Published in Trends Microbiol on August 01, 2004
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Addition of neuA, the gene encoding N-acylneuraminate cytidylyl transferase, increases the discriminatory ability of the consensus sequence-based scheme for typing Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 strains. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 2.45
Streptococcus suis sequence type 7 outbreak, Sichuan, China. Emerg Infect Dis (2006) 2.07
Multi-virulence-locus sequence typing identifies single nucleotide polymorphisms which differentiate epidemic clones and outbreak strains of Listeria monocytogenes. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 1.82
Comparison of multilocus sequence typing, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and antimicrobial susceptibility typing for characterization of Salmonella enterica serotype Newport isolates. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 1.78
Population genetics of microbial pathogens estimated from multilocus sequence typing (MLST) data. Infect Genet Evol (2005) 1.72
Genetic diversity and microevolution of Burkholderia pseudomallei in the environment. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2008) 1.58
The evolution and population structure of Lactobacillus fermentum from different naturally fermented products as determined by multilocus sequence typing (MLST). BMC Microbiol (2015) 1.39
Vibrio cholerae strain typing and phylogeny study based on simple sequence repeats. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 1.29
Genetic population structure of the soil bacterium Myxococcus xanthus at the centimeter scale. Appl Environ Microbiol (2006) 1.25
Influence of geographical origin and flour type on diversity of lactic acid bacteria in traditional Belgian sourdoughs. Appl Environ Microbiol (2007) 1.13
fimA genotypes and multilocus sequence types of Porphyromonas gingivalis from patients with periodontitis. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 1.12
Genetic relationships of Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolates from clinical, human carrier, and environmental sources in Thailand, determined by multilocus sequence analysis. Appl Environ Microbiol (2013) 0.99
Multilocus sequence analysis (MLSA) of Bradyrhizobium strains: revealing high diversity of tropical diazotrophic symbiotic bacteria. Braz J Microbiol (2012) 0.98
Fine-scale phylogeographic structure of Borrelia lusitaniae revealed by multilocus sequence typing. PLoS One (2008) 0.98
Clonal transmission, dual peak, and off-season cholera in Bangladesh. Infect Ecol Epidemiol (2011) 0.97
Probe hybridization array typing: a binary typing method for Escherichia coli. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 0.95
Clonal differences between Non-Typhoidal Salmonella (NTS) recovered from children and animals living in close contact in the Gambia. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2011) 0.93
Gene and genome trees conflict at many levels. Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci (2009) 0.92
Multilocus sequence typing of Porphyromonas gingivalis strains from different geographic origins. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 0.91
Development of a multilocus sequence typing scheme for Ureaplasma. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis (2013) 0.89
Porphyromonas gingivalis: a clonal pathogen?: Diversities in housekeeping genes and the major fimbriae gene. J Oral Microbiol (2011) 0.87
Comparison of direct genome restriction enzyme analysis and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for typing of Vibrio vulnificus and their correspondence with multilocus sequence typing data. Appl Environ Microbiol (2007) 0.86
Prevalence and genetic diversity of nontypeable haemophilus influenzae in the respiratory tract of infants and primary caregivers. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2012) 0.86
Building a genomic framework for prospective MRSA surveillance in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Genome Res (2015) 0.84
Antagonistic interactions peak at intermediate genetic distance in clinical and laboratory strains of Pseudomonas aeruginosa. BMC Microbiol (2012) 0.83
Rapid multi-locus sequence typing using microfluidic biochips. PLoS One (2010) 0.83
Multilocus sequence typing of Escherichia coli O26:H11 isolates carrying stx in canada does not identify genetic diversity. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 0.83
Core genome haplotype diversity and vacA allelic heterogeneity of Chinese Helicobacter pylori strains. Curr Microbiol (2009) 0.82
Monitoring the long-term molecular epidemiology of the pneumococcus and detection of potential 'vaccine escape' strains. PLoS One (2011) 0.81
Genetic Diversity of Flavobacterium psychrophilum Isolates from Three Oncorhynchus spp. in the United States, as Revealed by Multilocus Sequence Typing. Appl Environ Microbiol (2016) 0.79
Clonal dissemination of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase (ESBL)-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates in a Korean hospital. J Korean Med Sci (2008) 0.79
Correlation between Ureaplasma subgroup 2 and genitourinary tract disease outcomes revealed by an expanded multilocus sequence typing (eMLST) scheme. PLoS One (2014) 0.79
New analysis for consistency among markers in the study of genetic diversity: development and application to the description of bacterial diversity. BMC Evol Biol (2007) 0.79
Genetic diversity of Porphyromonas gingivalis isolates recovered from single "refractory" periodontitis sites. Appl Environ Microbiol (2008) 0.79
Multilocus sequence analysis of Thermoanaerobacter isolates reveals recombining, but differentiated, populations from geothermal springs of the Uzon Caldera, Kamchatka, Russia. Front Microbiol (2013) 0.78
New methods for inferring population dynamics from microbial sequences. Infect Genet Evol (2006) 0.77
Molecular surveillance and population structure analysis of methicillin-susceptible and methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in high-risk wards. J Clin Microbiol (2009) 0.77
Assessment of molecular typing methods to determine invasiveness and to differentiate clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae. Infect Genet Evol (2007) 0.77
Population-Sequencing as a Biomarker of Burkholderia mallei and Burkholderia pseudomallei Evolution through Microbial Forensic Analysis. J Nucleic Acids (2013) 0.75
Molecular evidence of Burkholderia pseudomallei genotypes based on geographical distribution. PeerJ (2016) 0.75
The evolutionary history of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA). Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2002) 15.85
Evolution of MRSA during hospital transmission and intercontinental spread. Science (2010) 13.34
Complete genomes of two clinical Staphylococcus aureus strains: evidence for the rapid evolution of virulence and drug resistance. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2004) 8.95
Opinion: Re-evaluating prokaryotic species. Nat Rev Microbiol (2005) 7.19
Comparisons of dN/dS are time dependent for closely related bacterial genomes. J Theor Biol (2005) 5.20
EpiCollect: linking smartphones to web applications for epidemiology, ecology and community data collection. PLoS One (2009) 4.76
Characterization of encapsulated and noncapsulated Haemophilus influenzae and determination of phylogenetic relationships by multilocus sequence typing. J Clin Microbiol (2003) 4.47
MLST of housekeeping genes captures geographic population structure and suggests a European origin of Borrelia burgdorferi. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2008) 2.67
Determining the genetic structure of the natural population of Staphylococcus aureus: a comparison of multilocus sequence typing with pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, randomly amplified polymorphic DNA analysis, and phage typing. J Clin Microbiol (2002) 2.65
A dominant clone of Leptospira interrogans associated with an outbreak of human leptospirosis in Thailand. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2007) 2.65
A genomic portrait of the emergence, evolution, and global spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pandemic. Genome Res (2013) 2.59
Displaying the relatedness among isolates of bacterial species -- the eBURST approach. FEMS Microbiol Lett (2004) 2.56
The role of the natural environment in the emergence of antibiotic resistance in gram-negative bacteria. Lancet Infect Dis (2013) 2.43
Nonrandom distribution of Burkholderia pseudomallei clones in relation to geographical location and virulence. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 2.34
Molecular tracing of the emergence, adaptation, and transmission of hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2012) 1.83
Population biology of Gram-positive pathogens: high-risk clones for dissemination of antibiotic resistance. FEMS Microbiol Rev (2011) 1.66
The secret life of the multilocus sequence type. Int J Antimicrob Agents (2007) 1.58
Genetic diversity and microevolution of Burkholderia pseudomallei in the environment. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2008) 1.58
The carriage population of Staphylococcus aureus from Mali is composed of a combination of pandemic clones and the divergent Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive genotype ST152. J Bacteriol (2008) 1.56
Burkholderia Pseudomallei is genetically diverse in agricultural land in Northeast Thailand. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2009) 1.53
A very early-branching Staphylococcus aureus lineage lacking the carotenoid pigment staphyloxanthin. Genome Biol Evol (2011) 1.51
Searching for species in haloarchaea. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2007) 1.46
Phylogeographic variation in recombination rates within a global clone of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Genome Biol (2012) 1.45
High rates of recombination in otitis media isolates of non-typeable Haemophilus influenzae. Infect Genet Evol (2003) 1.45
The impact of recombination on dN/dS within recently emerged bacterial clones. PLoS Pathog (2011) 1.42
Similar compositional biases are caused by very different mutational effects. Genome Res (2006) 1.41
The phylogeny of Staphylococcus aureus - which genes make the best intra-species markers? Microbiology (2006) 1.38
The temporal dynamics of slightly deleterious mutations in Escherichia coli and Shigella spp. Mol Biol Evol (2008) 1.35
Mutational patterns cannot explain genome composition: Are there any neutral sites in the genomes of bacteria? PLoS Genet (2010) 1.30
Multi-locus sequence typing of Bartonella henselae isolates from three continents reveals hypervirulent and feline-associated clones. PLoS One (2007) 1.30
How diverse is the genus Wolbachia? Multiple-gene sequencing reveals a putatively new Wolbachia supergroup recovered from spider mites (Acari: Tetranychidae). Appl Environ Microbiol (2008) 1.29
Comparisons between geographically diverse samples of carried Staphylococcus aureus. J Bacteriol (2009) 1.29
Molecular genetic typing reveals further insights into the diversity of animal-associated Staphylococcus aureus. J Med Microbiol (2009) 1.29
Burkholderia pseudomallei genome plasticity associated with genomic island variation. BMC Genomics (2008) 1.28
Emergence of a virulent clade of Vibrio vulnificus and correlation with the presence of a 33-kilobase genomic island. Appl Environ Microbiol (2007) 1.27
Nematode symbiont for Photorhabdus asymbiotica. Emerg Infect Dis (2006) 1.26
Evolutionary genetics of the accessory gene regulator (agr) locus in Staphylococcus aureus. J Bacteriol (2005) 1.26
S. aureus IgG-binding proteins SpA and Sbi: host specificity and mechanisms of immune complex formation. Mol Immunol (2007) 1.25
Predicting the virulence of MRSA from its genome sequence. Genome Res (2014) 1.23
Genomic acquisition of a capsular polysaccharide virulence cluster by non-pathogenic Burkholderia isolates. Genome Biol (2010) 1.22
Biogeography and virulence of Staphylococcus aureus. PLoS One (2009) 1.19
A single multilocus sequence typing (MLST) scheme for seven pathogenic Leptospira species. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2013) 1.17
The persistence of parasitic plasmids. Genetics (2007) 1.11
Multi-locus sequence typing of a geographically and temporally diverse sample of the highly clonal human pathogen Bartonella quintana. PLoS One (2010) 1.07
Large-scale comparative genomic ranking of taxonomically restricted genes (TRGs) in bacterial and archaeal genomes. PLoS One (2007) 1.04
Host migration impacts on the phylogeography of Lyme Borreliosis spirochaete species in Europe. Environ Microbiol (2010) 1.03
From genotype to phenotype: can systems biology be used to predict Staphylococcus aureus virulence? Nat Rev Microbiol (2012) 1.03
High rates of homologous recombination in the mite endosymbiont and opportunistic human pathogen Orientia tsutsugamushi. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2010) 1.03
Genetic relationships of Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolates from clinical, human carrier, and environmental sources in Thailand, determined by multilocus sequence analysis. Appl Environ Microbiol (2013) 0.99
Fine-scale phylogeographic structure of Borrelia lusitaniae revealed by multilocus sequence typing. PLoS One (2008) 0.98
Protein evolution: causes of trends in amino-acid gain and loss. Nature (2006) 0.97
Comparison of two multilocus sequence based genotyping schemes for Leptospira species. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2011) 0.97
Atypical at skew in Firmicute genomes results from selection and not from mutation. PLoS Genet (2011) 0.91
Historical zoonoses and other changes in host tropism of Staphylococcus aureus, identified by phylogenetic analysis of a population dataset. PLoS One (2013) 0.90
Spatial spread and demographic expansion of Lyme borreliosis spirochaetes in Eurasia. Infect Genet Evol (2012) 0.87
The rise and fall of deleterious mutation. Res Microbiol (2007) 0.86
Databases and software for the comparison of prokaryotic genomes. Microbiology (2005) 0.85
Retraction. Science (2002) 0.82
Ovine clone ST1464: a predominant genotype of Staphylococcus aureus subsp. anaerobius isolated from sheep in Sudan. J Infect Dev Ctries (2010) 0.81
Diversity and recombination in Wolbachia and Cardinium from Bryobia spider mites. BMC Microbiol (2012) 0.79
Multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat genotyping of Renibacterium salmoninarum, a bacterium causing bacterial kidney disease in salmonid fish. BMC Microbiol (2013) 0.79
Correction: The Diversity and Geographical Structure of Orientia tsutsugamushi Strains from Scrub Typhus Patients in Laos. PLoS Negl Trop Dis (2016) 0.75
Corrigendum: Building a genomic framework for prospective MRSA surveillance in the United Kingdom and the Republic of Ireland. Genome Res (2017) 0.75
The use of Oxford Nanopore native barcoding for complete genome assembly. Gigascience (2017) 0.75
Multiple antibiotic resistance of heterotrophic bacteria isolated from Siberian lakes subjected to differing degrees of anthropogenic impact. Microb Drug Resist (2011) 0.75