How old are bacterial pathogens?

Historical Y. pestis Genomes Reveal the European Black Death as the Source of Ancient and Modern Plague Pandemics

(2016) Maria A. Spyrou et al.   Cell Host & Microbe

The 5300-year-old Helicobacter pylori genome of the Iceman

(2016) F. Maixner et al.   SCIENCE

Eighteenth century Yersinia pestis genomes reveal the long-term persistence of an historical plague focus

(2016) Kirsten I Bos et al.   eLife

Genotyping Yersinia pestis in Historical Plague: Evidence for Long-Term Persistence of Y. pestis in Europe from the 14th to the 17th Century

(2016) Lisa Seifert et al.   PLoS One

Early Divergent Strains of Yersinia pestis in Eurasia 5,000 Years Ago

(2015) Simon Rasmussen et al.   CELL

Neolithic and Bronze Age migration to Ireland and establishment of the insular Atlantic genome

(2015) Lara M. Cassidy et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolutionary changes in the genome of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and the human genome from 9000 years BP until modern times

(2015) Mark Spigelman et al.   TUBERCULOSIS

Tuberculosis origin: The Neolithic scenario

(2015) Israel Hershkovitz et al.   TUBERCULOSIS

Eighteenth-century genomes show that mixed infections were common at time of peak tuberculosis in Europe

(2015) Gemma L. Kay et al.   Nature Communications

Yersinia pestis and the Plague of Justinian 541–543 AD: a genomic analysis

(2014) David M Wagner et al.   LANCET INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Pre-Columbian mycobacterial genomes reveal seals as a source of New World human tuberculosis

(2014) Kirsten I. Bos et al.   NATURE

Transient Darwinian selection in Salmonella enterica serovar Paratyphi A during 450 years of global spread of enteric fever

(2014) Z. Zhou et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Silencing urease: A key evolutionary step that facilitated the adaptation ofYersinia pestisto the flea-borne transmission route

(2014) Iman Chouikha et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Wet climate and transportation routes accelerate spread of human plague

(2014) L. Xu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

A mutation burst during the acute phase of Helicobacter pylori infection in humans and rhesus macaques

(2014) Bodo Linz et al.   Nature Communications

A genomic portrait of the emergence, evolution, and global spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pandemic

(2013) M. T. G. Holden et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Out-of-Africa migration and Neolithic coexpansion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis with modern humans

(2013) Iñaki Comas et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Genome-wide association study identifies vitamin B5 biosynthesis as a host specificity factor in Campylobacter

(2013) S. K. Sheppard et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genomic evolution and transmission ofHelicobacter pyloriin two South African families

(2013) Xavier Didelot et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Genome-Wide Comparison of Medieval and Modern Mycobacterium leprae

(2013) V. J. Schuenemann et al.   SCIENCE

A Decade of Plague in Mahajanga, Madagascar: Insights into the Global Maritime Spread of Pandemic Plague

(2013) A. J. Vogler et al.   mBio

Recent Acquisition of Helicobacter pylori by Baka Pygmies

(2013) Sandra Nell et al.   PLoS Genetics

Neutral Genomic Microevolution of a Recently Emerged Pathogen, Salmonella enterica Serovar Agona

(2013) Zhemin Zhou et al.   PLoS Genetics

Insights from genomic comparisons of genetically monomorphic bacterial pathogens

(2012) M. Achtman   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Yersinia pestis Lineages in Mongolia

(2012) Julia M. Riehm et al.   PLoS One

Historical variations in mutation rate in an epidemic pathogen, Yersinia pestis

(2012) Y. Cui et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Age of the Association between Helicobacter pylori and Man

(2012) Yoshan Moodley et al.   PLoS Pathogens

A draft genome of Yersinia pestis from victims of the Black Death

(2011) Kirsten I. Bos et al.   NATURE

Yersinia pestis genome sequencing identifies patterns of global phylogenetic diversity

(2010) Giovanna Morelli et al.   NATURE GENETICS

Microevolution of Helicobacter pylori during Prolonged Infection of Single Hosts and within Families

(2010) Giovanna Morelli et al.   PLoS Genetics

Distinct Clones of Yersinia pestis Caused the Black Death

(2010) Stephanie Haensch et al.   PLoS Pathogens

The spectrum of latent tuberculosis: rethinking the biology and intervention strategies

(2009) Clifton E. Barry et al.   NATURE REVIEWS MICROBIOLOGY

A precise reconstruction of the emergence and constrained radiations of Escherichia coli O157 portrayed by backbone concatenomic analysis

(2009) S. R. Leopold et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

The Peopling of the Pacific from a Bacterial Perspective

(2009) Y. Moodley et al.   SCIENCE

High Functional Diversity in Mycobacterium tuberculosis Driven by Genetic Drift and Human Demography

(2008) Ruth Hershberg et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Homelessness Is Not Just a Housing Problem

(2008)   PLOS MEDICINE