The current perception of the autochthonous microbial diversity present in bottled natural mineral waters (NMW) sold in Europe is based mainly on traditional culture-dependent methods. In order to ret
Correlation of climate and infectious disease has been noted for millennia and recorded in the writings of Hippocrates. Given recent technological advances in both pathogen detection and monitoring of
The fate of antibiotic resistance genes (ARGs) in environmental microbial communities is of primary concern as prodromal of a potential transfer to pathogenic bacteria. Although of diverse origin, the
