[HTML][HTML] Hospital admission and emergency care attendance risk for SARS-CoV-2 delta (B. 1.617. 2) compared with alpha (B. 1.1. 7) variants of concern: a cohort …

…, A Underwood, C Yeats, K Abudahab… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background The SARS-CoV-2 delta (B.1.617.2) variant was first detected in England in March,
2021. It has since rapidly become the predominant lineage, owing to high transmissibility. …

[PDF][PDF] Evaluating the effects of SARS-CoV-2 spike mutation D614G on transmissibility and pathogenicity

…, AP Underwood, CA Yeats, K Abudahab… - Cell, 2021 - cell.com
Global dispersal and increasing frequency of the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein variant D614G
are suggestive of a selective advantage but may also be due to a random founder effect. We …

[HTML][HTML] Changes in symptomatology, reinfection, and transmissibility associated with the SARS-CoV-2 variant B. 1.1. 7: an ecological study

…, AP Underwood, CA Yeats, K Abudahab… - The Lancet Public …, 2021 - thelancet.com
Background The SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 was first identified in December, 2020, in
England. We aimed to investigate whether increases in the proportion of infections with this …

Epidemic of carbapenem-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae in Europe is driven by nosocomial spread

…, C Glasner, T Feltwell, S Argimon, K Abudahab… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
… We analysed the genome sequences and epidemiological data of >1,700 K. pneumoniae
… resistance determinants suggests that the propensity of K. pneumoniae to spread in hospital …

Microreact: visualizing and sharing data for genomic epidemiology and phylogeography

S Argimón, K Abudahab, RJE Goater… - Microbial …, 2016 - microbiologyresearch.org
Visualization is frequently used to aid our interpretation of complex datasets. Within microbial
genomics, visualizing the relationships between multiple genomes as a tree provides a …

Phandango: an interactive viewer for bacterial population genomics

J Hadfield, NJ Croucher, RJ Goater, K Abudahab… - …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Fully exploiting the wealth of data in current bacterial population genomics datasets requires
synthesizing and integrating different types of analysis across millions of base pairs in …

[HTML][HTML] Public health surveillance of multidrug-resistant clones of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Europe: a genomic survey

…, S Jacobsson, R Goater, K Abudahab… - The Lancet Infectious …, 2018 - thelancet.com
Background Traditional methods for molecular epidemiology of Neisseria gonorrhoeae are
suboptimal. Whole-genome sequencing (WGS) offers ideal resolution to describe population …

[HTML][HTML] Europe-wide expansion and eradication of multidrug-resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae lineages: a genomic surveillance study

…, D Golparian, N Sajedi, CA Yeats, K Abudahab… - The Lancet …, 2022 - thelancet.com
Background Genomic surveillance using quality-assured whole-genome sequencing (WGS)
together with epidemiological and antimicrobial resistance (AMR) data is essential to …

[PDF][PDF] The impact of viral mutations on recognition by SARS-CoV-2 specific T cells

…, L Turtle, S Dunachie, DM Aanensen, K Abudahab… - Iscience, 2021 - cell.com
We identify amino acid variants within dominant SARS-CoV-2 T cell epitopes by interrogating
global sequence data. Several variants within nucleocapsid and ORF3a epitopes have …

[HTML][HTML] A community-driven resource for genomic epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance prediction of Neisseria gonorrhoeae at Pathogenwatch

…, B Taylor, RJ Goater, A Underwood, K Abudahab… - Genome medicine, 2021 - Springer
Background Antimicrobial-resistant (AMR) Neisseria gonorrhoeae is an urgent threat to
public health, as strains resistant to at least one of the two last-line antibiotics used in empiric …