Opportunistic infections can contribute to antimicrobial resistance making these infections more severe than would occur otherwise. Some uninvolved pathogens that cause these infections possess ...

Micro-organisms constitute a very antique group of living organisms which appeared on the Earth’s surface almost 3000 million ...

A major nationwide cheese recall has been elevated to the Food and Drug Administration’s highest risk level, putting consumers on alert across the United States. The recall involves several grated ...

Antibiotic resistance is often framed as a hospital problem, but a growing body of evidence shows that rivers, soils, ...

Now that the condition is known to spread sexually, there are steps you and your partner can take to prevent it. By Rachel E. Gross Just as couples adopt each other’s social circles, musical tastes ...

Researchers have revealed how polymyxins, crucial last-resort antibiotics, break down bacterial armor by forcing cells to overproduce and shed it. Astonishingly, the drugs only kill bacteria when they ...

Share on Pinterest Bacterial infections may sometimes trigger heart attacks, a new study says. Image credit: Viaframe/Getty Images In 2022, about 19.8 million people globally died from heart disease, ...

I would like to report an issue encountered with the classify.seqs command in Mothur version 1.48.3, using the SILVA v138.2 database (Full-length sequences and taxonomy references). We use the ...

Hello, I was finally able to run kraken2 with GTDB and NCBI fungal genome database however I ran this process separately due to RAM issues. Now, the issue is I want to combine kraken2 reports from ...

Abstract: Bacteria are microscopic living organisms which have only one cell in it and they are classified into many different types. Microbial classification holds a crucial role in shaping our ...

A new study published in Nature Microbiology has reported a naturally occurring family of bacterial species in the human gut that can absorb and break down toxic, long-lasting "forever chemicals" and ...