Epidemiology and virulence insights from MRSA and MSSA genome analysis

Genome Sequences of Two Staphylococcus aureus Ovine Strains That Induce Severe (Strain O11) and Mild (Strain O46) Mastitis

(2011) C. Le Marechal et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Whole-Genome Sequencing of Staphylococcus aureus Strain RN4220, a Key Laboratory Strain Used in Virulence Research, Identifies Mutations That Affect Not Only Virulence Factors but Also the Fitness of the Strain

(2011) D. Nair et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Natural Staphylococcus aureus-derived peptidoglycan fragments activate NOD2 and act as potent costimulators of the innate immune system exclusively in the presence of TLR signals

(2010) Thomas Volz et al.   FASEB JOURNAL

Characterizing the effects of inorganic acid and alkaline shock on theStaphylococcus aureustranscriptome and messenger RNA turnover

(2010) Kelsi L. Anderson et al.   FEMS IMMUNOLOGY AND MEDICAL MICROBIOLOGY

TLR 2 and CD14 Mediate Innate Immunity and Lung Inflammation to Staphylococcal Panton-Valentine Leukocidin In Vivo

(2010) A. Zivkovic et al.   JOURNAL OF IMMUNOLOGY

Identification of differentially expressed small non-protein-coding RNAs in Staphylococcus aureus displaying both the normal and the small-colony variant phenotype

(2010) Luay F. Abu-Qatouseh et al.   JOURNAL OF MOLECULAR MEDICINE-JMM

Multiplex PCR assay to facilitate identification of the recently described staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type VIII

(2010) Jo-Ann McClure et al.   MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR PROBES

Cartography of Methicillin-Resistant S. aureus Transcripts: Detection, Orientation and Temporal Expression during Growth Phase and Stress Conditions

(2010) Marie Beaume et al.   PLoS One

A type III-like restriction endonuclease functions as a major barrier to horizontal gene transfer in clinical Staphylococcus aureus strains

(2010) A. R. Corvaglia et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Evolution of MRSA During Hospital Transmission and Intercontinental Spread

(2010) S. R. Harris et al.   SCIENCE

Identification of specific genes in Staphylococcus aureus strains associated with bovine mastitis

(2010) Svitlana Kozytska et al.   VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY

A Staphylococcus aureus Small RNA Is Required for Bacterial Virulence and Regulates the Expression of an Immune-Evasion Molecule

(2010) Svetlana Chabelskaya et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Staphylococcus aureus RNAIII Binds to Two Distant Regions of coa mRNA to Arrest Translation and Promote mRNA Degradation

(2010) Clément Chevalier et al.   PLoS Pathogens

Genomic analysis of an emerging multiresistant Staphylococcus aureus strain rapidly spreading in cystic fibrosis patients revealed the presence of an antibiotic inducible bacteriophage

(2009) Jean-Marc Rolain et al.   Biology Direct

Transcriptome analysis of the responses of Staphylococcus aureus to antimicrobial peptides and characterization of the roles of vraDE and vraSR in antimicrobial resistance

(2009) Milla Pietiäinen et al.   BMC GENOMICS

Effect of a glucose impulse on the CcpA regulon in Staphylococcus aureus

(2009) Kati Seidl et al.   BMC MICROBIOLOGY

Regulatory RNAs in Bacteria

(2009) Lauren S. Waters et al.   CELL

An overview of RNAs with regulatory functions in gram-positive bacteria

(2009) Pascale Romby et al.   CELLULAR AND MOLECULAR LIFE SCIENCES

Molecular epidemiology of the nasal colonization by methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in Swiss children

(2009) C. Mégevand et al.   CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY AND INFECTION

Single-pass classification of all noncoding sequences in a bacterial genome using phylogenetic profiles

(2009) A. Marchais et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Comparative genomics of epidemic versus sporadic Staphylococcus aureus strains does not reveal molecular markers for epidemicity

(2009) Gerrit Kuhn et al.   INFECTION GENETICS AND EVOLUTION

StaphVar-DNA microarray analysis of accessory genome elements of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

(2009) F. El Garch et al.   JOURNAL OF ANTIMICROBIAL CHEMOTHERAPY

CodY in Staphylococcus aureus: a Regulatory Link between Metabolism and Virulence Gene Expression

(2009) K. Pohl et al.   JOURNAL OF BACTERIOLOGY

Variable-Number Tandem Repeat Analysis and Multilocus Sequence Typing Data Confirm the Epidemiological Changes Observed with Staphylococcus aureus Strains Isolated from Bloodstream Infections

(2009) N. van der Mee-Marquet et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

The Listeria transcriptional landscape from saprophytism to virulence

(2009) Alejandro Toledo-Arana et al.   NATURE

A search for small noncoding RNAs in Staphylococcus aureus reveals a conserved sequence motif for regulation

(2009) Thomas Geissmann et al.   NUCLEIC ACIDS RESEARCH

Novel Type of Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec in a Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain Isolated in Sweden

(2008) C. Berglund et al.   ANTIMICROBIAL AGENTS AND CHEMOTHERAPY

Phylogenetic and genomic diversity of human bacteremic Escherichia coli strains

(2008) Françoise Jaureguy et al.   BMC GENOMICS

High-throughput typing of Staphylococcus aureus by amplified fragment length polymorphism (AFLP) or multi-locus variable number of tandem repeat analysis (MLVA) reveals consistent strain relatedness

(2008) D. C. Melles et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY & INFECTIOUS DISEASES

Mapping short DNA sequencing reads and calling variants using mapping quality scores

(2008) H. Li et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

De novo bacterial genome sequencing: Millions of very short reads assembled on a desktop computer

(2008) D. Hernandez et al.   GENOME RESEARCH

Failure of the BD GeneOhm StaphS/R Assay for Identification of Australian Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains: Duplex Assays as the "Gold Standard" in Settings of Unknown SCCmec Epidemiology

(2008) L. Thomas et al.   JOURNAL OF CLINICAL MICROBIOLOGY

Persistence of costly novel genes in the absence of positive selection

(2008) P. ESCOBAR-PÁRAMO et al.   JOURNAL OF EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY

Staphylococcus aureus host specificity: comparative genomics of human versus animal isolates by multi-strain microarray

(2008) J. M.-L. Sung et al.   MICROBIOLOGY-SGM

PCR detection of Staphylococcal enterotoxins (SEs) N, O, P, Q, R, U, and survey of SE types in Staphylococcus aureus isolates from food-poisoning cases in Taiwan

(2007) Yu-Cheng Chiang et al.   INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF FOOD MICROBIOLOGY