Brian G. Spratt

Multilocus sequence typing: A portable approach to the identification of clones within populations of pathogenic microorganisms

Martin Maiden, Jane A. Bygraves, Edward J. Feil et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1998 · 3.8K citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Microbiology +16

Multilocus Sequence Typing for Characterization of Methicillin-Resistant and Methicillin-Susceptible Clones of<i>Staphylococcus aureus</i>

Mark C. Enright, Nicholas Day, Catrin E. Davies et al. · Journal of Clinical Microbiology · 2000 · 3K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology +16

eBURST: Inferring Patterns of Evolutionary Descent among Clusters of Related Bacterial Genotypes from Multilocus Sequence Typing Data

Edward J. Feil, Bao C. Li, David M. Aanensen et al. · Journal of Bacteriology · 2004 · 1.9K citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Microbiology +16

How clonal are bacteria?

John Maynard Smith, N. H. Smith, Mark Allen O’Rourke et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 1993 · 1.8K citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Microbiology +17

The evolutionary history of methicillin-resistant <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> (MRSA)

Mark C. Enright, D. Ashley Robinson, Gaynor Randle et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2002 · 1.6K citations

Life Sciences, Evolutionary Biology, Microbiology +17