Investigating Anthrax-Associated Virulence Genes among Archival and Contemporary Bacillus cereus Group Genomes

Autor: Susanna J. Sabin, Cari A. Beesley, Chung K. Marston, Taylor K. Paisie, Christopher A. Gulvik, Gregory A. Sprenger, Jay E. Gee, Rita M. Traxler, Melissa E. Bell, John R. McQuiston, Zachary P. Weiner

Publikováno v: Pathogens, Vol 13, Iss 10, p 884 (2024)

Bacillus anthracis causes anthrax through virulence factors encoded on two plasmids. However, non-B. anthracis organisms within the closely related, environmentally ubiquitous Bacillus cereus group (BCG) may cause an anthrax-like disease in humans th

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Evolutionary dynamics and genomic features of the Elizabethkingia anophelis 2015 to 2016 Wisconsin outbreak strain

Autor: Amandine Perrin, Elise Larsonneur, Ainsley C. Nicholson, David J. Edwards, Kristin M. Gundlach, Anne M. Whitney, Christopher A. Gulvik, Melissa E. Bell, Olaya Rendueles, Jean Cury, Perrine Hugon, Dominique Clermont, Vincent Enouf, Vladimir Loparev, Phalasy Juieng, Timothy Monson, David Warshauer, Lina I. Elbadawi, Maroya Spalding Walters, Matthew B. Crist, Judith Noble-Wang, Gwen Borlaug, Eduardo P. C. Rocha, Alexis Criscuolo, Marie Touchon, Jeffrey P. Davis, Kathryn E. Holt, John R. McQuiston, Sylvain Brisse

Publikováno v: Nature Communications, Vol 8, Iss 1, Pp 1-12 (2017)

Elizabethkingia anophelis is an emerging pathogen of high antimicrobial resistance. Perrin and colleagues sequenced isolates of a 2015/2016 E. anophelis outbreak in Wisconsin and found substantial genetic diversity, accelerated evolutionary rate and

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Updated Review onNocardiaSpecies: 2006–2021

Autor: Rita M. Traxler, Melissa E. Bell, Brent Lasker, Brendan Headd, Wun-Ju Shieh, John R. McQuiston

Publikováno v: Clinical Microbiology Reviews. 35

This review serves as an update to the previousNocardiareview by Brown-Elliott et al. published in 2006 (B. A.

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https://doi.org/10.1128/cmr.00027-21

Division of the genus

Autor: Ainsley C, Nicholson, Christopher A, Gulvik, Anne M, Whitney, Ben W, Humrighouse, Melissa E, Bell, Barry, Holmes, Arnie G, Steigerwalt, Aaron, Villarma, Mili, Sheth, Dhwani, Batra, Lori A, Rowe, Mark, Burroughs, Jessica C, Pryor, Jean-François, Bernardet, Celia, Hugo, Peter, Kämpfer, Jeffrey D, Newman, John R, McQuiston

Publikováno v: International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology

The genus Chryseobacterium in the family Weeksellaceae is known to be polyphyletic. Amino acid identity (AAI) values were calculated from whole-genome sequences of species of the genus Chryseobacterium, and their distribution was found to be multi-mo

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https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/32735208

Fly reservoir associated with Wohlfahrtiimonas bacteremia in a human

Autor: Melissa E. Bell, Elizabeth A. Dykstra, Melissa Sixberry, Jesse Bonwitt, Kaye Eckmann, William A. Glover, Michael Leadon, Michael Tran

Publikováno v: Emerging infectious diseases, 2018, Vol.24(2), pp.370-373 [Peer Reviewed Journal]
Emerging Infectious Diseases
Emerging Infectious Diseases, Vol 24, Iss 2, Pp 370-373 (2018)

Wohlfahrtiimonas species bacteria were isolated from the bloodstream of a patient with septicemia and wound myiasis. Environmental investigations identified a Wohlfahrtiimonas sp. among insects in the Americas and in a previously undescribed vector,

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http://dro.dur.ac.uk/24073/