Relevant Publications
Nasreen T, Hussain NAS, Ho JY, Aw VZJ, Alam M, Yanow SK, Boucher YF. Assay for Evaluating the Abundance of Vibrio cholerae and Its O1 Serogroup Subpopulation from Water without DNA Extraction. Pathogens. 2022; 11(3):363. [view]
Liang KYH, Orata FD, Islam MT, Nasreen T, Alam M, Tarr CL, Boucher YF. 2020. A Vibrio cholerae core genome multilocus sequence typing scheme to facilitate the epidemiological study of cholera. Journal of Bacteriology, 202(24): e00086-20. [view]
Kirchberger PC, Orata FD, Nasreen T, Kauffman KM, Tarr CL, Case RJ, Polz MF, Boucher YF. 2020. Culture-independent tracking of Vibrio cholerae lineages reveals complex spatiotemporal dynamics in a natural population. Environmental Microbiology. DOI: 10.1111/1462-2920.14921. [view]
Kirchberger PC, Unterweger D, Provenzano D, Pukatzki S, Boucher Y. 2017. Sequential displacement of type VI secretion system effector genes leads to evolution of diverse immunity gene arrays in Vibrio cholerae. Scientific Reports, 7: 45133. [view]
Kirchberger PC, Orata FD, Barlow EJ, Kauffman KM, Case RJ, Polz MF, Boucher Y. 2016. A small number of phylogenetically distinct clonal complexes dominate a coastal Vibrio cholerae population. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 82(18): 5576-5586. [view]
Boucher Y. 2016. Sustained local diversity of Vibrio cholerae O1 biotypes in a previously cholera-free country. mBio, 7(3): e00570-16. [view]
Boucher Y, Orata FD, Alam M. 2015. The out-of-the-delta hypothesis: dense human populations in low-lying river deltas served as agents for the evolution of a deadly pathogen. Frontiers in Microbiology, 6: 1120. [view]
Orata FD, Kirchberger PC, Méheust R, Barlow EJ, Tarr CL, Boucher Y. 2015. The dynamics of genetic interactions between Vibrio metoecus and Vibrio cholerae, two close relatives co-occurring in the environment. Genome Biology and Evolution, 7(10): 2941-2954. [view]
Kirchberger PC, Turnsek M, Hunt DE, Haley BJ, Colwell RR, Polz MF, Tarr CL, Boucher Y. 2014. Vibrio metoecus sp. nov., a close relative of Vibrio cholerae isolated from coastal brackish ponds and clinical specimens. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology, 64(9): 3208-3214. [view]
Orata FD, Keim PS, Boucher Y. 2014. The 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti: how science solved a controversy. PLoS Pathogens, 10(4): e1003967. [view]
Nasreen T, Case RJ, Boucher Y. 2013. Lateral gene transfer and microbial diversity. In: Nelson KE, editor. Encyclopedia of Metagenomics – Genes, Genomes, and Metagenomes: Basics, Methods, Databases, and Tools. New York City, NY: Springer US. pp. 347-352. [view]