The rapid, sensitive, and selective detection of foodborne pathogens is important to ensure
food safety. Culture medium‐based methods for bacteria detection have long been used …

The Mitis group of streptococci includes an important human pathogen, Streptococcus
pneumoniae (pneumococcus) and about 20 other related species with much lower …

The global utilization of single-use, non-biodegradable plastics, such as bottles made of
polyethylene terephthalate (PET), has contributed to catastrophic levels of plastic pollution …

The gut microbiota plays an important role in human health and longevity, and the gut
microbiota of centenarians shows unique characteristics. Nowadays, most microbial …

Background Despite strong historical records on the accuracy of saliva testing, oral fluids are
considered poorly suited for pneumococcal carriage detection. We evaluated an approach …

In the present research, the MALDI-TOF MS technique was applied as a tool to rapidly
identify the salivary microbiome. In this fact, it has been monitored the changes occurred in …

With the continuous evolution of bacteria, the global antimicrobial resistance health threat is
causing millions of deaths yearly. While depending on antibiotics as a primary treatment has …

Introduction Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have reduced severe disease attributed to
vaccine-type pneumococci in children. However, the effect is dependent on serotype …

Primer-probe sets to detect Bacillus cereus and/or B. subtilis in food products were
developed based on panX (a pan-genome analysis tool). Data for 60 B. cereus strains and …

Escherichia albertii is an emerging, enteric pathogen of significance. It was first isolated in
2003 from a pediatric diarrheal sample from Bangladesh. In this study, a comprehensive in …