Dieter Bulach

Development of a free radical scavenging probiotic to mitigate coral bleaching

Ashley Dungan, Dieter Bulach, Heyu Lin, Madeleine van Oppen, Linda Blackall

Journal article  |  2020

ABSTRACT Corals are colonized by symbiotic microorganisms that exert a profound influence on the animal’s health. One noted symbio..

Temporal transcriptome profiling of Microchloropsis gaditana CCMP526 under hyper-saline conditions

Anbarasu Karthikaichamy, John Beardall, Ross Coppel, Santosh Noronha, Sanjeeva Srivastava, Dieter Bulach

Journal article  |  2020

Microalgae can tolerate a wide range of environmental conditions and have been exploited for their lipid and carbohydrate accumula..

Hayes Yard virus: a novel ephemerovirus isolated from a bull with severe clinical signs of bovine ephemeral fever is most closely related to Puchong virus

Kim R Blasdell, Steven S Davis, Rhonda Voysey, Dieter M Bulach, Deborah Middleton, Sinead Williams, Margaret B Harmsen, Richard P Weir, Sandra Crameri, Susan J Walsh, Grantley R Peck, Robert B Tesh, David B Boyle, Lorna F Melville, Peter J Walker

Journal article  |  2020  |  Veterinary Research

Bovine ephemeral fever is a vector-borne disease of ruminants that occurs in tropical and sub-tropical regions of Africa, Asia and..

Gut microbiome of native Arab Kuwaitis

Erica Plummer, Dieter Bulach, Glen Carter, M John Albert

Journal article  |  2020  |  Gut Pathogens

Salmonella from a Microtidal Estuary Are Capable of Invading Human Intestinal Cell Lines

Mahbubul H Siddiqee, Rebekah Henry, Ana Deletic, Dieter M Bulach, Rhys A Coleman, David T McCarthy

Journal article  |  2020  |  Microbial Ecology

Faecal contamination poses health risks for the recreational users of urban estuaries. However, our understanding of the potential..

Gardnerella vaginalis Clade Distribution Is Associated With Behavioral Practices and Nugent Score in Women Who Have Sex With Women

Erica L Plummer, Lenka A Vodstrcil, Gerald L Murray, Christopher K Fairley, Jennifer A Danielewski, Suzanne M Garland, Eric PF Chow, Dieter M Bulach, Katherine A Fethers, Jane S Hocking, Catriona S Bradshaw

Journal article  |  2020  |  The Journal of Infectious Diseases

BACKGROUND: Gardnerella vaginalis is detected in women with and without bacterial vaginosis (BV). Identification of 4 G. vaginalis..

Molecular characterization of Campylobacter spp. recovered from beef, chicken, lamb and pork products at retail in Australia.

Rhiannon L Wallace, Dieter M Bulach, Amy V Jennison, Mary Valcanis, Angus McLure, James J Smith, Trudy Graham, Themy Saputra, Simon Firestone, Sally Symes, Natasha Waters, Anastasia Stylianopoulos, Martyn D Kirk, Kathryn Glass

Journal article  |  2020  |  PLOS ONE

Australian rates of campylobacteriosis are among the highest in developed countries, yet only limited work has been done to charac..

Temporal development of the oral microbiome and prediction of early childhood caries

SG Dashper, HL Mitchell, K-A Le Cao, L Carpenter, MG Gussy, H Calache, SL Gladman, DM Bulach, B Hoffmann, D Catmull, S Pruilh, S Johnson, L Gibbs, E Amezdroz, U Bhatnagar, T Seemann, G Mnatzaganian, DJ Manton, EC Reynolds

Journal article  |  2019  |  Scientific Reports

Human microbiomes are predicted to assemble in a reproducible and ordered manner yet there is limited knowledge on the development..

Sexual practices have a significant impact on the vaginal microbiota of women who have sex with women

Erica L Plummer, Lenka A Vodstrcil, Christopher K Fairley, Sepehr N Tabrizi, Suzanne M Garland, Matthew G Law, Jane S Hocking, Katherine A Fethers, Dieter M Bulach, Gerald L Murray, Catriona S Bradshaw

Journal article  |  2019  |  Scientific Reports

Women-who-have-sex-with-women (WSW) are at increased risk of bacterial vaginosis (BV). We investigated the impact of practices and..

Extended sequencing of vaccine and wild-type capripoxvirus isolates provides insights into genes modulating virulence and host range

Siddhartha Biswas, Ryan S Noyce, Lorne A Babiuk, Oliver Lung, Dieter M Bulach, Timothy R Bowden, David B Boyle, Shawn Babiuk, David H Evans

Journal article  |  2019  |  Transboundary and Emerging Diseases

COMBINED ORAL AND TOPICAL ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY FOR MALE PARTNERS OF WOMEN WITH BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS: A PILOT STUDY

Erica Plummer, Lenka Vodstrcil, Christopher Fairley, Jennifer Danielewski, Gerald Murray, Michelle Doyle, Glenda Fehler, Marti Kaiser, Colette Mcguinness, Suzanne Garland, Dieter Bulach, Eric Chow, Jane Hocking, Catriona Bradshaw

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Poster Presentations

GARDNERELLA VAGINALIS CLADE DISTRIBUTION IS ASSOCIATED WITH BEHAVIOURS AND NUGENT SCORE IN WOMEN WHO HAVE SEX WITH WOMEN

Erica Plummer, Lenka Vodstrcil, Gerald Murray, Christopher Fairley, Jennifer Danielewski, Suzanne Garland, Eric Chow, Dieter Bulach, Katherine Fethers, Jane Hocking, Catriona Bradshaw

Conference Proceedings  |  2019  |  Poster Presentations

Non-typhoidal Salmonella blood stream infection in Kuwait: Clinical and microbiological characteristics

M John Albert, Dieter Bulach, Wadha Alfouzan, Hidemasa Izumiya, Glen Carter, Khaled Alobaid, Fatemah Alatar, Abdul Rashid Sheikh, Laurent Poirel

Journal article  |  2019  |  PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Paeniclostridium sordellii and Clostridioides difficile encode similar and clinically relevant tetracycline resistance loci in diverse genomic locations

Callum J Vidor, Dieter Bulach, Milena Awad, Dena Lyras

Journal article  |  2019  |  BMC Microbiology

Wave 2 strains of atypical Vibrio cholerae El Tor caused the 2009-2011 cholera outbreak in Papua New Guinea

Andrew R Greenhill, Ankur Mutreja, Dieter Bulach, Matthew J Belousoff, Marinjho H Jonduo, Deirdre A Collins, Monalisa P Kas, Johanna Wapling, Torsten Seemann, Alice Lafana, Gordon Dougan, Mark Brown, Paul F Horwood

Journal article  |  2019  |  Microbial Genomics

Investigating locally relevant risk factors for Campylobacter infection in Australia: protocol for a case-control study and genomic analysis

Liana Varrone, Russell J Stafford, Kim Lilly, Linda Selvey, Kathryn Glass, Laura Ford, Dieter Bulach, Martyn D Kirk, Nigel P French, Mary Valcanis, Dieter Bulach, Emily Fearnley, Russell Stafford, John Bates, Trudy Graham, Keira Glasgow, Kirsty Hope, Arie H Havelaar, Joy Gregory, James Flint, et al.

Journal article  |  2018  |  BMJ Open

The changing landscape of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium in Australia: a population-level genomic study

Robyn S Lee, Anders Goncalves da Silva, Sarah L Baines, Janet Strachan, Susan Ballard, Glen P Carter, Jason C Kwong, Mark B Schultz, Dieter M Bulach, Torsten Seemann, Timothy P Stinear, Benjamin P Howden

Journal article  |  2018  |  Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Gut microbiota of preterm infants supplemented with probiotics: sub-study of the ProPrems trial

Erica L Plummer, Dieter M Bulach, Gerald L Murray, Susan E Jacobs, Sepehr N Tabrizi, Suzanne M Garland

Journal article  |  2018  |  BMC Microbiology

Emergence of High-Level Colistin Resistance in an Acinetobacter baumannii Clinical Isolate Mediated by Inactivation of the Global Regulator H-NS

Deanna Deveson Lucas, Bethany Crane, Amy Wright, Mei-Ling Han, Jennifer Moffatt, Dieter Bulach, Simon L Gladman, David Powell, Jesus Aranda, Torsten Seemann, Diana Machado, Teresa Pacheco, Teresa Marques, Miguel Viveiros, Roger Nation, Jian Li, Marina Harper, John D Boyce

Journal article  |  2018  |  Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy

The First Isolation and Whole Genome Sequencing of Murray Valley Encephalitis Virus from Cerebrospinal Fluid of a Patient with Encephalitis

Jessica S Russell, Leon Caly, Renata Kostecki, Sarah L McGuinness, Glen Carter, Dieter Bulach, Torsten Seemann, Tim P Stinear, Rob Baird, Mike Catton, Julian Druce

Journal article  |  2018  |  Viruses

Structure, Function, and Biosynthetic Origin of Octapeptin Antibiotics Active against Extensively Drug-Resistant Gram-Negative Bacteria

Tony Velkov, Alejandra Gallardo-Godoy, James D Swarbrick, Mark AT Blaskovich, Alysha G Elliott, Meiling Han, Philip E Thompson, Kade D Roberts, Johnny X Huang, Bernd Becker, Mark S Butler, Lawrence H Lash, Sonia Troeira Henriques, Roger L Nation, Sivashangarie Sivanesan, Marc-Antoine Sani, Frances Separovic, Haydyn Mertens, Dieter Bulach, Torsten Seemann, et al.

Journal article  |  2018  |  Cell Chemical Biology

Temporal acclimation of Microchloropsis gaditana CCMP526 in response to hypersalinity

Anbarasu Karthikaichamy, Pranali Deore, Sanjeeva Srivastava, Ross Coppel, Dieter Bulach, John Beardall, Santosh Noronha

Journal article  |  2018  |  Bioresource Technology

The changing landscape of VREfm in Victoria, Australia: a State-wide genomic snapshot

Robyn Lee, Anders Gonçalves da Silva, Sarah Baines, Janet Strachan, Susan Ballard, Glen Carter, Jason Kwong, Mark Schultz, Dieter Bulach, Torsten Seemann, Timothy Stinear, Benjamin Howden

Journal article  |  2018

Abstract Vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium (VREfm) represent a major source of nosocomial infection worldwide. In Australi..

Identification of large cryptic plasmids in Clostridioides (Clostridium) difficile

Jacob Amy, Dieter Bulach, Daniel Knight, Tom Riley, Priscilla Johanesen, Dena Lyras

Journal article  |  2018  |  Plasmid

Genomic epidemiology and antimicrobial resistance of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in New Zealand

Robyn S Lee, Torsten Seemann, Helen Heffernan, Jason C Kwong, Anders Goncalves da Silva, Glen P Carter, Rosemary Woodhouse, Kristin H Dyet, Dieter M Bulach, Timothy P Stinear, Benjamin P Howden, Deborah A Williamson

Journal article  |  2018  |  Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Clostridium sordellii Pathogenicity Locus Plasmid pCS1-1 Encodes a Novel Clostridial Conjugation Locus.

Callum J Vidor, Thomas D Watts, Vicki Adams, Dieter Bulach, Edward Couchman, Julian I Rood, Neil F Fairweather, Milena Awad, Dena Lyras

Journal article  |  2018  |  mBio

A major virulence factor in Clostridium sordellii-mediated infection is the toxin TcsL, which is encoded within a region of the ge..

Leptospiral Genomics and Pathogenesis

Dieter Bulach, Ben Adler

Book Chapter  |  2018  |  Current Topics in Microbiology and Immunology

Clostridium sordellii Pathogenicity Locus Plasmid pCS1-1 Encodes a Novel Clostridial Conjugation Locus

Callum J Vidor, Thomas D Watts, Vicki Adams, Dieter Bulach, Edward Couchman, Julian I Rood, Neil F Fairweather, Milena Awad, Dena Lyras

Journal article  |  2018  |  MBIO

Time for Multiple Extraction Methods in Proteomics? A Comparison of Three Protein Extraction Methods in the Eustigmatophyte Alga Microchloropsis gaditana CCMP526

Anbarasu Karthikaichamy, Pranali Deore, Vineeta Rai, Dieter Bulach, John Beardall, Santosh Noronha, Sanjeeva Srivastava

Journal article  |  2017  |  OMICS: A Journal of Integrative Biology

Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Transmission in a Ghanaian Burn Unit: The Importance of Active Surveillance in Resource-Limited Settings

Nana Ama Amissah, Andrew H Buultjens, Anthony Ablordey, Lieke van Dam, Ampomah Opoku-Ware, Sarah L Baines, Dieter Bulach, Caitlin S Tetteh, Isaac Prah, Tjip S van der Werf, Alexander W Friedrich, Torsten Seemann, Jan Maarten van Dijl, Ymkje Stienstra, Timothy P Stinear, John W Rossen

Journal article  |  2017  |  Frontiers in Microbiology

Carbuncle due to Salmonella Enteritidis: a novel presentation

Wadha Alfouzan, Dieter Bulach, Hidemasa Izumiya, Khaled AlBassam, Simin Sheikh, Nasser Alrubai'aan, M John Albert

Journal article  |  2017  |  Gut Pathogens

Gastric cancer-associated polymorphisms in the Helicobacter pylori type IV secretion system protein CagL: A potential biomarker for cancer risk

R Gorrell, H Alyahiwi, N Zwickel, J Reynolds, D Bulach, T Kwok

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  HELICOBACTER

Draft Genome Sequences of Two Strains of a Newly Described Species, Sphingobacterium cellulitidis

Torsten Seemann, Dieter M Bulach, Glen Carter, M John Albert

Journal article  |  2017  |  Genome Announcements

TEMPORAL ACCLIMATION OF NANNOCHLOROPSIS GADITANA CCMP526 IN RESPONSE TO HYPER-OSMOLARITY

A Karthikaichamy, P Deore, S Srivastava, RL Coppel, DM Bulach, J Beardall, SB Noronha

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  PHYCOLOGIA

Identification of very small open reading frames in the genomes of Holmes Jungle virus, Ord River virus, and Wongabel virus of the genus Hapavirus, family Rhabdoviridae

Aneta Gubala, Susan Walsh, Jane McAllister, Richard Weir, Steven Davis, Lorna Melville, Ian Mitchell, Dieter Bulach, Penny Gauci, Alex Skvortsov, David Boyle

Journal article  |  2017  |  Evolutionary Bioinformatics

MICROBIOLOGICAL FACTORS THAT CONTRIBUTE TO THE DEVELOPMENT OF BACTERIAL VAGINOSIS:A LONGITUDINAL STUDY

Catriona Bradshaw, Gerald Murray, Lenka Vodstrcil, Suzanne Garland, Erica Plummer, Agnes Tan, Jimmy Twin, Matthew Law, Jane Hocking, Dieter Bulach, Gayle Phillips, Christopher Fairley, Sepehr Tabrizi

Conference Proceedings  |  2017  |  Clinical Science

Genomic analysis of ST88 community-acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Ghana

Grace Kpeli, Andrew H Buultjens, Stefano Giulieri, Evelyn Owusu-Mireku, Samuel Y Aboagye, Sarah L Baines, Torsten Seemann, Dieter Bulach, Anders Goncalves da Silva, Ian R Monk, Benjamin P Howden, Gerd Pluschke, Dorothy Yeboah-Manu, Timothy Stinear

Journal article  |  2017  |  PEERJ

Global Gene Expression Profile of Acinetobacter baumannii During Bacteremia

Gerald L Murray, Kirill Tsyganov, Xenia P Kostoulias, Dieter M Bulach, David Powell, Darren J Creek, John D Boyce, Ian T Paulsen, Anton Y Peleg

Journal article  |  2017  |  The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Porphyromonas gingivalis Uses Specific Domain Rearrangements and Allelic Exchange to Generate Diversity in Surface Virulence Factors

Stuart G Dashper, Helen L Mitchell, Christine A Seers, Simon L Gladman, Torsten Seemann, Dieter M Bulach, P Scott Chandry, Keith J Cross, Steven M Cleal, Ericc Reynolds

Journal article  |  2017  |  FRONTIERS IN MICROBIOLOGY

A phylogenomic framework for assessing the global emergence and evolution of clonal complex 398 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Anders Goncalves da Silva, Sarah L Baines, Glen P Carter, Helen Heffernan, Nigel P French, Xiaoyun Ren, Torsten Seemann, Dieter Bulach, Jason Kwong, Timothy P Stinear, Benjamin P Howden, Deborah A Williamson

Journal article  |  2017  |  Microbial Genomics

CYP101J2, CYP101J3, and CYP101J4, 1,8-Cineole-Hydroxylating Cytochrome P450 Monooxygenases from Sphingobium yanoikuyae Strain B2

Birgit Unterweger, Dieter M Bulach, Judith Scoble, David J Midgley, Paul Greenfield, Dena Lyras, Priscilla Johanesen, Geoffrey J Dumsday

Journal article  |  2016  |  Applied and Environmental Microbiology

The NEAT Domain-Containing Proteins of Clostridium perfringens Bind Heme

Jocelyn M Choo, Jackie K Cheung, Jessica A Wisniewski, David L Steer, Dieter M Bulach, Thomas J Hiscox, Anjana Chakravorty, A Ian Smith, David A Gell, Julian I Rood, Milena M Awad

Journal article  |  2016  |  PLOS ONE

Possible healthcare-associated transmission as a cause of secondary infection and population structure of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from two wound treatment centres in Ghana.

G Kpeli, I Darko Otchere, A Lamelas, AL Buultjens, D Bulach, SL Baines, T Seemann, S Giulieri, Z Nakobu, SY Aboagye, E Owusu-Mireku, G Pluschke, TP Stinear, D Yeboah-Manu

Journal article  |  2016  |  New Microbes and New Infections

We have previously shown that secondary infections of Buruli ulcer wounds were frequently caused by Staphylococcus aureus. To gain..

Helicobacter pylori CagL Hypervariable Motif: A Global Analysis of Geographical Diversity and Association With Gastric Cancer

Rebecca J Gorrell, Nicolas Zwickel, John Reynolds, Dieter Bulach, Terry Kwok

Journal article  |  2016  |  Journal of Infectious Diseases

Rising incidence of invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W in Victoria

Katherine A Bond, Kerrie Stevens, Dieter Bulach, Kylie Carville, Katherine S Ong, Benjamin P Howden

Journal article  |  2016  |  MEDICAL JOURNAL OF AUSTRALIA

Rising incidence of invasive meningococcal disease caused by Neisseria meningitidis serogroup W in Victoria

Katherine A Bond, Kerrie Stevens, Dieter Bulach, Kylie Carville, Katherine S Ong, Benjamin P Howden

Journal article  |  2016  |  Medical Journal of Australia

Prospective Whole-Genome Sequencing Enhances National Surveillance of Listeria monocytogenes

Jason C Kwong, Karolina Mercoulia, Takehiro Tomita, Marion Easton, Hua Y Li, Dieter M Bulach, Timothy P Stinear, Torsten Seemann, Benjamin P Howden

Journal article  |  2016  |  JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

What Makes a Bacterial Species Pathogenic?: Comparative Genomic Analysis of the Genus Leptospira

Derrick E Fouts, Michael A Matthias, Haritha Adhikarla, Ben Adler, Luciane Amorim-Santos, Douglas E Berg, Dieter Bulach, Alejandro Buschiazzo, Yung-Fu Chang, Renee L Galloway, David A Haake, Daniel H Haft, Rudy Hartskeerl, Albert I Ko, Paul N Levett, James Matsunaga, Ariel E Mechaly, Jonathan M Monk, Ana LT Nascimento, Karen E Nelson, et al.

Journal article  |  2016  |  PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Functional Analysis of a Bacitracin Resistance Determinant Located on ICECp1, a Novel Tn916-Like Element from a Conjugative Plasmid in Clostridium perfringens

Xiaoyan Han, Xiang-Dang Du, Luke Southey, Dieter M Bulach, Torsten Seemann, Xu-Xia Yan, Trudi L Bannam, Julian I Rood

Journal article  |  2015  |  Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy

Plasmid partitioning systems of conjugative plasmids from Clostridium perfringens

Vicki Adams, Thomas D Watts, Dieter M Bulach, Dena Lyras, Julian I Rood

Journal article  |  2015  |  Plasmid

Complete Genome Sequence of Leptospira interrogans Serovar Bratislava, Strain PigK151

David P Alt, Jennifer H Wilson-Welder, Darrell O Bayles, Caroline Cameron, Ben Adler, Dieter M Bulach, Torsten Seemann, Michael J Lehane, Lee R Haines, Alistair C Darby, Neil Hall, Alan D Radford, Richard L Zuerner

Journal article  |  2015  |  Genome announcements

Natural Variation Identifies ICARUS1, a Universal Gene Required for Cell Proliferation and Growth at High Temperatures in Arabidopsis thaliana

Wangsheng Zhu, Israel Ausin, Andrei Seleznev, Belen Mendez-Vigo, F Xavier Pico, Sridevi Sureshkumar, Vignesh Sundaramoorthi, Dieter Bulach, David Powell, Torsten Seemann, Carlos Alonso-Blanco, Sureshkumar Balasubramanian

Journal article  |  2015  |  PLoS Genet

Genomic Characterisation of Three Mapputta Group Viruses, a Serogroup of Australian and Papua New Guinean Bunyaviruses Associated with Human Disease (vol 10, e0116561, 2015)

PJ Gauci, J McAllister, IR Mitchell, DB Boyle, DM Bulach, RP Weir

Journal article  |  2015  |  PLOS ONE

Genomic Characterisation of Three Mapputta Group Viruses, a Serogroup of Australian and Papua New Guinean Bunyaviruses Associated with Human Disease

Penelope J Gauci, Jane McAllister, Ian R Mitchell, David B Boyle, Dieter M Bulach, Richard P Weir, Lorna F Melville, Aneta J Gubala

Journal article  |  2015  |  PLOS ONE

Frequency Decomposition Based Gene Clustering

Md Abdur Rahman, Madhu Chetty, Dieter Bulach, Pramod P Wangikar

Conference Proceedings  |  2015  |  Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Isolation of Salmonella enterica Serovar Kentucky Strain ST 198 and Its H2S-Negative Variant from a Patient: Implications for Diagnosis

M John Albert, Khaled Al Obaid, Wadha Alfouzan, Abdul Rashid Sheikh, Edet Udo, Hidemasa Izumiya, Dieter M Bulach, Torsten Seemann

Journal article  |  2014  |  Journal of clinical microbiology

Genomic Evidence for a Globally Distributed, Bimodal Population in the Ovine Footrot Pathogen Dichelobacter nodosus

Ruth M Kennan, Marianne Gilhuus, Sara Frosth, Torsten Seemann, Om P Dhungyel, Richard J Whittington, John D Boyce, David R Powell, Anna Aspan, Hannah J Jorgensen, Dieter M Bulach, Julian I Rood

Journal article  |  2014  |  mBio

1,8-cineole-hydroxylating cytochrome P450s from Sphingobium yanoikuyae

Birgit Unterweger, David J Midgley, Paul Greenfield, Dieter M Bulach, Dena Lyras, Priscilla Johanesen, Geoffrey J Dumsday

Conference Proceedings  |  2014  |  New Biotechnology

Recombinant LipL32 stimulates interferon-gamma production in cattle vaccinated with a monovalent Leptospira borgpetersenii serovar Hardjo subtype Hardjobovis vaccine

Deanna S Deveson Lucas, Miranda Lo, Dieter M Bulach, Noelene S Quinsey, Gerald L Murray, Andy Allen, Ben Adler

Journal article  |  2014  |  Veterinary Microbiology

Genomic characterisation of Almpiwar virus, Harrison Dam virus and Walkabout Creek virus; three novel rhabdoviruses from northern Australia

J McAllister, PJ Gauci, IR Mitchell, DB Boyle, DM Bulach, RP Weir, LF Melville, SS Davis, AJ Gubala

Journal article  |  2014  |  Virology Reports

Use of a high-throughput screen to identify Leptospira mutants unable to colonize the carrier host or cause disease in the acute model of infection

Renee A Marcsisin, Thanatchaporn Bartpho, Dieter M Bulach, Amporn Srikram, Rasana W Sermswan, Ben Adler, Gerald L Murray

Journal article  |  2013  |  Journal of Medical Microbiology

Leptospiral Outer Membrane Protein LipL41 Is Not Essential for Acute Leptospirosis but Requires a Small Chaperone Protein, Lep, for Stable Expression

Amy M King, Thanatchaporn Bartpho, Rasana W Sermswan, Dieter M Bulach, Azad Eshghi, Mathieu Picardeau, Ben Adler, Gerald L Murray

Journal article  |  2013  |  Infection and Immunity

Precipitation of Iron on the Surface of Leptospira interrogans Is Associated with Mutation of the Stress Response Metalloprotease HtpX

Rebekah Henry, Miranda Lo, Chenai Khoo, Hailong Zhang, Reinhard I Boysen, Mathieu Picardeau, Gerald L Murray, Dieter M Bulach, Ben Adler

Journal article  |  2013  |  Applied and Environmental Microbiology

Evaluation of 238 antigens of Leptospira borgpetersenii serovar Hardjo for protection against kidney colonisation

Gerald L Murray, Miranda Lo, Dieter M Bulach, Amporn Srikram, Torsten Seemann, Noelene S Quinsey, Rasana W Sermswan, Andy Allen, Ben Adler

Journal article  |  2013  |  Vaccine

Malakal virus from Africa and Kimberley virus from Australia are geographic variants of a widely distributed ephemerovirus

Kim R Blasdell, Rhonda Voysey, Dieter M Bulach, Lee Trinidad, Robert B Tesh, David B Boyle, Peter J Walker

Journal article  |  2012  |  Virology

Koi Herpesvirus Encodes and Expresses a Functional Interleukin-10

Agus Sunarto, Clifford Liongue, Kenneth A McColl, Mathew M Adams, Dieter Bulach, Mark St J Crane, Karel A Schat, Barry Slobedman, Andrew C Barnes, Alister C Ward, Peter J Walker

Journal article  |  2012  |  Journal of Virology

Genomic Sequences of Australian Bluetongue Virus Prototype Serotypes Reveal Global Relationships and Possible Routes of Entry into Australia

David B Boyle, Dieter M Bulach, Rachel Amos-Ritchie, Mathew M Adams, Peter J Walker, Richard Weir

Journal article  |  2012  |  Journal of Virology

Comparative Analysis of the First Complete Enterococcus faecium Genome

Margaret MC Lam, Torsten Seemann, Dieter M Bulach, Simon L Gladman, Honglei Chen, Volker Haring, Robert J Moore, Susan Ballard, M Lindsay Grayson, Paul DR Johnson, Benjamin P Howden, Timothy P Stinear

Journal article  |  2012  |  Journal of Bacteriology

Molecular Characterization of a 21.4 Kilobase Antibiotic Resistance Plasmid from an alpha-Hemolytic Escherichia coli O108:H- Human Clinical Isolate

Fay E Dawes, Dieter M Bulach, Alexander Kuzevski, Karl A Bettelheim, Carola Venturini, Steven P Djordjevic, Mark J Walker

Journal article  |  2012  |  PLoS One

Kotonkan and Obodhiang viruses: African ephemeroviruses with large and complex genomes

Kim R Blasdell, Rhonda Voysey, Dieter Bulach, D Albert Joubert, Robert B Tesh, David B Boyle, Peter J Walker

Journal article  |  2012  |  Virology

Exploring the Zoonotic Potential of Mycobacterium avium Subspecies paratuberculosis through Comparative Genomics

James W Wynne, Tim J Bull, Torsten Seemann, Dieter M Bulach, Josef Wagner, Carl D Kirkwood, Wojtek P Michalski

Journal article  |  2011  |  PLoS One

The major surface Vsp proteins of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae form antigenic protein complexes

Timothy D Witchell, David E Hoke, Dieter M Bulach, Scott AJ Coutts, Steve J Driesen, Stuart J Cordwell, Ben Adler

Journal article  |  2011  |  Veterinary Microbiology

Molecular characterisation of Toll-like receptors in the black flying fox Pteropus alecto

Christopher Cowled, Michelle Baker, Mary Tachedjian, Peng Zhou, Dieter Bulach, Lin-Fa Wang

Journal article  |  2011  |  Developmental & Comparative Immunology

Resequencing the Mycobacterium avium subsp. paratuberculosis K10 Genome: Improved Annotation and Revised Genome Sequence

James W Wynne, Torsten Seemann, Dieter Bulach, Scott A Coutts, Adel M Talaat, Wojtek P Michalski

Journal article  |  2010  |  Journal of bacteriology

Molecular Analysis of H7 Avian Influenza Viruses from Australia and New Zealand: Genetic Diversity and Relationships from 1976 to 2007

Dieter Bulach, Rebecca Halpin, David Spiro, Laura Pomeroy, Daniel Janies, David B Boyle

Journal article  |  2010  |  Journal of Virology

Characterization of a lipopolysaccharide mutant of Leptospira derived by growth in the presence of an anti-lipopolysaccharide monoclonal antibody

Sonia Zapata, Gabriel Trueba, Dieter M Bulach, David Boucher, Ben Adler, Rudy Hartskeerl

Journal article  |  2010  |  FEMS Microbiology Letters

Establishment, Immortalisation and Characterisation of Pteropid Bat Cell Lines

Gary Crameri, Shawn Todd, Samantha Grimley, Jennifer A McEachern, Glenn A Marsh, Craig Smith, Mary Tachedjian, Carol De Jong, Elena R Virtue, Meng Yu, Dieter Bulach, Jun-Ping Liu, Wojtek P Michalski, Deborah Middleton, Hume E Field, Lin-Fa Wang

Journal article  |  2009  |  PLoS One

Comparative Transcriptional and Translational Analysis of Leptospiral Outer Membrane Protein Expression in Response to Temperature

Miranda Lo, Stuart J Cordwell, Dieter M Bulach, Ben Adler

Journal article  |  2009  |  PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases

Shiga Toxin-producing Escherichia coli Strains Negative for Locus of Enterocyte Effacement

Hayley J Newton, Joan Sloan, Dieter M Bulach, Torsten Seemann, Cody C Allison, Marija Tauschek, Roy M Robins-Browne, James C Paton, Thomas S Whittam, Adrienne W Paton, Elizabeth L Hartland

Journal article  |  2009  |  Emerging Infectious Diseases

Genome-Wide Transposon Mutagenesis in Pathogenic Leptospira Species

Gerald L Murray, Viviane Morel, Gustavo M Cerqueira, Julio Croda, Amporn Srikram, Rebekah Henry, Albert I Ko, Odir A Dellagostin, Dieter M Bulach, Rasana W Sermswan, Ben Adler, Mathieu Picardeau

Journal article  |  2009  |  Infection and Immunity

Conservation of the S10-spc-alpha Locus within Otherwise Highly Plastic Genomes Provides Phylogenetic Insight into the Genus Leptospira

Berta Victoria, Ahmed Ahmed, Richard L Zuerner, Niyaz Ahmed, Dieter M Bulach, Javier Quinteiro, Rudy A Hartskeerl

Journal article  |  2008  |  PLoS ONE

Genome Sequence of the Saprophyte Leptospira biflexa Provides Insights into the Evolution of Leptospira and the Pathogenesis of Leptospirosis

Mathieu Picardeau, Dieter M Bulach, Christiane Bouchier, Richard L Zuerner, Nora Zidane, Peter J Wilson, Sophie Creno, Elizabeth S Kuczek, Simona Bommezzadri, John C Davis, Annette McGrath, Matthew J Johnson, Caroline Boursaux-Eude, Torsten Seemann, Zoe Rouy, Ross L Coppel, Julian I Rood, Aurelie Lajus, John K Davies, Claudine Medigue, et al.

Journal article  |  2008  |  PLoS One

Constraint Minimization for Efficient Modeling of Gene Regulatory Network

Ramesh Ram, Madhu Chetty, Dieter Bulach

Conference Proceedings  |  2008  |  Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Molecular typing of Leptospira spp. based on putative O-antigen polymerase gene (wzy), the benefit over 16S rRNA gene sequence

Piyada Wangroongsarb, Teerarut Chanket, Kata Gunlabun, Do Hoang Long, Pedcharat Satheanmethakul, Siriporn Jetanadee, Janjira Thaipadungpanit, Vannaporn Wuthiekanun, Sharon J Peacock, Stuart D Blacksell, Lee D Smythe, Dieter M Bulach, Thareerat Kalambaheti

Journal article  |  2007  |  FEMS Microbiology Letters

Response of Leptospira interrogans to physiologic osmolarity: Relevance in signaling the environment-to-host transition

James Matsunaga, Miranda Lo, Dieter M Bulach, Richard L Zuerner, Ben Adler, David A Haake

Journal article  |  2007  |  Infection and Immunity

Conjugative plasmid transfer in Clostridiwn perfringens requires the Tcp locus, a descendant of an ancient version of Tn916.

Julian I Rood, Trudi L Bannam, Wee L Teng, Jennifer A Parsons, Dieter Bulach, Radhika Bantwal, Rachael Poon, Meredith Hughers, Vicki Adams, Dena Lyras, Rodney J Devenish

Conference Proceedings  |  2007  |  PLASMID

The organization of leptospira at a genomic level

DM Bulach, T Seemann, RL Zuerner, B Adler

Book Chapter  |  2006

Effects of temperature on gene expression patterns in Leptospira interrogans serovar Lai as assessed by whole-genome microarrays

Miranda Lo, Dieter M Bulach, David R Powell, David A Haake, James Matsunaga, Michael L Paustian, Richard L Zuerner, Ben Adler

Journal article  |  2006  |  Infection and Immunity

Genome reduction in Leptospira borgpetersenii reflects limited transmission potential

Dieter M Bulach, Richard L Zuerner, Peter Wilson, Torsten Seemann, Annette McGrath, Paul A Cullen, John Davis, Matthew Johnson, Elizabeth Kuczek, David P Alt, Brooke Peterson-Burch, Ross L Coppel, Julian I Rood, John K Davies, Ben Adler

Journal article  |  2006  |  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

Functional identification of conjugation and replication regions of the tetracycline resistance plasmid pCW3 from Clostridium perfringens

Trudi L Bannam, Wee Lin Teng, Dieter Bulach, Dena Lyras, Julian I Rood

Journal article  |  2006  |  Journal of Bacteriology

Differential expression of the Bhmp39 major outer membrane proteins of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae

Timothy D Witchell, Scott AJ Coutts, Dieter M Bulach, Ben Adler

Journal article  |  2006  |  Infection and Immunity

[Expression in Escherichia coli of the gspd(l) gene of the type II secretion system in Leptospira borgpetersenii serovariety hardjo].

Ernesto Armando Rodríguez Reyes, Paul Cullen, Dieter Bulach, Ben Adler, David Haake, Alejandro de la Peña-Moctezuma

Journal article  |  2005  |  Revista Cubana de Medicina Tropical

A fragment of 1.539 pb of the gene homologous to gspD of Hardjobovis was clonated in the pET28a vector and it was transformed into..

[Evaluation of the transcription of locus rfb for the biosynthesis of LPS in Leptospira interrogans subtype hardjoprajitno].

Erika Margarita Carrillo Casas, Raquel Rojano Ríos, Dieter Bulach, Ben Adler, Alejandro de la Peña-Moctezuma

Journal article  |  2005  |  Revista Cubana de Medicina Tropical

Plasmid pGL4W15-96 was constructed from the pGL4W74 vector without promoter for kanamycin and a sequence of 480pb containing the s..

A methylated phosphate group and four amide-linked acyl chains in Leptospira interrogans lipid A - The membrane anchor of an unusual lipopolysaccharide that activates TLR2

NLS Que-Gewirth, AA Ribeiro, SR Kalb, RJ Cotter, DM Bulach, B Adler, I Saint Girons, C Werts, CRH Raetz

Journal article  |  2004  |  Journal of Biological Chemistry

Identification and cloning of the gene encoding BmpC: an outer-membrane lipoprotein associated with Brachyspira pilosicoli membrane vesicles

DJ Trott, DP Alt, RL Zuerner, DM Bulach, MJ Wannemuehler, A Stasko, KM Townsend, TB Stanton

Journal article  |  2004  |  Microbiology

Identification and cloning of the gene encoding BmpC: An outer-membrane lipoprotein associated with Brachyspira pilosicoli membrane vesicles

DJ Trott, DP Alt, RL Zuerner, DM Bulach, MJ Wannemuehler, J Stasko, KM Townsend, TB Stanton

Journal article  |  2004  |  Microbiology

LipL21 is a novel surface-exposed lipoprotein of pathogenic Leptospira species

PA Cullen, DA Haake, DM Bulach, RL Zuerner, B Adler

Journal article  |  2003  |  Infection and Immunity

Characterization of a locus encoding four paralogous outer membrane lipoproteins of Brachyspira hyodysenteriae

PA Cullen, SAJ Coutts, SJ Cordwell, DM Bulach, B Adler

Journal article  |  2003  |  Microbes and Infection

Construction and evaluation of a plasmid vector for the expression of recombinant lipoproteins in Escherichia coli

PA Cullen, M Lo, DM Bulach, SJ Cordwell, B Adler

Journal article  |  2003  |  Plasmid

Global analysis of outer membrane proteins from Leptospira interrogans serovar Lai

PA Cullen, SJ Cordwell, DM Bulach, DA Haake, B Adler

Journal article  |  2002  |  Infection and Immunity

Genetic differences among the LPS biosynthetic loci of serovars of Leptospira interrogans and Leptospira borgpetersenii.

A de la Peña-Moctezuma, DM Bulach, B Adler

Journal article  |  2001  |  FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology

The gene organization in the lipopolysaccharide biosynthetic (rfb) locus was analyzed in seven Leptospira interrogans serovars wit..

Genetic differences among the LPS biosynthetic loci of serovars of Leptospira interrogans and Leptospira borgpetersenii

A de la Pena-Moctezuma, DM Bulach, B Adler

Journal article  |  2001  |  FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology

Genetic organization of the she pathogenicity island in Shigella flexneri 2a

K Al-Hasani, K Rajakumar, D Bulach, R Robins-Browne, B Adler, H Sakellaris

Journal article  |  2001  |  Microbial Pathogenesis

Lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis in Leptospira

DM Bulach, T Kalambaheti, A de la Pena-Moctezuma, B Adler

Journal article  |  2000  |  Journal of Molecular Microbiology and Biotechnology

Molecular analysis of human immunodeficiency virus strains associated with a case of criminal transmission of the virus

CJ Birch, RF McCaw, DM Bulach, PA Revill, JT Carter, J Tomnay, B Hatch, TV Middleton, D Chibo, MG Catton, JL Pankhurst, AM Bresckin, SA Locarnini, DS Bowden

Journal article  |  2000  |  The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Functional analysis of genes in the rfb locus of Leptospira borgpetersenii serovar Hardjo subtype Hardjobovis

DM Bulach, T Kalambaheti, A de la Pena-Moctezuma, B Adler

Journal article  |  2000  |  Infection and Immunity

Curli loci of Shigella spp.

H Sakellaris, NK Hannink, K Rajakumar, D Bulach, M Hunt, C Sasakawa, B Adler

Journal article  |  2000  |  Infection and Immunity

Candidate vaccine antigens and genes in Pasteurella multocida

B Adler, D Bulach, J Chung, S Doughty, M Hunt, K Rajakumar, M Serrano, A van Zanden, YM Zhang, C Ruffolo

Conference Proceedings  |  1999  |  Journal of Biotechnology

Comparative analysis of the LPS biosynthetic loci of the genetic subtypes of serovar Hardjo: Leptospira interrogans subtype Hardjoprajitno and Leptospira borgpetersenii subtype Hardjobovis

A de la Pena-Moctezuma, DM Bulach, T Kalambaheti, B Adler

Journal article  |  1999  |  FEMS Microbiology Letters

Genetic organization of the lipopolysaccharide O-antigen biosynthetic locus of Leptospira borgpetersenii serovar Hardjobovis

T Kalambaheti, DM Bulach, K Rajakumar, B Adler

Journal article  |  1999  |  Microbial Pathogenesis

Group II nucleopolyhedrovirus subgroups revealed by phylogenetic analysis of polyhedrin and DNA polymerase gene sequences

DM Bulach, CA Kumar, A Zaia, BF Liang, DE Tribe

Journal article  |  1999  |  Journal of Invertebrate Pathology

Serological titres to Leptospira fainei serovar hurstbridge in human sera in Australia

RJ Chappel, DA Khalik, B Adler, DM Bulach, S Faine, P Perolat, V Vallance

Journal article  |  1998  |  Epidemiology and Infection

Leptospira fainei sp, nov., isolated from pigs in Australia

P Perolat, RJ Chappel, B Adler, G Baranton, DM Bulach, ML Billinghurst, M Letocart, F Merien, MS Serrano

Journal article  |  1998  |  International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology

Genetically variable triplet repeats in a RING-finger ORF of Helicoverpa species baculoviruses

TH Le, TQ Wu, A Robertson, D Bulach, P Cowan, K Goodge, D Tribe

Journal article  |  1997  |  Virus Research

Identification and characterization of the dTDP-rhamnose biosynthesis and transfer genes of the lipopolysaccharide-related rfb locus in Leptospira interrogans serovar Copenhageni

M Mitchison, DM Bulach, T Vinh, K Rajakumar, S Faine, B Adler

Journal article  |  1997  |  Journal of bacteriology

Identification of a chromosomal Shigella flexneri multi-antibiotic resistance locus which shares sequence and organizational similarity with the resistance region of the plasmid NR1

K Rajakumar, D Bulach, J Davies, L Ambrose, C Sasakawa, B Adler

Journal article  |  1997  |  Plasmid

NUCLEOTIDE-SEQUENCE OF THE POLYHEDRIN GENE REGION OF HELICOVERPA-ZEA SINGLE NUCLEOCAPSID NUCLEAR POLYHEDROSIS-VIRUS - PLACEMENT OF THE VIRUS IN LEPIDOPTERAN NUCLEAR POLYHEDROSIS-VIRUS GROUP-II

P COWAN, D BULACH, K GOODGE, A ROBERTSON, DE TRIBE

Journal article  |  1994  |  Journal of General Virology

COMPARATIVE GENOME MAPPING OF BOVINE ENCEPHALITIS HERPESVIRUS, BOVINE HERPESVIRUS-1, AND BUFFALO HERPESVIRUS

DM BULACH, MJ STUDDERT

Journal article  |  1990  |  Archives of Virology

LATENCY OF EQUINE HERPESVIRUS-4 (EQUINE RHINOPNEUMONITIS VIRUS)

GF BROWNING, DM BULACH, N FICORILLI, EA ROY, BH THORP, MJ STUDDERT

Journal article  |  1988  |  Veterinary Record

EXAMINATION OF MYCOPLASMA-GALLISEPTICUM STRAINS USING RESTRICTION ENDONUCLEASE DNA ANALYSIS AND DNA-DNA HYBRIDIZATION

SH KLEVEN, GF BROWNING, DM BULACH, E GHIOCAS, CJ MORROW, KG WHITHEAR

Journal article  |  1988  |  Avian Pathology