SUMMARY A balanced gut microbiota contributes to health, but the mechanisms
maintaining homeostasis remain elusive. Microbiota assembly during infancy is governed by …

Nontyphoid Salmonella is the most common bacterial pathogen causing gastrointestinal
infection worldwide. Most nontyphoid Salmonella infection is limited to uncomplicated …

Indigenous populations of the Americas experienced high mortality rates during the early
contact period as a result of infectious diseases, many of which were introduced by …

Background Visualisation of genome comparisons is invaluable for hel** to determine
genotypic differences between closely related prokaryotes. New visualisation and …

Not all Salmonella enterica serovars cause the same disease. S. enterica represents an
incredibly diverse species comprising> 2,600 unique serovars. While some S. enterica …

It has been hypothesized that the Neolithic transition towards an agricultural and pastoralist
economy facilitated the emergence of human-adapted pathogens. Here, we recovered eight …

Most pathogens are able to infect multiple hosts but some are highly adapted to a single-
host species. A detailed understanding of the basis of host specificity can provide important …

The Salmonella genus comprises a group of pathogens associated with illnesses ranging
from gastroenteritis to typhoid fever. We performed an in silico analysis of comparatively …

Salmonella enterica is divided into four subspecies containing a large number of different
serovars, several of which are important zoonotic pathogens and some show a high degree …

Members of the genus Shigella are phenotypically similar to Escherichia coli and, with the
exception of Shigella boydii serotype 13, would be considered the same species by DNA …