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h-index: 10
Works: 28
Citations: 538

Most-cited papers

A privileged intraphagocyte niche is responsible for disseminated infection of Staphylococcus aureus in a zebrafish model
Tomasz K. Prajsnar, Ruth Hamilton, J. García-Lara, Gareth McVicker +4 more
2012Cellular Microbiology115 citations Open access
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Clonal Expansion during Staphylococcus aureus Infection Dynamics Reveals the Effect of Antibiotic Intervention
Gareth McVicker, Tomasz K. Prajsnar, Alexander Williams, N. Wagner +3 more
2014PLoS Pathogens92 citations Open access
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Deletion of toxin–antitoxin systems in the evolution of Shigella sonnei as a host-adapted pathogen
Gareth McVicker, Christoph M. Tang
2016Nature Microbiology85 citations
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Figures and Tables for : Characterisation of Shigella Spa 33 and Thermotoga FliM / N reveals a new model for C-ring assembly in T 3 SS
M. A. McDowell, J. Marcoux, Gareth McVicker, S. Johnson +15 more
201664 citations
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Genetic plasticity of the Shigella virulence plasmid is mediated by intra- and inter-molecular events between insertion sequences
Giulia Pilla, Gareth McVicker, Christoph M. Tang
2017PLoS Genetics56 citations Open access
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SlyA Protein Activates fimB Gene Expression and Type 1 Fimbriation in Escherichia coli K-12
Gareth McVicker, Lei Sun, Baljinder K. Sohanpal, Krishna Gashi +3 more
2011Journal of Biological Chemistry35 citations Open access
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Maintenance of the virulence plasmid in Shigella flexneri is influenced by Lon and two functional partitioning systems
Gareth McVicker, S. Hollingshead, Giulia Pilla, Christoph M. Tang
2019Molecular Microbiology19 citations Open access
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Staying out or Going in? The Interplay between Type 3 and Type 5 Secretion Systems in Adhesion and Invasion of Enterobacterial Pathogens
Rachel Whelan, Gareth McVicker, Jack C. Leo
2020International Journal of Molecular Sciences16 citations Open access
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Maintenance of the Shigella sonnei Virulence Plasmid Is Dependent on Its Repertoire and Amino Acid Sequence of Toxin-Antitoxin Systems
Jessica E. Martyn, Giulia Pilla, S. Hollingshead, K. Winther +3 more
2022Journal of Bacteriology14 citations Open access
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Shared mechanisms of enhanced plasmid maintenance and antibiotic tolerance mediated by the VapBC toxin:antitoxin system
S. Hollingshead, Gareth McVicker, M. R. Nielsen, YuGeng Zhang +7 more
2024mBio10 citations Open access
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Investigating Student Engagement and Making Science Real during a Pandemic: Bioskills at Home, a Case Study
Sarah Rayment, Karin Garrie, Ishwinder Kaur, Gareth McVicker +9 more
2022Education sciences9 citations Open access
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RfaH Suppresses Small RNA MicA Inhibition of fimB Expression in Escherichia coli K-12
Alexandra Moores, Saranna Chipper-Keating, Lei Sun, Gareth McVicker +3 more
2013Journal of Bacteriology7 citations Open access
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The plasmid-borne hipBA operon of Klebsiella michiganensis encodes a potent plasmid stabilization system
Jordan Shutt-McCabe, Karimunnisa Shaik, L. Hoyles, Gareth McVicker
2024bioRxiv4 citations Open access
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Characterization of a Helicobacter pylori strain with high biofilm-forming ability.
D. Wilkinson, L. Alsharaf, Stephen Thompson, Andreja Paulin +6 more
2023Journal of Medical Microbiology4 citations Open access
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Genetic and phenotypic analysis of the virulence plasmid of a non-Shigatoxigenic enteroaggregative Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak strain
Rachel Whelan, Martyna Cyganek, C. Oxley, Benjamin Dickins +2 more
2025Microbiology2 citations Open access
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Use of Larval Zebrafish Model to Study Within-Host Infection Dynamics.
Tomasz K. Prajsnar, Gareth McVicker, Alexander Williams, S. Renshaw +1 more
2018Methods in molecular biology2 citations
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The Putative Virulence Plasmid pYR4 of the Fish Pathogen Yersinia ruckeri Is Conjugative and Stabilized by a HigBA Toxin–Antitoxin System
Fisentzos Floras, Chantell Mawere, Manvir Singh, Victoria Wootton +3 more
2024Biology1 citations Open access
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Genetic and phenotypic analysis of the virulence plasmid of a non-Shigatoxigenic enteroaggregative Escherichia coli O104:H4 outbreak strain
Rachel Whelan, Martyna Cyganek, Benjamin Dickins, Jonathan C. Thomas +1 more
2024bioRxiv1 citations Open access
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Molecular genetics of the virulence plasmids of pathogenic Escherichia coli O104:H4
Rachel Whelan, Gareth McVicker
20201 citations Open access
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Viral adaptation to alternating hosts and associated allelic variants
Oyeronke T. Ayansola, B. Dickins, Gareth McVicker, M. Loughlin
2019Access Microbiology1 citations Open access
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Construction and Use of Staphylococcus aureus Strains to Study Within-Host Infection Dynamics.
Gareth McVicker, Tomasz K. Prajsnar, S. Foster
2018Methods in molecular biology1 citations
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Evaluating the impact of a laboratory teaching innovation: the case of the Bioskills at home kit
B. B. Omorotionmwan, Sarah Rayment, Karin Garrie, Ishwinder Kaur +3 more
2026Access Microbiology0 citations Open access
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P96 Identification of novel KPC-2 mutations conferring resistance to β-lactam/β-lactamase inhibitor combinations: implications for genomic surveillance and clinical diagnostics
Hawawu Ahmed, M. Domingo-Sananes, Gareth McVicker, Alasdair T. M. Hubbard
2025JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance0 citations
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The role of toxin:antitoxin systems and insertion sequences in the loss of virulence in Shigella sonnei
Jessica E. Martyn, Giulia Pilla, S. Hollingshead, M. Lobanovska +4 more
2020bioRxiv0 citations Open access
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Genotypic and phenotypic characterisation of the Klebsiella oxytoca complex
Frazer McCuaig, J. Winter, Jonathan C. Thomas, Gareth McVicker +1 more
2020Access Microbiology0 citations Open access
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The effect of a sub-curative antibiotic dose on zebrafish embryos infected with S. aureus SH1000.
Gareth McVicker, Tomasz K. Prajsnar, A. Williams, N. Wagner +3 more
20140 citations Open access
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RfaH suppresses sRNA MicA inhibition of fimB 4 expression in Escherichia coli K-12 5
Alexandra Moores, Saranna Chipper-Keating, Lei Sun, Gareth McVicker +3 more
20130 citations
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SLYA ACTIVATES FIMB EXPRESSION AND TYPE 1 FIMBRIATION IN ESCHERICHIA COLI K-12 *
Gareth McVicker, Lei Sun, Baljinder K. Sohanpal, Krishna Gashi +3 more
20110 citations
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