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Jörg Hacker

Flinders University(AU)Airborne International (Netherlands)(NL)

Publications by Year

Research Areas

Escherichia coli research studies, Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology, Bacteriophages and microbial interactions, Antibiotic Resistance in Bacteria, Vibrio bacteria research studies

Most-Cited Works

→ Pathogenicity Islands and the Evolution of Microbes(2000)1,297 cited
→ Genomic islands in pathogenic and environmental microorganisms(2004)1,179 cited
→ Pathogenicity islands of virulent bacteria: structure, function and impact on microbial evolution(1997)1,128 cited
→ Escherichia coli Induces DNA Double-Strand Breaks in Eukaryotic Cells(2006)1,125 cited
→ Molecular Evidence for a Uniform Microbial Community in Sponges from Different Oceans(2002)704 cited
→ Ecological fitness, genomic islands and bacterial pathogenicity(2001)613 cited

→ Excision of large DNA regions termed pathogenicity islands from tRNA-specific loci in the chromosome of an Escherichia coli wild-type pathogen(1994)

411 cited

→ A novel mechanism of phase variation of virulence in Staphylococcus epidermidis: evidence for control of the polysaccharide intercellular adhesin synthesis by alternating insertion and excision of the insertion sequence element IS256(1999)407 cited

→ Detection of the intercellular adhesion gene cluster (ica) and phase variation in Staphylococcus epidermidis blood culture strains and mucosal isolates(1997)368 cited

→ Analysis of the Genome Structure of the Nonpathogenic Probiotic Escherichia coli Strain Nissle 1917(2004)366 cited