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Differentiation of CC59 Community-Associated Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Western Australia.
Coombs GW, Monecke S, Ehricht R, Slickers P, Pearson JC, Tan HL, Christiansen KJ, O'Brien FG.
Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2010 Mar 8.

Molecular fingerprinting of Staphylococcus aureus from bone and joint infections.
Luedicke C, Slickers P, Ehricht R, Monecke S.
Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2010 Feb 26

Characterization of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 from cases of bovine mastitis.
Feßler A, Scott C, Kadlec K, Ehricht R, Monecke S, Schwarz S
J Antimicrob Chemother. 2010 Feb 17.

Characterisation of MRSA from Malta and the description of a Maltese epidemic MRSA strain.
Scicluna EA, Shore AC, Thürmer A, Ehricht R, Slickers P, Borg MA, Coleman DC, Monecke S; Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2009.

Diversity of antimicrobial resistance pheno- and genotypes of
methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus ST398 from diseased swine.

Kristina Kadlec, Ralf Ehricht, Stefan Monecke, Ulrike Steinacker, Heike Kaspar, Joachim Mankertz, Stefan Schwarz; J Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, 2009.

Intra-strain variability of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains ST228-MRSA-I and ST5-MRSA-II.
S. Monecke & R. Ehricht & P. Slickers & N. Wiese & D. Jonas,Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 2009.

Molecular epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus in asymptomatic carriers.
Monecke S, Luedicke C, Slickers P, Ehricht R.; Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2009 May 12.

Comparative molecular analysis substantiates a zoonotic potential of equine Methicillin- resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA).
Walther B, Monecke S, Ruscher C, Friedrich AW, Ehricht R, Slickers P, Soba A, Wleklinski CG, Wieler LH, Lübke-Becker A.; J Clin Microbiol. 2008 Dec 24 [Epub ahead of print].

Assignment of Staphylococcus aureus isolates to clonal complexes based on microarray analysis and pattern recognition.
Monecke S, Slickers P, Ehricht R; 1: FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol. 2008 May 27.

Disseminated cutaneous and pulmonary abscesses in an injecting drug user caused by a Panton-Valentine leucocidin-positive, methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus strain.
Ditzen A, Ehricht R, Monecke S; Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis. 2008 May 15 [Epub ahead of print].

DNA microarray-based genotyping of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains from Eastern Saxony.
Monecke S, Jatzwauk L, Weber S, Slickers P, Ehricht R; Clin Microbiol Infect. 2008 Mar 27 [Epub ahead of print].

High diversity of Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive, methicillinsusceptible isolates of Staphylococcus aureus and implications for the evolution of community-associated methicillin-resistant S. aureus.
S. Monecke, P. Slickers, M. J. Ellington, A. M. Kearns and R. Ehricht; Clin Microbiol Infect 2007; 13: 1157–1164.

Microarray based study on virulence-associated genes and resistance
determinants of Staphylococcus aureus isolates from cattle.

Monecke S, Kuhnert P, Hotzel H, Slickers P, Ehricht R.; Vet Microbiol. 2007, May 24.

Microarray-based characterisation of a Panton–Valentine leukocidin-positive community-acquired strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.
S. Monecke, P. Slickers, H. Hotzel, G. Richter-Huhn, M. Pohle, S. Weber, W. Witte and R. Ehricht; Clin Microbiol Infec; 2006 (12), 718-28.


Comparative genomics and DNA array-based genotyping of pandemic Staphylococcus aureus strains encoding Panton-Valentine leukocidin.
S. Monecke, B. Berger-Bächi, G. Coombs, A. Holmes, I. Kay, A. Kearns, H-J. Linde, F. O'Brien, P. Slickers and R. Ehricht; Clin Microbiol Infect 2006.

Rapid genotyping of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates using miniaturised oligonucleotide arrays.
Stefan Monecke, Ralf Ehricht; Clin Microbiol Infect. 2005 Oct;11(10):825-33.

Simple and Robust Array-Based Methods for the Parallel Detection of Resistance Genes of Staphylococcus aureus.
Stefan Monecke, Ines Leube, Ralf Ehricht; Genome Letters 2003, Vol. 2, No. 3.