Cataloging the phylogenetic diversity of human bladder bacterial isolates

Bladder-specific isolated bacterial genomes and gut-specific isolated E. coli genomes were used for the paper entitled 'Cataloging the phylogenetic diversity of human bladder bacterial isolates' in Genome Biology (2024).

Jingjie Du^1,&, Mark Khemmani¹, Thomas Halverson¹, Adriana Ene², Roberto Limeira³, Lana Tinawi³, Baylie R. Hochstedler-Kramer¹, Melline Fontes Noronha¹, Catherine Putonti^2,4, Alan J. Wolfe^1,3*

¹ Department of Microbiology & Immunology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL 60153

² Bioinformatics Program, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL 60660

³ Loyola Genomics Facility, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL 60153

⁴ Department of Biology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL 60660

^& Current address: Division of Nutritional Science, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY 14850

*Corresponding Author: Alan J. Wolfe, PhD

Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Stritch School of Medicine, Loyola University Chicago, Maywood, IL 60153 USA, awolfe@luc.edu

Running title: Genomic Catalog of Human Bladder Bacterial Isolates