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 …

Phylogenetics of a fungal invasion: origins and widespread dispersal of white-nose syndrome

KP Drees, JM Lorch, SJ Puechmaille, KL Parise… - MBio, 2017 - Am Soc Microbiol
Globalization has facilitated the worldwide movement and introduction of pathogens, but
epizoological reconstructions of these invasions are often hindered by limited sampling and …

Analysis of SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology reveals disease transmission coupled to variant emergence and allelic variation

DJDR Bandoy, BC Weimer - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
The spread of SARS-CoV-2 created a pandemic crisis with> 150,000 cumulative cases in>
65 countries within a few months. The reproductive number (R) is a metric to estimate the …

Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi in Bangladesh: Exploration of Genomic Diversity and Antimicrobial Resistance

AM Tanmoy, E Westeel, K De Bruyne, J Goris… - MBio, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Typhoid fever, caused by Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi, is a global public health
concern due to increasing antimicrobial resistance (AMR). Characterization of S. Typhi …

A Bacillus anthracis genome sequence from the Sverdlovsk 1979 autopsy specimens

JW Sahl, T Pearson, R Okinaka, JM Schupp, JD Gillece… - MBio, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Anthrax is a zoonotic disease that occurs naturally in wild and domestic animals but has
been used by both state-sponsored programs and terrorists as a biological weapon. A …

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 …

Defining endemic cholera at three levels of spatiotemporal resolution within Bangladesh

D Domman, F Chowdhury, AI Khan, MJ Dorman… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Although much focus is placed on cholera epidemics, the greatest burden occurs in settings
in which cholera is endemic, including areas of South Asia, Africa and now Haiti,. Dhaka …

A Vibrio cholerae core genome multilocus sequence typing scheme to facilitate the epidemiological study of cholera

KYH Liang, FD Orata, MT Islam, T Nasreen… - Journal of …, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Core genome multilocus sequence typing (cgMLST) has gained popularity in recent years in
epidemiological research and subspecies-level classification. cgMLST retains the intuitive …

Phylogenetic diversity of Vibrio cholerae associated with endemic cholera in Mexico from 1991 to 2008

SY Choi, SM Rashed, NA Hasan, M Alam, T Islam… - MBio, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
An outbreak of cholera occurred in 1991 in Mexico, where it had not been reported for more
than a century and is now endemic. Vibrio cholerae O1 prototype El Tor and classical strains …

Cholera disease dynamics with vaccination control using delay differential equation

JP Singh, S Kumar, A Akgül, MK Hassani - Scientific Reports, 2024 - nature.com
The COVID-19 pandemic came with many setbacks, be it to a country's economy or the
global missions of organizations like WHO, UNICEF or GTFCC. One of the setbacks is the …