Selected PUBLICATIONS
1. Gili Aviv, Galia Rahav, and Ohad Gal-Mor. Horizontal Transfer of the Salmonella enterica Serovar Infantis Resistance and Virulence Plasmid pESI to the Gut Microbiota of Warm-Blooded Hosts. 2016. mBIO. 7(5):e01395-16.
2. 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.
3. 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.
4. 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.
5. 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.
6. 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. 2016 62(7):879-86. Highlighted as Editor’s Choice.
7. 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.
8. 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.
9. 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.
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.
11. 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.
12. 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.
13. 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.
14. 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.
15. 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.
16. 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.