P Malaka De Silva
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Mason L, Charles H, Thorley K, Chong C, De Silva P, Jenkins C, et al.
NPJ Antimicrob Resist
. 2024 Aug;
2(1):20.
PMID: 39100870
Shigellosis is an enteric infection that transmits through the faecal-oral route, which can occur during sex between men who have sex with men (MSM). Between 2009 and 2014, an epidemic...
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De Silva P, Bennett R, Kuhn L, Ngondo P, Debande L, Njamkepo E, et al.
EBioMedicine
. 2023 Oct;
97:104822.
PMID: 37806286
Background: Shigella sp. are enteric pathogens which causes >125 million cases of shigellosis annually. S. sonnei accounts for about a quarter of those cases and is increasingly prevalent in industrialising...
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Torraca V, Brokatzky D, Miles S, Chong C, De Silva P, Baker S, et al.
J Infect Dis
. 2023 Aug;
228(8):1108-1118.
PMID: 37556724
Shigella represents a paraphyletic group of enteroinvasive Escherichia coli. More than 40 Shigella serotypes have been reported. However, most cases within the men who have sex with men (MSM) community...
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Mason L, Greig D, Cowley L, Partridge S, Martinez E, Blackwell G, et al.
Nat Commun
. 2023 Apr;
14(1):2302.
PMID: 37085572
No abstract available.
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Mason L, Greig D, Cowley L, Partridge S, Martinez E, Blackwell G, et al.
Nat Commun
. 2023 Apr;
14(1):1983.
PMID: 37031199
Shigella sonnei causes shigellosis, a severe gastrointestinal illness that is sexually transmissible among men who have sex with men (MSM). Multidrug resistance in S. sonnei is common including against World...
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Bengtsson R, Baker K, Cunningham A, Greig D, John S, MacGregor S, et al.
Nat Commun
. 2023 Mar;
14(1):1707.
PMID: 36973246
Escherichia albertii is a recently identified gastrointestinal bacterial pathogen of humans and animals which is typically misidentified as pathotypes of diarrhoeagenic Escherichia coli or Shigella species and is generally only...
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De Silva P, Stenhouse G, Blackwell G, Bengtsson R, Jenkins C, Hall J, et al.
Proc Biol Sci
. 2022 Aug;
289(1980):20220581.
PMID: 35919999
Dissemination of antimicrobial resistance (AMR) genes by horizontal gene transfer (HGT) mediated through plasmids is a major global concern. Genomic epidemiology studies have shown varying success of different AMR plasmids...
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Bengtsson R, Dallman T, Allen H, De Silva P, Stenhouse G, Pulford C, et al.
mBio
. 2021 Apr;
12(2).
PMID: 33906921
Shigellosis is a diarrheal disease caused mainly by and Infection is thought to be largely self-limiting, with short- to medium-term and serotype-specific immunity provided following clearance. However, cases of men...
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Pulford C, Perez-Sepulveda B, Canals R, Bevington J, Bengtsson R, Wenner N, et al.
Nat Microbiol
. 2020 Dec;
6(3):327-338.
PMID: 33349664
Bloodstream infections caused by nontyphoidal Salmonella are a major public health concern in Africa, causing ~49,600 deaths every year. The most common Salmonella enterica pathovariant associated with invasive nontyphoidal Salmonella...
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Singh M, De Silva P, Al-Saadi Y, Switala J, Loewen P, Hausner G, et al.
Antibiotics (Basel)
. 2020 Jun;
9(6).
PMID: 32560407
is an important nosocomial bacterial pathogen. Multidrug-resistant isolates of are reported worldwide. Some isolates display resistance to nearly all antibiotics, making treatment of infections very challenging. As the need for...