supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(32230002);the National Key R&D Program of China(2020YFA0907200),and the Ba-Gui Scholar Program of Guangxi(To Z.G.H).
Insertion sequences(ISs)exist widely in bacterial genomes,but their roles in the evolution of bacterial antiphage defense remain to be clarified.Here,we report that,under the pressure of phage infection,the IS1o96 tra...
Objective:The purpose of this study is to identify existing literature on recurrent atypical mycobacterial cervicofacial lymphadenitis to augment our understanding of a unique patient who presented to our tertiary‐ca...
The loads of organic matter, microorganisms, detergents and antibiotics in liquid hospital effluents make them complex environments, raising numerous health and ecological questions. Investigations of mycobacteria in ...
This research was made possible as a result of the start-up funding from Hunan University,as a part of China’s Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities,the funding from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant nos.21877033,92163127,Y.B.,21807031,22177031,X.F.);the funding from the Natural Science Foundation of Hunan Province(grant no.2021JJ30088,Y.B.,2020JJ4177,X.F.);the Open Funding Project of the State Key Laboratory of Biocatalysis and Enzyme Engineering(Hubei University,SKLBEE2019003,X.F.).
We made oligoamidine-based peptidomimetics highly specific for mycobacteria eradication by introducing and arraying lipophilic DNA binding motifs on macromolecular backbones.The short poly(amidino-phenylindole)(PAPI)s...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21922705(to Quanjiang Ji),91753127(to Quanjiang Ji),and 2207783(to Quanjiang Ji));the Shanghai Committee of Science and Technology(19QA1406000(to Quanjiang Ji));the Emergency Key Program of Guangzhou Laboratory(EKPG21-18(to Quanjiang Ji));General Program of Jiangsu Health Committee Foundation(M2020019(to Wei Chen))。
New therapeutic strategies for the rapid and effective treatment of drug-resistant tuberculosis are highly desirable,and their development can be drastically accelerated by facile genetic manipulation methods in Mycob...
Introduction: Mycobacteria pulmonary diseases are chronic illnesses with various impacts on patients’ health status, and wellbeing. These diseases currently represent a global health issue due to increasing burdens a...
This study was supported by the Thirteen-Fifth Mega-Scientific Project on“Prevention and Treatment of AIDS,Viral Hepatitis and Other Infectious Diseases”(No.2017ZX10201301-007-002);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(No.81571961 and No.82072233);the 309th Hospital(No.2017ZD-007).
Objective Mycobacterium tuberculosis(Mtb),the causative agent of tuberculosis(TB),causes an estimated 1.6 million human deaths annually,but the pathogenesis of TB remains unclear.Immunity plays a critical role in the ...
Shanghai Commission of Science and Technology(20MC1920100 and 21Y11901200);Shanghai key Infectious Disease Project(shslczdzk01102);Shanghai Municipal Health Commission(GWV-10.1-XK02);development fund for Shanghai talents(2020089);Shanghai "Rising stars of Medical Talent" Youth Development Program(No. 2019-72)。
Background:Few data are available regarding the long-term case-fatality rate(CFR)among people living with HIV(PLWH)with nontuberculous mycobacteria(NTM)disease.The aim of this study is to analyze the long-term CFR in ...
supported by funding from the Mycobacteriology Research Center,National Tuberculosis and Lung Research Institute(NRITLD),Masih Daneshvari Hospital(Grant No.16597)
Objective:To investigate the prevalence of non-tuberculosis mycobacteria(NTM)among the samples deposited from the National Tuberculosis Reference Laboratory of Iran between 2011 and 2018.Methods:The study evaluated th...
Background:Human-immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection is increasing worldwide and nontuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) is an established microbiologic cause of pulmonary disease,lymphadenitis,and disseminated disease i...