Pathogens Disease to Dirt: The Biology of Microbial Amyloids
November 21, 2013 David Hufnagel, Çagla Tükel, Matthew Chapman
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PLOS Pathogens Mechanisms of Host Behavioral Change in Toxoplasma gondii Rodent Association
July 23, 2015 Ajai Vyas
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003730

PLOS Pathogens Colonization Resistance: Battle of the Bugs or Ménage à Trois with the Host?
November 21, 2013 Alanna Spees, Christopher Lopez, Dawn Kingsbury, Sebastian Winter, Andreas Baumler
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PLOS Pathogens Microbial Endocrinology in the Microbiome-Gut-Brain Axis: How Bacterial Production and Utilization of Neurochemicals Influence Behavior
November 14, 2013 Mark Lyte
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003434

PLOS Pathogens Human Genetic Susceptibility to Invasive Aspergillosis
August 8, 2013 Cristina Cunha, Franco Aversa, Luigina Romani, Agostinho Carvalho
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003371

PLOS Pathogens Asthma and the Diversity of Fungal Spores in Air
June 6, 2013 Anne Pringle
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003050

PLOS Pathogens News from the Fungal Front: Wall Proteome Dynamics and Host–Pathogen Interplay
December 27, 2012 Clemens Heilmann, Alice Sorgo, Frans Klis
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002701

PLOS Pathogens Malassezia Fungi Are Specialized to Live on Skin and Associated with Dandruff, Eczema, and Other Skin Diseases
June 21, 2012 Charles Saunders, Annika Scheynius, Joseph Heitman
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002700

PLOS Pathogens Hydrophobins—Unique Fungal Proteins
May 31, 2012 Jagadeesh Bayry, Vishukumar Aimanianda, J. Iñaki Guijarro, Margaret Sunde, Jean-Paul Latgé
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002564

PLOS Pathogens A Foot in the Door for Dermatophyte Research
March 29, 2012 Rebecca Achterman, Theodore White
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1000758

PLOS Pathogens Innate Recognition of Fungal Cell Walls
April 22, 2010 Stuart M. Levitz
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003815

PLOS Pathogens Zinc Sequestration: Arming Phagocyte Defense against Fungal Attack
December 26, 2013 Kavitha Vignesh, Julio Landero Figueroa, Aleksey Porollo, Joseph Caruso, George Deepe
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PLOS Pathogens Innate Lymphoid Cells: New Players in IL-17-Mediated Antifungal Immunity
December 12, 2013 André Gladiator, Salome Leibundgut
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003741

PLOS Pathogens Fungal Immune Evasion in a Model Host–Pathogen Interaction: Candida albicans Versus Macrophages
November 21, 2013 Claudia Jiménez-López, Michael Lorenz
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003489

PLOS Pathogens Host Immune Response to Intestinal Amebiasis
August 22, 2013 Shannon Moonah, Nona Jiang, William Petri
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PLOS Pathogens Have It Your Way: How Polymorphic, Injected Kinases and Pseudokinases Enable Toxoplasma to Subvert Host Defenses
April 25, 2013 John Boothroyd
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PLOS Pathogens Immune Regulation during Helminth Infections
April 18, 2013 Natasha Girgis, Uma Gundra, P'ng Loke
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003045

PLOS Pathogens Inflammatory Responses Associated with the Induction of Cerebral Malaria: Lessons from Experimental Murine Models
December 27, 2012 Diana Hansen
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002903

PLOS Pathogens Redefining Chronic Toxoplasmosis—A T Cell Exhaustion Perspective
October 11, 2012 Rajarshi Bhadra, Imtiaz Khan
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002794

PLOS Pathogens Phagocyte Responses to Protozoan Infection and How Toxoplasma gondii Meets the Challenge
August 2, 2012 Eric Denkers, Anne Schneider, Sara Cohen, Barbara Butcher
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002775

PLOS Pathogens Gastrointestinal Cell Mediated Immunity and the Microsporidia
July 12, 2012 Magali Moretto, Imtiaz Khan, Louis Weiss
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002545

PLOS Pathogens New Insights into Blastocystis spp.: A Potential Link with Irritable Bowel Syndrome
March 15, 2012 Philippe Poirier, Ivan Wawrzyniak, Christian Vivarès, Frédéric Delbac, Hicham El Alaoui
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002535

PLOS Pathogens Taste for Blood: Hemoglobin as a Nutrient Source for Pathogens
March 8, 2012 Gleb Pishchany, Eric Skaar
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003026

PLOS Pathogens The Role of Auxin-Cytokinin Antagonism in Plant-Pathogen Interactions
November 29, 2012 Muhammad Naseem, Thomas Dandekar
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002955

PLOS Pathogens Ustilago maydis: Dissecting the Molecular Interface between Pathogen and Plant
November 1, 2012 Regine Kahmann, Armin Djamei
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PLOS Pathogens Five Questions on Prion Diseases
May 3, 2012 Adriano Aguzzi, Caihong Zhu
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003548

PLOS Pathogens Memory of Infections: An Emerging Role for Natural Killer Cells
September 26, 2013 Alexander Rölle, Julia Pollmann, Adelheid Cerwenka
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003541

PLOS Pathogens Innate Immune Sensing of Flaviviruses
September 12, 2013 Mehul Suthar, Sebastian Aguirre, Ana Fernandez-Sesma
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003258

PLOS Pathogens The Secret Life of Viral Entry Glycoproteins: Moonlighting in Immune Evasion
May 16, 2013 Jonathan Cook, Jeffrey Lee
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1003146

PLOS Pathogens A Roadmap to the Human Virome
February 14, 2013 Eric Delwart
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002921

PLOS Pathogens Norovirus Immunity and the Great Escape
October 18, 2012 Kari Debbink, Lisa Lindesmith, Eric Donaldson, Ralph Baric
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002878

PLOS Pathogens The Human Cytomegalovirus Assembly Compartment: A Masterpiece of Viral Manipulation of Cellular Processes That Facilitates Assembly and Egress
September 20, 2012 James Alwine
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PLOS Pathogens Identifying Host Factors That Regulate Viral Infection
July 12, 2012 Tien-Huei Hsu, Katherine Spindler
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10.1371/journal.ppat.1002741

PLOS Pathogens How Do Viruses Interact with Stress-Associated RNA Granules?
June 28, 2012 Richard Lloyd
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