DNA Banding Pattern Polymorphism in Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium and Criteria for Defining Strains

Measures of the Amount of Ecologic Association Between Species

1945 • 10,974 citations

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

1995 • 8,278 citations

Rapid extraction of bacterial genomic DNA with guanidium thiocyanate

1989 • 2,148 citations

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

1990 • 524 citations

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

1997 • 480 citations

Consensus guidelines for appropriate use and evaluation of microbial epidemiologic typing systems

1996 • 454 citations

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

1997 • 441 citations

High-level vancomycin-resistant enterococci causing hospital infections

1989 • 354 citations

Current perspectives on glycopeptide resistance

1995 • 299 citations

Genome fingerprinting of Pseudomonas aeruginosa indicates colonization of cystic fibrosis siblings with closely related strains

1988 • 242 citations

Enterococci as emerging pathogens of humans

1997 • 175 citations

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

1995 • 170 citations

DNA fingerprinting of Enterococcus faecium by pulsed-field gel electrophoresis may be a useful epidemiologic tool

1991 • 168 citations

Molecular Epidemiology of Nosocomial Infection: Analysis of Chromosomal Restriction Fragment Patterns by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis

1993 • 154 citations

Genome macrorestriction analysis of diversity and variability of Pseudomonas aeruginosa strains infecting cystic fibrosis patients

1993 • 132 citations

Epidemiological study of an outbreak due to multidrug-resistant Enterobacter aerogenes in a medical intensive care unit

1996 • 96 citations

Dynamics of IS-related genetic rearrangements in resting Escherichia coli K-12.

1995 • 94 citations

Multiply-Resistant Enterococcus faecium

1992 • 92 citations

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

1995 • 92 citations

Comparison of ribotyping and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for subspecies differentiation of strains of Enterococcus faecalis

1993 • 89 citations

Application of DNA probes for rRNA and vanA genes to investigation of a nosocomial cluster of vancomycin-resistant enterococci

1993 • 86 citations

Molecular Epidemiology of Nosocomial Infection: Analysis of Chromosomal Restriction Fragment Patterns by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis

1993 • 84 citations

Genetics of Streptococci, Enterococci and Lactococci

1995 • 82 citations

Discriminatory power and usefulness of pulsed-field gel electrophoresis in epidemiological studies of Pseudomonas aeruginosa

1996 • 75 citations

Are point mutations or DNA rearrangements responsible for the restriction fragment length polymorphisms that are used to type bacteria?

1994 • 75 citations

Stability of Vancomycin‐Resistant Enterococcal Genotypes Isolated from Long‐Term‐Colonized Patients

1998 • 73 citations

Analysis of Enterococcus faecalis isolates from intercontinental sources by multilocus enzyme electrophoresis and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis

1995 • 59 citations

Pyrolysis-mass spectrometry (Py-MS) for the rapid epidemiological typing of clinically significant bacterial pathogens

1990 • 55 citations

Molecular typing of Pseudomonas pseudomallei: restriction fragment length polymorphisms of rRNA genes

1993 • 47 citations

Comparison of biotyping, ribotyping, and pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for investigation of a common-source outbreak of Burkholderia pickettii bacteremia

1997 • 36 citations

Biotype and molecular fingerprints of metronidazole-resistant strains of Helicobacter pylori from antral gastric mucosa

1993 • 35 citations

An investigation of nosocomial infection withCorynebacterium jeikeium in surgical patients using a ribosomal RNA gene probe

1990 • 35 citations

Ribosomal RNA gene restriction patterns of Helicobacter pylori: analysis and appraisal of Hae III digests as a molecular typing system.

1992 • 34 citations

The effect of Tn916 insertions on contour-clamped homogeneous electrophoresis patterns of Enterococcus faecalis

1997 • 31 citations

Incidence and detection of multi-drug-resistant enterococci in Dublin hospitals

1997 • 31 citations

Strains of glycopeptide-resistant Enterococcus faecium can alter their van genotypes during an outbreak

1997 • 25 citations

Contribution of a typing method based on IS256 probing of SmaI-digested cellular DNA to discrimination of European phage type 77 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains

1997 • 23 citations

Nosocomial infection with Clostridium difficile investigated by pyrolysis mass spectrometry

1992 • 23 citations

Role of bacteriophages in genomic variability of related coagulase-negative staphylococci

1993 • 22 citations

Genome macrorestriction analysis of sequential Pseudomonas aeruginosa isolates from bronchiectasis patients without cystic fibrosis

1996 • 21 citations

Chromosomal DNA restriction endonuclease digestion patterns of beta-lactamase-producing Enterococcus faecalis isolates collected from a single hospital over a 7-year period

1996 • 20 citations

Nosocomial infection due to Enterococci attributed to a fluidized microsphere bed. The value of pyrolysis mass spectrometry

1994 • 18 citations

Mobilization of the penicillinase gene in Enterococcus faecalis

1993 • 9 citations

Role of bacteriophages in genomic variability of related coagulase-negative staphylococci

1993 • 9 citations

Multiply-resistant Enterococcus faecium

1987 • 9 citations

Old and new (Tn3708) mobile chromosomal elements in streptococci and enterococci.

1995 • 6 citations

Deleted Work

1955 • 0 citations