An immune component of breast milk known as the complement system shapes the gut environment of infant mice in ways that make them less susceptible to certain disease-causing bacteria, according to a ...

A newly identified subset of intestinal epithelial cells act as both the major target and a key responder in a mouse model of gut infection by the bacteria Citrobacter rodentium BIRMINGHAM, Ala. – ...

Citrobacter rodentium uses a type III secretion system (T3SS) to induce colonie crypt hyperplasia in mice, thereby gaining an edge during its competition with the gut microbiota through an unknown ...

Processed diets, which are low in fiber, may initially reduce the incidence of foodborne infectious diseases such as E. coli infections, but might also increase the incidence of diseases characterized ...

Researchers at the University of British Columbia (UBC) and BC Children’s Hospital show that the sugar sialic acid, which makes up part of the protective intestinal mucus layer, fuels disease-causing ...

In the study, the researchers used mice infected with Citrobacter rodentium, a bacterium that closely resembles E. coli, since certain pathogenic E. coli don't infect mice. Through experiments, the ...

Worldwide, more than a million deaths occur each year due to diarrheal diseases that lead to dehydration and malnutrition. Yet no vaccine currently exists to fight or prevent these diseases, which are ...

A recent study published in Cell Host & Microbe revealed that gut colonization by proteobacteria modulates cocaine neurobehavioral response in mice. The human microbiota is composed of bacteria of ...