Katrine Whiteson

This study shows that medium-chain fatty acids (MCFAs) enhance phage efficacy against multidrug-resistant bacteria by disrupting bacterial envelopes and preventing phage resistance.

The paper compares two viral sequencing pipelines from wastewater influent and solids, finding that solids capture more DNA viruses while influent captures more RNA viruses, with probe-capture enrichment providing comparable results across fractions.

The paper identifies capsular polysaccharides as a mechanism that stabilizes prophage-bacterium symbiosis by preventing collateral viral attack and enhancing transmission.

The paper demonstrates that experimental phage evolution can expand the host range of phages to kill multidrug-resistant and extensively-drug-resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates.

This paper identifies and characterizes three phages that form a cocktail effective against Stenotrophomonas maltophilia, showing enhanced bacterial suppression compared to individual phages.

This study investigates synergistic interactions between phages and antibiotics in Enterococcus isolates, finding that phage-antibiotic combinations can eradicate vancomycin-resistant strains.

The paper identifies eight Enterobacter jumbo phages with broad host ranges across pathogenic Gammaproteobacteria, suggesting potential as antibiotic alternatives.

The paper uses metabolomics to analyze saliva samples from children and caregivers, finding similar metabolomes between dyads and distinct population-level metabotypes.