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Barun Mathema

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1 Global dissemination of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis W-Beijing family strains. Trends Microbiol 2002 8.37
2 Is Panton-Valentine leukocidin the major virulence determinant in community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus disease? J Infect Dis 2006 8.17
3 Epidemic community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: recent clonal expansion and diversification. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2008 4.38
4 Single-nucleotide polymorphism-based population genetic analysis of Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains from 4 geographic sites. J Infect Dis 2005 3.32
5 Mycobacterium tuberculosis growth at the cavity surface: a microenvironment with failed immunity. Infect Immun 2003 3.01
6 Molecular dissection of the evolution of carbapenem-resistant multilocus sequence type 258 Klebsiella pneumoniae. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2014 2.56
7 Virulence of selected Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates in the rabbit model of meningitis is dependent on phenolic glycolipid produced by the bacilli. J Infect Dis 2005 2.50
8 Differential monocyte activation underlies strain-specific Mycobacterium tuberculosis pathogenesis. Infect Immun 2004 2.47
9 Prevalence of agr dysfunction among colonizing Staphylococcus aureus strains. J Infect Dis 2008 2.29
10 Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: an emerging pathogen. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2003 2.27
11 Global epidemiology of community-associated methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA). Curr Opin Microbiol 2012 2.06
12 Genetic polymorphism in Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates from patients with chronic multidrug-resistant tuberculosis. J Infect Dis 2004 1.75
13 Prevalence and characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus colonization among healthcare professionals in an urban teaching hospital. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 2010 1.73
14 Molecular differentiation of historic phage-type 80/81 and contemporary epidemic Staphylococcus aureus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2011 1.70
15 Differential distribution and expression of Panton-Valentine leucocidin among community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains. J Clin Microbiol 2005 1.67
16 Nosocomial transmission of extensively drug-resistant tuberculosis in a rural hospital in South Africa. J Infect Dis 2012 1.65
17 Molecular epidemiology of Mycobacterium tuberculosis in a South African community with high HIV prevalence. J Infect Dis 2009 1.59
18 The phenolic glycolipid of Mycobacterium tuberculosis differentially modulates the early host cytokine response but does not in itself confer hypervirulence. Infect Immun 2008 1.55
19 Persistence of a highly resistant strain of tuberculosis in New York City during 1990-1999. J Infect Dis 2003 1.41
20 Epidemic Klebsiella pneumoniae ST258 is a hybrid strain. MBio 2014 1.35
21 Molecular genetics of para-aminosalicylic acid resistance in clinical isolates and spontaneous mutants of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2009 1.33
22 Colonization and subsequent skin and soft tissue infection due to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a cohort of otherwise healthy adults infected with HIV type 1. J Infect Dis 2009 1.28
23 Mutations in agr do not persist in natural populations of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Infect Dis 2010 1.27
24 Evaluation of the Mtb72F polyprotein vaccine in a rabbit model of tuberculous meningitis. Infect Immun 2006 1.23
25 Molecular epidemiology of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis, New York City, 1995-1997. Emerg Infect Dis 2002 1.21
26 Genotype MTBDRplus for direct detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis and drug resistance in strains from gold miners in South Africa. J Clin Microbiol 2012 1.09
27 The evolution of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis: from a mono-rifampin-resistant cluster into increasingly multidrug-resistant variants in an HIV-seropositive population. J Infect Dis 2008 1.07
28 Descriptive proteomic analysis shows protein variability between closely related clinical isolates of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. Proteomics 2010 1.02
29 Targeted hybridization of IS6110 fingerprints identifies the W-Beijing Mycobacterium tuberculosis strains among clinical isolates. J Clin Microbiol 2005 0.98
30 Prevalence of multidrug-resistant pulmonary tuberculosis in counties with different duration of DOTS implementation in rural China. Microb Drug Resist 2008 0.94
31 Spoligologos: a bioinformatic approach to displaying and analyzing Mycobacterium tuberculosis data. Emerg Infect Dis 2002 0.94
32 Genome Sequence of Bacterial Interference Strain Staphylococcus aureus 502A. Genome Announc 2014 0.91
33 Evolution of epidemiologic methods and concepts in selected textbooks of the 20th century. Soz Praventivmed 2004 0.90
34 Nasal carriage as a source of agr-defective Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. J Infect Dis 2012 0.89
35 Experimental tuberculosis in the Wistar rat: a model for protective immunity and control of infection. PLoS One 2011 0.86
36 Population-based investigation of fluoroquinolones resistant tuberculosis in rural eastern China. Tuberculosis (Edinb) 2011 0.83
37 Genotyping of Mycobacterium tuberculosis clinical isolates using IS6110-based restriction fragment length polymorphism analysis. Methods Mol Biol 2009 0.83
38 Single nucleotide polymorphisms in the Mycobacterium bovis genome resolve phylogenetic relationships. J Clin Microbiol 2012 0.83
39 Transmission pattern of drug-resistant tuberculosis and its implication for tuberculosis control in eastern rural China. PLoS One 2011 0.82
40 Genetic variation among Panton-Valentine leukocidin-encoding bacteriophages in Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 30 strains. J Clin Microbiol 2013 0.81
41 pncA Gene Mutations Associated with Pyrazinamide Resistance in Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis, South Africa and Georgia. Emerg Infect Dis 2017 0.75
42 Mycobacterium tuberculosis Infection among Asian Elephants in Captivity. Emerg Infect Dis 2017 0.75
43 Primary Capreomycin Resistance Is Common and Associated With Early Mortality in Patients With Extensively Drug-Resistant Tuberculosis in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa. J Acquir Immune Defic Syndr 2015 0.75