Coral reefs depend on a delicate association between the animal host and its diverse microbial community, collectively the holobiont. Under stable conditions, symbiotic bacteria and other microbes ...

For years scientists have puzzled over why the intracellular pathogen Salmonella is able to survive — and thrive — in human and animal tissues, even within otherwise hostile cells that are part of the ...

The pathogenesis of dental caries emerges from complex microbial communities that colonise the tooth surface and metabolise dietary sugars into organic acids. This polymicrobial biofilm comprises ...