Antibiotics have made it possible to treat bacterial infections such as meningitis and
bacteraemia that, prior to their introduction, were untreatable and consequently fatal …

Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are among the most common bacterial infections worldwide,
occurring in both community and healthcare settings. Although the clinical symptoms of UTIs …

Bacteriophages have important roles in the ecology of the human gut microbiome but are
under-represented in reference databases. To address this problem, we assembled the …

Antibiotic resistance spreads among bacteria through horizontal transfer of antibiotic
resistance genes (ARGs). Here, we set out to determine predictive features of ARG transfer …

The emergence of infectious diseases promises to be one of the leading mortality factors in
the healthcare sector. Although several drugs are available on the market, newly found …

Multiple drug-resistant bacteria are a severe and growing public health concern. Because
relatively few antibiotics have been approved over recent years and because of the inability …

Despite an array of cogent antibiotics, bacterial infections, notably those produced by
nosocomial pathogens, still remain a leading factor of morbidity and mortality around the …

Salmonella enterica is one of the most ubiquitous enteropathogenic bacterial species on
earth, and comprises more than 2500 serovars. Widely known for causing non-typhoidal …

The death caused by multidrug-resistant pathogens is increasing day by day, and it needs
special attention due to the challenges faced by the world health care systems. Hence, there …

In the absence of antibiotic-mediated selection, sensitive bacteria are expected to displace
their resistant counterparts if resistance genes are costly. However, many resistance genes …