EPHA2 and bacterial infectious disease: Moreover, several viral infections (Human papillomavirus, Kaposi’s sarcoma-associated herpesvirus, Epstein–Barr virus, Hepatitis-B-Virus and Hepatitis C virus) [25,26,27,28,29], fungal infections (Candida albicans, Pneumocystis carinii) [30,31,32], parasite infections (Plasmodium) [33], bacterial infections (C. trachomatis, H. pylori, Enteropathogenic E. coli, M. tuberculosis) [24,34,35,36] were reported to exploit host EPHA2 signaling during infection.