Ruiting Lan

Publication List Details

Period

1992 - 2006

Number

18

Co-Authors

Sex and virulence in Escherichia coli: an evolutionary perspective (2006)

Wirth, Thierry, Falush, Daniel, Lan, Ruiting, Colles, Frances, Mensa, Patience, Wieler, Lothar H., ...

Pathogenic Escherichia coli cause over 160 million cases of dysentery and one million deaths per year, whereas non-pathogenic E. coli constitute part of the normal intestinal flora of healthy mammals...

Molecular Basis of Ribotype Variation in the Seventh Pandemic Clone and its O139 Variant of Vibrio cholerae (1998)

Ruiting Lan, Peter R Reeves

Ribotyping has been widely used to characterise the seventh pandemic clone including South American and O139 variants which appeared in 1991 and 1992 respectively. To reveal the molecular basis of...

Molecular Basis of Ribotype Variation in the Seventh Pandemic Clone and its O139 Variant of Vibrio cholerae (1998)

Lan,Ruiting, Reeves,Peter R

Ribotyping has been widely used to characterise the seventh pandemic clone including South American and O139 variants which appeared in 1991 and 1992 respectively. To reveal the molecular basis of...

Multiple independent origins of Shigella clones of Escherichia coli and convergent evolution of many of their characteristics

Pupo, Gulietta M., Lan, Ruiting, Reeves, Peter R.

The evolutionary relationships of 46 Shigella strains representing each of the serotypes belonging to the four traditional Shigella species (subgroups), Dysenteriae, Flexneri, Boydii, and Sonnei,...

Evolutionary Relationships of Pathogenic Clones of Vibrio cholerae by Sequence Analysis of Four Housekeeping Genes

Byun, Roy, Elbourne, Liam D. H., Lan, Ruiting, Reeves, Peter R.

Studies of the Vibrio cholerae population, using molecular typing techniques, have shown the existence of several pathogenic clones, mainly sixth-pandemic, seventh-pandemic, and U.S. Gulf Coast...

Comparison of Vibrio cholerae Pathogenicity Islands in Sixth and Seventh Pandemic Strains

Karaolis, David K. R., Lan, Ruiting, Kaper, James B., Reeves, Peter R.

Epidemic Vibrio cholerae strains possess a large cluster of essential virulence genes on the chromosome called the Vibrio pathogenicity island (VPI). The VPI contains the tcp gene cluster encoding...

Molecular Evolution of Large Virulence Plasmid in Shigella Clones and Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli

Lan, Ruiting, Lumb, Brad, Ryan, David, Reeves, Peter R.

Three genes, ipgD, mxiC, and mxiA, all in the invasion region of the Shigella virulence plasmid, were sequenced from strains representing a range of Shigella serotypes and from two enteroinvasive...

Variation of the Ribosomal Operon 16S-23S Gene Spacer Region in Representatives of Salmonella enterica Subspecies

Luz, Sara Pérez, Rodríguez-Valera, Francisco, Lan, Ruiting, Reeves, Peter R.

The 16S-23S spacer regions of two ribosomal operons (rrnA and rrnE) have been sequenced in seven representatives of the Salmonella enterica subspecies. Isolated nucleotide substitutions were found at...

Pandemic Spread of Cholera: Genetic Diversity and Relationships within the Seventh Pandemic Clone of Vibrio cholerae Determined by Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism

Lan, Ruiting, Reeves, Peter R.

The seventh cholera pandemic started in 1961 and continues today. A collection of 45 seventh pandemic isolates of V. cholerae sampled over a 33-year period were analyzed by amplified fragment length...

Fluorescent Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Analysis of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium Reveals Phage-Type- Specific Markers and Potential for Microarray Typing

Hu, Honghua, Lan, Ruiting, Reeves, Peter R.

Fluorescent amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) was applied to 46 Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium isolates of Australian origin comprising nine phage types, by using the restriction...

Comparison of Two Major Forms of the Shigella Virulence Plasmid pINV: Positive Selection Is a Major Force Driving the Divergence

Lan, Ruiting, Stevenson, Gordon, Reeves, Peter R.

All Shigella and enteroinvasive Escherichia coli (EIEC) strains carry a 230-kb virulence plasmid (pINV) which is essential for their invasiveness. There are two sequence forms, pINV A and pINV B, of...

Molecular Evolutionary Relationships of Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli and Shigella spp.

Lan, Ruiting, Alles, M. Chehani, Donohoe, Kathy, Martinez, Marina B., Reeves, Peter R.

Enteroinvasive Escherichia coli (EIEC), a distinctive pathogenic form of E. coli causing dysentery, is similar in many properties to bacteria placed in the four species of Shigella. Shigella has been...

Molecular Basis of the Indole-Negative Reaction in Shigella Strains: Extensive Damages to the tna Operon by Insertion Sequences

Rezwan, Ferdousi, Lan, Ruiting, Reeves, Peter R.

The molecular basis of the loss of tryptophan utilization (indole-negative phenotype) of Shigella strains, in effect clones of Escherichia coli, was investigated. Analysis of the tna operon of 23...

Evolutionary Changes of the flhDC Flagellar Master Operon in Shigella Strains

Tominaga, Akira, Lan, Ruiting, Reeves, Peter R.

Shigella strains are nonmotile. The master operon of flagellar synthesis, flhDC, was analyzed for genetic damage in 46 Shigella strains representing all known serotypes. In 11 strains (B1, B3, B6,...

Adaptation of Multilocus Sequencing for Studying Variation Within a Major Clone: Evolutionary Relationships of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium

Hu, Honghua, Lan, Ruiting, Reeves, Peter R.

Serovar Typhimurium of Salmonella enterica is a model organism for studies of pathogenesis that exhibits phage-type variation and variation in host range and virulence, but in a recent study showed...

Sex and virulence in Escherichia coli: an evolutionary perspective

Wirth, Thierry, Falush, Daniel, Lan, Ruiting, Colles, Frances, Mensa, Patience, Wieler, Lothar H, ...

Pathogenic Escherichia coli cause over 160 million cases of dysentery and one million deaths per year, whereas non-pathogenic E. coli constitute part of the normal intestinal flora of healthy mammals...

Single-Nucleotide-Polymorphism Typing and Genetic Relationships of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhi Isolates▿ †

Octavia, Sophie, Lan, Ruiting

Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi is a clone with a low level of variation. We developed a molecular typing method for serovar Typhi using 38 genome-wide single-nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) as...