The genus Stenotrophomonas comprises at least eight species. These bacteria are found
throughout the environment, particularly in close association with plants. Strains of the most …

Background Rhizobium leguminosarum is an α-proteobacterial N 2 -fixing symbiont of legumes
that has been the subject of more than a thousand publications. Genes for the symbiotic …

Metals such as mercury, arsenic, copper and silver have been used in various forms as
antimicrobials for thousands of years with until recently, little understanding of their mode of …

Burkholderia pseudomallei is a recognized biothreat agent and the causative agent of
melioidosis. This Gram-negative bacterium exists as a soil saprophyte in melioidosis-endemic …

… The wild-type and other rpf mutants (rpfA, rpfB, rpfE, rpfH, and rpfI) did not form such aggregates
in L medium and grew in a dispersed fashion. After 24 h of growth in L medium, >95% of …

HD-GYP is a protein domain of unknown biochemical function implicated in bacterial
signaling and regulation. In the plant pathogen Xanthomonas campestris pv. campestris, the …

Background Stenotrophomonas maltophilia is a nosocomial opportunistic pathogen of the
Xanthomonadaceae. The organism has been isolated from both clinical and soil …

Bacterial infections of the lungs of cystic fibrosis (CF) patients cause major complications in
the treatment of this common genetic disease. Burkholderia cenocepacia infection is …

Mutations in the kinase domain (KD) of BCR-ABL are the leading cause of acquired imatinib
resistance. In some cases, identical mutations were detected at relapse and in …

Objectives The introduction of metagenomic sequencing to diagnostic microbiology has
been hampered by slowness, cost and complexity. We explored whether MinION nanopore …