Rickettsiae are an interesting group of bacteria comprising a large number of obligate
intracellular species. The circulation of these bacteria in the environment depends on the …

Whole-genome sequencing of Plasmodium is becoming an increasingly important tool for
genomic surveillance of malaria. Due to the predominance of human DNA in a patient blood …

Over the past decade, nanopore sequencing has experienced significant advancements
and changes, transitioning from an initially emerging technology to a significant instrument …

Nanopore sequencing has been widely used for the real-time detection and surveillance of
pathogens with portable MinION. Nanopore adaptive sequencing can enrich on-target …

The urgent need for highly resolved and broad biomonitoring has never been greater as
challenges such as climate change, agricultural intensification and biodiversity loss …

Campylobacter is the leading bacterial cause of infectious intestinal disease, but the
pathogen typically accounts for a very small proportion of the overall stool microbiome in …

With emerging infectious disease outbreaks in human, domestic and wild animal
populations on the rise, improvements in pathogen characterization and surveillance are …

Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) represents the main technology for SARS-CoV-2 lineage
characterization in diagnostic laboratories worldwide. The rapid, near-full-length sequencing …

Rapid screening of hospital admissions to detect asymptomatic carriers of resistant bacteria
can prevent pathogen outbreaks. However, the resulting isolates rarely have their genome …

Bacterial plasmids play a major role in the spread of antibiotic resistance genes. However,
their characterization via DNA sequencing suffers from the low abundance of plasmid DNA …