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C G Dowson

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1 Intercontinental spread of a multiresistant clone of serotype 23F Streptococcus pneumoniae. J Infect Dis 1991 6.69
2 Localized sex in bacteria. Nature 1991 6.03
3 Horizontal transfer of multiple penicillin-binding protein genes, and capsular biosynthetic genes, in natural populations of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Mol Microbiol 1991 5.45
4 Genetic relationships between clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae, Streptococcus oralis, and Streptococcus mitis: characterization of "Atypical" pneumococci and organisms allied to S. mitis harboring S. pneumoniae virulence factor-encoding genes. Infect Immun 2000 4.26
5 Genetics of resistance to third-generation cephalosporins in clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Mol Microbiol 1992 3.58
6 Recruitment of a penicillin-binding protein gene from Neisseria flavescens during the emergence of penicillin resistance in Neisseria meningitidis. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1989 3.22
7 Expression of resistance to tetracyclines in strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Antimicrob Chemother 2000 2.75
8 Burkholderia cepacia complex bacteria: opportunistic pathogens with important natural biology. J Appl Microbiol 2008 2.64
9 Genetic analysis of clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae with high-level resistance to expanded-spectrum cephalosporins. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 1995 2.64
10 Barriers to genetic exchange between bacterial species: Streptococcus pneumoniae transformation. J Bacteriol 2000 2.21
11 Genetics of high level penicillin resistance in clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1995 2.10
12 Genetic diversity of the streptococcal competence (com) gene locus. J Bacteriol 1999 2.03
13 Insertion of an extra amino acid is the main cause of the low affinity of penicillin-binding protein 2 in penicillin-resistant strains of Neisseria gonorrhoeae. Mol Microbiol 1990 1.97
14 Spontaneous sequence duplication within an open reading frame of the pneumococcal type 3 capsule locus causes high-frequency phase variation. Mol Microbiol 2001 1.73
15 Homeologous recombination and mismatch repair during transformation in Streptococcus pneumoniae: saturation of the Hex mismatch repair system. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1995 1.73
16 Population biology of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from oropharyngeal carriage and invasive disease. Microbiology 1999 1.72
17 Multilocus sequence typing of intercontinental bovine Staphylococcus aureus isolates. J Clin Microbiol 2005 1.71
18 Genetic diversity of the tet(M) gene in tetracycline-resistant clonal lineages of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2000 1.71
19 Genetics and molecular biology of beta-lactam-resistant pneumococci. Microb Drug Resist 1995 1.61
20 Deletion analysis of the essentiality of penicillin-binding proteins 1A, 2B and 2X of Streptococcus pneumoniae. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1993 1.55
21 The tetracycline resistance gene tet(M) exhibits mosaic structure. Plasmid 1996 1.51
22 Molecular evolution of rifampicin resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae. Microb Drug Resist 1998 1.49
23 Molecular characterization of equine isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae: natural disruption of genes encoding the virulence factors pneumolysin and autolysin. Infect Immun 1999 1.35
24 Distribution and genetic diversity of suilysin in Streptococcus suis isolated from different diseases of pigs and characterization of the genetic basis of suilysin absence. Infect Immun 2001 1.35
25 The autolysin-encoding gene (lytA) of Streptococcus pneumoniae displays restricted allelic variation despite localized recombination events with genes of pneumococcal bacteriophage encoding cell wall lytic enzymes. Infect Immun 1999 1.31
26 Horizontal spread of an altered penicillin-binding protein 2B gene between Streptococcus pneumoniae and Streptococcus oralis. FEMS Microbiol Lett 1993 1.24
27 Multilocus sequence types of invasive Corynebacterium diphtheriae isolated in the Rio de Janeiro urban area, Brazil. Epidemiol Infect 2011 0.96
28 Multilocus sequence typing of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from high-somatic-cell-count cows and the environment of an organic dairy farm in the United Kingdom. J Clin Microbiol 2005 0.92
29 Pneumolysin detection identifies atypical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae. J Clin Microbiol 2000 0.88
30 Site-Directed Mutagenesis to Determine Structure Function Relationships in Streptococcus pneumoniae Penicillin-Binding Protein Genes. Methods Mol Med 2001 0.75