Xavier Nassif

A journey into the brain: insight into how bacterial pathogens cross blood-brain barriers

Published in Nature Reviews Microbiology

The blood–brain barrier, which is one of the tightest barriers in the body, protects the brain from insults, such as infections. Indeed, only a few of the numerous blood-borne bacteria can cross the blood–brain barrier to cause meningitis. In this Review, we focus on invasive extracellular pathogens, such as Neisseria meningitidis, Streptococcus pn...

Untargeted next-generation sequencing-based first-line diagnosis of infection in immunocompromised adults: a multicentre...

Published in Journal of Endodontics

Experimental Evidence of Bacterial Colonization of Human Coronary Microvasculature and Myocardial Tissue during Meningoc...

Published in Le travail humain

Neisseria microarrays

Published in The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy

23 Methods for studying the mechanisms of microbial entry into the central nervous system

Published in Bulletin du Cancer