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List of works by Susan Boyle-Vavra

680Predictors of Recurrent Staphylococcus aureus Skin Infection After Treatment: Host, Behavioral, and Pathogen Level Factors

scientific article published in December 2014

A novel methicillin-resistance cassette in community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates of diverse genetic backgrounds

scientific article published on 3 October 2002

A randomized, controlled trial of chlorhexidine-soaked cloths to reduce methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus carriage prevalence in an urban jail.

scientific article published on December 2014

Association of high-level mupirocin resistance and multidrug-resistant methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus at an academic center in the midwestern United States

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Asymptomatic carriage of sequence type 398, spa type t571 methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus in an urban jail: a newly emerging, transmissible pathogenic strain

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Can Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus Silently Travel From the Gut to the Wound and Cause Postoperative Infection? Modeling the "Trojan Horse Hypothesis".

scientific article published on 09 February 2017

Carriage of Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a Colony of Rhesus (Macaca mulatta) and Cynomolgus (Macaca fascicularis) Macaques

scientific article published on 02 August 2019

Clinical importance of purulence in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus skin and soft tissue infections

scientific article published in November 2009

CodY Deletion Enhances In Vivo Virulence of Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clone USA300

scientific article published on April 23, 2012

Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: the role of Panton-Valentine leukocidin

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Community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates causing healthcare-associated infections

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Comparative genome sequencing of an isogenic pair of USA800 clinical methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates obtained before and after daptomycin treatment failure

scientific article published on 22 February 2011

Comparing pulsed-field gel electrophoresis with multilocus sequence typing, spa typing, staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec (SCCmec) typing, and PCR for panton-valentine leukocidin, arcA, and opp3 in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus is

scientific article published on 26 December 2012

Comparison of virulence in community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pulsotypes USA300 and USA400 in a rat model of pneumonia

scientific article published in August 2008

Complex molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus isolates from children with cystic fibrosis in the era of epidemic community-associated methicillin-resistant S aureus

scientific article published on 17 March 2008

Contrasting pediatric and adult methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates

scientific article published on April 2006

Daptomycin-oxacillin combinations in treatment of experimental endocarditis caused by daptomycin-nonsusceptible strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus with evolving oxacillin susceptibility (the "seesaw effect")

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Evidence for a continuum of decreased vancomycin susceptibility in unselected Staphylococcus aureus clinical isolates

scientific article published in August 2002

Genomic and transcriptomic differences in community acquired methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 and USA400 strains.

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Guidelines for reporting novel mecA gene homologues

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Hand and nasal carriage of discordant Staphylococcus aureus isolates among urban jail detainees

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High Staphylococcus aureus colonization prevalence among patients with skin and soft tissue infections and controls in an urban emergency department

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Identification of Small Molecules Exhibiting Oxacillin Synergy through a Novel Assay for Inhibition of vraTSR Expression in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 23 August 2019

Impact of Staphylococcus aureus USA300 Colonization and Skin Infections on Systemic Immune Responses in Humans

scientific article published on 11 July 2016

Importance of the Global Regulators Agr and SaeRS in the Pathogenesis of CA-MRSA USA300 Infection

scientific article published on December 2, 2010

Improved oxacillin treatment outcomes in experimental skin and lung infection by a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolate with a vraSR operon deletion

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Intrahost Evolution of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 Among Individuals With Reoccurring Skin and Soft-Tissue Infections

scientific article published on 10 June 2016

MRSA USA300 at Alaska Native Medical Center, Anchorage, Alaska, USA, 2000-2006.

scientific article published in January 2012

Methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus as a predominantly healthcare-associated pathogen: a possible reversal of roles?

scientific article (publication date: 13 April 2011)

Molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, rural southwestern Alaska

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Novel type of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec identified in community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains

scientific article published on April 2002

Pediatric Staphylococcus aureus Isolate Genotypes and Infections from the Dawn of the Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant S. aureus Epidemic Era in Chicago, 1994 to 1997.

scientific article published on 27 May 2015

Persistent Environmental Contamination with USA300 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Other Pathogenic Strain Types in Households with S. aureus Skin Infections

scholarly article by Samantha J. Eells et al published November 2014 in Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology

Persistent environmental contamination with USA300 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and other pathogenic strain types in households with S. aureus skin infections.

scientific article published on 22 September 2014

Predominance of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus among Pathogens Causing Skin and Soft Tissue Infections in a Large Urban Jail: Risk Factors and Recurrence Rates

scientific article published in December 2008

Predominance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus among pathogens causing skin and soft tissue infections in a large urban jail: risk factors and recurrence rates

scientific article published on 06 August 2008

Proteomic Identification of saeRS-Dependent Targets Critical for Protective Humoral Immunity against Staphylococcus aureus Skin Infection

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Reliability of the BD GeneOhm Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Assay in Detecting MRSA Isolates with a Variety of Genotypes from the United States and Taiwan

scientific article published on September 29, 2010

Replacement of HA-MRSA by CA-MRSA infections at an academic medical center in the midwestern United States, 2004-5 to 2008.

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Resistance to autolysis in vancomycin-selected Staphylococcus aureus isolates precedes vancomycin-intermediate resistance

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Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia at 5 US academic medical centers, 2008-2011: significant geographic variation in community-onset infections

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Staphylococcus aureus colonization among household contacts of patients with skin infections: risk factors, strain discordance, and complex ecology

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Staphylococcus aureus metabolic adaptations during the transition from a daptomycin susceptibility phenotype to a daptomycin nonsusceptibility phenotype.

scientific article published on 11 May 2015

Staphylococcus aureus sepsis and the Waterhouse-Friderichsen syndrome in children

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Staphylococcus aureus skin infection recurrences among household members: an examination of host, behavioral, and pathogen-level predictors

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Successful Multiresistant Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Lineage from Taipei, Taiwan, That Carries Either the Novel Staphylococcal Chromosome Cassettemec (SCCmec) Type VT or SCCmec Type IV.

scientific article published in December 2005

Successful multiresistant community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus lineage from Taipei, Taiwan, that carries either the novel Staphylococcal chromosome cassette mec (SCCmec) type VT or SCCmec type IV.

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The VraS/VraR two-component regulatory system required for oxacillin resistance in community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 01 September 2006

The arginine catabolic mobile element is not associated with enhanced virulence in experimental invasive disease caused by the community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA300 genetic background

scientific article published on 20 April 2009

The role of the Staphylococcal VraTSR regulatory system on vancomycin resistance and vanA operon expression in vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 15 January 2014

Transcriptional Induction of the Penicillin-Binding Protein 2 Gene in by Cell Wall-Active Antibiotics Oxacillin and Vancomycin

scientific article published in 2003

Transcriptional induction of the penicillin-binding protein 2 gene in Staphylococcus aureus by cell wall-active antibiotics oxacillin and vancomycin

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Transmission and microevolution of USA300 MRSA in U.S. households: evidence from whole-genome sequencing

scientific article published on 10 March 2015

USA300 and USA500 clonal lineages of Staphylococcus aureus do not produce a capsular polysaccharide due to conserved mutations in the cap5 locus

scientific article published on 7 April 2015

Universal admission screening for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a level IIID neonatal intensive care unit: the first 9 months.

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Vaccines targeting Staphylococcus aureus skin and bloodstream infections require different composition

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

VraSR two-component regulatory system and its role in induction of pbp2 and vraSR expression by cell wall antimicrobials in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on January 2006

VraT/YvqF is required for methicillin resistance and activation of the VraSR regulon in Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article published on 15 October 2012

What is community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus?

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