Colibactin, a genotoxin, encoded by the pks pathogenicity island of Escherichia coli belonging to the B2 phylogroup has been reported as a determinant of bacterial pathogenicity. The present study was carried out to detect ...

Intestinal parasitic nematodes live in intimate contact with the host microbiota. Changes in the microbiome composition during nematode infection affect immune control of the parasites and shifts in the abundance of bacterial ...

A large German outbreak in 2011 was caused by a locus of enterocyte effacement (LEE)-negative enterohemorrhagic E. coli (EHEC) strain of the serotype O104:H4. This strain harbors markers that are characteristic of both ...

Continuing introduction of multi-drug resistant, zoonotic pathogens such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in horse clinics challenges the biosafety of employees and animal patients. This study was aimed ...

Background: Infections caused by vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) are on the rise worldwide. Few studies have tried to estimate the mortality burden as well as the financial burden of those infections and found ...

Anthrax is primarily recognized as an affliction of herbivores with incubation period ranging from three to five days post-infection. Currently, the Sterne live-spore vaccine is the only vaccine approved for control of the ...

Background: In 2017 the Nigerian Ministry of Health notified the World Health Organization (WHO) of an outbreak of hepatitis E located in the north-east region of the country with 146 cases with 2 deaths. The analysis ...

In Deutschland wird die Legionärskrankheit in der Regel durch die Spezies Legionella (L.) pneumophila verursacht. Von rezidivierenden Fällen der Legionärskrankheit wird selten berichtet, sie sind entweder auf eine zweite ...

Die STIKO empfiehlt die Impfung mit einem adjuvantierten Herpes zoster-Subunit-(HZ/su-) Totimpfstoff zur Verhinderung von Herpes zoster (HZ) und Postherpetischer Neuralgie (PHN) allen Personen ab einem Alter von 60 Jahren ...