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Identification of Pathogenicity-Associated Loci in Klebsiella pneumoniae from Hospitalized Patients.

Rebekah M Martin, Jie Cao, Weisheng Wu, Lili Zhao, David M Manthei, Ali Pirani, Evan Snitkin, Preeti N Malani, Krishna Rao, Michael A Bachman

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Article in mSystems. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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31citing papers in PubMed, 2 pooled it
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 15% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

31 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 60 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

10 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Rebekah M MartinDepartment of Pathology, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-9729-0283
Jie CaoDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Weisheng WuBRCF Bioinformatics Core, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Lili ZhaoDepartment of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
David M MantheiDepartment of Pathology, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Ali PiraniDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Evan SnitkinDepartment of Microbiology and Immunology, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Preeti N MalaniDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.
Krishna RaoDivision of Infectious Diseases, Department of Internal Medicine, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-9213-7850
Michael A BachmanDepartment of Pathology, Michigan Medicine, Ann Arbor, Michigan, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2507-6987
Michigan Medicine · USUniversity of Michigan · US

Funding

Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MICHR)UL1TR002240 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI LUMENG, JULIE C, MASHOUR, GEORGE ALEXANDER · 2017 to 2022
$54.9M
Michigan Institute for Clinical and Health Research (MCHR)UL1TR000433 · NCATS · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI MASHOUR, GEORGE ALEXANDER · 2012 to 2016
$49.9M
Integrated modeling of Klebsiella pneumoniae infections based on bacterial genotype, patient factors and colonization statusR01AI125307 · NIAID · UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN AT ANN ARBOR · PI BACHMAN, MICHAEL ABBOTT · 2017 to 2021
$2.6M
NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR000433NCATS NIH HHS UL1 TR002240NIAID NIH HHS R01 AI125307
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite insights gained through experimental models, the set of bacterial genes important for human infection is unclear for many of our most threatening pathogens. Klebsiella pneumoniae is a leading cause of health care-associated infections (HAIs) and commonly colonizes hospitalized patients, but the factors that determine whether a particular isolate causes disease or remains a colonizer are poorly understood. To identify bacterial genes associated with K. pneumoniae infection, a case-control study was performed comparing infected and asymptomatic colonized patients. Comparative bacterial genomics was combined with a conditional logit model that identified patient factors differentiating cases from controls. This method identified five gene loci associated with infection after adjustment for patient factors, including a psicose sugar utilization locus that was validated as a fitness factor during mouse lung infection. These results indicate that bacterial genome-wide association studies of patients can identify loci associated with HAIs and important in infection models.

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comparative genomicsintestinal colonizationKlebsiellapathogenesispsicosetellurite

Identifiers

PMID29963640
PMCPMC6020474
OpenAlexW2811291303

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