Publications

2010

1.    Gal-Mor O, Valinsky L, Weinberger M, Guy S, Jaffe J, Schorr Y.I, Raisfeld A, Agmon V and Nissan I. (2010). Rapid and Clonal emergence of a multi-drug-resistant Salmonella enterica serotype Infantis in Israel. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 16(11):1754-7.
 

2011

2.    Nat F. Brown, Brian K. Coombes, Jenna L. Bishop, Mark E. Wickham, Michael J. Lowden, Ohad Gal-Mor, David L. Goode, Erin C. Boyle and B. Brett Finlay. (2011). Salmonella phage ST64B encodes a type III secreted effector. PLoS ONE. 18;6(3):e17824. 
 

3.    Gal-Mor O, Elhadad D, Deng W, Rahav G, Finlay BB. (2011). The Salmonella enterica PhoP Directly Activates the Horizontally Acquired SPI-2 Gene sseL and Is Functionally Different from a S. bongori Ortholog. PLoS ONE. 6(5):e20024. 

2012

4.    Ben-David D; Kordevani  R; Keller  N; Tal  I; Marzel  A; Gal-Mor O; Maor  Y; and Rahav  G. (2012). Outcome of Carbapenem Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Bloodstream Infections. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 18(1):54-60.

5.    Gal-Mor O, Suez J, Elhadad D, Porwollik S, Leshem E, Valinsky L, McClelland M, Schwartz E, Rahav G. (2012). Molecular and Cellular Characterization of a Salmonella enterica Serovar Paratyphi A Outbreak Strain and the Human Immune Response to Infection. Clinical and Vaccine Immunology. 19(2):146-156.

2013

6.    Jotham Suez, Steffen Porwollik, Amir Dagan, Alex Marzel1, Yosef Ilan Schorr, Prerak T Desai, Vered Agmon, Michael McClelland, Galia Rahav, and Ohad Gal-Mor. (2013). Virulence Gene Profiling and Pathogenicity Characterization of Non-Typhoidal Salmonella Accounted for Invasive Disease in Humans. PLoS ONE. 8(3): e58449. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0058449. 

7.    Shiraz Gefen-Halevi, Musa Hindiyeh, Debby Ben-David, Gill Smollan, Ohad Gal-Mor, Roberto Azar, Mariana Castanheira, Natasha Belausov, Galia Rahav, Ilana Tal, Ella Mendelson, and Nathan Keller. Isolation of Genetically not Related blaNDM-1 Positive Providencia rettgeri in Israel. (2013). Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 51(5):1642-3. 

2014

8.    Gili Aviv, Katherine Tsyba, Natalie Steck, Mali Salmon-Divon, Antje Cornelius, Galia Rahav, Guntram A, Grassl and Ohad Gal-Mor.  (2014). A Unique Megaplasmid Contributes to Stress Tolerance and Pathogenicity of an Emergent Salmonella enterica Serovar Infantis Strain. Environmental Microbiology. 16(4):977-94. Cover Article. 

9.    Alex Marzel, Prerak T. Desai, Israel Nissan, Yosef Ilan Schorr, Jotham Suez, Lea Valinsky, Abraham Reisfeld, Vered Agmon, Jean Guard, Michael McClelland, Galia Rahav and Ohad Gal-Mor. (2014). Integrative analysis of Salmonellosis in Israel reveals association of Salmonella enterica Serovar 9,12:l,v:- with extraintestinal infections, dissemination of endemic S. enterica Serovar Typhimurium DT104 biotypes, and severe underreporting of outbreaks.  Journal of Clinical Microbiology.  52(6):2078-88. 

10.    Ohad Gal-Mor, Erin C. Boyle, Guntram A. Grassl. (2014). Same species, different diseases: how and why typhoidal and non-typhoidal Salmonella enterica serovars differ. Frontiers in Microbiology. 5:391 doi: 10.3389/fmicb.2014.00391. 

2015

11.    Dana Elhadad, Michael McClelland, Galia Rahav and Ohad Gal-Mor. (2015) Fever-Like Temperature is a Virulence Regulatory Cue Controlling the Motility and Host Cell Invasion of Typhoidal Salmonella. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 212(1):147-56. 

12.    Dana Elhadad, Prerak Desai, Galia Rahav, Michael McClelland and Ohad Gal-Mor. (2015). Flagellin is required for host cell invasion and normal SPI-1 expression by Salmonella Paratyphi A. Infection and Immunity. 83(9):3355-68. Cover Article. 

13.    Shalhevet Azriel, Alina Goren, Galia Rahav, and Ohad Gal-Mor. (2015). The Stringent Response Regulator DksA is Required for Salmonella Typhimurium Growth in Minimal Media, Motility, Biofilm Formation and Intestinal Colonization. Infection and Immunity. 84(1):375-84. Cover Article.

2016

14.    Alex Marzel, Prerak T. Desai, Alina Goren, Yosef Schorr, Israel Nissan, Steffen Porwollik, Lea Valinsky, Michael McClelland, Galia Rahav, and Ohad Gal-Mor. (2016). Persistent Infections by Non-Typhoidal Salmonella in Humans: Epidemiology and Genetics. Clinical Infectious diseases. 62(7):879-86. Highlighted as Editor’s Choice.

15.    Dana Elhadad, Prerak Desai, Guntram A. Grassl,  Michael McClelland,  Galia Rahav,  Ohad Gal-Mor (2016). Differences in Host Cell Invasion and Salmonella Pathogenicity Island 1 Expression between Salmonella enterica Serovar Paratyphi A and Nontyphoidal S. Typhimurium. Infection and Immunity. 84(4):1150-65. 

16.    Michael McClelland, Alex Marzel, Prerak T. Desai, and Ohad Gal-Mor. (2016). Reply to Yue (Letter to the Editor). Clinical Infectious diseases. 62(10):1326-7. 

17.    Baker KS, Dallman TJ, Behar A, Weill FX, Gouali M, Sobel J, Fookes M, Valinsky L, Gal-Mor O, Connor TR, Nissan I, Bertrand S, Parkhill J, Jenkins C, Cohen D, Thomson NR. (2016). Travel- and Community-Based Transmission of Multidrug-Resistant Shigella sonnei Lineage among International Orthodox Jewish Communities. Emerging Infectious Diseases. 22(9):1545-53. 

18.    Shomer I, Avisar A, Desai P, Azriel S, Smollan G, Belausov N, Keller N, Glikman D, Maor Y, Peretz A, McClelland M, Rahav G and Gal-Mor O (2016). Genetic and phenotypic characterization of a Salmonella enterica serovar Enteritidis emerging strain with superior intra-macrophage replication phenotype. Frontiers in Microbiology. 7:1468. 

19.    Gili Aviv, Galia Rahav, and Ohad Gal-Mor (2016). Horizontal Transfer of the Salmonella enterica Serovar Infantis Resistance and Virulence Plasmid pESI to the Gut Microbiota of Warm-Blooded Hosts. mBIO. 7(5):e01395-16.

2017

20.    Gili Aviv, Laura Elpers,Svetlana Mikhlin, Shaul Vitman Zilber, Guntram A. Grassl, Galia Rahav, Michael Hensel and Ohad Gal-Mor. The plasmid-encoded Ipf and Fae fimbriae display different expression and varying roles in the virulence of Salmonella enterica serovar Infantis in mouse vs. avian hosts. PLoS Pathogens. 2017. 17;13(8):e1006559. 

21.    Shalhevet Azriel, Alina Goren, Inna Shomer, Gili Aviv, Galia Rahav, and Ohad Gal-Mor. The Typhi colonization factor (Tcf) is encoded by multiple non-typhoidal Salmonella serovars but exhibits a varying expression profile and interchanging contribution to intestinal colonization. Virulence. 2017 8(8):1791-1807. [Highlighted by a commissioned article (https://doi.org/10.1080/21505594.2017.1403711)].

2018

22.    Aviv G., Gal-Mor O. (2018) Real-Time Reverse Transcription PCR as a Tool to Study Virulence Gene Regulation in Bacterial Pathogens. In: Medina C., López-Baena F. (eds) Host-Pathogen Interactions. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1734, pp 23-32. Humana Press, New York, NY. 

23.    Aviv G., Gal-Mor O. (2018) Usage of a Bioluminescence Reporter System to Image Promoter Activity During Host Infection. In: Medina C., López-Baena F. (eds) Host-Pathogen Interactions. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1734, pp 33-38. Humana Press, New York, NY.

24.    Aviv G., Gal-Mor O. (2018) lacZ Reporter System as a Tool to Study Virulence Gene Regulation in Bacterial Pathogens. In: Medina C., López-Baena F. (eds) Host-Pathogen Interactions. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1734, pp 39-45. Humana Press, New York, NY.

25.    Aviv G., Gal-Mor O. (2018) Western Blotting Against Tagged Virulence Determinants to Study Bacterial Pathogenicity. In: Medina C., López-Baena F. (eds) Host-Pathogen Interactions. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 1734, pp 47-54. Humana Press, New York, NY.

26.    Ohad Gal-Mor. Persistent infection and long-term carriage of typhoidal and non-typhoidal Salmonella. Clinical Microbiology Reviews. 28;32(1), 2018. [Highlighted as a cover image]. 

2019

27.    Gili Aviv, Antje Cornelius, Maya Davidovich, Helit Cohen, Abdulhadi Suwandi, Alibek Galeev, Natalie Steck, Shalhevet Azriel, Assaf Rokney, Lea Valinsky, Galia Rahav, Guntram A. Grassl, and Ohad Gal-Mor. Differences in the expression of SPI-1 genes pathogenicity and epidemiology between the emerging Salmonella enterica serovar Infantis and the model Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium. Journal of Infectious Diseases. 2019. 220(6):1071-1081.

28.    Abdulhadi Suwandi, Alibek Galeev, René Riedel, Samriti Sharma, Katrin Seeger, Torsten Sterzenbach, Lucía García Pastor, Erin C. Boyle, Ohad Gal-Mor, Michael Hensel, Josep Casadesús, John F. Baines, and Guntram A. Grassl. Std fimbriae-fucose interaction increases Salmonella-induced intestinal inflammation and prolongs colonization. PLoS Pathogens. 2019. 15(7):e1007915.

2020

29.    Cohen E, Davidovich M, Rokney A, Valinsky L, Rahav G, Gal-Mor O. Emergence of new variants of antibiotic resistance genomic islands among multidrug-resistant Salmonella enterica in poultry. Environmental Microbiology. 2020 22(1):413-432.
 
30.    Cohen E, Rahav G, Gal-Mor O. Genome Sequence of an Emerging Salmonella enterica Serovar Infantis and Genomic Comparison with Other S. Infantis Strains. Genome Biology and Evolution. 2020 12(3):151-159.

2021

31.    Emiliano Cohen, Shalevet Azriel, Oren Auster, Adiv Gal, Carmel Zitronblat, Svetlana Mikhlin, Felix Scharte, Michael Hensel, Galia Rahav and Ohad Gal-Mor. Pathoadaptation of the passerine-associated Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium lineage to the avian host. PLoS Pathogens. 2021. 10.1371/journal.ppat.1009451. 

2022

32.    Helit Cohen, Boaz Adani, Emiliano Cohen, Bar Piscon, Shalhevet Azriel, Prerak Desaid, Michael McClelland, Galia Rahav, and Ohad Gal-Mor. The ancestral stringent response potentiator, DksA has been adapted throughout Salmonella evolution to orchestrate the expression of metabolic, motility, and virulence pathways. Gut Microbes. 2022. 14(1):1997294. 

33.    Haya Abbas-Egbariya; Yael Haberman; Tzipi Braun; Rotem Hadar; Lee A Denson; Ohad Gal-Mor; Amnon Amir. Meta-analysis defines predominant shared microbial responses in various diseases and a specific inflammatory bowel disease signal. Genome Biology. 2022. 23(1):61.

34.    Helit Cohen, Claire Hoede, Felix Scharte, Charles Coluzzi, Emiliano Cohen, Inna Shomer, Ludovic Mallet, Remy Felix Serre, Thomas Schiex, Isabelle Virlogeux-Payant, Guntram Grassl, Michael Hensel, Helene Chiapello, Ohad Gal-Mor. Intracellular Salmonella Paratyphi A is motile and differs in the expression of flagella-chemotaxis, SPI-1 and carbon utilization pathways in comparison to Intracellular S. Typhimurium. PLoS pathogen. 2022. 18(4):e1010425.

35.    Emiliano Cohen Or Kriger, Sharon Amit, Maya Davidovich, Galia Rahav, and Ohad Gal-Mor. The emergence of a multidrug resistant Salmonella Muenchen in Israel is associated with horizontal acquisition of the epidemic pESI plasmid. Clinical Microbiology and Infection. 2022. 28(11):1499.e7-1499.e14. 

36.    Rivka Shem-Tov and Ohad Gal-Mor. (2022) Profiling of secreted Type 3 secretion system substrates by Salmonella enterica.  In: Gal-Mor O (ed.) Bacterial Virulence - Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology Springer Nature. 2427:47-54.

37.    Michaël Koczerka, Isabelle Lantier, Anne Pinard, Marie Morillon, Justine Deperne, Ohad Gal-Mor, Olivier Grépinet, Isabelle Virlogeux-Payant. (2022) In vivo tracking of bacterial colonization in different murine models using bioluminescence: the example of Salmonella. In: Gal-Mor O (ed.) Bacterial Virulence - Methods and Protocols. Methods in Molecular Biology Springer Nature. 2427:235-248.

2023

38.    Bar Piscon Eliana Pia Esposito, Boris Fichtman, Guy Samburski, Lihi Efremushkin, Shimon Amselem, Amnon Harel, Galia Rahav, Raffaele Zarrilli, Ohad Gal-Mor. The Effect of Outer Space and Other Environmental Cues on Bacterial Conjugation. Microbiology Spectrum. 2023. 11(3):e0368822.

39.    Emiliano Cohen, Shalevet Azriel, Oren Auster, Adiv Gal, Svetlana Mikhlin, Sam Crauwels, Galia Rahav, Ohad Gal-Mor. A new Salmonella enterica serovar that was isolated from a wild sparrow presents a distinct genetic, metabolic and virulence profile. Microbes and Infection. 2024. 26(3):105249.

2024

40.    Alexandra Grote, Bar Piscon, Abigail L Manson, Boaz Adani, Helit Cohen, Jonathan Livny, Ashlee M Earl, Ohad Gal-Mor. Persistent Salmonella infections in humans are associated with mutations in the BarA/SirA regulatory pathway. Cell Host & Microbe. 2024. 10;32(1):79-92.e7.