Helicobacter pylori is a major human pathogen for which increasing antibiotic resistance
constitutes a serious threat to human health. Molecular mechanisms underlying this …

The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need to incorporate pathogen
genomics for enhanced disease surveillance and outbreak management in Africa. The …

Simple Summary COVID-19 emerged in late 2019 in China and rapidly spread across the
globe. After 2 years, numerous advances have been made. First of all, the preventive …

The corona virus disease 2019 (COVID‐19) is a highly contagious disease caused by the
severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS‐CoV‐2). More than 18 million …

Antibiotic resistance has emerged as an imminent pandemic. Rapid diagnostic assays
distinguish bacterial infections from other diseases and aid antimicrobial stewardship …

Leishmania infections span a range of clinical syndromes and impact humans from many
geographic foci, but primarily the world's poorest regions. Transmitted by the bite of a female …

High‐throughput sequencing (HTS) is a powerful tool that enables the simultaneous
detection and potential identification of any organisms present in a sample. The growing …

The unmapped readspace of whole genome sequencing data tends to be large but is often
ignored. We posit that it contains valuable signals of both human infection and …

Next-generation whole-genome sequencing is essential for high-resolution surveillance of
bacterial pathogens, for example, during outbreak investigations or for source tracking and …

Acute respiratory infection is the third most frequent cause of mortality worldwide, causing
over 4.25 million deaths annually. Although most diagnosed acute respiratory infections are …