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Overview

Michèle Bes is affiliated with Hospices Civils de Lyon in France. Their research primarily spans the fields of Medicine and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology, with significant contributions focused on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology, Epidemiology, Clinical Biochemistry, and Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health.

The core areas of Michèle Bes's scientific work include Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus, Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing, Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing, Streptococcal Infections and Treatments, Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections, Antifungal resistance and susceptibility, and Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria.

Frequent coauthors contributing to research alongside Michèle Bes include François Vandenesch, Anne Tristan, Frédéric Laurent, Céline Dupieux, and Gérard Lina.

Regular publication venues where Michèle Bes's work appears are Scientific Reports, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, Journal of Global Antimicrobial Resistance, European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases, and European Respiratory Journal.

Notable recent papers authored by or with Michèle Bes include:

  • Prognostic factors of severe community-acquired staphylococcal pneumonia in France, 2021, European Respiratory Journal
  • Repeated introduction and spread of the MRSA clone t304/ST6 in northern Europe, 2020, Clinical Microbiology and Infection
  • Exploring the evolution and epidemiology of European CC1-MRSA-IV: tracking a multidrug-resistant community-associated meticillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus clone, 2021, Microbial Genomics
  • Characterisation of S. aureus/MRSA CC1153 and review of mobile genetic elements carrying the fusidic acid resistance gene fusC, 2021, Scientific Reports
  • Persistence of a multidrug-resistant worldwide-disseminated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis clone harbouring the cfr linezolid resistance gene in a French hospital with evidence of interspecies transfer to several Staphylococcus aureus lineages, 2022, Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy

Best Publications

  • Involvement of Panton-Valentine Leukocidin—Producing Staphylococcus aureus in Primary Skin Infections and Pneumonia

    Gerard Lina;Yves Piémont;Florence Godail-Gamot;Michèle Bes

  • COMMUNITY-ACQUIRED METHICILLIN-RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS CARRYING PANTON-VALENTINE LEUKOCIDIN GENES: WORLDWIDE EMERGENCE

    François Vandenesch;Timothy Naimi;Mark C. Enright;Gerard Lina

  • Association between Staphylococcus aureus strains carrying gene for Panton-Valentine leukocidin and highly lethal necrotising pneumonia in young immunocompetent patients

    Yves Gillet;Bertrand Issartel;Philippe Vanhems;Jean-Christophe Fournet

  • Staphylococcus aureus Panton-Valentine Leukocidin Causes Necrotizing Pneumonia

    Maria Labandeira-Rey;Florence Couzon;Sandrine Boisset;Eric L. Brown

  • Community-acquired methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections in France: emergence of a single clone that produces Panton-Valentine leukocidin.

    Philippe Dufour;Yves Gillet;Michèle Bes;Gerard Lina

  • egc, A Highly Prevalent Operon of Enterotoxin Gene, Forms a Putative Nursery of Superantigens in Staphylococcus aureus

    Sophie Jarraud;Marie Alix Peyrat;Annick Lim;Anne Tristan

  • Global distribution of Panton-Valentine leukocidin--positive methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus, 2006.

    Anne Tristan;Michele Bes;Helene Meugnier;Gerard Lina

  • Bacterial competition for human nasal cavity colonization: role of Staphylococcal agr alleles.

    Gerard Lina;Florent Boutite;Anne Tristan;Michèle Bes

  • Staphylococcus lugdunensis sp. nov. and Staphylococcus schleiferi sp. nov., Two Species from Human Clinical Specimens

    Jean Freney;Yvonne Brun;Michele Bes;Helene Meugnier

  • Factors Predicting Mortality in Necrotizing Community-Acquired Pneumonia Caused by Staphylococcus aureus Containing Panton-Valentine Leukocidin

    Yves Gillet;Yves Gillet;Philippe Vanhems;Philippe Vanhems;Gerard Lina;Gerard Lina;Michèle Bes;Michèle Bes

  • Use of Multiplex PCR To Identify Staphylococcus aureus Adhesins Involved in Human Hematogenous Infections

    Anne Tristan;Liu Ying;Michele Bes;Jerome Etienne

  • Involvement of Enterotoxins G and I in Staphylococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome and Staphylococcal Scarlet Fever

    Sophie Jarraud;Grégoire Cozon;François Vandenesch;Michèle Bes

  • High Genetic Variability of the agr Locus in Staphylococcus Species

    Philippe Dufour;Sophie Jarraud;Francois Vandenesch;Timothy Greenland

  • Effect of Antibiotics on Staphylococcus aureus Producing Panton-Valentine Leukocidin

    Oana Dumitrescu;Sandrine Boisset;Cedric Badiou;Michele Bes

  • Comparative prevalence of superantigen genes in Staphylococcus aureus isolates causing sepsis with and without septic shock.

    Tristan Ferry;Damien Thomas;Anne-Laure Genestier;Michèle Bes

  • Are Host Genetics the Predominant Determinant of Persistent Nasal Staphylococcus aureus Carriage in Humans

    Raymond Ruimy;Cécile Angebault;Félix Djossou;Claire Dupont

  • Clinical isolates of Staphylococcus lugdunensis and S. schleiferi: bacteriological characteristics and susceptibility to antimicrobial agents

    J Fleurette;M Bès;Y Brun;J Freney

  • Detection of New Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Clones Containing the Toxic Shock Syndrome Toxin 1 Gene Responsible for Hospital- and Community-Acquired Infections in France

    Geraldine Durand;Michèle Bes;Helene Meugnier;Mark C. Enright

  • Recommended minimal standards for description of new staphylococcal species

    J. Freney;W. E. Kloos;V. Hajek;J. A. Webster

  • Effect of antibiotics, alone and in combination, on Panton–Valentine leukocidin production by a Staphylococcus aureus reference strain

    O. Dumitrescu;C. Badiou;M. Bes;M.-E. Reverdy

Frequent Co-Authors

Jerome Etienne
Jerome Etienne Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
François Vandenesch
François Vandenesch Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Gerard Lina
Gerard Lina Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Frédéric Laurent
Frédéric Laurent Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Marisa Haenni
Marisa Haenni University of Lyon System
Alex van Belkum
Alex van Belkum BaseClear B.V.
Binh An Diep
Binh An Diep University of California, San Francisco
Mark C. Enright
Mark C. Enright Manchester Metropolitan University
Sophie Jarraud
Sophie Jarraud Claude Bernard University Lyon 1
Angela M. Christiano
Angela M. Christiano Columbia University

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