B. Spratt

B. Spratt, D. Aanensen, S. Morand, 2004, Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases.

Melioidosis in Birds and Burkholderia pseudomallei Dispersal, Australia

B. Spratt, D. Godoy, S. Garnett, 2011, Emerging infectious diseases.

Influence of Recombination and Niche Separation on the Population Genetic Structure of the Pathogen Streptococcus pyogenes

B. Spratt, M. Enright, D. Bessen, 2002, Infection and Immunity.

Loss-of-function mutations in the mtr efflux system of Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

B. Spratt, W. Shafer, W. Pan, 1998, Microbiology.

Resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae to antimicrobial hydrophobic agents is modulated by the mtrRCDE efflux system.

B. Spratt, W. Shafer, W. Pan, 1995, Microbiology.

Identification of Melioidosis Outbreak by Multilocus Variable Number Tandem Repeat Analysis

B. Spratt, D. Godoy, P. Keim, 2009, Emerging infectious diseases.

The multilocus sequence typing network: mlst.net

David M. Aanensen, Brian G. Spratt, B. Spratt, 2005, Nucleic Acids Res..

Predicting Phenotype and Emerging Strains among Chlamydia trachomatis Infections

W. Bruno, G. Myers, T. Read, 2009, Emerging infectious diseases.

A genomic portrait of the emergence, evolution, and global spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pandemic

Julian Parkhill, Vanya Gant, Zhemin Zhou, 2013, Genome research.

Database-driven Multi Locus Sequence Typing (MLST) of bacterial pathogens

Martin C. J. Maiden, Brian G. Spratt, Man-Suen Chan, 2001, Bioinform..

Horizontal spread of an altered penicillin-binding protein 2B gene between Streptococcus pneumoniae and Streptococcus oralis.

B. Spratt, C. Dowson, T. Coffey, 1993, FEMS microbiology letters.

Pneumonia and Septicemia Caused by Burkholderia thailandensis in the United States

A. Steigerwalt, B. Spratt, D. Godoy, 2006, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

The impact of homologous recombination on the generation of diversity in bacteria.

C. Fraser, W. Hanage, B. Spratt, 2006, Journal of theoretical biology.

Nonrandom Distribution of Burkholderia pseudomallei Clones in Relation to Geographical Location and Virulence

B. Spratt, E. Feil, N. Day, 2006, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Primary ocular melioidosis due to a single genotype of Burkholderia pseudomallei in two cats from Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory of Australia

B. Spratt, D. Godoy, M. Krockenberger, 2009, Journal of feline medicine and surgery.

Global and regional dissemination and evolution of Burkholderia pseudomallei

J. Corander, G. Dougan, J. Parkhill, 2017, Nature Microbiology.

Burkholderia pseudomallei Genotype Distribution in the Northern Territory, Australia.

B. Spratt, B. Currie, M. Kaestli, 2016, The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene.

Isolates of Burkholderia pseudomallei from Northern Australia Are Distinct by Multilocus Sequence Typing, but Strain Types Do Not Correlate with Clinical Presentation

B. Spratt, D. Godoy, A. Cheng, 2004, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Assessing the reliability of eBURST using simulated populations with known ancestry

Thomas R Connor, Christophe Fraser, C. Fraser, 2007, BMC Microbiology.

Epidemiological Tracking and Population Assignment of the Non-Clonal Bacterium, Burkholderia pseudomallei

J. Foster, B. Spratt, D. Godoy, 2011, PLoS neglected tropical diseases.

Characterization of Encapsulated and Noncapsulated Haemophilus influenzae and Determination of Phylogenetic Relationships by Multilocus Sequence Typing

T. Popović, B. Spratt, E. Feil, 2003, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Genetic Analysis of the Capsular Biosynthetic Locus from All 90 Pneumococcal Serotypes

Julian Parkhill, Bart Barrell, Michael A Quail, 2006, PLoS genetics.

Sequence evolution of the porB gene of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis: evidence of positive Darwinian selection.

B. Spratt, J. Maynard Smith, N. Smith, 1995, Molecular biology and evolution.

The nucleotide sequences of the ponA and ponB genes encoding penicillin-binding protein 1A and 1B of Escherichia coli K12.

B. Spratt, S. Yousif, J. Broome-Smith, 1985, European journal of biochemistry.

Penicillin-binding proteins and the future of beta-lactam antibiotics. The Seventh Fleming Lecture.

B. Spratt, B G Spratt, 1983, Journal of General Microbiology.

Opinion: Re-evaluating prokaryotic species.

Tom Coenye, Jean Swings, Edward J Feil, 2005, Nature reviews. Microbiology.

Preparation and characterization of monoclonal antibodies against native membrane-bound penicillin-binding protein 1B of Escherichia coli

B. Spratt, A. Kolk, N. Nanninga, 1989, Journal of bacteriology.

Recruitment of a penicillin-binding protein gene from Neisseria flavescens during the emergence of penicillin resistance in Neisseria meningitidis.

B. Spratt, J. Brannigan, C. Dowson, 1989, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Rapid Evolution of Virulence and Drug Resistance in the Emerging Zoonotic Pathogen Streptococcus suis

I. Goodhead, M. Quail, K. Mungall, 2009, PloS one.

Localized sex in bacteria

Christopher G. Dowson, Brian G. Spratt, John Maynard Smith, 1991, Nature.

Correction: Risk Factors of Streptococcus suis Infection in Vietnam. A Case-Control Study

J. Farrar, B. Spratt, C. Schultsz, 2011, PLoS ONE.

Risk Factors of Streptococcus suis Infection in Vietnam. A Case-Control Study

J. Farrar, B. Spratt, C. Schultsz, 2011, PloS one.

John Maynard Smith (1920-2004).

B. Spratt, 2004, Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases.

Networks and groups within the genus Neisseria: analysis of argF, recA, rho, and 16S rRNA sequences from human Neisseria species.

E. Holmes, B. Spratt, N. Smith, 1999, Molecular biology and evolution.

Microreact: visualizing and sharing data for genomic epidemiology and phylogeography

Khalil Abudahab, David M. Aanensen, Corin A. Yeats, 2016, Microbial genomics.

A Single Multilocus Sequence Typing (MLST) Scheme for Seven Pathogenic Leptospira Species

A. Hoffmaster, B. Spratt, D. Aanensen, 2013, PLoS neglected tropical diseases.

Neutral microepidemic evolution of bacterial pathogens.

Christophe Fraser, C. Fraser, W. Hanage, 2005, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Assigning strains to bacterial species via the internet

Gregory E. Jordan, W. Hanage, B. Spratt, 2009, BMC Biology.

Clonal relationships between invasive and carriage Streptococcus pneumoniae and serotype- and clone-specific differences in invasive disease potential.

B. Spratt, T. Peto, D. Crook, 2003, The Journal of infectious diseases.

How Clonal Is Staphylococcus aureus?

B. Spratt, E. Feil, John M Smith, 2003, Journal of bacteriology.

Distribution of Burkholderia pseudomallei in Northern Australia, a Land of Diversity

B. Spratt, B. Currie, M. Kaestli, 2014, Applied and Environmental Microbiology.

Burkholderia pseudomallei in Unchlorinated Domestic Bore Water, Tropical Northern Australia

B. Spratt, D. Godoy, A. Cheng, 2011, Emerging infectious diseases.

Melioidosis in New Caledonia

B. Spratt, D. Godoy, B. Currie, 2005, Emerging infectious diseases.

Sequences, sequence clusters and bacterial species

C. Fraser, W. Hanage, B. Spratt, 2006, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Representational difference analysis of cDNA for the detection of differential gene expression in bacteria: development using a model of iron-regulated gene expression in Neisseria meningitidis.

B. Spratt, M. Hubank, L. Bowler, 1999, Microbiology.

Bacterial population genetics, evolution and epidemiology.

B. Spratt, M. Maiden, M. Maiden, 1999, Philosophical transactions of the Royal Society of London. Series B, Biological sciences.

Estimating recombinational parameters in Streptococcus pneumoniae from multilocus sequence typing data.

J. M. Smith, B. Spratt, E. Feil, 2000, Genetics.

Penicillin‐binding protein 2 genes of non‐β‐lactamase‐producing, penicillin‐resistant strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae

B. Spratt, C. Dowson, A. Jephcott, 1989, Molecular microbiology.

Physiological and genetical studies on a mutant of Salmonella typhimurium which is temperature-sensitive for DNA synthesis

B. Spratt, R. Rowbury, 2004, Molecular and General Genetics MGG.

Correction: Risk Factors of Streptococcus suis Infection in Vietnam. A Case-Control Study

J. Farrar, B. Spratt, C. Schultsz, 2011, PLoS ONE.

Effects of Streptococcus pneumoniae Strain Background on Complement Resistance

W. Hanage, B. Spratt, B. Henriques-Normark, 2011, PloS one.

Exploring the concept of clonality in bacteria.

B. Spratt, 2004, Methods in molecular biology.

Horizontal transfer of multiple penicillin‐binding protein genes, and capsular biosynthetic genes, in natural populations of Streptococcus pneumoniae

J. Zhou, B. Spratt, J. Musser, 1991, Molecular microbiology.

Penicillin-resistant viridans streptococci have obtained altered penicillin-binding protein genes from penicillin-resistant strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae.

B. Spratt, N. Woodford, C. Dowson, 1990, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America.

Modelling bacterial speciation

Christophe Fraser, C. Fraser, W. Hanage, 2006, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Role of interspecies transfer of chromosomal genes in the evolution of penicillin resistance in pathogenic and commensal Neisseria species

B. Spratt, John M Smith, L. Bowler, 1992, Journal of Molecular Evolution.

Interspecies recombination between the penA genes of Neisseria meningitidis and commensal Neisseria species during the emergence of penicillin resistance in N. meningitidis: natural events and laboratory simulation

B. Spratt, J. Riou, L. Bowler, 1994, Journal of bacteriology.

Multilocus Models of Bacterial Population Genetics

C. Fraser, W. Hanage, B. Spratt, 2008 .

Introduction: species and speciation in micro-organisms

J. T. Staley, B. Spratt, M. Fisher, 2006, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Ecological separation and genetic isolation of Neisseria gonorrhoeae and Neisseria meningitidis

B. Spratt, N. Smith, M. O'rourke, 1993, Current Biology.

Geographical Location and Virulence Clones in Relation to pseudomallei Burkholderia Nonrandom Distribution of

B. Spratt, E. Feil, N. White, 2006 .

The plasmid of Salmonella typhimurium LT2

B. Spratt, G. Meynell, R. Rowbury, 1973, Molecular and General Genetics MGG.

Population Genetics of Bacterial Pathogens

B. Spratt, E. Feil, N. Smith, 2002 .

Ability of Pneumococcal Serotypes and Clones To Cause Acute Otitis Media: Implications for the Prevention of Otitis Media by Conjugate Vaccines

K. Auranen, W. Hanage, B. Spratt, 2004, Infection and Immunity.

Hybrid penicillin-binding proteins in penicillin-resistant strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae

B. Spratt, 1988, Nature.

Diversity of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Strains Isolated from Inpatients of 30 Hospitals in Orange County, California

B. Spratt, M. Enright, L. Hudson, 2013, PloS one.

from Residents of 26 Nursing Homes in Staphylococcus aureus Strains Isolated Diversity of Methicillin-Resistant

B. Spratt, M. Enright, Orange County, 2014 .

Diversity of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains Isolated from Residents of 26 Nursing Homes in Orange County, California

B. Spratt, D. Godoy, M. Enright, 2013, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Regulation of the permeability of the gonococcal cell envelope by the mtr system

B. Spratt, Wubin Pan, 1994, Molecular microbiology.

Differences in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains Isolated from Pediatric and Adult Patients from Hospitals in a Large County in California

B. Spratt, M. Enright, L. Hudson, 2011, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Extensive variation in the ddl gene of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae results from a hitchhiking effect driven by the penicillin-binding protein 2b gene.

B. Spratt, M. Enright, Brian G. Spratt, 1999, Molecular biology and evolution.

Interspecies recombinational events during the evolution of altered PBP 2x genes in penicillin‐resistant clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae

B. Spratt, G. Laible, R. Hakenbeck, 1991, Molecular microbiology.

Amino acid substitutions that reduce the affinity of penicillin-binding protein 3 of Escherichia coli for cephalexin.

B. Spratt, P. Hedge, Brian G. Spratt, 1985, European journal of biochemistry.

Health Hazards of Depleted Uranium Munitions: Estimates of Exposures and Risks in the Gulf War, the Balkans, and Iraq

B. Spratt, 2006 .

Pediatric and Adult Patients from Hospitals in a Large California County

B. Spratt, L. Hudson, Courtney R. Murphy, 2012 .

Estimating the relative contributions of mutation and recombination to clonal diversification: a comparison between Neisseria meningitidis and Streptococcus pneumoniae.

B. Spratt, E. Feil, M. Enright, 2000, Research in microbiology.

Genetic diversity of penicillin-binding protein 2B and 2X genes from Streptococcus pneumoniae in South Africa

B. Spratt, K. Klugman, A. Smith, 1993, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

Meningococcal conjugate vaccines: new opportunities and new challenges

B. Spratt, Martin CJ Miiden, Martin CJ Miiden, 1999, The Lancet.

EpiCollect+: linking smartphones to web applications for complex data collection projects

David M. Aanensen, Brian G. Spratt, Mirko Menegazzo, 2014, F1000Research.

Multilocus Sequence Typing of Streptococcus pyogenes Representing Most Known emm Types and Distinctions among Subpopulation Genetic Structures

B. Spratt, D. Bessen, A. Kalia, 2004, Journal of bacteriology.

Special feature on evolution and genetics in medicine

R. Anderson, B. Spratt, 2015, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

Improved multilocus sequence typing of Burkholderia pseudomallei and closely related species.

B. Spratt, B. Currie, D. Wagner, 2016, Journal of medical microbiology.

Predicting High Prevalence of Community Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains in Nursing Homes

B. Spratt, D. Mukamel, Bruce Y. Lee, 2013, Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

Whole-Genome Sequencing Confirms that Burkholderia pseudomallei Multilocus Sequence Types Common to Both Cambodia and Australia Are Due to Homoplasy

P. Vandamme, J. Parkhill, B. Spratt, 2014, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Molecular characterization of clinical Burkholderia pseudomallei isolates from India.

B. Spratt, D. Godoy, P. Keim, 2011, The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene.

Population genetic structuring of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone EMRSA-15 within UK reflects patient referral patterns

J. Parkhill, S. Bentley, B. Spratt, 2017, Microbial genomics.

Genetic diversity of penicillin-binding protein 2 genes of penicillin-resistant strains of Neisseria meningitidis revealed by fingerprinting of amplified DNA

B. Spratt, D. M. Jones, E. Trallero, 1990, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

Origin and molecular epidemiology of penicillin-binding-protein-mediated resistance to beta-lactam antibiotics.

B. Spratt, C. Dowson, T. Coffey, 1994, Trends in microbiology.

Directional Gene Movement from Human-Pathogenic to Commensal-Like Streptococci

B. Spratt, M. Enright, D. Bessen, 2001, Infection and Immunity.

Displaying the relatedness among isolates of bacterial species -- the eBURST approach.

Edward J Feil, W. Hanage, B. Spratt, 2004, FEMS microbiology letters.

Mecillinam resistance in Escherichia coli: dissociation of growth inhibition and morphologic change.

B. Spratt, A. Barbour, L. Mayer, 1981, The Journal of infectious diseases.

The balance between different peptidoglycan precursors determines whether Escherichia coli cells will elongate or divide

B. Spratt, D. H. Edwards, H. Matsuzawa, 1990, Journal of bacteriology.

WebACT - an online companion for the Artemis Comparison Tool

Kim Rutherford, David M. Aanensen, Sarah A. Butcher, 2005, Bioinform..

Evolution of the immune system in humans from infancy to old age

A. McMichael, B. Spratt, G. Holländer, 2015, Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences.

One Contribution to the Special Feature 'evolution and Genetics in Medicine' Guest Edited Progress and Promise in Understanding the Genetic Basis of Common Diseases

P. Donnelly, C. Spencer, A. Price, 2022 .

Endemic Melioidosis in Residents of Desert Region after Atypically Intense Rainfall in Central Australia, 2011

I. Bastian, B. Spratt, B. Currie, 2015, Emerging infectious diseases.

Charles Darwin University Burkholderia pseudomallei Genotype Distribution in the Northern Territory, Australia Chapple,

B. Spratt, B. Currie, M. Kaestli, 2015 .

The mutation Lys234His yields a class A beta-lactamase with a novel pH-dependence.

J. Frère, B. Spratt, B. Joris, 1991, The Biochemical journal.

Penicillin-resistant isolates of Neisseria lactamica produce altered forms of penicillin-binding protein 2 that arose by interspecies horizontal gene transfer

B. Spratt, Dennis M. Jones, J. Nieto, 1991, Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy.

Production of thiol‐penicillin‐binding protein 3 of Escherichia coli using a two primer method of site‐directed mutagenesis.

B. Spratt, P. Hedge, J. Broome-Smith, 1985, The EMBO journal.

Identification of the rodA gene product of Escherichia coli

B. Spratt, J. M. Pratt, N. Stoker, 1983, Journal of bacteriology.

One Contribution to the Special Feature 'evolution and Genetics in Medicine' Guest Edited Gene Therapy: Progress and Predictions

Mary Collins, B. Spratt, A. Thrasher, 2022 .

Bayesian semi-supervised classification of bacterial samples using MLST databases

Jukka Corander, Lu Cheng, David M. Aanensen, 2011, BMC Bioinformatics.

Glutamate spillover suppresses inhibition by activating presynaptic mGluRs

B. Barrell, R. Silver, Simon J. Mitchell, 2000, Nature.

An amino acid substitution that blocks the deacylation step in the enzyme mechanism of penicillin‐binding protein 5 of Escherichia coli

B. Spratt, J. Broome-Smith, 1984, FEBS letters.

Interspecies recombination In nature: a meningococcus that has acquired a gonococcal PIB porin

B. Spratt, E. Feil, M. O'rourke, 1995, Molecular microbiology.

Predictors of Hospitals with Endemic Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

B. Spratt, M. Enright, Courtney R. Murphy, 2013, Infection Control & Hospital Epidemiology.

UvA-DARE ( Digital Academic Repository ) Predicting phenotype and emerging strains among Chlamydia trachomatis infections

W. Bruno, G. Myers, T. Read, 2022 .

Concordance between Neisseria gonorrhoeae Genotypes Recovered from Known Sexual Contacts

B. Spratt, G. Bell, G. Kinghorn, 2007, Journal of Clinical Microbiology.

Transmission of Streptococcus pneumoniae in an urban slum community.

G. Ribeiro, M. Reis, B. Spratt, 2008, The Journal of infection.

Epidemiology and molecular basis of penicillin-resistant Neisseria meningitidis in Spain: a 5-year history (1985-1989).

B. Spratt, M. Viñas, J. Martínez-Suárez, 1992, Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America.

A comparison of the nucleotide sequences of theadk andrecA genes of pathogenic and commensalNeisseria species: Evidence for extensive interspecies recombination withinadk

B. Spratt, E. Feil, John M Smith, 1996, Journal of Molecular Evolution.

The Bacterial Species Challenge: Making Sense of Genetic and Ecological Diversity

C. Fraser, W. Hanage, B. Spratt, 2009, Science.

Cell division in a mutant of Salmonella typhimurium which is temperature-sensitive for DNA synthesis.

B. Spratt, R. Rowbury, 1971, Journal of general microbiology.

Bayesian semi-supervised classification of bacterial samples using MLST databases

J. Corander, B. Spratt, D. Aanensen, 2011, BMC Bioinformatics.

One Contribution to the Special Feature 'evolution and Genetics in Medicine' Guest Edited Gene Therapy: Progress and Predictions

B. Spratt, A. Thrasher, M. Collins, 2022 .