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Background Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Typhi (abbreviated as ‘Typhi’) is the bacterial agent of typhoid fever. Effective antimicrobial therapy reduces complications and mortality; ...

Scandinavian countries generally have a low level of antibiotic consumption, high infection control standards and low prevalences of antimicrobial resistance (AMR). National surveillance systems,

U.S.-funded health projects around the world, including those providing lifesaving care, received termination notices from Washington on Thursday as President Donald Trump's administration neared completion of a review to ensure grants are aligned with its "America First" policy.

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Public Health Informatics, Epidemiology, Laboratory Leadership

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) poses a growing threat to human health. Increasingly, genome sequencing is being applied for the surveillance of bacterial pathogens, producing a wealth of data to train...

An extensive experimental analysis of resistance to antibiotics in development or introduced post-2017 in ESKAPE bacteria reveals the dynamics of resistance acquisition, mutational targets and the pre...

Assessing more than 12,000 metagenomic samples from across the world using computational approaches, the authors determined interactions between species that co-colonize or co-exclude Enterobacteriace...

Background: Undernutrition is the leading population-level determinant of tuberculosis, but the relationship between tuberculosis and nutritional status remains

Author summary The emergence of drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB), where the causative bacterium Mycobacterium tuberculosis is resistant to key antibiotics such as rifampicin and isoniazid, poses a ...

Urgent action underway to prevent dangerous microbes from spreading beyond country's borders

Nature Reviews Microbiology - In this Review, Scott et al. review our current knowledge of Shigella sonnei, highlighting recent insights into this globally disseminated antimicrobial-resistant...

Despite appearing healthy at birth, neonates who later developed EOS already had distinct whole blood gene expression changes at birth, which enabled the development of a 4-gene predictive signature f...

Currently, there are few standards for what essential information about an infectious disease outbreak should be reported to the public and when. The content and timeliness of public reporting (e.g. s...