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Christina M. Ferreira

Center for Food Safety and Applied NutritionORCID 0000-0001-6018-5885Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Research Focus:benchmarking· 1 Organism:C. elegans· 1 Research Focus:database / resource· 1 Research Focus:differential expression· 1 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Approach:machine learning (classical)· 1 Assay:metagenomics· 1

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MicrobiologyPLoS ONEPeer-reviewedMar 2, 2026

Evolving Threats: Leveraging C. elegans to Decode the Virulence Profiles of Highly Related Environmental Salmonella Newport Isolates

Christina M. Ferreira, Mirae Choe, Bella Wayhs…·Rebecca L. Bell

This study uses C. elegans to compare the virulence of five S. Newport isolates, finding that two strains are more virulent despite being nearly genetically identical.

1 citation

C. eleganswhole-genome sequencing

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GenomicsFrontiers in MicrobiologyPeer-reviewedAug 2, 2023

bettercallsal: better calling of Salmonella serotypes from enrichment cultures using shotgun metagenomic profiling and its application in an outbreak setting.

Kranti Konganti, Elizabeth A. Reed, Mark K. Mammel…·Padmini Ramachandran

bettercallsal identifies multiple Salmonella serotypes from enrichment cultures using shotgun metagenomics, outperforming existing tools in accuracy and throughput for outbreak analysis.

7 citations

metagenomicsstatistical model

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