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 …

Different evolutionary trends form the twilight zone of the bacterial pan-genome

G Horesh, A Taylor-Brown, S McGimpsey… - Microbial …, 2021 - microbiologyresearch.org
The pan-genome is defined as the combined set of all genes in the gene pool of a species.
Pan-genome analyses have been very useful in hel** to understand different evolutionary …

Genomic characteristics of recently recognized Vibrio cholerae El Tor lineages associated with cholera in Bangladesh, 1991 to 2017

MM Monir, T Hossain, M Morita, M Ohnishi… - Microbiology …, 2022 - journals.asm.org
Comparative genomic analysis of Vibrio cholerae El Tor associated with endemic cholera in
Asia revealed two distinct lineages, one dominant in Bangladesh and the other in India. An …

Population genomics of Streptococcus mitis in UK and Ireland bloodstream infection and infective endocarditis cases

A Kalizang'oma, D Richard… - Nature …, 2024 - nature.com
Streptococcus mitis is a leading cause of infective endocarditis (IE). However, our
understanding of the genomic epidemiology and pathogenicity of IE-associated S. mitis is …

Forecasting Staphylococcus aureus infections using genome-wide association studies, machine learning, and transcriptomic approaches

M Sassi, J Bronsard, G Pascreau, M Emily, PY Donnio… - Msystems, 2022 - journals.asm.org
Staphylococcus aureus is a major human and animal pathogen, colonizing diverse
ecological niches within its hosts. Predicting whether an isolate will infect a specific host and …

Comparative genomic analyses of Lactococcus garvieae isolated from bovine mastitis in China

Y Lin, J Han, HW Barkema, Y Wang, J Gao… - Microbiology …, 2023 - journals.asm.org
Lactococcus garvieae is an emerging zoonotic pathogen, but there are few reports
regarding bovine mastitis. The prevalence of L. garvieae represents an increasing disease …

Evo‐Scope: Fully automated assessment of correlated evolution on phylogenetic trees

M Godfroid, C Coluzzi, A Lambert… - Methods in Ecology …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Correlated evolution describes how multiple biological traits evolve together. Recently
developed methods provide increasingly detailed results of correlated evolution, sometimes …

The Streptococcus agalactiae LytSR two-component regulatory system promotes vaginal colonization and virulence in vivo

H AlQadeeb, M Baltazar, A Cazares… - Microbiology …, 2024 - journals.asm.org
Streptococcus agalactiae (or group B Streptococcus, GBS) is a leading cause of neonatal
sepsis and meningitis globally. To sense and respond to variations in its environment, GBS …

Streptococcus agalactiae strains isolated from cancer patients in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

G de Figueiredo Sanches, PS Lannes-Costa… - Brazilian Journal of …, 2021 - Springer
Streptococcus agalactiae is a recognized pathogen associated with infections in neonates,
elderly, and immunocompromised adults, particularly those with cancer. In the present …

Genes associated with fitness and disease severity in the pan-genome of mastitis-associated Escherichia coli

MA Olson, C Cullimore, WD Hutchison… - Frontiers in …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
Introduction Bovine mastitis caused by Escherichia coli compromises animal health and
inflicts substantial product losses in dairy farming. It may manifest as subclinical through …