Staphylococcus aureus can exemplify better than any other human pathogen the adaptive
evolution of bacteria in the antibiotic era, as it has demonstrated a unique ability to quickly …

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) is one of the most serious global public health threats in this
century. The first World Health Organization (WHO) Global report on surveillance of AMR, …

Staphylococcus aureus is a typical human pathogen. Some animal S. aureus lineages have
derived from human strains following profound genetic adaptation determining a change in …

To estimate the proportion of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates
from humans that were sequence type (ST) 398, we surveyed 24 laboratories in 17 countries …

Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE) are emerging as a public health problem
in various settings. In Italy, a rapid and remarkable increase of carbapenem-non-susceptible …

Background Gaps in the diagnostic capacity and heterogeneity of national surveillance and
reporting standards in Europe make it difficult to contain carbapenemase-producing …

For decades methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) has been considered the
prototype of multi-resistant nosocomial pathogens, causing infections in high-risk patients. …

Current literature shows that secondary bacterial infections, although less frequent than in
previous influenza pandemics, affect COVID-19 patients. Mycoplasma pneumoniae, …

Staphylococcus aureus is an important human pathogen, responsible for infections in the
community and the healthcare setting. Although much of the attention is focused on the …

Recently, we have shown that the capsular polysaccharide of Bacteroides fragilis NCTC
9343 is composed of an aggregate of two discrete large molecular weight polysaccharides (…