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Martin J Blaser

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1 Traces of human migrations in Helicobacter pylori populations. Science 2003 11.92
2 Helicobacter pylori and gastrointestinal tract adenocarcinomas. Nat Rev Cancer 2002 10.19
3 Molecular analysis of human forearm superficial skin bacterial biota. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2007 9.73
4 Molecular analysis of the bacterial microbiota in the human stomach. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2006 7.77
5 The human microbiome: at the interface of health and disease. Nat Rev Genet 2012 7.54
6 Minimum information about a marker gene sequence (MIMARKS) and minimum information about any (x) sequence (MIxS) specifications. Nat Biotechnol 2011 7.53
7 Antibiotics in early life alter the murine colonic microbiome and adiposity. Nature 2012 6.37
8 Bacterial biota in the human distal esophagus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2004 5.64
9 Helicobacter pylori colonization is inversely associated with childhood asthma. J Infect Dis 2008 3.95
10 Helicobacter pylori in health and disease. Gastroenterology 2009 3.84
11 Substantial alterations of the cutaneous bacterial biota in psoriatic lesions. PLoS One 2008 3.56
12 Inverse associations of Helicobacter pylori with asthma and allergy. Arch Intern Med 2007 3.48
13 Coadaptation of Helicobacter pylori and humans: ancient history, modern implications. J Clin Invest 2009 3.26
14 Functional adaptation of BabA, the H. pylori ABO blood group antigen binding adhesin. Science 2004 3.06
15 Long-term persistence of resistant Enterococcus species after antibiotics to eradicate Helicobacter pylori. Ann Intern Med 2003 3.04
16 Evolutionary implications of microbial genome tetranucleotide frequency biases. Genome Res 2003 3.02
17 Molecular analysis of fungal microbiota in samples from healthy human skin and psoriatic lesions. J Clin Microbiol 2006 3.01
18 Opposing risks of gastric cardia and noncardia gastric adenocarcinomas associated with Helicobacter pylori seropositivity. J Natl Cancer Inst 2006 2.97
19 Decreased risk of celiac disease in patients with Helicobacter pylori colonization. Am J Epidemiol 2013 2.58
20 Asthma is inversely associated with Helicobacter pylori status in an urban population. PLoS One 2008 2.04
21 Enrichment of lung microbiome with supraglottic taxa is associated with increased pulmonary inflammation. Microbiome 2013 1.98
22 East Asian genotypes of Helicobacter pylori strains in Amerindians provide evidence for its ancient human carriage. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002 1.92
23 Mechanisms of disease: Inflammation and the origins of cancer. Nat Clin Pract Oncol 2005 1.88
24 Association between gastric Helicobacter pylori colonization and glycated hemoglobin levels. J Infect Dis 2012 1.84
25 Mailborne transmission of anthrax: Modeling and implications. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2002 1.74
26 Association between Helicobacter pylori and mortality in the NHANES III study. Gut 2013 1.74
27 Development of the human gastrointestinal microbiota and insights from high-throughput sequencing. Gastroenterology 2011 1.70
28 Concerted evolution between duplicated genetic elements in Helicobacter pylori. J Mol Biol 2002 1.68
29 Use of an open-reading frame-specific Campylobacter jejuni DNA microarray as a new genotyping tool for studying epidemiologically related isolates. J Infect Dis 2003 1.67
30 De minimis risk: a proposal for a new category of research risk. Am J Bioeth 2011 1.65
31 Extensive repetitive DNA facilitates prokaryotic genome plasticity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003 1.59
32 Molecular analysis of sarcoidosis tissues for mycobacterium species DNA. Emerg Infect Dis 2002 1.59
33 Structure of the human gastric bacterial community in relation to Helicobacter pylori status. ISME J 2010 1.58
34 Responses of endoscopy patients in Ladakh, India, to Helicobacter pylori whole-cell and Cag A antigens. Clin Diagn Lab Immunol 2002 1.55
35 Relation between Helicobacter pylori cagA status and risk of peptic ulcer disease. Am J Epidemiol 2002 1.53
36 Role of luxS in Bacillus anthracis growth and virulence factor expression. Virulence 2010 1.52
37 Pathways in microbe-induced obesity. Cell Metab 2013 1.51
38 Evidence of host-virus co-evolution in tetranucleotide usage patterns of bacteriophages and eukaryotic viruses. BMC Genomics 2006 1.51
39 Telomere length in peripheral leukocyte DNA and gastric cancer risk. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2009 1.48
40 Microbiome and malignancy. Cell Host Microbe 2011 1.45
41 Bacterial populations as perfect gases: genomic integrity and diversification tensions in Helicobacter pylori. Nat Rev Microbiol 2006 1.44
42 Community differentiation of the cutaneous microbiota in psoriasis. Microbiome 2013 1.44
43 The effect of H. pylori eradication on meal-associated changes in plasma ghrelin and leptin. BMC Gastroenterol 2011 1.40
44 The seroprevalence of Helicobacter pylori and its relationship to malaria in Ugandan children. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg 2011 1.39
45 Quantitation of major human cutaneous bacterial and fungal populations. J Clin Microbiol 2010 1.37
46 Natural transformation of helicobacter pylori involves the integration of short DNA fragments interrupted by gaps of variable size. PLoS Pathog 2009 1.35
47 Tooth loss, pancreatic cancer, and Helicobacter pylori. Am J Clin Nutr 2003 1.35
48 Helicobacter pylori CagA transfection of gastric epithelial cells induces interleukin-8. Cell Microbiol 2006 1.33
49 Campylobacter fetus of reptile origin as a human pathogen. J Clin Microbiol 2004 1.27
50 The ecology of height: the effect of microbial transmission on human height. Perspect Biol Med 2002 1.25
51 Bacterial biota in reflux esophagitis and Barrett's esophagus. World J Gastroenterol 2005 1.24
52 Microbiomic signatures of psoriasis: feasibility and methodology comparison. Sci Rep 2013 1.24
53 Control of intestinal bacterial proliferation in regulation of lifespan in Caenorhabditis elegans. BMC Microbiol 2012 1.24
54 Antibiotics in animal feed and spread of resistant Campylobacter from poultry to humans. Emerg Infect Dis 2004 1.23
55 Biphasic assembly of the murine intestinal microbiota during early development. ISME J 2013 1.23
56 Plasticity of repetitive DNA sequences within a bacterial (Type IV) secretion system component. J Exp Med 2003 1.19
57 Inhibition of Bacillus anthracis growth and virulence-gene expression by inhibitors of quorum-sensing. J Infect Dis 2005 1.19
58 Helicobacter pylori CagA phosphorylation status determines the gp130-activated SHP2/ERK and JAK/STAT signal transduction pathways in gastric epithelial cells. J Biol Chem 2010 1.18
59 Natural variation in populations of persistently colonizing bacteria affect human host cell phenotype. J Infect Dis 2003 1.16
60 Structural and functional divergence of MutS2 from bacterial MutS1 and eukaryotic MSH4-MSH5 homologs. J Bacteriol 2005 1.16
61 Helicobacter pylori seropositivity and colorectal cancer risk: a prospective study of male smokers. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2002 1.14
62 Helicobacter pylori CagA seropositivity and gastric carcinoma risk in a Japanese American population. J Infect Dis 2002 1.14
63 Transient and persistent Helicobacter pylori colonization in Native American children. J Clin Microbiol 2003 1.14
64 Helicobacter pylori and overweight status in the United States: data from the Third National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey. Am J Epidemiol 2005 1.13
65 Helicobacter pylori interstrain restriction-modification diversity prevents genome subversion by chromosomal DNA from competing strains. Nucleic Acids Res 2002 1.13
66 Polymorphic bacteria persisting in polymorphic hosts: assessing Helicobacter pylori-related risks for gastric cancer. J Natl Cancer Inst 2002 1.12
67 Genetic divergence of Campylobacter fetus strains of mammal and reptile origins. J Clin Microbiol 2005 1.12
68 Plastic cells and populations: DNA substrate characteristics in Helicobacter pylori transformation define a flexible but conservative system for genomic variation. FASEB J 2007 1.11
69 Leptin and ghrelin in relation to Helicobacter pylori status in adult males. J Clin Endocrinol Metab 2008 1.11
70 The microbiome revolution. J Clin Invest 2014 1.11
71 Persistence of resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis after single course of clarithromycin. Emerg Infect Dis 2005 1.10
72 Detection of a luxS-signaling molecule in Bacillus anthracis. Infect Immun 2003 1.10
73 Genetic relationships among reptilian and mammalian Campylobacter fetus strains determined by multilocus sequence typing. J Clin Microbiol 2010 1.09
74 Analysis of Malassezia microbiota in healthy superficial human skin and in psoriatic lesions by multiplex real-time PCR. FEMS Yeast Res 2008 1.09
75 Reactive nitrogen species contribute to innate host defense against Campylobacter jejuni. Infect Immun 2008 1.08
76 Antibiotic exposure and the development of coeliac disease: a nationwide case-control study. BMC Gastroenterol 2013 1.07
77 Helicobacter pylori, pepsinogen, and gastric adenocarcinoma in Hawaii. J Infect Dis 2005 1.07
78 Structure and genotypic plasticity of the Campylobacter fetus sap locus. Mol Microbiol 2003 1.07
79 Association of Helicobacter pylori infection and diet on the risk of gastric cancer: a case-control study in Hawaii. Cancer Causes Control 2008 1.06
80 Analysis of hopQ alleles in East Asian and Western strains of Helicobacter pylori. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2005 1.04
81 Helicobacter pylori and esophageal disease: wake-up call? Gastroenterology 2010 1.03
82 Helicobacter pylori does not require Lewis X or Lewis Y expression to colonize C3H/HeJ mice. Infect Immun 2002 1.02
83 Phenotypic and genotypic variation in methylases involved in type II restriction-modification systems in Helicobacter pylori. Nucleic Acids Res 2002 1.02
84 Human infections with new subspecies of Campylobacter fetus. Emerg Infect Dis 2013 1.02
85 Helicobacter pylori and the birth cohort effect: evidence for stabilized colonization rates in childhood. Helicobacter 2011 1.02
86 Promoter analysis of Helicobacter pylori genes with enhanced expression at low pH. Mol Microbiol 2003 1.02
87 Host cell responses to genotypically similar Helicobacter pylori isolates from United States and Japan. Clin Diagn Lab Immunol 2002 1.02
88 Complete Genome Sequence of Campylobacter fetus subsp. testudinum Strain 03-427T. Genome Announc 2013 1.01
89 Campylobacter capsule and lipooligosaccharide confer resistance to serum and cationic antimicrobials. Virulence 2011 0.99
90 Quantitation and composition of cutaneous microbiota in diabetic and nondiabetic men. J Infect Dis 2013 0.99
91 The effect of laparoscopic gastric banding surgery on plasma levels of appetite-control, insulinotropic, and digestive hormones. Obes Surg 2008 0.99
92 A Helicobacter pylori restriction endonuclease-replacing gene, hrgA, is associated with gastric cancer in Asian strains. Cancer Res 2002 0.98
93 Helicobacter pylori stimulates gastric epithelial cell MMP-1 secretion via CagA-dependent and -independent ERK activation. J Biol Chem 2007 0.98
94 Streptococcus gallolyticus subspecies pasteurianus (biotype II/2), a newly reported cause of adult meningitis. J Clin Microbiol 2010 0.98
95 Helicobacter pylori and intestinal parasites are not detrimental to the nutritional status of Amerindians. Am J Trop Med Hyg 2007 0.98
96 Effect of host species on recG phenotypes in Helicobacter pylori and Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol 2004 0.97
97 UvrD helicase suppresses recombination and DNA damage-induced deletions. J Bacteriol 2006 0.96
98 Competition and resilience between founder and introduced bacteria in the Caenorhabditis elegans gut. Infect Immun 2011 0.96
99 An email alert system for internal medicine physicians. AMIA Annu Symp Proc 2003 0.96
100 Host Lewis phenotype-dependent Helicobacter pylori Lewis antigen expression in rhesus monkeys. FASEB J 2006 0.95
101 A comprehensive evaluation of multicategory classification methods for microbiomic data. Microbiome 2013 0.95
102 Diversity of 23S rRNA genes within individual prokaryotic genomes. PLoS One 2009 0.95
103 Do you have a probiotic in your future? Microbes Infect 2008 0.95
104 Serum pepsinogens and Helicobacter pylori in relation to the risk of esophageal squamous cell carcinoma in the alpha-tocopherol, beta-carotene cancer prevention study. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2010 0.95
105 Campylobacter fetus infections in humans: exposure and disease. Clin Infect Dis 2014 0.94
106 Mechanisms for Helicobacter pylori CagA-induced cyclin D1 expression that affect cell cycle. Cell Microbiol 2006 0.94
107 Mechanisms underlying Campylobacter fetus pathogenesis in humans: surface-layer protein variation in relapsing infections. J Infect Dis 2005 0.93
108 Role of dprA in transformation of Campylobacter jejuni. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2005 0.93
109 Antimutator role of the DNA glycosylase mutY gene in Helicobacter pylori. J Bacteriol 2006 0.93
110 Host-dependent Lewis (Le) antigen expression in Helicobacter pylori cells recovered from Leb-transgenic mice. J Exp Med 2009 0.92
111 Matrix metalloproteinase secretion by gastric epithelial cells is regulated by E prostaglandins and MAPKs. J Biol Chem 2005 0.92
112 The impact of Helicobacter pylori on atopic disorders in childhood. Helicobacter 2012 0.91
113 Internal medicine residency training in the 21st century: aligning requirements with professional needs. Am J Med 2005 0.91
114 Bacterial community in the crop of the hoatzin, a neotropical folivorous flying bird. Appl Environ Microbiol 2008 0.91
115 Association between oral health and gastric precancerous lesions. Carcinogenesis 2011 0.91
116 A paradigm for direct stress-induced mutation in prokaryotes. FASEB J 2006 0.91
117 The biology of cag in the Helicobacter pylori-human interaction. Gastroenterology 2005 0.90
118 Pandemics and preparations. J Infect Dis 2006 0.89
119 Conservation and diversity of sap homologues and their organization among Campylobacter fetus isolates. Infect Immun 2004 0.88
120 Deconstructing a lethal foodborne epidemic. N Engl J Med 2011 0.88
121 Repair and antirepair DNA helicases in Helicobacter pylori. J Bacteriol 2008 0.88
122 Functional analysis of iceA1, a CATG-recognizing restriction endonuclease gene in Helicobacter pylori. Nucleic Acids Res 2002 0.87
123 Another perfect storm: Shigella, men who have sex with men, and HIV. Clin Infect Dis 2006 0.87
124 Campylobacter fetus bacteremia in a patient with adult T cell leukemia. Clin Infect Dis 2003 0.87
125 Role of futC slipped strand mispairing in Helicobacter pylori Lewisy phase variation. Microbes Infect 2007 0.86
126 Improving Helicobacter pylori eradication regimens. Ann Intern Med 2006 0.86
127 A brave new world: the lung microbiota in an era of change. Ann Am Thorac Soc 2014 0.86
128 Repeat-associated plasticity in the Helicobacter pylori RD gene family. J Bacteriol 2009 0.86
129 Ethnicity is a strong predictor for Helicobacter pylori infection in young women in a multi-ethnic European city. J Gastroenterol Hepatol 2013 0.86
130 Contagion on the Internet. Emerg Infect Dis 2002 0.85
131 Helicobacter pylori seropositivity and risk of lung cancer. PLoS One 2012 0.85
132 Local and systemic immune and inflammatory responses to Helicobacter pylori strains. Clin Diagn Lab Immunol 2005 0.85
133 Antibiotic perturbation of the murine gut microbiome enhances the adiposity, insulin resistance, and liver disease associated with high-fat diet. Genome Med 2016 0.85
134 The nonfermentable dietary fiber hydroxypropyl methylcellulose modulates intestinal microbiota. FASEB J 2012 0.85
135 Novel gastric helicobacters and oral campylobacters are present in captive and wild cetaceans. Vet Microbiol 2011 0.84
136 Seroprevalence of Helicobacter pylori in New York City populations originating in East Asia. J Urban Health 2005 0.84
137 Critical role of nosocomial transmission in the toronto sars outbreak. Math Biosci Eng 2004 0.82
138 Serum antibodies to Helicobacter pylori and the CagA antigen do not explain differences in the prevalence of precancerous gastric lesions in two Chinese populations with contrasting gastric cancer rates. Cancer Epidemiol Biomarkers Prev 2002 0.82
139 Natural transformation of an engineered Helicobacter pylori strain deficient in type II restriction endonucleases. J Bacteriol 2012 0.82
140 Effect of Caenorhabditis elegans age and genotype on horizontal gene transfer in intestinal bacteria. FASEB J 2012 0.81
141 Longitudinal analysis of serological responses of adults to Helicobacter pylori antigens. J Infect Dis 2010 0.80
142 Novel functions for glycosyltransferases Jhp0562 and GalT in Lewis antigen synthesis and variation in Helicobacter pylori. Infect Immun 2012 0.79
143 Genotypic and phenotypic variation of Lewis antigen expression in geographically diverse Helicobacter pylori isolates. Helicobacter 2011 0.79
144 Serological assays for identification of human gastric colonization by Helicobacter pylori strains expressing VacA m1 or m2. Clin Vaccine Immunol 2007 0.79
145 Bacterial diarrhea in HIV-infected patients: why Clostridium difficile, and why now? Clin Infect Dis 2005 0.79
146 Reply to raj et Al. J Infect Dis 2009 0.78
147 Antimicrobial resistance in Campylobacter. Emerg Infect Dis 2004 0.78
148 Helicobacter pylori and TT virus prevalence in Japanese children. J Gastroenterol 2003 0.78
149 DprB facilitates inter- and intragenomic recombination in Helicobacter pylori. J Bacteriol 2012 0.78
150 PCR-based detection of Bacillus anthracis in formalin-fixed tissue from a patient receiving ciprofloxacin. J Clin Microbiol 2002 0.77
151 Rate heterogeneity in the evolution of Helicobacter pylori and the behavior of homoplastic sites. Infect Genet Evol 2008 0.77
152 Phylogeographic evidence of cognate recognition site patterns and transformation efficiency differences in H. pylori: theory of strain dominance. BMC Microbiol 2013 0.76
153 Serologic host response to Helicobacter pylori and Campylobacter jejuni in socially housed Rhesus macaques (Macaca mulatta). Gut Pathog 2012 0.75
154 Re: "Decreased risk of celiac disease in patients with Helicobacter pylori colonization". The authors reply. Am J Epidemiol 2014 0.75
155 Microbes adapt to inner space. Nat Med 2006 0.75
156 Farm microbiome and childhood asthma. N Engl J Med 2011 0.75
157 Are iron-scavenging parasites protective against malaria? J Infect Dis 2005 0.75
158 The language used by Helicobacter pylori to regulate human cells. J Infect Dis 2007 0.75
159 Viral commensalism in humans? J Infect Dis 2008 0.75
160 Erratum: Global phylogeography and evolutionary history of Shigella dysenteriae type 1. Nat Microbiol 2016 0.75
161 Infection, cancer and prevention: report of the 19th International Symposium of the Foundation for Promotion of Cancer Research. Jpn J Clin Oncol 2006 0.75