Publications

Enterobacteriaceae isolated from patients share antibiotic resistance conferring plasmids recently acquired from those isolated from sinks in the same treatment room

Author(s): Taylor BP, Che Y, Passarelli H, Smollan G, Cohen C, Rapaport R, Tal I, Zade NP, Jaber H, Keller N, Hanage WP, Regev-Yochay G|Journal: bioRxiv| November 2022

Identifying how and where pathogens acquire antibiotic resistance is crucial to developing effective strategies to limit its spread. Many bacterial…

Reply to Partridge et al.: Complementary bioinformatics and experimental approaches to investigate the transfer of AMR genes.

Author(s): Che Y, Yang Y, Xu X, Břinda K, Polz MF, Hanage WP, Zhang T|Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A|PMID: 34453008| August 2021

Reply to Shaw: Challenges for enrichment analysis of AMR gene-bearing plasmids.

Author(s): Che Y, Yang Y, Xu X, Břinda K, Polz MF, Hanage WP, Zhang T|Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A|PMID: 33975908| May 2021

Conjugative plasmids interact with insertion sequences to shape the horizontal transfer of antimicrobial resistance genes.

Author(s): Che Y, Yang Y, Xu X, Břinda K, Polz MF, Hanage WP, Zhang T|Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A|PMID: 33526659| February 2021

It is well established that plasmids play an important role in the dissemination of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes; however, little…