Hendra virus (HeV) and Nipah virus (NiV) emerged in the 1990s in Australia and Malaysia, respectively, as zoonotic agents that caused fatal outbreaks of respiratory and/or encephalitic illness amon...

Paramyxoviruses are a diverse family of non-segmented negative strand RNA viruses that include many important human, animal, and zoonotic pathogens. Despite their enormous importance, the nature of...

The golden era of food microbiology has begun. All three areas of food microbiology--beneficial, spoilage, and pathogenic microbiology--are expanding and progressing at an incredible pace. What was...