Anja Siitonen

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1 Molecular epidemiology of 3 putative virulence genes for Escherichia coli urinary tract infection-usp, iha, and iroN(E. coli). J Infect Dis 2002 2.35
2 A widespread outbreak of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis O:3 infection from iceberg lettuce. J Infect Dis 2004 2.09
3 Clinical Escherichia coli strains carrying stx genes: stx variants and stx-positive virulence profiles. J Clin Microbiol 2002 1.85
4 Parallel independent evolution of pathogenicity within the genus Yersinia. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014 1.83
5 Population structure of the Yersinia pseudotuberculosis complex according to multilocus sequence typing. Environ Microbiol 2011 1.64
6 Genetic diversity among clonal lineages within Escherichia coli O157:H7 stepwise evolutionary model. Emerg Infect Dis 2007 1.62
7 Quality control strains used in susceptibility testing of Campylobacter spp. J Clin Microbiol 2002 1.60
8 An outbreak of gastrointestinal illness and erythema nodosum from grated carrots contaminated with Yersinia pseudotuberculosis. J Infect Dis 2006 1.55
9 Inaccuracy of the disk diffusion method compared with the agar dilution method for susceptibility testing of Campylobacter spp. J Clin Microbiol 2011 1.22
10 Technical improvement to prevent DNA degradation of enteric pathogens in pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. J Clin Microbiol 2002 1.16
11 Variations in 10 putative uropathogen virulence genes among urinary, faecal and peri-urethral Escherichia coli. J Med Microbiol 2002 1.14
12 Bacterial and viral etiology of childhood diarrhea in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. BMC Pediatr 2013 1.13
13 Mechanisms of resistance in nontyphoidal Salmonella enterica strains exhibiting a nonclassical quinolone resistance phenotype. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2009 1.12
14 New quinolone resistance phenomenon in Salmonella enterica: nalidixic acid-susceptible isolates with reduced fluoroquinolone susceptibility. J Clin Microbiol 2005 1.11
15 Multidrug resistance in Campylobacter jejuni strains collected from Finnish patients during 1995-2000. J Antimicrob Chemother 2003 1.11
16 International outbreak of Salmonella Oranienburg due to German chocolate. BMC Infect Dis 2005 1.07
17 Antimicrobial susceptibilities of multidrug-resistant Campylobacter jejuni and C. coli strains: in vitro activities of 20 antimicrobial agents. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2009 1.07
18 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli serotype O78:H(-) in family, Finland, 2009. Emerg Infect Dis 2012 1.06
19 Fluoroquinolone resistance in Campylobacter jejuni isolates in travelers returning to Finland: association of ciprofloxacin resistance to travel destination. Emerg Infect Dis 2003 1.05
20 Sporadic human Yersinia enterocolitica infections caused by bioserotype 4/O : 3 originate mainly from pigs. J Med Microbiol 2006 1.01
21 Genomic diversity within phage types of Salmonella enterica ssp. enterica serotypes Enteritidis and Typhimurium. Foodborne Pathog Dis 2006 0.98
22 Application of molecular genetic methods in diagnostics and epidemiology of food-borne bacterial pathogens. APMIS 2005 0.97
23 Domestically acquired Campylobacter infections in Finland. Emerg Infect Dis 2004 0.97
24 Usability and performance of CHROMagar STEC medium in detection of Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli strains. J Clin Microbiol 2012 0.95
25 Alteration of flagellar phenotype of Escherichia coli strain P12b, the standard type strain for flagellar antigen H17, possessing a new non-fliC flagellin gene flnA, and possible loss of original flagellar phenotype and genotype in the course of subculturing through semisolid media. Arch Microbiol 2010 0.95
26 Territorial waters of the Baltic Sea as a source of infections caused by Vibrio cholerae non-O1, non-O139: report of 3 hospitalized cases. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 2006 0.95
27 gyrA polymorphism in Campylobacter jejuni: detection of gyrA mutations in 162 C. jejuni isolates by single-strand conformation polymorphism and DNA sequencing. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2002 0.94
28 Characterization of Shigella sonnei Isolate Carrying Shiga Toxin 2-Producing Gene. Emerg Infect Dis 2015 0.94
29 Elimination of enteric bacteria in biological-chemical wastewater treatment and tertiary filtration units. Water Res 2003 0.93
30 Reduced fluoroquinolone susceptibility in Salmonella enterica isolates from travelers, Finland. Emerg Infect Dis 2009 0.92
31 A nationwide outbreak of multiresistant Salmonella Typhimurium in Finland due to contaminated lettuce from Spain, May 2005. Euro Surveill 2005 0.92
32 Reduction in fluoroquinolone susceptibility among non-typhoidal strains of Salmonella enterica isolated from Finnish patients. J Antimicrob Chemother 2006 0.92
33 The ail gene is present in some Yersinia enterocolitica biotype 1A strains. Foodborne Pathog Dis 2011 0.91
34 Molecular epidemiology of Clostridium perfringens related to food-borne outbreaks of disease in Finland from 1984 to 1999. Appl Environ Microbiol 2002 0.91
35 Symptoms and sources of Yersinia enterocolitica-infection: a case-control study. BMC Infect Dis 2010 0.90
36 Multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis, pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, and antimicrobial susceptibility patterns in discrimination of sporadic and outbreak-related strains of Yersinia enterocolitica. BMC Microbiol 2011 0.89
37 In vitro activity of azithromycin against nontyphoidal Salmonella enterica. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2010 0.89
38 Yersinia pseudotuberculosis O:1 traced to raw carrots, Finland. Emerg Infect Dis 2008 0.88
39 Serotypes and anti-microbial susceptibility of Plesiomonas shigelloides isolates from humans, animals and aquatic environments in different countries. Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis 2004 0.87
40 Prevalence of diarrheagenic Escherichia coli virulence genes in the feces of slaughtered cattle, chickens, and pigs in Burkina Faso. Microbiologyopen 2012 0.87
41 Live oral typhoid vaccine Salmonella Typhi Ty21a - a surrogate vaccine against non-typhoid salmonella? Vaccine 2012 0.85
42 Iceberg lettuce as suggested source of a nationwide outbreak caused by two Salmonella serotypes, Newport and Reading, in Finland in 2008. J Food Prot 2011 0.85
43 Prevalence and characterization of Salmonella enterica from the feces of cattle, poultry, swine and hedgehogs in Burkina Faso and their comparison to human Salmonella isolates. BMC Microbiol 2013 0.85
44 Characterization of Salmonella enterica and detection of the virulence genes specific to diarrheagenic Escherichia coli from poultry carcasses in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Foodborne Pathog Dis 2012 0.85
45 Shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli O100:H⁻: stx2e in drinking water contaminated by waste water in Finland. Curr Microbiol 2010 0.85
46 Clinical isolates of Yersinia enterocolitica biotype 1A represent two phylogenetic lineages with differing pathogenicity-related properties. BMC Microbiol 2012 0.84
47 Molecular epidemiology of the five recent outbreaks of Yersinia pseudotuberculosis in Finland. Adv Exp Med Biol 2003 0.84
48 Ribosomal mutations as the main cause of macrolide resistance in Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2011 0.83
49 Detection of a novel repeated sequence useful for epidemiological typing of pathogenic Yersinia enterocolitica. Int J Med Microbiol 2002 0.83
50 Diarrheagenic Escherichia coli detected by 16-plex PCR in raw meat and beef intestines sold at local markets in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. Int J Food Microbiol 2011 0.82
51 Chickens and cattle as sources of sporadic domestically acquired Campylobacter jejuni infections in Finland. Appl Environ Microbiol 2009 0.81
52 Prevalence of Salmonella enterica and the hygienic indicator Escherichia coli in raw meat at markets in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. J Food Prot 2011 0.81
53 Tracing shigatoxigenic Escherichia coli O103, O145, and O174 infections from farm residents to cattle. J Clin Microbiol 2007 0.81
54 Occurrence of Vibrio cholerae in fish and water from a reservoir and a neighboring channel in Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso. J Infect Dev Ctries 2014 0.80
55 Molecular follow-up of Salmonella enterica subsp. enterica serovar Agona infection in cattle and humans. J Clin Microbiol 2002 0.80
56 Agricultural, socioeconomic and environmental variables as risks for human verotoxigenic Escherichia coli (VTEC) infection in Finland. BMC Infect Dis 2011 0.80
57 Characterization of Shigatoxigenic Escherichia coli strains from Burkina Faso. Foodborne Pathog Dis 2012 0.80
58 Listeria monocytogenes isolates from invasive infections: variation of sero- and genotypes during an 11-year period in Finland. J Clin Microbiol 2003 0.80
59 Faecal contamination of a municipal drinking water distribution system in association with Campylobacter jejuni infections. J Water Health 2008 0.80
60 Simplified phenotypic scheme evaluated by 16S rRNA sequencing for differentiation between Yersinia enterocolitica and Y. enterocolitica-like species. J Clin Microbiol 2006 0.79
61 In vitro activities of 11 fluoroquinolones against 816 non-typhoidal strains of Salmonella enterica isolated from Finnish patients with special reference to reduced ciprofloxacin susceptibility. Ann Clin Microbiol Antimicrob 2005 0.78
62 Prolonged shedding of shiga toxin-producing Escherichia coli. Pediatr Infect Dis J 2007 0.78
63 In vitro activities of 11 fluoroquinolones against 226 Campylobacter jejuni strains isolated from Finnish patients, with special reference to ciprofloxacin resistance. J Antimicrob Chemother 2005 0.78
64 Heat Wave-Associated Vibriosis, Sweden and Finland, 2014. Emerg Infect Dis 2016 0.77
65 Applicability of DiversiLab repetitive sequence-based PCR method in epidemiological typing of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli (EHEC). Foodborne Pathog Dis 2013 0.77
66 Genotyping of outbreak-associated and sporadic Yersinia pseudotuberculosis strains by novel multilocus variable-number tandem repeat analysis (MLVA). J Microbiol Methods 2013 0.77
67 Serology and genetics of the flagellar antigen of Escherichia coli O157:H7a,7c. J Clin Microbiol 2003 0.77
68 Identification of persistent subtypes of Campylobacter jejuni by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis in Finland. Foodborne Pathog Dis 2011 0.76
69 Occurrence of thermotolerant Campylobacter spp. and adenoviruses in Finnish bathing waters and purified sewage effluents. J Water Health 2013 0.76
70 Molecular evidence of Plesiomonas shigelloides as a possible zoonotic agent. Folia Microbiol (Praha) 2011 0.75
71 Cefotaxime-resistant Salmonella enterica in travelers returning from Thailand to Finland. Emerg Infect Dis 2014 0.75
72 Reply to "disk diffusion method for erythromycin and ciprofloxacin susceptibility testing of Campylobacter jejuni and Campylobacter coli". J Clin Microbiol 2013 0.75
73 Comparative typing of Campylobacter jejuni by heat-stable serotyping and PCR-based restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. J Clin Microbiol 2005 0.75