Texas A&M College of Veterinary Medicine 1 article published in JoVE Immunology and Infection Automated, High-Throughput Detection of Bacterial Adherence to Host Cells Jing Yang1, Qing-Ming Qin1, Erin Van Schaik1, James E. Samuel1, Paul de Figueiredo1,2 1Department of Microbial Pathogenesis and Immunology, Texas A&M Health Science Center, 2College of Veterinary Medicine, Texas A&M University Detection of host-bacterial pathogen interactions based on phenotypic adherence using high-throughput fluorescence labeling imaging along with automated statistical analysis methods enables rapid evaluation of potential bacterial interactions with host cells.