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): Goldstein E, Greene SK, Olson DR, Hanage WP, Lipsitch M|Journal: Influenza Other Respir Viruses|PMID:25980600| September 2015
Hospitalization burden associated with influenza and respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is uncertain due to ambiguity in the inference methodologies employed…
Author(s): Dallman TJ, Byrne L, Ashton PM, Cowley LA, Perry NT, Adak G, Petrovska L, Ellis RJ, Elson R, Underwood A, Green J, Hanage WP, Jenkins C, Grant K, Wain J|Journal: Clin Infect Dis|PMID:25888672| August 2015
National surveillance of gastrointestinal pathogens, such as Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157 (STEC O157), is key to rapidly identifying linked…
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): Méric G, Miragaia M, de Been M, Yahara K, Pascoe B, Mageiros L, Mikhail J, Harris LG, Wilkinson TS, Rolo J, Lamble S, Bray JE, Jolley KA, Hanage WP, Bowden R, Maiden MC, Mack D, de Lencastre H, Feil EJ, Corander J, Sheppard SK|Journal: Genome Biol Evol|PMID:25888688| April 2015
The opportunistic pathogens Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis represent major causes of severe nosocomial infection, and are associated with high…
