Background Poultry meat is one of the most important sources of human campylobacteriosis,
an acute bacterial enteritis which is a major problem worldwide. Campylobacter coli and …

Brain age is a widely used index for quantifying individuals’ brain health as deviation from a
normative brain aging trajectory. Higher-than-expected brain age is thought partially to …

Aging and Alzheimer’s disease (AD) are associated with progressive brain disorganization.
Although structural asymmetry is an organizing feature of the cerebral cortex it is unknown …

The discrepancy between chronological age and the apparent age of the brain based on
neuroimaging data — the brain age delta — has emerged as a reliable marker of brain health. …

Objectives: Little is known of the fitness cost that antibiotic resistance exerts on wild-type
bacteria, especially in their natural environments. We therefore examined the fitness costs that …

The possibility that unexpressed antibiotic resistance genes are carried by bacterial genomes
is seldom investigated. Potential silencing of the resistance genes bla OXA-2 , aadA1, sul1…

Objectives: The genetic basis of rifampicin resistance and the associated fitness cost in
Enterococcus faecium were investigated. Methods: Twelve spontaneous rifampicin-resistant E. …

Background Understanding the survival of resistance plasmids in the absence of selective
pressure for the antibiotic resistance genes they carry is important for assessing the value of …

Oncolytic bacteria are a classification of bacteria with a natural ability to specifically target
solid tumors and, in the process, stimulate a potent immune response. Currently, these include …

Roughly 10% of the human population is left-handed, and this rate is increased in some
brain-related disorders. The neuroanatomical correlates of hand preference have remained …