Putative novel cps loci in a large global collection of pneumococci

Fast and flexible bacterial genomic epidemiology with PopPUNK

(2019) John A. Lees et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

International genomic definition of pneumococcal lineages, to contextualise disease, antibiotic resistance and vaccine impact

(2019) Rebecca A. Gladstone et al.   EBioMedicine

A novel genetic variant of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 11A discovered in Fiji

(2018) S. Manna et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Rapid increase in non-vaccine serotypes causing invasive pneumococcal disease in England and Wales, 2000–17: a prospective national observational cohort study

(2018) Shamez N Ladhani et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Burden of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Haemophilus influenzae type b disease in children in the era of conjugate vaccines: global, regional, and national estimates for 2000–15

(2018) Brian Wahl et al.   Lancet Global Health

Discovery of a Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 33F capsular polysaccharide locus that lacks wcjE and contains a wcyO pseudogene

(2018) Sam Manna et al.   PLoS One

Pneumococcal 23B Molecular Subtype Identified Using Whole Genome Sequencing

(2017) Georgia Kapatai et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Discovery of Novel Pneumococcal Serotype 35D, a Natural WciG-Deficient Variant of Serotype 35B

(2017) K. Aaron Geno et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Pneumococcal Capsule Synthesis Locus cps as Evolutionary Hotspot with Potential to Generate Novel Serotypes by Recombination

(2017) Rafał J. Mostowy et al.   MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND EVOLUTION

Streptococcus pneumoniaecapsular polysaccharide is linked to peptidoglycan via a direct glycosidic bond to β-D-N-acetylglucosamine

(2017) Thomas R. Larson et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Comparative incidence dynamics and serotypes of meningitis, bacteremic pneumonia and other-IPD in young children in the PCV era: Insights from Israeli surveillance studies

(2017) Shalom Ben-Shimol et al.   VACCINE

Effect of high-valency pneumococcal conjugate vaccines on invasive pneumococcal disease in children in SpIDnet countries: an observational multicentre study

(2017) Camelia Savulescu et al.   Lancet Respiratory Medicine

Pneumococcus with the “6E”cpsLocus Produces Serotype 6B Capsular Polysaccharide

(2016) Robert L. Burton et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Pneumococcal Capsules and Their Types: Past, Present, and Future

(2015) K. Aaron Geno et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY REVIEWS

Global Phylogenomic Analysis of Nonencapsulated Streptococcus pneumoniae Reveals a Deep-Branching Classic Lineage That Is Distinct from Multiple Sporadic Lineages

(2014) Markus Hilty et al.   Genome Biology and Evolution

Chemical Structures of Streptococcus pneumoniae Capsular Polysaccharide Type 39 (CPS39), CPS47F, and CPS34 Characterized by Nuclear Magnetic Resonance Spectroscopy and Their Relation to CPS10A

(2014) C. A. Bush et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Streptococcus pneumoniaeSerotype 11D Has a Bispecific Glycosyltransferase and Expresses Two Different Capsular Polysaccharide Repeating Units

(2013) Melissa B. Oliver et al.   JOURNAL OF BIOLOGICAL CHEMISTRY

Population genomics of post-vaccine changes in pneumococcal epidemiology

(2013) Nicholas J Croucher et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Variation at the capsule locus, cps, of mistyped and non-typable Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates

(2012) S. J. Salter et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

Nontypeable Pneumococci Can Be Divided into Multiple cps Types, Including One Type Expressing the Novel Gene pspK

(2012) I. H. Park et al.   mBio

Capsules ofStreptococcus pneumoniaeand Other Bacteria: Paradigms for Polysaccharide Biosynthesis and Regulation

(2010) Janet Yother   Annual Review of Microbiology

A New Pneumococcal Serotype, 11E, Has a Variably InactivatedwcjEGene

(2010) Juan J. Calix et al.   JOURNAL OF INFECTIOUS DISEASES

FastTree 2 – Approximately Maximum-Likelihood Trees for Large Alignments

(2010) Morgan N. Price et al.   PLoS One

Evolution of MRSA During Hospital Transmission and Intercontinental Spread

(2010) S. R. Harris et al.   SCIENCE

The Sequence Alignment/Map format and SAMtools

(2009) H. Li et al.   BIOINFORMATICS

The Streptococcus pneumoniae Capsule Inhibits Complement Activity and Neutrophil Phagocytosis by Multiple Mechanisms

(2009) C. Hyams et al.   INFECTION AND IMMUNITY