Sugar-coated killer: serotype 3 pneumococcal disease

JN Luck, H Tettelin, CJ Orihuela - Frontiers in Cellular and Infection …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Capsular polysaccharide (CPS), which surrounds the bacteria, is one of the most significant
and multifaceted contributors to Streptococcus pneumoniae virulence. Capsule prevents …

Producing polished prokaryotic pangenomes with the Panaroo pipeline

G Tonkin-Hill, N MacAlasdair, C Ruis, A Weimann… - Genome biology, 2020 - Springer
Population-level comparisons of prokaryotic genomes must take into account the substantial
differences in gene content resulting from horizontal gene transfer, gene duplication and …

Pneumococcal surface proteins as virulence factors, immunogens, and conserved vaccine targets

J Aceil, FY Avci - Frontiers in cellular and infection microbiology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Streptococcus pneumoniae is an opportunistic pathogen that causes over 1 million deaths
annually despite the availability of several multivalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccines …

Pneumococcal lineages associated with serotype replacement and antibiotic resistance in childhood invasive pneumococcal disease in the post-PCV13 era: an …

SW Lo, RA Gladstone, AJ Van Tonder… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2019 - thelancet.com
Background Invasive pneumococcal disease remains an important health priority owing to
increasing disease incidence caused by pneumococci expressing non-vaccine serotypes …

A bacterial pan-genome makes gene essentiality strain-dependent and evolvable

F Rosconi, E Rudmann, J Li, D Surujon, J Anthony… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Many bacterial species are represented by a pan-genome, whose genetic repertoire far
outstrips that of any single bacterial genome. Here we investigate how a bacterial pan …

Pneumococcal within-host diversity during colonization, transmission and treatment

G Tonkin-Hill, C Ling, C Chaguza, SJ Salter… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Characterizing the genetic diversity of pathogens within the host promises to greatly improve
surveillance and reconstruction of transmission chains. For bacteria, it also informs our …

Effect of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines and SARS-CoV-2 on antimicrobial resistance and the emergence of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes with reduced …

J Sempere, M Llamosí, BL Ruiz, I Del Rio… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Epidemiological studies are necessary to explore the effect of current
pneumococcal conjugate vaccines (PCVs) against antibiotic resistance, including the rise of …

The metabolic, virulence and antimicrobial resistance profiles of colonising Streptococcus pneumoniae shift after PCV13 introduction in urban Malawi

U Obolski, TD Swarthout, A Kalizang'oma… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Streptococcus pneumoniae causes substantial mortality among children under 5-years-old
worldwide. Polysaccharide conjugate vaccines (PCVs) are highly effective at reducing …

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 …

Proton motive force disruptors block bacterial competence and horizontal gene transfer

A Domenech, AR Brochado, V Sender, K Hentrich… - Cell host & …, 2020 - cell.com
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a commensal of the human nasopharynx that can also cause
severe antibiotic-resistant infections. Antibiotics drive the spread of resistance by inducing S …