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  1. Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum strains DAL-1 and Philadelphia 1 differ in generation times in vitro as well as during experimental rabbit infection

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2024, PLOS

    Professor David Smajs

  2. Whole genome sequences of Treponema pallidum subsp. endemicum isolated from Cuban patients: The non-clonal character of isolates suggests a persistent human infection rather than a single outbreak

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, June 2022, PLOS

    Professor David Smajs

  3. A retrospective study on nested PCR detection of syphilis treponemes in clinical samples: PCR detection contributes to the diagnosis of syphilis in patients with seronegative and serodiscrepant results

    Article • PLoS ONE, August 2020, PLOS

    Professor David Smajs

  4. Whole genome sequence of the Treponema pallidum subsp. endemicum strain Iraq B: A subpopulation of bejel treponemes contains full-length tprF and tprG genes similar to those present in T. p. subsp. pertenue strains

    Article • PLoS ONE, April 2020, PLOS

    Professor David Smajs

  5. Identification of positively selected genes in human pathogenic treponemes: Syphilis-, yaws-, and bejel-causing strains differ in sets of genes showing adaptive evolution

    Article • PLoS Neglected Tropical Diseases, June 2019, PLOS

    Professor David Smajs

  6. MLST typing of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum in the Czech Republic during 2004-2017: Clinical isolates belonged to 25 allelic profiles and harbored 8 novel allelic variants

    Article • PLoS ONE, May 2019, PLOS

    Professor David Smajs

  7. Complete Genome Sequence of Bacteriophage SEN8, a Temperate Phage Isolated from Salmonella enterica subsp. salamae

    Article • Genome Announcements, May 2017, ASM Journals

    Professor David Smajs

  8. Free-Living Enterobacterium Pragia fontium 24613: Complete Genome Sequence and Metabolic Profiling

    Article • Evolutionary Bioinformatics, January 2017, SAGE Publications

    Professor Ivo Provazník, Professor David Smajs

  9. Microcin determinants are associated with B2 phylogroup of human fecalEscherichia coliisolates

    Article • MicrobiologyOpen, March 2016, Wiley

    Professor David Smajs

  10. Complete Genome Sequence of Pragia fontium 24613, an Environmental Bacterium from the Family Enterobacteriaceae

    Article • Genome Announcements, July 2015, ASM Journals

    Professor David Smajs, Professor Ivo Provazník

  11. Molecular Typing of Treponema pallidum in the Czech Republic during 2011 to 2013: Increased Prevalence of Identified Genotypes and of Isolates with Macrolide Resistance

    Article • Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2014, ASM Journals

    Professor David Smajs