The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

The binary classification of pathogens as intracellular or extracellular fails to capture the complexity of infections in vivo. We propose the metapopulation infection biology framework, in which infe...

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) is one of the world’s leading public health universities. Our mission is to improve health and health equity in the UK and worldwide; working i...

The London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine (LSHTM) has been selected to lead the research arm of the UK Public Health Rapid Support Team (UK-PHRST) in an £18m initiative to continue to help

Nature Communications - Here, the authors show that IFNγ blockade does not impair resistance to Mycobacterium tuberculosis infection in macaques, opposed to what has been observed in mice, due...

Job title: PhD fellow in infection biology/microbiology (297648), Employer: UiT The Arctic University of Norway, Deadline: Tuesday, April 28, 2026

Nature Communications - The efficiency of horizontal gene transfer between different bacterial lineages is often unclear. Here, Figueroa et al. show that lateral transduction is the primary driver...

Academics’ concerns are mounting as news drips out of the research councils about cuts and freezes ahead of a major funding restructuring intended to promote interdisciplinarity and transparency. But ...

Staphylococcus aureus has undergone metabolic remodeling to adapt to the dairy niche.

Colonic stem cell TLR5 sensing of microbes promotes macrophage recruitment and maturation to support intestinal barrier repair.

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Bacteria employ a range of competition systems that deliver toxins to inhibit competing strains. This study shows that these systems are particularly important for the ecology of virulent and antibiot...

Supervisors who invest in positive mentoring relationships with their PhD candidates also reap the benefits for their own research.

Sabnis et al. explain why non-conjugative plasmids move at a low rate in nature. While increased mobility can easily evolve by incorporating phage DNA into plasmids, this is disadvantageous because it...

A minimal effector subset enables Salmonella Typhimurium to overcome bottlenecks regulated by the early innate immune response and establish infection within a CD62L+ monocyte niche in the spleen.

Genome sequence mining and computational analyses lead to the discovery and functional characterization of conserved bacterial toxins with activity against bacteria and fungi.