Neisseria meningitidis (the meningococcus) causes significant morbidity and mortality in
children and young adults worldwide through epidemic or sporadic meningitis and/or …

Genomes 5 has been completely revised and updated. It is a thoroughly modern textbook
about genomes and how they are investigated. As with previous Genomes editions …

For the last 20 years, fragment assembly in DNA sequencing followed the “overlap–layout–
consensus” paradigm that is used in all currently available assembly tools. Although this …

Salmonella enterica subspecies I, serovar Typhimurium (S. typhimurium), is a leading cause
of human gastroenteritis, and is used as a mouse model of human typhoid fever. The …

Leprosy, a chronic human neurological disease, results from infection with the obligate
intracellular pathogen Mycobacterium leprae, a close relative of the tubercle bacillus …

Epigraph There is something fascinating about science. One gets such wholesale returns of
conjecture out of such a trifling investment of fact. Mark Twain 1883 Life on the Mississippi …

Meningococcus, an obligate human bacterial pathogen, remains a worldwide and
devastating cause of epidemic meningitis and sepsis. However, advances have been made …

Naturally competent bacteria are able to take up exogenous DNA and undergo genetic
transformation. The transport of DNA from the extracellular milieu into the cytoplasm is a …

This report updates the 2004 recommendations by the Advisory Committee on Immunization
Practices (ACIP) regarding the use of influenza vaccine and antiviral agents (CDC …

Multilocus sequence ty** (MLST) was proposed in 1998 as a portable, universal, and
definitive method for characterizing bacteria, using the human pathogen Neisseria …