Ecological diversification reveals routes of pathogen emergence in endemic Vibrio vulnificus populations
López-Pérez et al. PNAS. 2021
Vibrio cholerae: an opportunist of human crises
T-A Grant, D. Balasubramanian, S. Almagro-Moreno. Journal of Medical Microbiology. 2021
Cholera dynamics: lessons from an epidemic
Balasubramanian et al. Journal of Medical Microbiology. 2021
Dysbiosis in marine aquaculture revealed through microbiome analysis: reverse ecology for environmental sustainability
J. M. Haro-Moreno, F. H. Coutinho, A. Zaragoza-Solas, A. Picazo, S. Almagro-Moreno, M. López-Pérez. FEMS Microbiology Ecology. 2020
Improved method for transformation of Vibrio vulnificus by electroporation
J. M. Jayakumar, O. H. Shapiro, S. Almagro-Moreno. Current Protocols in Microbiology. 2020
Synergistic role of abiotic factors driving viable but non-culturable Vibrio cholerae
J. M. Jayakumar, D. Balasubramanian, G. Reddi, S. Almagro-Moreno. Environmental Microbiology Reports. 2020
Direct transmission via households informs models of disease and intervention dynamics in cholera
V. A. Meszaros, M. D. Miller-Dickson, F. Baffour-Awuah Junior, S. Almagro-Moreno, C. B. Ogbunugafor. PLoS One. 2020
Hepatitis C virus modelled as an indirectly transmitted infection highlights the centrality of injection drug equipment in disease dynamics
M. D. Miller-Dickson, V. A. Meszaros, S. Almagro-Moreno, C. B. Ogbunugafor. Journal of the Royal Society Interface. 2019
Evolutionary model of cluster divergence of the emergent marine pathogen Vibrio vulnificus
Lopez-Perez et al. mBio. 2019
Waterborne, abiotic and other indirectly transmitted (W.A.I.T.) infections are defined by the dynamics of free-living pathogens and environmental reservoirs
M. Miller-Dickson, V.A. Meszaros, F. Baffour-Awuah, S. Almagro-Moreno, and B. Ogbunugafor. BioRxiv. 2019
Catabolism of mucus components influences motility of Vibrio cholerae in the presence of environmental reservoirs
G. Reddi, K. Pruss, K. Cottingham, R. K. Taylor, and S. Almagro-Moreno. PLoS One. 2018
Environmental role of pathogenic traits in Vibrio cholerae
S. N. Sakib, G. Reddi, and S. Almagro-Moreno. Journal of Bacteriology. 2018
Bile salts and alkaline pH reciprocally modulate the interaction between the periplasmic domains of Vibrio cholerae ToxR and ToxS
C. R. Midgett, S. Almagro-Moreno, M. Pellegrini, R. K. Taylor, K. Skorupski, and F. J. Kull. Molecular Microbiology. 2017
Origins of pandemic Vibrio cholerae from environmental gene pools
Shapiro et al. Nature Microbiology. 2016
Role of ToxS in the proteolytic cascade of virulence regulator ToxR in Vibrio cholerae
S. Almagro-Moreno, M. Z. Root, and R. K. Taylor. Molecular Microbiology. 2015
Host-like carbohydrates promote bloodstream survival of Vibrio vulnificus in vivo
S. J. Lubin, W. G. Lewis, N. M. Gilbert, S. Almagro-Moreno, E. F. Boyd, and A. L. Lewis. Infection and Immunity. 2015
Intestinal colonization dynamics of Vibrio cholerae
S. Almagro-Moreno, K. Pruss, and R. K. Taylor. PLoS Pathogens. 2015
Proteolysis of virulence regulator ToxR is associated with entry of Vibrio cholerae into a dormant state
S. Almagro-Moreno, T. K. Kim, K. Skorupski, and R. K. Taylor. PLoS Genetics. 2015
Cholera: Environmental reservoirs and impact on disease transmission
S. Almagro-Moreno and R. K. Taylor. Microbiology Spectrum. 2013
Cholera: Environmental reservoirs and impact on disease transmission
S. Almagro-Moreno and R. K. Taylor. Book chapter for “OneHealth: People, Animals, and Environment”. ASM press. 2013
Ecology and genetic structure of a northern temperate Vibrio cholerae population related to toxigenic isolates
B. M. Schuster, A. L. Tyzik, R. A. Donner, M. J. Striplin, S. Almagro-Moreno, S. H. Jones, V. S. Cooper, and C. A. Whistler. Applied Environmental Microbiology. 2011
Dichotomy in the evolution of pathogenicity island and bacteriophage encoded integrases from pathogenic Escherichia coli strains
S. Almagro-Moreno, M. G. Napolitano, and E. F. Boyd. Infection, Genetics and Evolution. 2010
An atomic force microscopy method for the detection of binding forces between bacteria and a lipid bilayer containing higher order gangliosides
E. L. Adams, S. Almagro-Moreno and E. F. Boyd. Journal of Microbiological Methods. 2010
Excision dynamics of Vibrio pathogenicity island-2 from Vibrio cholerae: role of a recombination directionality factor VefA
S. Almagro-Moreno, M. G. Napolitano, and E. F. Boyd. BMC Microbiology. 2010
Bacterial catabolism of nonulosonic (sialic) acid and fitness in the gut
S. Almagro-Moreno and E. F. Boyd. Gut Microbes. 2010