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A novel paralogous gene family involved in phase-variable flagella-mediated motility in Campylobacter jejuni.
Microbiology (Reading, England) Feb, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 11832511
Identification of N-acetylgalactosamine-containing glycoproteins PEB3 and CgpA in Campylobacter jejuni.
Molecular microbiology Jan, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 11985725
Helicobacter pylori adherence to gastric epithelial cells: a role for non-adhesin virulence genes.
Journal of medical microbiology Jun, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 12018657
Structural characterization of lipo-oligosaccharide (LOS) from Yersinia pestis: regulation of LOS structure by the PhoPQ system.
Molecular microbiology Jun, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 12067350
Deciphering tsetse's secret partner.
Nature genetics Nov, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 12410225
N-linked glycosylation in Campylobacter jejuni and its functional transfer into E. coli.
Science (New York, N.Y.) Nov, 2002 | Pubmed ID: 12459590
Signature-tagged mutagenesis of Yersinia pestis.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology , 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12756725
Campylobacter--a tale of two protein glycosylation systems.
Trends in microbiology May, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12781527
Application of DNA microarrays to study the evolutionary genomics of Yersinia pestis and Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.
Genome research Sep, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 12952873
Genes to genetic immunization: identification of bacterial vaccine candidates.
Methods (San Diego, Calif.) Nov, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 14511951
The yersiniae--a model genus to study the rapid evolution of bacterial pathogens.
Nature reviews. Microbiology Oct, 2003 | Pubmed ID: 15040180
Adaptation of Campylobacter jejuni NCTC11168 to high-level colonization of the avian gastrointestinal tract.
Infection and immunity Jul, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15213117
Invertebrates as a source of emerging human pathogens.
Nature reviews. Microbiology Oct, 2004 | Pubmed ID: 15378047
Analysis of Campylobacter jejuni capsular loci reveals multiple mechanisms for the generation of structural diversity and the ability to form complex heptoses.
Molecular microbiology Jan, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15612919
The complete genome sequence of Francisella tularensis, the causative agent of tularemia.
Nature genetics Feb, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15640799
Revised nomenclature of Clostridium difficile toxins and associated genes.
Journal of medical microbiology Feb, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15673503
Protein glycosylation in bacterial mucosal pathogens.
Nature reviews. Microbiology Mar, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15738950
Functional analysis of the Campylobacter jejuni N-linked protein glycosylation pathway.
Molecular microbiology Mar, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15752194
The Campylobacter jejuni glycome.
FEMS microbiology reviews Apr, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15808749
Explorative multifactor approach for investigating global survival mechanisms of Campylobacter jejuni under environmental conditions.
Applied and environmental microbiology Apr, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 15812042
Comparative phylogenomics of pathogenic bacteria by microarray analysis.
Current opinion in microbiology Oct, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 16125441
Comparative phylogenomics of the food-borne pathogen Campylobacter jejuni reveals genetic markers predictive of infection source.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Nov, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 16230626
Intestinal innate immunity to Campylobacter jejuni results in induction of bactericidal human beta-defensins 2 and 3.
Infection and immunity Nov, 2005 | Pubmed ID: 16239524
Serotype differences and lack of biofilm formation characterize Yersinia pseudotuberculosis infection of the Xenopsylla cheopis flea vector of Yersinia pestis.
Journal of bacteriology Feb, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16428415
Mucosal immunization with a urease B DNA vaccine induces innate and cellular immune responses against Helicobacter pylori.
Helicobacter Apr, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16579841
Application of comparative phylogenomics to study the evolution of Yersinia enterocolitica and to identify genetic differences relating to pathogenicity.
Journal of bacteriology May, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16672618
Numerical analysis of DNA microarray data of Campylobacter jejuni strains correlated with survival, cytolethal distending toxin and haemolysin analyses.
International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM Oct, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16782402
The multidrug-resistant human pathogen Clostridium difficile has a highly mobile, mosaic genome.
Nature genetics Jul, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 16804543
The identification of two protective DNA vaccines from a panel of five plasmid constructs encoding Brucella melitensis 16M genes.
Vaccine Jan, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17049676
The complete genome sequence and comparative genome analysis of the high pathogenicity Yersinia enterocolitica strain 8081.
PLoS genetics Dec, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 17173484
A major role for intestinal epithelial nucleotide oligomerization domain 1 (NOD1) in eliciting host bactericidal immune responses to Campylobacter jejuni.
Cellular microbiology Oct, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17521327
Re-annotation and re-analysis of the Campylobacter jejuni NCTC11168 genome sequence.
BMC genomics , 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17565669
Clostridium difficile comes of age.
Future microbiology Oct, 2006 | Pubmed ID: 17661635
Commonality and biosynthesis of the O-methyl phosphoramidate capsule modification in Campylobacter jejuni.
The Journal of biological chemistry Sep, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17675288
The second century of Campylobacter research: recent advances, new opportunities and old problems.
Current opinion in infectious diseases Oct, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17762786
Deletion of a previously uncharacterized flagellar-hook-length control gene fliK modulates the sigma54-dependent regulon in Campylobacter jejuni.
Microbiology (Reading, England) Sep, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17768253
The RovA regulons of Yersinia enterocolitica and Yersinia pestis are distinct: evidence that many RovA-regulated genes were acquired more recently than the core genome.
Molecular microbiology Oct, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17784909
Bacterial pathogenomics.
Nature Oct, 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17943120
Comparative genome analyses of the pathogenic Yersiniae based on the genome sequence of Yersinia enterocolitica strain 8081.
Advances in experimental medicine and biology , 2007 | Pubmed ID: 17966400
Campylobacter jejuni-mediated disease pathogenesis: an update.
Transactions of the Royal Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene Feb, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18023831
The importance of the Rcs phosphorelay in the survival and pathogenesis of the enteropathogenic yersiniae.
Microbiology (Reading, England) Apr, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18375804
Assessing the role of p-cresol tolerance in Clostridium difficile.
Journal of medical microbiology Jun, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18480332
Microarray analysis of the transcriptional responses of Clostridium difficile to environmental and antibiotic stress.
Journal of medical microbiology Jun, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18480334
Comparative analysis of BI/NAP1/027 hypervirulent strains reveals novel toxin B-encoding gene (tcdB) sequences.
Journal of medical microbiology Jun, 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18480336
Microarray analysis of campylobacter jejuni: to the guts of the problem!
Comparative and functional genomics , 2002 | Pubmed ID: 18629262
Microarrays for bacterial pathogens - hope or hype?
Comparative and functional genomics , 2002 | Pubmed ID: 18629265
Development and application of the active surveillance of pathogens microarray to monitor bacterial gene flux.
BMC microbiology , 2008 | Pubmed ID: 18844996
YtxR acts as an overriding transcriptional off switch for the Yersinia enterocolitica Ysc-Yop type 3 secretion system.
Journal of bacteriology Jan, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19011024
Campylobacter jejuni glycosylation island important in cell charge, legionaminic acid biosynthesis, and colonization of chickens.
Infection and immunity Jun, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19307210
Galleria mellonella as an alternative infection model for Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.
Microbiology (Reading, England) May, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19383703
N-linked glycosylation in bacteria: an unexpected application.
Future microbiology May, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19416010
Clostridium difficile--a continually evolving and problematic pathogen.
Infection, genetics and evolution : journal of molecular epidemiology and evolutionary genetics in infectious diseases Dec, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19539054
Antibiotic treatment of clostridium difficile carrier mice triggers a supershedder state, spore-mediated transmission, and severe disease in immunocompromised hosts.
Infection and immunity Sep, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19564382
New levels of sophistication in the transcriptional landscape of bacteria.
Genome biology , 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19664196
Recent advances in systems microbiology.
Current opinion in microbiology Oct, 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19748820
Comparative genome and phenotypic analysis of Clostridium difficile 027 strains provides insight into the evolution of a hypervirulent bacterium.
Genome biology , 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19781061
Steps toward broad-spectrum therapeutics: discovering virulence-associated genes present in diverse human pathogens.
BMC genomics , 2009 | Pubmed ID: 19874620
Simple sequence repeats in Helicobacter canadensis and their role in phase variable expression and C-terminal sequence switching.
BMC genomics , 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20105305
Insect infection model for Campylobacter jejuni reveals that O-methyl phosphoramidate has insecticidal activity.
The Journal of infectious diseases Mar, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20113177
Evolutionary dynamics of Clostridium difficile over short and long time scales.
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Apr, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20368420
Administration of capsule-selective endosialidase E minimizes upregulation of organ gene expression induced by experimental systemic infection with Escherichia coli K1.
Microbiology (Reading, England) Jul, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20395269
Global transcriptional profiling of Burkholderia pseudomallei under salt stress reveals differential effects on the Bsa type III secretion system.
BMC microbiology , 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20540813
Liposomal delivery of p-ialB and p-omp25 DNA vaccines improves immunogenicity but fails to provide full protection against B. melitensis challenge.
Genetic vaccines and therapy , 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20637091
Effect of chicken meat environment on gene expression of Campylobacter jejuni and its relevance to survival in food.
International journal of food microbiology Mar, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 20858569
Systems analysis of bacterial glycomes.
Biochemical Society transactions Oct, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20863301
Glycoproteomics: a powerful tool for characterizing the diverse glycoforms of bacterial pilins and flagellins.
Biochemical Society transactions Oct, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 20863304
Delineation of the innate and adaptive T-cell immune outcome in the human host in response to Campylobacter jejuni infection.
PloS one , 2010 | Pubmed ID: 21085698
Yersinia pseudotuberculosis mntH functions in intracellular manganese accumulation, which is essential for virulence and survival in cells expressing functional Nramp1.
Microbiology (Reading, England) Apr, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21183572
Biofilm development on Caenorhabditis elegans by Yersinia is facilitated by quorum sensing-dependent repression of type III secretion.
PLoS pathogens , 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21253572
In-depth genetic analysis of Clostridium difficile PCR-ribotype 027 strains reveals high genome fluidity including point mutations and inversions.
Gut microbes 7, 2010 | Pubmed ID: 21327033
Genomic variations define divergence of water/wildlife-associated Campylobacter jejuni niche specialists from common clonal complexes.
Environmental microbiology Jun, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21418497
Identification and characterisation of a novel adhesin Ifp in Yersinia pseudotuberculosis.
BMC microbiology , 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21527009
The analysis of para-cresol production and tolerance in Clostridium difficile 027 and 012 strains.
BMC microbiology , 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21527013
The Campylobacter jejuni transcriptional regulator Cj1556 plays a role in the oxidative and aerobic stress response and is important for bacterial survival in vivo.
Journal of bacteriology Aug, 2011 | Pubmed ID: 21642451
The Campylobacter jejuni NCTC11168 capsule prevents excessive cytokine production by dendritic cells.
Medical microbiology and immunology May, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 21863342
Emergence of new PCR ribotypes from the hypervirulent Clostridium difficile 027 lineage.
Journal of medical microbiology Jan, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 21903827
BμG@Sbase--a microbial gene expression and comparative genomic database.
Nucleic acids research Jan, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 21948792
Bacterial epidemiology and biology--lessons from genome sequencing.
Genome biology , 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22027015
Hypervirulent Clostridium difficile PCR-ribotypes exhibit resistance to widely used disinfectants.
PloS one , 2011 | Pubmed ID: 22039420
Identification of immunogenic and virulence-associated Campylobacter jejuni proteins.
Clinical and vaccine immunology : CVI Feb, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22155767
Characterization of the Burkholderia pseudomallei K96243 capsular polysaccharide I coding region.
Infection and immunity Mar, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22252864
Evidence of Yersinia pestis DNA from fleas in an endemic plague area of Zambia.
BMC research notes , 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22280795
Increase in Campylobacter jejuni invasion of intestinal epithelial cells under low-oxygen coculture conditions that reflect the in vivo environment.
Infection and immunity May, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22354027
Characterization of the structurally diverse N-linked glycans of Campylobacter species.
Journal of bacteriology May, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22389484
Macro and micro diversity of Clostridium difficile isolates from diverse sources and geographical locations.
PloS one , 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22396735
Recent developments in bacterial protein glycan coupling technology and glycoconjugate vaccine design.
Journal of medical microbiology Jul, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22516134
The Clostridium difficile spo0A gene is a persistence and transmission factor.
Infection and immunity Aug, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22615253
Phenotypic and genotypic characterizations of Campylobacter jejuni isolated from the broiler meat production process.
Current microbiology Oct, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22735984
The continually evolving Clostridium difficile species.
Future microbiology Aug, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22913354
Neutrophil extracellular traps exhibit antibacterial activity against burkholderia pseudomallei and are influenced by bacterial and host factors.
Infection and immunity Nov, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22927051
Campylobacter jejuni outer membrane vesicles play an important role in bacterial interactions with human intestinal epithelial cells.
Infection and immunity Sep, 2012 | Pubmed ID: 22966047
Gene function hypotheses for the Campylobacter jejuni glycome generated by a logic-based approach.
Journal of molecular biology Jan, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23103756
Comparative phylogenomics of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from invasive disease and nasopharyngeal carriage from West Africans.
BMC genomics , 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23107513
Emergence and global spread of epidemic healthcare-associated Clostridium difficile.
Nature genetics Jan, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23222960
Characterisation of Clostridium difficile biofilm formation, a role for Spo0A.
PloS one , 2012 | Pubmed ID: 23236376
Growth inhibition of pathogenic bacteria by sulfonylurea herbicides.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy Mar, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23263008
Population biology of Streptococcus pneumoniae in West Africa: multilocus sequence typing of serotypes that exhibit different predisposition to invasive disease and carriage.
PloS one , 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23342041
Escherichia coli pathotypes in Pakistan from consecutive floods in 2010 and 2011.
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene Mar, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23358642
Characterization of water and wildlife strains as a subgroup of Campylobacter jejuni using DNA microarrays.
Environmental microbiology Aug, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23530835
Campylobacter jejuni lipooligosaccharide sialylation, phosphorylation, and amide/ester linkage modifications fine-tune human Toll-like receptor 4 activation.
The Journal of biological chemistry Jul, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23629657
Yersinia enterocolitica provides the link between thyroid-stimulating antibodies and their germline counterparts in Graves' disease.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) Jun, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23630351
Transcriptional analysis of temporal gene expression in germinating Clostridium difficile 630 endospores.
PloS one , 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23691138
Exploitation of bacterial N-linked glycosylation to develop a novel recombinant glycoconjugate vaccine against Francisella tularensis.
Open biology , 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23697804
Improved bacterial mutagenesis by high-frequency allele exchange, demonstrated in Clostridium difficile and Streptococcus suis.
Applied and environmental microbiology Aug, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23728809
The agr locus regulates virulence and colonization genes in Clostridium difficile 027.
Journal of bacteriology Aug, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23772065
Altered innate defenses in the neonatal gastrointestinal tract in response to colonization by neuropathogenic Escherichia coli.
Infection and immunity Sep, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23798529
Bacteria like sharing their sweets.
Molecular microbiology Sep, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23844892
Gene content and diversity of the loci encoding biosynthesis of capsular polysaccharides of the 15 serovar reference strains of Haemophilus parasuis.
Journal of bacteriology Sep, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23873912
Development of a self-replicating plasmid system for Mycoplasma hyopneumoniae.
Veterinary research , 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23895236
Clostridium difficile modulates host innate immunity via toxin-independent and dependent mechanism(s).
PloS one , 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23922820
Generation of a Tn5 transposon library in Haemophilus parasuis and analysis by transposon-directed insertion-site sequencing (TraDIS).
Veterinary microbiology Oct, 2013 | Pubmed ID: 23928120
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