Steven Hancock

Apr 16, 2024 | elifesciences.org | Minh-Duy Phan |Steven Hancock |Kate Peters |Laura Álvarez-Fraga

eLife assessment This valuable study presents findings characterising the genomic features of E. coli isolated from neonatal meningitis from seven countries, and documents bacterial persistence and reinfection in two case studies. The genomic analyses are solid, although the inclusion of a larger number of isolates from more diverse geographies would have strengthened the generalisability of findings.

Jan 9, 2024 | medrxiv.org | Minh-Duy Phan |Steven Hancock |Kate Peters |Laura Álvarez-Fraga

The authors have declared no competing interest. This study was funded by National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia, Children Hospital Foundation, Australian Infectious Diseases Research Centre, Genome Innovation Hub and the Wellcome Trust. I confirm all relevant ethical guidelines have been followed, and any necessary IRB and/or ethics committee approvals have been obtained.

Jun 22, 2023 | journals.plos.org | Zheng Lian |Molecular Biosciences |Minh-Duy Phan |Steven Hancock

The 810, parB_2, 930/940 and impCAB genes are broadly conservedTo investigate the conservation of these genes with adverse impacts upon overexpression within the I-complex, the coding sequences from pMS7163B were used in a tBLASTn query against the I-complex plasmid database to identify homologs.