E Fidelma Boyd

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1 Sialic acid catabolism confers a competitive advantage to pathogenic vibrio cholerae in the mouse intestine. Infect Immun 2009 1.62
2 Insights into the evolution of sialic acid catabolism among bacteria. BMC Evol Biol 2009 1.55
3 Evolutionary genetic analysis of the emergence of epidemic Vibrio cholerae isolates on the basis of comparative nucleotide sequence analysis and multilocus virulence gene profiles. J Clin Microbiol 2004 1.46
4 Three pathogenicity islands of Vibrio cholerae can excise from the chromosome and form circular intermediates. J Bacteriol 2007 1.45
5 Characterization of a novel Vibrio pathogenicity island (VPI-2) encoding neuraminidase (nanH) among toxigenic Vibrio cholerae isolates. Microbiology 2002 1.44
6 The Vibrio seventh pandemic island-II is a 26.9 kb genomic island present in Vibrio cholerae El Tor and O139 serogroup isolates that shows homology to a 43.4 kb genomic island in V. vulnificus. Microbiology 2004 1.35
7 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
8 The genomic code: inferring Vibrionaceae niche specialization. Nat Rev Microbiol 2006 1.26
9 Genome diversity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from cystic fibrosis patients and the hospital environment. J Clin Microbiol 2004 1.25
10 Four genomic islands that mark post-1995 pandemic Vibrio parahaemolyticus isolates. BMC Genomics 2006 1.19
11 Genomic island identification in Vibrio vulnificus reveals significant genome plasticity in this human pathogen. Bioinformatics 2006 1.17
12 The Vibrio parahaemolyticus ToxRS regulator is required for stress tolerance and colonization in a novel orogastric streptomycin-induced adult murine model. Infect Immun 2012 1.10
13 Predatory bacteria as natural modulators of Vibrio parahaemolyticus and Vibrio vulnificus in seawater and oysters. Appl Environ Microbiol 2012 0.99
14 Mobilization of the Vibrio pathogenicity island between Vibrio cholerae isolates mediated by CP-T1 generalized transduction. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2002 0.99
15 Molecular evolution of Vibrio pathogenicity island-2 (VPI-2): mosaic structure among Vibrio cholerae and Vibrio mimicus natural isolates. Microbiology 2005 0.97
16 Osmoadaptation among Vibrio species and unique genomic features and physiological responses of Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Appl Environ Microbiol 2009 0.95
17 Modulation of responses of Vibrio parahaemolyticus O3:K6 to pH and temperature stresses by growth at different salt concentrations. Appl Environ Microbiol 2010 0.94
18 Evolutionary history of the phl gene cluster in the plant-associated bacterium Pseudomonas fluorescens. Appl Environ Microbiol 2009 0.89
19 Excision dynamics of Vibrio pathogenicity island-2 from Vibrio cholerae: role of a recombination directionality factor VefA. BMC Microbiol 2010 0.89
20 The VC1777-VC1779 proteins are members of a sialic acid-specific subfamily of TRAP transporters (SiaPQM) and constitute the sole route of sialic acid uptake in the human pathogen Vibrio cholerae. Microbiology 2012 0.88
21 Bacterial catabolism of nonulosonic (sialic) acid and fitness in the gut. Gut Microbes 2010 0.87
22 Genomic and metabolic profiling of nonulosonic acids in Vibrionaceae reveal biochemical phenotypes of allelic divergence in Vibrio vulnificus. Appl Environ Microbiol 2011 0.85
23 Sialic acid catabolism and transport gene clusters are lineage specific in Vibrio vulnificus. Appl Environ Microbiol 2012 0.84
24 Sensitive and rapid molecular detection assays for Salmonella enterica serovars Typhimurium and Heidelberg. J Food Prot 2009 0.84
25 Population structures in the SARA and SARB reference collections of Salmonella enterica according to MLST, MLEE and microarray hybridization. Infect Genet Evol 2013 0.83
26 Crystal structure of VC1805, a conserved hypothetical protein from a Vibrio cholerae pathogenicity island, reveals homology to human p32. Proteins 2008 0.81
27 Loss of sigma factor RpoN increases intestinal colonization of Vibrio parahaemolyticus in an adult mouse model. Infect Immun 2013 0.79
28 Dichotomy in the evolution of pathogenicity island and bacteriophage encoded integrases from pathogenic Escherichia coli strains. Infect Genet Evol 2010 0.79
29 Murine macrophage inflammatory cytokine production and immune activation in response to Vibrio parahaemolyticus infection. Microbiol Immunol 2013 0.78
30 On sialic acid transport and utilization by Vibrio cholerae. Microbiology 2011 0.78
31 Post-Genomic Analysis of Members of the Family Vibrionaceae. Microbiol Spectr 2015 0.78
32 Biosynthesis of the osmoprotectant ectoine, but not glycine betaine, is critical for survival of osmotically stressed Vibrio parahaemolyticus cells. Appl Environ Microbiol 2013 0.78
33 Investigation of a global collection of nontyphoidal Salmonella of various serotypes cultured between 1953 and 2004 for the presence of class 1 integrons. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2007 0.77
34 Host Sialic Acids: A Delicacy for the Pathogen with Discerning Taste. Microbiol Spectr 2015 0.76
35 An atomic force microscopy method for the detection of binding forces between bacteria and a lipid bilayer containing higher order gangliosides. J Microbiol Methods 2010 0.76
36 Rapid multiplex PCR and real-time TaqMan PCR assays for detection of Salmonella enterica and the highly virulent serovars Choleraesuis and Paratyphi C. J Clin Microbiol 2008 0.76