Christine Citti

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Top papers

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1 Being pathogenic, plastic, and sexual while living with a nearly minimal bacterial genome. PLoS Genet 2007 2.08
2 Comparative genomic and proteomic analyses of two Mycoplasma agalactiae strains: clues to the macro- and micro-events that are shaping mycoplasma diversity. BMC Genomics 2010 1.41
3 Surface diversity in Mycoplasma agalactiae is driven by site-specific DNA inversions within the vpma multigene locus. J Bacteriol 2002 1.30
4 Finishing bacterial genome assemblies with Mix. BMC Bioinformatics 2013 1.29
5 First steps towards the genetic manipulation of Mycoplasma agalactiae and Mycoplasma bovis using the transposon Tn4001mod. Int J Med Microbiol 2005 1.20
6 Evolution of mollicutes: down a bumpy road with twists and turns. Res Microbiol 2007 1.18
7 Suppression subtractive hybridization as a basis to assess Mycoplasma agalactiae and Mycoplasma bovis genomic diversity and species-specific sequences. Microbiology 2005 1.17
8 A new integrative conjugative element occurs in Mycoplasma agalactiae as chromosomal and free circular forms. J Bacteriol 2006 1.06
9 Construction of the first shuttle vectors for gene cloning and homologous recombination in Mycoplasma agalactiae. FEMS Microbiol Lett 2005 1.04
10 Phase-locked mutants of Mycoplasma agalactiae: defining the molecular switch of high-frequency Vpma antigenic variation. Mol Microbiol 2008 1.03
11 Emergence of atypical Mycoplasma agalactiae strains harboring a new prophage and associated with an alpine wild ungulate mortality episode. Appl Environ Microbiol 2012 1.01
12 Phenotypic switching in Mycoplasma gallisepticum hemadsorption is governed by a high-frequency, reversible point mutation. Infect Immun 2003 0.99
13 Mycoplasma gallisepticum: Influence of cell invasiveness on the outcome of experimental infection in chickens. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol 2002 0.98
14 Occurrence, plasticity, and evolution of the vpma gene family, a genetic system devoted to high-frequency surface variation in Mycoplasma agalactiae. J Bacteriol 2009 0.94
15 Genome-scale analysis of Mycoplasma agalactiae loci involved in interaction with host cells. PLoS One 2011 0.94
16 Identification and distribution of genetic markers in three closely related taxa of the Mycoplasma mycoides cluster: refining the relative position and boundaries of the Mycoplasma sp. bovine group 7 taxon (Mycoplasma leachii). Microbiology 2009 0.93
17 Critical role of dispensable genes in Mycoplasma agalactiae interaction with mammalian cells. Infect Immun 2010 0.93
18 Molecular typing of Mycoplasma agalactiae: tracing European-wide genetic diversity and an endemic clonal population. Comp Immunol Microbiol Infect Dis 2012 0.88
19 Suppression-subtractive hybridization as a strategy to identify taxon-specific sequences within the Mycoplasma mycoides Cluster: design and validation of an M. capricolum subsp. capricolum-specific PCR assay. J Clin Microbiol 2008 0.87
20 Distribution and diversity of mycoplasma plasmids: lessons from cryptic genetic elements. BMC Microbiol 2012 0.86
21 ICEA of Mycoplasma agalactiae: a new family of self-transmissible integrative elements that confers conjugative properties to the recipient strain. Mol Microbiol 2013 0.86
22 Unexpected genetic diversity of Mycoplasma agalactiae caprine isolates from an endemic geographically restricted area of Spain. BMC Vet Res 2012 0.86
23 Draft Genome Sequences of Mycoplasma alkalescens, Mycoplasma arginini, and Mycoplasma bovigenitalium, Three Species with Equivocal Pathogenic Status for Cattle. Genome Announc 2013 0.85
24 MalF is essential for persistence of Mycoplasma gallisepticum in vivo. Microbiology 2013 0.83
25 Role of the GapA and CrmA cytadhesins of Mycoplasma gallisepticum in promoting virulence and host colonization. Infect Immun 2013 0.83
26 Evolutionary history of contagious bovine pleuropneumonia using next generation sequencing of Mycoplasma mycoides Subsp. mycoides "Small Colony". PLoS One 2012 0.82
27 First report of a tetracycline-inducible gene expression system for mollicutes. Microbiology 2009 0.82
28 Draft Genome Sequences of Mycoplasma auris and Mycoplasma yeatsii, Two Species of the Ear Canal of Caprinae. Genome Announc 2013 0.82
29 A novel substitution matrix fitted to the compositional bias in Mollicutes improves the prediction of homologous relationships. BMC Bioinformatics 2011 0.81
30 Complete Genome Sequence of Mycoplasma putrefaciens Strain 9231, One of the Agents of Contagious Agalactia in Goats. Genome Announc 2013 0.75
31 [Molecular basis of Mycoplasma agalactiae pathogenicity]. Berl Munch Tierarztl Wochenschr 2004 0.75