Publications

Historical zoonoses and other changes in host tropism of Staphylococcus aureus, identified by phylogenetic analysis of a population dataset.

Author(s): Shepheard MA, Fleming VM, Connor TR, Corander J, Feil EJ, Fraser C, Hanage WP|Journal: PLoS One|PMID: 23667472| May 2013

Staphylococcus aureus exhibits tropisms to many distinct animal hosts. While spillover events can occur wherever there is an interface between…

Streptococcus pneumoniae capsular serotype invasiveness correlates with the degree of factor H binding and opsonization with C3b/iC3b.

Author(s): Hyams C, Trzciński K, Camberlein E, Weinberger DM, Chimalapati S, Noursadeghi M, Lipsitch M, Brown JS|Journal: Infect Immun|PMID: 23147038| January 2013

Different capsular serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae vary markedly in their ability to cause invasive infection, but the reasons why are…

Comment on “Seroevidence for H5N1 influenza infections in humans: meta-analysis”.

Author(s): Van Kerkhove MD, Riley S, Lipsitch M, Guan Y, Monto AS, Webster RG, Zambon M, Nicoll A, Peiris JS, Ferguson NM|Journal: Science|PMID: 22723396| June 2012

A better understanding of the severity of H5N1 in humans is needed. Wang et al. (Brevia, 23 March 2012, p.…

High levels of recombination among Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from the Gambia.

Author(s): Donkor ES, Bishop CJ, Gould K, Hinds J, Antonio M, Wren B, Hanage WP|Journal: MBio|PMID: 21693638| June 2011

We carried out multilocus sequence typing (MLST) on 148 pneumococcal carriage isolates collected from children <24 months old in the…

HIV-1 transmitting couples have similar viral load set-points in Rakai, Uganda.

Author(s): Hollingsworth TD, Laeyendecker O, Shirreff G, Donnelly CA, Serwadda D, Wawer MJ, Kiwanuka N, Nalugoda F, Collinson-Streng A, Ssempijja V, Hanage WP, Quinn TC, Gray RH, Fraser C|Journal: PLoS Pathog|PMID: 20463808| May 2010

It has been hypothesized that HIV-1 viral load set-point is a surrogate measure of HIV-1 viral virulence, and that it…