Emerging technologies in microbiology.

This methods issue focuses on new approaches and techniques to study pathogen biology and infection, but many of these may be applied to a range of studies in microbiology. In this special issue of I Molecular Microbiology i , we profile an exceptional collection of papers describing emerging methods in the study of microbiology. In the study of host-pathogen interactions, in vitro models of infection remain critical to dissecting the host and pathogen components that promote or fight infection. [Extracted from the article]