Taj Azarian

The paper characterizes mupirocin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates, finding high prevalence in MRSA and associations with specific genetic mutations and sequence types.

CLARC refines bacterial ortholog groups by integrating linkage and annotation data, reducing accessory gene estimates and improving evolutionary predictions in Streptococcus pneumoniae.

This study characterizes the pathogenicity and genomic features of the rare ST3390 MRSA lineage, identifying its hypervirulence and unique genetic traits.

This study examines variation in transformation frequency and competence gene expression among serotype 3 Streptococcus pneumoniae strains, finding correlations with gene expression differences and promoter sequence variation.

This study compares short and long read sequencing for metagenomic analysis, showing long reads improve taxonomic classification and assembly quality.