Current status of pan-genome analysis for pathogenic bacteria

Y Kim, C Gu, HU Kim, SY Lee - Current opinion in biotechnology, 2020 - Elsevier
Highlights•Wealth of genome data are making pan-genome analysis increasingly
possible.•Pan-genome analysis is an effective approach to understand pathogenic …

[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 …

Diversification of colonization factors in a multidrug-resistant Escherichia coli lineage evolving under negative frequency-dependent selection

A McNally, T Kallonen, C Connor, K Abudahab… - MBio, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Escherichia coli is a major cause of bloodstream and urinary tract infections globally. The
wide dissemination of multidrug-resistant (MDR) strains of extraintestinal pathogenic E. coli …

[HTML][HTML] Puzzling over the pneumococcal pangenome

NL Hiller, R Sá-Leão - Frontiers in microbiology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
The Gram positive bacterium Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) is a major human
pathogen. It is a common colonizer of the human host, and in the nasopharynx, sinus, and …

[HTML][HTML] Global emergence and population dynamics of divergent serotype 3 CC180 pneumococci

T Azarian, PK Mitchell, M Georgieva… - PLoS …, 2018 - journals.plos.org
Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 3 remains a significant cause of morbidity and mortality
worldwide, despite inclusion in the 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) …

Pneumococcal serotype trends, surveillance and risk factors in UK adult pneumonia, 2013–18

H Pick, P Daniel, C Rodrigo, T Bewick, D Ashton… - Thorax, 2020 - thorax.bmj.com
Background Changes over the last 5 years (2013–18) in the serotypes implicated in adult
pneumococcal pneumonia and the patient groups associated with vaccine-type disease are …

[HTML][HTML] Bacterial factors required for transmission of Streptococcus pneumoniae in mammalian hosts

HM Rowe, E Karlsson, H Echlin, TC Chang, L Wang… - Cell host & …, 2019 - cell.com
The capacity of Streptococcus pneumoniae to successfully transmit and colonize new
human hosts is a critical aspect of pneumococcal population biology and a prerequisite for …

[HTML][HTML] Frequency-dependent selection can forecast evolution in Streptococcus pneumoniae

T Azarian, PP Martinez, BJ Arnold, X Qiu, LR Grant… - PLoS …, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Predicting how pathogen populations will change over time is challenging. Such has been
the case with Streptococcus pneumoniae, an important human pathogen, and the …

Prediction of post-PCV13 pneumococcal evolution using invasive disease data enhanced by inverse-invasiveness weighting

X Qiu, L McGee, LL Hammitt, LR Grant, KL O'Brien… - mBio, 2024 - journals.asm.org
After introducing pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs), serotype replacement occurred
in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Predicting which pneumococcal strains will become common …

Pneumococcal quorum sensing drives an asymmetric owner–intruder competitive strategy during carriage via the competence regulon

P Shen, JA Lees, GCW Bee, SP Brown… - Nature microbiology, 2019 - nature.com
Competition among microorganisms is a key determinant of successful host colonization
and persistence. For Streptococcus pneumoniae, lower than predicted rates of co-colonizing …