Published in J Clin Microbiol on December 24, 2008
Rapid typing of extended-spectrum β-lactamase- and carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates by use of SpectraCell RA. J Clin Microbiol (2012) 1.07
Proof of principle for successful characterization of methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from skin by use of Raman spectroscopy and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis. J Clin Microbiol (2009) 1.04
Discovering the unknown: detection of emerging pathogens using a label-free light-scattering system. Cytometry A (2010) 1.00
Raman spectroscopy in biomedicine - non-invasive in vitro analysis of cells and extracellular matrix components in tissues. Biotechnol J (2012) 1.00
Investigating antibacterial effects of garlic (Allium sativum) concentrate and garlic-derived organosulfur compounds on Campylobacter jejuni by using Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy, Raman spectroscopy, and electron microscopy. Appl Environ Microbiol (2011) 0.96
Impact of strain typing methods on assessment of relationship between paired nares and wound isolates of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Microbiol (2012) 0.94
Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus harboring the mecA or Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes in hospitals in Java and Bali, Indonesia. Am J Trop Med Hyg (2014) 0.91
Light-scattering sensor for real-time identification of Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Vibrio vulnificus and Vibrio cholerae colonies on solid agar plate. Microb Biotechnol (2012) 0.90
Discrimination of Aspergillus lentulus from Aspergillus fumigatus by Raman spectroscopy and MALDI-TOF MS. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis (2013) 0.88
Good performance of the SpectraCellRA system for typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates. J Clin Microbiol (2013) 0.84
Comprehensive detection and discrimination of Campylobacter species by use of confocal micro-Raman spectroscopy and multilocus sequence typing. J Clin Microbiol (2012) 0.83
Detecting and tracking nosocomial methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus using a microfluidic SERS biosensor. Anal Chem (2013) 0.83
Raman microspectroscopy for species identification and mapping within bacterial biofilms. AMB Express (2012) 0.83
The multivariate detection limit for Mycoplasma pneumoniae as determined by nanorod array-surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy and comparison with limit of detection by qPCR. Analyst (2014) 0.80
Culture-free diagnostics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection by silver nanorod array based SERS from clinical sputum samples. Nanomedicine (2014) 0.79
Specificity and Strain-Typing Capabilities of Nanorod Array-Surface Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy for Mycoplasma pneumoniae Detection. PLoS One (2015) 0.78
Advantages and limitations of potential methods for the analysis of bacteria in milk: a review. J Food Sci Technol (2015) 0.76
Instant Typing Is Essential to Detect Transmission of Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing Klebsiella Species. PLoS One (2015) 0.76
Raman spectroscopic analysis of the clonal and horizontal spread of CTX-M-15-producing Klebsiella pneumoniae in a neonatal intensive care unit. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis (2012) 0.76
The use of typing methods and infection prevention measures to control a bullous impetigo outbreak on a neonatal ward. Antimicrob Resist Infect Control (2012) 0.75
Detection of Healthcare-Related Extended-Spectrum Beta-Lactamase-Producing Escherichia coli Transmission Events Using Combined Genetic and Phenotypic Epidemiology. PLoS One (2016) 0.75
Comparison of SpectraCell RA typing and multilocus sequence typing for extended-spectrum-β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli. J Clin Microbiol (2012) 0.75
Numerical index of the discriminatory ability of typing systems: an application of Simpson's index of diversity. J Clin Microbiol (1988) 28.11
Estimating health care-associated infections and deaths in U.S. hospitals, 2002. Public Health Rep (2007) 11.94
The impact of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia on patient outcomes: mortality, length of stay, and hospital charges. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2005) 5.86
Assessment of resolution and intercenter reproducibility of results of genotyping Staphylococcus aureus by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of SmaI macrorestriction fragments: a multicenter study. J Clin Microbiol (1998) 5.38
Guidelines for the validation and application of typing methods for use in bacterial epidemiology. Clin Microbiol Infect (2007) 4.55
Low prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) at hospital admission in the Netherlands: the value of search and destroy and restrictive antibiotic use. J Hosp Infect (2004) 3.69
Raising standards while watching the bottom line: making a business case for infection control. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2007) 2.85
Controlling methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: quantifying the effects of interventions and rapid diagnostic testing. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A (2006) 2.75
The preventable proportion of nosocomial infections: an overview of published reports. J Hosp Infect (2003) 2.61
Evaluation of molecular typing methods in characterizing a European collection of epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains: the HARMONY collection. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 1.85
Prospective study of the performance of vibrational spectroscopies for rapid identification of bacterial and fungal pathogens recovered from blood cultures. J Clin Microbiol (2003) 1.63
Active screening in high-risk units is an effective and cost-avoidant method to reduce the rate of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in the hospital. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2006) 1.48
Costs of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and its control. Int J Antimicrob Agents (2006) 1.26
Extended multiplicative signal correction and spectral interference subtraction: new preprocessing methods for near infrared spectroscopy. J Pharm Biomed Anal (1991) 1.25
Molecular characterization of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream isolates collected in a Dutch University Hospital between 1999 and 2006. J Clin Microbiol (2008) 1.12
Daily cost of antimicrobial therapy in patients with Intensive Care Unit-acquired, laboratory-confirmed bloodstream infection. Int J Antimicrob Agents (2008) 1.11
Rapid epidemiological analysis of Acinetobacter strains by Raman spectroscopy. J Microbiol Methods (2005) 1.06
Binary typing of Staphylococcus aureus strains through reversed hybridization using digoxigenin-universal linkage system-labeled bacterial genomic DNA. J Clin Microbiol (2001) 0.99
New technology for detecting multidrug-resistant pathogens in the clinical microbiology laboratory. Emerg Infect Dis (2001) 0.97
Cost of the meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus search and destroy policy in a Dutch university hospital. J Hosp Infect (2008) 0.91
Infection control in the intensive care unit. Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther (2004) 0.80
A novel approach to correct variations in Raman spectra due to photo-bleachable cellular components. Analyst (2008) 0.79
Current trends in the epidemiological typing of clinically relevant microbes in Europe. J Microbiol Methods (2006) 0.79
The role of nasal carriage in Staphylococcus aureus infections. Lancet Infect Dis (2005) 9.80
Preventing surgical-site infections in nasal carriers of Staphylococcus aureus. N Engl J Med (2010) 8.50
Risk and outcome of nosocomial Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia in nasal carriers versus non-carriers. Lancet (2004) 5.27
Systematic review of studies on compliance with hand hygiene guidelines in hospital care. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol (2010) 3.55
Methicillin-resistant and -susceptible Staphylococcus aureus sequence type 398 in pigs and humans. Emerg Infect Dis (2008) 3.22
Natural population dynamics and expansion of pathogenic clones of Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Invest (2004) 2.86
Mupirocin prophylaxis against nosocomial Staphylococcus aureus infections in nonsurgical patients: a randomized study. Ann Intern Med (2004) 2.84
Moraxella catarrhalis: from emerging to established pathogen. Clin Microbiol Rev (2002) 2.43
Mycetoma caused by Madurella mycetomatis: a neglected infectious burden. Lancet Infect Dis (2004) 2.36
The crucial role of Campylobacter jejuni genes in anti-ganglioside antibody induction in Guillain-Barre syndrome. J Clin Invest (2004) 2.25
Predicting the Staphylococcus aureus nasal carrier state: derivation and validation of a "culture rule". Clin Infect Dis (2004) 2.15
Molecular detection and identification of agents of eumycetoma: detailed report of two cases. J Clin Microbiol (2003) 2.06
Bacterial load in relation to vacuum-assisted closure wound therapy: a prospective randomized trial. Wound Repair Regen (2004) 2.05
Carriage of Mycoplasma pneumoniae in the upper respiratory tract of symptomatic and asymptomatic children: an observational study. PLoS Med (2013) 1.95
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in meat products, the Netherlands. Emerg Infect Dis (2007) 1.94
Are host genetics the predominant determinant of persistent nasal Staphylococcus aureus carriage in humans? J Infect Dis (2010) 1.92
Use of an automated multiple-locus, variable-number tandem repeat-based method for rapid and high-throughput genotyping of Staphylococcus aureus isolates. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 1.88
Evaluation of molecular typing methods in characterizing a European collection of epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains: the HARMONY collection. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 1.85
Predominance and emergence of clones of hospital-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Malaysia. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 1.73
Monitoring the penetration enhancer dimethyl sulfoxide in human stratum corneum in vivo by confocal Raman spectroscopy. Pharm Res (2002) 1.73
Host- and tissue-specific pathogenic traits of Staphylococcus aureus. J Bacteriol (2005) 1.70
Loss-of-function mutations in the filaggrin gene lead to reduced level of natural moisturizing factor in the stratum corneum. J Invest Dermatol (2008) 1.67
Key role for clumping factor B in Staphylococcus aureus nasal colonization of humans. PLoS Med (2008) 1.64
Human factor in Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage. Infect Immun (2004) 1.64
Molecular evidence for dissemination of unique Campylobacter jejuni clones in Curaçao, Netherlands Antilles. J Clin Microbiol (2003) 1.64
Anti-staphylococcal humoral immune response in persistent nasal carriers and noncarriers of Staphylococcus aureus. J Infect Dis (2009) 1.62
Structural characterization of Campylobacter jejuni lipooligosaccharide outer cores associated with Guillain-Barre and Miller Fisher syndromes. Infect Immun (2007) 1.60
Environmental occurrence of Madurella mycetomatis, the major agent of human eumycetoma in Sudan. J Clin Microbiol (2002) 1.59
Co-evolutionary aspects of human colonisation and infection by Staphylococcus aureus. Infect Genet Evol (2008) 1.57
Detection of meningioma in dura mater by Raman spectroscopy. Anal Chem (2005) 1.55
Performance of CHROMagar MRSA medium for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 1.54
Discriminating basal cell carcinoma from its surrounding tissue by Raman spectroscopy. J Invest Dermatol (2002) 1.54
Discriminating basal cell carcinoma from perilesional skin using high wave-number Raman spectroscopy. J Biomed Opt (2007) 1.53
Loss of the mecA gene during storage of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 1.49
RespiFinder: a new multiparameter test to differentially identify fifteen respiratory viruses. J Clin Microbiol (2008) 1.49
Time-kill kinetics of anti-tuberculosis drugs, and emergence of resistance, in relation to metabolic activity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis. J Antimicrob Chemother (2010) 1.47
Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage is associated with glucocorticoid receptor gene polymorphisms. J Infect Dis (2006) 1.45
Phylogenetic background and virulence profiles of fluoroquinolone-resistant clinical Escherichia coli isolates from the Netherlands. J Infect Dis (2002) 1.44
Effective cellular uptake and efflux of thyroid hormone by human monocarboxylate transporter 10. Mol Endocrinol (2008) 1.44
Persistent (not intermittent) nasal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus is the determinant of CPD-related infections. Kidney Int (2005) 1.42
Testing of the in vitro susceptibilities of Madurella mycetomatis to six antifungal agents by using the Sensititre system in comparison with a viability-based 2,3-bis(2-methoxy-4-nitro-5-sulfophenyl)-5- [(phenylamino)carbonyl]-2H-tetrazolium hydroxide (XTT) assay and a modified NCCLS method. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2005) 1.42
The rise and spread of a new pathogen: seroresistant Moraxella catarrhalis. Genome Res (2007) 1.40
In vitro susceptibilities of Madurella mycetomatis to itraconazole and amphotericin B assessed by a modified NCCLS method and a viability-based 2,3-Bis(2-methoxy-4-nitro-5- sulfophenyl)-5-[(phenylamino)carbonyl]-2H-tetrazolium hydroxide (XTT) assay. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2004) 1.39
Prevalence of ST9 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among pigs and pig handlers in Malaysia. J Clin Microbiol (2009) 1.34
Associations between Staphylococcus aureus Genotype, Infection, and In-Hospital Mortality: A Nested Case-Control Study. J Infect Dis (2005) 1.29
Clonal distribution and differential occurrence of the enterotoxin gene cluster, egc, in carriage- versus bacteremia-associated isolates of Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 1.27
Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation at the physiologic glucose concentration depends on the S. aureus lineage. BMC Microbiol (2009) 1.26
The sialylated lipooligosaccharide outer core in Campylobacter jejuni is an important determinant for epithelial cell invasion. Infect Immun (2008) 1.25
Overlapping population structures of nasal isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from healthy Dutch and American individuals. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 1.23
Raman profiles of the stratum corneum define 3 filaggrin genotype-determined atopic dermatitis endophenotypes. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2010) 1.23
Nasopharyngeal carriage of potential bacterial pathogens related to day care attendance, with special reference to the molecular epidemiology of Haemophilus influenzae. J Clin Microbiol (2002) 1.23
Dynamics and determinants of Staphylococcus aureus carriage in infancy: the Generation R Study. J Clin Microbiol (2008) 1.22
Discrimination between nontumor bladder tissue and tumor by Raman spectroscopy. Anal Chem (2006) 1.22
Immunogenicity of toxins during Staphylococcus aureus infection. Clin Infect Dis (2010) 1.20
Comparative genomic analysis of Campylobacter jejuni associated with Guillain-Barré and Miller Fisher syndromes: neuropathogenic and enteritis-associated isolates can share high levels of genomic similarity. BMC Genomics (2007) 1.20
Effect of mupirocin treatment on nasal, pharyngeal, and perineal carriage of Staphylococcus aureus in healthy adults. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2005) 1.18
Clinical and molecular epidemiologic characteristics of coagulase-negative staphylococcal bloodstream infections in intensive care neonates. Pediatr Infect Dis J (2007) 1.16
Rapid differentiation between livestock-associated and livestock-independent Staphylococcus aureus CC398 clades. PLoS One (2013) 1.16
Prevention of catheter-related bacteremia with a daily ethanol lock in patients with tunnelled catheters: a randomized, placebo-controlled trial. PLoS One (2010) 1.15
Colonization of healthy children by Moraxella catarrhalis is characterized by genotype heterogeneity, virulence gene diversity and co-colonization with Haemophilus influenzae. Microbiology (2010) 1.15
Severity of nonbullous Staphylococcus aureus impetigo in children is associated with strains harboring genetic markers for exfoliative toxin B, Panton-Valentine leukocidin, and the multidrug resistance plasmid pSK41. J Clin Microbiol (2003) 1.15
Resonance Raman spectroscopy of red blood cells using near-infrared laser excitation. Anal Bioanal Chem (2006) 1.14
Comparison of multilocus sequence typing (MLST), pulsed-field gel electrophoresis (PFGE), and amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) for genetic typing of Staphylococcus aureus. J Microbiol Methods (2007) 1.14
Molecular mechanisms of pathogenicity: how do pathogenic microorganisms develop cross-kingdom host jumps? FEMS Microbiol Rev (2007) 1.14
TLR4-mediated sensing of Campylobacter jejuni by dendritic cells is determined by sialylation. J Immunol (2010) 1.14
Multilocus sequence typing of Staphylococcus aureus with DNA array technology. J Clin Microbiol (2003) 1.13
Characterization of the specific interaction between sialoadhesin and sialylated Campylobacter jejuni lipooligosaccharides. Infect Immun (2010) 1.13
Correlation between genotypic diversity, lipooligosaccharide gene locus class variation, and caco-2 cell invasion potential of Campylobacter jejuni isolates from chicken meat and humans: contribution to virulotyping. Appl Environ Microbiol (2009) 1.13
Recent emergence of Staphylococcus aureus clonal complex 398 in human blood cultures. PLoS One (2012) 1.12
Genotyping of Madurella mycetomatis by selective amplification of restriction fragments (amplified fragment length polymorphism) and subtype correlation with geographical origin and lesion size. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 1.12
Molecular characterization of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream isolates collected in a Dutch University Hospital between 1999 and 2006. J Clin Microbiol (2008) 1.12
Comparison of the DiversiLab system, Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis and Multi-Locus Sequence Typing for the characterization of epidemic reference MRSA strains. J Microbiol Methods (2009) 1.11
Improved multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat assay for Staphylococcus aureus genotyping, providing a highly informative technique together with strong phylogenetic value. J Clin Microbiol (2009) 1.11
Diagnosis of active tuberculosis by e-nose analysis of exhaled air. Tuberculosis (Edinb) (2012) 1.11
Evidence for acquisition of the lipooligosaccharide biosynthesis locus in Campylobacter jejuni GB11, a strain isolated from a patient with Guillain-Barré syndrome, by horizontal exchange. Infect Immun (2004) 1.11
Major epidemic clones of Staphylococcus aureus in Nigeria. Microb Drug Resist (2005) 1.11
Infection with conditionally virulent Streptococcus pneumoniae Δpab strains induces antibody to conserved protein antigens but does not protect against systemic infection with heterologous strains. Infect Immun (2011) 1.10
Human immune proteome in experimental colonization with Staphylococcus aureus. Clin Vaccine Immunol (2009) 1.09
Melanin biosynthesis in Madurella mycetomatis and its effect on susceptibility to itraconazole and ketoconazole. Microbes Infect (2007) 1.09
A systematic review and meta-analyses show that carbapenem use and medical devices are the leading risk factors for carbapenem-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2014) 1.08
Characterization of the humoral immune response during Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and global gene expression by Staphylococcus aureus in human blood. PLoS One (2013) 1.08
Filaggrin loss-of-function mutations are associated with enhanced expression of IL-1 cytokines in the stratum corneum of patients with atopic dermatitis and in a murine model of filaggrin deficiency. J Allergy Clin Immunol (2012) 1.07
Rapid typing of extended-spectrum β-lactamase- and carbapenemase-producing Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae isolates by use of SpectraCell RA. J Clin Microbiol (2012) 1.07
Madurella mycetomatis strains from mycetoma lesions in Sudanese patients are clonal. J Clin Microbiol (2003) 1.07
Comparison of carboxylated and Penta-His microspheres for semi-quantitative measurement of antibody responses to His-tagged proteins. J Immunol Methods (2008) 1.06