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The incidence and prevalence of non-tuberculous mycobacteria (NTM) infections are steadily increasing worldwide, partially due to the increased incidence of immunocompromised conditions, such as the post-transplantation state. The importance of prope...

Campylobacter jejuni (C. jejuni) is responsible for 80% of human campylobacteriosis and is the leading cause of gastroenteritis globally. The relevant public health risks of C. jejuni are caused by particular virulence genes encompassing its virulome...

Equine herpesvirus-1 (EHV-1) is an important pathogen in horses. It affects horses worldwide and causes substantial economic losses. In this study, for the first time, we characterized EHV-1 isolates from South Korea at the molecular level. We then a...

Chlamydia pecorum is a widespread zoonotic pathogen infecting livestock and wildlife, with recent reports of severe human infection. To assess its epidemiological threat, we investigated its prevalence, genetic diversity, and evolutionary dynamics in...

To determine the etiological agents responsible for acute pneumonia in puppies in China, this study utilized bronchoalveolar lavage (BAL) fluid extraction to enable the isolation, culture, biochemical identification, and 16S rRNA PCR amplification of...

Listeria monocytogenes, an important foodborne pathogen, may be present in different kinds of food and in food processing environments where it can persist for a long time. In this study, 28 L. monocytogenes isolates from fish and fish manufactures w...

Candida auris, Candida blankii, and Kodamaea ohmeri have been regarded as emerging fungal pathogens that can cause infections with high mortality. For genotyping of C. auris, a multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme based on four locus sequences ha...

An automated method was developed for differentiating closely related B. cereus sensu lato (s.l.) species, especially biopesticide Bacillus thuringiensis, from other human pathogens, B. anthracis and B. cereus sensu stricto (s.s.). In the current res...

Escherichia ruysiae is a recently characterized species within the Escherichia genus, often misclassified as E. coli due to limitations in existing operating procedures and diagnostic databases. In this study, we report the first isolation and genomi...

In the absence of consistent national molecular typing data to enhance the surveillance of Salmonella Enteritidis, it was considered useful to collect baseline information on the genetic diversity and antibiotic susceptibility of strains isolated in...

Streptococcus pneumoniae (S. pneumoniae) is responsible for a wide range of infections. The aim of this study was to investigate the clonal diversity of S. pneumoniae in thirteen Arab countries. Multi-Locus Sequence Typing (MLST) data were extracted...

Vibrio parahaemolyticus, a significant cause of gastroenteritis and a growing public health concern, has become increasingly prevalent owing to the rise in ocean temperatures driven by climate change. This study aimed to characterize the genetic dive...

The study conducted a review of Listeria prevalence, virulence, and adaptations associated with leafy vegetables from small-scale farms and their journey to markets. PubMed, Taylor and Francis, Oxford, and Google Scholar databases were utilised to se...

E. faecalis is a commensal bacterium with specific strains involved in opportunistic and nosocomial infections. Therefore, it is important to know how the strains of this species are selected in the gut. In this study, fifteen E. faecalis strains, is...

An increase of nosocomial infections caused by Stenotrophomonas maltophilia strains has recently been observed all over the world. The isolation of these bacteria from the blood is of particular concern. In this study we performed the phenotypic and...

Background/Objectives: Bloodstream infection by carbapenem-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii (CRAB) is a serious clinical problem worldwide. To study its clonal relationship and genetic features, we report the draft genome sequence of CRAB strains is...

Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli (STEC) can cause diseases ranging from mild diarrhea to fatal extra-intestinal hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS). Shiga toxin (Stx) is the key virulence factor in STEC, two Stx types (Stx1 and Stx2) and several su...

Mycoplasma synoviae (MS) is a major pathogen threatening China’s poultry industry, causing severe economic losses, and clarifying its epidemiology is pivotal for disease control and flock purification. In this study, a total of 3215 chicken sam...

Background: Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli (DEC) remains relevant to public health and agri-food chains. The context in Brazil, as a major food producer and exporter, reinforces the need for genomic surveillance. Objective: We aimed to characterize B...

Leptospirosis in dogs has been largely described worldwide, and epidemiological studies have been mainly based on serological data. This study aims to detect and genotype leptospires affecting symptomatic dogs in Northeast Italy between 2013 and 2019...

Antibiotic resistance is a growing public health problem globally, incurring health and cost burdens. The occurrence of antibiotic-resistant bacterial infections has increased significantly over the years. Gram-negative bacteria display the broadest...

Human infections with Brucella melitensis are occasionally reported in Sweden, despite the fact that the national flocks of sheep and goats are officially free from brucellosis. The aim of our study was to analyze 103 isolates of B. melitensis collec...

Purpose: Aeromonas species are emerging pathogens associated with a range of human infections, particularly gastroenteritis in the paediatric population. However, data on their molecular characteristics in Latvia and the wider Baltic region remain li...

Pneumocystis jirovecii is an opportunistic human pathogenic fungus causing severe pneumonia mainly in immunocompromised hosts. Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) remains the gold standard for genotyping of this unculturable fungus. However, the lack o...

Epidemiological surveillance of bacterial pathogens requires real-time data analysis with a fast turnaround, while aiming at generating two main outcomes: (1) species-level identification and (2) variant mapping at different levels of genotypic resol...

Rickettsia is an important pathogenic entity among tick-borne diseases (TBD), which are considered serious emerging public health problems globally. In India, though the widespread distribution of ticks and TBD has been documented, its real burden re...

Fungal species delimitation was traditionally carried out with multicopy ribosomal RNA (rRNA) genes, principally for their ease of amplification. Since the efficacy of these markers has been questioned, single-copy protein-encoding genes have been pr...

Staphylococcus epidermidis is an important causal agent of ovine mastitis. A literature search indicated a lack of systematic studies of causal agents of the infection by using multi-locus sequence typing (MLST). The objectives were to analyse MLST-b...

Shiga toxin-encoding genes (stx) of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC) can be lost during infection or in vitro cultivation, and in clinical practice, it is difficult to distinguish EHEC that have lost stx (EHEC-LST) from enteropathogenic...

Among insects, Wolbachia is an exceedingly common bacterial endosymbiont with a range of consequences of infection. Despite the frequency of Wolbachia infection, very little is known about this bacteria’s diversity and role within hosts, especi...

Precise classification of foodborne pathogen Listeria monocytogenes is a necessity in efficient foodborne disease surveillance, outbreak detection, and source tracking throughout the food chain. In this study, a total of 150 L. monocytogenes isolates...

Background: Burkholderia pseudomallei, the causative agent of melioidosis, is a neglected tropical pathogen that has been increasingly encountered in Europe through travel-related infections. Clinical manifestations range from localized abscesses to...

Populations of vector-borne pathogens are shaped by the distribution and movement of vector and reservoir hosts. To study what impact host and vector association have on tick-borne pathogens, we investigated the population structure of Borrelia lusit...

Pathogenomic analysis was performed on a novel carbapenem-resistant Citrobacter freundii isolate (H2730R) from a rectal swab of an adult male patient admitted to a tertiary hospital, Durban, South Africa. H2730R was identified using selective media a...

Background/Objectives: Staphylococcus aureus is a multifaceted pathogen responsible for diseases in humans and in several animal species, including dairy cows. This study aimed to characterize and compare the genetic diversity, lineage distribut...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa (P. aeruginosa) is a major bacterial pathogen associated with a variety of infections with high mortality rates. Most of the clinical P. aeruginosa isolates belong to a limited number of genetic subgroups characterized by multi...

The largest phylogenetic lineage known to date of the anthrax pathogen Bacillus anthracis is the wide-spread, so-called Trans-Eurasian clade systematically categorized as the A.Br.008/009 group sharing two defining canonical single-nucleotide polymor...

Aeromonas species are enteropathogens that cause gastroenteritis with a unique three-peak infection pattern related to patient age. The contributions of individual Aeromonas species to age-related infections remain unknown. Multi-locus sequence typin...

Multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii is a major concern in healthcare institutions worldwide. Several reports described the dissemination of A. baumannii high-risk clones that are responsible for a high number of difficult-to-treat infections....

Salmonella Thompson, an important foodborne pathogen, is rarely found to be pathogenic to poultry. Accidentally, S. Thompson was found to be pathogenic to embryos of white feather broiler at a poultry farm in China. Therefore, this study aimed to exp...

Wolbachia is a widespread and well-known bacterium that can induce a wide range of changes within its host. Ants specifically harbor a great deal of Wolbachia diversity and are useful systems to study endosymbiosis. The turtle ants (Cephalotes) are a...

Staphylococcus aureus is a major cause of ocular infectious (corneal infection or microbial keratitis (MK) and conjunctivitis) and non-infectious corneal infiltrative events (niCIE). Despite the significant morbidity associated with these conditions,...

Salmonella Derby (S. Derby) is emerging in Europe as a predominant serovar in fattening turkey flocks. This serovar was recorded as being predominant in the turkey sector in 2014 in the United Kingdom (UK). Only two years later, in 2016, it was also...

Extraintestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli (ExPEC) is a group of Escherichia coli strains that can cause severe infectious diseases outside the gastrointestinal tract, such as urinary tract infections, meningitis, septicemia, etc. We report a case o...