Candida auris is a fungal pathogen of high concern due to its ability to cause healthcare-associated
infections and outbreaks, its resistance to antimicrobials and disinfectants and its …

Background The accuracy of microbial community surveys based on marker-gene and
metagenomic sequencing (MGS) suffers from the presence of contaminants—DNA sequences …

Landscape ecology examines the relationships between the spatial arrangement of
different landforms and the processes that give rise to spatial and temporal patterns in local …

Human skin functions as a physical barrier to foreign pathogen invasion and houses numerous
commensals. Shifts in the human skin microbiome have been associated with conditions …

Spatial and temporal patterns in microbial communities provide insights into the forces that
shape them, their functions and roles in health and disease. Here, we used spatial and …

In humans, the composition of microbial communities differs among body sites and between
habitats within a single site. Patterns of variation in the distribution of organisms across time …

Candida auris is a human fungal pathogen classified as an urgent threat to the delivery of
health care due to its extensive antimicrobial resistance and the high mortality rates …

Candida auris and Candida albicans can result in invasive fungal diseases. And yet, these
species can stably and asymptomatically colonize human skin and gastrointestinal tracts. To …

Recent studies suggest that the microbiome has an impact on gestational health and outcome.
However, characterization of the pregnancy-associated microbiome has largely relied on …

Human papillomavirus (HPV) infections underlie a wide spectrum of both benign and
malignant epithelial diseases. In this report, we describe the case of a young man who had …