Outbreaks of multidrug-resistant bacteria present a frequent threat to vulnerable patient
populations in hospitals around the world. Intensive care unit (ICU) patients are particularly …

Milk and milk products have been utilized by humans for many thousands of years. With the
advent of metagenomic studies, our knowledge on the microbiota of milk and milk products …

Listeria monocytogenes (Lm) is a major human foodborne pathogen. Numerous Lm
outbreaks have been reported worldwide and associated with a high case fatality rate …

Prosthetic joint infection (PJI) still remains a significant problem. In line with the forecasted
rise in joint replacement procedures, the number of cases of PJI is also anticipated to rise …

Typing methods for discriminating different bacterial isolates of the same species are
essential epidemiological tools in infection prevention and control. Traditional typing …

Multilocus sequence typing reveals that many bacterial species have a clonal structure and
that some clones are widespread. This underlying phylogeny was not revealed by pulsed …

No single genealogical reconstruction or typing method currently encompasses all levels of
bacterial diversity, from domain to strain. We propose ribosomal multilocus sequence typing …

Klebsiella pneumoniae strains producing KPC-type carbapenemases (KPC-KP) are
challenging multidrug-resistant pathogens due to their extensively drug-resistant …

Non-typhoidal Salmonella represents an important human and animal pathogen world-wide.
Most human salmonellosis cases are foodborne, but each year infections are also acquired …

Mastitis, inflammation of the mammary gland, can be caused by a wide range of organisms,
including gram-negative and gram-positive bacteria, mycoplasmas and algae. Many …