David M. Wagner

This study characterizes a leptospirosis outbreak in dogs in Los Angeles County, finding that all isolates were Leptospira interrogans serovar Canicola, with urine PCR as the most sensitive test and ICFs as a potential source.

The paper investigates leptospirosis transmission among brown rats in Boston, finding high genetic structure and limited dispersal, with Leptospira clades linked to specific rat populations and a human case linked to rats.

This study develops a capture-enrichment system to detect and genotype Francisella species in complex samples, enabling robust identification and analysis of low-level Francisella DNA.

This study uses whole genome sequencing to analyze C. difficile isolates and identifies multiple introductions and transmission events in a healthcare network, highlighting genetic variability and antimicrobial resistance.

The paper generates a draft genome of the Sverdlovsk 1979 Bacillus anthracis strain and places it phylogenetically within a clade of vaccine strains, finding no evidence of genetic manipulation.

The paper introduces ISG, an open-source pipeline for identifying and annotating nucleotide variants in bacterial genomes, showing it is faster and more flexible than existing tools.