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"Diplophage": a bacteriophage of Diplococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published on February 1975

"Intelligence coup" for drug designers: crystal structure of Staphylococcus aureus beta-lactam resistance protein PBP2A.

scientific article published in March 2003

A Staphylococcus aureus autolysin that has an N-acetylmuramoyl-L-alanine amidase domain and an endo-beta-N-acetylglucosaminidase domain: cloning, sequence analysis, and characterization.

scientific article

A biological price of antibiotic resistance: major changes in the peptidoglycan structure of penicillin-resistant pneumococci

scientific article

A highly vancomycin-resistant laboratory mutant of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 01 September 1996

A link in transcription between the native pbpB and the acquired mecA gene in a strain of Staphylococcus aureus

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A pneumococcal clinical isolate with high-level resistance to cefotaxime and ceftriaxone

scientific article published on April 1992

A sandwich adhesion on Streptococcus pneumoniae attaching to human oropharyngeal epithelial cells in vitro

scientific article published on April 1988

Ability of Antibiotic-Resistant Nonvaccine-Type Pneumococcal Clones to Cause Otitis Media in an Infant Mouse Model of Pneumococcal-Influenza Virus Coinfection

scientific article published on 14 September 2015

Abnormal peptidoglycan produced in a methicillin-resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus grown in the presence of methicillin: functional role for penicillin-binding protein 2A in cell wall synthesis

scientific article published on February 1993

Accelerated evolution: Emergence of multidrug resistant gram-positive bacterial pathogens in the 1990's

scientific article published on 01 June 1998

Activity of quinupristin/dalfopristin against Streptococcus pneumoniae in vitro and in vivo in the rabbit model of experimental meningitis

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Alterations in kinetic properties of penicillin-binding proteins of penicillin-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published on July 1986

Alterations of cell wall structure and metabolism accompany reduced susceptibility to vancomycin in an isogenic series of clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on December 2003

Altered murein composition in a DD-carboxypeptidase mutant of Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published on August 1992

Altered muropeptide composition in Staphylococcus aureus strains with an inactivated femA locus

scientific article

Altered penicillin-binding proteins in methicillin-resistant strains of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on May 1, 1981

Alternative mutational pathways to intermediate resistance to vancomycin in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 28 March 2013

An acquired and a native penicillin-binding protein cooperate in building the cell wall of drug-resistant staphylococci

scientific article

Antibacterial efficacy of nisin against multidrug-resistant Gram- positive pathogens

scientific article published on 01 March 1998

Antibiotic Tolerance Among Clinical Isolates of Bacteria

scientific article published on 01 May 1985

Antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a paradigm of adaptive power

scientific article published on 24 October 2007

Antibiotic susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Portugal. A multicenter study between 1989 and 1993.

scientific article published in January 1995

Antimicrobials

Attenuation of penicillin resistance in a peptidoglycan O-acetyl transferase mutant of Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published in 2006

Autolysis-resistant peptidoglycan of anomalous composition in amino-acid-starved Escherichia coli

scientific article

Benefit and risk in the β-lactam antibiotic-resistance strategies of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 01 October 1994

Binding of the competence factor to receptors in the spheroplast membrane of pneumococci

scientific article published in December 1970

Biological consequences of the replacement of choline by ethanolamine in the cell wall of Pneumococcus: chanin formation, loss of transformability, and loss of autolysis

scientific article

CD14 is a pattern recognition receptor

scientific article published on September 1994

Cell wall branches, penicillin resistance and the secrets of the MurM protein

scientific article

Cellular factors in genetic transformation.

scientific article published in January 1969

Changes in composition of peptidoglycan during maturation of the cell wall in pneumococci

scientific article published on October 1990

Characterization of Cell Wall Polymers Secreted into the Growth Medium of Lysis-Defective Pneumococci During Treatment with Penicillin and Other Inhibitors of Cell Wall Synthesis

scientific article published on February 1, 1978

Characterization of tRNA-dependent peptide bond formation by MurM in the synthesis of Streptococcus pneumoniae peptidoglycan

scientific article published on 12 December 2007

Characterization of the murMN operon involved in the synthesis of branched peptidoglycan peptides in Streptococcus pneumoniae.

scientific article

Characterization ofStaphylococcus aureusCell Wall Glycan Strands, Evidence for a New β-N-Acetylglucosaminidase Activity

scientific article published in Journal of Biological Chemistry

Cloning, characterization, and inactivation of the gene pbpC, encoding penicillin-binding protein 3 of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Cocrystal Structures of Diaminopimelate Decarboxylase

Comparative study of the susceptibilities of major epidemic clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus to oxacillin and to the new broad-spectrum cephalosporin ceftobiprole.

scientific article

Complementation of the essential peptidoglycan transpeptidase function of penicillin-binding protein 2 (PBP2) by the drug resistance protein PBP2A in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Construction of a penicillin-tolerant laboratory mutant of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published in December 1986

Control of the Competent State in Pneumococcus by a Hormone-Like Cell Product: An Example for a New Type of Regulatory Mechanism in Bacteria

scientific article published in Nature

Conversion of a homogeneously methicillin-resistant strain of Staphylococcus aureus to heterogeneous resistance by Tn551-mediated insertional inactivation.

scientific article

Degradation of the penicillin binding proteins in aminoglycoside-treated group A streptococci

scientific article published in 1981

Development of methicillin resistance in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus sciuri by transcriptional activation of the mecA homologue native to s.

scientific article published on January 2003

Differences in genotype and virulence among four multidrug-resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates belonging to the PMEN1 clone.

scientific article

Different pathways of choline metabolism in two choline-independent strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae and their impact on virulence

scientific article published on 11 July 2008

Distribution of the mosaic structured murM genes among natural populations of Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article

Diversity of penicillin-nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae circulating in Iceland after the introduction of penicillin-resistant clone Spain(6B)-2.

scientific article published on 9 September 2002

Drastic changes in the peptidoglycan composition of penicillin resistant laboratory mutants of Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published in July 1995

Drastic changes in the peptidoglycan composition of penicillin resistant laboratory mutants ofStreptococcus pneumoniae

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Drastic reduction in the virulence of Streptococcus pneumoniae expressing type 2 capsular polysaccharide but lacking choline residues in the cell wall

scientific article published on April 2006

Early stages in DNA binding and uptake during genetic transformation of pneumococci

scientific article published on April 1974

Effect of benzylpenicillin on the synthesis and structure of the cell envelope of Neisseria gonorrhoeae

scientific article

Effect of penicillin on the adherence of Streptococcus sanguis in vitro and in the rabbit model of endocarditis

scientific article

Enzyme replacement in a bacterium: phenotypic correction by the experimental introduction of the wild type enzyme into a live enzyme defective mutant pneumococcus

scientific article published on August 1975

Erratum: Corrigendum: Genome sequencing in microfabricated high-density picolitre reactors

scientific article published in Nature

Erratum: Corrigendum: Genome sequencing in microfabricated high-density picolitre reactors

scholarly article published in Nature

Essential role of choline for pneumococcal virulence in an experimental model of meningitis

scientific article published on 5 March 2008

Evidence for a dual role of PBP1 in the cell division and cell separation of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 27 April 2009

Evidence for the evolutionary steps leading to mecA-mediated β-lactam resistance in staphylococci

scientific article

Evidence for the introduction of a multiresistant clone of serotype 6B Streptococcus pneumoniae from Spain to Iceland in the late 1980s.

scientific article

Evolution of Molecular Techniques for the Characterization of MRSA Clones

Evolution of a vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus strain in vivo: multiple changes in the antibiotic resistance phenotypes of a single lineage of methicillin-resistant S. aureus under the impact of antibiotics administered for chemotherap

scientific article

Evolutionary Origin of the Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec (SCCmec).

scientific article published on 3 April 2017

Expression of high-level methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus from the Staphylococcus sciuri mec A homologue: role of mutation(s) in the genetic background and in the coding region of mec A.

scientific article

Expression of methicillin resistance in heterogeneous strains of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on January 1986

Extensive and genome-wide changes in the transcription profile of Staphylococcus aureus induced by modulating the transcription of the cell wall synthesis gene murF.

scientific article published on 28 December 2006

Extremely high incidence of antibiotic resistance in clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Hungary.

scientific article published in March 1991

Factors affecting sensitivity of group B streptococci to an exogenous murein hydrolase.

scientific article

Fluorescence ratio imaging microscopy shows decreased access of vancomycin to cell wall synthetic sites in vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Frequent recovery of a single clonal type of multidrug-resistant Staphylococcus aureus from patients in two hospitals in Taiwan and China

scientific article

From Penicillin-Binding Proteins to the Lysis and Death of Bacteria: A 1979 View

article by Alexander Tomasz published 1 May 1979 in Clinical Infectious Diseases

From the Bench to the Barbershop: Community Engagement to Raise Awareness About Community-Acquired Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Hepatitis C Virus Infection.

scientific article published on January 2016

Full-Genome Sequencing Identifies in the Genetic Background Several Determinants That Modulate the Resistance Phenotype in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains Carrying the Novel mecC Gene

scientific article published on 9 January 2017

Functional analysis of Streptococcus pneumoniae MurM reveals the region responsible for its specificity in the synthesis of branched cell wall peptides

scientific article published on 24 August 2001

Genetic control of population structure in heterogeneous strains of methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article

Genetic determinants of high-level oxacillin resistance in MRSA.

scientific article published on 19 March 2018

Genetic pathway in acquisition and loss of vancomycin resistance in a methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) strain of clonal type USA300.

scientific article published on 2 February 2012

Genome sequencing in microfabricated high-density picolitre reactors

scientific article

Geographic Distribution of Penicillin-Resistant Clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae: Characterization by Penicillin-Binding Protein Profile, Surface Protein A Typing, and Multilocus Enzyme Analysis

scientific article published on July 1, 1992

Guidelines for reporting novel mecA gene homologues

scientific article

Heterogeneous oxacillin-resistant phenotypes and production of PBP2A by oxacillin-susceptible/mecA-positive MRSA strains from Africa.

scientific article published on 7 June 2016

High level oxacillin and vancomycin resistance and altered cell wall composition in Staphylococcus aureus carrying the staphylococcal mecA and the enterococcal vanA gene complex

scientific article published on 12 November 2003

High rates of multiple antibiotic resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae from healthy children living in isolated rural communities: association with cephalosporin use and intrafamilial transmission

scientific article

High-Level Resistance of Staphylococcus aureus to β-Lactam Antibiotics Mediated by Penicillin-Binding Protein 4 (PBP4).

scientific article published on 3 April 2017

High-level (beta)-lactam resistance and cell wall synthesis catalyzed by the mecA homologue of Staphylococcus sciuri introduced into Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Horizontal transfer of penicillin-binding protein genes in penicillin-resistant clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article

Hypersusceptibility of penicillin-treated group B streptococci to bactericidal activity of human polymorphonuclear leukocytes

scientific article published on May 1981

Identification of genetic determinants and enzymes involved with the amidation of glutamic acid residues in the peptidoglycan of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Identification of the teichoic acid phosphorylcholine esterase in Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published in March 2001

In vivo capsular switch in Streptococcus pneumoniae--analysis by whole genome sequencing.

scientific article

Inactivated pbp4 in highly glycopeptide-resistant laboratory mutants of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Inactivation of the srtA gene affects localization of surface proteins and decreases adhesion of Streptococcus pneumoniae to human pharyngeal cells in vitro

scientific article

Increased amounts of a novel penicillin-binding protein in a strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus exposed to nafcillin

scientific article

Induction of meningeal inflammation by diverse bacterial cell walls

scientific article published on 01 December 1986

Induction of normal levels of genetic transformation in a class of endonuclease-defective mutants of Pneumococci

scientific article

Inhibition of bacterial wall lysins by lipoteichoic acids and related compounds

scientific article published on December 1975

Inhibition of cell wall synthesis and acylation of the penicillin binding proteins during prolonged exposure of growing Streptococcus pneumoniae to benzylpenicillin

scientific article published in September 1985

Inhibition of cell wall turnover and autolysis by vancomycin in a highly vancomycin-resistant mutant of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Inhibition of lysis by antibody against phage-associated lysin and requirement of choline residues in the cell wall for progeny phage release inStreptococcus pneumoniae

Inhibition of the autolytic system by vancomycin causes mimicry of vancomycin-intermediate Staphylococcus aureus-type resistance, cell concentration dependence of the MIC, and antibiotic tolerance in vancomycin-susceptible S. aureus

scientific article published in February 2006

Inhibition of the expression of penicillin resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae by inactivation of cell wall muropeptide branching genes.

scholarly article

Inhibitors of genetic recombination in pneumococci

scientific article published on January 1, 1977

Insertional inactivation of the major autolysin gene of Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article

Insertional inactivation of the mec gene in a transposon mutant of a methicillin-resistant clinical isolate of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Intermediate-type vancomycin resistance (VISA) in genetically-distinct Staphylococcus aureus isolates is linked to specific, reversible metabolic alterations

scientific article

International clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in two hospitals in Miami, Florida

scientific article published on February 2004

Involvement of multiple genetic determinants in high-level methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Isolation and analysis of cell wall components from Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published in December 2011

Isolation and characterization of a Tn551-autolysis mutant of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Lessons from the First Antibiotic Era

Lethal Effect of a Heterologous Murein Hydrolase on Penicillin-Treated Streptococcus sanguis

scientific article published on February 1, 1980

Lipoteichoic acid: a specific inhibitor of autolysin activity in Pneumococcus

scientific article

Lytic and bactericidal activity of FCE 22101.

scientific article

MICROBIOLOGY: Weapons of Microbial Drug Resistance Abound in Soil Flora

scientific article published in Science

MRSA Causing Infections in Hospitals in Greater Metropolitan New York: Major Shift in the Dominant Clonal Type between 1996 and 2014.

scientific article

Mechanism of action of penicillin: triggering of the pneumococcal autolytic enzyme by inhibitors of cell wall synthesis

scientific article published on October 1, 1975

Mechanism of pneumococcal cell wall degradation in vitro and in vivo.

scientific article

Mechanisms of brain injury in bacterial meningitis: workshop summary

scientific article

Mechanisms of vancomycin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Methicillin resistantStaphylococcus aureusemerged long before the introduction of methicillin in to clinical practice

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus disease in a portuguese hospital: Characterization of clonal types by a combination of DNA typing methods

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Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus emerged long before the introduction of methicillin into clinical practice

scientific article

Methylprednisolone attenuates inflammation, increase of brain water content and intracranial pressure, but does not influence cerebral blood flow changes in experimental pneumococcal meningitis

scientific article

Modulation of bacteriolysis by cooperative effects of penicillin-binding proteins 1a and 3 in Escherichia coli

scientific article published on November 1986

Molecular Types of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Methicillin-Sensitive S. aureus Strains Causing Skin and Soft Tissue Infections and Nasal Colonization, Identified in Community Health Centers in New York City.

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

Molecular Typing of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus by Pulsed-Field Gel Electrophoresis: Comparison of Results Obtained in a Multilaboratory Effort Using Identical Protocols and MRSA Strains

scientific article published on 01 January 2000

Molecular epidemiology of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in 12 New York hospitals. MRSA Collaborative Study Group

scientific article

Molecular typing of Streptococcus pneumoniae in northeastern Romania: unique clones of S. pneumoniae isolated from children hospitalized for infections and from healthy and human immunodeficiency virus-infected children in the community

scientific article published in March 2000

Multilocus Sequence Typing of Streptococcus pneumoniae Clones with Unusual Drug Resistance Patterns: Genetic Backgrounds and Relatedness to Other Epidemic Clones

scientific article published on 19 September 2001

Multiple Antibiotic Resistance in South African Strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae: Mechanism of Resistance to -Lactam Antibiotics

scholarly article by S. Zighelboim & Alexander Tomasz published 1 March 1981 in Clinical Infectious Diseases

Multiple antibiotic resistance in a bacterium with suppressed autolytic system.

scientific article published in July 1970

Multiple changes of penicillin-binding proteins in penicillin-resistant clinical isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article

Multiple mechanisms of methicillin resistance and improved methods for detection in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article published on April 1991

Multiple methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains as a cause for a single outbreak of severe disease in hospitalized neonates

scientific article published on March 1, 1992

Multiple-Antibiotic-Resistant Pathogenic Bacteria -- A Report on the Rockefeller University Workshop

scholarly article by Alexander Tomasz published 28 April 1994 in The New England Journal of Medicine

Naturally occurring peptidoglycan variants of Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published on January 1996

Nomenclature of major antimicrobial-resistant clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae defined by the pneumococcal molecular epidemiology network

scientific article

Nonsteroidal Anti-Inflammatory Agents in the Therapy for Experimental Pneumococcal Meningitis

scientific article published on 01 May 1987

Novel Penicillin-Resistant Clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae in the Czech Republic and in Slovakia

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Novel determinants of antibiotic resistance: identification of mutated loci in highly methicillin-resistant subpopulations of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 08 April 2014

Overexpression of genes of the cell wall stimulon in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus exhibiting vancomycin-intermediate- S. aureus-type resistance to vancomycin

scientific article published on February 2006

Penicillin resistance and defective lysis in clinical isolates of pneumococci: evidence for two kinds of antibiotic pressure operating in the clinical environment

scientific article

Penicillin tolerance in multiply drug-resistant natural isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae.

scientific article published in August 1985

Penicillin-binding protein 2 is essential for expression of high-level vancomycin resistance and cell wall synthesis in vancomycin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carrying the enterococcal vanA gene complex

scientific article

Penicillin-binding protein families: evidence for the clonal nature of penicillin resistance in clinical isolates of pneumococci

scientific article

Penicillin-binding proteins and cell wall composition in beta-lactam-sensitive and -resistant strains of Staphylococcus sciuri

scientific article published on 16 November 2007

Penicillin-binding proteins and the antibacterial effectiveness of beta-lactam antibiotics

scientific article published on July 1986

Penicillin-binding proteins of penicillin-susceptible and intrinsically resistant Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

scientific article

Penicillin-resistant and penicillin-tolerant mutants of group A Streptococci

scientific article published on July 1982

Peptidoglycan N-acetylglucosamine deacetylase, a putative virulence factor in Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article

Perturbation of cell wall synthesis suppresses autolysis in Staphylococcus aureus: evidence for coregulation of cell wall synthetic and hydrolytic enzymes

scientific article published on 7 September 2007

Phenotypic signatures and genetic determinants of oxacillin tolerance in a laboratory mutant of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published in PLoS ONE

Physiological Studies on the Pneumococcal Forssman Antigen: a Choline-containing Lipoteichoic Acid

scientific article published on February 1, 1975

Physiological properties of penicillin-binding proteins in group A streptococci

scientific article published on May 1981

Pilot study of the genetic diversity of the pneumococcal nasopharyngeal flora among children attending day care centers

scientific article

Possible role of a choline-containing teichoic acid in the maintenance of normal cell shape and physiology in Streptococcus oralis

scientific article

Properties of a novel PBP2A protein homolog from Staphylococcus aureus strain LGA251 and its contribution to the β-lactam-resistant phenotype.

scientific article published on 12 September 2012

Protein-bound choline is released from the pneumococcal autolytic enzyme during adsorption of the enzyme to cell wall particles

scientific article

Rapid Pneumococcal Evolution in Response to Clinical Interventions

scientific article (publication date: 28 January 2011)

Reassessment of the number of auxiliary genes essential for expression of high-level methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on November 1994

Reconstruction of the phenotypes of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus by replacement of the staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec with a plasmid-borne copy of Staphylococcus sciuri pbpD gene

scientific article

Recruitment of the mecA gene homologue of Staphylococcus sciuri into a resistance determinant and expression of the resistant phenotype in Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article published in April 2001

Recurrent furunculosis caused by a community-acquired Staphylococcus aureus strain belonging to the USA300 clone.

scientific article published on 10 February 2015

Recurrent peritonitis in a patient on dialysis and prophylactic vancomycin

scientific article published in The Lancet

Requirements of peptidoglycan structure that allow detection by the Drosophila Toll pathway

scientific article

Ribotype delineation and description of Staphylococcus sciuri subspecies and their potential as reservoirs of methicillin resistance and staphylolytic enzyme genes.

scientific article

Role of PBP1 in cell division of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 16 February 2007

Role of VraSR in antibiotic resistance and antibiotic-induced stress response in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Role of a sodium-dependent symporter homologue in the thermosensitivity of beta-lactam antibiotic resistance and cell wall composition in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Role of murE in the Expression of beta-lactam antibiotic resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on March 2004

Role of murF in cell wall biosynthesis: isolation and characterization of a murF conditional mutant of Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article

Role of penicillin-binding protein 2 (PBP2) in the antibiotic susceptibility and cell wall cross-linking of Staphylococcus aureus: evidence for the cooperative functioning of PBP2, PBP4, and PBP2A.

scientific article

Role of teichoic acid choline moieties in the virulence of Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published on 11 May 2009

Role of the Stringent Stress Response in the Antibiotic Resistance Phenotype of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on February 2016

Secretion of Cell Wall Polymers into the Growth Medium of Lysis-Defective Pneumococci During Treatment with Penicillin and Other Inhibitors of Cell Wall Synthesis

scientific article published on February 1, 1978

Secrets of success of a human pathogen: molecular evolution of pandemic clones of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

scientific article

Selective lysis of cultures and cell walls of penicillin-resistant but not penicillin-susceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae strains by a murein hydrolase complex

scientific article published on June 1995

Separation of abnormal cell wall composition from penicillin resistance through genetic transformation of Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published on April 1996

Serotypes and clonal types of penicillin-susceptible streptococcus pneumoniae causing invasive disease in children in five Latin American countries.

scientific article

Specificity of DNA uptake in genetic transformation of gonococci

scientific article published on January 1979

Stability of clonally related DNA fingerprints and cell-wall peptide patterns in geographic isolates of multiresistant epidemic clones of Streptococcus pneumoniae

Stable classes of phenotypic expression in methicillin-resistant clinical isolates of staphylococci

scientific article published on January 1991

Suppression of beta-lactam antibiotic resistance in a methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus through synergic action of early cell wall inhibitors and some other antibiotics

scientific article published on 01 May 1997

Suppression of lytic effect of beta lactams on Escherichia coli and other bacteria

scientific article

Suppression of the Lytic and Bactericidal Effects of Cell Wall-Inhibitory Antibiotics

scientific article published on October 1, 1976

Surface Components of Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published on 01 March 1981

THE ROLE OF AUTOLYSINS IN CELL DEATH

scientific article published on 01 May 1974

Tackling antibiotic resistance

scientific article

The CEM-NET initiative: molecular biology and epidemiology in alliance--tracking antibiotic-resistant staphylococci and pneumococci in hospitals and in the community

scientific article

The Induction of Meningeal Inflammation by Components of the Pneumococcal Cell Wall

scientific article published on 01 May 1985

The Mechanism of an Osmotic Instability Induced in E. coli K-12 by 5-Fluorouracil*

scientific article published on 01 July 1962

The activity of the pneumococcal autolytic system and the fate of the bacterium during ingestion by rabbit polymorphonuclear leukocytes

scientific article published on August 1, 1977

The bacterial cell surface

scientific article published in December 1971

The challenge of antibiotic resistant bacterial pathogens: the medical need, the market and prospects for new antimicrobial agents

scientific article

The development of vancomycin resistance in a patient with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection

scientific article

The essential tacF gene is responsible for the choline-dependent growth phenotype of Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article

The evolution of methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus: similarity of genetic backgrounds in historically early methicillin-susceptible and -resistant isolates and contemporary epidemic clones.

scientific article

The femR315 gene from Staphylococcus aureus, the interruption of which results in reduced methicillin resistance, encodes a phosphoglucosamine mutase

scientific article

The glucosaminidase domain of Atl - the major Staphylococcus aureus autolysin - has DNA-binding activity

scientific article

The mechanism of heterogeneous beta-lactam resistance in MRSA: key role of the stringent stress response

scientific article (publication date: 2013)

The murMN operon: a functional link between antibiotic resistance and antibiotic tolerance in Streptococcuspneumoniae

scientific article

The pgdA gene encodes for a peptidoglycan N-acetylglucosamine deacetylase in Streptococcus pneumoniae

scientific article published in July 2000

The pneumococcus at the gates

scientific article

The role of complement in inflammation during experimental pneumococcal meningitis

scientific article published on 01 February 1986

The structure of the cell wall peptidoglycan of Bacillus cereus RSVF1, a strain closely related to Bacillus anthracis

scientific article published in January 2004

The use of whole genome sequencing to solve an epidemiological puzzle

scientific article

Topic: Methicillin-resistantStaphylococcus aureus and penicillin-resistant pneumococci

Tracking the in vivo evolution of multidrug resistance in Staphylococcus aureus by whole-genome sequencing

scholarly article

Transmission of Multidrug-Resistant Serotype 23F Streptococcus pneumoniae in Group Day Care: Evidence Suggesting Capsular Transformation of the Resistant Strain In Vivo

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Triggering of Pneumococcal Autolysis by Lysozyme

scientific article published on 01 March 1993

Triggering of autolytic cell wall degradation in Escherichia coli by beta-lactam antibiotics

scientific article published on December 1, 1979

Two bactericidal targets for penicillin in pneumococci: autolysis-dependent and autolysis-independent killing mechanisms

scientific article

Variable recombination dynamics during the emergence, transmission and 'disarming' of a multidrug-resistant pneumococcal clone

scientific article published on 23 June 2014

Virulence potential and genome-wide characterization of drug resistant Streptococcus pneumoniae clones selected in vivo by the 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine

scientific article

Whole-genome sequencing reveals a link between β-lactam resistance and synthetases of the alarmone (p)ppGpp in Staphylococcus aureus

scientific article published on 9 May 2013

X-ray structure of an M. jannaschii DNA-binding protein: implications for antibiotic resistance in S. aureus

scientific article

pH-dependent penicillin tolerance of group B streptococci

scientific article published on July 1981