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2013, 'SNP genotyping of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157: H7 isolates from China and genomic identity of the 1999 Xuzhou outbreak', Infection, Genetics and Evolution, 16, pp. 275 - 281, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2013.02.018
,2013, 'Molecular analysis of non-O1/non-O139 Vibrio cholerae isolated from hospitalised patients in China', BMC Microbiology, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-13-52
,2013, 'Isolation and genomic characterization of SfI, a serotype-converting bacteriophage of Shigella flexneri', BMC Microbiology, 13, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-13-39
,2013, 'An O Island 172 Encoded RNA Helicase Regulates the Motility of Escherichia coli O157:H7', PLoS ONE, 8, pp. Article number e64211, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0064211
,2013, 'Global Transcriptional and Phenotypic Analyses of Escherichia coli O157:H7 Strain Xuzhou21 and Its pO157_Sal Cured Mutant', PLoS ONE, 8, pp. Article numbere65466, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0065466
,2013, 'Identification of a divergent O-acetyltransferase gene oac1b from Shigella flexneri serotype 1b strains.', Emerging Microbes & Infections, 1, pp. 1 - 7, http://www.nature.com/emi/journal/v1/n9/full/emi201222a.html
,2013, 'O-antigen structure of Shigella flexneri serotype Yv and effect of the lpt-O gene variation on phosphoethanolamine modification of S. flexneri O-antigens', Glycobiology, 23, pp. 475 - 485, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/glycob/cws222
,2013, 'Structure of the O-antigen of a novel Shigella flexneri serotype, 1d (I: 7,8)', Carbohydrate Research, 373, pp. 93 - 96, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.carres.2013.03.015
,2012, '618 Gene Polymorphisms in Host-Adapted Helicobacter pylori: Loss of Type Four Secretion Functions Independent of the cag Pathogenicity Island', Gastroenterology, 142, pp. S - 121, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0016-5085(12)60458-2
,2012, 'A novel escherichia coli O157:H7 clone causing a major hemolytic uremic syndrome outbreak in China', PLoS ONE, 7, pp. e36144, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0036144
,2012, 'A novel plasmid-encoded serotype conversion mechanism through addition of phosphoethanolamine to the O-antigen of shigella flexneri.', PLoS ONE, 7, pp. e46095, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0046095
,2012, 'Emergence of a novel Shigella flexneri serotype 1d in China.', Diagnostic Microbiology and Infectious Disease, 74, pp. 316 - 319, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2012.06.022
,2012, 'Genetic diversity and molecular typing of Listeria monocytogenes in China.', BMC Microbiology, 12, pp. 1 - 9, http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/12/119
,2012, 'Genetic relationships of phage types and single nucleotide polymorphism typing of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium', Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 50, pp. 727 - 734, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01284-11
,2012, 'Investigation of the enteric pathogenic potential of oral campylobacter concisus strains isolated from patients with inflammatory bowel disease', PLoS One, 7(5), pp. 1 - 11, http://www.plosone.org/
,2012, 'Isolation and characterization of cytotoxic,aggregative Citrobacter freundii.', PLoS One, 7, pp. e33054, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033054
,2012, 'Multi-locus variable number tandem repeat analysis of 7th pandemic vibrio cholerae.', BMC Microbiology, 12, pp. 1 - 11, http://www.biomedcentral.com/1471-2180/12/82
,2012, 'Newly emerging clones of bordetella pertussis carrying prn2 and ptxP3 alleles implicated in Australian pertussis epidemic in 2008-2010', Journal of Infectious Diseases, 205, pp. 1220 - 1224, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/infdis/jis178
,2012, 'Selection and emergence of pertussis toxin promoter ptxP3 allele in the evolution of Bordetella pertussis', Infection Genetics and Evolution, 12, pp. 492 - 495, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2012.01.001
,2011, 'Bug breakfast in the Bulletin. Pertussis in NSW and its prevention in infants and children.', New South Wales public health bulletin, 22, pp. 236, http://dx.doi.org/10.1071/nb11032
,2011, 'Bug breakfast in the Bulletin. Pertussis in NSW and its prevention in infants and children.', NSW Public Health Bulletin, 22, pp. 236 - 236
,2011, 'Computational genome-wide analysis of phylogenetic profiles reveal potential virulence genes of Streptococcus agalactiae', PLoS One, 6, pp. e17964, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0017964
,2011, 'Development of a multiplex PCR assay targeting O-antigen modification genes for molecular serotyping of Shigella flexneri', Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 49, pp. 3766 - 3770, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.01259-11
,2011, 'Genesis of a novel Shigella flexneri serotype by sequential infection of serotype-converting bacteriophages SfX and SfI', BMC Microbiology, 11, pp. 269, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-11-269
,2011, 'Identification of genes and genomic islands correlated with high pathogenicity in Streptococcus suis using whole genome tiling microarrays', PLoS One, 6, pp. e17987, http://www.plosone.org/article/info%3Adoi/10.1371/journal.pone.0017987
,2011, 'Insight into evolution of Bordetella pertussis from comparative genomic analysis: Evidence of vaccine-driven selection', Molecular Biology and Evolution, 28, pp. 707 - 715, http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/molbev/msq245
,2011, 'PO157-Sal, a novel conjugative plasmid detected in outbreak isolates of Escherichia coli O157:H7', Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 49, pp. 1594 - 1597, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/JCM.02530-10
,2011, 'Population structure and evolution of pathogenicity of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis', Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 77, pp. 768 - 775, http://dx.doi.org/10.1128/AEM.01993-10
,2011, 'Rates of mutation and host transmission for an escherichia coli clone over 3 years', PLoS One, 6, pp. Article number e26907, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0026907
,2010, 'Bordetella pertussis clones identified by multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis', Emerging Infectious Diseases, 16, pp. 297 - 300
,2010, 'Conditions for the evolution of gene clusters in bacterial genomes.', PLoS Computational Biology, 6, pp. e1000672 - e1000672, http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pcbi.1000672
,2010, 'Derivation of Escherichia coli O157:H7 from its O55:H7 precursor', PLoS One, 5, pp. e8700
,2010, 'Emergence of a new multidrug-resistant serotype X variant in an epidemic clone of Shigella flexneri', Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 48, pp. 419 - 426
,2010, 'Evolution of seventh cholera pandemic and origin of 1991 epidemic, Latin America', Emerging Infectious Diseases, 16, pp. 1130 - 1132
,2010, 'Single nucleotide polymorphism typing of global Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi isolates by use of a hairpin primer real-time PCR assay', Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 48, pp. 3504 - 3509
,2009, 'In silico prioritisation of candidate genes for prokaryotic gene function discovery: an application of phylogenetic profiles.', BMC bioinformatics, 10, pp. 86 - 86, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2105-10-86
,2009, 'Multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi', Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 47, pp. 2369 - 2376
,2009, 'Population structure of Helicobacter pylori among ethnic groups in Malaysia: Recent acquisition of the bacterium by the Malay population', BMC Microbiology, 9, pp. 126, http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2180-9-126
,2009, 'Population structure, origins and evolution of major Salmonella enterica clones', Infection Genetics and Evolution, 9, pp. 996 - 1005
,2009, 'Rapid and accurate typing of Bordetella pertussis targeting genes encoding acellular vaccine antigens using real time PCR and High Resolution Melt analysis', Journal of Microbiological Methods, 77, pp. 326 - 329
,2009, 'WITHDRAWN: Population structure, origins and evolution of major Salmonella enterica clones', Infection, Genetics and Evolution, http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2009.02.004
,2008, 'A recalibrated molecular clock and independent origins for the cholera pandemic clones', PLoS One, 3, pp. 4053 - 4063
,2008, 'Genome-wide analysis of single nucleotide polymorphisms in Bordetella pertussis using comparative genomic sequencing', Research in Microbiology, 159, pp. 602 - 608
,2008, 'Importation of the major pilin TcpA gene and frequent recombination drive the divergence of the Vibrio pathogenicity island in Vibrio cholerae', FEMS Microbiology Letters, 289, pp. 210 - 218
,2007, 'Molecular markers with potential to replace phage typing for Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium', Journal of Microbiological Methods, 68, pp. 145 - 156
,2007, 'Single-Nucleotide-Polymorphism Typing and Genetic Relationships of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi Isolates', Journal of Clinical Microbiology, 45, pp. 3795 - 3801
,2007, 'The distribution of insertion sequences in the genome of Shigella flexneri strain 2457T', FEMS Microbiology Letters, 277, pp. 197 - 204
,2006, 'Adaptation of multilocus sequencing for studying variation within a major clone: Evolutionary relationships of Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium', Genetics, 172, pp. 743 - 750
,2006, 'Frequent recombination and low level of clonality within Salmonella enterica subspecies I', Microbiology, 152, pp. 1099 - 1108
,2006, 'Sex and virulence in Escherichia coli: an evolutionary perspective', Molecular Microbiology, 60, pp. 1136 - 1151
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