Marc W. Allard

The paper develops a metadata schema for digitizing swab site locations in DNA sequence databases to improve data interoperability and automation.

This study analyzes antimicrobial resistance in non-typhoidal Salmonella from cattle and ground beef in Mexico, finding higher prevalence of multi-drug resistant strains in ground beef and association with specific serovars and resistance genes.

This paper develops a nanopore sequencing workflow to detect and assemble Shiga toxin-producing E. coli in irrigation water, demonstrating its effectiveness for food safety applications.

The paper compares long-read sequencing methods to detect plasmids, virulence genes, and phages in STEC strains, finding MinION sequencing effective for genome closure and marker identification.

This study uses whole-genome sequencing to analyze 91 Salmonella Enteritidis isolates from mice on poultry farms, identifying SNPs that distinguish isolates and provide biomarkers for outbreak detection.