Yunxing He

Clinical and molecular epidemiology of type 2 diabetes mellitus-associated intestinal Staphylococcus aureus colonization

ABSTRACT Intestinal Staphylococcus aureus colonization in type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) remains poorly defined with respect to prevalence, clinical associations, and molecular characteristics. We investigated intestinal S. aureus colonization in 142 patients with T2DM and chara...

Hybrid long-read sequencing reveals genomic homogeneity, blaZ copy-number variation, and phenotypic adaptation of the emerging Asian ST188 MSSA lineage from pediatric gut and vaginal colonization sites, Southern China

Staphylococcus aureus ( S. aureus ) ST188 has emerged as an important methicillin-susceptible clonal lineage in Asia and is frequently associated with human colonization and community-acquired infections. This study investigates ST188 isolates from aerobic vaginitis and pediatric...