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Susannah L. McKay

Centers for Disease Control and PreventionORCID 0000-0002-2318-5189Unclaimed ORCID profile · follow to get notified of new preprints

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Assay:whole-genome sequencing· 2 Approach:experimental assay· 1 Research Focus:gene regulatory network inference· 1 Research Focus:host-pathogen & immune response· 1 Organism:human· 1 Approach:machine learning (classical)· 1 Research Focus:variant effect prediction· 1

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MicrobiologybioRxivPreprintJun 5, 2025

Evaluation of Enterobacterales carrying Acinetobacter-associated blaOXA genes--United States, 2017-2022

Giulia Orazi, Alyssa G. Kent, Nadine Wilmott…·Sarah Sabour

The paper evaluates the presence of Acinetobacter-associated class D carbapenemase genes in Enterobacterales isolates in the U.S. and finds only one case of blaOXA-23-like gene in Klebsiella pneumoniae.

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MicrobiologyCommunications BiologyPeer-reviewedApr 17, 2025

Commensal or pathogen: computational vectorizing microbial genomes for de novo risk assessment and virulence feature discovery in Klebsiella pneumoniae

Kristen L. Beck, Akshay Agarwal, Alison Laufer Halpin…·Ed Seabolt

This paper predicts virulence in Klebsiella pneumoniae using expanded gene function discoveries and machine learning, achieving higher accuracy than traditional methods.

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humanwhole-genome sequencing

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