New paper: E.coli have evolved multiple strategies to cause urinary tract infections

Congratulations Kaveri!

Network Analysis Reveals Sex- and Antibiotic Resistance-Associated Antivirulence Targets in Clinical Uropathogens

http://pubs.acs.org/doi/full/10.1021/acsinfecdis.5b00022

We teamed up with mathematician Peter Mucha at the University of North Carolina to apply the tools of network analysis to identify virulence gene patterns >300 clinical E.coli isolates . We found not only that these genes tend to appear in groups but that these groups also correspond to antibiotic resistance and patient sex! Some virulence "strategists" prefer males while others prefer females.