Bacterial genomes in epidemiology–present and future.

Author(s): Croucher NJ, Harris SR, Grad YH, Hanage WPJournal: Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol SciPMID: 23382424 February 2013
Sequence data are well established in the reconstruction of the phylogenetic and demographic scenarios that have given rise to outbreaks…

Rapid pneumococcal evolution in response to clinical interventions.

Author(s): Croucher NJ, Harris SR, Fraser C, Quail MA, Burton J, van der Linden M, McGee L, von Gottberg A, Song JH, Ko KS, Pichon B, Baker S, Parry CM, Lambertsen LM, Shahinas D, Pillai DR, Mitchell TJ, Dougan G, Tomasz A, Klugman KP, Parkhill J, Hanage WP, Bentley SDJournal: SciencePMID: 21273480 January 2011
Epidemiological studies of the naturally transformable bacterial pathogen Streptococcus pneumoniae have previously been confounded by high rates of recombination. Sequencing…