Genus-wide Leptospira core genome multilocus sequence typing for strain taxonomy and global surveillance

Whole genome sequencing options for bacterial strain typing and epidemiologic analysis based on single nucleotide polymorphism versus gene-by-gene–based approaches

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Leptospira venezuelensis sp. nov., a new member of the intermediate group isolated from rodents, cattle and humans

(2018) Rafael Puche et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Potentially Pathogenic Leptospira Species Isolated from a Waterfall in Thailand

(2018) Somjit Chaiwattanarungruengpaisan et al.   JAPANESE JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Biodiversity of Environmental Leptospira: Improving Identification and Revisiting the Diagnosis

(2018) Roman Thibeaux et al.   Frontiers in Microbiology

Biogeography of Leptospira in wild animal communities inhabiting the insular ecosystem of the western Indian Ocean islands and neighboring Africa

(2018) Muriel Dietrich et al.   Emerging Microbes & Infections

Isolation of pathogenic Leptospira strains from naturally infected cattle in Uruguay reveals high serovar diversity, and uncovers a relevant risk for human leptospirosis

(2018) Leticia Zarantonelli et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Leptospira species molecular epidemiology in the genomic era

(2017) K. Caimi et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

Characterization of Leptospira species isolated from soil collected in Japan

(2017) Toshiyuki Masuzawa et al.   MICROBIOLOGY AND IMMUNOLOGY

Virulence of the zoonotic agent of leptospirosis: still terra incognita?

(2017) Mathieu Picardeau   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Prevalence and Diversity of Leptospires in Different Ecological Niches of Urban and Rural Areas of South Andaman Island

(2016) Chandan Lall et al.   MICROBES AND ENVIRONMENTS

Interactive tree of life (iTOL) v3: an online tool for the display and annotation of phylogenetic and other trees

(2016) Ivica Letunic et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

What Makes a Bacterial Species Pathogenic?:Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Genus Leptospira

(2016) Derrick E. Fouts et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Identification of Tenrec ecaudatus, a Wild Mammal Introduced to Mayotte Island, as a Reservoir of the Newly Identified Human Pathogenic Leptospira mayottensis

(2016) Erwan Lagadec et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Emerging Infectious Disease Implications of Invasive Mammalian Species: The Greater White-Toothed Shrew (Crocidura russula) Is Associated With a Novel Serovar of Pathogenic Leptospira in Ireland

(2016) Jarlath E. Nally et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Whole Genome Sequencing Allows Better Understanding of the Evolutionary History of Leptospira interrogans Serovar Hardjo

(2016) Alejandro Llanes et al.   PLoS One

Whole genome sequencing revealed host adaptation-focused genomic plasticity of pathogenic Leptospira

(2016) Yinghua Xu et al.   Scientific Reports

Genomic perspectives on the evolution and spread of bacterial pathogens

(2015) Stephen D. Bentley et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A Systematic Review of the Mortality from Untreated Leptospirosis

(2015) Andrew J. Taylor et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Global Morbidity and Mortality of Leptospirosis: A Systematic Review

(2015) Federico Costa et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

eCAMBer: efficient support for large-scale comparative analysis of multiple bacterial strains

(2014) Michal Wozniak et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Leptospira mayottensis sp. nov., a pathogenic species of the genus Leptospira isolated from humans

(2014) P. Bourhy et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

IQ-TREE: A Fast and Effective Stochastic Algorithm for Estimating Maximum-Likelihood Phylogenies

(2014) Lam-Tung Nguyen et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Leptospira Species in Floodwater during the 2011 Floods in the Bangkok Metropolitan Region, Thailand

(2013) Janjira Thaipadungpanit et al.   AMERICAN JOURNAL OF TROPICAL MEDICINE AND HYGIENE

Reassessment of MLST schemes for Leptospira spp. typing worldwide

(2013) Vanina Varni et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

MAFFT Multiple Sequence Alignment Software Version 7: Improvements in Performance and Usability

(2013) K. Katoh et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

MLST revisited: the gene-by-gene approach to bacterial genomics

(2013) Martin C. J. Maiden et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Risk Factors and Predictors of Severe Leptospirosis in New Caledonia

(2013) Sarah Tubiana et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Pathogenomic Inference of Virulence-Associated Genes in Leptospira interrogans

(2013) Jason S. Lehmann et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Serovar Diversity of Pathogenic Leptospira Circulating in the French West Indies

(2013) Pascale Bourhy et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Characterization of leptospira isolates from animals and humans: phylogenetic analysis identifies the prevalence of intermediate species in India

(2013) Vinayagamurthy Balamurugan et al.   SpringerPlus

Classification of Leptospira genomospecies 1, 3, 4 and 5 as Leptospira alstonii sp. nov., Leptospira vanthielii sp. nov., Leptospira terpstrae sp. nov. and Leptospira yanagawae sp. nov., respectively

(2012) L. Smythe et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Multilocus Sequence Typing of Total-Genome-Sequenced Bacteria

(2012) M. V. Larsen et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Multilocus Sequence Typing as a Replacement for Serotyping in Salmonella enterica

(2012) Mark Achtman et al.   PLoS Pathogens

BIGSdb: Scalable analysis of bacterial genome variation at the population level

(2011) Keith A Jolley et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Comparative proteogenomic analysis of the Leptospira interrogans virulence-attenuated strain IPAV against the pathogenic strain 56601

(2011) Yi Zhong et al.   CELL RESEARCH

Human Leptospira Isolates Circulating in Mayotte (Indian Ocean) Have Unique Serological and Molecular Features

(2011) P. Bourhy et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Adjusted Wallace Coefficient as a Measure of Congruence between Typing Methods

(2011) Ana Severiano et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Survey of Branch Support Methods Demonstrates Accuracy, Power, and Robustness of Fast Likelihood-based Approximation Schemes

(2011) Maria Anisimova et al.   SYSTEMATIC BIOLOGY

Comparison of Two Multilocus Sequence Based Genotyping Schemes for Leptospira Species

(2011) Ahmed Ahmed et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Prodigal: prokaryotic gene recognition and translation initiation site identification

(2010) Doug Hyatt et al.   BMC BIOINFORMATICS

Genetic Affinities within a Large Global Collection of Pathogenic Leptospira: Implications for Strain Identification and Molecular Epidemiology

(2010) Kishore Nalam et al.   PLoS One

Application and Validation of PFGE for Serovar Identification of Leptospira Clinical Isolates

(2010) Renee L. Galloway et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Isolation and Characterization of New Leptospira Genotypes from Patients in Mayotte (Indian Ocean)

(2010) Pascale Bourhy et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Multilocus Sequence Analysis for Typing Leptospira interrogans and Leptospira kirschneri

(2009) A. Leon et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Leptospira: the dawn of the molecular genetics era for an emerging zoonotic pathogen

(2009) Albert I. Ko et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

Shifting the genomic gold standard for the prokaryotic species definition

(2009) Michael Richter et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Leptospira wolffii sp. nov., isolated from a human with suspected leptospirosis in Thailand

(2008) A. T. Slack et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY

Genome Sequence of the Saprophyte Leptospira biflexa Provides Insights into the Evolution of Leptospira and the Pathogenesis of Leptospirosis

(2008) Mathieu Picardeau et al.   PLoS One

Human Leptospirosis Caused by a New, Antigenically Unique Leptospira Associated with a Rattus Species Reservoir in the Peruvian Amazon

(2008) Michael A. Matthias et al.   PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases