Pathogenicity and resistance islands of staphylococci

The toxic shock syndrome exotoxin structural gene is not detectably transmitted by a prophage

1983 • 1,315 citations

A New Class of Genetic Element, Staphylococcus Cassette Chromosome mec , Encodes Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

2000 • 977 citations

Low-affinity penicillin-binding protein associated with beta-lactam resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

1984 • 871 citations

Superantigens: Mechanism of T-Cell Stimulation and Role in Immune Responses

1991 • 783 citations

Properties of a cryptic high-frequency transducing phage in Staphylococcus aureus

1967 • 742 citations

The staphylococci in human disease

1996 • 635 citations

Cloning and Nucleotide Sequence Determination of the Entire mec DNA of Pre-Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus N315

1999 • 445 citations

Evidence for a Clonal Origin of Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

1993 • 420 citations

The gene for toxic shock toxin is carried by a family of mobile pathogenicity islands in Staphylococcus aureus

1998 • 411 citations

Selective expansion of T cells expressing V beta 2 in toxic shock syndrome.

1990 • 359 citations

Characterization of a Putative Pathogenicity Island from Bovine Staphylococcus aureus Encoding Multiple Superantigens

2001 • 274 citations

Staphylococcal Enterotoxin A Is Encoded by Phage

1985 • 269 citations

A role for bacteriophages in the evolution and transfer of bacterial virulence determinants

1995 • 256 citations

Occurrence of a beta-lactam-inducible penicillin-binding protein in methicillin-resistant staphylococci

1985 • 252 citations

Genetic and molecular analyses of the gene encoding staphylococcal enterotoxin D

1989 • 235 citations

Biochemical and Biological Properties of Staphylococcal Enterotoxin K

2001 • 219 citations

Molecular genetics of SaPI1 – a mobile pathogenicity island in Staphylococcus aureus

2001 • 212 citations

Pathogenicity Islands and Other Mobile Virulence Elements

1999 • 211 citations

A single clone of Staphylococcus aureus causes the majority of cases of toxic shock syndrome.

1990 • 190 citations

Mechanisms of genome propagation and helper exploitation by satellite phage P4

1993 • 170 citations

Cloning and nucleotide sequence of the type E staphylococcal enterotoxin gene

1988 • 163 citations

Genetics of staphylococcal enterotoxin B in methicillin-resistant isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

1979 • 146 citations

Staphylococcal Enterotoxins, Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin and Streptococcal Pyrogenic Exotoxins: A Comparative Study of Their Molecular Biology

2015 • 139 citations

The genetic element pSSVx of the extremely thermophilic crenarchaeon Sulfolobus is a hybrid between a plasmid and a virus

1999 • 112 citations

Extrachromosomal Control of Methicillin Resistance and Toxin Production in Staphylococcus aureus

1969 • 89 citations

Bacteriophage association of streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin type C

1989 • 68 citations

Structural analysis of plasmid pSN2 in Staphylococcus aureus: no involvement in enterotoxin B production

1982 • 63 citations

Genetic basis for molecular epidemiology of MRSA

1996 • 62 citations

Cloning and expression of the exfoliative toxin B gene from Staphylococcus aureus

1986 • 61 citations

Isolation and characterization of a plasmid involved with enterotoxin B production in Staphylococcus aureus

1977 • 61 citations

Genetic Organization of the Downstream Region of the mecA Element in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Isolates Carrying Different Polymorphisms of This Region

2000 • 61 citations

Effects of Staphylococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin 1 on Aortic Endothelial Cells

1991 • 59 citations

Novel organization of the site‐specific integration and excision recombination functions of the Staphylococcus aureus serotype F virulence‐converting phages φ13 and φ42

1995 • 59 citations

Evidence for the Involvement of Endotoxin in Toxic Shock Syndrome

1987 • 56 citations

Nucleotide Sequences and Biologic Properties of Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin 1 from Ovine- and Bovine-Associated Staphylococcus aureus

1992 • 56 citations

Transfer of group A streptococcal pyrogenic exotoxin production to nontoxigenic strains of lysogenic conversion

1980 • 49 citations

Identification of a Staphylococcus aureus transposon (Tn4291) that carries the methicillin resistance gene(s)

1988 • 47 citations

Archaic Strains of Methicillin-ResistantStaphylococcus aureus:Molecular and Microbiological Properties of Isolates from the 1960s in Denmark

2000 • 47 citations

Sequence analysis and comparison of int and xis genes from staphylococcal bacteriophages L54a and phi 11

1990 • 42 citations

Association of toxic shock toxin-1 determinant with a heterologous insertion at multiple loci in the Staphylococcus aureus chromosome

1988 • 39 citations

Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin 1 Is Encoded by a Variable Genetic Element

1989 • 37 citations

Nucleotide sequence and genetic characterization of staphylococcal bacteriophage L54a int and xis genes

1989 • 36 citations

An Exfoliative Toxin A‐Converting Phage Isolated from Staphylococcus aureus Strain ZM

2000 • 35 citations

Transcriptional regulation of the Staphylococcus aureus collagen adhesion gene, cna

1997 • 33 citations

A toxic shock syndrome toxin mutant ofStaphylococcus aureusisolated by allelic replacement lacks virulence in a rabbit uterine model

1991 • 31 citations

Cloning, sequencing, and genetic characterization of regulatory genes, rinA and rinB, required for the activation of staphylococcal phage phi 11 int expression

1993 • 30 citations

Plasmid-chromosomal transition of genes important in staphylococcal enterotoxin B expression

1981 • 23 citations

Transduction of staphylococcal enterotoxin B synthesis: establishment of the toxin gene in a recombination-deficient mutant

1980 • 22 citations

Determination of the Chromosomal Relationship between mecA and gyrA in Methicillin-Resistant Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci

1998 • 18 citations

Association of staphylococcal type-1 capsule-encoding genes with a discrete genetic element

1995 • 16 citations

Multiple regulatory mechanisms controlling phage-plasmid P4 propagation

1995 • 16 citations

Isolation and characterization of a bacteriophage factor that confers competence for genetic transformation to an exfoliative toxin-producing strain of Staphylococcus aureus

1983 • 12 citations