Articles by Keiichi Hiramatsu (9)

Mutated Response Regulator graR Is Responsible for Phenotypic Conversion of Staphylococcus aureus from Heterogeneous Vancomycin-Intermediate Resistance to Vancomycin-Intermediate Resistance

Hui- min Neoh, Longzhu Cui, Harumi Yuzawa, Fumihiko Takeuchi, Miki Matsuo and Keiichi Hiramatsu

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 52 ( 1 ): 45 - 53 , 2008

Novel Type of Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec in a Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strain Isolated in Sweden

Carolina Berglund, Teruyo Ito, Megumi Ikeda, Xiao Xue Ma, Bo Soderquist and Keiichi Hiramatsu

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 52 ( 10 ): 3512 - 3516 , 2008

Smqnr, a New Chromosome-Carried Quinolone Resistance Gene in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia

Kenichiro Shimizu, Ken Kikuchi, Takashi Sasaki, Namiko Takahashi, Masayuki Ohtsuka, Yuka Ono and Keiichi Hiramatsu

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 52 ( 10 ): 3823 - 3825 , 2008

Postantibiotic Effects and Bactericidal Activities of Levofloxacin and Gatifloxacin at Concentrations Simulating Those of Topical Ophthalmic Administration against Fluoroquinolone-Resistant and Fluoroquinolone-Sensitive Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Strains

Saichi Hoshi, Ken Kikuchi, Takashi Sasaki, Chie Sotozono, Shigeru Kinoshita and Keiichi Hiramatsu

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 52 ( 8 ): 2970 - 2973 , 2008

Serial Daptomycin Selection Generates Daptomycin-Nonsusceptible Staphylococcus aureus Strains with a Heterogeneous Vancomycin-Intermediate Phenotype

Ilana Lopes Baratella da Cunha Camargo, Hui-Min Neoh, Longzhu Cui and Keiichi Hiramatsu

Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 52 ( 12 ): 4289 - 4299 , 2008

Genome Sequence of Staphylococcus aureus Strain Newman and Comparative Analysis of Staphylococcal Genomes: Polymorphism and Evolution of Two Major Pathogenicity Islands

Tadashi Baba, Taeok Bae, Olaf Schneewind, Fumihiko Takeuchi and Keiichi Hiramatsu

Journal of Bacteriology 190 ( 1 ): 300 - 310 , 2008

Structural and Biological Characterization of a Capsular Polysaccharide Produced by Staphylococcus haemolyticus

Sigrid Flahaut, Evgeny Vinogradov, Kathryn A. Kelley, Shannon Brennan, Keiichi Hiramatsu and Jean C. Lee

Journal of Bacteriology 190 ( 5 ): 1649 - 1657 , 2008

Two Different Panton-Valentine Leukocidin Phage Lineages Predominate in Japan

Xiao Xue Ma, Teruyo Ito, Yoko Kondo, Moe Cho, Yukio Yoshizawa, Jun Kaneko, Atsuo Katai, Masato Higashiide, Shanshuang Li and Keiichi Hiramatsu

Journal of Clinical Microbiology 46 ( 10 ): 3246 - 3258 , 2008

Extreme Genetic Diversity of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus epidermidis Strains Disseminated among Healthy Japanese Children

Tengku Zetty Maztura Tengku Jamaluddin, Kyoko Kuwahara-Arai, Ken Hisata, Masahiko Terasawa, Longzhu Cui, Tadashi Baba, Chie Sotozono, Shigeru Kinoshita, Teruyo Ito and Keiichi Hiramatsu

Journal of Clinical Microbiology 46 ( 11 ): 3778 - 3783 , 2008