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List of works by Adam P Roberts

(Inter)nationalising the antibiotic research and development pipeline

scientific article published on 18 November 2019

A helicase-containing module defines a family of pCD630-like plasmids in Clostridium difficile

scientific article published on 12 December 2017

A modular master on the move: the Tn916 family of mobile genetic elements.

scientific article published on 20 May 2009

A preliminary study investigating the survival of tetracycline resistant Enterococcus faecalis after root canal irrigation with high concentrations of tetracycline.

scientific article published on 14 August 2007

A tet(S/M) hybrid from CTn6000 and CTn916 recombination

scientific article published on 11 September 2012

AWZ1066S, a highly specific anti- drug candidate for a short-course treatment of filariasis

article published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Acquired antibiotic resistance genes: an overview.

scientific article

Analysis of a Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype 078 100 kilobase island reveals the presence of a novel transposon, Tn6164

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Antibiotic Resistance Is Associated with Integrative and Conjugative Elements and Genomic Islands in Naturally Circulating Streptococcus pneumoniae Isolates from Adults in Liverpool, UK

scientific article published on 06 June 2020

Antibiotic and antiseptic resistance genes are linked on a novel mobile genetic element: Tn6087.

scientific article published on 03 August 2011

Capture of a Novel, Antibiotic Resistance Encoding, Mobile Genetic Element from Escherichia coli Using a New Entrapment Vector

scientific article published on 02 September 2020

Carbapenemases on the move: it’s good to be on ICEs

scientific article published on 19 December 2018

Characterisation of the plasmidome within Enterococcus faecalis isolated from marginal periodontitis patients in Norway.

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Characterization of Tn916S, a Tn916-like element containing the tetracycline resistance determinant tet(S).

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Characterization of tet(32) genes from the oral metagenome.

scientific article published on 27 October 2008

Characterization of the conjugative transposon Tn6000 from Enterococcus casseliflavus 664.1H1 (formerly Enterococcus faecium 664.1H1).

scientific article published on 19 May 2010

Characterization of the ends and target sites of the novel conjugative transposon Tn5397 from Clostridium difficile: excision and circularization is mediated by the large resolvase, TndX.

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Clostridium difficile: no longer an enigmatic pathogen?

scientific article published on 01 January 2010

Co-diversification of Enterococcus faecium Core Genomes and PBP5: Evidences of pbp5 Horizontal Transfer.

scientific article published on 06 October 2016

Comment on: Resistance gene naming and numbering: is it a new gene or not?

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Complete genome sequence of BS49 and draft genome sequence of BS34A, Bacillus subtilis strains carrying Tn916

scientific article published in February 2015

Complete genome sequence of the Clostridium difficile laboratory strain 630Δerm reveals differences from strain 630, including translocation of the mobile element CTn5.

scientific article published on 31 January 2015

Composition and antibiotic resistance profile of microcosm dental plaques before and after exposure to tetracycline.

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Conjugative transfer of the integrative conjugative elements ICESt1 and ICESt3 from Streptococcus thermophilus

scientific article published on 30 January 2009

Conserved collateral antibiotic susceptibility networks in diverse clinical strains of Escherichia coli

scientific article published in Nature Communications

DNA sequence of the insertional hot spot of Tn916 in the Clostridium difficile genome and discovery of a Tn916-like element in an environmental isolate integrated in the same hot spot

scientific article published on 01 November 2000

Demonstration that the group II intron from the Clostridial Conjugative transposon Tn5397 undergoes splicing In vivo

article published in 2001

Detection of Novel Integrons in the Metagenome of Human Saliva

scientific article published on 15 June 2016

Detection of a Novel, and Likely Ancestral, Tn916-Like Element from a Human Saliva Metagenomic Library

scientific article published on 14 May 2020

Determination of copy number and circularization ratio of Tn-Tn family of conjugative transposons in oral streptococci by droplet digital PCR

scientific article published on 06 December 2018

Determination of the attP and attB sites of phage CD27 from Clostridium difficile NCTC 12727.

scientific article published on 22 May 2013

Determination of the genetic support for tet(W) in oral bacteria.

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Development of an integrative vector for the expression of antisense RNA in Clostridium difficile.

scientific article published in December 2003

Different antibiotic resistance and sporulation properties within multiclonal Clostridium difficile PCR ribotypes 078, 126, and 033 in a single calf farm.

scientific article published on 21 September 2012

Distribution of tetracycline and erythromycin resistance genes among human oral and fecal metagenomic DNA.

scientific article published in September 2009

Draft Genome Sequence of Eggerthia catenaformis Strain MAR1 Isolated from Saliva of Healthy Humans

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Draft Genome Sequence of the Nontoxigenic Clostridium difficile Strain CD37

scientific article published on April 1, 2012

Drivers of Resistance in Uganda and Malawi (DRUM): a protocol for the evaluation of One-Health drivers of Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase (ESBL) resistance in Low-Middle Income Countries (LMICs)

scientific article published in 2022

Drivers of Resistance in Uganda and Malawi (DRUM): a protocol for the evaluation of One-Health drivers of Extended Spectrum Beta Lactamase (ESBL) resistance in Low-Middle Income Countries (LMICs)

scientific article published in 2023

Editorial: ICE and Small

scientific article published on 12 April 2018

Effect of Environment on the Evolutionary Trajectories and Growth Characteristics of Antibiotic-Resistant Escherichia coli Mutants

scientific article published on 28 August 2019

Evaluation of the antimicrobial effect of super-oxidized water (Sterilox®) and sodium hypochlorite against Enterococcus faecalis in a bovine root canal model

scientific article published on September 1, 2010

Efflux in the Oral Metagenome: The Discovery of a Novel Tetracycline and Tigecycline ABC Transporter.

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Fitness costs of various mobile genetic elements in Enterococcus faecium and Enterococcus faecalis

scientific article published on July 5, 2013

From ASH to MGE

scientific article published on May 1, 2011

Gene transfer in bacterial biofilms

scientific article published on 01 January 2001

Generation of an erythromycin-sensitive derivative of Clostridium difficile strain 630 (630Deltaerm) and demonstration that the conjugative transposon Tn916DeltaE enters the genome of this strain at multiple sites

scientific article published on 01 February 2005

Genetic organisation, mobility and predicted functions of genes on integrated, mobile genetic elements in sequenced strains of Clostridium difficile.

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Horizontal gene transfer converts non-toxigenic Clostridium difficile strains into toxin producers

scientific article published on January 2013

Identification of integrative and conjugative elements in pathogenic and commensal Neisseriaceae species via genomic distributions of DNA uptake sequence dialects

scientific article published on 04 May 2020

In silico analysis of sequenced strains of Clostridium difficile reveals a related set of conjugative transposons carrying a variety of accessory genes.

scientific article published on January 2012

Investigating Transfer of Large Chromosomal Regions Containing the Pathogenicity Locus Between Clostridium difficile Strains.

scientific article published on January 2016

Investigation of fitness cost, copy number variation and excision rate of Tn916/Tn916-like elements in oral streptococci and enterococci.

scientific article published on 9 June 2017

Isolation of an antimicrobial-resistant, biofilm-forming, Klebsiella grimontii isolate from a reusable water bottle

scientific article published on 03 March 2020

Mechanism of integration and excision in conjugative transposons.

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Metagenomic Insights into Transferable Antibiotic Resistance in Oral Bacteria.

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Minocycline resistance in an oral Streptococcus infantis isolate is encoded by tet(S) on a novel small, low copy number plasmid

scientific article published on 19 March 2014

Mobile genetic elements in Clostridium difficile and their role in genome function

scientific article published on 07 January 2015

Mosaic tetracycline resistance genes encoding ribosomal protection proteins

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Multiplex loop-mediated isothermal amplification (multi-LAMP) assay for rapid detection of mcr-1 to mcr-5 in colistin-resistant bacteria

scientific article published on 02 July 2019

Oral biofilms: a reservoir of transferable, bacterial, antimicrobial resistance.

scientific article published on December 2010

PCR-based detection of composite transposons and translocatable units from oral metagenomic DNA.

scientific article published on 11 August 2016

Piperacillin/tazobactam resistance in a clinical isolate of Escherichia coli due to IS26-mediated amplification of blaTEM-1B

scientific article published on 01 October 2020

Piperacillin/tazobactam-resistant, cephalosporin-susceptible Escherichia coli bloodstream infections are driven by multiple acquisition of resistance across diverse sequence types

scientific article published in 2022

Pneumococcal colonization in healthy adult research participants in the conjugate vaccine era, United Kingdom, 2010-2017

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Potential role of Veillonella spp. as a reservoir of transferable tetracycline resistance in the oral cavity.

scientific article published on August 2006

Presence of Type I-F CRISPR/Cas systems is associated with antimicrobial susceptibility in Escherichia coli

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Promoter activity of ORF-less gene cassettes isolated from the oral metagenome.

scientific article published on 10 June 2019

Reduced Susceptibility to Antiseptics Is Conferred by Heterologous Housekeeping Genes.

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Reinventing the antimicrobial pipeline in response to the global crisis of antimicrobial-resistant infections

scientific article published on 01 March 2019

Revised nomenclature for transposable genetic elements

scientific article published on 26 September 2008

Setting the standard: multidisciplinary hallmarks for structural, equitable and tracked antibiotic policy

scientific article published on 01 September 2020

Swab and Send: a citizen science, antibiotic discovery project

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

Symbiotic Microbes from Marine Invertebrates: Driving a New Era of Natural Product Drug Discovery

article published in 2017

TetAB46, a predicted heterodimeric ABC transporter conferring tetracycline resistance in Streptococcus australis isolated from the oral cavity.

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The Human Salivary Microbiome Is Shaped by Shared Environment Rather than Genetics: Evidence from a Large Family of Closely Related Individuals.

scientific article published on 12 September 2017

The Transposon Registry

scientific article published on 09 October 2019

The evolving epidemic of Clostridium difficile 630

scientific article published on 27 April 2018

The impact of horizontal gene transfer on the adaptive ability of the human oral microbiome.

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The impact of horizontal gene transfer on the biology of Clostridium difficile

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The multidrug-resistant human pathogen Clostridium difficile has a highly mobile, mosaic genome

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The shufflon of IncI1 plasmids is rearranged constantly during different growth conditions

scientific article published on 15 March 2019

Tn916-like elements from human, oral, commensal streptococci possess a variety of antibiotic and antiseptic resistance genes

scientific article published on 11 February 2012

Transfer of TN916-like elements in microcosm dental plaques.

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Transfer of a conjugative transposon, Tn5397 in a model oral biofilm

scientific article published on 01 August 1999

Transferable Plasmid-Borne mcr-1 in a Colistin-Resistant Shigella flexneri Isolate.

scientific article published on 2 March 2018

Transposon mutagenesis in Clostridium difficile.

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Variation on a theme; an overview of the Tn916/Tn1545 family of mobile genetic elements in the oral and nasopharyngeal streptococci.

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