Antimicrobial resistance extracts high morbidity, mortality and economic costs yearly by
rendering bacteria immune to antibiotics. Identifying and understanding antimicrobial …

The recent advancements in rapid and affordable DNA sequencing technologies have
revolutionized diagnostic microbiology and microbial surveillance. The availability of …

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most important health threats globally. The
ability to accurately identify resistant bacterial isolates and the individual antimicrobial …

The UK observed a marked increase in scarlet fever and invasive group A streptococcal
infection in 2022 with severe outcomes in children and similar trends worldwide. Here we …

Antimicrobial resistance in neonatal sepsis is rising, yet mechanisms of resistance that often
spread between species via mobile genetic elements, ultimately limiting treatments in low …

Background As the cost of sequencing has declined, clinical diagnostics based on next
generation sequencing (NGS) have become reality. Diagnostics based on sequencing will …

The PubMLST. org website hosts a collection of open-access, curated databases that
integrate population sequence data with provenance and phenotype information for over …

Illumina sequencing platforms have enabled widespread bacterial whole genome
sequencing. While Illumina data is appropriate for many analyses, its short read length limits …

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the major threats to human and animal health
worldwide, yet few high-throughput tools exist to analyse and predict the resistance of a …

Atopic dermatitis (AD) is a multifactorial, chronic relapsing disease associated with genetic
and environmental factors. Among skin microbes, Staphylococcus aureus and …