Antimicrobial resistance is directly responsible for more deaths per year than either
HIV/AIDS or malaria and is predicted to incur a cumulative societal financial burden of at …

Whole genome sequencing (WGS) of foodborne pathogens has become an effective
method for investigating the information contained in the genome sequence of bacterial …

Food safety has become an important public health issue worldwide. However, conventional
methods for detection of food-borne pathogens are complicated, and labor-intensive …

Crosstalk between immune cells and the microbiota in mucosal tissues can set an individual
on a trajectory toward health or disease. Little is known about these early-life events in the …

Technologies to profoundly engineer biology are becoming increasingly affordable,
powerful, and accessible to a widening group of actors. While offering tremendous potential …

At a rapid pace, biologists are learning the many ways in which resident microbes influence,
and sometimes even control, their hosts to shape both health and disease. Understanding …

Pathogenicity is a complex multifactorial process confounded by the concerted activity of
genetic regions associated with virulence and/or resistance determinants. Pathogenicity …

Roseburia intestinalis is an anaerobic bacterium that produces butyric acid and belongs to
the phylum Firmicutes. There is increasing evidence that this bacterium has positive effects …

Targeting the virulence factors of phytopathogenic bacteria is an innovative strategy for
alleviating or eliminating the pathogenicity and rapid outbreak of plant microbial diseases …

The advent of antibiotics in the early twentieth century catalyzed a medical revolution,
drastically reducing mortality due to bacterial infections. Along with numerous other …