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
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