Sam Manna

Insights into pneumococcal pneumonia using lung aspirates and nasopharyngeal swabs collected from pneumonia patients in The Gambia.

Eileen M Dunne, Yinglei Hua, Rasheed Salaudeen, Ilias Hossain, Malick Ndiaye, Belinda D Ortika, E Kim Mulholland, Jason Hinds, Sam Manna, Grant A Mackenzie, Catherine Satzke

Journal article  |  2020  |  Journal of Infectious Diseases

We investigated the pathogenesis of pneumococcal pneumonia using clinical specimens collected for pneumonia surveillance in The Ga..

Discovery of a Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 33F capsular polysaccharide locus that lacks wcjE and contains a wcyO pseudogene

Sam Manna, Eileen M Dunne, Belinda D Ortika, Casey L Pell, Mike Kama, Fiona M Russell, Tuya Mungun, E Kim Mulholland, Jason Hinds, Catherine Satzke

Journal article  |  2018  |  PLoS One

The transcriptomic response of Streptococcus pneumoniae following exposure to cigarette smoke extract

Sam Manna, Alicia Waring, Angelica Papanicolaou, Nathan E Hall, Steven Bozinovski, Eileen M Dunne, Catherine Satzke

Journal article  |  2018  |  Scientific Reports

Discovery of a Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 33F capsular polysaccharide locus that lacks wcjE and contains a wcyO pseudogene

Sam Manna, Eileen Dunne, Belinda Ortika, Casey Pell, Mike Kama, Fiona Russell, Tuya Mungun, Kim Mulholland, Jason Hinds, Catherine Satzke

Journal article  |  2018

Objectives As part of large on-going vaccine impact studies in Fiji and Mongolia, we identified 25/2750 (0.9%) of nasopharyngeal s..

A novel genetic variant of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 11A discovered in Fiji

S Manna, BD Ortika, EM Dunne, KE Holt, M Kama, FM Russell, J Hinds, C Satzke

Journal article  |  2018  |  Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Identification of Pif1 helicases with novel accessory domains in various amoebae

Ashley Harman, Sam Manna

Journal article  |  2016  |  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Horizontal gene transfer of a Chlamydial tRNA-guanine transglycosylase gene to eukaryotic microbes

Sam Manna, Ashley Harman

Journal article  |  2016  |  Molecular Phylogenetics and Evolution

Innovative biological approaches for monitoring and improving water quality

Sanja Aracic, Sam Manna, Steve Petrovski, Jennifer L Wiltshire, Guelay Mann, Ashley E Franks

Journal article  |  2015  |  Frontiers in Microbiology

An overview of pentatricopeptide repeat proteins and their applications

Sam Manna

Journal article  |  2015  |  Biochimie

Identification of a novel pentatricopeptide repeat subfamily with a C-terminal domain of bacterial origin acquired via ancient horizontal gene transfer.

Sam Manna, Christian Barth

Journal article  |  2013  |  BMC Research Notes

BACKGROUND: Pentatricopeptide repeat (PPR) proteins are a large family of sequence-specific RNA binding proteins involved in organ..