Rainer Laufs

The intercellular adhesin involved in biofilm accumulation of Staphylococcus epidermidis is a linear beta-1,6-linked glucosaminoglycan: purification and structural analysis

Dietrich Mack, Werner Fischer, A Krokotsch et al. · Journal of Bacteriology · 1996 · 880 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology +17

Parallel induction by glucose of adherence and a polysaccharide antigen specific for plastic-adherent Staphylococcus epidermidis: evidence for functional relation to intercellular adhesion

Dietrich Mack, Nicolaus Siemssen, Rainer Laufs · Infection and Immunity · 1992 · 375 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Infectious Diseases, Microbiology +15

Characterization of transposon mutants of biofilm-producing Staphylococcus epidermidis impaired in the accumulative phase of biofilm production: genetic identification of a hexosamine-containing polysaccharide intercellular adhesin

Dietrich Mack, Max Nedelmann, A Krokotsch et al. · Infection and Immunity · 1994 · 342 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Microbiology +17

A plasmid of enterohemorrhagic Escherichia coli O157:H7 is required for expression of a new fimbrial antigen and for adhesion to epithelial cells

Helge Karch, J Heesemann, Rainer Laufs et al. · Infection and Immunity · 1987 · 200 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Microbiology, Molecular Biology +16

Genetically manipulated virulence of Yersinia enterocolitica

J. Heesemann, B Algermissen, Rainer Laufs · Infection and Immunity · 1984 · 183 citations · Full text

Life Sciences, Genetics, Microbiology +13