J. Ross Fitzgerald

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Best Publications

• Evolutionary Genomics of Staphylococcus Aureus: Insights Into the Origin of Methicillin-Resistant Strains and the Toxic Shock Syndrome Epidemic

  J. Ross Fitzgerald;Daniel E. Sturdevant;Stacy M. Mackie;Steven R. Gill

  610
  Citations

• The interaction of bacterial pathogens with platelets.

  J Ross Fitzgerald;Timothy J Foster;Dermot Cox

  586
  Citations

• Clonal spread of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus pseudintermedius in Europe and North America: an international multicentre study

  Vincent Perreten;Kristina Kadlec;Stefan Schwarz;Ulrika Grönlund Andersson

  575
  Citations

• A genomic portrait of the emergence, evolution, and global spread of a methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus pandemic

  Matthew T.G. Holden;Li Yang Hsu;Li Yang Hsu;Kevin Kurt;Lucy A. Weinert;Lucy A. Weinert

  515
  Citations

• Recent human-to-poultry host jump, adaptation, and pandemic spread of Staphylococcus aureus

  Bethan V. Lowder;Caitriona M. Guinane;Nouri L. Ben Zakour;Lucy A. Weinert

  478
  Citations

• Characterization of a Putative Pathogenicity Island from Bovine Staphylococcus aureus Encoding Multiple Superantigens

  J. Ross Fitzgerald;Steven R. Monday;Timothy J. Foster;Gregory A. Bohach

  366
  Citations

• Population Genetic Structure of the Staphylococcus intermedius Group: Insights into agr Diversification and the Emergence of Methicillin-Resistant Strains

  Jeanette Bannoehr;Nouri L. Ben Zakour;Andrew S. Waller;Luca Guardabassi

  365
  Citations

• Livestock-associated Staphylococcus aureus: origin, evolution and public health threat

  J. Ross Fitzgerald

  335
  Citations

• Molecular Correlates of Host Specialization in Staphylococcus aureus

  Lisa Herron-Olson;J. Ross Fitzgerald;James M. Musser;Vivek Kapur

  298
  Citations

• Genome hypermobility by lateral transduction.

  John Chen;Nuria Quiles-Puchalt;Yin Ning Chiang;Rodrigo Bacigalupe

  275
  Citations

• Molecular Diagnostic Identification of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius

  Jeanette Bannoehr;Alessia Franco;Manuela Iurescia;Antonio Battisti

  249
  Citations

• A novel core genome-encoded superantigen contributes to lethality of community-associated MRSA necrotizing pneumonia

  Gillian J. Wilson;Keun Seok Seo;Robyn A. Cartwright;Timothy Connelley

  246
  Citations

• Gene exchange drives the ecological success of a multi-host bacterial pathogen

  Emily J. Richardson;Emily J. Richardson;Rodrigo Bacigalupe;Ewan M. Harrison;Lucy A. Weinert

  244
  Citations

• Livestock Origin for a Human Pandemic Clone of Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus

  Laura E. Spoor;Paul R. McAdam;Lucy A. Weinert;Andrew Rambaut

  241
  Citations

• Molecular tracing of the emergence, adaptation, and transmission of hospital-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

  Paul R. McAdam;Kate E. Templeton;Giles F. Edwards;Matthew T. G. Holden

  235
  Citations

• Evolutionary genomics of staphylococcus aureus reveals insights into the origin and molecular basis of ruminant host adaptation

  Caitriona M. Guinane;Nouri L. Ben Zakour;Maria A. Tormo-Mas;Lucy A. Weinert

  234
  Citations

• Roles for fibrinogen, immunoglobulin and complement in platelet activation promoted by Staphylococcus aureus clumping factor A

  Anthony Loughman;J. Ross Fitzgerald;Marian P. Brennan;Judy Higgins

  214
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• In Vitro Serial Passage of Staphylococcus aureus: Changes in Physiology, Virulence Factor Production, and agr Nucleotide Sequence

  Greg A. Somerville;Stephen B. Beres;J. Ross Fitzgerald;Frank R. DeLeo

  214
  Citations

• Population genomics of bacterial host adaptation.

  Samuel K. Sheppard;David S. Guttman;J. Ross Fitzgerald

  212
  Citations

• Fibronectin-binding proteins of Staphylococcus aureus mediate activation of human platelets via fibrinogen and fibronectin bridges to integrin GPIIb/IIIa and IgG binding to the FcγRIIa receptor

  J. Ross Fitzgerald;Anthony Loughman;Fiona Keane;Marian Brennan

  189
  Citations