Vanessa Rigas

The paper describes the isolation and characterization of a new bacterial species, Oligella otitidis, from middle ear discharge of children with chronic suppurative otitis media.

This paper introduces and validates population sequencing methods to analyze phylogenetic diversity in bacterial populations without haplotype reconstruction, demonstrating applications in tracking transmission and understanding pathogen dynamics.

This study uses whole-genome sequencing and geographical mapping to show that lipopolysaccharide (LPS) types in Burkholderia pseudomallei correlate with specific regions in the Northern Territory, Australia, and can serve as geographical markers.