1. Campylobacter Sophie J. Hedges and Frances M. Colles2. Clostridioides difficile
Eliane de Oliveira Ferreira and Gerly Anne de Castro Brito
3. Cronobacter
Marcelo L. L. Brandão and Stephan Forsythe
4. Oral and Intestinal Bacteroidetes
Marina C. Claros, Zaida C. Claros, Sareh Said Yekta-Michael, and Georg Conrads
5. Vibrio cholerae
Thandavarayan Ramamurthy, Asish K. Mukhopadhyay, Bhabatosh Das, Ranjan K. Nandy, Ankur Mutreja, and G. Balakrish Nair6. Acinetobacter baumannii
Dennis Nurjadi and Sébastien Boutin
7. EnterococcusLúcia M. Teixeira, Adriana R. Faria, Stephanie S. R. Souza and Vânia Lúcia C. Merquior
8. Pseudomonas aeruginosa
Junyan Liu, Ruirui Xu, Zerong Lu and Zhenbo Xu
9. Staphylococci
JoAnn M. McClure and Kunyan Zhang
10. Bartonellaceae
Joaquim Ruiz, Cláudia Gomes and Maria J.Pons
11. Brucella
Roland T. Ashford and Adrian M. Whatmore
12. Coxiella burnetii
Dimitrios Frangoulidis, Mathias C. Walter, Akinyemi M. Fasemore and Sally J. Cutler
About the Author: Dr. Ivano de Filippis is a Senior Researcher at Institute for Quality Control of the Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (FIOCRUZ) in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. His research field focuses on molecular diagnostic and epidemiology of bacterial and viral diseases and antibiotic resistance mechanisms of bacterial pathogens. Dr. de Filippis received his Ph.D. in Cellular and Molecular Biology from FIOCRUZ in 2005 and a postdoctoral degree at the National Institutes of Health (NIH), USA, with a two-years project on molecular epidemiology of meningococci from 2006 to 2008, with Dr. Rebecca D. Prevots and Dr. Margaret C. Bash. He is a permanent professor at the Post-Graduate Program of Health Surveillance at FIOCRUZ, tutoring national and international post-graduation students on several projects on bacterial meningitis, Sexually Transmitted Diseases and Covid-19 among others. Dr. de Filippis is currently the Research Coordinator at the Institute of Quality control at FIOCRUZ. He participate as a Brazilian consultant for the WHO initiative "Defeating Meningitis by 2030" and he holds a patent on rapid methods for bacterial meningitis diagnostic.
