Modular small RNA drives the emergence of virulence traits and environmental trade-offs in Vibrio cholerae
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Allelic variations and gene cluster modularity act as nonlinear bottlenecks for cholera emergence
López-Pérez, Balasubramanian et al. PNAS. 2025
Climate change and Vibrio vulnificus dynamics: A blueprint for infectious diseases
J.M. Jayakumar, J Martinez-Urtaza, K.D. Brumfield, A.S. Jutla, R.R. Colwell, O.X. Cordero, S. Almagro-Moreno. PLoS Pathogens. 2024
The origins of pathogenesis
S. Almagro-Moreno. Nature Reviews Microbiology. 2024
Meteorological associations of Vibrio vulnificus clinical infections in tropical settings: Correlations with air pressure, wind speed, and temperature
A.J. Ayala, K. Kabengele, S. Almagro-Moreno, C.B. Ogbunugafor. PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases. 2023
Pathogen emergence as complex biological invasion: Lessons from dynamical systems modeling
S. Surasinghe, M. Rodriguez, V. Meszaros, J. Molofsky, S. Almagro-Moreno, C.B. Ogbunugafor. Northeast Journal of Complex Systems. 2023
Allelic diversity uncovers protein domains contributing to the emergence of antimicrobial resistance
T-A. Grant, M. López-Pérez, and S. Almagro-Moreno. PLoS Genetics. 2023
Modular small RNA drives pathogen emergence
D. Balasubramanian, and S. Almagro-Moreno. BioRXiv. 2023
Cholera dynamics and the emergence of pandemic Vibrio cholerae
D. Balasubramanian, M. López-Pérez, and S. Almagro-Moreno. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. 2023
Vibrio infections and the twenty-first century
S. Almagro-Moreno, J. Martinez-Urtaza, and S. Pukatzki. Advances in Experimental Medicine and Biology. 2023
Vibrio floridensis sp. nov., a novel species closely related to the human pathogen Vibrio vulnificus isolated from a cyanobacterial bloom
T-A. Grant, J.M. Jayakumar, M. López-Pérez, and S. Almagro-Moreno. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol. 2023
Cluster-driven evolution and modularity uncover paths of cholera emergence
M. López-Pérez, T-A. Grant, J.M. Haro-Moreno, A. Zaragoza-Solas, S. Almagro-Moreno. BioRxiv. 2022
Thanks, but no thanks: Cholera pathogen keeps incoming DNA at bay
Almagro-Moreno, S. Cell Host and Microbe. 2022
How bacterial pathogens emerge
Almagro-Moreno, S. Scientific American. 2022
Molecular mechanisms and drivers of pathogen emergence
Balasubramanian et al. Trends in Microbiology. 2022
Ecological diversification reveals routes of pathogen emergence in endemic 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
M. Lopez-Perez, J. M. Jayakumar, J. M. Haro-Moreno, A. Zarazoga-Solas, G. Reddi, F. Rodriguez-Valera, O. H. Shapiro, M. Alam, S. Almagro-Moreno. 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