Principles and Applications of Methods for DNA-Based Typing of Microbial Organisms

Detection of specific sequences among DNA fragments separated by gel electrophoresis

1975 • 33,059 citations

DNA polymorphisms amplified by arbitrary primers are useful as genetic markers

1990 • 13,450 citations

AFLP: a new technique for DNA fingerprinting

1995 • 12,637 citations

Interpreting chromosomal DNA restriction patterns produced by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis: criteria for bacterial strain typing

1995 • 8,278 citations

Fingerprinting genomes using PCR with arbitrary primers

1990 • 5,327 citations

Distribution of repetitive DNA sequences in eubacteria and application to finerpriting of bacterial enomes

1991 • 3,175 citations

Rapid determination of 16S ribosomal RNA sequences for phylogenetic analyses.

1985 • 2,964 citations

Separation of yeast chromosome-sized DNAs by pulsed field gradient gel electrophoresis

1984 • 2,847 citations

Bacterial evolution

1987 • 2,303 citations

Changes in size and secondary structure of the ribosomal transcription unit during vertebrate evolution

1975 • 1,188 citations

Use of repetitive (repetitive extragenic palindromic and enterobacterial repetitive intergeneric consensus) sequences and the polymerase chain reaction to fingerprint the genomes of Rhizobium meliloti isolates and other soil bacteria

1992 • 765 citations

DNA diversity among clinical isolates ofHelicobacter pyloridetected by PCR-based RAPD fingerprinting

1992 • 760 citations

Ribosomal RNA: a key to phylogeny.

1993 • 728 citations

DNA Amplification Fingerprinting Using Very Short Arbitrary Oligonucleotide Primers

1991 • 717 citations

Repetitive extragenic palindromic sequences: A major component of the bacterial genome

1984 • 577 citations

ERIC sequences: a novel family of repetitive elements in the genomes of Escherichia coli, Salmonella typhimurium and other enterobacteria

1991 • 573 citations

Extensive polymorphisms observed in HIV–1 clade B protease gene using high–density oligonucleotide arrays

1996 • 545 citations

Evaluation of the DNA fingerprinting method AFLP as a new tool in bacterial taxonomy

1996 • 533 citations

Comparison of genomic DNAs of different enterococcal isolates using restriction endonucleases with infrequent recognition sites

1990 • 524 citations

Comparison of traditional and molecular methods of typing isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

1994 • 523 citations

How to Select and Interpret Molecular Strain Typing Methods for Epidemiological Studies of Bacterial Infections: A Review for Healthcare Epidemiologists

1997 • 480 citations

A Broad-Spectrum Probe for Molecular Epidemiology of Bacteria: Ribosomal RNA

1988 • 444 citations

How to Select and Interpret Molecular Strain Typing Methods for Epidemiological Studies of Bacterial Infections: A Review for Healthcare Epidemiologists

1997 • 441 citations

Survey of major genotypes and subtypes of hepatitis C virus using RFLP of sequences amplified from the 5' non-coding region

1995 • 419 citations

A highly conserved repeated DNA element located in the chromosome ofStreptococcus pneumoniae

1992 • 381 citations

Stabilization of translationally active mRNA by prokaryotic REP sequences

1987 • 362 citations

Factors affecting reproducibility of random amplified polymorphic DNA fingerprinting

1993 • 357 citations

Comparison of outbreak and nonoutbreak Acinetobacter baumannii strains by genotypic and phenotypic methods

1996 • 324 citations

Mycobacterium Species Identification and Rifampin Resistance Testing with High-Density DNA Probe Arrays

1999 • 278 citations

DNA fingerprinting by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis is more effective than ribotyping in distinguishing among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates

1992 • 275 citations

Differential subsequence conservation of interspersed repetitive Streptococcus pneumoniae BOX elements in diverse bacteria.

1995 • 267 citations

Genotypic identification and characterization of species and strains within the genus Candida by using random amplified polymorphic DNA

1992 • 267 citations

A family of dispersed repetitive extragenic palindromic DNA sequences in E. coli.

1984 • 233 citations

Laboratory procedures for the epidemiologic analysis of microorganisms

1995 • 227 citations

A novel repeated DNA sequence located in the intergenic regions of bacterial chromosomes

1990 • 223 citations

Resolution of Recent Evolutionary Divergence among Escherichia coli from Related Lineages: The Application of Pulsed Field Electrophoresis to Molecular Epidemiology

1990 • 221 citations

Ribotyping of the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-Acinetobacter baumannii complex

1992 • 204 citations

Rapid determination of bacterial ribosomal RNA sequences by direct sequencing of enzymatically amplified DNA

1989 • 185 citations

Molecular genotyping of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus via fluorophore-enhanced repetitive-sequence PCR

1995 • 175 citations

Typing of Staphylococcus aureus by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, zymotyping, capsular typing, and phage typing: resolution of clonal relationships

1993 • 173 citations

Discriminatory power of three DNA-based typing techniques for Pseudomonas aeruginosa

1995 • 170 citations

Random amplified polymorphic DNA assay is less discriminant than pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for typing strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

1993 • 166 citations

Discrimination of Acinetobacter Genomic Species by AFLP Fingerprinting

1997 • 165 citations

Genetic Diversity among Strains of Mycobacterium avium Causing Monoclonal and Polyclonal Bacteremia in Patients with AIDS

1993 • 161 citations

Whole-cell repetitive element sequence-based polymerase chain reaction allows rapid assessment of clonal relationships of bacterial isolates

1993 • 159 citations

DNA gyrase binds to the family of prokaryotic repetitive extragenic palindromic sequences.

1988 • 154 citations

Penicillin-Resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Strains Recovered in Houston: Identification and Molecular Characterization of Multiple Clones

1993 • 149 citations

A comparative study of different PCR-based DNA fingerprinting techniques for typing of the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-A. baumannii complex

1996 • 144 citations

Leptospira species categorized by arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction (PCR) and by mapped restriction polymorphisms in PCR-amplified rRNA genes

1993 • 141 citations

An Outbreak of cepacia Respiratory Tract Colonization and Infection Associated with Nebulized Albuterol Therapy

1995 • 130 citations

Comparison of Amplified Ribosomal DNA Restriction Analysis, Random Amplified Polymorphic DNA Analysis, and Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism Fingerprinting for Identification ofAcinetobacterGenomic Species and Typing ofAcinetobacter baumannii

1998 • 129 citations

Strategy to detect and identify Bartonella species in routine clinical laboratory yields Bartonella henselae from human immunodeficiency virus-positive patient and unique Bartonella strain from his cat

1995 • 129 citations

rRNA gene restriction patterns of Haemophilus influenzae biogroup aegyptius strains associated with Brazilian purpuric fever

1988 • 125 citations

Rapid determination of bacterial ribosomal RNA sequences by direct sequencing of enzymatically amplified DNA

1989 • 125 citations

Biochemical, genetic, and epidemiologic characterization of Haemophilus influenzae biogroup aegyptius (Haemophilus aegyptius) strains associated with Brazilian purpuric fever

1988 • 123 citations

Diversity among clinical isolates of Histoplasma capsulatum detected by polymerase chain reaction with arbitrary primers

1992 • 123 citations

Analysis of relationships among isolates of Citrobacter diversus by using DNA fingerprints generated by repetitive sequence-based primers in the polymerase chain reaction

1992 • 118 citations

Rapid Identification Of A Point Mutation Of The Mycobacterium tuberculosis Catalase-Peroxidase (katG) Gene Associated With Isoniazid Resistance

1995 • 115 citations

Use of an Amplified-Fragment Length Polymorphism Technique To Fingerprint and Differentiate Isolates of Helicobacter pylori

1998 • 114 citations

Validation of use of whole-cell repetitive extragenic palindromic sequence-based PCR (REP-PCR) for typing strains belonging to the Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-Acinetobacter baumannii complex and application of the method to the investigation of a hospital outbreak

1996 • 114 citations

Correlation of typing methods for Acinetobacter isolates from hospital outbreaks

1993 • 112 citations

Clinical and epidemiological importance of typing of Mycobacterium avium complex isolates

1992 • 110 citations

Genomic fingerprinting of Bartonella species by repetitive element PCR for distinguishing species and isolates

1995 • 103 citations

Biochemical fingerprinting compared with ribotyping and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis of DNA for epidemiological typing of enterococci

1995 • 92 citations

Epidemiologic typing of Staphylococcus aureus by DNA restriction fragment length polymorphisms of rRNA genes: elucidation of the clonal nature of a group of bacteriophage-nontypeable, ciprofloxacin-resistant, methicillin-susceptible S. aureus isolates

1992 • 88 citations

DNA polymerase I and a protein complex bind specifically toE.colipalindromic unit highly repetitive DNA: implications for bacterial chromosome organization

1990 • 85 citations

Typing of Legionella pneumophila strains by polymerase chain reaction-mediated DNA fingerprinting

1993 • 85 citations

Random amplified polymorphic DNA typing versus pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for epidemiological typing of vancomycin-resistant enterococci

1996 • 84 citations

Use of random amplified polymorphic DNA as a typing method for Candida albicans in epidemiological surveillance of a burn unit

1995 • 83 citations

Molecular Epidemiology of Infections Due to Enterobacter aerogenes: Identification of Hospital Outbreak-Associated Strains by Molecular Techniques

1995 • 81 citations

Molecular fingerprinting of Legionella species by repetitive element PCR

1994 • 76 citations

Differentiation of bacterial 16S rRNA genes and intergenic regions and Mycobacterium tuberculosis katG genes by structure-specific endonuclease cleavage

1996 • 74 citations

Discrimination of epidemic and sporadic isolates of Acinetobacter baumannii by repetitive element PCR-mediated DNA fingerprinting

1994 • 69 citations

Arbitrarily primed polymerase chain reaction provides rapid differentiation of Proteus mirabilis isolates from a pediatric hospital

1993 • 66 citations

DNA fingerprinting of pathogenic bacteria by fluorophore-enhanced repetitive sequence-based polymerase chain reaction.

1995 • 66 citations

A simple polymerase chain reaction technique to detect and differentiate Shigella and enteroinvasive escherichia coli in human feces

1997 • 62 citations

Determination of hepatitis C virus genotypes in the United States by cleavase fragment length polymorphism analysis

1997 • 53 citations

Molecular typing of Brucella with cloned DNA probes

1992 • 53 citations

Genetic similarity of intestinal spirochetes from humans and various animal species

1993 • 52 citations

Genome fingerprinting by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis and ribotyping to differentiatePseudomonas aeruginosa serotype O11 strains

1992 • 44 citations

Molecular Typing of Helicobacter pylori Isolates from a Multicenter U.S. Clinical Trial by ureC Restriction Fragment Length Polymorphism

1998 • 44 citations

Genomic fingerprinting of "Haemophilus somnus" isolates by using a random-amplified polymorphic DNA assay

1993 • 43 citations

Use of different PCR-based DNA fingerprinting techniques and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis to investigate the epidemiology of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus-Acinetobacter baumannii complex

1997 • 43 citations

Genomic fingerprinting of Haemophilus somnus by a combination of PCR methods

1997 • 42 citations

Molecular typing of Helicobacter pylori isolates from a multicenter U.S. clinical trial by ureC restriction fragment length polymorphism

1997 • 38 citations

Molecular typing of nosocomial isolates of Legionella pneumophila serogroup 3

1990 • 35 citations

Comparison of rapid automated laser fluorescence analysis of DNA fingerprints with four other computer-assisted approaches for studying relationships between Acinetobacter baumannii isolates

1996 • 35 citations

Restriction enzyme and Southern hybridization analyses of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains from patients with cystic fibrosis

1991 • 34 citations

Genetic diversity of Neisseria gonorrhoeae IB-2 and IB-6 isolates revealed by whole-cell repetitive element sequence-based PCR

1996 • 30 citations

Rapid Determination of Outbreak-Related Strains of Neisseria meningitidis by Repetitive Element-Based Polymerase Chain Reaction Genotyping

1996 • 28 citations

Algorithmic Approach to High-Throughput Molecular Screening for Alpha Interferon-Resistant Genotypes in Hepatitis C Patients

1998 • 23 citations

Characterization of Streptococcus pneumoniae from Human Immunodeficiency Virus-Seropositive Patients with Acute and Recurrent Pneumonia

1995 • 23 citations

REP-PCR fragments as biomarkers for differentiating gastroduodenal disease-specific Helicobacter pylori strains.

1998 • 17 citations

Vertical Transmission of Citrobacter diversus Documented by DNA Fingerprinting

1995 • 16 citations

Vertical Transmission of Citrobacter diversus Documented by DNA Fingerprinting

1995 • 13 citations

Comparison of SSCP analysis and CFLP analysis for mutation detection in the human iduronate 2‐sulfatase gene

1997 • 11 citations

Reply

1994 • 6 citations