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Microbiology General Subject Guide

Welcome to the University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa Library Microbiology General Subject Guide.

This is intended to be a general subject information portal for researchers and librarians.

Focused class and user specific guides will be created in the future as need arises. Contact sciref@hawaii.edu for suggestions or requests.

Kristen Catlin (Legend), Public Health Image Library. 2009. Clostridium botulinum.

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UH Manoa Department of Microbiology
The Department of Microbiology (College of Natural Sciences) at the University of Hawaii, Manoa has concentrated on highly essential areas vital to the State of Hawaii, such as general and applied microbiology (including biotechnology), microbial genetics, microbial physiology (molecular biology), medical microbiology, microbial ecology, and bioremediation, food microbiology, immunology, animal virology (includes marine animal virology) and cell biology.
UH JABSOM Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology & Pharmacology
The Department of Tropical Medicine, Medical Microbiology & Pharmacology is an academic department in the John A Burns School of Medicine at the University of Hawaii at Manoa. The department offers instruction and conducts research in the areas of pathogenesis, immunology, molecular genetics and genomics, and drug and vaccine development for tropical and emerging infectious diseases including malaria, dengue, West Nile Virus, HIV/AIDS, hantaviruses and Burkholderia pseudomallei. The department is housed in the BioSciences Building on the John A Burns School of Medicine campus, a state-of-the-art research facility located near downtown Honolulu.

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The role of artificial intelligence in microbial sciences to support climate resilienceThis link opens in a new windowApr 24, 2025
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 25 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01178-7
Mitigating climate change requires innovative solutions, and microorganisms, combined with artificial intelligence, can help. This Comment explores artificial intelligence strategies aimed at supporting and improving the development of microbial technologies for climate change action.
Epstein–Barr virus pathogenesis and emerging control strategiesThis link opens in a new windowApr 24, 2025
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 25 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01181-y
Sixty years after the discovery of the Epstein–Barr virus (EBV), Münz discusses new developments in the immunobiology of the first discovered human tumour virus, including vaccines and the role of EBV in the initiation of autoimmune diseases, especially multiple sclerosis.
<i>E. faecium</i> gains an edge from bacteriocinThis link opens in a new windowApr 23, 2025
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 24 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01187-6
In this study, Mills et al. identify bacteriocin T8 as a key factor conferring a competitive advantage to successful vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium lineages in hospital settings.
Scavenging a pyrimidine to thriveThis link opens in a new windowApr 23, 2025
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 24 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01186-7
In this study, Munneke et al. demonstrate that Clostridioides difficile scavenges the modified pyrimidine nucleobase 4-thiouracil to promote its pathogenesis in the vertebrate gut.
Commensalism and pathogenesis of <i>Candida albicans</i> at the mucosal interfaceThis link opens in a new windowApr 16, 2025
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 17 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01174-x
In this Review, Hube and colleagues overview the commensal and pathogenic lifestyles of Candida albicans, focusing on how the fungus transitions between these two states, the fungal and host factors involved, and the role of the mucosal microbiota on C. albicans commensalism.
Lassoing bacterial ribosomesThis link opens in a new windowApr 13, 2025
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01182-x
This study reports the identification of a ribosome-targeting lasso peptide that acts on a new ribosomal binding site.
Growing together under pressureThis link opens in a new windowApr 13, 2025
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 14 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01184-9
This study shows that mechanical pressure induces multicellular development in Haloferax volcanii.
The global resistance problem and the clinical antibacterial pipelineThis link opens in a new windowApr 9, 2025
Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 10 April 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01169-8
In this Review, Theuretzbacher explores current clinical antibacterial agents in clinical development, incorporating global health considerations and the need for effective, accessible therapies worldwide.

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