Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is tracked most closely in clinical settings and high-income
countries. However, resistant organisms thrive globally and are transmitted to and from …

The emergence and spread of infectious diseases with pandemic potential occurred
regularly throughout history. Major pandemics and epidemics such as plague, cholera, flu …

Vibrio is a genus of ubiquitous bacteria found in a wide variety of aquatic and marine
habitats; of the> 100 described Vibrio spp.,~ 12 cause infections in humans. Vibrio cholerae …

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

The emergence of new sequencing technologies has facilitated the use of bacterial whole
genome alignments for evolutionary studies and outbreak analyses. These datasets, of …

Recombination is an important evolutionary force in bacteria, but it remains challenging to
reconstruct the imports that occurred in the ancestry of a genomic sample. Here we present …

Generation time varies widely across organisms and is an important factor in the life cycle,
life history and evolution of organisms. Although the doubling time (DT) has been estimated …

Cholera is an ancient disease that remains a public health problem in many impoverished
locations around the world. Seven pandemics of cholera have been recorded since the first …

The seventh cholera pandemic has heavily affected Africa, although the origin and
continental spread of the disease remain undefined. We used genomic data from 1070 …

Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) was proposed in 1998 as a portable sequence-based
method for identifying clonal relationships among bacteria. Today, in the whole-genome era …