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Alexander Tomasz

Active 1964–2019

162
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39,204
Citations
109
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Citations

Citations per year for Alexander Tomasz1966: 3 citations1967: 3 citations1968: 4 citations1970: 19 citations1971: 13 citations1972: 4 citations1973: 3 citations1974: 10 citations1975: 34 citations1976: 32 citations1977: 13 citations1978: 7 citations1979: 13 citations1980: 31 citations1981: 41 citations1982: 19 citations1983: 17 citations1984: 21 citations1985: 68 citations1986: 76 citations1987: 67 citations1988: 60 citations1989: 73 citations1990: 93 citations1991: 125 citations1992: 177 citations1993: 109 citations1994: 138 citations1995: 182 citations1996: 163 citations1997: 185 citations1998: 284 citations1999: 298 citations2000: 285 citations2001: 346 citations2002: 308 citations2003: 336 citations2004: 265 citations2005: 300 citations2006: 371 citations2007: 396 citations2008: 467 citations2009: 500 citations2010: 471 citations2011: 457 citations2012: 509 citations2013: 427 citations2014: 407 citations2015: 317 citations2016: 267 citations2017: 258 citations2018: 198 citations2019: 662 citations2020: 580 citations2021: 502 citations2022: 361 citations2023: 252 citations2024: 372 citations2025: 192 citations2026: 1 citations1969: no citations, so this year is not shown

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Countries

World map of the countries and regions citing this authorUnited States: 3,628 citing papers, 28.3% of this breakdownUnited Kingdom: 1,151 citing papers, 9% of this breakdownGermany: 801 citing papers, 6.3% of this breakdownChina: 691 citing papers, 5.4% of this breakdownFrance: 555 citing papers, 4.3% of this breakdownCanada: 391 citing papers, 3.1% of this breakdownAustralia: 390 citing papers, 3% of this breakdownSpain: 341 citing papers, 2.7% of this breakdownJapan: 328 citing papers, 2.6% of this breakdownSwitzerland: 301 citing papers, 2.3% of this breakdownNetherlands: 286 citing papers, 2.2% of this breakdownIndia: 258 citing papers, 2% of this breakdown
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Institutions

Fields

  • Medicine37.7%
  • Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology34.9%
  • Immunology and Microbiology9%
  • Agricultural and Biological Sciences6.1%
  • Environmental Science5.7%
  • Chemistry1.4%
  • Other5.2%

Topics

  • Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus8%
  • Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing4.9%
  • Genomics and Phylogenetic Studies4.7%
  • Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria4.4%
  • Pneumonia and Respiratory Infections4.1%
  • Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology3.2%
  • Other70.7%

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  1. Genome sequencing in microfabricated high-density picolitre reactors

    Authors: Marcel Margulies, Michael D. Miller, William E. Altman, Said Attiya, Joel S. Bader, Lisa A. Bemben, Jan Berka, Michael Braverman, Yi‐Ju Chen, Zhoutao Chen, Scott Dewell, Lei Du, Joseph M. Fierro, Xavier V. Gomes, Bailey Godwin, Wen He, Scott Helgesen, Chun He Ho, Gerard P. Irzyk, Szilveszter C. Jando, Maria L. I. Alenquer, Thomas Jarvie, Kshama B. Jirage, Jong‐Bum Kim, James R. Knight, Janna R. Lanza, John H. Leamon, Steven M. Lefkowitz, Ming Lei, Jing Li, Kenton L. Lohman, Hong Lü, Vinod B. Makhijani, Keith E. McDade, Michael P. McKenna, Eugene W. Myers, Elizabeth Nickerson, John R. Nobile, Ramona Plant, Bernard P. Puc, M. T. Ronan, George T. Roth, Gary J. Sarkis, Jan Fredrik Simons, John Simpson, Maithreyan Srinivasan, Karrie Tartaro, Alexander Tomasz, Kari A. Vogt, Greg A. Volkmer, Shally H. Wang, Yong Wang, Michael P. Weiner, Pengguang Yu, R. F. Begley, Jonathan M. Rothberg - Nature 2005 cited by 7,738

  2. Mechanisms of vancomycin resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

    Authors: Susana Gardete, Alexander Tomasz - Journal of Clinical Investigation 2014 cited by 565

  3. Tackling antibiotic resistance

    Authors: Karen Bush, Patrice Courvalin, Gautam Dantas, Julian Davies, Barry I. Eisenstein, Pentti Huovinen, George A. Jacoby, Roy Kishony, Barry N. Kreiswirth, Elizabeth Kutter, Stephen A. Lerner, Stuart B. Levy, Kim Lewis, Olga Lomovskaya, Jeffrey H Miller, Shahriar Mobashery, Laura J. V. Piddock, Steven J. Projan, Chris D. Thomas, Alexander Tomasz, Paul M. Tulkens, Timothy R. Walsh, James D. Watson, Jan Witkowski, W Witte, Gerry Wright, Pamela J. Yeh, Helen I. Zgurskaya - Nature Reviews Microbiology 2011 cited by 1,066

  4. Low-affinity penicillin-binding protein associated with beta-lactam resistance in Staphylococcus aureus

    Authors: Barry J. Hartman, Alexander Tomasz - Journal of Bacteriology 1984 cited by 882

  5. Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus emerged long before the introduction of methicillin into clinical practice

    Authors: Catriona P. Harkins, Bruno Pichon, Michel Doumith, Julian Parkhill, Henrik Westh, Alexander Tomasz, Hermı́nia de Lencastre, Stephen D. Bentley, Angela Kearns, Matthew T. G. Holden - Genome biology 2017 cited by 324

  6. Rapid Pneumococcal Evolution in Response to Clinical Interventions

    Authors: Nicholas J. Croucher, Simon R. Harris, Christophe Fraser, Michael A. Quail, John H. Burton, Mark van der Linden, Lesley McGee, Anne von Gottberg, Jae Hoon Song, Kwan Soo Ko, Bruno Pichon, Stephen Baker, Christopher M. Parry, Lotte Lambertsen, Dea Shahinas, Dylan R. Pillai, Timothy J. Mitchell, Gordon Dougan, Alexander Tomasz, Keith P. Klugman, Julian Parkhill, William P. Hanage, Stephen D. Bentley - Science 2011 cited by 921

  7. Tracking the in vivo evolution of multidrug resistance in Staphylococcus aureus by whole-genome sequencing

    Authors: Michael Mwangi, Shang Wei Wu, Yanjiao Zhou, Krzysztof Sieradzki, Hermı́nia de Lencastre, Paul Richardson, David Bruce, Edward M. Rubin, Eugene W. Myers, Eric D. Siggia, Alexander Tomasz - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2007 cited by 548

  8. An acquired and a native penicillin-binding protein cooperate in building the cell wall of drug-resistant staphylococci

    Authors: Mariana G. Pinho, Hermı́nia de Lencastre, Alexander Tomasz - National Academy of Sciences, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 2001 cited by 387

  9. The Rate of Killing of Escherichia coli by -Lactam Antibiotics Is Strictly Proportional to the Rate of Bacterial Growth

    Authors: Elaine Tuomanen, Robert Cozens, W. TOSCH, O. Zák, Alexander Tomasz - Microbiology 1986 cited by 491

  10. Role of VraSR in Antibiotic Resistance and Antibiotic-Induced Stress Response in Staphylococcus aureus

    Authors: Susana Gardete, Shun‐Fan Wu, Steven R. Gill, Alexander Tomasz - Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 2006 cited by 188

  11. The Cell Wall of Streptococcus pneumoniae

    Authors: Waldemar Vollmer, Orietta Massidda, Alexander Tomasz - Microbiology Spectrum 2019 cited by 91

  12. The Mechanism of Heterogeneous Beta-Lactam Resistance in MRSA: Key Role of the Stringent Stress Response

    Authors: Choon Kim, Michael Mwangi, Marilyn Chung, Catarina Milheirço, Hermı́nia de Lencastre, Alexander Tomasz - PLoS ONE 2013 cited by 103

  13. CD14 Is a pattern recognition receptor

    Authors: Jérôme Pugin, Didier Heumann, Alexander Tomasz, Vladimir V. Kravchenko, Yuzuru Akamatsu, Masahiro Nishijima, M. P. Glauser, Peter S. Tobias, Richard J. Ulevitch - Immunity 1994 cited by 706

  14. Multiple Antibiotic Resistance in a Bacterium with Suppressed Autolytic System

    Authors: Alexander Tomasz, Anthony P. Albino, EVE ZANATI - Nature 1970 cited by 438

  15. Role of Penicillin-Binding Protein 2 (PBP2) in the Antibiotic Susceptibility and Cell Wall Cross-Linking of Staphylococcus aureus : Evidence for the Cooperative Functioning of PBP2, PBP4, and PBP2A

    Authors: Tomasz A. Łęski, Alexander Tomasz - Journal of Bacteriology 2005 cited by 181

  16. Antibiotic resistant Staphylococcus aureus: a paradigm of adaptive power

    Authors: Hermı́nia de Lencastre, Duarte C. Oliveira, Alexander Tomasz - Current Opinion in Microbiology 2007 cited by 280

  17. Complementation of the Essential Peptidoglycan Transpeptidase Function of Penicillin-Binding Protein 2 (PBP2) by the Drug Resistance Protein PBP2A in Staphylococcus aureus

    Authors: Mariana G. Pinho, Sérgio R. Filipe, Hermı́nia de Lencastre, Alexander Tomasz - Journal of Bacteriology 2001 cited by 226

  18. Control of the Competent State in Pneumococcus by a Hormone-Like Cell Product: An Example for a New Type of Regulatory Mechanism in Bacteria

    Authors: Alexander Tomasz - Nature 1965 cited by 226

  19. Antibiotic tolerance among clinical isolates of bacteria

    Authors: Elaine Tuomanen, David T. Durack, Alexander Tomasz - Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 1986 cited by 213

  20. Evolutionary Origin of the Staphylococcal Cassette Chromosome mec (SCC mec )

    Authors: Joana Rolo, Peder Worning, Jesper Boye Nielsen, Rory Bowden, Ons Bouchami, Peter Damborg, Luca Guardabassi, Vincent Perreten, Alexander Tomasz, Henrik Westh, Hermı́nia de Lencastre, Maria Miragaia - Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy 2017 cited by 105

  21. Peptidoglycan composition of a highly methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strain. The role of penicillin binding protein 2A.

    Authors: B L de Jonge, Yoon‐Seok Chang, Douglas A. Gage, Alexander Tomasz - Journal of Biological Chemistry 1992 cited by 324

  22. Overexpression of Genes of the Cell Wall Stimulon in Clinical Isolates ofStaphylococcus aureusExhibiting Vancomycin-Intermediate-S. aureus-Type Resistance to Vancomycin

    Authors: Fionnuala McAleese, Shang Wei Wu, Krzysztof Sieradzki, Paul M. Dunman, Ellen Murphy, Steven J. Projan, Alexander Tomasz - Journal of Bacteriology 2006 cited by 197

  23. Properties of a Novel PBP2A Protein Homolog from Staphylococcus aureus Strain LGA251 and Its Contribution to the β-Lactam-resistant Phenotype

    Authors: Choon Kim, Catarina Milheiriço, Susana Gardete, Mark A. Holmes, Matthew T. G. Holden, Hermı́nia de Lencastre, Alexander Tomasz - Journal of Biological Chemistry 2012 cited by 136

  24. Role of PBP1 in Cell Division of Staphylococcus aureus

    Authors: Sandro F. F. Pereira, Adriano O. Henriques, Mariana G. Pinho, Hermı́nia de Lencastre, Alexander Tomasz - Journal of Bacteriology 2007 cited by 113