The emergence and prevalence of drug-resistant foodborne pathogens have posed a great
threat to food safety and public health. Therefore, rapid, sensitive, reliable, and on-site …

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most challenging threats in public health; thus,
there is a growing demand for methods and technologies that enable rapid antimicrobial …

A perfect bacterial genome assembly is one where the assembled sequence is an exact
match for the organism's genome—each replicon sequence is complete and contains no …

Chickens are the most common birds on Earth and colibacillosis is among the most common
diseases affecting them. This major threat to animal welfare and safe sustainable food …

Metagenomic sequencing has allowed for the recovery of previously unexplored microbial
genomes. Whereas short-read sequencing platforms often result in highly fragmented …

With the renewed interest in phage research, coupled with the rising accessibility to
affordable sequencing, ever increasing numbers of phage genomes are being sequenced …

Emerging new sequencing technologies have provided researchers with a unique
opportunity to study factors related to microbial pathogenicity, such as antimicrobial …

Oxford Nanopore sequencing has been widely used to achieve complete genomes of
bacterial pathogens. However, the error rates of Oxford Nanopore long reads are high …

The safety of microbial cultures utilized for consumption is vital for public health and should
be thoroughly assessed. Although general aspects on the safety assessment of microbial …

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to public health worldwide. Currently, AMR
typing changes from phenotypic testing to whole-genome sequence (WGS)-based detection …