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Publications by Kristian Alfsnes

32 publications found

Original articles

Lamsal A, Edgar KS, Jenkins A, Renssen H, Kjaer LJ, Alfsnes K, Bastakoti S, Dieseth M, Klitgaard K, Lindstedt HEH, Paulsen KM, Vikse R, Korslund L, Kjelland V, Stuen S, Kjellander P, Christensson M, Teräväinen M, Jensen LM, Regmi M, Giri D, Marsteen L, Bødker R, Soleng A, Andreassen ÅK (2023)
Prevalence of tick-borne encephalitis virus in questing Ixodes ricinus nymphs in southern Scandinavia and the possible influence of meteorological factors
Zoonoses Public Health, 70 (6), 473-484
DOI 10.1111/zph.13049, PubMed 37248739

Brynildsrud OB, Watle SV, Alfsnes K, Caugant DA (2023)
Invasive meningococcal disease in Norway in the two decades before the COVID-19 pandemic
Int J Infect Dis, 131, 130-139
DOI 10.1016/j.ijid.2023.04.005, PubMed 37030654

Corwin LMB, Ingebretsen A, Campbell P, Alfsnes K, Müller F, Mauder N, Koomey M, Bjørnholt JV (2023)
Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy; can it be used as a rapid typing method of Neisseria gonorrhoeae?
J Microbiol Methods, 205, 106675
DOI 10.1016/j.mimet.2023.106675, PubMed 36681126

Vollan HS, Caugant DA, Eldholm V, Alfsnes K, Debech N, Brynildsrud O (2022)
Naturally occurring Neisseria gonorrhoeae can have large deletions in housekeeping gene abcZ, making them untypable with multilocus sequence typing
Microb Genom, 8 (9)
DOI 10.1099/mgen.0.000889, PubMed 36136059

Alfsnes K, Eldholm V, Gaunt MW, de Lamballerie X, Gould EA, Pettersson JH (2021)
Tracing and tracking the emergence, epidemiology and dispersal of dengue virus to Africa during the 20th century
One Health, 13, 100337
DOI 10.1016/j.onehlt.2021.100337, PubMed 34746356

Osnes MN, Alfsnes K, Bråte J, Garcia I, Riis RK, Instefjord KH, Elshaug H, Vollan HS, Moen LV, Pedersen BN, Caugant DA, Stene-Johansen K, Hungnes O, Bragstad K, Brynildsrud O, Eldholm V (2021)
The impact of global lineage dynamics, border restrictions, and emergence of the B.1.1.7 lineage on the SARS-CoV-2 epidemic in Norway
Virus Evol, 7 (2), veab086
DOI 10.1093/ve/veab086, PubMed 34659798

Abiriga D, Jenkins A, Alfsnes K, Vestgarden LS, Klempe H (2021)
Characterisation of the bacterial microbiota of a landfill-contaminated confined aquifer undergoing intrinsic remediation
Sci. Total Environ., 785, 147349
DOI 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.147349

Abiriga D, Jenkins A, Alfsnes K, Vestgarden LS, Klempe H (2021)
Spatiotemporal and seasonal dynamics in the microbial communities of a landfill-leachate contaminated aquifer
FEMS Microbiol Ecol, 97 (7)
DOI 10.1093/femsec/fiab086, PubMed 34137824

Osnes MN, Dorp LV, Brynildsrud OB, Alfsnes K, Schneiders T, Templeton KE, Yahara K, Balloux F, Caugant DA, Eldholm V (2021)
Antibiotic Treatment Regimes as a Driver of the Global Population Dynamics of a Major Gonorrhea Lineage
Mol Biol Evol, 38 (4), 1249-1261
DOI 10.1093/molbev/msaa282, PubMed 33432328

Alfsnes K, Lagerqvist N, Vene S, Bohlin J, Verner-Carlsson J, Ekqvist D, Bråve A, Holmes EC, Shi W, Pettersson JH (2021)
Retrospective meta-transcriptomic identification of severe dengue in a traveller returning from Africa to Sweden, 1990
One Health, 12, 100217
DOI 10.1016/j.onehlt.2021.100217, PubMed 33553563

Osnes MN, Didelot X, Korne-Elenbaas J, Alfsnes K, Brynildsrud OB, Syversen G, Nilsen ØJ, De Blasio BF, Caugant DA, Eldholm V (2020)
Sudden emergence of a Neisseria gonorrhoeae clade with reduced susceptibility to extended-spectrum cephalosporins, Norway
Microb Genom, 6 (12)
DOI 10.1099/mgen.0.000480, PubMed 33200978

Paulsen KM, Lamsal A, Bastakoti S, Pettersson JH, Pedersen BN, Stiasny K, Haglund M, Smura T, Vapalahti O, Vikse R, Alfsnes K, Andreassen ÅK (2020)
High-throughput sequencing of two European strains of tick-borne encephalitis virus (TBEV), Hochosterwitz and 1993/783
Ticks Tick Borne Dis, 12 (1), 101557
DOI 10.1016/j.ttbdis.2020.101557, PubMed 33080519

Alfsnes K, Eldholm V, Olsen AO, Brynildsrud OB, Bohlin J, Steinbakk M, Caugant DA (2020)
Genomic epidemiology and population structure of Neisseria gonorrhoeae in Norway, 2016-2017
Microb Genom, 6 (4)
DOI 10.1099/mgen.0.000359, PubMed 32213251

Pettersson JH, Piorkowski G, Mayxay M, Rattanavong S, Vongsouvath M, Davong V, Alfsnes K, Eldholm V, de Lamballerie X, Holmes EC, Newton PN, Dubot-Pérès A (2019)
Meta-transcriptomic identification of hepatitis B virus in cerebrospinal fluid in patients with central nervous system disease
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis, 95 (4), 114878
DOI 10.1016/j.diagmicrobio.2019.114878, PubMed 31451314

Siira L, Naseer U, Alfsnes K, Hermansen NO, Lange H, Brandal LT (2019)
Whole genome sequencing of Salmonella Chester reveals geographically distinct clusters, Norway, 2000 to 2016
Euro Surveill, 24 (4)
DOI 10.2807/1560-7917.ES.2019.24.4.1800186, PubMed 30696528

Brynildsrud OB, Pepperell CS, Suffys P, Grandjean L, Monteserin J, Debech N, Bohlin J, Alfsnes K, Pettersson JO, Kirkeleite I, Fandinho F, da Silva MA, Perdigao J, Portugal I, Viveiros M, Clark T, Caws M, Dunstan S, Thai PVK, Lopez B, Ritacco V, Kitchen A, Brown TS, van Soolingen D, O'Neill MB et al. (2018)
Global expansion of Mycobacterium tuberculosis lineage 4 shaped by colonial migration and local adaptation
Sci Adv, 4 (10), eaat5869
DOI 10.1126/sciadv.aat5869, PubMed 30345355

Alfsnes K, Frye SA, Eriksson J, Eldholm V, Brynildsrud OB, Bohlin J, Harrison OB, Hood DW, Maiden MCJ, Tønjum T, Ambur OH (2018)
A genomic view of experimental intraspecies and interspecies transformation of a rifampicin-resistance allele into Neisseria meningitidis
Microb Genom, 4 (11)
DOI 10.1099/mgen.0.000222, PubMed 30251949

Ayabina D, Ronning JO, Alfsnes K, Debech N, Brynildsrud OB, Arnesen T, Norheim G, Mengshoel AT, Rykkvin R, Dahle UR, Colijn C, Eldholm V (2018)
Genome-based transmission modelling separates imported tuberculosis from recent transmission within an immigrant population
Microb Genom, 4 (10)
DOI 10.1099/mgen.0.000219, PubMed 30216147

Bohlin J, Eldholm V, Brynildsrud O, Petterson JH, Alfsnes K (2018)
Modeling of the GC content of the substituted bases in bacterial core genomes
BMC Genomics, 19 (1), 589
DOI 10.1186/s12864-018-4984-3, PubMed 30081825

Pettersson JH, Bohlin J, Dupont-Rouzeyrol M, Brynildsrud OB, Alfsnes K, Cao-Lormeau VM, Gaunt MW, Falconar AK, de Lamballerie X, Eldholm V, Musso D, Gould EA (2018)
Re-visiting the evolution, dispersal and epidemiology of Zika virus in Asia
Emerg Microbes Infect, 7 (1), 79
DOI 10.1038/s41426-018-0082-5, PubMed 29739925

Knudsen PK, Gammelsrud KW, Alfsnes K, Steinbakk M, Abrahamsen TG, Müller F, Bohlin J (2018)
Transfer of a bla _CTX-M-1-carrying plasmid between different Escherichia coli strains within the human gut explored by whole genome sequencing analyses
Sci Rep, 8 (1), 280
DOI 10.1038/s41598-017-18659-2, PubMed 29321570

Alfsnes K, Leinaas HP, Hessen DO (2017)
Genome size in arthropods; different roles of phylogeny, habitat and life history in insects and crustaceans
Ecol Evol, 7 (15), 5939-5947
DOI 10.1002/ece3.3163, PubMed 28811889

Eldholm V, Pettersson JH, Brynildsrud OB, Kitchen A, Rasmussen EM, Lillebaek T, Rønning JO, Crudu V, Mengshoel AT, Debech N, Alfsnes K, Bohlin J, Pepperell CS, Balloux F (2016)
Armed conflict and population displacement as drivers of the evolution and dispersal of Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 113 (48), 13881-13886
DOI 10.1073/pnas.1611283113, PubMed 27872285

Alfsnes K, Hobaek A, Weider LJ, Hessen DO (2016)
Birds, nutrients, and climate change: mtDNA haplotype diversity of Arctic Daphnia on Svalbard revisited
Polar Biol., 39 (8), 1425-1437
DOI 10.1007/s00300-015-1868-8

Hessen DO, Tombre IM, van Geest G, Alfsnes K (2016)
Global change and ecosystem connectivity: How geese link fields of central Europe to eutrophication of Arctic freshwaters
Ambio, 46 (1), 40-47
DOI 10.1007/s13280-016-0802-9, PubMed 27352361

Sandanger Ø, Gao E, Ranheim T, Bliksøen M, Kaasbøll OJ, Alfsnes K, Nymo SH, Rashidi A, Ohm IK, Attramadal H, Aukrust P, Vinge LE, Yndestad A (2015)
NLRP3 inflammasome activation during myocardial ischemia reperfusion is cardioprotective
Biochem Biophys Res Commun, 469 (4), 1012-20
DOI 10.1016/j.bbrc.2015.12.051, PubMed 26706279

Schrumpf E, Tan C, Karlsen TH, Sponheim J, Björkström NK, Sundnes O, Alfsnes K, Kaser A, Jefferson DM, Ueno Y, Eide TJ, Haraldsen G, Zeissig S, Exley MA, Blumberg RS, Melum E (2015)
The biliary epithelium presents antigens to and activates natural killer T cells
Hepatology, 62 (4), 1249-59
DOI 10.1002/hep.27840, PubMed 25855031

Alfsnes K, Raynaud X, Tønjum T, Ambur OH (2014)
Mathematical and live meningococcal models for simple sequence repeat dynamics - coherent predictions and observations
PLoS One, 9 (7), e101637
DOI 10.1371/journal.pone.0101637, PubMed 24999629

Benam AV, Lång E, Alfsnes K, Fleckenstein B, Rowe AD, Hovland E, Ambur OH, Frye SA, Tønjum T (2011)
Structure-function relationships of the competence lipoprotein ComL and SSB in meningococcal transformation
Microbiology (Reading), 157 (Pt 5), 1329-1342
DOI 10.1099/mic.0.046896-0, PubMed 21330432

Tibballs KL, Ambur OH, Alfsnes K, Homberset H, Frye SA, Davidsen T, Tønjum T (2009)
Characterization of the meningococcal DNA glycosylase Fpg involved in base excision repair
BMC Microbiol, 9, 7
DOI 10.1186/1471-2180-9-7, PubMed 19134198