Short-term genome evolution of Listeria monocytogenesin a non-controlled environment (2008)
Orsi, Renato H, Borowsky, Mark L, Lauer, Peter, Young, Sarah K, Nusbaum, Chad, Galagan, James E, ...
Abstract Background While increasing data on bacterial evolution in controlled environments are available, our understanding of bacterial genome evolution in natural environments is limited. We thus...
Synopses PulseNet: The Molecular Subtyping Network for Foodborne Bacterial Disease (2008)
Surveillance United States, Bala Swaminathan, Timothy J. Barrett, Susan B. Hunter, Robert V. Tauxe
PulseNet, the national molecular subtyping network for foodborne disease surveillance, was established by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and several state health department...
Short-term genome evolution of Listeria monocytogenes in a non-controlled environment (2008)
Orsi, Renato H., Borowsky, Mark L., Lauer, Peter, Young, Sarah K., Nusbaum, Chad, Galagan, James E., ...
Background: While increasing data on bacterial evolution in controlled environments are available, our understanding of bacterial genome evolution in natural environments is limited. We thus...
Data Handles and Virtual Connections: High-level Support for Anonymous Reconfiguration (2007)
Bala Swaminathan, Kenneth J. Goldman
Data handles and virtual connections are presented as a solution to the problem of supporting applicationdriven reconfiguration without sacrificing the separation of communication and computation....
Zhang, Wei, Qi, Weihong, Albert, Thomas J., Motiwala, Alifiya S., Alland, David, Hyytia-Trees, Eija K., ...
Infections by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 (STEC O157) are the predominant cause of bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome in the United States. In silico comparison of the...
Zhang, Wei, Qi, Weihong, Albert, Thomas J., Motiwala, Alifiya S., Alland, David, Hyytia-Trees, Eija K., ...
Infections by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 (STEC O157) are the predominant cause of bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome in the United States. In silico comparison of the...
Rapid Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Protocol for Subtyping of Campylobacter jejuni (2001)
Efrain M. Ribot, Collette Fitzgerald, Kristy Kubota, Bala Swaminathan, J. Barrett
We developed a rapid pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) protocol for subtyping Campylobacter isolates based on the standardized protocols used by PulseNet laboratories for the subtyping of other...
Dynamic Reconfiguration with I/O Abstraction (1995)
Saint Louis, Bala Swaminathan, Bala Swaminathan, Kenneth J. Goldman, Kenneth J. Goldman
ion Bala Swaminathan Kenneth J. Goldman WUCS-93-21 August 20 1993 Revised March 17 1995 Department of Computer Science Washington University Campus Box 1045 One Brookings Drive Saint Louis, MO...
Building Interactive Distributed Applications in C++ with The Programmers (1995)
Kenneth J. Goldman, T. Paul Mccartney, Ram Sethuraman, Bala Swaminathan, Todd Rodgers, Saint Louis
Contents 1 The Playground Philosophy 5 1.1 I/O abstraction : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : 6 1.2 Basic Concepts : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : : :...
An Incremental Distributed Algorithm for Computing Biconnected Components (1994)
Saint Louis, Bala Swaminathan, Bala Swaminathan, Kenneth J. Goldman, Kenneth J. Goldman
This paper describes a distributed algorithm for computing the biconnected components of a dynamically changing graph. Our algorithm has a worst case communication complexity of O(b + c) messages for...
The Programmers' Playground: I/O Abstraction for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems (1993)
Saint Louis, Kenneth J. Goldman, Kenneth J. Goldman, Michael D. Anderson And Bala Swaminathan, Michael D. Anderson, Bala Swaminathan, ...
ion for Heterogeneous Distributed Systems Kenneth J. Goldman, Michael D. Anderson and Bala Swaminathan WUCS-93-29 June 1993 (supersedes WUCS-92-32, revised 2/94) Department of Computer Science...
Saint Louis, Bala Swaminathan, Bala Swaminathan, Kenneth J. Goldman, Kenneth J. Goldman
We present a new proof methodology that uses dynamic process creation to capture the structure of recursive distributed algorithms. Each recursive invocation of a distributed algorithm is modeled as...
Maslanka, Susan E., Kerr, Jared G., Williams, Glen, Barbaree, James M., Carson, Loretta A., Miller, J. Michael, ...
Clostridium perfringens is a common cause of food-borne illness. The illness is characterized by profuse diarrhea and acute abdominal pain. Since the illness is usually self-limiting, many cases are...
Zirnstein, Gerald, Li, Yu, Swaminathan, Bala, Angulo, Frederick
The gyrA quinolone resistance determining region was sequenced from 13 ciprofloxacin-resistant and 20 ciprofloxacin-susceptible Campylobacter jejuni isolates. All isolates resistant to ciprofloxacin...
Matar, Ghassan M., Koehler, Jane E., Malcolm, Georgia, Lambert-Fair, Mary Ann, Tappero, Jordan, Hunter, Suzan B., ...
It is now established that two species of Bartonella, namely, Bartonella henselae and B. quintana, cause bacillary angiomatosis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients. In addition, B....
Rapid Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Protocol for Subtyping of Campylobacter jejuni
Ribot, Efrain M., Fitzgerald, Collette, Kubota, Kristy, Swaminathan, Bala, Barrett, Timothy J.
We developed a rapid pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) protocol for subtyping Campylobacter isolates based on the standardized protocols used by PulseNet laboratories for the subtyping of other...
Song, Qunsheng, Zirnstein, Gerald W., Swaminathan, Bala, Gold, Benjamin D.
Human saliva seeded with H. pylori was incubated in urea-HCl and then cultured on nonselective media. Pretreatment with 0.06 N HCl–0.08 M urea for 5 min at 37°C resulted in reproducible isolation...
Sails, Andrew D., Swaminathan, Bala, Fields, Patricia I.
Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) with SmaI were used to subtype 55 isolates of Campylobacter jejuni from a diverse range of human and animal sources...
Sails, Andrew D., Swaminathan, Bala, Fields, Patricia I.
Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) has been proven useful for the study of the global population structure of Campylobacter jejuni; however, its usefulness for the investigation of outbreaks of...
Evans, Matthew R., Swaminathan, Bala, Graves, Lewis M., Altermann, Eric, Klaenhammer, Todd R., Fink, Ryan C., ...
A small number of closely related strains of Listeria monocytogenes serotype 4b, designated epidemic clone I (ECI), have been implicated in numerous outbreaks of food-borne listeriosis described...
Probing genomic diversity and evolution of Escherichia coli O157 by single nucleotide polymorphisms
Zhang, Wei, Qi, Weihong, Albert, Thomas J., Motiwala, Alifiya S., Alland, David, Hyytia-Trees, Eija K., ...
Infections by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 (STEC O157) are the predominant cause of bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome in the United States. In silico comparison of the...
Maslanka, Susan E., Kerr, Jared G., Williams, Glen, Barbaree, James M., Carson, Loretta A., Miller, J. Michael, ...
Clostridium perfringens is a common cause of food-borne illness. The illness is characterized by profuse diarrhea and acute abdominal pain. Since the illness is usually self-limiting, many cases are...
Zirnstein, Gerald, Li, Yu, Swaminathan, Bala, Angulo, Frederick
The gyrA quinolone resistance determining region was sequenced from 13 ciprofloxacin-resistant and 20 ciprofloxacin-susceptible Campylobacter jejuni isolates. All isolates resistant to ciprofloxacin...
Matar, Ghassan M., Koehler, Jane E., Malcolm, Georgia, Lambert-Fair, Mary Ann, Tappero, Jordan, Hunter, Suzan B., ...
It is now established that two species of Bartonella, namely, Bartonella henselae and B. quintana, cause bacillary angiomatosis in human immunodeficiency virus-infected patients. In addition, B....
Rapid Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis Protocol for Subtyping of Campylobacter jejuni
Ribot, Efrain M., Fitzgerald, Collette, Kubota, Kristy, Swaminathan, Bala, Barrett, Timothy J.
We developed a rapid pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) protocol for subtyping Campylobacter isolates based on the standardized protocols used by PulseNet laboratories for the subtyping of other...
Song, Qunsheng, Zirnstein, Gerald W., Swaminathan, Bala, Gold, Benjamin D.
Human saliva seeded with H. pylori was incubated in urea-HCl and then cultured on nonselective media. Pretreatment with 0.06 N HCl–0.08 M urea for 5 min at 37°C resulted in reproducible isolation...
Sails, Andrew D., Swaminathan, Bala, Fields, Patricia I.
Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE) with SmaI were used to subtype 55 isolates of Campylobacter jejuni from a diverse range of human and animal sources...
Sails, Andrew D., Swaminathan, Bala, Fields, Patricia I.
Multilocus sequence typing (MLST) has been proven useful for the study of the global population structure of Campylobacter jejuni; however, its usefulness for the investigation of outbreaks of...
Evans, Matthew R., Swaminathan, Bala, Graves, Lewis M., Altermann, Eric, Klaenhammer, Todd R., Fink, Ryan C., ...
A small number of closely related strains of Listeria monocytogenes serotype 4b, designated epidemic clone I (ECI), have been implicated in numerous outbreaks of food-borne listeriosis described...
Probing genomic diversity and evolution of Escherichia coli O157 by single nucleotide polymorphisms
Zhang, Wei, Qi, Weihong, Albert, Thomas J., Motiwala, Alifiya S., Alland, David, Hyytia-Trees, Eija K., ...
Infections by Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O157:H7 (STEC O157) are the predominant cause of bloody diarrhea and hemolytic uremic syndrome in the United States. In silico comparison of the...
Variation in virulence among clades of Escherichia coli O157:H7 associated with disease outbreaks
Manning, Shannon D., Motiwala, Alifiya S., Springman, A. Cody, Qi, Weihong, Lacher, David W., Ouellette, Lindsey M., ...
Escherichia coli O157:H7, a toxin-producing food and waterborne bacterial pathogen, has been linked to large outbreaks of gastrointestinal illness for more than two decades. E. coli O157 causes a...
Kam, Kai Man, Luey, Cindy K. Y., Parsons, Michele B., Cooper, Kara L. F., Nair, G. B., Alam, M., ...
The pandemic spread of Vibrio parahaemolyticus is an international public health issue. Because of the outbreak potential of the organism, it is critical to establish an internationally recognized...