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2024
Liu AJ, Dennis ASM, Fariha Z, Pai Mangalore R, Macesic N. Multidrug-resistant organism bloodstream infections in solid organ transplant recipients and impact on mortality: a systematic review. JAC Antimicrob Resist. 2024 Oct 9;6(5):dlae152. doi: 10.1093/jacamr/dlae152. PMID: 39386374; PMCID: PMC11463335.
Nguyen H-A, Peleg AY, Song J, Antony B, Webb GI, Wisniewski JA, Blakeway LV, Badoordeen GZ, Theegala R, Zisis H, Dowe DL, Macesic N. Predicting Pseudomonas aeruginosa drug resistance using artificial intelligence and clinical MALDI-TOF mass spectra. mSystems. 2024 Sep 17;9(9):e0078924. doi: 10.1128/msystems.00789-24. Epub 2024 Aug 16. PMID: 39150244; PMCID: PMC11406958.
Lappan R, Chown SL, French M, Perlaza-Jiménez L, Macesic N, Davis M, Brown R, Cheng A, Clasen T, Conlan L, Goddard F, Henry R, Knight DR, Li F, Luby S, Lyras D, Ni G, Rice SA, Short F, Song J, Whittaker A, Leder K, Lithgow T, Greening C. Towards integrated cross-sectoral surveillance of pathogens and antimicrobial resistance: Needs, approaches, and considerations for linking surveillance to action. Environ Int. 2024 Oct;192:109046. doi: 10.1016/j.envint.2024.109046. Epub 2024 Oct 2. PMID: 39378692.
Macesic N, Dennis A, Hawkey J, Vezina B, Wisniewski JA, Cottingham H, Blakeway LV, Harshegyi T, Pragastis K, Badoordeen GZ, Bass P, Stewardson AJ, Dennison A, Spelman DW, Jenney AWJ, Peleg AY. Genomic investigation of multispecies and multivariant blaNDM outbreak reveals key role of horizontal plasmid transmission. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2024 Jun;45(6):709-716. doi: 10.1017/ice.2024.8. Epub 2024 Feb 12. PMID: 38344902; PMCID: PMC11102827.
2023
Macesic N, Hawkey J, Vezina B, Wisniewski JA, Cottingham H, Blakeway LV, Harshegyi T, Pragastis K, Badoordeen GZ, Dennison A, Spelman DW, Jenney AWJ, Peleg AY. Genomic dissection of endemic carbapenem resistance reveals metallo-beta-lactamase dissemination through clonal, plasmid and integron transfer. Nat Commun. 2023 Aug 8;14(1):4764. doi: 10.1038/s41467-023-39915-2. PMID: 37553339; PMCID: PMC10409761.
Ramakrishnaiah Y, Macesic N, Webb GI, Peleg AY, Tyagi S. EHR-QC: A streamlined pipeline for automated electronic health records standardisation and preprocessing to predict clinical outcomes. J Biomed Inform. 2023 Nov;147:104509. doi: 10.1016/j.jbi.2023.104509. Epub 2023 Oct 11. PMID: 37827477.
2025
Macesic N, Uhlemann AC, Peleg AY. Multidrug-resistant Gram-negative bacterial infections. Lancet. 2025 Jan 18;405(10474):257-272. doi: 10.1016/S0140-6736(24)02081-6. PMID: 39826970.
Vezina B, Morampalli BR, Nguyen HA, Gomez-Simmonds A, Peleg AY, Macesic N. The rise and global spread of IMP carbapenemases (1996-2023): a genomic epidemiology study. Nat Commun. 2025 Dec 9;17(1):183. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-66874-7. PMID: 41366207; PMCID: PMC12780205.
Nguyen HA, Peleg AY, Song J, Wisniewski JA, Blakeway LV, Badoordeen GZ, Theegala R, Doan NQ, Parker MH, Dowe DL, Macesic N. Complex pathways to ceftolozane-tazobactam resistance in clinical Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates: a genomic epidemiology study. Clin Microbiol Infect. 2026 Jan;32(1):110-117. doi: 10.1016/j.cmi.2025.09.015. Epub 2025 Sep 26. PMID: 41016595.
Subedi D, Gordillo Altamirano F, Deehan R, Perera A, Patwa R, Kostoulias X, Korneev D, Blakeway L, Macesic N, Peleg AY, Barr JJ. Rational design of a hospital-specific phage cocktail to treat Enterobacter cloacae complex infections. Nat Microbiol. 2025 Nov;10(11):2702-2719. doi: 10.1038/s41564-025-02130-4. Epub 2025 Sep 24. Erratum in: Nat Microbiol. 2025 Dec;10(12):3364. doi: 10.1038/s41564-025-02163-9. PMID: 40993246; PMCID: PMC12578640.
Greutmann M, Borgwardt K, Brüningk S, Franzeck F, Giske CG, Green AG, Guerrero-López A, Ip M, Jutzeler C, Kahles A, Krauthammer M, Macesic N, McFadden B, Meijer E, Moore N, Moran-Gilad J, Lboukili I, Nolte O, Patel R, Schneider G, Seeger MA, Sethi T, Skov RL, Yoon CH, Rodríguez-Sánchez B, Egli A. ESCMID workshop: Artificial intelligence and machine learning in medical microbiology diagnostics. Microbes Infect. 2025 Sep 5:105562. doi: 10.1016/j.micinf.2025.105562. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40915468.
Macesic N, Cottingham H, Wisniewski JA, Blakeway LV, Theegala R, Pragastis K, Stewardson A, Bass P, Gritt M, Spilsbury S, Del Rosario-Kelly D, Dennison A, Spelman DW, Jenney AWJ, Peleg AY. Hospital Enterococcus faecium demonstrates distinct environmental and patient reservoirs: a genomic point prevalence survey. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol. 2025 Mar 21;46(5):1-4. doi: 10.1017/ice.2025.27. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 40114494; PMCID: PMC12034451.
Ramakrishnaiah Y, Macesic N, Webb GI, Peleg AY, Tyagi S. EHR-ML: A data-driven framework for designing machine learning applications with electronic health records. Int J Med Inform. 2025 Apr;196:105816. doi: 10.1016/j.ijmedinf.2025.105816. Epub 2025 Jan 28. PMID: 39891983.
Fu Y, Morris FC, Pereira SC, Kostoulias X, Jiang Y, Vidor C, Williams G, Srikhanta Y, Macesic N, Yu Y, Lyras D, Peleg AY. Mechanisms of blaIMP-4 dissemination across diverse carbapenem-resistant clinical isolates. J Glob Antimicrob Resist. 2025 Mar;41:189-194. doi: 10.1016/j.jgar.2025.01.003. Epub 2025 Jan 16. PMID: 39826686.
Cottingham H, Judd LM, Wisniewski JA, Wick RR, Stanton TD, Vezina B, Macesic N, Peleg AY, Okeke IN, Holt KE, Hawkey J. Targeted sequencing of Enterobacterales bacteria using CRISPR-Cas9 enrichment and Oxford Nanopore Technologies. mSystems. 2025 Feb 18;10(2):e0141324. doi: 10.1128/msystems.01413-24. Epub 2025 Jan 8. PMID: 39772804; PMCID: PMC11834407.