The gut microbiota has an important role in the maintenance of human health and in disease
pathogenesis. This importance was realized through the advent of omics technologies and …

Bacterial culture was the first method used to describe the human microbiota, but this
method is considered outdated by many researchers. Metagenomics studies have since …

SUMMARY A pure bacterial culture remains essential for the study of its virulence, its
antibiotic susceptibility, and its genome sequence in order to facilitate the understanding …

Actinobacteria constitute one of the largest phyla among Bacteria and represent gram-
positive bacteria with a high G+ C content in their DNA. This bacterial group includes …

The clinical features of this complex infection have changed in the past several decades. It is
now an infection of older people, and mitral-valve prolapse is the most common …

Many infectious diseases have emerged or reemerged in Africa in the 21st century. Some of
them are associated with newly discovered microorganisms such as Rickettsia felis and …

After a decade of research and metagenomic analyses, our knowledge of the human
microbiota appears to have reached a plateau despite promising results. In many studies …

In the twenty-first century, the clinical microbiology laboratory plays a central part in
optimizing the management of infectious diseases and surveying local and global …

Human infectious diseases are unique in that the discovery of their environmental trigger,
the microbe, was sufficient to drive the development of extraordinarily effective principles …

The etiologic diagnosis of infective endocarditis is easily made in the presence of
continuous bacteremia with gram-positive cocci. However, the blood culture may contain a …