The population genetics of pathogenic Escherichia coli

E Denamur, O Clermont, S Bonacorsi… - Nature Reviews …, 2021 - nature.com
Escherichia coli is a commensal of the vertebrate gut that is increasingly involved in various
intestinal and extra-intestinal infections as an opportunistic pathogen. Numerous pathotypes …

The EnteroBase user's guide, with case studies on Salmonella transmissions, Yersinia pestis phylogeny, and Escherichia core genomic diversity

Z Zhou, NF Alikhan, K Mohamed, Y Fan… - Genome …, 2020 - genome.cshlp.org
EnteroBase is an integrated software environment that supports the identification of global
population structures within several bacterial genera that include pathogens. Here, we …

Escherichia coli Sequence Type 410 Is Causing New International High-Risk Clones

L Roer, S Overballe-Petersen, F Hansen, K Schønning… - Msphere, 2018 - Am Soc Microbiol
Escherichia coli sequence type 410 (ST410) has been reported worldwide as an
extraintestinal pathogen associated with resistance to fluoroquinolones, third-generation …

Structural and functional characterization of the FimH adhesin of uropathogenic Escherichia coli and its novel applications

N Foroogh, M Rezvan, K Ahmad, S Mahmood - Microbial pathogenesis, 2021 - Elsevier
Type 1 fimbriae are responsible for bacterial pathogenicity and biofilm production, which are
important virulence factors in uropathogenic Escherichia coli strains. Many articles are …

TORMES: an automated pipeline for whole bacterial genome analysis

NM Quijada, D Rodríguez-Lázaro, JM Eiros… - …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Motivation The progress of High Throughput Sequencing (HTS) technologies and
the reduction in the sequencing costs are such that Whole Genome Sequencing (WGS) …

Emergence and dissemination of antimicrobial resistance in Escherichia coli causing bloodstream infections in Norway in 2002–17: a nationwide, longitudinal …

RA Gladstone, A McNally, AK Pöntinen… - The Lancet …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background The clonal diversity underpinning trends in multidrug resistant Escherichia coli
causing bloodstream infections remains uncertain. We aimed to determine the contribution …

Horizontally acquired papGII-containing pathogenicity islands underlie the emergence of invasive uropathogenic Escherichia coli lineages

M Biggel, BB Xavier, JR Johnson, KL Nielsen… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Escherichia coli is the leading cause of urinary tract infection, one of the most common
bacterial infections in humans. Despite this, a genomic perspective is lacking regarding the …

Hospital and community wastewater as a source of multidrug-resistant ESBL-producing Escherichia coli

L Davidova-Gerzova, J Lausova, I Sukkar… - Frontiers in Cellular …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Hospitals and wastewater are recognized hot spots for the selection and
dissemination of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to the environment, but the total participation of …

Epistatic interactions between the high pathogenicity island and other iron uptake systems shape Escherichia coli extra-intestinal virulence

G Royer, O Clermont, J Marin, B Condamine… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
The intrinsic virulence of extra-intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli is associated with
numerous chromosomal and/or plasmid-borne genes, encoding diverse functions such as …

Phage therapy related microbial succession associated with successful clinical outcome for a recurrent urinary tract infection

A Terwilliger, J Clark, M Karris, H Hernandez-Santos… - Viruses, 2021 - mdpi.com
We rationally designed a bacteriophage cocktail to treat a 56-year-old male liver transplant
patient with complex, recurrent prostate and urinary tract infections caused by an extended …