Lessons learnt from the COVID-19 pandemic include increased awareness of the potential
for zoonoses and emerging infectious diseases that can adversely affect human health. …

Human blood is conventionally considered sterile but recent studies suggest the presence
of a blood microbiome in healthy individuals. Here we characterized the DNA signatures of …

Background Effective management of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2)
requires large-scale testing to identify and isolate infectious carriers. Self-…

Immunocompromised hosts with prolonged severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus
2 (SARS-CoV-2) infections have been implicated in the emergence of highly mutated SARS-…

Rapid onsite whole-genome sequencing of two suspected severe acute respiratory syndrome
coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) N gene diagnostic escape samples revealed a previously …

Shigella flexneri is a major diarrhoeal pathogen and the emergence of multidrug-resistant S.
flexneri is of public health concern. We report the detection of a clonal cluster of multidrug-…

We report the draft genome sequences of two Phytobacter diazotrophicus isolates recovered
from a swab specimen from the water faucet located in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (…

A 50-year-old man was referred to the Infectious Diseases (ID) Outpatient Clinic for an incidental
finding of Clonorchis sinensis ova seen in stool. The stool examination was performed …

… CS and KK 461 accessed and verified the raw data. CS and KK contributed equally to this
work. All authors had 462 full access to all the data in the study and had final responsibility for …

… Karrie Kwan Ki Ko … KK- K. Ko reports support unrelated to this manuscript by the
NMRC Research Training fellowship from the National Medical Research Council (NMRC) …