Bouché, Laura; Panico, Maria; Hitchen, Paul; Binet, Daniel; Sastre, Federico; Faulds-Pain, Alexandra; Valiente, Esmeralda; Vinogradov, Evgeny; Aubry, Annie; Fulton, Kelly; +5 more... Twine, Susan; Logan, Susan M; Wren, Brendan W; Dell, Anne; Morris, Howard R; (2016) The Type B Flagellin of Hypervirulent Clostridium difficile Is Modified with Novel Sulfonated Peptidylamido-glycans. The Journal of biological chemistry, 291 (49). pp. 25439-25449. ISSN 0021-9258 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M116.749481

Dawson, Lisa F; Valiente, Esmeralda; Donahue, Elizabeth H; Birchenough, George; Wren, Brendan W; (2011) Hypervirulent Clostridium difficile PCR-ribotypes exhibit resistance to widely used disinfectants. PloS one, 6 (10). e25754-. ISSN 1932-6203 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0025754

Dawson, Lisa F; Valiente, Esmeralda; Faulds-Pain, Alexandra; Donahue, Elizabeth H; Wren, Brendan W; (2012) Characterisation of Clostridium difficile biofilm formation, a role for Spo0A. PloS one, 7 (12). e50527-. ISSN 1932-6203 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0050527

Dawson, Lisa F; Valiente, Esmeralda; Wren, Brendan W; (2009) Clostridium difficile--a continually evolving and problematic pathogen. Infection, genetics and evolution, 9 (6). pp. 1410-1417. ISSN 1567-1348 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.meegid.2009.06.005 Full text not available from this repository.

Donahue, Elizabeth H; Dawson, Lisa F; Valiente, Esmeralda; Firth-Clark, Stuart; Major, Meriel R; Littler, Eddy; Perrior, Trevor R; Wren, Brendan W; (2014) Clostridium difficile has a single sortase, SrtB, that can be inhibited by small-molecule inhibitors. BMC microbiology, 14 (1). 219-. ISSN 1471-2180 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/s12866-014-0219-1

Faulds-Pain, Alexandra; Twine, Susan M; Vinogradov, Evgeny; Strong, Philippa CR; Dell, Anne; Buckley, Anthony M; Douce, Gillian R; Valiente, Esmeralda; Logan, Susan M; Wren, Brendan W; (2014) The post-translational modification of the Clostridium difficile flagellin affects motility, cell surface properties and virulence. Molecular microbiology, 94 (2). pp. 272-289. ISSN 0950-382X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/mmi.12755

Hitchen, Paul G; Twigger, Katie; Valiente, Esmeralda; Langdon, Rebecca H; Wren, Brendan W; Dell, Anne; (2010) Glycoproteomics: a powerful tool for characterizing the diverse glycoforms of bacterial pilins and flagellins. Biochemical Society transactions, 38 (5). pp. 1307-1313. ISSN 0300-5127 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1042/BST0381307 Full text not available from this repository.

Lee, Chung-Te; Amaro, Carmen; Wu, Keh-Ming; Valiente, Esmeralda; Chang, Yi-Feng; Tsai, Shih-Feng; Chang, Chuan-Hsiung; Hor, Lien-I; (2008) A common virulence plasmid in biotype 2 Vibrio vulnificus and its dissemination aided by a conjugal plasmid. Journal of bacteriology, 190 (5). pp. 1638-1648. ISSN 0021-9193 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/JB.01484-07 Full text not available from this repository.

Newire, Enas A; Ahmed, Salwa F; House, Brent; Valiente, Esmeralda; Pimentel, Guillermo; (2013) Detection of new SHV-12, SHV-5 and SHV-2a variants of extended spectrum beta-lactamase in Klebsiella pneumoniae in Egypt. Annals of clinical microbiology and antimicrobials, 12 (1). 16-. ISSN 1476-0711 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1476-0711-12-16

Shaw, HA; Preston, MD; Vendrik, KEW; Cairns, MD; Browne, HP; Stabler, RA; Crobach, MJT; Corver, J; Pituch, H; Ingebretsen, A; +7 more... Pirmohamed, M; Faulds-Pain, A; Valiente, E; Lawley, TD; Fairweather, NF; Kuijper, EJ; Wren, BW; (2019) The recent emergence of a highly related virulent Clostridium difficile clade with unique characteristics. Clinical Microbiology and Infection, 26 (4). pp. 492-498. ISSN 1198-743X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cmi.2019.09.004

Stabler, Richard A; Dawson, Lisa F; Valiente, Esmeralda; Cairns, Michelle D; Martin, Melissa J; Donahue, Elizabeth H; Riley, Thomas V; Songer, J Glenn; Kuijper, Ed J; Dingle, Kate E; +1 more... Wren, Brendan W; (2012) Macro and micro diversity of Clostridium difficile isolates from diverse sources and geographical locations. PloS one, 7 (3). e31559-. ISSN 1932-6203 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0031559

Stabler, Richard A; He, Miao; Dawson, Lisa; Martin, Melissa; Valiente, Esmeralda; Corton, Craig; Lawley, Trevor D; Sebaihia, Mohammed; Quail, Michael A; Rose, Graham; +6 more... Gerding, Dale N; Gibert, Maryse; Popoff, Michel R; Parkhill, Julian; Dougan, Gordon; Wren, Brendan W; (2009) Comparative genome and phenotypic analysis of Clostridium difficile 027 strains provides insight into the evolution of a hypervirulent bacterium. Genome biology, 10 (9). R102-. ISSN 1465-6906 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/gb-2009-10-9-r102

Stabler, Richard A; Valiente, Esmeralda; Dawson, Lisa F; He, Miao; Parkhill, Julian; Wren, Brendan W; (2010) In-depth genetic analysis of Clostridium difficile PCR-ribotype 027 strains reveals high genome fluidity including point mutations and inversions. Gut microbes, 1 (4). pp. 269-276. ISSN 1949-0976 DOI: https://doi.org/10.4161/gmic.1.4.11870 Full text not available from this repository.

Valiente, E; Cairns, MD; Wren, BW; (2014) The Clostridium difficile PCR ribotype 027 lineage: a pathogen on the move. Clinical microbiology and infection, 20 (5). pp. 396-404. ISSN 1198-743X DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/1469-0691.12619 Full text not available from this repository.

Valiente, E; Lee, CT; Lamas, J; Hor, L; Amaro, C; (2008) Role of the virulence plasmid pR99 and the metalloprotease Vvp in resistance of Vibrio vulnificus serovar E to eel innate immunity. Fish & shellfish immunology, 24 (1). pp. 134-141. ISSN 1050-4648 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.fsi.2007.10.007 Full text not available from this repository.

Valiente, E; Padrós, F; Lamas, J; Llorens, A; Amaro, C; (2008) Microbial and histopathological study of the vibriosis caused by Vibrio vulnificus serovar E in eels: the metalloprotease Vvp is not an essential lesional factor. Microbial pathogenesis, 45 (5-6). pp. 386-393. ISSN 0882-4010 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.micpath.2008.09.001 Full text not available from this repository.

Valiente, Esmeralda; Bouché, Laura; Hitchen, Paul; Faulds-Pain, Alexandra; Songane, Mario; Dawson, Lisa F; Donahue, Elizabeth; Stabler, Richard A; Panico, Maria; Morris, Howard R; +4 more... Bajaj-Elliott, Mona; Logan, Susan M; Dell, Anne; Wren, Brendan W; (2016) Role of Glycosyltransferases Modifying Type B Flagellin of Emerging Hypervirulent Clostridium difficile Lineages and Their Impact on Motility and Biofilm Formation. The Journal of biological chemistry, 291 (49). pp. 25450-25461. ISSN 0021-9258 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1074/jbc.M116.749523

Valiente, Esmeralda; Davies, Cadi; Mills, Dominic C; Getino, Maria; Ritchie, Jennifer M; Wren, Brendan W; (2018) Vibrio cholerae accessory colonisation factor AcfC: a chemotactic protein with a role in hyperinfectivity. Scientific reports, 8 (1). 8390-. ISSN 2045-2322 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-26570-7

Valiente, Esmeralda; Dawson, Lisa F; Cairns, Michelle D; Stabler, Richard A; Wren, Brendan W; (2011) Emergence of new PCR ribotypes from the hypervirulent Clostridium difficile 027 lineage. Journal of medical microbiology, 61 (Pt 1). pp. 49-56. ISSN 0022-2615 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1099/jmm.0.036194-0

Valiente, Esmeralda; Jiménez, Natalia; Merino, Susana; Tomás, Juan M; Amaro, Carmen; (2008) Vibrio vulnificus biotype 2 serovar E gne but not galE is essential for lipopolysaccharide biosynthesis and virulence. Infection and immunity, 76 (4). pp. 1628-1638. ISSN 0019-9567 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1128/IAI.01393-07 Full text not available from this repository.

Valiente, Esmeralda; Lee, Chung-Te; Hor, Lien-I; Fouz, Belén; Amaro, Carmen; (2008) Role of the metalloprotease Vvp and the virulence plasmid pR99 of Vibrio vulnificus serovar E in surface colonization and fish virulence. Environmental microbiology, 10 (2). pp. 328-338. ISSN 1462-2912 DOI: https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1462-2920.2007.01454.x Full text not available from this repository.