Analysis of the somatic and transcriptomic profile of 123 acral melanoma samples from Mexican patients helps understand tumour origins and prognosis, and highlights the importance of including samples...

Here, the authors report within-host diversity and body site translocation dynamics in hospital samples of Pseudomonas aeruginosa and reveal that body site sharing was likely due to within-patient tra...

Nature Reviews Microbiology, Published online: 17 November 2025; doi:10.1038/s41579-025-01264-wThis Genome Watch discusses recent advances in genomic epidemiology that enable the reconstruction of transmission events, with greater resolution and across more complex settings at scale.

Human reads are a key contaminant in microbial metagenomics and enrichment-based studies, requiring removal for computational efficiency, biological a…

Course exploring how genomics, microbiome profiling, and systems biology reshape our understanding of respiratory infections and immune dynamics.

The authors investigate the distribution of the aminoglycoside resistance gene npmA in Gram-positive bacteria via a mobile genetic element, highlighting its global presence and cross-species transfer ...

Staphylococcus aureus colonises the nose in humans, with individuals defined as persistent, intermittent or non-carriers. Unlike the gut microbiome, the nasal microbiome has not been studied in large ...

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is an important nosocomial pathogen which can cause serious infections across diverse anatomic locations. Infections can spread within an individual to different body sites, but...

The recent Editorial by The Lancet Microbe, titled Rethinking blood culture, highlights the blood culture bottle shortage in the USA and the overreliance on single manufacturers.1 The shortages of blo...

Nature Communications - The authors applied a genomic and evolutionary approach to study Staphylococcus aureus in host adaptation during colonisation revealing signals of adaption in metabolic...

Nature Communications - The authors applied a genomic and evolutionary approach to study Staphylococcus aureus in host adaptation during colonisation revealing signals of adaption in metabolic...

Shigellosis, caused by bacteria of the genus Shigella, is a diarrhoeal disease transmitted by the faecal–oral route.1 Rapid increases in the prevalence of extensively drug-resistant (XDR) Shigella iso...