Extended-spectrum cephalosporins (ESCs) are critically important antimicrobial agents for
human and veterinary medicine. ESC resistance (ESC-R) genes have spread worldwide …

All foods carry microbes, many of which are harmless, but foods can also carry pathogens
and/or microbial indicators of contamination. Limited information exists on the co-occurrence …

Non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica is a common cause of diarrhoeal disease; in humans,
consumption of contaminated poultry meat is believed to be a major source. Brazil is the world’…

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is one of the most important pathogens in cystic fibrosis. This
study was conducted to analyse the genetic basis and phylogenetic profile of resistance to …

While South Americans are underrepresented in human genomic diversity studies, Brazil
has been a classical model for population genetics studies on admixture. We present the …

The Transatlantic Slave Trade transported more than 9 million Africans to the Americas between
the early 16th and the mid-19th centuries. We performed a genome-wide analysis using …

Klebsiella pneumoniae (Kp) is one of the most important etiological factors of urinary tract
infections in renal transplant (RTx) recipients. We described the antimicrobial susceptibility …

Western South America was one of the worldwide cradles of civilization. The well-known Inca
Empire was the tip of the iceberg of an evolutionary process that started 11,000 to 14,000 …

Gastric cancer is one of the most lethal types of cancer and its incidence varies worldwide,
with the Andean region of South America showing high incidence rates. We evaluated the …

We present the distribution of CYP 2D6, CYP 2C9, and CYP 2C19 variants and predicted
phenotypes in 33 native and admixed populations from Ibero‐America (n > 6,000) in the …