Fast and accurate identification and characterization of microbes is vital to guide public health, food safety and clinical research to prevent the spread of pathogenic microbes. Oxford Nanopore ...

Thousands of bacterial and other microbial species live in the human gut, supporting healthy digestion, immunity, metabolism ...

"Characterization of lung microbial communities ... community found in the patients' lungs was Streptococcaceae family of bacteria, which contains a variety of species, some of which cause disease ...

Over the past decade, the development of new sequencing technologies has enabled extensive characterization of microorganisms living in or on the human body (the "human microbiome"). In particular, ...

Another important finding of this study was the recovery of near-complete genomes of new strains of bacteria associated with disease. Further characterization of these organisms may improve our ...

Although microbes are so small that a microscope ... More information: Maryellen S. Kelly et al, Characterization of pediatric urinary microbiome at species-level resolution indicates variation ...

Certain species of bacteria in the gut interact with and ... are co-first authors of the study, "Characterization of Interactions of Dietary Cholesterol with the Murine and Human Gut Microbiome." ...

"Characterization of lung microbial communities ... community found in the patients' lungs was Streptococcaceae family of bacteria, which contains a variety of species, some of which cause disease ...