Highlights • MRSA has been one of the major recent infectious pathogens and thus poses a
challenge to hospital infection control. • SCCmec plays a core role in the antimicrobial …

As recently indiscriminate abuse of existing antibiotics in both clinical and veterinary treatment
leads to proliferation of antibiotic resistance in microbes and poses a dilemma for the …

As a unique microbial response to adverse circumstances, the viable but nonculturable (VBNC)
state is characterized by the loss of culturability of microbial cells on/in nutrient media …

Lock-in thermography, an active IR thermography technique for NDT, is based on propagation
and reflection of thermal waves which are launched from the surface into the inspected …

As major food-borne pathogens worldwide, Escherichia coli are capable of toxin production
directly causing severe human disease. However, routine methods are incapable of …

Background There is increasing interest in replacing alteplase with tenecteplase as the
preferred thrombolytic treatment for patients with acute ischaemic stroke. We aimed to establish …

Candida albicans, along with other closely related Candida species, are the primary causative
agents of vulvovaginal candidiasis (VVC)—a multifactorial infectious disease of the lower …

Mobile genetic elements (MGEs) carrying antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) disseminate
ARGs when they mobilise into new bacterial hosts. The nature of such horizontal gene transfer …

Objective: We aimed to investigate whether the efficacy and safety of clopidogrel plus aspirin
vs aspirin alone were consistent between patients with and without intracranial arterial …

Recent progress in studying copper‐dependent targets and pathways in the context of
tumor treatment has provided new insights into therapeutic strategies of leveraging copper‐…