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  • This study used a large cohort of HIV-1 transmission pairs to determine the contribution of viral genetics on the development of neutralizing antibodies.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 16, P: 658-659

  • A study in spore-forming bacteria shows that phage-encoded sigma factors can disrupt dormancy.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 575

  • This study presents a point-of-care test for the diagnosis of drug-resistant gonorrhoea.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 19, P: 406

  • Oomycetes use a slicing mechanism depending on polarized hyphae to invade plant hosts.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 19, P: 549

  • This study describes how a marine cyanobacterium carries out nitrogen and carbon fixation at the same time.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 126

  • This study determines how the climate influences the transmission of Wolbachia in flies.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 126

  • A monkey challenge study shows that infections with a low virus dose can lead to asymptomatic COVID-19.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 19, P: 682

  • This study shows that plants recruit root bacteria that can protect them from drought.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 575

  • This study shows how Fusobacterium nucleatum integrates a metabolic network in the oral microbiota.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 576

  • A field study investigates three different routes by which plant litter and soil microbiomes can disperse.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 510

  • A study in mice shows that the gut microbiota can metabolize vitamin A into retinoids.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 575

  • A study on a marine bacterium shows that it can form multicellular aggregates, which enable division of labour.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 510

  • A study in cell lines suggests that SARS-CoV-2 potentially spreads through tunnelling nanotubes.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 576

  • This study compares insect-specific flaviviruses with those that can infect both mosquitoes and humans.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 576

  • A study finds a pan-coronavirus antibody that targets a conserved epitope, which is exposed during SARS-CoV-2 fusion.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 510

  • Optimizing COVID-19 vaccination strategies for patients under immunosuppressive medication is of high importance. In this clinical trial including non-seroconverted immunosuppressed patients, a homologous mRNA booster vaccination resulted in higher seroconversion rate than a switch to a vector-based vaccine.

    • Daniel Mrak
    • Daniela Sieghart
    • Michael Bonelli
    ResearchOpen Access
    Nature Communications
    Volume: 13, P: 1-9

  • A single-cell microfluidics study shows that phenotypic heterogeneity and fast growth can reduce antibiotic susceptibility.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 446

  • A new spatiotemporal modelling study shows that global antibiotic consumption rose by 46% between 2000 and 2018.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 63

  • A study in healthy infants finds that early viral infection changes the respiratory tract microbiota and predisposes to further infections.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 189

  • A study of centenarians from Japan shows that they have unique bile-metabolizing bacteria in their gut microbiota.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 19, P: 618

  • A study in mice finds that antibiotic treatment predisposes to infection with bacteria that are associated with hospital-acquired infection.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 445

  • This study presents an antibacterial coating for implants that kills pathogens and promotes bone integration.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 64

  • Analysis of endogenous viral elements reveals that bornaviruses already infected hosts 100 million years ago.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 19, P: 481

  • A large survey in Chinese game animals identifies a multitude of potentially pathogenic viruses and evidence for spillover events.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 253

  • This study finds that a tick symbiont modulates serotonin levels in the host and thus promotes blood feeding.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 19, P: 744

  • A study looking at the Tibetan Plateau finds that microbial shifts might contribute to irreversible soil degradation.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 382

  • A whole-genome sequencing study reveals a bottleneck in syphilis spread in the late 1990s followed by global spread.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 64

  • Bacterial barcoding revealed host bottlenecks and bacterial factors that influence systemic spread of bacterial infections.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 1

  • This study compares an equine influenza virus shortly after its jump into horses with a contemporary strain, showing how it adapted to the new host.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 126

  • This study finds that bacteria found in tree bark can metabolize the greenhouse gas methane and thus reduce its emission.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 19, P: 344

  • This study shows how a satellite RNA manipulates both its host plant and aphid vector to ensure efficient transmission.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 125

  • A randomized controlled trial found that vaccine hesitancy for COVID-19 is most effectively addressed with information on personal benefits of vaccination.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 19, P: 406

  • This study shows that flagellate epibionts channel nutrient flows towards their large diatom host.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 19, P: 617

  • A strain-level study shows transfer of antibiotic-resistance genes between gut commensals and pathogens.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 317

  • This study shows that bacteria can secrete a lipopolysaccharide receptor to capture outer membrane vesicles.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 19, P: 682

  • This study finds that toxin–antitoxin systems can protect bacteria from phages by inducing abortive infection.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 509

  • This study identifies a cyanobacterial toxin that causes mass mortality of eagles and other birds.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 19, P: 343

  • This study reports the discovery of new broad-spectrum metallo-β-lactamase inhibitors with a unique binding mode.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 125

  • A CRISPR–Cas screen identifies a novel C. difficile toxin receptor.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 317

  • A study in human airway epithelial cells shows that measles virus forms infectious centres, which detach and might promote transmission.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 19, P: 681

  • An experimental evolution study showed that the cost of plasmid carriage can be caused by genetic conflicts between the plasmid and bacterial host chromosome.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 1

  • Experimental evolution experiments show that antibiotic resistance development decreases thermal tolerance and niche breadth.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 381

  • A study in hamsters shows prolonged inflammatory changes after COVID-19.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 446

  • Experimental and modelling work suggests that stress-induced network disruption, which resembles ageing, triggers antibiotic persistence.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 63

  • This study shows that staphylococcal superantigen induces macrophage dysfunction through interferon-γ, thus contributing to bacterial pathogenesis.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 253

  • A single-cell, single-molecule study of SARS-CoV-2 replication in cell lines finds that a few cells are responsible for the majority of virus production and that genomic viral RNA is surprisingly stable.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 20, P: 189

  • In marine sponges, higher microbiome diversity and maintenance of host innate immunity was associated with resilience to warming and acidification.

    • Ursula Hofer
    Research Highlights
    Nature Reviews Microbiology
    Volume: 19, P: 549