The Application of Culturomics to Explore African Skin Microbiota.

Over the past 12 years, culturomics, a high-throughput culture method, has been developed, considerably widening the repertoire of known cultured bacteria. An exhaustive database, including a list of microbes isolated by culture from human skin, was recently established by performing a review of the literature. The aim of the present study was to use the culturomics approach to explore the African skin microbiota.

The Determinants of the Low COVID-19 Transmission and Mortality Rates in Africa: A Cross-Country Analysis.

More than 1 year after the beginning of the international spread of coronavirus 2019 (COVID-19), the reasons explaining its apparently lower reported burden in Africa are still to be fully elucidated. Few studies previously investigated the potential reasons explaining this epidemiological observation using data at the level of a few African countries. However, an updated analysis considering the various epidemiological waves and variables across an array of categories, with a focus on African countries might help to better understand the COVID-19 pandemic on the continent.

sp. nov., a new bacterium isolated from a fresh human stool specimen.

sp. nov., strain Marseille-P2231 (= CSURP2231 = DSM 101860) is a new species within the family .

Molecular drivers of emerging multidrug resistance in Proteus mirabilis clinical isolates from Algeria.

Objectives: The aim of this study was to characterise the molecular drivers of multidrug resistance in Proteus mirabilis isolated from Algerian community and hospital patients.

Methods: A total of 166 P. mirabilis isolates were collected from two hospitals and eight private laboratories from four cities (Khemis Miliana, Aïn Defla, Oran and Chlef) located in northwestern Algeria.

Phoenicibacter congonensis gen. nov., sp. nov., a new genus isolated from the human gut and its description using a taxonogenomic approach.

Culturomics has recently allowed the isolation and description of previously uncultured bacteria from the human microbiome at different body sites. As part of a project aiming to describe the human gut microbiota by culturomics, Phoenicibacter congonensis strain Marseille-P3241 was isolated from the gut of a 45 years old Pygmy female. In the present work, we aim to describe this strain via the taxonogenomics approach.