Resistance to antimicrobial agents is rising among human infections with Escherichia coli bacteria that produce the Shiga toxin, according to a study analyzing data from nearly 2,000 infections in the United States between 2010 and 2021. The increase in resistance points to a need for antibiotic stewardship in the food production chain as well as […]
A new advance in animal husbandry involving a popular aquarium fish should speed the pace of discovery in laboratory studies of host-microbe interactions, researchers report. The new findings are detailed in the journal mSystems, a publication of the American Society for Microbiology. Why Zebrafish for Microbiome Research? Zebrafish are desirable study animals because one pair […]