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Title |
Journal |
Year |
PubWeight™‹?› |
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1
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Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carrying Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes: worldwide emergence.
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Emerg Infect Dis
|
2003
|
13.83
|
|
2
|
Association between Staphylococcus aureus strains carrying gene for Panton-Valentine leukocidin and highly lethal necrotising pneumonia in young immunocompetent patients.
|
Lancet
|
2002
|
10.26
|
|
3
|
Relationships between Staphylococcus aureus genetic background, virulence factors, agr groups (alleles), and human disease.
|
Infect Immun
|
2002
|
7.34
|
|
4
|
Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in France: emergence of a single clone that produces Panton-Valentine leukocidin.
|
Clin Infect Dis
|
2002
|
5.75
|
|
5
|
Global distribution of Panton-Valentine leukocidin--positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, 2006.
|
Emerg Infect Dis
|
2007
|
3.98
|
|
6
|
Factors predicting mortality in necrotizing community-acquired pneumonia caused by Staphylococcus aureus containing Panton-Valentine leukocidin.
|
Clin Infect Dis
|
2007
|
3.31
|
|
7
|
Polymorphonuclear leukocytes mediate Staphylococcus aureus Panton-Valentine leukocidin-induced lung inflammation and injury.
|
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A
|
2010
|
3.05
|
|
8
|
Are host genetics the predominant determinant of persistent nasal Staphylococcus aureus carriage in humans?
|
J Infect Dis
|
2010
|
1.92
|
|
9
|
Clinical and environmental distributions of Legionella strains in France are different.
|
J Clin Microbiol
|
2004
|
1.91
|
|
10
|
Effect of antibiotics on Staphylococcus aureus producing Panton-Valentine leukocidin.
|
Antimicrob Agents Chemother
|
2007
|
1.84
|
|
11
|
High genetic variability of the agr locus in Staphylococcus species.
|
J Bacteriol
|
2002
|
1.78
|
|
12
|
Neutralization of Staphylococcus aureus Panton Valentine leukocidin by intravenous immunoglobulin in vitro.
|
J Infect Dis
|
2004
|
1.76
|
|
13
|
New insights into meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) pathogenesis, treatment and resistance.
|
Int J Antimicrob Agents
|
2011
|
1.66
|
|
14
|
Use of multiplex PCR to identify Staphylococcus aureus adhesins involved in human hematogenous infections.
|
J Clin Microbiol
|
2003
|
1.61
|
|
15
|
Virulence determinants in community and hospital meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
|
J Hosp Infect
|
2007
|
1.57
|
|
16
|
Global distribution and evolution of Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus, 1981-2007.
|
J Infect Dis
|
2010
|
1.54
|
|
17
|
Comparative prevalence of superantigen genes in Staphylococcus aureus isolates causing sepsis with and without septic shock.
|
Clin Infect Dis
|
2005
|
1.53
|
|
18
|
A history of Panton-Valentine leukocidin (PVL)-associated infection protects against death in PVL-associated pneumonia.
|
Vaccine
|
2011
|
1.48
|
|
19
|
Panton-valentine leukocidin enhances the severity of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus rabbit osteomyelitis.
|
PLoS One
|
2009
|
1.48
|
|
20
|
Detection of new methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones containing the toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 gene responsible for hospital- and community-acquired infections in France.
|
J Clin Microbiol
|
2006
|
1.46
|
|
21
|
Identification of the capsular polysaccharides in Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates by PCR and agglutination tests.
|
J Clin Microbiol
|
2007
|
1.40
|
|
22
|
The evolution and maintenance of virulence in Staphylococcus aureus: a role for host-to-host transmission?
|
Nat Rev Microbiol
|
2006
|
1.33
|
|
23
|
Staphylococcal enterotoxin-like toxins U2 and V, two new staphylococcal superantigens arising from recombination within the enterotoxin gene cluster.
|
Infect Immun
|
2006
|
1.24
|
|
24
|
Panton-Valentine leukocidin does play a role in the early stage of Staphylococcus aureus skin infections: a rabbit model.
|
PLoS One
|
2011
|
1.22
|
|
25
|
Detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains resistant to multiple antibiotics and carrying the Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes in an Algiers hospital.
|
Antimicrob Agents Chemother
|
2006
|
1.22
|
|
26
|
Immunogenicity of toxins during Staphylococcus aureus infection.
|
Clin Infect Dis
|
2010
|
1.20
|
|
27
|
Staphylococcus aureus isolates associated with necrotizing pneumonia bind to basement membrane type I and IV collagens and laminin.
|
J Infect Dis
|
2004
|
1.16
|
|
28
|
Frequent carriage of Panton-Valentine leucocidin genes by Staphylococcus aureus isolates from surgically drained abscesses.
|
J Clin Microbiol
|
2005
|
1.15
|
|
29
|
Diversity in Staphylococcus aureus enterotoxins.
|
Chem Immunol Allergy
|
2007
|
1.14
|
|
30
|
Beta-lactams interfering with PBP1 induce Panton-Valentine leukocidin expression by triggering sarA and rot global regulators of Staphylococcus aureus.
|
Antimicrob Agents Chemother
|
2011
|
1.12
|
|
31
|
Clinical manifestations of staphylococcal scalded-skin syndrome depend on serotypes of exfoliative toxins.
|
J Clin Microbiol
|
2005
|
1.11
|
|
32
|
Toxin gene content of the Lyon methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone compared with that of other pandemic clones.
|
J Clin Microbiol
|
2006
|
1.10
|
|
33
|
Effects of subinhibitory concentrations of antibiotics on virulence factor expression by community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
|
J Antimicrob Chemother
|
2013
|
1.09
|
|
34
|
Comparative inflammatory properties of staphylococcal superantigenic enterotoxins SEA and SEG: implications for septic shock.
|
J Leukoc Biol
|
2006
|
1.09
|
|
35
|
Panton-Valentine leucocidin and pneumonia.
|
Lancet Infect Dis
|
2013
|
1.09
|
|
36
|
Staphylococcus aureus superantigens elicit redundant and extensive human Vbeta patterns.
|
Infect Immun
|
2009
|
1.06
|
|
37
|
Rapid detection of Staphylococcus aureus Panton-Valentine leukocidin in clinical specimens by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay and immunochromatographic tests.
|
J Clin Microbiol
|
2010
|
1.03
|
|
38
|
Eubacterial PCR for bacterial detection and identification in 100 acute postcataract surgery endophthalmitis.
|
Invest Ophthalmol Vis Sci
|
2008
|
1.01
|
|
39
|
Staphylococcus intermedius produces a functional agr autoinducing peptide containing a cyclic lactone.
|
J Bacteriol
|
2005
|
1.01
|
|
40
|
Effects of linezolid on suppressing in vivo production of staphylococcal toxins and improving survival outcomes in a rabbit model of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus necrotizing pneumonia.
|
J Infect Dis
|
2013
|
1.01
|
|
41
|
Prompt and successful toxin-targeting treatment of three patients with necrotizing pneumonia due to Staphylococcus aureus strains carrying the Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes.
|
J Clin Microbiol
|
2010
|
0.96
|
|
42
|
Detection of Staphylococcus aureus delta-toxin production by whole-cell MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry.
|
PLoS One
|
2012
|
0.93
|
|
43
|
Mycobacterium species related to M. leprae and M. lepromatosis from cows with bovine nodular thelitis.
|
Emerg Infect Dis
|
2014
|
0.91
|
|
44
|
Host-related risk factors and clinical features of community-acquired legionnaires disease due to the Paris and Lorraine endemic strains, 1998-2007, France.
|
Clin Infect Dis
|
2009
|
0.91
|
|
45
|
A histidine-to-arginine substitution in Panton-Valentine leukocidin from USA300 community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus does not impair its leukotoxicity.
|
Infect Immun
|
2009
|
0.89
|
|
46
|
Do differences in Panton-Valentine leukocidin production among international methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clones affect disease presentation and severity?
|
J Clin Microbiol
|
2012
|
0.87
|
|
47
|
Bacterial contamination rate of the anterior chamber during cataract surgery using conventional culture and eubacterial PCR.
|
Eur J Ophthalmol
|
2010
|
0.85
|
|
48
|
Simulated antibiotic exposures in an in vitro hollow-fiber infection model influence toxin gene expression and production in community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain MW2.
|
Antimicrob Agents Chemother
|
2011
|
0.85
|
|
49
|
Toxin profiling of Staphylococcus aureus strains involved in varicella superinfection.
|
J Clin Microbiol
|
2010
|
0.83
|
|
50
|
In vivo efficacy of ceftaroline fosamil in a methicillin-resistant panton-valentine leukocidin-producing Staphylococcus aureus rabbit pneumonia model.
|
Antimicrob Agents Chemother
|
2014
|
0.83
|
|
51
|
Identification of legionella in clinical samples.
|
Methods Mol Biol
|
2013
|
0.83
|
|
52
|
Impact of sub-inhibitory antibiotics on fibronectin-mediated host cell adhesion and invasion by Staphylococcus aureus.
|
BMC Microbiol
|
2011
|
0.83
|
|
53
|
Staphylococcal superantigens of the enterotoxin gene cluster (egc) for treatment of stage IIIb non-small cell lung cancer with pleural effusion.
|
Clin Chest Med
|
2006
|
0.81
|
|
54
|
Early diagnosis of staphylococcal toxic shock syndrome by detection of the TSST-1 Vbeta signature in peripheral blood of a 12-year-old boy.
|
Pediatr Infect Dis J
|
2008
|
0.81
|
|
55
|
α-Hemolysin, not Panton-Valentine leukocidin, impacts rabbit mortality from severe sepsis with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus osteomyelitis.
|
J Infect Dis
|
2013
|
0.81
|
|
56
|
The signal peptide of Staphylococcus aureus panton valentine leukocidin LukS component mediates increased adhesion to heparan sulfates.
|
PLoS One
|
2009
|
0.81
|
|
57
|
Rifampicin-macrolide synergy against Legionella pneumophila serogroup 1 in human macrophages using a quantitative real-time PCR assay.
|
Int J Antimicrob Agents
|
2011
|
0.80
|
|
58
|
Adhesin and superantigen genes and the capacity of Staphylococcus aureus to colonize the infantile gut.
|
J Infect Dis
|
2011
|
0.80
|
|
59
|
Toxic shock syndrome toxin-1 challenges the neuroprotective functions of the choroidal epithelium and induces neurotoxicity.
|
J Infect Dis
|
2006
|
0.79
|
|
60
|
The Panton-Valentine leukocidin is a virulence factor in a murine model of necrotizing pneumonia.
|
J Infect Dis
|
2010
|
0.77
|
|
61
|
T-cell response to superantigen restimulation during menstrual toxic shock syndrome.
|
FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol
|
2011
|
0.77
|
|
62
|
Assessment of cellular immune parameters in paediatric toxic shock syndrome: a report of five cases.
|
FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol
|
2012
|
0.77
|
|
63
|
Early kinetics of the transcriptional response of human leukocytes to staphylococcal superantigenic enterotoxins A and G.
|
Microb Pathog
|
2009
|
0.77
|
|
64
|
Pathogenesis of Staphylococcus aureus necrotizing pneumonia: the role of PVL and an influenza coinfection.
|
Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther
|
2013
|
0.77
|
|
65
|
Detection of Panton-Valentine toxin in Staphylococcus aureus by mass spectrometry directly from colony: time has not yet come.
|
Int J Antimicrob Agents
|
2010
|
0.76
|
|
66
|
Outbreak of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin-Associated Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Infection in a Rugby Team, France, 2010-2011.
|
Emerg Infect Dis
|
2016
|
0.75
|
|
67
|
An outbreak of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus surgical-site infections initiated by a healthcare worker with chronic sinusitis.
|
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol
|
2005
|
0.75
|
|
68
|
First case of intrafamily transmission of a new MRSA clone with toxic shock syndrome toxin-1.
|
Scand J Infect Dis
|
2008
|
0.75
|
|
69
|
Two cases of fatal shock after transfusion of platelets contaminated by Staphylococcus aureus: role of superantigenic toxins.
|
Clin Infect Dis
|
2004
|
0.75
|