Ecology of Antibiotic Resistance Genes

Diversity of the Human Intestinal Microbial Flora

2005 • 7,395 citations

Tetracycline Antibiotics: Mode of Action, Applications, Molecular Biology, and Epidemiology of Bacterial Resistance

2001 • 4,038 citations

Whole genome sequencing of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

2001 • 1,932 citations

Inactivation of Antibiotics and the Dissemination of Resistance Genes

1994 • 1,766 citations

Antibiotic Resistance Genes as Emerging Contaminants: Studies in Northern Colorado

2006 • 1,728 citations

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2002 • 1,558 citations

Association between Bacterial Vaginosis and Preterm Delivery of a Low-Birth-Weight Infant

1995 • 1,454 citations

Drugs in the environment: emission of drugs, diagnostic aids and disinfectants into wastewater by hospitals in relation to other sources – a review

2001 • 1,127 citations

Human Fecal Flora: The Normal Flora of 20 Japanese-Hawaiians

1974 • 1,066 citations

Medical Consequences of Antibiotic Use in Agriculture

1998 • 950 citations

Human intestinal bacteria as reservoirs for antibiotic resistance genes

2004 • 803 citations

Occurrence and Diversity of Tetracycline Resistance Genes in Lagoons and Groundwater Underlying Two Swine Production Facilities

2001 • 774 citations

Molecular Ecology of Tetracycline Resistance: Development and Validation of Primers for Detection of Tetracycline Resistance Genes Encoding Ribosomal Protection Proteins

2001 • 624 citations

Reduced Incidence of Preterm Delivery with Metronidazole and Erythromycin in Women with Bacterial Vaginosis

1995 • 606 citations

Host-Pathogen Interactions: Basic Concepts of Microbial Commensalism, Colonization, Infection, and Disease

2000 • 553 citations

Human Fecal Flora: The Normal Flora of 20 Japanese-Hawaiians

1974 • 537 citations

Bacterial contributions to mammalian gut development

2004 • 529 citations

Evidence for Extensive Resistance Gene Transfer among Bacteroides spp. and among Bacteroides and Other Genera in the Human Colon

2001 • 508 citations

The impact of antibiotic use on resistance development and persistence

2000 • 461 citations

Why are antibiotic resistance genes so resistant to elimination?

1997 • 386 citations

Transfer of multiple drug resistance plasmids between bacteria of diverse origins in natural microenvironments

1994 • 376 citations

A new type of conjugative transposon encodes resistance to sulfamethoxazole, trimethoprim, and streptomycin in Vibrio cholerae O139

1996 • 376 citations

Antimicrobial resistance in bacteria isolated from aquaculture sources in Australia

2006 • 364 citations

Changes in Intestinal Flora of Farm Personnel after Introduction of a Tetracycline-Supplemented Feed on a Farm

1976 • 350 citations

Spread of antibiotic-resistant plasmids from chicken to chicken and from chicken to man

1976 • 314 citations

Incidence, Distribution, and Spread of Tetracycline Resistance Determinants and Integron-Associated Antibiotic Resistance Genes among Motile Aeromonads from a Fish Farming Environment

2001 • 307 citations

Relationships Between Periodontal Disease and Bacterial Pneumonia

1996 • 289 citations

Use of Antimicrobial Growth Promoters in Food Animals andEnterococcus faeciumResistance to Therapeutic Antimicrobial Drugs in Europe

1999 • 268 citations

Phylogenetic Analysis of Rumen Bacteria by Comparative Sequence Analysis of Cloned 16S rRNA Genesß

1998 • 259 citations

Occurrence and spread of antibiotic resistances in Enterococcus faecium

2003 • 256 citations

Frequency and Distribution of Tetracycline Resistance Genes in Genetically Diverse, Nonselected, and Nonclinical Escherichia coli Strains Isolated from Diverse Human and Animal Sources

2004 • 246 citations

Infective Endocarditis Due to Unusual or Fastidious Microorganisms

1997 • 244 citations

Development, Validation, and Application of PCR Primers for Detection of Tetracycline Efflux Genes of Gram-Negative Bacteria

2002 • 242 citations

Functional gene transfer from intracellular bacteria to mammalian cells

1998 • 241 citations

Transposable multiple antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae

1986 • 220 citations

The current ICE age: Biology and evolution of SXT-related integrating conjugative elements

2006 • 214 citations

Mycobacterial Ku and Ligase Proteins Constitute a Two-Component NHEJ Repair Machine

2004 • 210 citations

Isolation, characterization and comparison of bacteria from swine faeces and manure storage pits

2003 • 182 citations

The role of Bacteroides conjugative transposons in the dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes

2002 • 171 citations

Genetic analysis of a plasmid-encoded, host genotype-specific enhancement of bacterial fitness

1994 • 168 citations

Tetracycline Residues and Tetracycline Resistance Genes in Groundwater Impacted by Swine Production Facilities

2006 • 168 citations

Gastrointestinal Microbiology

1997 • 163 citations

Can landscape ecology untangle the complexity of antibiotic resistance?

2006 • 155 citations

Evidence for natural horizontal transfer of tetQ between bacteria that normally colonize humans and bacteria that normally colonize livestock

1994 • 148 citations

Role of human microflora in health and disease

1992 • 147 citations

Horizontal Gene Transfer in a Polyclonal Outbreak of Carbapenem-ResistantAcinetobacter baumannii

2006 • 143 citations

Tn1545: A conjugative shuttle transposon

1987 • 132 citations

Biodiversity of microbial life

2002 • 132 citations

Mobilization of Bacteroides plasmids by Bacteroides conjugal elements

1988 • 127 citations

Functional Characterization of IS 1999 , an IS 4 Family Element Involved in Mobilization and Expression of β-Lactam Resistance Genes

2006 • 125 citations

Regions in Bacteroides plasmids pBFTM10 and pB8-51 that allow Escherichia coli-Bacteroides shuttle vectors to be mobilized by IncP plasmids and by a conjugative Bacteroides tetracycline resistance element

1986 • 124 citations

Antibiotic Resistance Conferred by a Class I Integron and SXT Constin in Vibrio cholerae O1 Strains Isolated in Laos

2004 • 120 citations

The effects of pharmaceutical excipients on small intestinal transit.

1995 • 98 citations

Water dynamics in the digestive tract of the freshwater rainbow trout during the processing of a single meal

2006 • 98 citations

Integration and Excision of a Bacteroides Conjugative Transposon, CTnDOT

2000 • 88 citations

Evidence for natural transfer of a tetracycline resistance gene between bacteria from the human colon and bacteria from the bovine rumen

1992 • 77 citations

Per Capita Antibiotic Consumption: How Does a North American Jurisdiction Compare with Europe?

2004 • 74 citations

A New Bacteroides Conjugative Transposon That Carries an ermB Gene

2003 • 73 citations

Distribution of a transposon-like element carrying blaCMY-2 among Salmonella and other Enterobacteriaceae

2006 • 70 citations

Characterisation and Comparison of Microbial Populations in Swine Faeces and Manure Storage Pits by 16S rDNA Gene Sequence Analyses

2001 • 70 citations

Acne vulgaris: a review of antibiotic therapy

2005 • 69 citations

Overview of Clinically Important Anaerobes

1995 • 68 citations

The role of oral microbial colonization in ventilator-associated pneumonia

2004 • 67 citations

Distribution and mobility of the tetracycline resistance determinant tetQ

1997 • 65 citations

Cloning and analysis of ermG, a new macrolide-lincosamide-streptogramin B resistance element from Bacillus sphaericus

1987 • 64 citations

A Newly Discovered Bacteroides Conjugative Transposon, CTnGERM1, Contains Genes Also Found in Gram-Positive Bacteria

2003 • 62 citations

Origin, evolution and dissemination of antibiotic resistance genes.

1987 • 57 citations

Detection and Incidence of the Tetracycline Resistance Determinant tet(M) in the Microflora Associated with Adult Periodontitis

1995 • 56 citations

Indications of in vivo transfer of an epidemic R plasmid from Salmonella enteritidis to Escherichia coli of the normal human gut flora

1996 • 53 citations

Linkage oferm(B) andaadE-sat4-aphA-3in Multiple-ResistantEnterococcus faeciumIsolates of Different Ecological Origins

2003 • 51 citations

Multidrug-resistant Salmonella and nosocomial infections

2004 • 50 citations

Detection and prevalence of the tetracycline resistance determinant Tet Q in the microbiota associated with adult periodontitis

1996 • 50 citations

Identification of a New Ribosomal Protection Type of Tetracycline Resistance Gene, tet (36), from Swine Manure Pits

2003 • 50 citations

Detection of tetQ and ermF antibiotic resistance genes in Prevotella and Porphyromonas isolates from clinical specimens and resident microbiota of humans

2000 • 49 citations

Sequence Analyses of a Broad Host-Range Plasmid Containing erm T from a Tylosin-Resistant Lactobacillus sp. Isolated from Swine Feces

2001 • 47 citations

Detection of conjugal transfer systems in oral, black-pigmented Bacteroides spp

1990 • 46 citations

Presence of erm genes among macrolide-resistant Gram-positive bacteria isolated from Danish farm soil

2002 • 42 citations

Regulation of Excision Genes of theBacteroidesConjugative Transposon CTnDOT

2005 • 42 citations

Phylogenetic Placement of Community Members of Human Colonic Biota

1997 • 41 citations

The erythromycin resistance gene from the Bacteroides conjugal transposon Tcr Emr 7853 is nearly identical to ermG from Bacillus sphaericus

1996 • 41 citations

Bacterial diversity in the human saliva from different ages.

2006 • 41 citations

Characterization of the mobilization region of a Bacteroides insertion element (NBU1) that is excised and transferred by Bacteroides conjugative transposons

1993 • 40 citations

Commensal bacteria shape intestinal immune system development

2005 • 39 citations

Translational Control of Tetracycline Resistance and Conjugation in the Bacteroides Conjugative Transposon CTnDOT

2005 • 39 citations

Normal Microbiota of the Gastrointestinal Tract of Rodents

1997 • 35 citations

Characterization of a new type of Bacteroides conjugative transposon, Tcr Emr 7853

1994 • 30 citations

Antibiotic Development and Resistance

2001 • 27 citations

Distribution of the ermG Gene among Bacterial Isolates from Porcine Intestinal Contents

2005 • 27 citations

Distribution of <scp>erm</scp>(F) and <scp>tet</scp>(Q) genes in 4 oral bacterial species and genotypic variation between resistant and susceptible isolates

2002 • 25 citations

The new class 11 transposon Tn163 is plasmid-borne in two unrelated Rhizobium leguminosarum biovar viciae strains

1994 • 21 citations

Comparison and Transferability of theerm(B) Genes between Human and Farm Animal Streptococci

2005 • 20 citations

A Novel Multiresistant Streptococcus pneumoniae Serogroup 19 Clone from Washington State Identified by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis and Restriction Fragment Length Patterns

2000 • 18 citations

Btcrops: Predicting effects of escaped transgenes on the fitness of wild plants and their herbivores

2003 • 18 citations

Transfer of conjugal elements in oral black-pigmented Bacteroides (Prevotella) spp. involves DNA rearrangements

1992 • 18 citations

Oral therapy for rosacea.

2006 • 16 citations

Keeping watch over genetically modified crops and foods

1999 • 7 citations