M C Maiden

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1 Multilocus sequence typing system for Campylobacter jejuni. J Clin Microbiol 2001 10.17
2 Sequence type analysis and recombinational tests (START). Bioinformatics 2001 7.20
3 The relative contributions of recombination and mutation to the divergence of clones of Neisseria meningitidis. Mol Biol Evol 1999 6.23
4 Mammalian and bacterial sugar transport proteins are homologous. Nature 1987 4.46
5 Carried meningococci in the Czech Republic: a diverse recombining population. J Clin Microbiol 2000 4.44
6 The maintenance of strain structure in populations of recombining infectious agents. Nat Med 1996 4.31
7 The influence of recombination on the population structure and evolution of the human pathogen Neisseria meningitidis. Mol Biol Evol 1999 4.26
8 A global gene pool in the neisseriae. Mol Microbiol 1996 3.69
9 Bacterial population genetics, evolution and epidemiology. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 1999 2.60
10 Analysis of the clonal relationships between strains of Neisseria meningitidis by pulsed field gel electrophoresis. J Gen Microbiol 1992 2.58
11 The porA gene in serogroup A meningococci: evolutionary stability and mechanism of genetic variation. Mol Microbiol 1994 2.52
12 Database-driven multi locus sequence typing (MLST) of bacterial pathogens. Bioinformatics 2001 2.45
13 Role of horizontal genetic exchange in the antigenic variation of the class 1 outer membrane protein of Neisseria meningitidis. Mol Microbiol 1992 2.27
14 Multilocus sequence typing and antigen gene sequencing in the investigation of a meningococcal disease outbreak. J Clin Microbiol 1999 2.27
15 Homologous sugar transport proteins in Escherichia coli and their relatives in both prokaryotes and eukaryotes. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 1990 2.07
16 Structural and evolutionary inference from molecular variation in Neisseria porins. Infect Immun 1999 1.81
17 Exploring the evolution of diversity in pathogen populations. Trends Microbiol 2001 1.72
18 Sequence typing confirms that Campylobacter jejuni strains associated with Guillain-Barré and Miller-Fisher syndromes are of diverse genetic lineage, serotype, and flagella type. J Clin Microbiol 2001 1.55
19 Automated extraction of typing information for bacterial pathogens from whole genome sequence data: Neisseria meningitidis as an exemplar. Euro Surveill 2013 1.53
20 Molecular analysis of the serotyping antigens of Neisseria meningitidis. Infect Immun 1992 1.51
21 Population genetic and evolutionary approaches to analysis of Neisseria meningitidis isolates belonging to the ET-5 complex. J Bacteriol 1999 1.48
22 Monoclonal antibody recognition of members of the meningococcal P1.10 variable region family: implications for serological typing and vaccine design. Microbiology 1996 1.40
23 A gonococcal porA pseudogene: implications for understanding the evolution and pathogenicity of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Mol Microbiol 1998 1.37
24 Antigenic diversity of meningococcal outer membrane protein PorA has implications for epidemiological analysis and vaccine design. Clin Diagn Lab Immunol 1996 1.34
25 Amplification of the meningococcal porB gene for non-culture serotype characterization. Epidemiol Infect 1998 1.24
26 Molecular variation of meningococcal serotype 4 antigen genes. Epidemiol Infect 1998 1.14
27 Meningococcal typing. J Med Microbiol 1994 1.11
28 Carriage of serogroup W-135, ET-37 meningococci in The Gambia: implications for immunisation policy? Lancet 2000 1.05
29 Neisseria meningitidis subtype nomenclature. Clin Diagn Lab Immunol 1999 1.01
30 Phenotypic and genotypic approaches to characterization of isolates of Neisseria meningitidis from patients and their close family contacts. J Clin Microbiol 2001 0.94
31 Potential of recombinant opa proteins as vaccine candidates against hyperinvasive meningococci. Infect Immun 2011 0.88
32 Heterogeneity of the PorB protein in serotype 22 Neisseria meningitidis. J Clin Microbiol 1998 0.86
33 The porA alleles are identical in subgroup III serogroup A Neisseria meningitidis strains isolated in China in the 1960s and 1980s. J Clin Microbiol 1996 0.84
34 Detection of proton-linked sugar transport proteins in Enterobacteriaceae. Biochem Soc Trans 1989 0.84
35 Structural analysis of the variation in the major outer membrane proteins of Neisseria meningitidis and related species. Biochem Soc Trans 1993 0.82
36 Crystal structure of an Fab fragment in complex with a meningococcal serosubtype antigen and a protein G domain. J Mol Biol 1999 0.82
37 Expression of meningococcal epitopes in LamB of Escherichia coli and the stimulation of serosubtype-specific antibody responses. Mol Microbiol 1993 0.81
38 Purification of meningococcal lipo-oligosaccharide by FPLC techniques. Microbiology 1996 0.79
39 Attenuated typhoid vaccine Salmonella typhi Ty21a: fingerprinting and quality control. Microbiology 1995 0.79
40 Use of streptococcal protein G in obtaining crystals of an antibody Fab fragment in complex with a meningococcal antigen. Acta Crystallogr D Biol Crystallogr 1999 0.78
41 Comparative analysis of two meningococcal immunotyping monoclonal antibodies by resonant mirror biosensor and antibody gene sequencing. Clin Diagn Lab Immunol 1999 0.75