With climate change increasing the risk of global disease outbreaks, we need to understand the link between geophysical processes, microbes, and health. Submit to the #mSphere/AGU_GeoHealth One Health collection today! journals.asm.org/journal/mspher…

Antibiotic treatment options involve complex drug combos, often targeting different physiological processes of Mtb. With the high incidence of post-TB lung disease, we should consider immunomodulatory properties of other drugs when selecting drug combos. doi.org/10.1128/mspher…

Editor's Pick: This perspective summarizes a cascade of microbiome health effects initiated by antibiotic-mediated microbiome disruption at individual level and leads to infection/transmission of multidrug-resistant pathogens across patient populations. doi.org/10.1128/mspher…

Former #mSphere Editor Bill Sullivan weighs in on the safety of swimming in the #Seine. #Olympics

Comprehensive contact tracing during an outbreak of alpha-variant SARS-CoV-2 in a rural community reveals less viral genomic diversity and higher household secondary attack rates than expected. #mSphere journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

By characterizing the interaction of cyanobacteria using visible or far-red light for photosynthesis, Nien et al. revealed stress responses in the coculture and better understand how these 2 types of cyanobacteria interact in nature. Ming-Yang Ho #mSphere journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

#mSphere Editor's Pick: In the long term, this work indicates that modulation of metabolism could make Bacteroides more susceptible during infections or protect them in the context of the microbiome. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

#mSphere Editor's Pick: Cellulose binding and the timing of expression influence protein targeting to the double-layered cyst wall of Acanthamoeba. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

#mSphere Editor's Pick: The chlamydial transcriptional regulator Euo is a key switch in cell form developmental progression but is not involved in the committed step to the formation of the infectious form. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

#mSphere of Influence: Chelsey VanDrisse reflects on a paper that prompted her to reassess her approach to studying antibiotic tolerance and her design of experiments that search for disease-relevant mutants and phenotypes in the laboratory. Chelsey VanDrisse doi.org/10.1128/mspher…

New findings published in #mSphere provide insights into gut microbiota transmission in social insects 🐝 by showing that ingestion of fecal matter can result in gut microbiota acquisition. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

#mSphere Editor's Pick: In vivo evolution to hypermucoviscosity and ceftazidime/avibactam resistance in a liver abscess caused by Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 512. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

Authors who have a resource or data set component in their primary research article can submit a companion announcement to MRA. Companion articles focus on the expanded, rigorous analysis of data resources reported in the primary article. Read more here: journals.asm.org/journal/mra/co…

New study published in #mSphere shows that Toxoplasma cysts resist expansion using standard protocol, but an additional enzymatic digestion with the mucinase StcE allows full expansion. Joanna Young Ksena Bondarenko Mathieu Gissot Kayvon Pedram journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

#mSphere Editor's Pick: Exploring the transcriptomic profile of human #monkeypox virus via CAGE and native RNA sequencing approaches. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

Surface and bacterial twitching with type IV pili: Bacteria prefer to twitch on hydrophilic rather than hydrophobic surfaces. #mSphere Zhaomin Yang Fralin Life Sciences Institute journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

#mSphere Editor's Pick: A nitrogenase-like enzyme is involved in the novel anaerobic assimilation pathway of a sulfonate, isethionate, in the photosynthetic bacterium Rhodobacter capsulatus. journals.asm.org/doi/10.1128/ms…

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