Dominique S. Blanc

Best Publications

• Nosocomial pneumonia in mechanically ventilated patients receiving antacid, ranitidine, or sucralfate as prophylaxis for stress ulcer. A randomized controlled trial.

  Guy Prod'hom;Philippe Leuenberger;Jacques Koerfer;Andre Blum

  463
  Citations

• Biodiversity of amoebae and amoeba-resisting bacteria in a hospital water network.

  Vincent Thomas;Katia Herrera-Rimann;Dominique S. Blanc;Gilbert Greub

  365
  Citations

• Evaluation of MRSA-Screen, a Simple Anti-PBP 2a Slide Latex Agglutination Kit, for Rapid Detection of Methicillin Resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

  Matthias Cavassini;Aline Wenger;Katia Jaton;Dominique S. Blanc

  281
  Citations

• Global emergence of the widespread Pseudomonas aeruginosa ST235 clone

  Panissa Treepong;V.N. Kos;Christophe Guyeux;D.S. Blanc

  231
  Citations

• Panton-valentine leukocidin and staphyloccoccal skin infections in schoolchildren.

  Karim Boubaker;Patrick Diebold;Dominique S. Blanc;François Vandenesch

  206
  Citations

• Outbreak of human listeriosis associated with tomme cheese in northwest Switzerland, 2005.

  Bille J;Blanc Ds;Schmid H;Boubaker K

  165
  Citations

• Faucets as a reservoir of endemic Pseudomonas aeruginosa colonization/infections in intensive care units.

  D. S. Blanc;I. Nahimana;C. Petignat;A. Wenger

  152
  Citations

• Frequency and molecular diversity of Pseudomonas aeruginosa upon admission and during hospitalization: a prospective epidemiologic study.

  Dominique S. Blanc;Christiane Petignat;Béatrice Janin;Jacques Bille

  149
  Citations

• Evaluation of three chromogenic media (MRSA‐ID, MRSA‐Select and CHROMagar MRSA) and ORSAB for surveillance cultures of methicillin‐resistant Staphylococcus aureus

  I. Nahimana;P. Francioli;D.S. Blanc

  147
  Citations

• Use of an automated multiple-locus, variable-number tandem repeat-based method for rapid and high-throughput genotyping of Staphylococcus aureus isolates.

  Patrice Francois;Antoine Huyghe;Yvan Charbonnier;Manuela Bento

  146
  Citations

• Water disinfection with ozone, copper and silver ions, and temperature increase to control Legionella: seven years of experience in a university teaching hospital.

  D.S. Blanc;Ph. Carrara;G. Zanetti;P. Francioli

  143
  Citations

• The Stealthy Superbug: the Role of Asymptomatic Enteric Carriage in Maintaining a Long-Term Hospital Outbreak of ST228 Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

  Laurence Senn;Olivier Clerc;Giorgio Zanetti;Patrick Basset

  131
  Citations

• High Proportion of Wrongly Identified Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Carriers by Use of a Rapid Commercial PCR Assay Due to Presence of Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome Element Lacking the mecA Gene

  Dominique S. Blanc;Patrick Basset;Immaculée Nahimana-Tessemo;Katia Jaton

  125
  Citations

• Multicenter Evaluation of Epidemiological Typing of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains by Repetitive-Element PCR Analysis

  Ariane Deplano;Annette Schuermans;Johan Van Eldere;Wolfgang Witte

  123
  Citations

• Evidence for Clonal Evolution among Highly Polymorphic Genes in Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

  G. Kuhn;P. Francioli;D. S. Blanc

  118
  Citations

• Which anatomical sites should be sampled for screening of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus carriage by culture or by rapid PCR test?

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  110
  Citations

• Outbreak of Pseudomonas aeruginosa producing VIM carbapenemase in an intensive care unit and its termination by implementation of waterless patient care.

  Gaud Catho;R. Martischang;F. Boroli;M. N. Chraïti

  104
  Citations

• Genetic diversity and ecological success of Staphylococcus aureus strains colonizing humans.

  Olga Sakwinska;Gerrit Kuhn;Gerrit Kuhn;Carlo Balmelli;Patrick Francioli

  102
  Citations

• Importation of Acinetobacter baumannii into a burn unit: a recurrent outbreak of infection associated with widespread environmental contamination.

  Giorgio Zanetti;Dominique S. Blanc;Isabelle Federli;Wassim Raffoul

  101
  Citations

• Characterization of Cell-to-Cell Signaling-Deficient Pseudomonas aeruginosa Strains Colonizing Intubated Patients

  Valerie Denervaud;Patrick TuQuoc;Dominique Blanc;Sabine Adelaide Eugenie Favre-Bonte

  100
  Citations