Salvador Almagro-Moreno, PhD

Jayakumar JM, Martinez-Urtaza J, Brumfield KD, Jutla AS, Colwell RR, Cordero OX, Almagro-Moreno S*. (2024) Climate change and Vibrio vulnificus dynamics: a blueprint for infectious diseases. PLOS Pathogens 20(12):e1012767. 

Almagro-Moreno S*. (2024) The origins of pathogenesis. Nature Reviews Microbiology 22:259

Almagro-Moreno S* and Pukatzki S*. eds (2023) Vibrio spp. Infections (Book). Springer Nature. doi:10.1007/978-3-031-22997-8

Grant TA, López-Pérez M, Haro-Moreno JM, Almagro-Moreno S*. (2023) Allelic diversity uncovers protein domains contributing to the emergence of antimicrobial resistance. PLOS Genetics 19(3):e1010490

Ayala AJ, Munyenyembe K, Almagro-Moreno S*, Ogbunugafor CB*. (2023) Meteorological associations of Vibrio vulnificus clinical infections in tropical settings: Correlations with air pressure, wind speed, and temperature. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 17(7):e0011461

Roda-Garcia JJ, Haro-Moreno JM, Rodriguez-Valera F, Almagro-Moreno S, and López-Pérez M. (2023) Single-amplified genomics reveal most streamlined microbe among free-living bacteria.  Environmental Microbiology 25(6):1136-1154

Grant TA, Jayakumar JM, López-Pérez M, Almagro-Moreno S*. (2023) Vibrio floridensis spp. nov., a novel species closely related to the human pathogen Vibrio vulnificus isolated from a cyanobacterial bloom. International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 73:005675 

Almagro-Moreno S*. (2022) How bacterial pathogens emerge. American Scientist 110(3):162-169

Balasubramanian D, López-Pérez M, Grant TA, Ogbunugafor CB, Almagro-Moreno S*. (2022) Molecular mechanisms and drivers of pathogen emergence. Trends in Microbiology 30(9):898-911.

López-Pérez M, Jayakumar JM, Grant TA, Zaragoza-Solas A, Cabello-Yeves PJ, Almagro-Moreno S*. (2021) Ecological diversification reveals routes of pathogen emergence in endemic Vibrio vulnificus populations. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 118:e2103470118

Haro-Moreno JM, Hernandes Coutinho F, Zaragoza-Solas A, Picazo A, Almagro-Moreno S, López-Pérez M. (2020) Dysbiosis in marine aquaculture revealed through microbiome analysis: reverse ecology for environmental sustainability. FEMS Microbiology Ecology 96(12):fiaa218

Jayakumar JM, Balasubramanian D, Reddi G, Almagro-Moreno S*. (2020) Synergistic role of abiotic factors driving viable but non-culturable Vibrio cholerae. Environmental Microbiology Reports 12(4):454-465

Jayakumar JM, Shapiro OH, Almagro-Moreno S*. (2020) Improved method for transformation of Vibrio vulnificus by electroporation. Current Protocols in Microbiology 58(1):e106

Meszaros VA, Miller-Dickson MD, Baffour-Awuah F, Almagro-Moreno S, Ogbunugafor BC. (2020) Direct transmission via households informs models of disease and intervention dynamics in cholera. PLOS One 15(3): e0229837

López-Pérez M, Jayakumar JM, Haro-Moreno JM, Zaragoza-Solas A, Reddi G, Rodriguez-Valera F, Shapiro OH, Alam M, Almagro-Moreno S*. (2019) Genomic divergence and cluster evolution of the emergent marine pathogen Vibrio vulnificus: From genotype to ecotype. mBio 10:e02852-18

Reddi G, Pruss K, Cottingham K, Taylor RK, Almagro-Moreno S*. (2018) Catabolism of mucus components influences motility of Vibrio cholerae in the presence of environmental reservoirs. PLOS One 13(7):e0201383

Shapiro BJ, Levade I, Kovacikova GK, Taylor RK, Almagro-Moreno S*. (2017) Origins of pandemic Vibrio cholerae from environmental gene pools. Nature Microbiology 2:16240

Almagro-Moreno S*, Kim TK, Skorupski K, Taylor RK. (2015) Proteolysis of virulence regulator ToxR is associated with entry of Vibrio cholerae into a dormant state. PLOS Genetics 11(4):e1005145

Almagro-Moreno S*, Root MZ, Taylor RK. (2015) Role of ToxS in the proteolytic cascade of virulence regulator ToxR in Vibrio cholerae. Molecular Microbiology 98(5):963–976 

Almagro-Moreno S*, Pruss K, Taylor RK. (2015) Intestinal colonization dynamics of Vibrio cholerae. PLOS Pathogens 11(5):e1004787

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