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Martina Jelocnik
Researcher at University of the Sunshine Coast
Publications - 63
Citations - 973
Martina Jelocnik is an academic researcher from University of the Sunshine Coast. The author has contributed to research in topics: Chlamydia pecorum & Chlamydia psittaci. The author has an hindex of 16, co-authored 53 publications receiving 750 citations. Previous affiliations of Martina Jelocnik include Queensland University of Technology.
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Australian human and parrot Chlamydia psittaci strains cluster within the highly virulent 6BC clade of this important zoonotic pathogen.
TL;DR: Findings reveal the potential for an Australian natural reservoir of C. psittaci 6BC strains, which can be isolated from seriously ill patients without explicit psittacine contact and suggested to have been disseminated by South America parrot importation.
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Multilocus sequence analysis provides insights into molecular epidemiology of Chlamydia pecorum infections in Australian sheep, cattle, and koalas
TL;DR: The feasibility of the MLSA scheme for understanding the host relationship that exists between Australian C. pecorum strains and the first molecular epidemiological data on infections in Australian livestock hosts is demonstrated.
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Culture-Independent Genome Sequencing of Clinical Samples Reveals an Unexpected Heterogeneity of Infections by Chlamydia pecorum
Nathan L. Bachmann,Mitchell J. Sullivan,Martina Jelocnik,Garry S. A. Myers,Peter Timms,Adam Polkinghorne +5 more
TL;DR: Culture-independent probe-based genome capture and sequencing of clinical samples provides the strongest evidence yet to suggest that naturally occurring chlamydial infections are comprised of multiple genetically distinct strains.
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An epizootic of Chlamydia psittaci equine reproductive loss associated with suspected spillover from native Australian parrots.
Cheryl Jenkins,Martina Jelocnik,Melinda L. Micallef,Francesca Galea,Alyce Taylor-Brown,Daniel R. Bogema,Michael Liu,Brendon A. O’Rourke,Catherine Chicken,Joan Carrick,Adam Polkinghorne +10 more
TL;DR: The results of this work suggest that C. psittaci may be a more significant agent of equine reproductive loss than thought and a range of studies are now required to evaluate the exact role that the avian pathogen plays in equine Reproductive loss.
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Genetic diversity in the plasticity zone and the presence of the chlamydial plasmid differentiates Chlamydia pecorum strains from pigs, sheep, cattle, and koalas
Martina Jelocnik,Nathan L. Bachmann,Bernhard Kaltenboeck,Courtney A. Waugh,Lucy Woolford,K. N. Speight,Amber Gillett,Damien P. Higgins,Cheyne Flanagan,Garry S. A. Myers,Peter Timms,Adam Polkinghorne +11 more
TL;DR: This study sequenced the genome of three C. pecorum isolates from pigs with differing pathologies and identified a third copy of the chlamydial cytotoxin gene, found only in porcine C.Pecorum strains, which provides further insight into the complexity of C.pecorum epidemiology and novel genomic regions that may be linked to host specificity.