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According to the World Health Organization (WHO), hundreds of millions of new cases of bacterial sexually transmitted ...

A stand-alone sequencing approach was accurate, cost effective and efficient for analyzing resistant pathogens and ...

According to the World Health Organization (WHO), hundreds of millions of new cases of bacterial sexually transmitted ...

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Despite rigorous cleaning, dangerous bacteria are lurking in hospital sink drains leading to a rise in ...

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Cases of bacterial sexually transmitted infections are on the rise worldwide. An international team led by the University of Zurich has now developed a new method for genome sequencing and discovered ...