Author(s): Lehtinen S, Blanquart F, Croucher NJ, Turner P, Lipsitch M, Fraser C|Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A|PMID:28096340| January 2017
Understanding how changes in antibiotic consumption affect the prevalence of antibiotic resistance in bacterial pathogens is important for public health.…
Author(s): Croucher NJ, Campo JJ, Le TQ, Liang X, Bentley SD, Hanage WP, Lipsitch M|Journal: Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A|PMID:28053228| January 2017
Characterizing the immune response to pneumococcal proteins is critical in understanding this bacterium's epidemiology and vaccinology. Probing a custom-designed proteome…
Author(s): Croucher NJ, Finkelstein JA, Pelton SI, Parkhill J, Bentley SD, Lipsitch M, Hanage WP|Journal: Sci Data|PMID:26528397| October 2015
Streptococcus pneumoniae is common nasopharyngeal commensal bacterium and important human pathogen. Vaccines against a subset of pneumococcal antigenic diversity have…
Author(s): Croucher NJ, Kagedan L, Thompson CM, Parkhill J, Bentley SD, Finkelstein JA, Lipsitch M, Hanage WP|Journal: PLoS Genet|PMID:25826208| March 2015
Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates typically express one of over 90 immunologically distinguishable polysaccharide capsules (serotypes), which can be classified into "serogroups"…