With rapidly changing ecology, urbanization, climate change, increased travel and fragile
public health systems, epidemics will become more frequent, more complex and harder to …

In recent years, whole-genome sequencing (WGS) has been perceived as a technology with
the potential to revolutionise clinical microbiology. Herein, we reviewed the literature on the …

Salmonella is a leading human pathogen and a significant public health concern worldwide.
Massive food production and distribution have contributed to this pathogen dissemination …

Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) has become an essential tool for public health
surveillance and molecular epidemiology of infectious diseases and antimicrobial drug …

In this work we compared the most frequently used Klebsiella pneumoniae typing methods:
PFGE, cgMLST and coreSNP. We evaluated the discriminatory power of the three methods …

Background Healthcare personnel (HCP) are at increased risk of infection with severe acute
respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). We posit that current infection control …

Recent data indicates limited awareness and compliance on infection prevention
procedures by dental offices and by dental laboratories. Guidelines for infection prevention …

Free-living amoebae (FLA) are protozoa widely distributed in the environment, found in a
great diversity of terrestrial biomes. Some genera of FLA are linked to human infections. The …

Clostridium perfringens is both an ubiquitous environmental bacterium and the fourth most
common causative agent of foodborne outbreaks (FBOs) in France and Europe. These …

Genomic epidemiology is a tool for tracing transmission of pathogens based on whole-
genome sequencing. We introduce the mGEMS pipeline for genomic epidemiology with …