“With this database, we can start surveying at a large scale how the microbial properties of food could impact our health.” One example of this food-to-gut transmission involves strains of ...

This suggests that the fingertips, toe webs and nares might act as reservoirs for transmission and are therefore worth including in sampling efforts for surveillance of microbial infection.

Spouses and siblings who report feeling close to one another are more likely to exhibit gut microbial communities that are similar to one another, according to computational biologist Kimberly ...

Microbial communities are characterized by a network of interactions ... Nasal colonization is the primary source of invasive infection by each and is also a key reservoir for transmission. In the ...

Many infections go undiagnosed due to their often silent symptoms, contributing to transmission ... co-head of microbial genomics and head of bioinformatics at the Institute of Medical Microbiology.