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Professor Craig Roy has been appointed the new director of the Combined Program in the Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS), effective September 1, 2019.
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Craig Russell Roy, newly named as the Waldemar Von Zedtwitz Professor of Microbial Pathogenesis, focuses his research on understanding the molecular and cellular events that enable microbial pathogens to evade host defense mechanisms.
When harmful bacteria enter the body, white blood cells known as macrophages engulf them and sequester them in capsules called phagosomes. These capsules then fuse with lysosomes, spheres packed with enzymes that destroy the bacterium.
The bacteria that cause Legionnaires’ disease and Q fever, both of which are linked to pneumonia, use a clever form of mimicry to survive inside host cells, according to a team of Yale scientists. Both bacteria use genes that have evolved in tandem with genes in their hosts and that disarm the..
Yale University researchers have shed new light how bacteria like the ones that cause Legionnaires’ disease and Q-fever raise such havoc in human patients.
Proteins within the bacteria that cause Legionnaire’s disease can kidnap their own molecular “coffin” and carry it to a safe place within the cell, ensuring their survival, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in Nature Wednesday.
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Scientists at Yale have discerned how the immune system fights the bacterium that causes Legionnaire’s disease. The bacterium, Legionella pneumophila, hides from immune defenses by living and multiplying in sealed vacuoles inside cells.
Like a deadly stowaway, Legionella pneumophila, the bacterium that causes Legionnaire’s disease, (see photo) hides inside cells to evade detection by the immune system. Holed up in sealed vacuoles, the germs multiply, causing fatal pneumonia in up to a quarter of those infected.
A new study indicates how the immune system fights bacteria that cause the severe form of pneumonia known as Legionnaire’s disease, Yale School of Medicine researchers report in the March issue of Nature Immunology.
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Of the 35 species of Legionella bacteria, one is implicated in most outbreaks of Legionnaires’ disease, a severe pneumonia. Now researchers at Yale have revealed how that bacterium, L.
Three decades ago, it seemed that modern medicine had virtually eliminated many infectious diseases. Armed with antibiotics, vaccines and a sense of victory in the war against microbes, medical schools began to look at the discipline of microbiology in a different light, and in 1972 Yale joined others in disbanding its department. By the 1980s, however, such deadly microbes as HIV, Ebola, Marburg ...