Promiscuous bacteria have staying power

by Ruth C Massey, Daniel J Wilson
Published 2017-09-01

Staphylococcus aureus host cell invasion and virulence in sepsis is facilitated by the multiple repeats within FnBPA.

by Andrew M Edwards, Jennifer R Potts, Elisabet Josefsson, Ruth C Massey
Published 2010-06-01

Staphylococcus aureus interaction with phospholipid vesicles--a new method to accurately determine accessory gene regulator (agr) activity.

by Maisem Laabei, W David Jamieson, Ruth C Massey, A Tobias A Jenkins
Published 2014-01-01

Bacterial toxins: Offensive, defensive, or something else altogether?

by Justine K Rudkin, Rachel M McLoughlin, Andrew Preston, Ruth C Massey
Published 2017-09-01

Staphylococcus aureus extracellular adherence protein triggers TNFα release, promoting attachment to endothelial cells via protein A.

by Andrew M Edwards, Maria Gabriela Bowden, Eric L Brown, Maisem Laabei, Ruth C Massey
Published 2012-01-01

Staphylococcus aureus keratinocyte invasion is dependent upon multiple high-affinity fibronectin-binding repeats within FnBPA.

by Andrew M Edwards, Ursula Potter, Nicola A G Meenan, Jennifer R Potts, Ruth C Massey
Published 2011-04-01

Genomic exploration of sequential clinical isolates reveals a distinctive molecular signature of persistent Staphylococcus aureus bacteraemia

by Stefano G. Giulieri, Sarah L. Baines, Romain Guerillot, Torsten Seemann, Anders Gonçalves da Silva, Mark Schultz, Ruth C. Massey, Natasha E. Holmes, Timothy P. Stinear, Benjamin P. Howden
Published 2018-08-01

Methicillin resistance alters the biofilm phenotype and attenuates virulence in Staphylococcus aureus device-associated infections.

by Clarissa Pozzi, Elaine M Waters, Justine K Rudkin, Carolyn R Schaeffer, Amanda J Lohan, Pin Tong, Brendan J Loftus, Gerald B Pier, Paul D Fey, Ruth C Massey, James P O'Gara
Published 2012-01-01

Epistasis analysis uncovers hidden antibiotic resistance-associated fitness costs hampering the evolution of MRSA

by Maho Yokoyama, Emily Stevens, Maisem Laabei, Leann Bacon, Kate Heesom, Sion Bayliss, Nicola Ooi, Alex J. O’Neill, Ewan Murray, Paul Williams, Anneke Lubben, Shaun Reeksting, Guillaume Meric, Ben Pascoe, Samuel K. Sheppard, Mario Recker, Laurence D. Hurst, Ruth C. Massey
Published 2018-07-01

Evolutionary Trade-Offs Underlie the Multi-faceted Virulence of Staphylococcus aureus.

by Maisem Laabei, Anne-Catrin Uhlemann, Franklin D Lowy, Eloise D Austin, Maho Yokoyama, Khadija Ouadi, Edward Feil, Harry A Thorpe, Barnabas Williams, Mark Perkins, Sharon J Peacock, Stephen R Clarke, Janina Dordel, Matthew Holden, Antonina A Votintseva, Rory Bowden, Derrick W Crook, Bernadette C Young, Daniel J Wilson, Mario Recker, Ruth C Massey
Published 2015-01-01

Severe infections emerge from commensal bacteria by adaptive evolution

by Bernadette C Young, Chieh-Hsi Wu, N Claire Gordon, Kevin Cole, James R Price, Elian Liu, Anna E Sheppard, Sanuki Perera, Jane Charlesworth, Tanya Golubchik, Zamin Iqbal, Rory Bowden, Ruth C Massey, John Paul, Derrick W Crook, Timothy E Peto, A Sarah Walker, Martin J Llewelyn, David H Wyllie, Daniel J Wilson
Published 2017-12-01

Post-acute COVID-19 associated with evidence of bystander T-cell activation and a recurring antibiotic-resistant bacterial pneumonia

by Michaela Gregorova, Daniel Morse, Tarcisio Brignoli, Joseph Steventon, Fergus Hamilton, Mahableshwar Albur, David Arnold, Matthew Thomas, Alice Halliday, Holly Baum, Christopher Rice, Matthew B Avison, Andrew D Davidson, Marianna Santopaolo, Elizabeth Oliver, Anu Goenka, Adam Finn, Linda Wooldridge, Borko Amulic, Rosemary J Boyton, Daniel M Altmann, David K Butler, Claire McMurray, Joanna Stockton, Sam Nicholls, Charles Cooper, Nicholas Loman, Michael J Cox, Laura Rivino, Ruth C Massey
Published 2020-12-01

Evolution and Global Transmission of a Multidrug-Resistant, Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Lineage from the Indian Subcontinent

by Eike J. Steinig, Sebastian Duchene, D. Ashley Robinson, Stefan Monecke, Maho Yokoyama, Maisem Laabei, Peter Slickers, Patiyan Andersson, Deborah Williamson, Angela Kearns, Richard V. Goering, Elizabeth Dickson, Ralf Ehricht, Margaret Ip, Matthew V. N. O’Sullivan, Geoffrey W. Coombs, Andreas Petersen, Grainne Brennan, Anna C. Shore, David C. Coleman, Annalisa Pantosti, Herminia de Lencastre, Henrik Westh, Nobumichi Kobayashi, Helen Heffernan, Birgit Strommenger, Franziska Layer, Stefan Weber, Hege Vangstein Aamot, Leila Skakni, Sharon J. Peacock, Derek Sarovich, Simon Harris, Julian Parkhill, Ruth C. Massey, Mathew T. G. Holden, Stephen D. Bentley, Steven Y. C. Tong
Published 2019-11-01