| The endemic treponematoses L Giacani, SA Lukehart Clinical microbiology reviews 27 (1), 89-115, 2014 | 220 | 2014 |
| Origin of modern syphilis and emergence of a pandemic Treponema pallidum cluster N Arora, VJ Schuenemann, G Jäger, A Peltzer, A Seitz, A Herbig, ... Nature microbiology 2 (1), 1-6, 2016 | 164 | 2016 |
| The wide utility of rabbits as models of human diseases PJ Esteves, J Abrantes, HM Baldauf, L BenMohamed, Y Chen, ... Experimental & molecular medicine 50 (5), 1-10, 2018 | 153 | 2018 |
| Antigenic variation in Treponema pallidum: TprK sequence diversity accumulates in response to immune pressure during experimental syphilis L Giacani, BJ Molini, EY Kim, BC Godornes, BT Leader, LC Tantalo, ... The Journal of Immunology 184 (7), 3822-3829, 2010 | 114 | 2010 |
| Fine Analysis of Genetic Diversity of the tpr Gene Family among Treponemal Species, Subspecies and Strains A Centurion-Lara, L Giacani, C Godornes, BJ Molini, T Brinck Reid, ... PLoS neglected tropical diseases 7 (5), e2222, 2013 | 104 | 2013 |
| Neurosyphilis H Gonzalez, IJ Koralnik, CM Marra Seminars in neurology 39 (04), 448-455, 2019 | 97 | 2019 |
| DNA immunization with pgp3 gene of Chlamydia trachomatis inhibits the spread of chlamydial infection from the lower to the upper genital tract in C3H/HeN mice M Donati, V Sambri, M Comanducci, K Di Leo, E Storni, L Giacani, G Ratti, ... Vaccine 21 (11-12), 1089-1093, 2003 | 96 | 2003 |
| Molecular Evolution of the tprC, D, I, K, G, and J Genes in the Pathogenic Genus Treponema RR Gray, CJ Mulligan, BJ Molini, ES Sun, L Giacani, C Godornes, ... Molecular biology and evolution 23 (11), 2220-2233, 2006 | 90 | 2006 |
| Comparative investigation of the genomic regions involved in antigenic variation of the TprK antigen among treponemal species, subspecies, and strains L Giacani, SL Brandt, M Puray-Chavez, TB Reid, C Godornes, BJ Molini, ... Journal of bacteriology 194 (16), 4208-4225, 2012 | 85 | 2012 |
| Quantitative Analysis of tpr Gene Expression in Treponema pallidum Isolates: Differences among Isolates and Correlation with T-Cell Responsiveness in … L Giacani, B Molini, C Godornes, L Barrett, W Van Voorhis, ... Infection and immunity 75 (1), 104-112, 2007 | 85 | 2007 |
| Comparative in vitro activity of five cathelicidin-derived synthetic peptides against Leptospira, Borrelia and Treponema pallidum V Sambri, A Marangoni, L Giacani, R Gennaro, R Murgia, R Cevenini, ... Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy 50 (6), 895-902, 2002 | 80 | 2002 |
| Whole Genome Sequence of the Treponema pallidum subsp. endemicum Strain Bosnia A: The Genome Is Related to Yaws Treponemes but Contains Few Loci … B Štaudová, M Strouhal, M Zobaníková, D Čejková, LL Fulton, L Chen, ... PLoS neglected tropical diseases 8 (11), e3261, 2014 | 64 | 2014 |
| Complete Genome Sequence and Annotation of the Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum Chicago Strain L Giacani, BM Jeffrey, BJ Molini, HVT Le, SA Lukehart, A Centurion-Lara, ... Journal of bacteriology 192 (10), 2645-2646, 2010 | 64 | 2010 |
| Length of guanosine homopolymeric repeats modulates promoter activity of subfamily II tpr genes of Treponema pallidum ssp. pallidum L Giacani, S Lukehart, A Centurion-Lara FEMS Immunology & Medical Microbiology 51 (2), 289-301, 2007 | 59 | 2007 |
| Immunological Evaluation and Cellular Location Analysis of the TprI Antigen of Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum L Giacani, V Sambri, A Marangoni, F Cavrini, E Storni, M Donati, ... Infection and immunity 73 (6), 3817-3822, 2005 | 48 | 2005 |
| Treponema pallidum subsp. pallidum TP0136 Protein Is Heterogeneous among Isolates and Binds Cellular and Plasma Fibronectin via its NH2-Terminal End W Ke, BJ Molini, SA Lukehart, L Giacani PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 9 (3), e0003662, 2015 | 45 | 2015 |
| Enhanced molecular typing of Treponema pallidum subspecies pallidum strains from 4 Italian hospitals shows geographical differences in strain type heterogeneity, widespread … L Giacani, G Ciccarese, C Puga-Salazar, I Dal Conte, L Colli, M Cusini, ... Sexually transmitted diseases 45 (4), 237-242, 2018 | 42 | 2018 |
| Directly sequenced genomes of contemporary strains of syphilis reveal recombination-driven diversity in genes encoding predicted surface-exposed antigens L Grillová, J Oppelt, L Mikalová, M Nováková, L Giacani, A Niesnerová, ... Frontiers in microbiology 10, 1691, 2019 | 41 | 2019 |
| Tpr Homologs in Treponema paraluiscuniculi Cuniculi A Strain L Giacani, ES Sun, K Hevner, BJ Molini, WC Van Voorhis, SA Lukehart, ... Infection and immunity 72 (11), 6561-6576, 2004 | 40 | 2004 |
| Treponema pallidum genome sequencing from six continents reveals variability in vaccine candidate genes and dominance of Nichols clade strains in Madagascar NAP Lieberman, MJ Lin, H Xie, L Shrestha, T Nguyen, ML Huang, ... PLoS neglected tropical diseases 15 (12), e0010063, 2021 | 37 | 2021 |
