The viral shunt is a fundamental ecosystem process which diverts the flux of organic carbon fixed through photosynthesis during algal bloom events from heterotrophic grazers to bacteria. Through the extracellular release of metabolites, lytic viral infections supply 2-10% of photosynthetically fi...
Algal blooms are hotspots of primary production in the ocean, forming the basis of the marine food web and fueling the dissolved organic matter (DOM) pool. Marine viruses are key players in controlling algal bloom demise, thereby diverting algal biomass from higher trophic levels to the DOM pool,...
The obligate intracellular parasite Toxoplasma gondii is auxotrophic for several key metabolites and must scavenge these, and carbon sources like glucose. from the host. While the importance of metabolism to Toxoplasma infection it obvious, it is unclear how Toxoplasma infection actually changes met...
This study focuses metabolic footprinting of Vero cells infected by Mayaro virus. Nuclear magnetic resonance combined with multivariate analytical methods and tools of pattern recognition shows that metabolic changes can be attributed to the effect of Mayaro virus infection. Vero cells infected by M...
Shunt infections lead to grave neurologic morbidity for patients especially when there is a delay in diagnosis. C. acnes is the third most common cause of cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) shunt infection and is underdiagnosed due to the difficulty in culturing this fastidious, slow growing pathogen. Curren...
