Brenda Kwambana-Adams

Upper respiratory tract bacterial microbiome features associated with Streptococcus pneumoniae colonisation, environmental and demographic factors among older children in a rural setting in The Gambia

The study examines URT microbiome features linked to S. pneumoniae colonisation in older children in The Gambia, identifying microbial associations and environmental factors influencing colonisation.

The global evolutionary dynamics of natural capsule switching in a human-restricted bacterial pathogen

This study examines capsule switching in Streptococcus pneumoniae using whole-genome sequences, finding that switching is limited to specific capsule-type pairs and influenced by genetic and ecological factors.

MxSure: a mixture model for inferring within-host substitution rates and transmission SNP thresholds

MxSure estimates within-host substitution rates and transmission SNP thresholds from pairwise SNP distances, addressing challenges in microbial genome evolution analysis.

Genetic diversity and antimicrobial resistance of Campylobacter jejuni isolates from Gambian children under five with moderate-to-severe diarrhoea and healthy Controls

This study analyzes the genetic diversity and antimicrobial resistance of Campylobacter jejuni isolates from Gambian children with diarrhoea and healthy controls, finding high genotypic diversity and low-level antibiotic resistance.

Genomic diversity and antimicrobial resistance among non-typhoidal Salmonella associated with human disease in The Gambia

The paper characterizes genomic diversity and antimicrobial resistance in non-typhoidal Salmonella from The Gambia, identifying multidrug-resistant strains and their epidemiological implications.

The role of interspecies recombinations in the evolution of antibiotic resistant pneumococci

The paper reconstructs the evolutionary histories of antibiotic-resistant pneumococcal lineages PMEN3 and PMEN9, showing how interspecies recombination contributes to antibiotic resistance and serotype switching.

Genomic diversity of Escherichia coli isolates from backyard chickens and guinea fowl in the Gambia

This study characterizes the genomic diversity of Escherichia coli isolates from backyard chickens and guinea fowl in rural Gambia, identifying novel sequence types and antimicrobial resistance genes.