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Martin C. J. Maiden

Martin C. J. Maiden

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Microbiology

D-Index
114
Citations
55225
World Ranking
200
National Ranking
28

Overview

Martin C. J. Maiden is affiliated with the University of Oxford in the United Kingdom. Their primary fields of research include Medicine and Immunology and Microbiology, with significant contributions to subfields such as Microbiology, Epidemiology, Language and Linguistics, Molecular Biology, and Food Science.

The scientist's research focuses extensively on topics related to bacterial infections and vaccines, pneumonia and respiratory infections, reproductive tract infections research, and the epidemiology of Salmonella and Campylobacter. Additional research subjects include genomics and phylogenetic studies, respiratory viral infections research, and the diagnosis and management of infective endocarditis.

Martin C. J. Maiden has published numerous papers, including the following recent works:

  • "Changes in the incidence of invasive disease due to Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Neisseria meningitidis during the COVID-19 pandemic in 26 countries and territories in the Invasive Respiratory Infection Surveillance Initiative: a prospective analysis of surveillance data" (2021, The Lancet Digital Health)
  • "Meningococcal B Vaccine and Meningococcal Carriage in Adolescents in Australia" (2020, New England Journal of Medicine)
  • "Trends in invasive bacterial diseases during the first 2 years of the COVID-19 pandemic: analyses of prospective surveillance data from 30 countries and territories in the IRIS Consortium" (2023, The Lancet Digital Health)
  • "A Dual Barcoding Approach to Bacterial Strain Nomenclature: Genomic Taxonomy of Klebsiella pneumoniae Strains" (2022, Molecular Biology and Evolution)
  • "Pan-GWAS of Streptococcus agalactiae Highlights Lineage-Specific Genes Associated with Virulence and Niche Adaptation" (2020, mBio)

Frequent co-authors of Martin C. J. Maiden include:

  • Odile B. Harrison
  • Keith A. Jolley
  • Angela B. Brueggemann
  • James E. Bray
  • Christoph M. Tang

Their work has been published predominantly in several key venues such as:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Faculty Opinions - Post-Publication Peer Review of the Biomedical Literature
  • Microbial Genomics
  • mBio
  • Journal of Infection

Best Publications

  • Multilocus sequence typing: A portable approach to the identification of clones within populations of pathogenic microorganisms

    Martin C. J. Maiden;Jane A. Bygraves;Edward Feil;Giovanna Morelli

  • Open-access bacterial population genomics: BIGSdb software, the PubMLST.org website and their applications.

    Keith A. Jolley;James E. Bray;Martin C. J. Maiden

  • BIGSdb: Scalable analysis of bacterial genome variation at the population level

    Keith A Jolley;Martin C J Maiden

  • Sex and virulence in Escherichia coli: an evolutionary perspective

    Thierry Wirth;Daniel Falush;Ruiting Lan;Frances M Colles

  • Report of the ad hoc committee for the re-evaluation of the species definition in bacteriology.

    Erko Stackebrandt;Wilhelm Frederiksen;George M Garrity;Patrick A D Grimont

  • Multilocus Sequence Typing of Bacteria

    Martin C J Maiden

  • Multilocus Sequence Typing System for the Endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis

    Laura Baldo;Julie C. Dunning Hotopp;Keith A. Jolley;Seth R. Bordenstein

  • Multilocus Sequence Typing System for Campylobacter jejuni

    K. E. Dingle;F. M. Colles;D. R. A. Wareing;R. Ure

  • Multi-locus sequence typing: a tool for global epidemiology

    Rachel Urwin;Martin C.J. Maiden

  • MLST revisited: the gene-by-gene approach to bacterial genomics

    Martin C. J. Maiden;Melissa J. Jansen van Rensburg;James E. Bray;Sarah G. Earle

  • Candida orthopsilosis and Candida metapsilosis spp. nov. to replace Candida parapsilosis groups II and III

    Arianna Tavanti;Amanda Denise Davidson;Neil Andrew Robert Gow;M. C. Maiden

  • Ribosomal multilocus sequence typing: universal characterization of bacteria from domain to strain.

    Keith A. Jolley;Carly M. Bliss;Julia S. Bennett;Holly B. Bratcher

  • mlstdbNet – distributed multi-locus sequence typing (MLST) databases

    Keith A. Jolley;Man Suen Chan;Martin C.J. Maiden

  • Sequence type analysis and recombinational tests (START)

    Keith A. Jolley;E. J. Feil;Man-Suen Chan;Martin C. J. Maiden

  • Identification of anthrax toxin genes in a Bacillus cereus associated with an illness resembling inhalation anthrax

    Alex R. Hoffmaster;Jacques Ravel;David A. Rasko;Gail D. Chapman

  • Impact of meningococcal serogroup C conjugate vaccines on carriage and herd immunity

    Martin C. J. Maiden;Ana Belén Ibarz-Pavón;Rachel Urwin;Stephen J. Gray

  • Changes in the incidence of invasive disease due to Streptococcus pneumoniae, Haemophilus influenzae, and Neisseria meningitidis during the COVID-19 pandemic in 26 countries and territories in the Invasive Respiratory Infection Surveillance Initiative: a prospective analysis of surveillance data.

    Angela B. Brueggemann;Melissa J. Jansen van Rensburg;David Shaw;Noel D. McCarthy

  • Campylobacter Genotyping to Determine the Source of Human Infection

    Samuel K. Sheppard;John F. Dallas;Norval J. C. Strachan;Marian MacRae

  • Carriage of serogroup C meningococci 1 year after meningococcal C conjugate polysaccharide vaccination.

    Martin C. J. Maiden;James M. Stuart

  • Population Structure and Evolution of the Bacillus cereus Group

    Fergus G. Priest;Margaret Barker;Les W. J. Baillie;Edward C. Holmes

  • Mammalian and bacterial sugar transport proteins are homologous.

    Martin C. J. Maiden;Elaine O. Davis;Elaine O. Davis;Stephen A. Baldwin;Duncan C. M. Moore

Frequent Co-Authors

Keith A. Jolley
Keith A. Jolley University of Oxford
Samuel K. Sheppard
Samuel K. Sheppard University of Bath
Noel D. McCarthy
Noel D. McCarthy University of Warwick
Caroline L. Trotter
Caroline L. Trotter University of Cambridge
Stephen D. Bentley
Stephen D. Bentley Wellcome Sanger Institute
Julian Parkhill
Julian Parkhill University of Cambridge
Dominique A. Caugant
Dominique A. Caugant Norwegian Institute of Public Health
Kate E. Dingle
Kate E. Dingle University of Oxford
Xavier Didelot
Xavier Didelot University of Warwick
Ray Borrow
Ray Borrow Manchester Royal Infirmary

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