† Department of Chemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405-7102, United States ‡ Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Biochemistry, Indiana University, Bloomington, Indiana 47405, ...

Bacteriophage (phage) therapy is a promising means to combat drug-resistant bacterial pathogens. Infection by phage can select for mutations in bacterial populations that confer resistance against ...

Automated control and management of microbial biofilms in water systems linked to medical devices. Automated microbial biofilm management in large water distribution systems in healthcare facilities.

Antibiotics' contributions to modern medicine cannot be understated. They have significantly reduced disease-associated mortality and provided unprecedented extensions to human lifespans.

Staphopia includes a primer based SCCmec Typing scheme. Unfortunately there was a disconnect between running the ananlysis and making the call. The primers are aligned by BLAST in the Staphopia ...

conda create -n sccmec -c conda-forge -c bioconda sccmec conda activate sccmec sccmec --help {PREFIX}.tsv A tab-delimited file with the predicted type {PREFIX}.targets.blastn.tsv A tab-delimited file ...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) continue to be a major threat to human health worldwide with significant attributable morbidity, mortality and significant associated healthcare ...

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) as a transferrable bacterial trait has been investigated extensively in recent years. The possibility of AMR dissemination among bacterial species has been confirmed, ...

1 Laboratoire de Biologie Moléculaire et de Bio-Informatique Appliquée à la Génomique, Ecole Nationale Supérieure de Bioscience et de Biotechnologies Appliquées, Université Nationale des Sciences, ...

Tsukuba, Japan—A bacteria called Staphylococcus aureus is widespread and generally harmless, but can cause infections known as "opportunistic infections". These occur when the bacteria take advantage ...