Genomic perspectives on the evolution and spread of bacterial pathogens

SD Bentley, J Parkhill - … of the Royal Society B: Biological …, 2015 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Since the first complete sequencing of a free-living organism, Haemophilus influenzae,
genomics has been used to probe both the biology of bacterial pathogens and their …

Outbreak dynamics of foodborne pathogen Vibrio parahaemolyticus over a seventeen year period implies hidden reservoirs

C Yang, Y Li, M Jiang, L Wang, Y Jiang, L Hu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Controlling foodborne diseases requires robust outbreak detection and a comprehensive
understanding of outbreak dynamics. Here, by integrating large-scale phylogenomic …

[PDF][PDF] Emergence, ecology and dispersal of the pandemic generating Vibrio cholerae lineage

MT Islam, M Alam, Y Boucher - Int Microbiol, 2017 - core.ac.uk
Although cholera is an ancient disease that first arose at least half a millennium ago, it
remains a major health threat globally. Its pandemic form is caused by strains from a single …

Vibrio cholerae high cell density quorum sensing activates the host intestinal innate immune response

BE Jugder, JH Batista, JA Gibson, PM Cunningham… - Cell reports, 2022 - cell.com
Quorum sensing fundamentally alters the interaction of Vibrio cholerae with aquatic
environments, environmental hosts, and the human intestine. At high cell density, the …

FAVITES: simultaneous simulation of transmission networks, phylogenetic trees and sequences

N Moshiri, M Ragonnet-Cronin, JO Wertheim… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Motivation The ability to simulate epidemics as a function of model parameters allows
insights that are unobtainable from real datasets. Further, reconstructing transmission …

Activation of Vibrio cholerae quorum sensing promotes survival of an arthropod host

L Kamareddine, ACN Wong, AS Vanhove, S Hang… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Vibrio cholerae colonizes the human terminal ileum to cause cholera, and the arthropod
intestine and exoskeleton to persist in the aquatic environment. Attachment to these surfaces …

Toxigenic Vibrio cholerae evolution and establishment of reservoirs in aquatic ecosystems

C Mavian, TK Paisie, MT Alam… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - National Acad Sciences
The spread of cholera in the midst of an epidemic is largely driven by direct transmission
from person to person, although it is well-recognized that Vibrio cholerae is also capable of …

Phenotypic analysis reveals that the 2010 Haiti cholera epidemic is linked to a hypervirulent strain

KJF Satchell, CJ Jones, J Wong, J Queen… - Infection and …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
ABSTRACT Vibrio cholerae O1 El Tor strains have been responsible for pandemic cholera
since 1961. These strains have evolved over time, spreading globally in three separate …

A globally distributed mobile genetic element inhibits natural transformation of Vibrio cholerae

AB Dalia, KD Seed, SB Calderwood… - Proceedings of the …, 2015 - National Acad Sciences
Natural transformation is one mechanism of horizontal gene transfer (HGT) in Vibrio
cholerae, the causative agent of cholera. Recently, it was found that V. cholerae isolates …

The impact of selection, gene conversion, and biased sampling on the assessment of microbial demography

M Lapierre, C Blin, A Lambert, G Achaz… - … biology and evolution, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Recent studies have linked demographic changes and epidemiological patterns in bacterial
populations using coalescent-based approaches. We identified 26 studies using skyline …