To uncover how Staphylococcus aureus strain variation influences adhesion and thus disease outcomes, the authors profile 236 bacteremia isolates, showing that high-adhesion, low-toxicity isolates may ...

La iniciativa está organizada por la Conexión Resistencia Antimicrobianos del CSIC y la Asociación Española para el Avance de la Ciencia.

A focused convening to identify practical pathways for strengthening routine national AMR surveillance systems, including the integration of genomic data.

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is a major threat to human and animal health, in addition to environmental resilience. Countries set the agenda on thei…

Postdoctoral Position in Computational Phage Biology Microbial Genomics Group, Malopolska Centre of Biotechnology (MCB), Jagiellonian University, Kraków PL Summary We are seeking a postdoctoral rese...

Staphylococcus aureus is a leading cause of bloodstream infections causing an estimated 300,000 deaths worldwide. Using a functional genomics approach, our group previously identified that adaptation ...

In this work, Wilson et al., examined sharing of Salmonella between humans, animals and the environment using household samples from Malawi. They revealed an interconnected web of Salmonella circulati...

PHACTS: Unravelling PHAge-baCTeria-host immune dynamicS to inform phage therapy SUPERVISORY TEAM Supervisor Dr Zoe Dyson...

LexicMap uses a fixed set of probes to efficiently query gene sequences for fast and low-memory alignment.

On July 15, 2025, the UK Government confirmed that it planned to dismantle the country’s flagship international programme for tackling antimicrobial resistance (AMR). The Fleming Fund is overseen by t...

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Qu et al. present PHLAME, a method to analyze strain composition in metagenomic samples where many strains of the same species coexist. Using PHLAME, they show relationships between strain abundances ...

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 ...

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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...