David Šmajs

Research interests

Publications

• The Impact of DNA Extraction Methods on Stool Bacterial and Fungal Microbiota Community Recovery

  Frontiers in Microbiology · 2019 · 10.3389/fmicb.2019.00821

• Treponema pallidum, the syphilis spirochete: making a living as a stealth pathogen

  Nature Reviews Microbiology · 2016 · https://doi.org/10.1038/nrmicro.2016.141

• Origin of modern syphilis and emergence of a pandemic Treponema pallidum cluster

  Nature Microbiology · 2016 · 10.1038/nmicrobiol.2016.245

• Escherichia colistrains of phylogenetic group B2 and D and bacteriocin production are associated with advanced colorectal neoplasia

  BMC Infectious Diseases · 2014 · 10.1186/s12879-014-0733-7

• Whole Genome Sequences of Three Treponema pallidum ssp. pertenue Strains: Yaws and Syphilis Treponemes Differ in Less than 0.2% of the Genome Sequence

  PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2012 · 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001471

• Genetic diversity in Treponema pallidum: Implications for pathogenesis, evolution and molecular diagnostics of syphilis and yaws

  Infection Genetics and Evolution · 2011 · 10.1016/j.meegid.2011.12.001

• Macrolide treatment failure in a case of secondary syphilis: a novel A2059G mutation in the 23S rRNA gene of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum

  Journal of Medical Microbiology · 2009 · 10.1099/jmm.0.007542-0

• A NovelTreponema pallidumAntigen, TP0136, Is an Outer Membrane Protein That Binds Human Fibronectin

  Infection and Immunity · 2008 · 10.1128/iai.01424-07

• Comparison of the genome of the oral pathogen Treponema denticola with other spirochete genomes

  Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · 2004 · https://doi.org/10.1073/pnas.0307639101

• S-layers on cell walls of cyanobacteria

  Micron · 2002 · 10.1016/s0968-4328(01)00031-2

• Characterization of Colicin S4 and Its Receptor, OmpW, a Minor Protein of the Escherichia coli Outer Membrane

  Journal of Bacteriology · 1999 · 10.1128/jb.181.11.3578-3581.1999

Current projects

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