| # | Title | Journal | Year | Citations |
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| 1 | SARS-like WIV1-CoV poised for human emergence | Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America | 2016 | 373 |
| 2 | Population Dynamics of Salmonella enterica Serotypes in Commercial Egg and Poultry Production | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2011 | 347 |
| 3 | Fungal metabolism of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons: past, present and future applications in bioremediation | Journal of Industrial Microbiology and Biotechnology | 1997 | 307 |
| 4 | Salmonella challenges: Prevalence in swine and poultry and potential pathogenicity of such isolates1,2 | Journal of Animal Science | 2008 | 275 |
| 5 | Degradation of Phenanthrene and Anthracene by Cell Suspensions of Mycobacterium sp. Strain PYR-1 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2001 | 264 |
| 6 | Complete and Integrated Pyrene Degradation Pathway in Mycobacterium vanbaalenii PYR-1 Based on Systems Biology | Journal of Bacteriology | 2007 | 256 |
| 7 | Biotransformation of Malachite Green by the Fungus Cunninghamella elegans | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2001 | 241 |
| 8 | Isolation of human intestinal bacteria metabolizing the natural isoflavone glycosides daidzin and genistin | Archives of Microbiology | 2000 | 238 |
| 9 | Salmonella Pathogenicity and Host Adaptation in Chicken-Associated Serovars | Microbiology and Molecular Biology Reviews | 2013 | 233 |
| 10 | Environmental aspects of PAH biodegradation | Applied Biochemistry and Biotechnology | 1995 | 226 |
| 11 | Purification and characterization of a lipopeptide produced by Bacillus thuringiensis CMB26 | Journal of Applied Microbiology | 2004 | 226 |
| 12 | Molecular Cloning, Nucleotide Sequence, and Expression of Genes Encoding a Polycyclic Aromatic Ring Dioxygenase from Mycobacterium sp. Strain PYR-1 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2001 | 203 |
| 13 | Biochemical and molecular characterization of an azoreductase from Staphylococcus aureus, a tetrameric NADPH-dependent flavoprotein | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2005 | 198 |
| 14 | Recent Advances in Azo Dye Degrading Enzyme Research | Current Protein and Peptide Science | 2006 | 198 |
| 15 | Mutagenicity of azo dyes used in foods, drugs and cosmetics before and after reduction by Clostridium species from the human intestinal tract | Food and Chemical Toxicology | 1997 | 184 |
| 16 | Degradation of Benzo[ a ]pyrene by Mycobacterium vanbaalenii PYR-1 | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2004 | 179 |
| 17 | Molecular typing methodologies for microbial source tracking and epidemiological investigations of Gram-negative bacterial foodborne pathogens☆ | Infection, Genetics and Evolution | 2009 | 172 |
| 18 | Effects of pH on the degradation of phenanthrene and pyrene by Mycobacterium vanbaalenii PYR-1 | Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2005 | 169 |
| 19 | Detection and characterization of virulence genes and integrons in Aeromonas veronii isolated from catfish | Food Microbiology | 2010 | 168 |
| 20 | Molecular cloning, overexpression, purification, and characterization of an aerobic FMN-dependent azoreductase from Enterococcus faecalis | Protein Expression and Purification | 2004 | 159 |
| 21 | Influenza Virus Primes Mice for Pneumonia From Staphylococcus aureus | Journal of Infectious Diseases | 2011 | 154 |
| 22 | The Role of Colonic Bacteria in the Metabolism of the Natural Isoflavone Daidzin to Equol | Metabolites | 2015 | 142 |
| 23 | Biotransformation of the isoflavonoids biochanin A, formononetin, and glycitein by Eubacterium limosum | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 2000 | 127 |
| 24 | Isolation of an anaerobic intestinal bacterium capable of cleaving the C-ring of the isoflavonoid daidzein | Archives of Microbiology | 2002 | 116 |
| 25 | Production of an antifungal protein for control ofColletotrichum lagenariumbyBacillus amyloliquefaciensMET0908 | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 2004 | 115 |
| 26 | Metabolism of anthracene by aRhodococcusspecies | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 2001 | 109 |
| 27 | Non-animal models of epithelial barriers (skin, intestine and lung) in research, industrial applications and regulatory toxicology | ALTEX: Alternatives To Animal Experimentation | 2015 | 108 |
| 28 | A Polyomic Approach To Elucidate the Fluoranthene-Degradative Pathway in Mycobacterium vanbaalenii PYR-1 | Journal of Bacteriology | 2007 | 107 |
| 29 | Horizontal Gene Transfer of a ColV Plasmid Has Resulted in a Dominant Avian Clonal Type of Salmonella enterica Serovar Kentucky | PLoS ONE | 2010 | 101 |
| 30 | Biochemical and Molecular Characterization of Tetracycline-Resistant Aeromonas veronii Isolates from Catfish | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2006 | 98 |
| 31 | Effects of treatment with antimicrobial agents on the human colonic microflora | Therapeutics and Clinical Risk Management | 2008 | 96 |
| 32 | Molecular Characterization of Resistance to Extended-Spectrum Cephalosporins in Clinical Escherichia coli Isolates from Companion Animals in the United States | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2011 | 96 |
| 33 | Emergence of a New Delhi Metallo-β-Lactamase (NDM-1)-Encoding Gene in Clinical Escherichia coli Isolates Recovered from Companion Animals in the United States | Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy | 2013 | 96 |
| 34 | Molecular characterization of dioxygenases from polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-degrading Mycobacterium spp. | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 2003 | 91 |
| 35 | Staphylococcus aureus Hyaluronidase Is a CodY-Regulated Virulence Factor | Infection and Immunity | 2014 | 90 |
| 36 | Anaerobic Metabolism of 1-Amino-2-Naphthol-Based Azo Dyes (Sudan Dyes) by Human Intestinal Microflora | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2007 | 89 |
| 37 | A method for the large scale isolation of high transformation efficiency fungal genomic DNA | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 1996 | 88 |
| 38 | DNA Sequence Analysis of Plasmids from Multidrug Resistant Salmonella enterica Serotype Heidelberg Isolates | PLoS ONE | 2012 | 88 |
| 39 | Novel organization of genes in a phthalate degradation operon of Mycobacterium vanbaalenii PYR-1 | Microbiology (United Kingdom) | 2004 | 83 |
| 40 | Genetic diversity and virulence gene determinants of antibiotic-resistant Salmonella isolated from preharvest turkey production sources | International Journal of Food Microbiology | 2004 | 83 |
| 41 | Size and dose dependent effects of silver nanoparticle exposure on intestinal permeability in an in vitro model of the human gut epithelium | Journal of Nanobiotechnology | 2016 | 81 |
| 42 | Metabolism of azo dyes by human skin microbiota | Journal of Medical Microbiology | 2010 | 79 |
| 43 | A Review of Prebiotics Against Salmonella in Poultry: Current and Future Potential for Microbiome Research Applications | Frontiers in Veterinary Science | 2018 | 79 |
| 44 | Degradation of a mixture of high‐molecular‐weight polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by aMycobacteriumstrain PYR‐1 | Journal of Soil Contamination | 1995 | 78 |
| 45 | The antimicrobial effects of selenium nanoparticle-enriched probiotics and their fermented broth against Candida albicans | DARU, Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences | 2014 | 77 |
| 46 | Sudan azo dyes and Para Red degradation by prevalent bacteria of the human gastrointestinal tract | Anaerobe | 2010 | 75 |
| 47 | A simple and efficient Triton X-100 boiling and chloroform extraction method of RNA isolation from Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria | FEMS Microbiology Letters | 2003 | 73 |
| 48 | Microbiological Transformation of Enrofloxacin by the Fungus Mucor ramannianus | Applied and Environmental Microbiology | 2000 | 72 |
| 49 | Molecular characterization of cytochrome P450 genes in the polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon degrading Mycobacterium vanbaalenii PYR-1 | Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2006 | 72 |
| 50 | Probiotic properties of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium strains isolated from porcine gastrointestinal tract | Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology | 2007 | 72 |
