6 August 2018

Occurrence of virulent multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecalis and Enterococcus faecium in the pigs, farmers and farm environments in Malaysia

"This paper is very relevant in food microbiology."

Carlos Conte-Junior, Handling Editor

3 August 2018

Patterns in evolutionary origins of heme, chlorophyll a and isopentenyl diphosphate biosynthetic pathways suggest non-photosynthetic periods prior to plastid replacements in dinoflagellates

"This article attempts to retrace the complex history of re-construction of the photosynthetic pathway in organisms that went through serial endosymbiosis. It is likely to be relevant to biologists working on evolution, endosymbiosis and lateral gene transfer, thus making it a broadly interesting paper."

Daniel Lahr, Handling Editor

18 June 2018

Transcriptomic evidence for involvement of reactive oxygen species in Rhizoctonia solani AG1 IA sclerotia maturation

"Sounds like a really interesting study to those working on plant fungal pathogens."

Siouxsie Wiles, Section Editor

13 June 2018

Epidemiology of Haemophilus parasuis isolates from pigs in China using serotyping, antimicrobial susceptibility, biofilm formation and ERIC-PCR genotyping

"Haemophilus parasuis is a very important pathogen in animals. More studies should be encouraged in this field."

Sheng Chen, Handling Editor

13 June 2018

Multi-omic profiling to assess the effect of iron starvation in Streptococcus pneumoniae TIGR4

"Multi-omics is a technique that can be applied to several fields."

Luciana Leite, Handling Editor

8 May 2018

Porcine rotavirus C in pigs with gastroenteritis on Thai swine farms, 2011–2016

"Swine rotavirus could be a reservoir for human rotavirus, to understand how those virus evolve is extremely relevant for human health."

Valeria Souza, Section Editor

30 April 2018

Effects of tobacco smoke and electronic cigarette vapor exposure on the oral and gut microbiota in humans: a pilot study

"electronic cigarette is a new trendy substitution to normal cigarettes, albeit, they do have an effect on the microbiome of their users. This open the door to do more research on this relevant topic of human health."

Valeria Souza, Section Editor