Translational Infection Biology

Publications

Our research team and their collaborators have published a range of respected papers relating to bacterial phenomics. You can find links to some of them here:

Publications
Charbonneau ARL, Forman OP, Cain AK, Newland G, Robinson C, Boursnell M, Parkhill J, Leigh JA, Maskell DJ, Waller AS (2017) Defining the ABC of gene essentiality in streptococci. BMC Genomics. 18:426
Naqid IA, Owen JP, Maddison BC, Spiliotopoulos A, Emes RD, Warry A, Flynn RJ, Martelli F, Gosling RJ, Davies RH, La Ragione RM, Gough KC. (2016) Mapping B-cell responses to Salmonella enterica serovars Typhimurium and Enteritidis in chickens for the discrimination of infected from vaccinated animals. Sci Rep. 11;6:31186
Blanchard A, Egan SA, Emes RD & Leigh JA (2016) PIMMS (Pragmatic Insertional Mutation Mapping System) Laboratory Methodology a Readily Accessible Tool for Identification of Essential Genes in Streptococcus. Front Microbiol: 7: Article 1645
Günther J, Czabanska A, Bauer I, Holst O, Leigh J, Seyfert HM (2016) Streptococcus uberis strains isolated from the bovine mammary gland evade immune recognition by mammary epithelial cells, but not of macrophages. BMC Veterinary Research. 47: Article 13
Hossain M, Egan S A, Coffey T, Ward PN, Wilson R, Leigh JA & Emes RD (2015) Virulence related sequences; insights provided by comparative genomics of Streptococcus uberis of differing virulence. BMC Genomics 16: 1: 334
Blanchard A, Egan SA, Leigh JA & Emes RD (2015) Transposon insertion mapping with PIMMS Pragmatic Insertional Mutation Mapping System. Frontiers in Genetics. 6. Article:139
Egan SA, Ward PN, Watson M, Field TR and Leigh JA (2012) Vru (Sub0144) controls expression of proven and putative virulence determinants and alters the ability of Streptococcus uberis to cause disease in dairy cattle. Microbiology 158 1581-92
Leigh JA, Egan SA, Ward PN, Field TR and Coffey TJ (2010) Sortase anchored proteins of Streptococcus uberis play major roles in the pathogenesis of bovine mastitis in dairy cattle. Veterinary Research. 4;41(5):63
Egan S, Ward P, Kurian D, Hunt L and Leigh J (2010) Identification of Sortase Substrates in Streptococcus uberis; Evidence for an Additional Hexapeptide (LPXXXD) Sorting Motif. Journal of Proteome Research. 9 1088-1095
Ward PN, Holden MTG, Leigh JA, Lennard N, Bignell A, Barron A, Clark L, Quail MA, Woodward J, Barrell BG, Egan SA, Field TR, Maskell D, Kehoe M, Dowson CG, Chanter N, Whatmore AM, Bentley SD and Parkhill J (2008) Evidence for niche adaptation and virulence mechanisms in the genome of the bovine pathogen Streptococcus uberis. BMC Genomics 10 54

 

Translational Infection Biology

The University of Nottingham
School of Veterinary Medicine and Sciences
Sutton Bonington Campus
Nottingham, LE12 5RD

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Associate Professor Sabine Totemeyer


Dr Sharon Egan