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Virulence
The degree of pathogenicity within a group or species of microorganisms or viruses as indicated by case fatality rates and/or the ability of the…
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2010
Review
2010
Anti-virulence strategies to combat bacteria-mediated disease
D. Rasko
,
V. Sperandio
Nature reviews. Drug discovery
2010
Corpus ID: 29799948
Antibiotic resistance is one of the greatest challenges of the twenty-first century. However, the increasing understanding of…
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Review
2007
Review
2007
Targeting virulence: a new paradigm for antimicrobial therapy
A. Clatworthy
,
E. Pierson
,
D. Hung
Nature Chemical Biology
2007
Corpus ID: 36769492
Clinically significant antibiotic resistance has evolved against virtually every antibiotic deployed. Yet the development of new…
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Highly Cited
2006
Highly Cited
2006
Sex and virulence in Escherichia coli: an evolutionary perspective
T. Wirth
,
D. Falush
,
+8 authors
M. Achtman
Molecular Microbiology
2006
Corpus ID: 9927395
Pathogenic Escherichia coli cause over 160 million cases of dysentery and one million deaths per year, whereas non‐pathogenic E…
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Highly Cited
2004
Highly Cited
2004
Neutrophil Extracellular Traps Kill Bacteria
V. Brinkmann
,
U. Reichard
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+5 authors
A. Zychlinsky
Science
2004
Corpus ID: 21628300
Neutrophils engulf and kill bacteria when their antimicrobial granules fuse with the phagosome. Here, we describe that, upon…
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Review
2001
Review
2001
Listeria Pathogenesis and Molecular Virulence Determinants
J. Vázquez-Boland
,
M. Kuhn
,
+6 authors
J. Kreft
Clinical Microbiology Reviews
2001
Corpus ID: 41234639
SUMMARY The gram-positive bacterium Listeria monocytogenes is the causative agent of listeriosis, a highly fatal opportunistic…
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Review
1998
Review
1998
Dengue and Dengue Hemorrhagic Fever
D. Gubler
Clinical Microbiology Reviews
1998
Corpus ID: 27550250
SUMMARY Dengue fever, a very old disease, has reemerged in the past 20 years with an expanded geographic distribution of both the…
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Review
1996
Review
1996
Models of Parasite Virulence
S. Frank
The Quarterly review of biology
1996
Corpus ID: 14829042
Several evolutionary processes influence virulence, the amount of damage a parasite causes to its host. For example, parasites…
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Highly Cited
1996
Highly Cited
1996
cag, a pathogenicity island of Helicobacter pylori, encodes type I-specific and disease-associated virulence factors.
S. Censini
,
C. Lange
,
+5 authors
A. Covacci
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences…
1996
Corpus ID: 2413216
cagA, a gene that codes for an immunodominant antigen, is present only in Helicobacter pylori strains that are associated with…
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Highly Cited
1995
Highly Cited
1995
Simultaneous identification of bacterial virulence genes by negative selection.
M. Hensel
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J. Shea
,
Colin Gleeson
,
Michael D. Jones
,
E. Dalton
,
D. Holden
Science
1995
Corpus ID: 11989413
An insertional mutagenesis system that uses transposons carrying unique DNA sequence tags was developed for the isolation of…
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Review
1991
Review
1991
Virulence factors in Escherichia coli urinary tract infection
J. R. Johnson
Clinical Microbiology Reviews
1991
Corpus ID: 20352625
Uropathogenic strains of Escherichia coli are characterized by the expression of distinctive bacterial properties, products, or…
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