Published in J Infect Dis on May 10, 2006
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Mycobacterium kumamotonense Sp. Nov. recovered from clinical specimen and the first isolation report of Mycobacterium arupense in Japan: Novel slowly growing, nonchromogenic clinical isolates related to Mycobacterium terrae complex. Microbiol Immunol (2006) 1.55
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The percentage of superantigen-reactive T cells in peripheral blood significantly decreases before massively increasing in patients with neonatal TSS-like exanthematous disease in the early acute phase. J Infect Chemother (2002) 1.41
Outbreaks of multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa in community hospitals in Japan. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 1.40
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Identification and characterization of two novel staphylococcal enterotoxins, types S and T. Infect Immun (2008) 1.38
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Severe diarrhea caused by cholera toxin-producing vibrio cholerae serogroup O75 infections acquired in the southeastern United States. Clin Infect Dis (2008) 1.36
ClpXP protease controls expression of the type III protein secretion system through regulation of RpoS and GrlR levels in enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli. J Bacteriol (2005) 1.34
Multiplex polymerase chain reaction assay for selective detection of Salmonella enterica serovar typhimurium. Jpn J Infect Dis (2003) 1.33
Diffusion-weighted imaging of the liver: optimizing b value for the detection and characterization of benign and malignant hepatic lesions. J Magn Reson Imaging (2008) 1.32
Life-threatening infantile diarrhea from fluoroquinolone-resistant Salmonella enterica typhimurium with mutations in both gyrA and parC. Emerg Infect Dis (2003) 1.32
Dissemination of the phage-associated novel superantigen gene speL in recent invasive and noninvasive Streptococcus pyogenes M3/T3 isolates in Japan. Infect Immun (2002) 1.32
Emergence of multidrug-resistant Corynebacterium striatum as a nosocomial pathogen in long-term hospitalized patients with underlying diseases. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis (2006) 1.32
Chryseobacterium miricola sp. nov., a novel species isolated from condensation water of space station Mir. Syst Appl Microbiol (2003) 1.32
Targeting FtsZ for antituberculosis drug discovery: noncytotoxic taxanes as novel antituberculosis agents. J Med Chem (2006) 1.30
Multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis for molecular typing of Shigella sonnei. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 1.30
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Multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain that caused an outbreak in a neurosurgery ward and its aac(6')-Iae gene cassette encoding a novel aminoglycoside acetyltransferase. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2005) 1.25
Genotypic analyses of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and development of a pandemic group-specific multiplex PCR assay. J Clin Microbiol (2003) 1.24
Inference of the impact of insertion sequence (IS) elements on bacterial genome diversification through analysis of small-size structural polymorphisms in Escherichia coli O157 genomes. Genome Res (2009) 1.23
Characteristics of Streptococcus suis isolated from patients in Japan. Jpn J Infect Dis (2006) 1.23
Development and evaluation of a line probe assay for rapid identification of pncA mutations in pyrazinamide-resistant mycobacterium tuberculosis strains. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 1.22
Characterization of Neisseria meningitidis isolates collected from 1974 to 2003 in Japan by multilocus sequence typing. J Med Microbiol (2004) 1.22
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Polymorphisms of interferon-inducible genes OAS-1 and MxA associated with SARS in the Vietnamese population. Biochem Biophys Res Commun (2005) 1.21
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Complete genome sequence of Melissococcus plutonius ATCC 35311. J Bacteriol (2011) 1.21
Cloning and characterization of the gene encoding the z66 antigen of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi. FEMS Microbiol Lett (2004) 1.20
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Identification of and screening for human Helicobacter cinaedi infections and carriers via nested PCR. J Clin Microbiol (2012) 1.20
Complete genome sequencing and analysis of a Lancefield group G Streptococcus dysgalactiae subsp. equisimilis strain causing streptococcal toxic shock syndrome (STSS). BMC Genomics (2011) 1.19
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Porphyromonas gingivalis galE is involved in lipopolysaccharide O-antigen synthesis and biofilm formation. Infect Immun (2006) 1.17
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Critical role of myeloperoxidase and nicotinamide adenine dinucleotide phosphate-oxidase in high-burden systemic infection of mice with Candida albicans. J Infect Dis (2002) 1.16
Investigation of reservoir animals of Leptospira in the northern part of Miyazaki Prefecture. Jpn J Infect Dis (2008) 1.16
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Prospective surveillance of community-onset and healthcare-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated from a university-affiliated hospital in Japan. Microbiol Immunol (2005) 1.11
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Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 isolates from cooling towers in Japan form a distinct genetic cluster. Microbiol Immunol (2005) 1.11
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Molecular cloning and characterization of a novel leptospiral lipoprotein with OmpA domain. FEMS Microbiol Lett (2003) 1.10
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Genotyping of pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 still open to question. J Clin Microbiol (2002) 1.10
Rhodococcus equi can survive a phagolysosomal environment in macrophages by suppressing acidification of the phagolysosome. J Med Microbiol (2005) 1.10
Case report: Borrelia valaisiana infection in a Japanese man associated with traveling to foreign countries. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2007) 1.09
Characterization of novel staphylococcal enterotoxin-like toxin type P. Infect Immun (2005) 1.09
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