B L Wickes

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1 Genetic association of mating types and virulence in Cryptococcus neoformans. Infect Immun 1992 5.27
2 Standardized method for in vitro antifungal susceptibility testing of Candida albicans biofilms. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 2001 4.89
3 Sequence-based identification of Aspergillus, fusarium, and mucorales species in the clinical mycology laboratory: where are we and where should we go from here? J Clin Microbiol 2008 2.57
4 Characteristics of biofilm formation by Candida albicans. Rev Iberoam Micol 2001 2.39
5 Genetic differences between type I and type II Candida stellatoidea. Infect Immun 1989 2.38
6 Association of electrophoretic karyotype of Candida stellatoidea with virulence for mice. Infect Immun 1988 2.13
7 Isolation of a Cryptococcus neoformans serotype A MATa strain from the Italian environment. Med Mycol 2001 2.08
8 Virulence, serotype, and molecular characteristics of environmental strains of Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii. Infect Immun 1992 1.86
9 Strain-dependent variation in 18S ribosomal DNA Copy numbers in Aspergillus fumigatus. J Clin Microbiol 2009 1.85
10 Cryptococcus neoformans STE12alpha regulates virulence but is not essential for mating. J Exp Med 2000 1.71
11 Biofilms of Candida albicans and their associated resistance to antifungal agents. Am Clin Lab 2001 1.58
12 Molecular epidemiology of clinical Cryptococcus neoformans strains from India. J Clin Microbiol 2005 1.53
13 Biofilm formation by Candida dubliniensis. J Clin Microbiol 2001 1.43
14 Direct PCR of Cryptococcus neoformans MATalpha and MATa pheromones to determine mating type, ploidy, and variety: a tool for epidemiological and molecular pathogenesis studies. J Clin Microbiol 2000 1.32
15 Origin of Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans diploid strains. J Clin Microbiol 2001 1.28
16 Mapping of the Cryptococcus neoformans MATalpha locus: presence of mating type-specific mitogen-activated protein kinase cascade homologs. J Bacteriol 2000 1.24
17 Isolation and characterization of a new fungal species, Chrysosporium ophiodiicola, from a mycotic granuloma of a black rat snake (Elaphe obsoleta obsoleta). J Clin Microbiol 2008 1.22
18 The Cryptococcus neoformans STE11alpha gene is similar to other fungal mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase kinase (MAPKKK) genes but is mating type specific. Mol Microbiol 2001 1.20
19 Molecular and genetic characterization of a serotype A MATa Cryptococcus neoformans isolate. Microbiology 2003 1.16
20 Further analysis of the CAP59 locus of Cryptococcus neoformans: structure defined by forced expression and description of a new ribosomal protein-encoding gene. Gene 1995 1.14
21 Simple chemical extraction method for DNA isolation from Aspergillus fumigatus and other Aspergillus species. J Clin Microbiol 2004 1.09
22 Ploidy and DNA content of Candida stellatoidea cells. Infect Immun 1987 1.08
23 Split marker transformation increases homologous integration frequency in Cryptococcus neoformans. Fungal Genet Biol 2006 1.04
24 Cloning and characterization of the lanosterol 14alpha-demethylase (ERG11) gene in Cryptococcus neoformans. Biochem Biophys Res Commun 2004 1.03
25 Comparative analysis of pathogenicity of Cryptococcus neoformans serotypes A, D and AD in murine cryptococcosis. J Infect 2005 1.03
26 Pulmonary Phialemonium curvatum phaeohyphomycosis in a Standard Poodle dog. Med Mycol 2008 1.01
27 Haploid fruiting in Cryptococcus neoformans is not mating type alpha-specific. Fungal Genet Biol 2003 0.98
28 Urease inhibition by EDTA in the two varieties of Cryptococcus neoformans. Infect Immun 1987 0.96
29 Is Candida stellatoidea disappearing from the vaginal mucosa? J Clin Microbiol 1990 0.93
30 Disseminated Oxyporus corticola infection in a German shepherd dog. Med Mycol 2009 0.84
31 Taxonomic clarification of Cladosporium trichoides Emmons and its subsequent synonyms. J Med Vet Mycol 1989 0.83
32 Interlaboratory reproducibility of a single-locus sequence-based method for strain typing of Aspergillus fumigatus. J Clin Microbiol 2009 0.81
33 Insertional mutagenesis combined with an inducible filamentation phenotype reveals a conserved STE50 homologue in Cryptococcus neoformans that is required for monokaryotic fruiting and sexual reproduction. Mol Microbiol 2011 0.81
34 A universal DNA extraction and PCR amplification method for fungal rDNA sequence-based identification. Mycoses 2014 0.80
35 Isolation and characterisation of the fungus Spiromastix asexualis sp. nov. from discospondylitis in a German Shepherd dog, and review of Spiromastix with the proposal of the new order Spiromastixales (Ascomycota). Mycoses 2014 0.80
36 Genotyping of Turkish environmental Cryptococcus neoformans var. neoformans isolates by pulsed field gel electrophoresis and mating type. Mycoses 2006 0.77
37 Molecular biology of Cryptococcus neoformans and therapy of cryptococcosis. J Med Vet Mycol 1994 0.75
38 Isolation and characterization of a new fungal genus and species, Aphanoascella galapagosensis, from carapace keratitis of a Galapagos tortoise (Chelonoidis nigra microphyes). Med Mycol 2012 0.75
39 Genotyping of clinical Rhodotorula mucilaginosa isolates by pulsed field gel electrophoresis. Mycoses 2003 0.75
40 Disseminated Burkholderia gladioli infection in a lung transplant recipient with underlying hypocomplementemic urticarial vasculitis. Transpl Infect Dis 2011 0.75