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Evgeny A Idelevich; Georg Peters; Christian A Pogoda; Johannes Waltenberger; Jörg Wüllenweber; Britta Ballhausen; Helmut Baumgartner; Lars Eckardt; Karsten Becker
Pacemaker lead infection and related bacteraemia caused by normal and small colony variant phenotypes of Bacillus licheniformis.
Karsten Becker; Alexander W Friedrich; Mark A Holmes; Robin Köck; Anders Rhod Larsen; Gavin K Paterson; Georg Peters; Artur J Sabat; Robert L Skov; André Kriegeskorte
Evaluation of a Modular Multiplex-PCR Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Detection Assay Adapted for mecC Detection.
Robin Köck; Mahir Köksal; Alexander Mellmann; Frieder Schaumburg; Karsten Becker; Annette Jurke; Alexander W Friedrich
Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as causes of human infection and colonization in Germany.

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2013: Evgeny A Idelevich; Georg Peters; Christian A Pogoda; Johannes Waltenberger; Jörg Wüllenweber; Britta Ballhausen; Helmut Baumgartner; Lars Eckardt; Karsten Becker
Pacemaker lead infection and related bacteraemia caused by normal and small colony variant phenotypes of Bacillus licheniformis.
Journal of medical microbiology 2013;62(Pt 6):940-4.
2013: Karsten Becker; Alexander W Friedrich; Mark A Holmes; Robin Köck; Anders Rhod Larsen; Gavin K Paterson; Georg Peters; Artur J Sabat; Robert L Skov; André Kriegeskorte
Evaluation of a Modular Multiplex-PCR Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Detection Assay Adapted for mecC Detection.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2013;51(6):1917-9.
2013: Robin Köck; Mahir Köksal; Alexander Mellmann; Frieder Schaumburg; Karsten Becker; Annette Jurke; Alexander W Friedrich
Livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) as causes of human infection and colonization in Germany.
PloS one 2013;8(2):e55040.
2013: Karin M Brandt; Els M Broens; Christian Jenke; Britta Ballhausen; Karsten Becker; Alexander Mellmann; Peter J van der Wolf; Robin Köck
Evaluation of multiple-locus variable number of tandem repeats analysis for typing livestock-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
PloS one 2013;8(1):e54425.
2013: Frieder Schaumburg; Christian Schmalstieg; Angela Brentrup; Barbara Fiedler; Heymut Omran; Karsten Becker
A bumpy road to the diagnosis of a Kytococcus schroeteri shunt infection.
Journal of medical microbiology 2013;62(Pt 1):165-8.
2012: Frieder Schaumburg; Karsten Becker; Thomas R Gillespie; Lawrence Mugisha; Bruce Peck; Georg Peters; Fabian H Leendertz
Drug-resistant human Staphylococcus aureus in sanctuary apes pose a threat to endangered wild ape populations.
American journal of primatology 2012;74(12):1071-5.
2012: Frieder Schaumburg; Christof von Eiff; Karsten Becker; Alexander W Friedrich; Sören G Gatermann; Felicitas Hasenberg; Robin Köck; André Kriegeskorte; Alexander Mellmann; Georg Peters; Laura Richter
Population dynamics among methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates in Germany during a 6-year period.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2012;50(10):3186-92.
2012: André Kriegeskorte; Georg Peters; Britta Ballhausen; Alexander W Friedrich; Evgeny A Idelevich; Helge Karch; Robin Köck; Karsten Becker
Human MRSA isolates with novel genetic homolog, Germany.
Emerging infectious diseases 2012;18(6):1016-8.
2012: Karsten Becker; Cord Sunderkötter
[Skin infections with MRSA. Epidemiology and clinical features].
Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift für Dermatologie, Venerologie, und verwandte Gebiete 2012;63(5):371-80.
2012: G A Khayrullina; Karsten Becker; C H Hoe; C A Raabe; R Reinhardt; Timofey Rozhdestvensky; Thean Hock Tang; Alexei M Kopylov
Transcription analysis and small non-protein coding RNAs associated with bacterial ribosomal protein operons.
Current medicinal chemistry 2012;19(30):5187-98.
2012: Gunnar Sander; Christof von Eiff; Karsten Becker; Tina Börner; André Kriegeskorte; Esther Mahabir
Catheter colonization and abscess formation due to Staphylococcus epidermidis with normal and small-colony-variant phenotype is mouse strain dependent.
PloS one 2012;7(5):e36602.
2011: Robin Köck; F Schaumburg; K Siam; S Al-Malat; Karsten Becker; J Christmann; Alexander W Friedrich
Characteristics of hospital patients colonized with livestock-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) CC398 versus other MRSA clones.
The Journal of hospital infection 2011;79(4):292-6.
2011: Evgeny A Idelevich; Barbara C Kahl; André Kriegeskorte; Georg Peters; William Stubbings; Karsten Becker
Comparative in vitro activity of finafloxacin against staphylococci displaying normal and small colony variant phenotypes.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy 2011;66(12):2809-13.
2011: F Schaumburg; Ayola A Adegnika; Robin Köck; K Kösters; Song Le; B Lell; Alexander Mellmann; U Ateba Ngoa; Georg Peters; Karsten Becker
Virulence factors and genotypes of Staphylococcus aureus from infection and carriage in Gabon.
Clinical microbiology and infection : the official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology and Infectious Diseases 2011;17(10):1507-13.
2011: Evgeny A Idelevich; Andreas Peschel; Georg Peters; Christof von Eiff; Ingrid Wanninger; Guoqing Xia; Alexander W Friedrich; Domenico Iannelli; Karsten Becker
In vitro activity against Staphylococcus aureus of a novel antimicrobial agent, PRF-119, a recombinant chimeric bacteriophage endolysin.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2011;55(9):4416-9.
2011: André Kriegeskorte; Esther Mahabir; Georg Peters; Alexander Pirkl; Richard A Proctor; Gunnar Sander; Christof von Eiff; Simone Koenig; Karsten Becker
Small colony variants of Staphylococcus aureus reveal distinct protein profiles.
Proteomics 2011;11(12):2476-90.
2011: Lorena Tuchscherr; Eva Medina; Muzaffar Hussain; Wolfgang Völker; Vanessa Heitmann; Silke Niemann; Dirk Holzinger; Johannes Roth; Richard A Proctor; Karsten Becker; Georg Peters; Bettina Löffler
Staphylococcus aureus phenotype switching: an effective bacterial strategy to escape host immune response and establish a chronic infection.
EMBO molecular medicine 2011;3(3):129-41.
2011: Frieder Schaumburg; Robin Köck; Alexander W Friedrich; Solange Soulanoudjingar; Ulysse Ateba Ngoa; Christof von Eiff; Saadou Issifou; Song Le; Mathias Herrmann; Georg Peters; Karsten Becker
Population structure of Staphylococcus aureus from remote African Babongo Pygmies.
PLoS neglected tropical diseases 2011;5(5):e1150.
2011: Nadine Nippe; Georg Varga; Dirk Holzinger; Bettina Löffler; Eva Medina; Karsten Becker; Johannes Roth; Jan Ehrchen; Cord Sunderkötter
Subcutaneous infection with S. aureus in mice reveals association of resistance with influx of neutrophils and Th2 response.
The Journal of investigative dermatology 2011;131(1):125-32.
2010: F Sachse; Karsten Becker; Christof von Eiff; Dieter Metze; Claudia Rudack
Staphylococcus aureus invades the epithelium in nasal polyposis and induces IL-6 in nasal epithelial cells in vitro.
Allergy 2010;65(11):1430-7.
2010: R Köck; Karsten Becker; B Cookson; J E van Gemert-Pijnen; S Harbarth; J Kluytmans; M Mielke; Georg Peters; R L Skov; M J Struelens; E Tacconelli; A Navarro Torné; Wolfgang Witte; A W Friedrich
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): burden of disease and control challenges in Europe.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Européen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 2010;15(41):19688.
2010: Lorena Tuchscherr; Vanessa Heitmann; Muzaffar Hussain; Dorothee Viemann; Johannes Roth; Christof von Eiff; Georg Peters; Karsten Becker; Bettina Löffler
Staphylococcus aureus small-colony variants are adapted phenotypes for intracellular persistence.
The Journal of infectious diseases 2010;202(7):1031-40.
2010: Luay F Abu-Qatouseh; Suresh V Chinni; Jochen Seggewiss; Richard A Proctor; Jürgen Brosius; Timofey Rozhdestvensky; Georg Peters; Christof von Eiff; Karsten Becker
Identification of differentially expressed small non-protein-coding RNAs in Staphylococcus aureus displaying both the normal and the small-colony variant phenotype.
Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) 2010;88(6):565-75.
2010: Matthias Grundmeier; Lorena Tuchscherr; Michaela Brück; Dorothee Viemann; Johannes Roth; Edith Willscher; Karsten Becker; Georg Peters; Bettina Löffler
Staphylococcal strains vary greatly in their ability to induce an inflammatory response in endothelial cells.
The Journal of infectious diseases 2010;201(6):871-80.
2010: Florian Sachse; Karsten Becker; Claudia Rudack
Incidence of staphylococcal colonization and of the 753Q Toll-like receptor 2 variant in nasal polyposis.
American journal of rhinology & allergy 2010;24(1):e10-3.
2009: Claudia Rudack; Florian Sachse; Nils Albert; Karsten Becker; Christof von Eiff
Immunomodulation of nasal epithelial cells by Staphylococcus aureus-derived serine proteases.
Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950) 2009;183(11):7592-601.
2009: Robin Köck; J Harlizius; N Bressan; R Laerberg; Lothar H Wieler; Wolfgang Witte; R H Deurenberg; A Voss; Karsten Becker; Alexander W Friedrich
Prevalence and molecular characteristics of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) among pigs on German farms and import of livestock-related MRSA into hospitals.
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology 2009;28(11):1375-82.
2009: Ricarda Diller; Udo Stratmann; Evgeny A Minin; Christoph von Eiff; Gerrit Bäumer; Hannelore Huismans; Tilo Helmschmied; Karsten Becker; Hans-Ullrich Spiegel
ATIII attenuates endotoxemia induced healing impairment in the colon.
The Journal of surgical research 2009;157(1):4-13.
2009: Thorsten Kuczius; Karsten Becker; Helge Karch; Wenlan Zhang
High sensitivity detection of the glial fibrillary acidic protein as indicator for TSE risk material in meat products using an immuno-PCR.
Molecular nutrition & food research 2009;53(10):1329-35.
2009: C Karsten; S Baumgarte; A W Friedrich; C von Eiff; Karsten Becker; W Wosniok; A Ammon; J Bockemühl; H Karch; H-I Huppertz
Incidence and risk factors for community-acquired acute gastroenteritis in north-west Germany in 2004.
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology 2009;28(8):935-43.
2009: Robin Köck; L Brakensiek; Alexander Mellmann; Frank Kipp; M Henderikx; Dag Harmsen; I Daniels-Haardt; Christof von Eiff; Karsten Becker; M G R Hendrix; Alexander W Friedrich
Cross-border comparison of the admission prevalence and clonal structure of meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
The Journal of hospital infection 2009;71(4):320-6.
2009: Davide Campoccia; Lucio Montanaro; Christof von Eiff; Valter Pirini; Stefano Ravaioli; Karsten Becker; Carla Renata Arciola
Cluster analysis of ribotyping profiles of Staphylococcus epidermidis isolates recovered from foreign body-associated orthopedic infections.
Journal of biomedical materials research. Part A 2009;88(3):664-72.
2008: Jonas Lannergård; Christof von Eiff; Gunnar Sander; Tina Cordes; Jochen Seggewiss; Georg Peters; Richard A Proctor; Karsten Becker; Diarmaid Hughes
Identification of the genetic basis for clinical menadione-auxotrophic small-colony variant isolates of Staphylococcus aureus.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2008;52(11):4017-22.
2008: Karsten Becker; Frank Rutsch; Andreas Uekötter; Frank Kipp; Jens König; Thorsten Marquardt; Georg Peters; Christof von Eiff
Kocuria rhizophila adds to the emerging spectrum of micrococcal species involved in human infections.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2008;46(10):3537-9.
2008: A W Friedrich; I Daniels-Haardt; R Köck; F Verhoeven; Alexander Mellmann; Dag Harmsen; J E van Gemert-Pijnen; Karsten Becker; M G R Hendrix
EUREGIO MRSA-net Twente/Münsterland--a Dutch-German cross-border network for the prevention and control of infections caused by methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
Euro surveillance : bulletin Européen sur les maladies transmissibles = European communicable disease bulletin 2008;13(35):.
2008: Christof von Eiff; Dominik Maas; Gunnar Sander; Alexander W Friedrich; Georg Peters; Karsten Becker
Microbiological evaluation of a new growth-based approach for rapid detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
The Journal of antimicrobial chemotherapy 2008;61(6):1277-80.
2008: Wenlan Zhang; Martina Bielaszewska; Matthias Pulz; Karsten Becker; Alexander W Friedrich; Helge Karch; Thorsten Kuczius
New immuno-PCR assay for detection of low concentrations of shiga toxin 2 and its variants.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2008;46(4):1292-7.
2008: muzaffar hussain; Christof von Eiff; Bhanu Sinha; Insa Joost; Mathias Herrmann; Georg Peters; Karsten Becker
eap Gene as novel target for specific identification of Staphylococcus aureus.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2008;46(2):470-6.
2008: F Sachse; Christof von Eiff; Karsten Becker; Claudia Rudack
Anti-inflammatory effects of ciprofloxacin in S. aureus Newman induced nasal inflammation in vitro.
Journal of inflammation (London, England) 2008;5():11.
2008: F Sachse; C von Eiff; Karsten Becker; Martin Steinhoff; Claudia Rudack
Proinflammatory impact of Staphylococcus epidermidis on the nasal epithelium quantified by IL-8 and GRO-alpha responses in primary human nasal epithelial cells.
International archives of allergy and immunology 2008;145(1):24-32.
2007: T Kaiser; Jost Langhorst; Helmut Wittkowski; Karsten Becker; Alexander W Friedrich; Andreas Rueffer; G J Dobos; Johannes Roth; Dirk Foell
Faecal S100A12 as a non-invasive marker distinguishing inflammatory bowel disease from irritable bowel syndrome.
Gut 2007;56(12):1706-13.
2007: Karsten Becker; Gabriele Bierbaum; Christof von Eiff; Susanne Engelmann; Friedrich Götz; Jörg Hacker; Michael Hecker; Georg Peters; Ralf Rosenstein; Wilma Ziebuhr
Understanding the physiology and adaptation of staphylococci: a post-genomic approach.
International journal of medical microbiology : IJMM 2007;297(7-8):483-501.
2007: Jan-Henrik Mikesch; Annika Rudat; Michael Zühlsdorf; Wolfgang E Berdel; Rolf M Mesters; Beate Conrad; Karsten Becker; Wolfgang Fegeler; Christoph Anthoni
Subcutaneous zygomycosis in neutropenia.
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology 2007;25(30):4844-5.
2007: Carla Renata Arciola; Lucilla Baldassarri; C Von Eiff; Davide Campoccia; Stefano Ravaioli; Valter Pirini; Karsten Becker; Lucio Montanaro
Prevalence of genes encoding for staphylococcal leukocidal toxins among clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus from implant orthopedic infections.
The International journal of artificial organs 2007;30(9):792-7.
2007: Christof von Eiff; Karsten Becker
Small-colony variants (SCVs) of staphylococci: a role in foreign body-associated infections.
The International journal of artificial organs 2007;30(9):778-85.
2007: Konrad Trülzsch; Béatrice Grabein; Peter Schumann; Alexander Mellmann; Uladzimir Antonenka; Jürgen Heesemann; Karsten Becker
Staphylococcus pettenkoferi sp. nov., a novel coagulase-negative staphylococcal species isolated from human clinical specimens.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology 2007;57(Pt 7):1543-8.
2007: Claudia Rudack; Martin Steinhoff; Frank Mooren; Jörg Buddenkotte; Karsten Becker; C von Eiff; F Sachse
PAR-2 activation regulates IL-8 and GRO-alpha synthesis by NF-kappaB, but not RANTES, IL-6, eotaxin or TARC expression in nasal epithelium.
Clinical and experimental allergy : journal of the British Society for Allergy and Clinical Immunology 2007;37(7):1009-22.
2007: Christof von Eiff; Kimberly Taylor; Alexander Mellmann; Ali I Fattom; Alexander W Friedrich; Georg Peters; Karsten Becker
Distribution of capsular and surface polysaccharide serotypes of Staphylococcus aureus.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease 2007;58(3):297-302.
2007: Cornelia Werbick; Karsten Becker; Alexander Mellmann; Katri M Juuti; Christof von Eiff; Georg Peters; Pentti Kuusela; Alexander W Friedrich; Bhanu Sinha
Staphylococcal chromosomal cassette mec type I, spa type, and expression of Pls are determinants of reduced cellular invasiveness of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus isolates.
The Journal of infectious diseases 2007;195(11):1678-85.
2007: Nahed Al Laham; Holger Rohde; Gunnar Sander; Andreas Fischer; muzaffar hussain; Christine Heilmann; Dietrich Mack; Richard Proctor; Georg Peters; Karsten Becker; Christof von Eiff
Augmented expression of polysaccharide intercellular adhesin in a defined Staphylococcus epidermidis mutant with the small-colony-variant phenotype.
Journal of bacteriology 2007;189(12):4494-501.
2007: Andreas Fischer; Christof von Eiff; Thorsten Kuczius; Katsuhiko Omoe; Georg Peters; Karsten Becker
A quantitative real-time immuno-PCR approach for detection of staphylococcal enterotoxins.
Journal of molecular medicine (Berlin, Germany) 2007;85(5):461-9.
2007: Karsten Becker; Ahmed S Almasri; Christof von Eiff; Georg Peters; Christine Heilmann; Wolfgang Fegeler
Systematic survey of nonspecific agglutination by Candida spp. in latex assays.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2007;45(4):1315-8.
2007: Friedrich Bottner; A Wegner; Winfried Winkelmann; Karsten Becker; Michael Erren; Christian Götze
Interleukin-6, procalcitonin and TNF-alpha: markers of peri-prosthetic infection following total joint replacement.
The Journal of bone and joint surgery. British volume 2007;89(1):94-9.
2006: Jochen Seggewiss; Karsten Becker; Oliver Kotte; Martin Eisenacher; Mohammad Reza Khoschkhoi Yazdi; Andreas Fischer; Peter McNamara; Nahed Al Laham; Richard Proctor; Georg Peters; Matthias Heinemann; Christof von Eiff
Reporter metabolite analysis of transcriptional profiles of a Staphylococcus aureus strain with normal phenotype and its isogenic hemB mutant displaying the small-colony-variant phenotype.
Journal of bacteriology 2006;188(22):7765-77.
2006: A Florax; Karoline Ehlert; Karsten Becker; Josef Vormoor; A H Groll
Bordetella pertussis respiratory infection following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation: time for universal vaccination?
Bone marrow transplantation 2006;38(9):639-40.
2006: Giuseppe Blaiotta; Vincenzina Fusco; Christof von Eiff; Francesco Villani; Karsten Becker
Biotyping of enterotoxigenic Staphylococcus aureus by enterotoxin gene cluster (egc) polymorphism and spa typing analyses.
Applied and environmental microbiology 2006;72(9):6117-23.
2006: Karsten Becker; Nahed Al Laham; Wolfgang Fegeler; Richard A Proctor; Georg Peters; Christof von Eiff
Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopic analysis is a powerful tool for studying the dynamic changes in Staphylococcus aureus small-colony variants.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2006;44(9):3274-8.
2006: F Sachse; C von Eiff; Wolfgang Stoll; Karsten Becker; Claudia Rudack
Induction of CXC chemokines in A549 airway epithelial cells by trypsin and staphylococcal proteases - a possible route for neutrophilic inflammation in chronic rhinosinusitis.
Clinical and experimental immunology 2006;144(3):534-42.
2006: Christof von Eiff; Georg Peters; Karsten Becker
The small colony variant (SCV) concept -- the role of staphylococcal SCVs in persistent infections.
Injury 2006;37 Suppl 2():S26-33.
2006: Christof von Eiff; Carla Renata Arciola; L Montanaro; Karsten Becker; Davide Campoccia
Emerging Staphylococcus species as new pathogens in implant infections.
The International journal of artificial organs 2006;29(4):360-7.
2006: Richard A Proctor; Christof von Eiff; Barbara C Kahl; Karsten Becker; Peter McNamara; Mathias Herrmann; Georg Peters
Small colony variants: a pathogenic form of bacteria that facilitates persistent and recurrent infections.
Nature reviews. Microbiology 2006;4(4):295-305.
2006: Alexander Mellmann; Karsten Becker; Christof von Eiff; Ursula Keckevoet; Peter Schumann; Dag Harmsen
Sequencing and staphylococci identification.
Emerging infectious diseases 2006;12(2):333-6.
2006: Karsten Becker; Isabelle Pagnier; Brigitte Schuhen; Frauke Wenzelburger; Alexander W Friedrich; Frank Kipp; Georg Peters; Christof von Eiff
Does nasal cocolonization by methicillin-resistant coagulase-negative staphylococci and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus strains occur frequently enough to represent a risk of false-positive methicillin-resistant S. aureus determinations by molecular methods?
Journal of clinical microbiology 2006;44(1):229-31.
2006: Christof von Eiff; Peter McNamara; Karsten Becker; Donna Bates; Xiang-He Lei; Ziman Michael; Barry R Bochner; Georg Peters; Richard A Proctor
Phenotype microarray profiling of Staphylococcus aureus menD and hemB mutants with the small-colony-variant phenotype.
Journal of bacteriology 2006;188(2):687-93.
2005: Christof von Eiff; W Kohnen; Karsten Becker; B Jansen
Modern strategies in the prevention of implant-associated infections.
The International journal of artificial organs 2005;28(11):1146-56.
2005: Christof von Eiff; Alexander W Friedrich; Karsten Becker; Georg Peters
Comparative in vitro activity of ceftobiprole against staphylococci displaying normal and small-colony variant phenotypes.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2005;49(10):4372-4.
2005: Harald Seifert; Dirk Oltmanns; Karsten Becker; Hilmar Wisplinghoff; Christof von Eiff
Staphylococcus lugdunensis pacemaker-related infection.
Emerging infectious diseases 2005;11(8):1283-6.
2005: Ismaël Mohammedi; C Berchiche; Karsten Becker; K Belkhouja; Dominique Robert; C von Eiff; Jerome Etienne
Fatal Kytococcus schroeteri bacteremic pneumonia.
The Journal of infection 2005;51(2):E11-3.
2005: Brigitte Loddenkötter; Karsten Becker; Carsten Hohoff; Bernd Brinkmann; Thomas Bajanowski
Real-time quantitative PCR assay for the detection of Helicobacter pylori: no association with sudden infant death syndrome.
International journal of legal medicine 2005;119(4):202-6.
2005: Frank Kipp; Barbara C Kahl; Karsten Becker; Ellen J Baron; Richard A Proctor; Georg Peters; Christof von Eiff
Evaluation of two chromogenic agar media for recovery and identification of Staphylococcus aureus small-colony variants.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2005;43(4):1956-9.
2005: Karsten Becker; Christof von Eiff; Birgit Keller; Michaela Brück; Jerome Etienne; Georg Peters
Thermonuclease gene as a target for specific identification of Staphylococcus intermedius isolates: use of a PCR-DNA enzyme immunoassay.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease 2005;51(4):237-44.
2005: Claudia Breitkopf; Dieter Hammel; Hans H Scheld; Georg Peters; Karsten Becker
Impact of a molecular approach to improve the microbiological diagnosis of infective heart valve endocarditis.
Circulation 2005;111(11):1415-21.
2005: Christian Aepinus; Christian Spang; Andreas Podbielski; Karsten Becker; Bernhard Zimmermann; Christian Plath; Christof von Eiff
Staphylococcus aureus infection caused by a Panton Valentine leukocidin-producing strain.
The Pediatric infectious disease journal 2005;24(3):284-5.
2005: Christof von Eiff; Bernd Jansen; Wolfgang Kohnen; Karsten Becker
Infections associated with medical devices: pathogenesis, management and prophylaxis.
Drugs 2005;65(2):179-214.
2004: Karsten Becker; Alexander W Friedrich; Georg Peters; Christof von Eiff
Systematic survey on the prevalence of genes coding for staphylococcal enterotoxins SElM, SElO, and SElN.
Molecular nutrition & food research 2004;48(7):488-95.
2004: Karsten Becker; Dag Harmsen; Alexander Mellmann; Christian Meier; Peter Schumann; Georg Peters; Christof von Eiff
Development and evaluation of a quality-controlled ribosomal sequence database for 16S ribosomal DNA-based identification of Staphylococcus species.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2004;42(11):4988-95.
2004: Thorsten Kuczius; Anne Buschmann; Wenlan Zhang; Helge Karch; Karsten Becker; Georg Peters; Martin H Groschup
Cellular prion protein acquires resistance to proteolytic degradation following copper ion binding.
Biological chemistry 2004;385(8):739-47.
2004: Christof von Eiff; Alexander W Friedrich; Georg Peters; Karsten Becker
Prevalence of genes encoding for members of the staphylococcal leukotoxin family among clinical isolates of Staphylococcus aureus.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease 2004;49(3):157-62.
2004: Christof von Eiff; Gabriele Lubritz; Christoph Heese; Georg Peters; Karsten Becker
Effect of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole prophylaxis in AIDS patients on the formation of the small colony variant phenotype of Staphylococcus aureus.
Diagnostic microbiology and infectious disease 2004;48(3):191-4.
2004: Frank Kipp; Karsten Becker; Georg Peters; Christof von Eiff
Evaluation of different methods to detect methicillin resistance in small-colony variants of Staphylococcus aureus.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2004;42(3):1277-9.
2003: Karsten Becker; Jörg Wüllenweber; Hans-Jakob Odenthal; Michael Moeller; Peter Shumann; Georg Peters; Christof von Eiff
Prosthetic valve endocarditis due to Kytococcus schroeteri.
Emerging infectious diseases 2003;9(11):1493-5.
2003: Barbara C Kahl; Karsten Becker; Alexander W Friedrich; Julia Clasen; Bhanu Sinha; Christof von Eiff; Georg Peters
agr-dependent bacterial interference has no impact on long-term colonization of Staphylococcus aureus during persistent airway infection of cystic fibrosis patients.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2003;41(11):5199-201.
2003: Christof von Eiff; John F Kokai-Kun; Karsten Becker; Georg Peters
In vitro activity of recombinant lysostaphin against Staphylococcus aureus isolates from anterior nares and blood.
Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy 2003;47(11):3613-5.
2003: Harish C Gugnani; Karsten Becker; W Fegeler; Somansu Basu; D Chattopadhya; Usha K Baveja; S Satyanarayana; T Kalghatgi; A Murlidhar
Oropharyngeal carriage of Candida species in HIV-infected patients in India.
Mycoses 2003;46(8):299-306.
2003: Anuradha Chowdhary; Karsten Becker; W Fegeler; Harish C Gugnani; Lata Kapoor; VS Randhawa; G Mehta
An outbreak of candidemia due to Candida tropicalis in a neonatal intensive care unit.
Mycoses 2003;46(8):287-92.
2003: Frank Schmäl; Wolfgang Fegeler; Hans-Joachim Terpe; Wolfgang Hermann; Wolfgang Stoll; Karsten Becker
Bacteria and granulation tissue associated with Montgomery T-tubes.
The Laryngoscope 2003;113(8):1394-400.
2003: Frank Kipp; Wilma Ziebuhr; Karsten Becker; V Krimmer; N Höbeta; Georg Peters; Christof von Eiff
Detection of Staphylococcus aureus by 16S rRNA directed in situ hybridisation in a patient with a brain abscess caused by small colony variants.
Journal of neurology, neurosurgery, and psychiatry 2003;74(7):1000-2.
2003: Karsten Becker; Alexander W Friedrich; Gabriele Lubritz; Maria Weilert; Georg Peters; Christof von Eiff
Prevalence of genes encoding pyrogenic toxin superantigens and exfoliative toxins among strains of Staphylococcus aureus isolated from blood and nasal specimens.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2003;41(4):1434-9.
2002: Dieter Bettin; G Schaphorn; S Blasius; Karsten Becker; Thomas Niemeyer
A rare case of Salmonella osteomyelitis in the humerus as a differential diagnosis to a malignant bone tumor.
Archives of orthopaedic and trauma surgery 2002;122(9-10):544-6.
2002: Christof von Eiff; Frank Kipp; Karsten Becker
Intranasal mupirocin to prevent postoperative infections.
The New England journal of medicine 2002;347(15):1207-8; author reply 1207-8.
2002: Karsten Becker; Peter Schumann; Jörg Wüllenweber; Martina Schulte; Hans-Peter Weil; Erko Stackebrandt; Georg Peters; Christof von Eiff
Kytococcus schroeteri sp. nov., a novel Gram-positive actinobacterium isolated from a human clinical source.
International journal of systematic and evolutionary microbiology 2002;52(Pt 5):1609-14.
2002: Werner Förster; Karsten Becker; Daniela Hungermann; Holger Busse
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus keratitis after excimer laser photorefractive keratectomy1.
Journal of cataract and refractive surgery 2002;28(4):722-4.
2001: Karsten Becker; B Keller; Christof von Eiff; Michaela Brück; Gabriele Lubritz; Jerome Etienne; Georg Peters
Enterotoxigenic potential of Staphylococcus intermedius.
Applied and environmental microbiology 2001;67(12):5551-7.
2001: muzaffar hussain; Karsten Becker; Christof von Eiff; jacques schrenzel; Georg Peters; Mathias Herrmann
Identification and characterization of a novel 38.5-kilodalton cell surface protein of Staphylococcus aureus with extended-spectrum binding activity for extracellular matrix and plasma proteins.
Journal of bacteriology 2001;183(23):6778-86.
2001: muzaffar hussain; Karsten Becker; Christof von Eiff; Georg Peters; Mathias Herrmann
Analogs of Eap protein are conserved and prevalent in clinical Staphylococcus aureus isolates.
Clinical and diagnostic laboratory immunology 2001;8(6):1271-6.
2001: Karsten Becker; D Badehorn; B Keller; M Schulte; K H Böhm; Georg Peters; Wolfgang Fegeler
Isolation and characterization of a species-specific DNA fragment for identification of Candida (Torulopsis) glabrata by PCR.
Journal of clinical microbiology 2001;39(9):3356-9.
2001: Karsten Becker; G Haverkämper; Christof von Eiff; R Roth; Georg Peters
Survey of staphylococcal enterotoxin genes, exfoliative toxin genes, and toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 gene in non-Staphylococcus aureus species.
European journal of clinical microbiology & infectious diseases : official publication of the European Society of Clinical Microbiology 2001;20(6):407-9.
2001: Christof von Eiff; Karsten Becker; D Metze; Gabriele Lubritz; J Hockmann; T Schwarz; Georg Peters
Intracellular persistence of Staphylococcus aureus small-colony variants within keratinocytes: a cause for antibiotic treatment failure in a patient with darier's disease.
Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America 2001;32(11):1643-7.
2001: Christof von Eiff; Karsten Becker; K Machka; H Stammer; G Peters
Nasal carriage as a source of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia. Study Group.
The New England journal of medicine 2001;344(1):11-6.
2000: Karsten Becker; D Badehorn; S Deiwick; Georg Peters; Wolfgang Fegeler
Molecular genotyping of Candida species with special respect to Candida (Torulopsis) glabrata strains by arbitrarily primed PCR.
Journal of medical microbiology 2000;49(6):575-81.
2000: Karsten Becker
[Molecular biological differentiation of yeasts].
Mycoses 2000;43 Suppl 1():40-7.
2000: Karsten Becker
[Principles and role of nucleic acid amplification and modern microbiological diagnosis].
Anästhesiologie, Intensivmedizin, Notfallmedizin, Schmerztherapie : AINS 2000;35(1):35-40.
1999: Karsten Becker; Christian Ortmann; Thomas Bajanowski; B Brinkmann; Georg Peters
Use of polymerase chain reaction for postmortem diagnosis of malaria.
Diagnostic molecular pathology : the American journal of surgical pathology, part B 1999;8(4):211-5.
1999: Cord Sunderkötter; M Herrmann; Karsten Becker; Thomas Luger; G Peters
[Comment on the contribution by P. H. Höger: "Topical antibiotics and antiseptics"].
Der Hautarzt; Zeitschrift für Dermatologie, Venerologie, und verwandte Gebiete 1999;50(5):370-1.
1999: Karsten Becker; Christof von Eiff; Georg Peters
[Multi-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains].
Der Internist 1999;40(4):444-7.
1999: Peter Ellinghaus; D Badehorn; R Blümer; Karsten Becker; Udo Seedorf
Increased efficiency of arbitrarily primed PCR by prolonged ramp times.
BioTechniques 1999;26(4):626-8, 630.
1999: Jonas Denecke; Karsten Becker; Heribert Jürgens; R Gross; Johannes Ernst Wolff
Falsification of tetrazolium dye (MTT) based cytotoxicity assay results due to mycoplasma contamination of cell cultures.
Anticancer research 1999;19(2A):1245-8.
1998: Karsten Becker; R Roth; Georg Peters
Rapid and specific detection of toxigenic Staphylococcus aureus: use of two multiplex PCR enzyme immunoassays for amplification and hybridization of staphylococcal enterotoxin genes, exfoliative toxin genes, and toxic shock syndrome toxin 1 gene.
Journal of clinical microbiology 1998;36(9):2548-53.
1998: Barbara C Kahl; Mathias Herrmann; A S Everding; Hans Georg Koch; Karsten Becker; Erik Harms; Richard A Proctor; Georg Peters
Persistent infection with small colony variant strains of Staphylococcus aureus in patients with cystic fibrosis.
The Journal of infectious diseases 1998;177(4):1023-9.
1997: Karsten Becker; Georg Peters
[Evaluation of anti-streptolysin O titers].
Der Internist 1997;38(10):998.
1991: W A Müller; G Koch; Karsten Becker
[Experimental animal studies for the detection of circulating Toxoplasma antigens].
Angewandte Parasitologie 1991;32(2):93-8.
1988: W A Müller; Karsten Becker; A Schäfer; G Koch; H L Borkhardt
[The production of hybrid cells producing monoclonal antibodies against Toxoplasma gondii].
Angewandte Parasitologie 1988;29(1):11-7.