There is no widely accepted concept of species for prokaryotes, and assignment of isolates
to species is based on measures of phenotypic or genome similarity. The current methods …

Members of the genus Bifidobacterium are dominant and symbiotic inhabitants of the
mammalian gastrointestinal tract. Being vertically transmitted, bifidobacterial host …

Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica is traditionally subdivided into serovars by
serological and nutritional characteristics. We used Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) to …

For bacterial typing to be useful, the development, validation and appropriate application of
typing methods must follow unified criteria. Over a decade ago, ESGEM, the ESCMID …

Bacterial strain typing, or identifying bacteria at the strain level, is particularly important for
diagnosis, treatment, and epidemiological surveillance of bacterial infections. This is …

To promote agronomic sustainability, extensive research is being carried out globally,
investigating biofertilizer development. Recently, it has been realized that some …

Although Staphylococcus aureus is a bacterial species of medical significance, only
approximately 30% of all humans carry staphylococcal cells persistently but …

The standard sequence-based method for the typing of Legionella pneumophila serogroup
1 strains was extended by using the gspA and neuA alleles. The use of neuA as a seventh …

The genomes of unicellular species, particularly prokaryotes, are greatly reduced in size and
simplified in terms of gene structure relative to those of multicellular eukaryotes. Arguments …

Salmonella enterica nomenclature has evolved over the past one hundred years into a
highly sophisticated naming convention based on the recognition of antigens by specific …