Published in J Clin Microbiol on August 26, 2009
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New Multilocus Variable-Number Tandem-Repeat Analysis (MLVA) Scheme for Fine-Scale Monitoring and Microevolution-Related Study of Ralstonia pseudosolanacearum Phylotype I Populations. Appl Environ Microbiol (2017) 0.75
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Comparison of an automated repetitive sequence-based PCR microbial typing system to pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for analysis of outbreaks of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. J Clin Microbiol (2005) 1.46
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The population structure of Staphylococcus aureus among general practice patients from The Netherlands. Clin Microbiol Infect (2009) 1.24
Distribution and characterization of staphylococcal interspersed repeat units (SIRUs) and potential use for strain differentiation. Microbiology (2004) 1.23
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Use of variations in staphylococcal interspersed repeat units for molecular typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 1.09
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Comparison of PCR-based methods for typing Staphylococcus aureus isolates. J Clin Microbiol (2006) 1.03
Differentiation of bovine Staphylococcus aureus isolates by use of polymorphic tandem repeat typing. Vet Microbiol (2006) 1.01
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Molecular surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by multiple-locus variable number tandem repeat fingerprinting (formerly multiple-locus variable number tandem repeat analysis) and spa typing in a hierarchic approach. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis (2008) 0.95
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Genetic diversity of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a tertiary hospital in The Netherlands between 2002 and 2006. Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis (2009) 0.85
Evaluation of tandem repeats for MLVA typing of Streptococcus uberis isolated from bovine mastitis. BMC Vet Res (2006) 0.80
CRISPRFinder: a web tool to identify clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. Nucleic Acids Res (2007) 15.56
The CRISPRdb database and tools to display CRISPRs and to generate dictionaries of spacers and repeats. BMC Bioinformatics (2007) 7.34
Evaluation and selection of tandem repeat loci for a Brucella MLVA typing assay. BMC Microbiol (2006) 3.75
High resolution, on-line identification of strains from the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex based on tandem repeat typing. BMC Microbiol (2002) 3.61
Evaluation of Brucella MLVA typing for human brucellosis. J Microbiol Methods (2007) 2.86
Molecular characterization of Coxiella burnetii isolates by infrequent restriction site-PCR and MLVA typing. BMC Microbiol (2006) 2.59
Brucella microti sp. nov., isolated from the common vole Microtus arvalis. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol (2008) 2.49
Genotyping of Bacillus anthracis strains based on automated capillary 25-loci multiple locus variable-number tandem repeats analysis. BMC Microbiol (2006) 2.22
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Brucella inopinata sp. nov., isolated from a breast implant infection. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol (2009) 2.08
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CRISPRcompar: a website to compare clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. Nucleic Acids Res (2008) 1.89
Insight into microevolution of Yersinia pestis by clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats. PLoS One (2008) 1.86
Genotyping and phylogenetic analysis of Yersinia pestis by MLVA: insights into the worldwide expansion of Central Asia plague foci. PLoS One (2009) 1.65
Evaluation of the polymorphisms associated with tandem repeats for Pseudomonas aeruginosa strain typing. J Clin Microbiol (2003) 1.62
Evaluation of a multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis scheme for typing human Brucella isolates in a region of brucellosis endemicity. J Clin Microbiol (2008) 1.61
MLVA-16 typing of 295 marine mammal Brucella isolates from different animal and geographic origins identifies 7 major groups within Brucella ceti and Brucella pinnipedialis. BMC Microbiol (2009) 1.61
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Predicting human minisatellite polymorphism. Genome Res (2003) 1.44
Concentration of airborne Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA and MSSA), total bacteria, and endotoxins in pig farms. Ann Occup Hyg (2013) 1.43
On-line resources for bacterial micro-evolution studies using MLVA or CRISPR typing. Biochimie (2007) 1.43
Isolation of Brucella microti from mandibular lymph nodes of red foxes, Vulpes vulpes, in lower Austria. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis (2009) 1.29
Optical fingerprinting in bacterial epidemiology: Raman spectroscopy as a real-time typing method. J Clin Microbiol (2008) 1.28
Evaluation and selection of tandem repeat loci for Streptococcus pneumoniae MLVA strain typing. BMC Microbiol (2005) 1.27
Staphylococcus aureus biofilm formation at the physiologic glucose concentration depends on the S. aureus lineage. BMC Microbiol (2009) 1.26
Isolation of Brucella microti from soil. Emerg Infect Dis (2008) 1.26
Multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis genotyping of human Brucella isolates from Turkey. J Clin Microbiol (2011) 1.23
Assessment of genetic stability of Brucella melitensis Rev 1 vaccine strain by multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis. Vaccine (2006) 1.19
Comparison of multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis with other PCR-based methods for typing Brucella suis isolates. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 1.18
Segmental polymorphisms in the proterminal regions of a subset of human chromosomes. Genome Res (2002) 1.15
Significance of the identification in the Horn of Africa of an exceptionally deep branching Mycobacterium tuberculosis clade. PLoS One (2012) 1.14
Molecular characterization of Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream isolates collected in a Dutch University Hospital between 1999 and 2006. J Clin Microbiol (2008) 1.12
Molecular characteristics of "Mycobacterium canettii" the smooth Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacilli. Infect Genet Evol (2010) 1.11
Multiple-locus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis for longitudinal survey of sources of Pseudomonas aeruginosa infection in cystic fibrosis patients. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 1.09
Comparison of two commercial assays for the characterization of rpoB mutations in Mycobacterium tuberculosis and description of new mutations conferring weak resistance to rifampicin. J Antimicrob Chemother (2009) 1.07
MLVA16 typing of Portuguese human and animal Brucella melitensis and Brucella abortus isolates. PLoS One (2012) 1.07
Selection and validation of a multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis panel for typing Shigella spp. J Clin Microbiol (2008) 1.05
Failure of a short-term antibiotic therapy for human brucellosis using ciprofloxacin. A study on in vitro susceptibility of Brucella strains. Chemotherapy (2005) 1.03
Yersinia pestis genotyping. Emerg Infect Dis (2005) 1.03
High-throughput sequencing of Bacillus anthracis in France: investigating genome diversity and population structure using whole-genome SNP discovery. BMC Genomics (2014) 1.02
Fieldable genotyping of Bacillus anthracis and Yersinia pestis based on 25-loci Multi Locus VNTR Analysis. BMC Microbiol (2008) 1.01
Investigation on Mycobacterium tuberculosis diversity in China and the origin of the Beijing clade. PLoS One (2011) 1.01
The susceptibility of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains from cystic fibrosis patients to bacteriophages. PLoS One (2013) 1.00
Identification of variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) sequences in Acinetobacter baumannii and interlaboratory validation of an optimized multiple-locus VNTR analysis typing scheme. J Clin Microbiol (2010) 0.97
Antimicrobial resistance of Staphylococcus aureus strains acquired by pig farmers from pigs. Appl Environ Microbiol (2012) 0.97
Identification of variable-number tandem-repeat (VNTR) sequences in Legionella pneumophila and development of an optimized multiple-locus VNTR analysis typing scheme. J Clin Microbiol (2007) 0.96
Validation of ten new polymorphic tandem repeat loci and application to the MLVA typing of Burkholderia pseudomallei isolates collected in Singapore from 1988 to 2004. J Microbiol Methods (2009) 0.95
Progenitor “Mycobacterium canettii” clone responsible for lymph node tuberculosis epidemic, Djibouti. Emerg Infect Dis (2014) 0.94
Diversity of Acinetobacter baumannii in four French military hospitals, as assessed by multiple locus variable number of tandem repeats analysis. PLoS One (2012) 0.93
Intraspecies biodiversity of the genetically homologous species Brucella microti. Appl Environ Microbiol (2011) 0.91
Molecular characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream isolates from Croatia. J Antimicrob Chemother (2005) 0.91
Comparison of minisatellite polymorphisms in the Bacillus cereus complex: a simple assay for large-scale screening and identification of strains most closely related to Bacillus anthracis. Appl Environ Microbiol (2005) 0.91
High throughput multiple locus variable number of tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) of Staphylococcus aureus from human, animal and food sources. PLoS One (2012) 0.91
High resolution typing of Chlamydophila psittaci by multilocus VNTR analysis (MLVA). Infect Genet Evol (2007) 0.90
Clostridium botulinum group I strain genotyping by 15-locus multilocus variable-number tandem-repeat analysis. J Clin Microbiol (2011) 0.89
Longitudinal survey of Staphylococcus aureus in cystic fibrosis patients using a multiple-locus variable-number of tandem-repeats analysis method. BMC Microbiol (2010) 0.88
Rapid identification of international multidrug-resistant Pseudomonas aeruginosa clones by multiple-locus variable number of tandem repeats analysis and investigation of their susceptibility to lytic bacteriophages. Antimicrob Agents Chemother (2012) 0.87
Draft Genome Sequences of Five Yersinia pseudotuberculosis ST19 Isolates and One Isolate Variant. Genome Announc (2013) 0.87
Natural variability of in vitro adherence to fibrinogen and fibronectin does not correlate with in vivo infectivity of Staphylococcus aureus. Infect Immun (2010) 0.87
Human-to-bovine jump of Staphylococcus aureus CC8 is associated with the loss of a β-hemolysin converting prophage and the acquisition of a new staphylococcal cassette chromosome. PLoS One (2013) 0.86
Clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats (CRISPRs) for the genotyping of bacterial pathogens. Methods Mol Biol (2009) 0.86
Staphylococcus aureus clfB and spa alleles of the repeat regions are segregated into major phylogenetic lineages. Infect Genet Evol (2009) 0.85
Investigation of the population structure of Legionella pneumophila by analysis of tandem repeat copy number and internal sequence variation. Microbiology (2011) 0.84
A nose-only apparatus for airborne delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to mice: calibration of biological parameters. Microbes Infect (2005) 0.83
Oral health in older patients with oropharyngeal dysphagia. Age Ageing (2013) 0.80
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis ST42 (O:1) Strain Misidentified as Yersinia pestis by Mass Spectrometry Analysis. Genome Announc (2014) 0.79
Minisatellite polymorphism as a tool to distinguish closely related Lactococcus lactis strains. FEMS Microbiol Lett (2005) 0.79
A rapid, 2-well, multiplex real-time polymerase chain reaction assay for the detection of SCCmec types I to V in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis (2009) 0.79
DNA-DNA hybridization study of Burkholderia species using genomic DNA macro-array analysis coupled to reverse genome probing. Int J Syst Evol Microbiol (2003) 0.78
A rapid allele variant discrimination method for Yersinia pestis strains based on high-resolution melting curve analysis. Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis (2009) 0.77
Draft Genome Sequences of Two Yersinia pseudotuberculosis ST43 (O:1b) Strains, B-7194 and B-7195. Genome Announc (2013) 0.75
Correction: Comparison of French and Worldwide Bacillus anthracis Strains Favors a Recent, Post-Columbian Origin of the Predominant North-American Clade. PLoS One (2017) 0.75