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In the US, there are only about 80 to 140 brucellosis cases reported each year, and they're mostly caused by B. melitensis ...

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A Florida man unknowingly contracted a rare infection from feral pig meat, which infiltrated his defibrillator. After ...

Explore the diversity of bacterial genomes in our food here. Identifying and sequencing rare strains of bacteria that make up the human microbiome has been challenging for scientists. Gang Fang, a ...

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Mammalian cell cultures are more prone to contamination than bacterial cultures, and because their growth cycle is longer, the consequences are more severe. The presence of fungi, yeast ...