Vicki Adams

3.6k total citations · 2 hit papers
48 papers, 2.7k citations indexed

About

Vicki Adams is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Molecular Biology and Genetics. According to data from OpenAlex, Vicki Adams has authored 48 papers receiving a total of 2.7k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 39 papers in Infectious Diseases, 12 papers in Molecular Biology and 12 papers in Genetics. Recurrent topics in Vicki Adams's work include Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (39 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (11 papers) and Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (11 papers). Vicki Adams is often cited by papers focused on Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research (39 papers), Bacterial Genetics and Biotechnology (11 papers) and Streptococcal Infections and Treatments (11 papers). Vicki Adams collaborates with scholars based in Australia, United States and Mali. Vicki Adams's co-authors include Julian I. Rood, Dena Lyras, Francisco A. Uzal, Bruce A. McClane, Rachael Poon, Robert J. Moore, Jorge P. García, Jennifer R. O’Connor, Pauline M. Howarth and Glen P. Carter and has published in prestigious journals such as Nature, Journal of Biological Chemistry and Nature Communications.

In The Last Decade

Vicki Adams

46 papers receiving 2.7k citations

Hit Papers

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What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

Toxin B is essential for virulence of Clostridium difficile

2009 589 citations Dena Lyras, Jennifer R. O’Connor et al. profile →
Expansion of the Clostridium perfringens toxin-based typing scheme

2018 399 citations Julian I. Rood, Vicki Adams et al. Anaerobe profile →

Peers

Vicki Adams

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Milena M. Awad Australia

Derek J. Fisher United States

S T Cole France

Trudi L. Bannam Australia

Tohru Miyoshi‐Akiyama Japan

Ralph Goethe Germany

François Lebreton United States

Shonna M. McBride United States

Francis Alonzo United States

Laurence Ma France

Milena M. Awad Australia

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310 ×0.8

Citations per year, relative to Vicki Adams Vicki Adams (= 1×) peers Milena M. Awad

Countries citing papers authored by Vicki Adams

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Fields of papers citing papers by Vicki Adams

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Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Vicki Adams

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Vicki Adams. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Vicki Adams based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Vicki Adams. Vicki Adams is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

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Traoré, Daouda A. K., Von Vergel L Torres, Naureen Akhtar, et al.. (2023). TcpA from the Clostridium perfringens plasmid pCW3 is more closely related to the DNA translocase FtsK than to coupling proteins. Structure. 31(4). 455–463.e4.

Cheung, Jackie K., Vicki Adams, Christopher J. Day, et al.. (2020). The EngCP endo α-N-acetylgalactosaminidase is a virulence factor involved in Clostridium perfringens gas gangrene infections. International Journal of Medical Microbiology. 310(2). 151398–151398. 4 indexed citations

Watts, Thomas D., et al.. (2019). Virulence Plasmids of the Pathogenic Clostridia. Microbiology Spectrum. 7(3). 14 indexed citations

Archambault, Marie, et al.. (2019). The Tcp plasmids of Clostridium perfringens require the resP gene to ensure stable inheritance. Plasmid. 107. 102461–102461. 3 indexed citations

Traoré, Daouda A. K., Jessica A. Wisniewski, Paul J. Conroy, et al.. (2018). Crystal structure of TcpK in complex with oriT DNA of the antibiotic resistance plasmid pCW3. Nature Communications. 9(1). 3732–3732. 18 indexed citations

Rood, Julian I., Vicki Adams, Jake A. Lacey, et al.. (2018). Expansion of the Clostridium perfringens toxin-based typing scheme. Anaerobe. 53. 5–10. 399 indexed citations breakdown →

Adams, Vicki, Xiaoyan Han, Dena Lyras, & Julian I. Rood. (2018). Antibiotic resistance plasmids and mobile genetic elements of Clostridium perfringens. Plasmid. 99. 32–39. 23 indexed citations

Coura, Fernanda Morcatti, Maja Rupnik, Vicki Adams, et al.. (2017). The incidence of Clostridioides difficile and Clostridium perfringens netF -positive strains in diarrheic dogs. Anaerobe. 49. 58–62. 32 indexed citations

Watts, Thomas D., Priscilla Johanesen, Dena Lyras, Julian I. Rood, & Vicki Adams. (2017). Evidence that compatibility of closely related replicons in Clostridium perfringens depends on linkage to parMRC -like partitioning systems of different subfamilies. Plasmid. 91. 68–75. 9 indexed citations

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Cheung, Jackie K., Jessica A. Wisniewski, Vicki Adams, Noelene S. Quinsey, & Julian I. Rood. (2016). Analysis of the virulence-associated RevSR two-component signal transduction system of Clostridium perfringens. International Journal of Medical Microbiology. 306(6). 429–442. 4 indexed citations

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Adams, Vicki, Thomas D. Watts, Dieter Bulach, Dena Lyras, & Julian I. Rood. (2015). Plasmid partitioning systems of conjugative plasmids from Clostridium perfringens. Plasmid. 80. 90–96. 15 indexed citations

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Lo, Jennifer, Duangporn Jamsai, Anne E. O’Connor, et al.. (2012). RAB-Like 2 Has an Essential Role in Male Fertility, Sperm Intra-Flagellar Transport, and Tail Assembly. PLoS Genetics. 8(10). e1002969–e1002969. 63 indexed citations

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Bannam, Trudi L., Corrine J. Porter, Noelene S. Quinsey, et al.. (2012). The peptidoglycan hydrolase TcpG is required for efficient conjugative transfer of pCW3 in Clostridium perfringens. Plasmid. 67(2). 139–147. 40 indexed citations

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Porter, Corrine J., Trudi L. Bannam, Carlos J. Rosado, et al.. (2011). The conjugation protein TcpC from Clostridium perfringens is structurally related to the type IV secretion system protein VirB8 from Gram‐negative bacteria. Molecular Microbiology. 83(2). 275–288. 65 indexed citations

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Adams, Vicki, Isabelle S. Lucet, Fleur E. Tynan, et al.. (2006). Two distinct regions of the large serine recombinase TnpX are required for DNA binding and biological function. Molecular Microbiology. 60(3). 591–601. 12 indexed citations

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O’Connor, Jennifer R., Dena Lyras, Kylie A. Farrow, et al.. (2006). Construction and analysis of chromosomal Clostridium difficile mutants. Molecular Microbiology. 61(5). 1335–1351. 134 indexed citations

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Lucet, Isabelle S., Fleur E. Tynan, Vicki Adams, et al.. (2004). Identification of the Structural and Functional Domains of the Large Serine Recombinase TnpX from Clostridium perfringens. Journal of Biological Chemistry. 280(4). 2503–2511. 15 indexed citations

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Lyras, Dena, Vicki Adams, Isabelle S. Lucet, & Julian I. Rood. (2004). The large resolvase TnpX is the only transposon‐encoded protein required for transposition of the Tn4451/3family of integrative mobilizable elements. Molecular Microbiology. 51(6). 1787–1800. 35 indexed citations

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Adams, Vicki, Dena Lyras, Kylie A. Farrow, & Julian I. Rood. (2002). The clostridial mobilisable transposons. Cellular and Molecular Life Sciences. 59(12). 2033–2043. 50 indexed citations

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Kempf, Werner & Vicki Adams. (1996). Viruses in the Pathogenesis of Kaposi's Sarcoma—A Review. Biochemical and Molecular Medicine. 58(1). 1–12. 17 indexed citations

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