| Global spread of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium from distinct nosocomial genetic complex RJL Willems, J Top, M Van Santen, DA Robinson, TM Coque, F Baquero, ... Emerging infectious diseases 11 (6), 821, 2005 | 688 | 2005 |
| Emergence and spread of vancomycin resistance among enterococci in Europe G Werner, TM Coque, AM Hammerum, R Hope, W Hryniewicz, A Johnson, ... Eurosurveillance 13 (47), 19046, 2008 | 681 | 2008 |
| A Novel Pathogenic Taxon of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis Complex, Canetti: Characterization of an Exceptional Isolate from Africa D Van Soolingen, T Hoogenboezem, PEW De Haas, PWM Hermans, ... International Journal of Systematic and Evolutionary Microbiology 47 (4 …, 1997 | 541 | 1997 |
| Multilocus Sequence Typing Scheme for Enterococcus faecalis Reveals Hospital-Adapted Genetic Complexes in a Background of High Rates of Recombination P Ruiz-Garbajosa, MJM Bonten, DA Robinson, J Top, SR Nallapareddy, ... Journal of clinical microbiology 44 (6), 2220-2228, 2006 | 417 | 2006 |
| Variant esp gene as a marker of a distinct genetic lineage of vancomycinresistant Enterococcus faecium spreading in hospitals RJL Willems, W Homan, J Top, M van Santen-Verheuvel, D Tribe, ... The Lancet 357 (9259), 853-855, 2001 | 386 | 2001 |
| Emergence of CC17 Enterococcus faecium: from commensal to hospital-adapted pathogen J Top, R Willems, M Bonten FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology 52 (3), 297-308, 2008 | 349 | 2008 |
| A Novel Putative Enterococcal Pathogenicity Island Linked to the esp Virulence Gene of Enterococcus faecium and Associated with Epidemicity H Leavis, J Top, N Shankar, K Borgen, M Bonten, J van Embden, ... Journal of bacteriology 186 (3), 672-682, 2004 | 301 | 2004 |
| Antibiotic resistance of faecal enterococci in poultry, poultry farmers and poultry slaughterers AE Van den Bogaard, R Willems, N London, J Top, EE Stobberingh Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 49 (3), 497-505, 2002 | 278 | 2002 |
| Molecular Diversity and Evolutionary Relationships of Tn1546-Like Elements in Enterococci from Humans and Animals RJL Willems, J Top, N van den Braak, A van Belkum, DJ Mevius, ... Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 43 (3), 483-491, 1999 | 257 | 1999 |
| Pyrosequencing-based comparative genome analysis of the nosocomial pathogen Enterococcus faecium and identification of a large transferable pathogenicity … W van Schaik, J Top, DR Riley, J Boekhorst, JEP Vrijenhoek, ... BMC genomics 11, 1-18, 2010 | 243 | 2010 |
| Host Specificity of Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus faecium RJL Willems, J Top, N Braak van den, A van Belkum, H Endtz, D Mevius, ... The Journal of infectious diseases 182 (3), 816-823, 2000 | 221 | 2000 |
| Enterococci with glycopeptide resistance in turkeys, turkey farmers, turkey slaughterers, and (sub) urban residents in the south of The Netherlands: evidence for transmission … E Stobberingh, A van den Bogaard, N London, C Driessen, J Top, ... Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 43 (9), 2215-2221, 1999 | 211 | 1999 |
| Multiple-locus variable-number tandem repeat analysis, a novel typing scheme to study the genetic relatedness and epidemiology of Enterococcus faecium isolates J Top, LM Schouls, MJM Bonten, RJL Willems Journal of Clinical Microbiology 42 (10), 4503-4511, 2004 | 168 | 2004 |
| Rapid typing of group A streptococci by the use of DNA amplification and non-radioactive allele-specific oligonucleotide probes A Kaufhold, A Podbielski, G Baumgarten, M Blokpoel, J Top, L Schouls FEMS microbiology letters 119 (1-2), 19-25, 1994 | 160 | 1994 |
| Ecological replacement of Enterococcus faecalis by multiresistant clonal complex 17 Enterococcus faecium J Top, R Willems, H Blok, M De Regt, K Jalink, A Troelstra, B Goorhuis, ... Clinical microbiology and infection 13 (3), 316-319, 2007 | 157 | 2007 |
| Epidemic and nonepidemic multidrug-resistant Enterococcus faecium HL Leavis, RJL Willems, J Top, E Spalburg, EM Mascini, AC Fluit, ... Emerging infectious diseases 9 (9), 1108, 2003 | 155 | 2003 |
| High-Level Ciprofloxacin Resistance from Point Mutations in gyrA and parC Confined to Global Hospital-Adapted Clonal Lineage CC17 of Enterococcus faecium HL Leavis, RJL Willems, J Top, MJM Bonten Journal of clinical microbiology 44 (3), 1059-1064, 2006 | 152 | 2006 |
| Emergence of Clonal Complex 17 Enterococcus faecium in The Netherlands J Top, R Willems, S van der Velden, M Asbroek, M Bonten Journal of Clinical Microbiology 46 (1), 214-219, 2008 | 138 | 2008 |
| Population Structure of Enterococcus faecium Causing Bacteremia in a Spanish University Hospital: Setting the Scene for a Future Increase in Vancomycin … TM Coque, RJL Willems, J Fortún, J Top, S Diz, E Loza, R Cantón, ... Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 49 (7), 2693-2700, 2005 | 134 | 2005 |
| Role of the Bordetella pertussis minor fimbrial subunit, FimD, in colonization of the mouse respiratory tract CA Geuijen, RJ Willems, M Bongaerts, J Top, H Gielen, FR Mooi Infection and immunity 65 (10), 4222-4228, 1997 | 100 | 1997 |
