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  1. Effect of Serotype on Pneumococcal Competition in a Mouse Colonization Model

    Article • mBio, September 2015, ASM Journals

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  2. Dysbiosis of upper respiratory tract microbiota in elderly pneumonia patients

    Article • The ISME Journal, July 2015, Nature

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski, Prof dr. John W Rossen, Wouter de Steenhuijsen Piters

  3. Salivary antibody levels in adolescents in response to a meningococcal serogroup C conjugate booster vaccination nine years after priming: systemically induced local immunity and saliva as potential surveillance tool

    Article • Vaccine, July 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  4. Identification of pneumococcal colonization determinants in the stringent response pathway facilitated by genomic diversity

    Article • BMC Genomics, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  5. Carriage of Streptococcus pneumoniae in Aged Adults with Influenza-Like-Illness

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2015, PLOS

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  6. Serotype Distribution and Antibiotic Susceptibility of Streptococcus pneumoniae Strains Carried by Children Infected with Human Immunodeficiency Virus

    Article • PLoS ONE, October 2014, PLOS

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  7. Streptococcus pneumoniae in Saliva of Dutch Primary School Children

    Article • PLoS ONE, July 2014, PLOS

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  8. Capsular switching as a strategy to increase pneumococcal virulence in experimental otitis media model

    Article • Microbes and Infection, April 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  9. Immunosenescence and pneumococcal disease: an imbalance in host–pathogen interactions

    Article • The Lancet Respiratory Medicine, February 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  10. Seven-Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine and Nasopharyngeal Microbiota in Healthy Children

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, February 2014, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  11. Surface Charge of Streptococcus pneumoniae Predicts Serotype Distribution

    Article • Infection and Immunity, September 2013, ASM Journals

    Dr Yuan Li, Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  12. Within-Host Selection Is Limited by an Effective Population of Streptococcus pneumoniae during Nasopharyngeal Colonization

    Article • Infection and Immunity, September 2013, ASM Journals

    Dr Yuan Li, Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  13. Impaired Innate Mucosal Immunity in Aged Mice Permits Prolonged Streptococcus pneumoniae Colonization

    Article • Infection and Immunity, September 2013, ASM Journals

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski, Debby Bogaert

  14. Pneumococcal immune evasion: ZmpC inhibits neutrophil influx

    Article • Cellular Microbiology, May 2013, Wiley

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  15. Superiority of Trans-Oral over Trans-Nasal Sampling in Detecting Streptococcus pneumoniae Colonization in Adults

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2013, PLOS

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  16. Viral and Bacterial Interactions in the Upper Respiratory Tract

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, January 2013, PLOS

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  17. Multivariate Approach for Studying Interactions between Environmental Variables and Microbial Communities

    Article • PLoS ONE, November 2012, PLOS

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  18. Streptococcus pneumoniae Capsular Serotype Invasiveness Correlates with the Degree of Factor H Binding and Opsonization with C3b/iC3b

    Article • Infection and Immunity, November 2012, ASM Journals

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski, Jeremy Brown

  19. Distinct Effects on Diversifying Selection by Two Mechanisms of Immunity against Streptococcus pneumoniae

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, November 2012, PLOS

    Dr Yuan Li, Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  20. Alternative Sampling Methods for Detecting Bacterial Pathogens in Children with Upper Respiratory Tract Infections

    Article • Journal of Clinical Microbiology, October 2012, ASM Journals

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  21. Deep Sequencing Analyses of Low Density Microbial Communities: Working at the Boundary of Accurate Microbiota Detection

    Article • PLoS ONE, March 2012, PLOS

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  22. S128 Highly invasive capsular serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae bind high levels of Factor H and are resistant to complement and phagocytosis

    Article • Thorax, December 2011, BMJ

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  23. The Capsular Serotype of Streptococcus pneumoniae Is More Important than the Genetic Background for Resistance to Complement

    Article • Infection and Immunity, September 2010, ASM Journals

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  24. Serotype-Related Variation in Susceptibility to Complement Deposition and Opsonophagocytosis among Clinical Isolates of Streptococcus pneumoniae

    Article • Infection and Immunity, September 2010, ASM Journals

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  25. Re-emergence of the type 1 pilus among Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in Massachusetts, USA

    Article • Vaccine, July 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  26. MYBBP1A: a new Ipr1’s binding protein in mice

    Article • Molecular Biology Reports, March 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  27. The role of complement in innate and adaptive immunity to pneumococcal colonization and sepsis in a murine model

    Article • Vaccine, January 2010, Elsevier

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  28. Pneumococcal Capsular Polysaccharide Structure Predicts Serotype Prevalence

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, June 2009, PLOS

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  29. Killing niche competitors by remote-control bacteriophage induction

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, January 2009, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  30. Protection against Nasopharyngeal Colonization by Streptococcus pneumoniae Is Mediated by Antigen-Specific CD4+ T Cells

    Article • Infection and Immunity, April 2008, ASM Journals

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  31. Evolution and Epidemiology of Antibiotic-Resistant Pneumococci

    Article • December 2007, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  32. Strain Characteristics of Streptococcus pneumoniae Carriage and Invasive Disease Isolates during a Cluster‐Randomized Clinical Trial of the 7‐Valent Pneumococcal Conjugate Vaccine

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, October 2007, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  33. SpxB Is a Suicide Gene of Streptococcus pneumoniae and Confers a Selective Advantage in an In Vivo Competitive Colonization Model

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, July 2007, ASM Journals

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  34. Association of the Pneumococcal Pilus with Certain Capsular Serotypes but Not with Increased Virulence

    Article • Journal of Clinical Microbiology, March 2007, ASM Journals

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  35. Interference between Streptococcus pneumoniae and Staphylococcus aureus: In Vitro Hydrogen Peroxide-Mediated Killing by Streptococcus pneumoniae

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, July 2006, ASM Journals

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  36. Incremental Increase in Fitness Cost with Increased β‐Lactam Resistance in Pneumococci Evaluated by Competition in an Infant Rat Nasal Colonization Model

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, May 2006, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  37. Evidence for tetracycline resistance determinant tet(M) allele replacement in a Streptococcus pneumoniae population of limited geographical origin

    Article • International Journal of Antimicrobial Agents, February 2006, Elsevier

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  38. Antibodies to Conserved Pneumococcal Antigens Correlate with, but Are Not Required for, Protection against Pneumococcal Colonization Induced by Prior Exposure in a Mouse Model

    Article • Infection and Immunity, October 2005, ASM Journals

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  39. Capsule Homology Does Not Increase the Frequency of Transformation of Linked Penicillin Binding Proteins PBP 1a and PBP 2x in Streptococcus pneumoniae

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, March 2005, ASM Journals

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  40. CD4+T cells mediate antibody-independent acquired immunity to pneumococcal colonization

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, March 2005, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  41. Single-Step Capsular Transformation and Acquisition of Penicillin Resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, June 2004, ASM Journals

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  42. Construction of Otherwise Isogenic Serotype 6B, 7F, 14, and 19F Capsular Variants of Streptococcus pneumoniae Strain TIGR4

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, December 2003, ASM Journals

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  43. Evolution And Epidemiology Of Antibiotic- Resistant Pneumococci

    Article • November 2001, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  44. Genetic Diversity of the tet(M) Gene in Tetracycline-Resistant Clonal Lineages of Streptococcus pneumoniae

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, November 2000, ASM Journals

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  45. Expression of resistance to tetracyclines in strains of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus

    Article • Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy, June 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  46. Population biology of Streptococcus pneumoniae isolated from oropharyngeal carriage and invasive disease

    Article • Microbiology, November 1999, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  47. First report of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus faecium isolated in Poland

    Article • Clinical Microbiology and Infection, August 1999, Elsevier

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  48. Spread of old and new clones of epidemic methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Poland

    Article • Clinical Microbiology and Infection, September 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  49. Comparison of Genetic Characteristics of MRSA Strains Present in a Warsaw Hospital in 1992 and 1996

    Article • Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, May 1998, Elsevier

    Dr Tomasz A Leski, Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  50. Simultaneous persistence of methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible clones of Staphylococcus aureus in a neonatal ward of a Warsaw Hospital

    Article • Journal of Hospital Infection, August 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  51. Two clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Poland

    Article • Clinical Microbiology and Infection, April 1997, Elsevier

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  52. Antimicrobial susceptibility patterns of some important pathogens isolated in Poland in 1991–1993

    Article • Zentralblatt für Bakteriologie, October 1994, Elsevier

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski

  53. Characterization of two different clusters of clonally related methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains by conventional and molecular typing

    Article • Journal of Hospital Infection, October 1994, Elsevier

    Dr Krzysztof Trzcinski