Editors-in-Chief
Ass. Prof. Dr. Thierry NAAS
Bacteriology-Hygiene Unit, Hôpital Bicêtre, APHP Paris Saclay, Team ReSIST, INSERM U1184, Université Paris-Saclay, LabEx LERMIT, France
Advisory Board
Topic Editors
Prof. Dr. med. Klaus-Peter Hunfeld
Institute for Laboratory Medicine, Microbiology and Infection Control, Medical Faculty, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany
Prof. Dr. Jacques Godfroid
Dept. of Arctic and Marine Biology, Faculty of Biosciences, Fisheries and Economics, The Arctic University of Norway
Veterinary Microbiology
Ass. Prof. George Tsiamis
Department of Environmental Engineering, University of Patras, Greece
Environmental Microbiology
Prof. Dr. Salam A. Ibrahim
Food Microbiology and Biotechnology Laboratory, North Carolina Agricultural and Technical State University, Greensboro, NC 27401, USA
Editorial Board
Dr. Abubakar Hoza
College of Veterinary Medicine and Biomedical Sciences, Sokoine University of Agriculture, Tanzania
Prof. Dr. Uwe Gerd Liebert
Institute of Virology, Leipzig University, Leipzig, Germany
Prof. Dr. Belay Tessema
Department of Medical Microbiology, University of Gondar, Ethiopia
Prof.Dr. Paola Roncada
Department of Health Sciences, University Magna Graecia of Catanzaro, Italy
Dr. John M. Ngunjiri
Food Animal Health Research Center, the Ohio State University, Ohio, USA
Dr. Michael Böhringer
The Institute for Bacterial Infections and Zoonoses, Jena, Germany
Prof. Dr. Claudine Mayer
Department of Life Sciences, University of Paris, France
Prof. Dr. Janja Trček
Department of Biology, Faculty of Natural Sciences and Mathematics, University of Maribor, Slovenia
Ass. Prof. Yusuf Akhter
Department of Biotechnology, School of Life Sciences, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, India
Ass. Prof. Dr. Celin Acharya
Molecular Biology Division, Bhabha Atomic Research Centre, Trombay, Mumbai, India
Dr. Adrian Whatmore
Head of Bacteriology, Animal & Plant Health Agency, Addlestone KT15 3NB, United Kingdom
Dr. Zheng Zhu
Department of Biochemistry, School of Medicine, Boston University, Boston, USA
Prof. Dr. Patrícia Melchionna Albuquerque
Chemical Engineering Department, School of Technology, Amazonas State University, UEA, Brazil
Prof. Dr. Yongfei Hu
State Key Laboratory of Animal Nutrition, College of Animal Science and Technology China Agricultural University, Beijing, China
Prof. Dr. Li-Jun Ma
University of Massachusetts Amherst, Biochemistry and Molecular Biology, Amherst, Massachusetts, USA
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Veeranoot Nissapatorn
School of Allied Health Sciences, Research Excellence Center for Innovation and Health Products, Walailak University, Nakhon Si Thammarat, Thailand
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Anna Psaroulaki
Unit of Food, Water and Environmental Microbiology; Laboratory of Clinical Microbiology and Microbial Pathogenesis; School of Medicine; University of Crete; Heraklion; Crete; Greece
Prof. Dr. Ghassan M Matar
Chairperson of Experimental Pathology, Immunology and Microbiology Department, American University of Beirut, Lebanon
Prof. Dr. hab. Jarosław Dziadek
Director of Institute of Medical Biology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Head of Laboratory of Mycobacteria, Łódź, Poland
Dr. Carolina S. Nodari
Enteric Bacterial Pathogens Unit, Institut Pasteur, Paris, France
Ass. Prof. Hassan Waseem
Dept. of Biotechnology, University of Sialkot, Pakistan
Prof. Dr. Gustavo Benaim
Laboratorio de Señalización Celular y Bioquímica de Parásitos. Instituto de Estudios Avanzados (IDEA) Caracas, Venezuela
Prof. Dr. Alexander S. Apt
Head Laboratory for Immunogenetics Central Research Institute for Tuberculosis, Moscow, Russia
Dr. Marjorie Pizarro-Guajardo
Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX, USA
Prof. Dr. Susan Bueno
Millennium Institute on Immunology and Immunotherapy, Departamento de Genética Molecular y Microbiología, Facultad de Ciencias Biológicas, Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile, Santiago, Chile
Prof. Dr. Albert Bordons
Departament de Bioquímica i Biotecnologia, Universitat Rovira i Virgili, Tarragona, Catalonia, Spain
Dr. Marios Mataragas
Department of Dairy Research, Institute of Technology of Agricultural Products, Hellenic Agricultural Organization “DEMETER”, Ethnikis Antistaseos 3, 45221 Ioannina, Greece
Prof. Dr. Miroslav Oborník
Institute of Parasitology Biology Centre CAS, České Budějovice, Czech Republic
Prof. Dr. Khaled A. Shaaban
Center for Pharmaceutical Research and Innovation, and Department of Pharmaceutical Sciences, College of Pharmacy, University of Kentucky, Lexington, Kentucky 40536, USA
Ass. Prof. Dr. Romy Razakandrainibe
Centre National de Référence -Laboratoire Expert-Cryptosporidioses, Laboratoire de Parasitologie-Mycologie, Rouen University Hospital, France
Prof. Dr. Valery M. Dembitsky
Centre for Applied Research, Innovation and Entrepreneurship, Lethbridge College, 3000 College Drive South Lethbridge, Canada
Prof. Dr. Teodor-D. Brumeanu
Department of Medicine; Division of Immunology; F. Edward Herbert School of Medicine; Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences; Bethesda, MD USA
Ass. Prof. Dr. Afroditi Chatzifragkou
Department of Food and Nutritional Sciences, School of Chemistry, Food and Pharmacy, University of Reading, Whiteknights Campus, Reading RG6 6AP, UK
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Todd R. Callaway
Department of Animal and Dairy Science, University of Georgia, 425 River Road, Athens, GA 30602, USA
Dr. Raquel Sabino
Infectious Diseases Department, National Health Institute Dr. Ricardo Jorge, 1649-016 Lisbon, Portugal
Dr. Tino Polen
Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, IBG-1: Biotechnology, Institute of Bio- and Geosciences, 52425 Jülich, Germany
Prof. Dr. Elena González-Fandos
Food Technology Department, Universidad de La Rioja, Logroño, La Rioja, Spain
Dr. Sofia Casares
US Military Malaria Vaccine Program, Naval Medical Research Center/Walter Reed Army Institute of Research, Silver Spring, MD, USA
Ass. Prof. Dr. Neža Čadež
Biotechnical Faculty, University of Ljubljana, Jamnikarjeva 101, Ljubljana, Slovenia
Dr. Eric Bapteste
Institut de Systématique, Evolution, Biodiversité (ISYEB), Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Museum National d'Histoire Naturelle, EPHE, Université des Antilles, F-75005 Paris, France
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zehava Eichenbaum
Department of Biology, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
Prof. Dr. Yashpal Singh Malik
College of Animal Biotechnology, Guru Angad Dev Veterinary and Animal Science University (GADVASU), Ludhiana 141004, Punjab, India
Dr. Ya Wang
Department of Biostatistics, Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, Harvard University, 655 Huntington Avenue, Boston, USA
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