Natasha Arora

This study profiles bacterial communities in genital and non-genital skin ulcers from Ghana, finding similar diversity but distinct compositions, with genital lesions enriched in Gardnerella and non-genital lesions in Staphylococcus and others.

This paper introduces a new MLST scheme for Treponema pallidum subspecies with high discriminatory power, validated using global clinical samples and showing distinct genetic clusters.

This study develops a random forest classifier to identify body fluids from complex crime scene stains using microbiome data, achieving an F1 score of 0.89 on forensic samples.

This study compares three DNA enrichment methods for ancient pathogen DNA, finding in-solution approaches are most effective and RNA baits outperform DNA baits.

This study identifies previously unknown Treponema pallidum strains in early modern Europe, suggesting a complex history of treponemal diseases.

This study analyzes the genetic patterns of modern syphilis strains and identifies a globally dominant pandemic cluster with azithromycin resistance.