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List of works by Ramy K. Aziz

A Case Report: Can Altitude Change Blood Pressure that Much?

scientific article published on 01 September 2009

A conserved UDP-glucose dehydrogenase encoded outside the hasABC operon contributes to capsule biogenesis in group A Streptococcus

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A highly abundant bacteriophage discovered in the unknown sequences of human faecal metagenomes

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A hundred-year-old insight into the gut microbiome!

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A naturally occurring mutation in ropB suppresses SpeB expression and reduces M1T1 group A streptococcal systemic virulence

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Abolishment of morphology-based taxa and change to binomial species names: 2022 taxonomy update of the ICTV bacterial viruses subcommittee

scientific article published in 2023

An unbiased systems genetics approach to mapping genetic loci modulating susceptibility to severe streptococcal sepsis

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Applying Shannon's information theory to bacterial and phage genomes and metagenomes

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Compositional variation of the human fecal microbiome in relation to azo-reducing activity: a pilot study

scientific article published on 08 October 2021

Contaminated water as a source of Helicobacter pylori infection: A review

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DNase Sda1 provides selection pressure for a switch to invasive group A streptococcal infection

scientific article published on 15 July 2007

DNase expression allows the pathogen group A Streptococcus to escape killing in neutrophil extracellular traps

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Dissection of the molecular basis for hypervirulence of an in vivo-selected phenotype of the widely disseminated M1T1 strain of group A Streptococcus bacteria

scientific article published in March 2010

Do pathogenic bacteria encode more secreted proteins than their non-pathogenic relatives?

scientific article published on 23 July 2010

Draft Genome Sequences of Four Metallo-Beta-Lactamase-Producing Multidrug-Resistant Klebsiella pneumoniae Clinical Isolates, Including Two Colistin-Resistant Strains, from Cairo, Egypt

scientific article published on 14 February 2019

Drug pharmacomicrobiomics and toxicomicrobiomics: from scattered reports to systematic studies of drug-microbiome interactions

scientific article published on 09 October 2018

Gene Networks and Pathways Involved in Escherichia coli Response to Multiple Stressors

scientific article published in 2022

Genetic characterization and virulence role of the RALP3/LSA locus upstream of the streptolysin s operon in invasive M1T1 Group A Streptococcus

scientific article published on 17 November 2006

Genome-scale metabolic reconstructions of multiple Escherichia coli strains highlight strain-specific adaptations to nutritional environments

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Global phylogeography and ancient evolution of the widespread human gut virus crAssphage

scientific article published on 08 July 2019

Gut Pharmacomicrobiomics: the tip of an iceberg of complex interactions between drugs and gut-associated microbes

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Helicobacter pylori: a poor man's gut pathogen?

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In silico Reconstruction of the Metabolic and Pathogenic Potential of Bacterial Genomes Using Subsystems

scientific article published on 19 August 2009

In silico analysis of a family of extracellular polysaccharide deacetylases involved in virulence of pathogenic gram-positive cocci

scientific article published on 23 July 2010

Inactivation of DltA modulates virulence factor expression in Streptococcus pyogenes

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Invasive M1T1 group A Streptococcus undergoes a phase-shift in vivo to prevent proteolytic degradation of multiple virulence factors by SpeB.

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Microevolution of group A streptococci in vivo: capturing regulatory networks engaged in sociomicrobiology, niche adaptation, and hypervirulence

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Modulation of expression of superantigens by human transferrin and lactoferrin: a novel mechanism in host-Streptococcus interactions

scientific article published on 11 May 2005

Mosaic prophages with horizontally acquired genes account for the emergence and diversification of the globally disseminated M1T1 clone of Streptococcus pyogenes.

scientific article published in May 2005

Mutual exclusivity of hyaluronan and hyaluronidase in invasive group A Streptococcus

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Nutriproteomics and Proteogenomics: Cultivating Two Novel Hybrid Fields of Personalized Medicine with Added Societal Value

scientific article published on December 2010

Parameters governing invasive disease propensity of non-M1 serotype group A streptococci

scientific article published on 2 September 2010

Pathogen microevolution in high resolution

scientific article published in January 2010

Pharmacomicrobiomics: the impact of human microbiome variations on systems pharmacology and personalized therapeutics

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PhiSpy: a novel algorithm for finding prophages in bacterial genomes that combines similarity- and composition-based strategies

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Post-proteomic identification of a novel phage-encoded streptodornase, Sda1, in invasive M1T1 Streptococcus pyogenes

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Reciprocal, temporal expression of SpeA and SpeB by invasive M1T1 group a streptococcal isolates in vivo

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Rise and persistence of global M1T1 clone of Streptococcus pyogenes

scientific article published on October 2008

SEED servers: high-performance access to the SEED genomes, annotations, and metabolic models

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Streptococcal mitogenic exotoxin, SmeZ, is the most susceptible M1T1 streptococcal superantigen to degradation by the streptococcal cysteine protease, SpeB.

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Streptococcus iniae M-like protein contributes to virulence in fish and is a target for live attenuated vaccine development

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Subsystems-based servers for rapid annotation of genomes and metagenomes

scientific article published on 23 July 2010

Susceptibility to severe Streptococcal sepsis: use of a large set of isogenic mouse lines to study genetic and environmental factors.

scientific article published on 24 May 2007

Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2017 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee.

scientific article published on 22 January 2018

Taxonomy of prokaryotic viruses: 2018-2019 update from the ICTV Bacterial and Archaeal Viruses Subcommittee

scientific article published on 11 March 2020

The National Microbial Pathogen Database Resource (NMPDR): a genomics platform based on subsystem annotation

scientific article published on December 2006

The PharmacoMicrobiomics Portal: A Database for Drug-Microbiome Interactions

article published in 2012

The RAST Server: rapid annotations using subsystems technology

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The case for biocentric microbiology

scientific article published on 4 August 2009

The classical lancefield antigen of group a Streptococcus is a virulence determinant with implications for vaccine design

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The important role of inflammatory biomarkers pre and post bare-metal and drug-eluting stent implantation

scientific article published on 21 July 2012

The novel polysaccharide deacetylase homologue Pdi contributes to virulence of the aquatic pathogen Streptococcus iniae

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Thermal Stability of a Mercuric Reductase from the Red Sea Atlantis II Hot Brine Environment as Analyzed by Site-Directed Mutagenesis

scientific article published on 23 January 2019

Traces of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in Peripheral Blood Cells of Patients with COVID-19

scientific article published on 19 July 2021

Traces of SARS-CoV-2 RNA in the Blood of COVID-19 Patients

scientific article published on 18 May 2020

Tracing the evolutionary history of the pandemic group A streptococcal M1T1 clone

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Transposases are the most abundant, most ubiquitous genes in nature.

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