Microbial Genomics

Papers
(The TQCC of Microbial Genomics is 6. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-04-01 to 2025-04-01.)
ArticleCitations
Independent origins and evolution of the secondary replicons of the class Gammaproteobacteria398
Genomic and pathogenicity analyses to identify the causative agent from multiple serogroups of non-O1, non-O139 Vibrio cholerae in foodborne outbreaks243
How public health authorities can use pathogen genomics in health protection practice: a consensus-building Delphi study conducted in the United Kingdom97
A comparative study of pan-genome methods for microbial organisms: Acinetobacter baumannii pan-genome reveals structural variation in antimicrobial resistance-carrying plasmids55
Metagenomic comparisons reveal a highly diverse and unique viral community in a seasonally fluctuating hypersaline microbial mat47
Novel emm4 lineage associated with an upsurge in invasive group A streptococcal disease in the Netherlands, 202245
Acquisition of Type I methyltransferase via horizontal gene transfer increases the drug resistance of Aeromonas veronii42
Diversity of the type VI secretion systems in the Neisseria spp38
Comparative genomics of a novel Erwinia species associated with the Highland midge (Culicoides impunctatus)33
Detection of plasmid contigs in draft genome assemblies using customized Kraken databases28
Analysis of putative quadruplex-forming sequences in fungal genomes: novel antifungal targets?28
Whole-Genome sequencing in routine Mycobacterium bovis epidemiology – scoping the potential28
Complete, closed and curated genome sequences of Photobacterium damselae subsp. piscicida isolates from Australia indicate mobilome-driven localized evolution and novel pathogenicity determinants28
High-resolution microbiome analysis enabled by linking of 16S rRNA gene sequences with adjacent genomic contexts26
Phylogeography and resistome of pneumococcal meningitis in West Africa before and after vaccine introduction26
wMel Wolbachia genome remains stable after 7 years in Australian Aedes aegypti field populations25
Comparative genomic analysis of obligately piezophilic Moritella yayanosii DB21MT-5 reveals bacterial adaptation to the Challenger Deep, Mariana Trench25
Distribution and genomic characterization of tigecycline-resistant tet(X4)-positive Escherichia coli of swine farm origin24
Mutations in the gdpP gene are a clinically relevant mechanism for β-lactam resistance in meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus lacking mec determinants24
Bilateral symmetry of linear streptomycete chromosomes23
Insights on the SARS-CoV-2 genome variability: the lesson learned in Brazil and its impacts on the future of pandemics22
Complete genome for Actinobacillus pleuropneumoniae serovar 8 reference strain 405: comparative analysis with draft genomes for different laboratory stock cultures indicates little genetic variation21
Genome editing reveals that pSCL4 is required for chromosome linearity in Streptomyces clavuligerus21
Third generation cephalosporin resistance in clinical non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica in Germany and emergence of bla CTX-M-harbouring pESI plasmids20
Whole genome sequencing reveals large deletions and other loss of function mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis drug resistance genes20
Phylogenomics of two ST1 antibiotic-susceptible non-clinical Acinetobacter baumannii strains reveals multiple lineages and complex evolutionary history in global clone 120
Occurrence of genes encoding spore germination in Clostridium species that cause meat spoilage19
Unique roles of vaginal Megasphaera phylotypes in reproductive health19
Alterations in chromosomal genes nfsA, nfsB, and ribE are associated with nitrofurantoin resistance in Escherichia coli from the United Kingdom19
The evolutionary history of Shigella flexneri serotype 6 in Asia19
Different evolutionary trends form the twilight zone of the bacterial pan-genome19
Transcriptomic analysis of Pseudomonas ogarae F113 reveals the antagonistic roles of AmrZ and FleQ during rhizosphere adaption18
Genomic insights into the circulation of pandemic fluoroquinolone-resistant extra-intestinal pathogenic Escherichia coli ST1193 in Vietnam18
Dairy streptococcal cell wall and exopolysaccharide genome diversity17
Genomic and antigenic diversity of colonizing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates mirrors that of invasive isolates in Blantyre, Malawi17
Helicobacter cinaedi is a human-adapted lineage in the Helicobacter cinaedi/canicola/‘magdeburgensis’ complex17
A chromosome-scale genome assembly of the tomato pathogen Cladosporium fulvum reveals a compartmentalized genome architecture and the presence of a dispensable chromosome17
Shooting hoops: globetrotting plasmids spreading more than just antimicrobial resistance genes across One Health17
Profiling the plasmid conjugation potential of urinary Escherichia coli17
Genome-wide association studies reveal distinct genetic correlates and increased heritability of antimicrobial resistance in Vibrio cholerae under anaerobic conditions16
Epidemiological links and antimicrobial resistance of clinical Salmonella enterica ST198 isolates: a nationwide microbial population genomic study in Switzerland16
Dissemination of metaldehyde catabolic pathways is driven by mobile genetic elements in Proteobacteria16
Fine-grain population structure and transmission patterns of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in southern Mozambique, a high TB/HIV burden area15
Genome-wide annotation of transcript boundaries using bacterial Rend-seq datasets15
At the threshold of symbiosis: the genome of obligately endosymbiotic ‘Candidatus Nebulobacter yamunensis’ is almost indistinguishable from that of a cultivable strain15
Genome plasticity driven by aneuploidy and loss of heterozygosity in Trypanosoma cruzi15
The rate and role of pseudogenes of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex15
Contrasting long-term dynamics of antimicrobial resistance and virulence plasmids in Salmonella Typhimurium from animals15
Whole genome sequence analysis of ESBL-producing Escherichia coli recovered from New Zealand freshwater sites14
Exploring the effects of antimicrobial treatment on the gut and oral microbiomes and resistomes from elderly long-term care facility residents via shotgun DNA sequencing14
Strain features of pneumococcal isolates in the pre- and post-PCV10 era in Pakistan14
CRISPR dynamics during the interaction between bacteria and phage in the first year of life14
The Gonococcal Genetic Island defines distinct sub-populations of Neisseria gonorrhoeae14
Prevalence, antibiotic resistance, and genomic characterisation of Campylobacter spp. in retail chicken in Hanoi, Vietnam14
Evaluation of variant calling algorithms for wastewater-based epidemiology using mixed populations of SARS-CoV-2 variants in synthetic and wastewater samples14
Introduction and benchmarking of pyMLST: open-source software for assessing bacterial clonality using core genome MLST14
Genomic comparisons of Escherichia coli ST131 from Australia14
Transcriptional landscape of Burkholderia pseudomallei cultured under environmental and clinical conditions14
Comparative genomics reveals distinct diversification patterns among LysR-type transcriptional regulators in the ESKAPE pathogen Pseudomonas aeruginosa14
The evolutionary tale of eight novel plasmids in a colistin-resistant environmental Acinetobacter baumannii isolate14
Evaluating the impact of genomic epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on hospital infection prevention and control decisions13
Context-aware genomic surveillance reveals hidden transmission of a carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae13
ShigaPass: an in silico tool predicting Shigella serotypes from whole-genome sequencing assemblies13
Novel canine high-quality metagenome-assembled genomes, prophages and host-associated plasmids provided by long-read metagenomics together with Hi-C proximity ligation13
Applied Bioinformatics and Public Health Microbiology: challenges, discoveries and innovations during a pandemic13
Corrigendum: Coupling next-generation sequencing to dominant positive screens for finding antibiotic cellular targets and resistance mechanisms in Escherichia coli13
Erratum: In silico identification of bacterial seaweed-degrading bioplastic producers13
Comparative genomic analysis of Staphylococcus aureus isolates associated with either bovine intramammary infections or human infections demonstrates the importance of restriction-modification systems13
Transcriptomic profiling reveals host-specific evolutionary pathways promoting enhanced fitness in the plant pathogen Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum13
A comparative genome analysis of the Bacillota (Firmicutes) class Dehalobacteriia13
Identification of further variation at the lipooligosaccharide outer core locus in Acinetobacter baumannii genomes and extension of the OCL reference sequence database for Kaptive12
Analysis of genome instability and implications for the consequent phenotype in Plasmodium falciparum containing mutated MSH2-1 (P513T)12
Emergence of linezolid-resistant Enterococcus faecium in a tertiary hospital in Copenhagen12
Parallel loss of type VI secretion systems in two multi-drug-resistant Escherichia coli lineages12
A global survey of Salmonella plasmids and their associations with antimicrobial resistance12
Elucidation of global and national genomic epidemiology of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis through multilevel genome typing12
Key features of pneumococcal isolates recovered in Central and Northwestern Russia in 2011–2018 determined through whole-genome sequencing12
A conserved uORF in the ilvBNC mRNA of Corynebacterium species regulates ilv operon expression12
Palidis: fast discovery of novel insertion sequences12
Genome-wide analysis of fitness-factors in uropathogenic Escherichia coli during growth in laboratory media and during urinary tract infections12
Multiple independent losses of sporulation and peptidoglycan in the Mycoplasmatales and related orders of the class Bacilli12
The importance of utilizing travel history metadata for informative phylogeographical inferences: a case study of early SARS-CoV-2 introductions into Australia11
An update to the database for Acinetobacter baumannii capsular polysaccharide locus typing extends the extensive and diverse repertoire of genes found at and outside the K locus11
Genomic characterization of cocirculating Corynebacterium diphtheriae and non-diphtheritic Corynebacterium species among forcibly displaced Myanmar nationals, 2017–201911
SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variants BA.4 and BA.5 dominated the fifth COVID-19 epidemiological wave in Mexico11
Long-read sequencing reveals genomic diversity and associated plasmid movement of carbapenemase-producing bacteria in a UK hospital over 6 years11
Whole-genome assembly of a novel invertebrate herpesvirus from the gastropod Babylonia areolata11
Development of a novel streamlined workflow (AACRE) and database (inCREDBle) for genomic analysis of carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales11
Mutations in the riboflavin biosynthesis pathway confer resistance to furazolidone and abolish the synergistic interaction between furazolidone and vancomycin in Escherichia coli11
Assembly collapsing versus heterozygosity oversizing: detection of homokaryotic and heterokaryotic Laccaria trichodermophora strains by hybrid genome assembly11
Investigating two decades of Streptococcus pneumoniae bacteraemia in the Gelderland area, the Netherlands, using whole-genome sequencing11
Infectious bronchitis virus vaccination, but not the presence of XCR1, is correlated with large differences in chicken caecal microbiota11
Discovery and biosynthetic assessment of 'Streptomyces ortus' sp. nov. isolated from a deep-sea sponge11
Genomic and phenotypic characterization of Salmonella enterica serovar Kentucky11
Rapid and accurate SNP genotyping of clonal bacterial pathogens with BioHansel10
Evaluation of commercial RNA extraction kits for long-read metatranscriptomics in soil10
Single nucleotide variants in Pseudomonas aeruginosa populations from sputum correlate with baseline lung function and predict disease progression in individuals with cystic fibrosis10
Multidrug-resistant toxigenic Corynebacterium diphtheriae sublineage 453 with two novel resistance genomic islands10
Chromosome architecture as a determinant for biosynthetic diversity in Micromonospora10
Genome analysis of a new sulphur disproportionating species Thermosulfurimonas strain F29 and comparative genomics of sulfur-disproportionating bacteria from marine hydrothermal vents10
Corrigendum: Genomic evolution and local epidemiology of Klebsiella pneumoniae from a major hospital in Beijing, China, over a 15 year period: dissemination of known and novel high-risk clones10
The clinical, genomic, and microbiological profile of invasive multi-drug resistant Escherichia coli in a major teaching hospital in the United Kingdom10
Leveraging comparative genomics to uncover alien genes in bacterial genomes10
Beyond blast: enabling microbiologists to better extract literature, taxonomic distributions and gene neighbourhood information for protein families10
Genomic epidemiology of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 16F lineages10
Identifying gene-level mechanisms of successful dispersal of Vibrio parahaemolyticus during El Niño events10
Genomic epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from bloodstream infections in South America during 2019 supports regional surveillance10
Comparison of gene-by-gene and genome-wide short nucleotide sequence-based approaches to define the global population structure of Streptococcus pneumoniae10
Genomic analysis of an outbreak of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O183:H18 in the United Kingdom, 202310
Characterisation of neonatal Staphylococcus capitis NRCS-A isolates compared with non NRCS-A Staphylococcus capitis from neonates and adults10
Novel diversity of polar Cyanobacteria revealed by genome-resolved metagenomics10
Identification of genes influencing the evolution of Escherichia coli ST372 in dogs and humans10
Whole-genome sequencing and phylogenetic analysis of coxsackievirus-A16 strains causing hand, foot and mouth disease (HFMD) in India10
Microbial genetic potential differs among cryospheric habitats of the Damma glacier10
Prophages encoding human immune evasion cluster genes are enriched in Staphylococcus aureus isolated from chronic rhinosinusitis patients with nasal polyps9
From defaults to databases: parameter and database choice dramatically impact the performance of metagenomic taxonomic classification tools9
Introduction and adaptation of an emerging pathogen to olive trees in Italy9
A systematic review of economic evaluations of whole-genome sequencing for the surveillance of bacterial pathogens9
Global genomic epidemiology of bla GES-5 carbapenemase-associated integrons9
On the limits of 16S rRNA gene-based metagenome prediction and functional profiling9
Genomic dissection of the Vibrio cholerae O-serogroup global reference strains: reassessing our view of diversity and plasticity between two chromosomes9
IS1-related large-scale deletion of chromosomal regions harbouring the oxygen-insensitive nitroreductase gene nfsB causes nitrofurantoin heteroresistance in Escherichia coli9
Genetic diversity and variation in antimicrobial-resistance determinants of non-serotype 2 Streptococcus suis isolates from healthy pigs9
Rapid nanopore-based DNA sequencing protocol of antibiotic-resistant bacteria for use in surveillance and outbreak investigation9
RFPlasmid: predicting plasmid sequences from short-read assembly data using machine learning9
RETRACTED: Comparative genomic analysis of Escherichia coli isolates from cases of bovine clinical mastitis identifies nine specific pathotype marker genes9
Uncovering the transcriptome-wide RNA modifications in Acinetobacter baumannii9
Enabling genomic island prediction and comparison in multiple genomes to investigate bacterial evolution and outbreaks9
Differential nasopharyngeal microbiota composition in children according to respiratory health status9
The highly diverse plasmid population found in Escherichia coli colonizing travellers to Laos and its role in antimicrobial resistance gene carriage9
The intra-host evolutionary landscape and pathoadaptation of persistent Staphylococcus aureus in chronic rhinosinusitis9
Association between metabolic status and gut microbiome in obese populations9
The primate gut microbiota contributes to interspecific differences in host metabolism9
Optimization of high-throughput 16S rRNA gene amplicon sequencing: an assessment of PCR pooling, mastermix use and contamination9
Nanopore-only assemblies for genomic surveillance of the global priority drug-resistant pathogen, Klebsiella pneumoniae9
DNA isolation methods for Nanopore sequencing of the Streptococcus mitis genome9
Results of the 2020 Genomic Proficiency Test for the network of European Union Reference Laboratory for Antimicrobial Resistance assessing whole-genome-sequencing capacities8
A lung-specific mutational signature enables inference of viral and bacterial respiratory niche8
Phylogenetic and antimicrobial drug resistance analysis of Vibrio cholerae O1 isolates from Ghana8
Impacts of Mycoplasma agalactiae restriction-modification systems on pan-epigenome dynamics and genome plasticity8
Prevalence and diversity of TAL effector-like proteins in fungal endosymbiotic Mycetohabitans spp.8
Genetic association of toxin production in the dinoflagellate Alexandrium minutum8
Genomic characterization of Achromobacter species isolates from chronic and occasional lung infection in cystic fibrosis patients8
Hackflex: low-cost, high-throughput, Illumina Nextera Flex library construction8
Desulfuromonas sp. 'CSMB_57’, isolation and genomic insights from the most abundant bacterial taxon in eastern Australian coals8
Genomic epidemiology of human candidaemia isolates in a tertiary hospital8
Genomic insights into local-scale evolution of ocular Chlamydia trachomatis strains within and between individuals in Gambian trachoma-endemic villages8
The mobilome of Lactobacillus crispatus M247 includes two novel genetic elements: Tn7088 coding for a putative bacteriocin and the siphovirus prophage ΦM2478
The Canadian VirusSeq Data Portal and Duotang: open resources for SARS-CoV-2 viral sequences and genomic epidemiology8
Genome-resolved metagenomics reveals novel archaeal and bacterial genomes from Amazonian forest and pasture soils8
Genomic and phenotypic analyses of diverse non-clinical Acinetobacter baumannii strains reveals strain-specific virulence and resistance capacity8
Borderline rpoB mutations transmit at the same rate as common rpoB mutations in a tuberculosis cohort in Bangladesh8
Chromosome-scale assembly of the streamlined picoeukaryote Picochlorum sp. SENEW3 genome reveals Rabl-like chromatin structure and potential for C4 photosynthesis8
Bacterium of one thousand and one variants: genetic diversity of Neisseria gonorrhoeae pathogenicity.8
The taxonomy of the Trichophyton rubrum complex: a phylogenomic approach8
Achromobacter spp. genetic adaptation in cystic fibrosis8
Erratum: Towards quantifying plasmid similarity7
Lack of methoxy-mycolates characterizes the geographically restricted lineage 7 of Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex7
Delineating bacterial genera based on gene content analysis: a case study of the Mycoplasmatales–Entomoplasmatales clade within the class Mollicutes7
Non-toxigenic cases of Vibrio cholerae in Spain from 2012 to 20227
Delivery mode is a larger determinant of infant gut microbiome composition at 6 weeks than exposure to peripartum antibiotics7
Patterns recovered in phylogenomic analysis of Candida auris and close relatives implicate broad environmental flexibility in Candida/Clavispora clade yeasts7
Benchmarking the topological accuracy of bacterial phylogenomic workflows using in silico evolution7
Comparative genomic epidemiology of serotype 3 IPD and carriage isolates from Southampton, UK between 2005 and 20177
Compensatory mutations are associated with increased in vitro growth in resistant clinical samples of Mycobacterium tuberculosis7
Novel internalin P homologs in Listeria7
European Union Reference Laboratories support the National food, feed and veterinary Reference Laboratories with rolling out whole genome sequencing in Europe7
Mobility of β-lactam resistance under ampicillin treatment in gut microbiota suffering from pre-disturbance7
Molecular epidemiology of a multidrug-resistant Shigella sonnei outbreak in Tunisia (2022–2023) using whole-genome sequencing7
Fast and cost-effective SARS-CoV-2 variant detection using Oxford Nanopore full-length spike gene sequencing7
Vibrio cholerae serogroup O5 was responsible for the outbreak of gastroenteritis in Czechoslovakia in 19657
Evaluation of whole-genome sequencing-based subtyping methods for the surveillance of Shigella spp. and the confounding effect of mobile genetic elements in long-term outbreaks7
Corrigendum: Whole-genome analyses reveal gene content differences between nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae isolates from chronic obstructive pulmonary disease compared to other clinical phenotypes7
Draft genomes of novel avian Chlamydia abortus strains from Australian Torresian crows (Corvus orru) shed light on possible reservoir hosts and evolutionary pathways7
A local-scale One Health genomic surveillance of Clostridioides difficile demonstrates highly related strains from humans, canines, and the environment7
A bittersweet fate: detection of serotype switching in Pseudomonas aeruginosa7
Evidence of horizontal gene transfer within porB in 19 018 whole-genome Neisseria spp. isolates: a global phylogenetic analysis7
RND pumps across the genus Acinetobacter: AdeIJK is the universal efflux pump7
Characterization of the RofA regulon in the pandemic M1global and emergent M1UK lineages of Streptococcus pyogenes7
Vibrio cholerae O37: one of the exceptions that prove the rule7
Corrigendum: ‘A comparative genome analysis of the Bacillota (Firmicutes) class Dehalobacteriia’7
Towards comprehensive understanding of bacterial genetic diversity: large-scale amplifications in Bordetella pertussis and Mycobacterium tuberculosis7
Ceftazidime–avibactam resistance in Klebsiella pneumoniae sequence type 37: a decade of persistence and concealed evolution7
Enhancing capacity for national genomics surveillance of antimicrobial resistance in public health laboratories in Kenya6
A comparative genomics approach reveals a local genetic signature of Leishmania tropica in Morocco6
Phylum barrier and Escherichia coli intra-species phylogeny drive the acquisition of antibiotic-resistance genes6
Multiple introductions of NRCS-A Staphylococcus capitis to the neonatal intensive care unit drive neonatal bloodstream infections: a case-control and environmental genomic survey6
Mobilisation and analyses of publicly available SARS-CoV-2 data for pandemic responses6
Corrigendum: ‘Implementation of routine genomic surveillance provided insights into a locally acquired outbreak caused by a rare clade of Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis in Queensland, Austral6
Comparative analysis of integrative and conjugative mobile genetic elements in the genus Mesorhizobium6
Pathogen genomics in public health laboratories: successes, challenges, and lessons learned from California’s SARS-CoV-2 Whole-Genome Sequencing Initiative, California COVIDNet6
Pyridoxal 5’-phosphate synthesis and salvage in Bacteria and Archaea: predicting pathway variant distributions and holes6
High intra-laboratory reproducibility of nanopore sequencing in bacterial species underscores advances in its accuracy6
Geographical distribution, disease association and diversity of Klebsiella pneumoniae K/L and O antigens in India: roadmap for vaccine development6
Whole-genome sequencing of Chlamydia psittaci from Australasian avian hosts: A genomics approach to a pathogen that still ruffles feathers6
PHA4GE quality control contextual data tags: standardized annotations for sharing public health sequence datasets with known quality issues to facilitate testing and training6
PfaSTer: a machine learning-powered serotype caller for Streptococcus pneumoniae genomes6
Exploring SNP filtering strategies: the influence of strict vs soft core6
PanGraph: scalable bacterial pan-genome graph construction6
Deep population structure linked to host vernalization requirement in the barley net blotch fungal pathogen6
Tn4661-mediated transfer of bla CTX-M-15 from Klebsiella michiganensis to an outbreak clone of Pseudomonas aeruginosa6
Advantages of analysing both pairwise SNV-distance and differing SNVs between Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates for recurrent tuberculosis cause determination6
Carriage prevalence and genomic epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus among Native American children and adults in the Southwestern USA6
Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 3 population structure in the era of conjugate vaccines, 2001–20186
Insertion sequences related to ISAjo2 target pdif and dif sites and belong to a new IS family, the IS1202 family6
Development of a sequence-based in silico OspA typing method for Borrelia burgdorferi sensu lato6
Mobile genetic element-driven genomic changes in a community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone during its transmission in a regional community outbreak in Japan6
Genomic analysis of Streptococcus pneumoniae serogroup 20 isolates in Alberta, Canada from 1993–20196
Genome-wide phylodynamic approach reveals the epidemic dynamics of the main Mycoplasma bovis subtype circulating in France6
A novel variant of the Listeria monocytogenes type VII secretion system EssC component is associated with an Rhs toxin6
Evolution of the CRISPR-Cas9 defence system in Mycoplasma gallisepticum following colonization of a novel bird host6
ActinoBase: tools and protocols for researchers working on Streptomyces and other filamentous actinobacteria6
Applying nanopore sequencing technology in Paracoccidioides sp.: a high-quality DNA isolation method for next-generation genomic studies6
Rapid identification and subsequent contextualization of an outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a neonatal intensive care unit using nanopore sequencing6
A multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica Typhimurium DT104 complex lineage circulating among humans and cattle in the USA lost the ability to produce pertussis-like toxin ArtAB6
The risk of pig and chicken farming for carriage and transmission of Escherichia coli containing extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL) and mobile colistin resistance (mcr) genes in Thailand6
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