[HTML][HTML] Host genetics and infectious disease: new tools, insights and translational opportunities

AJ Kwok, A Mentzer, JC Knight - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2021 - nature.com
Understanding how human genetics influence infectious disease susceptibility offers the
opportunity for new insights into pathogenesis, potential drug targets, risk stratification …

Host–parasite co-evolution and its genomic signature

D Ebert, PD Fields - Nature Reviews Genetics, 2020 - nature.com
Studies in diverse biological systems have indicated that host–parasite co-evolution is
responsible for the extraordinary genetic diversity seen in some genomic regions, such as …

[HTML][HTML] International genomic definition of pneumococcal lineages, to contextualise disease, antibiotic resistance and vaccine impact

RA Gladstone, SW Lo, JA Lees, NJ Croucher… - …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Pneumococcal conjugate vaccines have reduced the incidence of invasive
pneumococcal disease, caused by vaccine serotypes, but non-vaccine-serotypes remain a …

[HTML][HTML] Malaria protection due to sickle haemoglobin depends on parasite genotype

G Band, EM Leffler, M Jallow, F Sisay-Joof, CM Ndila… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Host genetic factors can confer resistance against malaria, raising the question of whether
this has led to evolutionary adaptation of parasite populations. Here we searched for …

[HTML][HTML] Next-generation microbiology: from comparative genomics to gene function

CM Kobras, AK Fenton, SK Sheppard - Genome Biology, 2021 - Springer
Microbiology is at a turning point in its 120-year history. Widespread next-generation
sequencing has revealed genetic complexity among bacteria that could hardly have been …

[HTML][HTML] Acute bacterial meningitis

EC Wall, JM Chan, E Gil… - Current Opinion in …, 2021 - journals.lww.com
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Improved prediction of bacterial genotype-phenotype associations using interpretable pangenome-spanning regressions

JA Lees, TT Mai, M Galardini, NE Wheeler… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Discovery of genetic variants underlying bacterial phenotypes and the prediction of
phenotypes such as antibiotic resistance are fundamental tasks in bacterial genomics …

Community-acquired bacterial meningitis

D van de Beek, MC Brouwer, U Koedel, EC Wall - The Lancet, 2021 - thelancet.com
Progress has been made in the prevention and treatment of community-acquired bacterial
meningitis during the past three decades but the burden of the disease remains high …

[HTML][HTML] Genome wide association study of Escherichia coli bloodstream infection isolates identifies genetic determinants for the portal of entry but not fatal outcome

E Denamur, B Condamine, M Esposito-Farèse… - PLoS …, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Escherichia coli is an important cause of bloodstream infections (BSI), which is of concern
given its high mortality and increasing worldwide prevalence. Finding bacterial genetic …

[HTML][HTML] Current affairs of microbial genome-wide association studies: approaches, bottlenecks and analytical pitfalls

JE San, S Baichoo, A Kanzi, Y Moosa… - Frontiers in …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Microbial genome-wide association studies (mGWAS) are a new and exciting research field
that is adapting human GWAS methods to understand how variations in microbial genomes …