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Description: Achtman has founded four highly distinct areas of bacterial genetics: 1) bacterial conjugation involving the Escherichia coli F sex factor (1965-78), 2) E. coli neonatal meningitis (1979-86), 3) epidemic cerebrospinal meningitis caused by Neisseria meningitis (1983-2000). Since 1998 he has dedicated himself to the population genetics and genomics of bacterial pathogens. In each area he made seminal discoveries, resulting in global recognition, and is one of the globally most prominent bacterial population geneticists. In recent years, he was one of three co-inventors of multilocus sequence typing and has been at the forefront of comparative population genomics. He elucidated the historical associations of Helicobacter pylori with ancient human migrations, ancient global routes of transmission of historical plague, and has introduced dramatic changes to the practice of epidemiological typing of Salmonella enterica. He plays a leading role in large, international networks of microbiologists, and interacts extensively with theoreticians, historians and anthropologists. Honours: main prize of the Deutsche Gesellschaft fuer Hygiene und Mikrobiologie, 2004; foreign member of the Norwegian Academy of Sciences and Letters, 2014. .mw-parser-output .responsive-license-cc{clear:both;text-align:center;box-sizing:border-box;width:100%;justify-content:space-around;align-items:center;margin:0.5em auto;background-color:#f9f9f9;border:2px solid #e0e0e0;border-spacing:8px;display:flex}.mw-parser-output .responsive-license-cc div{margin:4px}.mw-parser-output .rlicense-text div{margin:0.5em auto}@media screen and (max-width:640px){.mw-parser-output .responsive-license-cc{flex-flow:column}.mw-parser-output .rlicense-text{order:1}} This file is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported license.Attribution: The Royal Society You are free: to share – to copy, distribute and transmit the work to remix – to adapt the work Under the following conditions: attribution – You must give appropriate credit, provide a link to the license, and indicate if changes were made. You may do so in any reasonable manner, but not in any way that suggests the licensor endorses you or your use. share alike – If you remix, transform, or build upon the material, you must distribute your contributions under the same or compatible license as the original.https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0CC BY-SA 3.0 Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 truetrue   This work is free and may be used by anyone for any purpose. If you wish to use this content, you do not need to request permission as long as you follow any licensing requirements mentioned on this page. The Wikimedia Foundation has received an e-mail confirming that the copyright holder has approved publication under the terms mentioned on this page. This correspondence has been reviewed by a Volunteer Response Team (VRT) member and stored in our permission archive. The correspondence is available to trusted volunteers as ticket #2014062710019796. If you have questions about the archived correspondence, please use the VRT noticeboard. Ticket link: https://ticket.wikimedia.org/otrs/index.pl?Action=AgentTicketZoom&TicketNumber=2014062710019796 Find other files from the same ticket:
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