Kendra Vilfort

The paper identifies rare variants in PRKCI as a novel cause of Van der Woude syndrome and other peridermopathy features through clinical and functional analyses.

This paper introduces a new MLST scheme for Treponema pallidum subspecies with high discriminatory power, validated using global clinical samples and showing distinct genetic clusters.

This paper develops a selective whole genome amplification method to enrich low T. pallidum DNA samples for whole genome sequencing, achieving high coverage and identifying azithromycin resistance mutations.