Alex J. McCarthy

Publications

• Extensive Horizontal Gene Transfer During Staphylococcus Aureus Co-colonization In Vivo
  Genome Biology and Evolution. 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 25260585
• Fructose Transport-deficient Staphylococcus Aureus Reveals Important Role of Epithelial Glucose Transporters in Limiting Sugar-driven Bacterial Growth in Airway Surface Liquid
  Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences : CMLS. May, 2014  |   Pubmed ID: 24810961
• Staphylococcus Aureus Innate Immune Evasion is Lineage-specific: a Bioinfomatics Study
  Infection, Genetics and Evolution : Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics in Infectious Diseases. Oct, 2013  |   Pubmed ID: 23792184
• Shuffling of Mobile Genetic Elements (MGEs) in Successful Healthcare-associated MRSA (HA-MRSA)
  Mobile Genetic Elements. Sep, 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 23446976
• Comparative Host Specificity of Human- and Pig- Associated Staphylococcus Aureus Clonal Lineages
  PloS One. 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 23166643
• Survival of Staphylococcus Aureus ST398 in the Human Nose After Artificial Inoculation
  PloS One. 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 23155425
• Staphylococcus Aureus CC398 Clade Associated with Human-to-human Transmission
  Applied and Environmental Microbiology. Dec, 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 23042163
• Staphylococcus Aureus Temperate Bacteriophage: Carriage and Horizontal Gene Transfer is Lineage Associated
  Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology. 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 22919598
• Are All Meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus (MRSA) Equal in All Hosts? Epidemiological and Genetic Comparison Between Animal and Human MRSA
  Veterinary Dermatology. Aug, 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 22823579
• The Distribution of Plasmids That Carry Virulence and Resistance Genes in Staphylococcus Aureus is Lineage Associated
  BMC Microbiology. 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 22691167
• Identification of a Highly Transmissible Animal-independent Staphylococcus Aureus ST398 Clone with Distinct Genomic and Cell Adhesion Properties
  MBio. 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 22375071
• Detection of Mobile-genetic-element Variation Between Colonizing and Infecting Hospital-associated Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus Aureus Isolates
  Journal of Clinical Microbiology. Mar, 2012  |   Pubmed ID: 22170916
• The Distribution of Mobile Genetic Elements (MGEs) in MRSA CC398 is Associated with Both Host and Country
  Genome Biology and Evolution. 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21920902
• Variation in European Harbour Seal Immune Response Genes and Susceptibility to Phocine Distemper Virus (PDV)
  Infection, Genetics and Evolution : Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics in Infectious Diseases. Oct, 2011  |   Pubmed ID: 21712101
• Genetic Variation in Staphylococcus Aureus Surface and Immune Evasion Genes is Lineage Associated: Implications for Vaccine Design and Host-pathogen Interactions
  BMC Microbiology. 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 20550675
• Reassessing Conflicting Evolutionary Histories of the Paramyxoviridae and the Origins of Respiroviruses with Bayesian Multigene Phylogenies
  Infection, Genetics and Evolution : Journal of Molecular Epidemiology and Evolutionary Genetics in Infectious Diseases. Jan, 2010  |   Pubmed ID: 19900582
• Pathogen Evolution and Disease Emergence in Carnivores
  Proceedings. Biological Sciences / The Royal Society. Dec, 2007  |   Pubmed ID: 17956850