K. L. Wyres

This study identifies transmission clusters and plasmid exchange among Klebsiella strains in Grey-headed flying foxes, showing gene flow between bat and human-associated isolates.

This study identifies and characterizes linear plasmids in Klebsiella pneumoniae and other Enterobacteriaceae, revealing their phylogenetic diversity and potential for horizontal transfer.

The paper curates 37 strain-specific genome-scale metabolic models for Klebsiella pneumoniae species complex isolates, revealing strain-specific metabolic differences and gene essentiality.

This study analyzes the genomic changes in Klebsiella pneumoniae in Norway from 2001-2015, identifying the spread of ESBL-producing strains driven by CG307 and CG15.

This study identifies novel Klebsiella africana and Klebsiella pneumoniae strains in Australian fruit bats, finding low antimicrobial resistance and no hypervirulent or MDR strains.

The paper identifies hidden transmission of a carbapenemase-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae strain using genomic and metagenomic data from multiple studies.

This paper introduces a method using Kraken with a custom database to detect plasmid contigs in bacterial genome assemblies, showing improved performance over existing tools.

The paper investigates the diversity and evolution of surface polysaccharide synthesis loci in Enterobacteriales using comparative genomics across 27,334 genomes, revealing dynamics driven by horizontal gene transfer and selective preservation.

This paper creates curated databases for Acinetobacter baumannii capsular polysaccharide and outer core loci, compatible with Kaptive, and validates their utility in typing genome assemblies.

This study identifies diverse antimicrobial resistant and hypervirulent Klebsiella pneumoniae strains in South and Southeast Asia, highlighting the convergence of AMR and virulence genes.

The paper compares the evolutionary dynamics of horizontal gene transfer in drug-resistant and virulent Klebsiella pneumoniae clones to assess the risk of gene convergence.

The paper tracks the emergence and global spread of a CTX-M-15-producing K. pneumoniae strain ST307, showing it originated in the mid-1990s and is associated with a plasmid containing antimicrobial resistance genes.

The paper analyzes the prevalence and evolution of yersiniabactin-encoding mobile elements in Klebsiella pneumoniae using whole genome sequences, identifying diverse lineages and novel dispersal mechanisms.

Kaptive Web is an online tool for typing Klebsiella K and O loci in genome assemblies, showing extensive diversity in these loci among clinical isolates.

The paper investigates K. pneumoniae carriage and infection in geriatric wards, finding that most isolates originated from patients' gut microbiomes, while ESBL strains were acquired in the referring hospital.