• 16s rRNA, rpoB and tuf gene identification of staphylococci isolated from cats and dogs
• A comprehensive, novel Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec (SCCmec) typing assay using multiplex PCR based reverse line blot hybridization (mPCR/RLB)
• A genome-wide association study on Staphylococcus aureus nasal carriage
• A helical string of alternately connected two three-helix bundles for the 1.1-megadalton cell wall-associated protein ebh from Staphylococcus aureus
• A novel rapid method for the purification of human complement component 5 using SSL7 affinity chromatography
• A one year pilot survey of CA-MRSA in Poland
• A phase I, dose-ranging study to evaluate immunogenicity and safety of a novel Staphylococcus aureus (SA) vaccine (V710)
• A seasonal study of the mecA gene and Staphylococcus aureus, including methicillin-resistant S. aureus, in a municipal wastewater treatment plant
• A sustained reduction of endemic methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) in an intensive care unit (ICU) at a tertiary hospital in Australia over an 8-year period in the absence of intensive infection control measures
• A synthetic derivative of natural neolignans from Krameria lappacea (Dombey) Burdet: effect on planktonic and sessile form of staphylococci
• Acquisition and infection caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus [MRSA]: A comparison of extended care and acute care medicine wards in a U.S. Veterans Affairs Medical Center [VAMC]
• Advanced development of a recombinant staphylococcal enterotoxin B (SEB) Vaccine (STEBVax)
• Antibiotic synergy testing, using Etest, on coagulase negative staphylococci isolated from prosthetic joint infections
• Antibody response in invasive Staphylococcus aureus infections and healthy individuals
• Antistaphylococcal humoral immune response in persistent, intermittent and non- nasal carriers of Staphylococcus aureus
• ANZCOSS – the first 2000 cases
• Application of direct repeat unit (dru) typing to differentiate highly clonal MRSA endemic in Irish hospitals
• Bactericidal activity of the food color additive phloxine B against Staphylococcus aureus and other food borne microbial pathogens
• Bacteriophages facilitate nasal colonization of Staphylococcus aureus
• Benzophenanthridine alkaloids effect on planktonic and sessile form of staphylococci
• Bioinformatics as a tool to identify regulator genes potentially involved in biofilm formation in Staphylococcus epidermidis reference strains RP62a and 12228
• Biological effect of of vancomycin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
• Bullous impetigo due to community-acquired meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus hemolyticus
• Cell division as a novel antibacterial target in Staphylococcus aureus
• Characteristics of Panton - Valentine leukocidin positive Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated in the Czech Republic
• Characteristics of Staphylococcus aureus strains from 5 outbreaks of pemphigus neonatorum in the Czech Republic and Slovakia
• Characterization a novel DNA-binding protein that modulates β-lactam resistance in Staphylococcus aureus
• Characterization and functional investigations of a Staphylococcus aureus mutant which is deficient in both hemin biosynthesis and the global redox sensing regulator (rex)
• Characterization of Danish MRSA isolates from community associated infections
• Characterization of spa-type t024, the dominant MRSA clone in Copenhagen, Denmark
• Characterization of the Staphylococcus aureus defensin resistance factor MprF
• Characterization of virulence gene expression in different Staphylococcus aureus mastitis isolates
• Clinical features of invasive community-onset methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection: prospective case-control study
• Clinical-microbiological substantiaon of “Antoxide”application in the complex therapy of parodont and mouth cavity mucous membrane diseases
• Coating of biomaterials with antimicrobial peptides to prevent biofilm formation of coagulase negative staphylococci
• Colonisation with Staphylococcus aureus in remote Western Australian communities
• Combined efficacy of clarithromycin plus vancomycin in mice with device-related infection by biofilms-forming Staphylococcus aureus
• Community- and healthcare-associated Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: 10-year review
• Community-acquired Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacterial endocarditis with reduced vancomycin susceptibility in an intravenous drug user in Taiwan
• Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA) in Finland: clinical infections, strain types and Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes
• Comparative analysis of Staphylococcus aureus isolates recovered consecutively from patients following admission to the hospital
• Comparative genomics of clinical Staphylococcus aureus strains: a microarray based study
• Comparison of community associated S. aureus types in community and hospital isolates in the Northern Territory of Australia
• Comparison of the genetic backgrounds of the MSSA and MRSA isolates circulating in Polish hospitals
• Concordance analysis between phage typing and spa typing
• Confirmation of a role for graRS in Vancomycin-Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus using pKOR1, a vector for efficient allelic replacement in this pathogen
• Construction and analysis of an D-serine deaminase mutant of Staphylococcus saprophyticus
• Contribution of cardiolipin synthase to the salt resistance
• Copper sulfate susceptibility of staphylococci among clinical isolates
• Culture confirmation of positive BD GeneOhm™ MRSA Assay results
• Daily hazard of MRSA acquisition in the intensive care unit
• Decreasing incidence of MRSA following the release of new national guidelines in Denmark
• Detection of SCCmec elements amongst invasive Staphylococcus aureus isolates in Canterbury, New Zealand
• Determination of toxigenic capacity by RT-PCR in coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from newborns in Brazil
• Development of an assay to measure functional antibodies to Staphylococcus aureus IsdB
• Different responses to combinations of green tea and oxacillin exhibited by Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants and their parents
• Discharge MRSA screening of surgical patients in Indonesia. A multicenter study
• Discovery of a novel integrative and potentially conjugative genetic element, ICE6013, in Staphylococcus aureus
• Disruption of Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilms by medicinal maggot Lucilia sericata excretions/secretions
• Dissemination of new CA-MRSA strain in the UK
• Dissemination of USA300 MRSA in Western Australia
• Distribution and frequencies of different spa-types of MRSA from Norway
• Diversity and distribution of SCCmec elements in coagulase-negative staphylococci of animal origin
• Diversity of CC398 in Denmark
• Do ethnic differences in ca-MRSA strains relate to country of origin?: A comparison of prevalence and multi-Locus sequence types of non multi-resistant strains of ca-MRSA in Samoa and Auckland
• Drosophila melanogaster as a host model for community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (CA-MRSA)
• EARRS-Seqnet surveillance of S. aureus associated with bacteraemia in the UK during 2006
• Education methodology in the control of MRSA
• Effect of the ozone applied therapy upon staphylococcal microflora and pathogens
• Epidemiological and clinical features of non-multi-resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (nmMRSA), multi-resistant methicillin-resistant S. aureus (mMRSA) and methicillin-sensitive S. aureus (MSSA) infections in tropical northern Australia
• Epidemiology of MRSA in New Zealand
• Evaluation of 3M™ Baclite™ rapid MRSA detection kit for use with environmental specimens from an Irish hospital setting
• Evaluation of BD GeneOhm™ MRSA on 331 Danish and 22 International MRSA strains
• Evaluation of spa and DiversiLab rep-PCR typing in characterising Western Australian community MRSA clones as defined by MLST/SCCmec
• Evalution of methods for the detection of MRSA in patients of Botucatu Medical School Hospital, São Paulo, Brazil
• Examining specific virulence factors involved in Staphylococcus aureus keratitis
• Excess mortality from Staphlococcus aureus bacteraemia (SAB) in a tropical setting necessitates the development of a management algorithm for resource-limited countries
• Experience of MRSA eradication treatment in North Jutland County, Denmark
• Frequency of aminoglycoside resistance and distribution of resistance genes in members of the Staphylococcus sciuri group
• Frequent emergence and limited geographic dispersal of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
• Furanones can inhibit growth and toxin production by Staphylococcus aureus
• Gastrointestinal (GI) Colonization by Staphylococcus aureus: Roles for Wall Teichoic Acids and Arginine Catabolic Mobile Element (ACME).
• Genetic background of Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated in Lebanon
• Genetic diversity of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Dutch university hospital between 2002 and 2006
• Genome scale analysis of the role of superantigens in the pathogenesis of staphylococcal mastitis
• Genome-scale analysis of Staphylococcus aureus reveals host-specific diversification of the core genome
• Genotype variability of the enterotoxin H-positive Staphylococcus aureus strains isolated from patients and foods in the Czech Republic
• Genotypic determination of virulence factors and evaluation of the resistance profile of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from clinical and surveillance cultures at a Brazilian university hospital
• Genotyping of aberrant Australian CA-MRSA strains which may contain a novel agr group
• Global mapping of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
• High Panton-Valentine leukocidin prevalence among community-associated methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus from Indonesia
• High resolution melt analysis of the spa region demonstrates diversity within ST93-MRSA from northern Australia
• High success of MRSA eradication therapy by following a strict treatment protocol
• Human IgG response to experimental colonization with S. aureus
• Identification and characterization of novel small non-protein-coding RNAs of Staphylococcus aureus
• Identification and characterization of rsr, a novel inhibitor of Staphylococcus aureus virulence
• Identification of MRSA transmission in hospitals: Enhancing phage derived ORF typing with reverse line blot assay detection
• Identification of novel protein-protein interactions in S. aureus
• Identification of Staphylococcus spp. by PCR-Restriction fragment length polymorphism of dnaJ gene
• Identification of Tetramic Acids and the Analogs as Potent Inhibitors of Undecaprenyl Pyrophosphate Synthase for Developing Novel Antimicrobial Agents
• Immunological characterization of a cross-protective subunit protein vaccine to prevent Staphylococcus aureus infection
• Impact of Staphylococcus aureus ClpC on late-stationary phase events involved in carbon metabolism, oxidative stress response, programmed cell death, and fatty acid metabolism: A combined proteomics and transcriptomics approach
• In vitro production of antimicrobial resistance in a methicillin-sensitive strain of Staphylococcus aureus
• In-vitro activity of dalbavancin against staphylococci
• In-vitro synergistic activity of daptomycin combined with genetically recombinant antibody against MRSA
• Influence of vancomycin MIC on the clinical outcomes in patients with Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia
• Inhibition of the staphylococcal pyruvate dehydrogenase multi-enzyme complex by a new class of antibiotics
• Insertional inactivation of branched-chain alpha-keto acid dehydrogenase (BKD) in Staphylococcus aureus leads to decreased branched-chain membrane fatty acids content and increased susceptibility to certain stresses
• International MRSA clones identified in Western Australia
• Intrastrain variability of USA300 MRSA isolated in Western Australia
• Knowing MRSA colonisation status increases empiric use of glycopeptide in MRSA bacteremia and may reduce mortality
• Laboratory features of invasive community-onset methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus - correlation with clinical features in a prospective case-control study
• Lactococcus lactis impairs the induction of several staphylococcal virulence factors during mixed cultures
• Links to the health care system as indirect risk factors for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection in dogs and cats
• Long-term follow-up of MRSA carriage in previously positive patients and their family members
• Mapping the secretome of Staphylococcus aureus
• Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among clinical isolates in Indonesia, a multicenter survey
• Microarray analysis of Staphylococcus aureus colonising people in remote Western Australian communities
• Microbial risk assessment in coagulase negative Staphylococci using a diagnostic microarray
• Molecular analysis of Staphylococcus aureus isolates of clonal complex 8 from different epidemiological backgrounds
• Molecular analysis of tetracycline resistance in Staphylococcus spp. isolates collected in the BfT-GermVet monitoring study
• Molecular characterization of S. aureus strains isolated from small and large ruminants reveals a host- rather than tissue-specificity
• Molecular characterization of the Staphylococcus aureus surface protein C (SasC) involved in cell aggregation and biofilm formation
• Molecular diagnostics of temperate bacteriophages of Staphylococcus aureus
• Molecular mechanisms involved in Staphylococcus epidermidis biofilm detachment
• Molecular typing of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus by real-time PCR based technologies
• Mortality associated with bacteraemia caused by Staphylococcus aureus: a cohort analysis with follow up beyond hospital discharge from the BURDEN study group
• MRSA detection: comparison of two molecular methods (BD GeneOhm® PCR assay and Easy-Plex) with two selective MRSA agars (MRSASelect ® and Oxoid MRSA) for Nasal swabs
• MRSA in farm animals in rural Wisconsin: Healthcare workers as a potential source
• MRSA with exfoliative toxin A in England and Wales during 2006-7
• Multilocus sequence typing of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
• Nasal carriage of community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (cMRSA) in adults in a high prevalence population
• Natural polyphenols inhibit biofilm formation in S. aureus and S. epidermidis
• Nature, prevalence and spread of fusidic acid resistance in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus
• New SEB-encoding Staphylococcus aureus pathogenicity island
• Novel associations of distal amino acid residues in the staphylococcal multidrug resistance protein QacA
• Novel maintenance determinant carried by staphylococcal multiresistance plasmids
• Novel Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec (SCCmec) type resulting from recombination of Class A mec and type 4 ccr gene complexes in a Canadian epidemic strain of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
• Occurrence of resistance to chloramphenicol and resistance genes in members of the Staphylococcus sciuri group
• Outcomes of Staphylococcus aureus vascath-related bacteraemias in an Australian institution, 2000-2006
• Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL)-positive and -negative community-associated MRSA (CA-MRSA) USA400 sibling strains exhibit similar virulence characteristics in in vitro cell Cclture and animal models
• Panton-Valentine Leukocidin: not as lethal as all that?
• Patterns of interference in Staphylococcus aureus and Staphylococcus epidermidis and horizontal gene transfer of SCCmec
• Persistence of bacteraemia with Staphylococcus epidermidis; resistance phenotype of the strains
• Phagosomal acidification in human host cells and its modulation by S. aureus
• Preliminary analysis of the whole genome sequences of a clinical MSSA and its presumed MRSA progeny isolate
• Prevalence and determinants of S. aureus and S. pneumoniae carriage in HIV infected persons compared to healthy controls
• Prevalence of carriership and antibiotic resistance of Staphylococcus aureus in HIV infected persons in rural Zambia
• Prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) carriage upon hospital admission in the Netherlands remains very low (0.08%)
• Prevalence of MRSA carriage in health care workers working in a Western Australian acute care hospital
• Prevalence of MRSA in the environment in an Irish hospital
• Prevalence of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin (PVL) in Staphylococcus aureus isolates causing bacteraemia from a paediatric/obstetric hospital in South Australia 2004 - 2008
• Prevalence of strain types and binary gene subtypes in an Australian Staphylococcus aureus cohort, 1989-2003
• Prevalence of tetracycline resistance and distribution of resistance genes in members of the Staphylococcus sciuri group
• Proteolytic regulation of antitoxins in S. aureus by ClpCP
• PVL-positivity among clinical and colonizing isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from children in south-west of Sweden
• Rapid and cost effective genotyping using diagnostic microarrays in a microtiter-plate
• recA mediated spontaneous deletions of the icaADBC operon of clinical Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates: A new mechanism of phenotypic variations
• Reduction of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus-prevalence in highly endemic settings in Japan by active surveillance in association with contact precautions
• Relationship between agr allele types and clinical phenotypes of Staphylococcus aureus
• Sequence based dru typing can subtype methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA)
• Sequencing of staphylococcal toxin genes in coagulase-negative staphylococci
• Spa-typing challenging the unique position of PFGE - A comparison of MRSA-isolates from Norway 2006-2007
• Spa-typing of S. aureus bacteraemia isolates in Denmark
• Spectrum of neutralizing activity against staphylococcal and streptococcal superantigens in IVIG preparations and human plasma
• Spread of a single multiresistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) clone carrying staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type III in a public hospital in Malaysia
• ST398 MRSA infections in Scotland – No pig association apparent
• Staphylococcal enterotoxin A induces emesis through increasing serotonin release in intestine and endogenous cannabinoid system protects against the emetic response
• Staphylococcal food poisoning outbreaks in Europe: occurrence, investigation and monitoring
• Staphylococcal superantigen-like protein 10: Targeting of host immune defences by Staphylococcus aureus
• Staphylococcal superantigen-like protein 14 inhibits the human complement cascade
• Staphylococcal superantigen-like protein 9 (SSL9): a novel complement regulator of S. aureus
• Staphylococci and Intravascular devices (IVDs): A review
• Staphylococcus aureus carriers: epidemiological molecular evidence on asymptomatic bovine mammary glands
• Staphylococcus aureus encoding both TSST-1 and PVL in the UK
• Staphylococcus epidermidis extracellular matrix binding protein mediates biofilm accumulation and attachment to host extracellular matrix
• Staphylococcus lugdunensis: Identification and epidemiology in the community
• StcA is a novel Staphylococcus aureus biofilm determinant
• Stress responses of Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants
• Structural studies of MreC, cell-shape determinant protein of Bacillus subtilis
• Study of genetic and phenotypic biofilm variations in clinical Staphylococcus capitis
• T cell activation by enterotoxin gene cluster-encoded and ’classical’ Staphylococcus aureus superantigens
• The determinants of resistance to MLS-B antibiotics in hospital-acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus
• The dissemination of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in the Euregion Meuse-Rhine
• The effect of different proteases on staphylococcal biofilm
• The Effect of NaCl to the Expression of N-acetylglucosaminidase Genes of Staphylococcus aureus
• The epidemiology and genetic structure of Staphylococcus aureus populations causing invasive disease in Auckland, New Zealand
• The Essential Nature of The WalK/WalR Signal Transduction Pathway is Linked to Cell Wall Hydrolase Activity In Staphylococcus aureus
• The etiologic agents of community-acquired pneumonia in Jeju, Korea: A diagnostic application of PCR methods
• The first sequence Type 80 community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain in the USA
• The impacts of contact time and concentration chlorhexidine to methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) growth
• The native and fusidic acid-resistance roles of the staphylococcal FusB protein
• The population structure of Staphylococcus aureus from ICU patients in The Netherlands between 1996 and 2006
• The potential of the cationic peptide A415 as a topical therapeutic agent for treating Staphylococcus aureus
• The Queensland clone comes to England
• The rabbit as a model for colonization with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus
• The sequence divergence of the A region of fibronectin-binding proteins of Staphylococcus aureus among isolated strains from patients and healthy nasal carriers
• The Staphylococcus aureus response to long chain fatty acids: characterisation of gene expression, survival mutants and their effect on virulence
• The virulence gene expression pattern of different clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus is more heterogeneous than expected from the genomic situation
• Three novel Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec (SCCmec) in community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolated in Sweden
• Thymidylate synthase activity in thymidine-dependent small colony variants and in normal Staphylococcus aureus
• Tissue surrounding catheters is a niche for coagulase-negative staphylococci in humans
• Transcriptomic analysis of a Staphylococcus aureus mutant deficient for the global redox sensing regulator rex
• Transduction of antibiotic resistance plasmids in methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains
• Transmission of MRSA to household contacts
• TSST-1-producing Staphylococcus aureus among healthy japanese women: Prevalence, strain characterization, and antibodies to TSST-1
• Two phase I, multicenter, double-blind studies to investigate immunogenicity and safety of different formulations of a novel Staphylococcus aureus (SA) vaccine (V710)
• Typing MRSA isolates from hospital outbreaks: PFGE and SNP (single nucleotide polymorphism) and binary gene analysis
• Typing of Staphylococcus aureus based on differentially variable target sequences results in consistency of strain relatedness
• Typing of Staphylococcus hominis subsp. novobiosepticus
• UafB, a novel putative adhesin of the uropathogen Staphylococcus saprophyticus
• Uniform Nomenclature for mec-asssociated Direct-Repeat Unit (dru) Typing of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococci
• Virulence in mouse kidney shown by Staphylcoccus aureus of different growth stages
• Zymography and Expression Microarray Comparison of EMRSA 15 and 16

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