Author(s): Jacobs JH, Viboud C, Tchetgen ET, Schwartz J, Steiner C, Simonsen L, Lipsitch M|Journal: PLoS One|PMID:25265409| September 2014
Prior influenza infection is a risk factor for invasive meningococcal disease. Quantifying the fraction of meningococcal disease attributable to influenza…
Author(s): Coleman BI, Skillman KM, Jiang RHY, Childs LM, Altenhofen LM, Ganter M, Leung Y, Goldowitz I, Kafsack BFC, Marti M, Llinás M, Buckee CO, Duraisingh MT|Journal: Cell Host Microbe|PMID:25121747| August 2014
The asexual forms of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum are adapted for chronic persistence in human red blood cells, continuously…
Traditional genetic association studies are very difficult in bacteria, as the generally limited recombination leads to large linked haplotype blocks,…
Author(s): Grad YH, Newman R, Zody M, Yang X, Murphy R, Qu J, Malboeuf CM, Levin JZ, Lipsitch M, DeVincenzo J|Journal: J Virol|PMID:24741088| July 2014
Human respiratory syncytial virus (RSV) is the leading cause of lower respiratory tract disease in infants and young children and…
Author(s): Li Y, Thompson CM, Lipsitch M|Journal: PLoS One|PMID:24959661| June 2014
The Janus cassette permits marker-free allelic replacement or knockout in streptomycin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae (pneumococcus) through sequential positive and negative selection.…
Author(s): Croucher NJ, Hanage WP, Harris SR, McGee L, van der Linden M, de Lencastre H, Sá-Leão R, Song JH, Ko KS, Beall B, Klugman KP, Parkhill J, Tomasz A, Kristinsson KG, Bentley SD|Journal: BMC Biol|PMID:24957517| June 2014
Pneumococcal β-lactam resistance was first detected in Iceland in the late 1980s, and subsequently peaked at almost 25% of clinical…