HOST ASSOCIATION AND SPATIAL PROXIMITY SHAPE BUT DO NOT CONSTRAIN POPULATION STRUCTURE IN THE MUTUALISTIC SYMBIONT XENORHABDUS BOVIENII

Host Association and Spatial Proximity Shape but Do Not Constrain Population Structure in the Mutualistic Symbiont Xenorhabdus bovienii

ABSTRACT To what extent are generalist species cohesive evolutionary units rather than a compilation of recently diverged lineages? We examine this question in the context of host specificity and geographic structure in the insect pathogen and nematode mutualist Xenorhabdus bovienii.This bacterial species partners with multiple nematode species acr

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MicroMundo Upside Down: Targeted Searching for Antibiotics-Producing Bacteria From Soil With Reverse Antibiosis Approaches

Tiny Earth (TE) is a popular international citizen science program aimed at improving public awareness on the growing antimicrobial resistance problem of which MicroMundo Albacete is a Spanish node.With a protocol that is focused on the isolation of antibiotics-producing actinomycetes Drinks from soil, 70% of the high school students in MicroMundo

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Clinical profile, complications and outcome of scrub typhus in children: A hospital based observational study in central Nepal.

BackgroundScrub typhus, an important cause of unexplained fever, is grossly neglected and often misdiagnosed in low and middle income countries like Nepal.The main aim of this study was to report on the clinical profile and complications of Leather Baseball Keychain scrub typhus and its outcome in Nepalese children.MethodsA prospective observationa

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