| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | Nasal Carriage as a Source ofStaphylococcus aureusBacteremia | New England Journal of Medicine | 2001 | 1,787 |
| 2 | Guidelines for the use and interpretation of assays for monitoring autophagy (4th edition)1 | Autophagy | 2021 | 1,430 |
| 3 | Fibronectin-binding protein acts as Staphylococcus aureus invasin via fibronectin bridging to integrin alpha5beta1 | Cellular Microbiology | 1999 | 505 |
| 4 | Silver-coated megaendoprostheses in a rabbit model—an analysis of the infection rate and toxicological side effects | Biomaterials | 2004 | 410 |
| 5 | Rapid and Specific Detection of ToxigenicStaphylococcus aureus: Use of Two Multiplex PCR Enzyme Immunoassays for Amplification and Hybridization of Staphylococcal Enterotoxin Genes, Exfoliative Toxin Genes, and Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin 1 Gene | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 1998 | 261 |
| 6 | Recovery of Small Colony Variants ofStaphylococcus aureusFollowing Gentamicin Bead Placement for Osteomyelitis | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 1997 | 235 |
| 7 | Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae in wildlife, food-producing, and companion animals: a systematic review | Clinical Microbiology and Infection | 2018 | 231 |
| 8 | Heterologously Expressed Staphylococcus aureus Fibronectin-Binding Proteins Are Sufficient for Invasion of Host Cells | Infection and Immunity | 2000 | 220 |
| 9 | A Novel Human Polyomavirus Closely Related to the African Green Monkey-Derived Lymphotropic Polyomavirus | Journal of Virology | 2011 | 214 |
| 10 | Development and Evaluation of a Quality-Controlled Ribosomal Sequence Database for 16S Ribosomal DNA-Based Identification of Staphylococcus Species | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2004 | 205 |
| 11 | Mechanisms of infective endocarditis: pathogen–host interaction and risk states | Nature Reviews Cardiology | 2014 | 193 |
| 12 | Developmental roadmap for antimicrobial susceptibility testing systems | Nature Reviews Microbiology | 2019 | 190 |
| 13 | Protein A is the von Willebrand factor binding protein on Staphylococcus aureus | Blood | 2000 | 187 |
| 14 | Identification and characterization of a novel autolysin (Aae) with adhesive properties from Staphylococcus epidermidis | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2003 | 183 |
| 15 | Faecal S100A12 as a non-invasive marker distinguishing inflammatory bowel disease from irritable bowel syndrome | Gut | 2007 | 177 |
| 16 | Intracellular Persistence of Staphylococcus aureus Small-Colony Variants within Keratinocytes: A Cause for Antibiotic Treatment Failure in a Patient with Darier's Disease | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 2001 | 173 |
| 17 | Staphylococcal Small Colony Variants Have Novel Mechanisms for Antibiotic Resistance | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 1998 | 172 |
| 18 | Effects of Antibiotics on Shiga Toxin 2 Production and Bacteriophage Induction by Epidemic Escherichia coli O104:H4 Strain | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2012 | 168 |
| 19 | Small Colony Variants in Staphylococcal Infections: Diagnostic and Therapeutic Implications | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 1998 | 142 |
| 20 | Truncation of Fibronectin-Binding Proteins in Staphylococcus aureus Strain Newman Leads to Deficient Adherence and Host Cell Invasion Due to Loss of the Cell Wall Anchor Function | Infection and Immunity | 2004 | 139 |
| 21 | The Multifunctional Staphylococcus aureus Autolysin Aaa Mediates Adherence to Immobilized Fibrinogen and Fibronectin | Infection and Immunity | 2005 | 136 |
| 22 | Shiga Toxin-Mediated Hemolytic Uremic Syndrome: Time to Change the Diagnostic Paradigm? | PLoS ONE | 2007 | 135 |
| 23 | New Aspects in the Molecular Basis of Polymer-Associated Infections due to Staphylococci | European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases | 1999 | 128 |
| 24 | Staphylococcus aureus α-toxin-induced cell death: predominant necrosis despite apoptotic caspase activation | Cell Death and Differentiation | 2003 | 112 |
| 25 | Phenotype Microarray Profiling of Staphylococcus aureus menD and hemB Mutants with the Small-Colony-Variant Phenotype | Journal of Bacteriology | 2006 | 112 |
| 26 | Does Nasal Cocolonization by Methicillin-Resistant Coagulase-Negative Staphylococci and Methicillin-Susceptible Staphylococcus aureus Strains Occur Frequently Enough To Represent a Risk of False-Positive Methicillin-Resistant S. aureus Determinations by Molecular Methods? | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2006 | 112 |
| 27 | Variation of the Polymorphic Region X of the Protein A Gene during Persistent Airway Infection of Cystic Fibrosis Patients Reflects Two Independent Mechanisms of Genetic Change in Staphylococcus aureus | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2005 | 104 |
| 28 | Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants: a challenge to microbiologists and clinicians | International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents | 2008 | 99 |
| 29 | Incidence and risk factors for community-acquired acute gastroenteritis in north-west Germany in 2004 | European Journal of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases | 2009 | 87 |
| 30 | Characteristics ofStaphylococcus aureus, isolated from airways of cystic fibrosis patients, and their small colony variants | FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology | 2002 | 82 |
| 31 | Enterotoxigenic Potential of Staphylococcus intermedius | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2001 | 81 |
| 32 | Bloodstream Infections Caused by Small‐Colony Variants of Coagulase‐Negative Staphylococci Following Pacemaker Implantation | Clinical Infectious Diseases | 1999 | 72 |
| 33 | New Immuno-PCR Assay for Detection of Low Concentrations of Shiga Toxin 2 and Its Variants | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2008 | 70 |
| 34 | Comparable Efficacies of the Antimicrobial Peptide Human Lactoferrin 1-11 and Gentamicin in a Chronic Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Osteomyelitis Model | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2005 | 69 |
| 35 | Antimicrobial susceptibilities of Stomatococcus mucilaginosus and of Micrococcus spp | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 1995 | 65 |
| 36 | Cardiac Pacemaker Infection: Surgical Management With and Without Extracorporeal Circulation | Annals of Thoracic Surgery | 1997 | 65 |
| 37 | Staphylococcus aureus small colony variants show common metabolic features in central metabolism irrespective of the underlying auxotrophism | Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology | 2014 | 65 |
| 38 | Autologous Placental Blood Transfusion for the Therapy of Anaemic Neonates | Neonatology | 2002 | 64 |
| 39 | Staphylococcus aureusFibronectin‐Binding Protein (FnBP)–Mediated Adherence to Platelets, and Aggregation of Platelets Induced by FnBPA but Not by FnBPB | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2004 | 61 |
| 40 | Effect of Low Temperature on Growth and Ultra-Structure of Staphylococcus spp | PLoS ONE | 2012 | 60 |
| 41 | Comparative in-vitro activities of moxifloxacin, trovafloxacin, quinupristin/dalfopristin and linezolid against staphylococci | Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy | 1999 | 58 |
| 42 | Virulence of a hemB mutant displaying the phenotype of a Staphylococcus aureus small colony variant in a murine model of septic arthritis | Microbial Pathogenesis | 2003 | 57 |
| 43 | Population Structure of Staphylococcus aureus from Remote African Babongo Pygmies | PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases | 2011 | 53 |
| 44 | Human neutrophil alpha‐defensins induce formation of fibrinogen and thrombospondin‐1 amyloid‐like structures and activate platelets via glycoprotein IIb/IIIa | Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis | 2012 | 53 |
| 45 | Nationwide German Multicenter Study on Prevalence of Antibiotic Resistance in Staphylococcal Bloodstream Isolates and Comparative In Vitro Activities of Quinupristin-Dalfopristin | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2000 | 52 |
| 46 | eapGene as Novel Target for Specific Identification ofStaphylococcus aureus | Journal of Clinical Microbiology | 2008 | 51 |
| 47 | Biotyping of Enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus by Enterotoxin Gene Cluster (egc) Polymorphism and spa Typing Analyses | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2006 | 50 |
| 48 | Analogs of Eap Protein Are Conserved and Prevalent in Clinical Staphylococcus aureus Isolates | Vaccine Journal | 2001 | 49 |
| 49 | Augmented Expression of Polysaccharide Intercellular Adhesin in a Defined Staphylococcus epidermidis Mutant with the Small-Colony-Variant Phenotype | Journal of Bacteriology | 2007 | 47 |
| 50 | Nuclear delivery mechanism of herpes simplex virus type 1 genome | Journal of Molecular Recognition | 2011 | 46 |
