Bacteria speciation, ancient bacteria, and drug-resistant infection deaths. - Microbial Minutes

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Bacteria speciation, ancient bacteria, and drug-resistant infection deaths. Plus: prion denaturing and phage efficacy.

Microbial Minutes 12.11.18

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Jain C et al. High throughput ANI analysis of 90K prokaryotic genomes reveals clear species boundaries. Nature Communications. November 30 2018. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-07641-9


Rascovan N et al. Emergence and Spread of Basal Lineages of Yersinia pestis during the Neolithic Decline. Cell. November 2018. https://www.cell.com/action/showPdf?pii=S0092-8674%2818%2931464-8

Zhu G et al. Resuscitation of Anammox Bacteria after -10,000 Years of Dormancy. ISME Journal. November 30 2018. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41396-018-0316-5

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Kuznetsova A et al. Soil Humic Acids Degrade CWD Prions and Reduce Infectivity. Plos Pathogens. November 29 2018. https://journals.plos.org/plospathogens/article?id=10.1371/journal.ppat.1007414 

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Burnham JP et al. Re-estimating Annual Deaths Due to Multidrug-Resistant Organism Infections. Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology. November 22 2018. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/infection-control-and-hospital-epidemiology/article/reestimating-annual-deaths-due-to-multidrugresistant-organism-infections/C9B09A787FCCA1EA992AF45066F3FF7C  

Cassini A et al. Attributable deaths and disability-adjusted life-years caused by infections with antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the EU and the European Economic Area in 2015: a population-level modelling analysis. The Lancet Infectious Diseases. November 5 2018. https://www.thelancet.com/journals/laninf/article/PIIS1473-3099(18)30605-4/fulltext 

 • Healio.com: https://www.healio.com/infectious-disease/nosocomial-infections/news/in-the-journals/%7B87cf03c4-003d-4281-8235-3e574e5e2a0a%7D/oft-cited-stat-may-underestimate-deaths-from-mdros-in-us-by-130000

 • CIDRAP: http://www.cidrap.umn.edu/news-perspective/2018/11/stewardship-resistance-scan-nov-26-2018

 • Daily Mail: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-6448439/Drug-resistant-superbugs-kill-7-times-Americans-CDC-estimated-study-suggests.html 


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