In recent years, the effectiveness of antimicrobials in the treatment of Pseudomonas
aeruginosa infections has gradually decreased. This pathogen can be observed in several …

Escherichia coli is a paradigm for a versatile bacterial species which comprises harmless
commensal as well as different pathogenic variants with the ability to either cause intestinal …

Abstract IslandViewer (http://www. pathogenomics. sfu. ca/islandviewer/) is a widely-used
webserver for the prediction and interactive visualization of genomic islands (GIs, regions of …

Abstract The Pseudomonas Genome Database (http://www. pseudomonas. com) is well
known for the application of community-based annotation approaches for producing a high …

Although the majority of bacteria are harmless or even beneficial to their host, others are
highly virulent and can cause serious diseases, and even death. Due to the constantly …

Background Periodontitis is a polymicrobial biofilm-induced inflammatory disease that
affects 743 million people worldwide. The current model to explain periodontitis progression …

The growing number of bacterial pathogens that are resistant to numerous antibiotics is a
cause for concern around the globe. There have been no new broad‐spectrum antibiotics …

Metagenomic methods enable the simultaneous characterization of microbial communities
without time-consuming and bias-inducing culturing. Metagenome-assembled genome …

Despite increasing knowledge on phylogenetic composition of the human microbiome, our
understanding of the in situ activities of the organisms in the community and their …

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