Tilapia culture is an important source of income and nutrition to many rural families. Since
2000, the production of tilapia increased and reached domestic and global markets. Major …

Streptococcus agalactiae or group B streptococcus (GBS) is a leading cause of serious
neonatal infections. GBS is an opportunistic commensal constituting a part of the intestinal …

Background We aimed to provide the first comprehensive estimates of the burden of group B
Streptococcus (GBS), including invasive disease in pregnant and postpartum women, fetal …

Background The opportunities for bacterial population genomics that are being realised by
the application of parallel nucleotide sequencing require novel bioinformatics platforms …

Ty** methods for discriminating different bacterial isolates of the same species are
essential epidemiological tools in infection prevention and control. Traditional ty** …

The development of efficient and inexpensive genome sequencing methods has
revolutionized the study of human bacterial pathogens and improved vaccine design …

The introduction of multilocus sequence ty** (MLST) for the precise characterization of
isolates of bacterial pathogens has had a marked impact on both routine epidemiological …

Mastitis, inflammation of the mammary gland, can be caused by a wide range of organisms,
including gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria, mycoplasmas and algae. Many …

Evolutionary pressures on proteins are often quantified by the ratio of substitution rates at
non-synonymous and synonymous sites. The dN/dS ratio was originally developed for …

The characterization of pathogenic isolates plays a pivotal role in the epidemiology of
infectious diseases, generating the information necessary for identifying, tracking, and …