Presence of the ica operon in clinical isolates of Staphylococcus epidermidis and its role in biofilm production

Viviana Cafiso, Taschia Bertuccio, Maria Santagati, +7

Clinical Microbiology and Infection

Medical MicrobiologyAntimicrobial SusceptibilityBacteriologyIca OperonMicrobiology +6

Phenotypic and Genotypic Characterization of Daptomycin-Resistant Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains: Relative Roles of mprF and dlt Operons

Nagendra N. Mishra, Arnold S. Bayer, Christopher Weidenmaier, +8

PLoS ONE

Antibiotic AdjuvantGenotypic CharacterizationAntibiotic ResistanceDrug ResistanceInfection Control +14

<i>agr</i>-Genotyping and transcriptional analysis of biofilm-producing<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>

Viviana Cafiso, Taschia Bertuccio, Maria Santagati, +4

FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology

Modulating Activity of Vancomycin and Daptomycin on the Expression of Autolysis Cell-Wall Turnover and Membrane Charge Genes in hVISA and VISA Strains

Viviana Cafiso, Taschia Bertuccio, Daniela Spina, +5

PLoS ONE

GlycobiologyAntibiotic ResistanceCharge Repulsion MechanismCellular PhysiologyDrug Resistance +17

dltA overexpression: A strain-independent keystone of daptomycin resistance in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

Viviana Cafiso, Taschia Bertuccio, Simona Purrello, +5

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Strain-independent KeystoneAntimicrobial Resistance GeneAntimicrobial SusceptibilityHealth SciencesDlta Overexpression +9

Heteroresistance to glycopeptides in Italian meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates

Floriana Campanile, Sonia Borbone, Marianna Perez, +7

International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents

Antimicrobial SusceptibilityHealth SciencesMedicineMicrobiologyInfection Control +6

Methicillin resistance and vancomycin heteroresistance in Staphylococcus aureus in cystic fibrosis patients

Viviana Cafiso, Taschia Bertuccio, Daniela Spina, +6

European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases

Antimicrobial SusceptibilityHealth SciencesAntibioticsMedicineCystic Fibrosis Patients +9

Tigecycline inhibition of a mature biofilm in clinical isolates of<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>: comparison with other drugs: Table 1

Viviana Cafiso, Taschia Bertuccio, Daniela Spina, +2

FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology

Mature BiofilmBacterial PathogensDrug ResistanceBiofilmsPutative Antibiofilm Properties +17

The apoptotic machinery as a biological complex system: analysis of its omics and evolution, identification of candidate genes for fourteen major types of cancer, and experimental validation in CML and neuroblastoma

Cinzia Di Pietro, Marco Ragusa, Davide Barbagallo, +23

BMC Medical Genomics

A Novel δ-Hemolysis Screening Method for Detecting Heteroresistant Vancomycin-Intermediate Staphylococcus aureus and Vancomycin-Intermediate S. aureus

Viviana Cafiso, Taschia Bertuccio, Daniela Spina, +3

Journal of Clinical Microbiology

EngineeringAntimicrobial ChemotherapyAntibiotic ResistanceBacterial PathogensDrug Resistance +18