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): Li Y, Croucher NJ, Thompson CM, Trzciński K, Hanage WP, Lipsitch M|Journal: BMC Genomics|PMID:25956132| May 2015
Understanding genetic determinants of a microbial phenotype generally involves creating and comparing isogenic strains differing at the locus of interest,…
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"…
Author(s): Russell CA, Kasson PM, Donis RO, Riley S, Dunbar J, Rambaut A, Asher J, Burke S, Davis CT, Garten RJ, Gnanakaran S, Hay SI, Herfst S, Lewis NS, Lloyd-Smith JO, Macken CA, Maurer-Stroh S, Neuhaus E, Parrish CR, Pepin KM, Shepard SS, Smith DL, Suarez DL, Trock SC, Widdowson MA, George DB, Lipsitch M, Bloom JD|Journal: Elife|PMID:25321142| October 2014
Assessing the pandemic risk posed by specific non-human influenza A viruses is an important goal in public health research. As…