James M. Musser

TL;DR: Analysis of 3,615 genome sequences permitted us to delineate the nature and timing of molecular events that contributed to an ongoing global human epidemic of infections caused by group A Streptococcus, the “flesh-eating” pathogen, and resolve a decades-long controversy about the type and sequence of genomic alterations that produced this explosive epidemic.

TL;DR: Bordetella pertussis 18-323, which is used in mouse potency tests of vaccines, is more similar genetically to isolates of B. bronchiseptica and B. parapertussis than to other isolates currently assigned to the species B. pertussi.

TL;DR: In this paper, a multilocus enzyme electrophoresis was employed to measure chromosomal genotypic diversity and evolutionary relationships among 761 isolates of the serovars Salmonella typhi, S. sendai and S. paratyphi B, respectively, but cause gastroenteritis in both humans and animals.

TL;DR: Administration of convalescent plasma is a safe treatment option for those with severe COVID-19 disease, and whole genome sequencing data did not identify a strain genotype-disease severity correlation.

TL;DR: The analysis suggests that the present distribution of clones is, in part, related to patterns of racial or ethnic differentiation and historical demographic movements of the human host populations.