Monday, Nov. 13, 2023 NIAID Researchers Explore Metabolism in Determining Infectious Disease Severity Caption: A male adult dog tick, or Dermacentor variabilis, crawls over a penny. Dog ticks can transmit the pathogen that causes tularemia. (NIAID) Francisella tularensis, the bacterium that causes tularemia, also known as rabbit fever, is "exquisitely adept" at manipulating immune responses in the lungs to create an environment for severe disease, according to new NIAID research published in PLOS One. The study focuses on how the route that a pathogen takes when causing infection – such as entering the nose versus the skin – can affect disease severity and metabolic and immune responses. Understanding how pathogens exploit hosts when establishing infection helps scientists better predict which therapeutic treatments will be successful. National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases  |  National Institutes of Health Update your subscriptions, modify your password or e-mail address, or stop subscriptions at any time on your Subscriber Preferences Page. You will need to use your e-mail address to log in. If you have questions or problems with the subscription service, please contact Subscriber Help. This service is provided to you at no charge by National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID).                             This email was sent to myhcistech.healthnews360@blogger.com using GovDelivery Communications Cloud on behalf of: National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases · 5601 Fishers Lane · Bethesda, MD 20892 · 1-866-284-4107