Andrej Weintraub

TL;DR: A database of the structures of O-antigenic polysaccharides has been created and a ranking is produced based on similarity, which facilitates rapid identification of strains that are difficult to serotype (if known) based on classical agglutinating methods.

TL;DR: Healthy individuals, exposed to a single antibiotic treatment, undergo considerable microbial shifts and enrichment in antibiotic resistance in their feces, while their salivary microbiome composition remains unexpectedly stable.

TL;DR: Using multiplex PCR by combining eight primer pairs specific for enteroaggregative E. coli, which facilitates the identification of five different categories of diarrheagenic E. Escherichia coli from stool samples in a single reaction simultaneously, identifies 132 diarr heagenicE.

TL;DR: Kinetics of binding and cleavage suggest a role of the receptor destroying endorhamnosidase activity primarily for detachment of newly assembled phages.

TL;DR: Better antibiotic stewardship and infection control are needed to prevent further spread of resistance in C. difficile.