Wesley E. Kloos

6.5k total citations · 4 hit papers
66 papers, 5.1k citations indexed

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Wesley E. Kloos is a scholar working on Molecular Biology, Infectious Diseases and Biotechnology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wesley E. Kloos has authored 66 papers receiving a total of 5.1k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 38 papers in Molecular Biology, 36 papers in Infectious Diseases and 21 papers in Biotechnology. Recurrent topics in Wesley E. Kloos's work include Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (36 papers), Microbial Metabolism and Applications (20 papers) and Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (16 papers). Wesley E. Kloos is often cited by papers focused on Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (36 papers), Microbial Metabolism and Applications (20 papers) and Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (16 papers). Wesley E. Kloos collaborates with scholars based in United States, Germany and Czechia. Wesley E. Kloos's co-authors include Karl‐Heinz Schleifer, Tammy Bannerman, Karl Heinz Schleifer, Carol G. George, James B. Evans, John Webster, Angela Hollis, Gerald H. Elkan, Walter E. Phillips and P A Pattee and has published in prestigious journals such as Applied and Environmental Microbiology, Clinical Microbiology Reviews and Journal of Virology.

In The Last Decade

Wesley E. Kloos

65 papers receiving 4.5k citations

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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.

Update on clinical significance of coagulase-negative staphylococci

1994 652 citations Wesley E. Kloos, Tammy Bannerman profile →
Simplified scheme for routine identification of human Staphylococcus species

1975 614 citations Wesley E. Kloos et al. Journal of Clinical Microbiology profile →
Isolation and Characterization of Staphylococci from Human Skin I. Amended Descriptions of Staphylococcus epidermidis and Staphylococcus saprophyticus and Descriptions of Three New Species: Staphylococcus cohnii, Staphylococcus haemolyticus, and Staphylococcus xylosus

1975 368 citations Karl Heinz Schleifer, Wesley E. Kloos International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology profile →
Distribution and Persistence of Staphylococcus and Micrococcus Species and Other Aerobic Bacteria on Human Skin

1975 356 citations Wesley E. Kloos et al. profile →

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Wesley E. Kloos United States	32	2.8k	2.1k	1.5k	807	761	66	5.1k
P A Mickelsen United States	11	3.5k 1.2×	2.1k 1.0×	1.8k 1.2×	1.9k 2.4×	395 0.5×	13	8.0k
Paul H. Roy Canada	39	1.7k 0.6×	2.9k 1.3×	1.0k 0.7×	889 1.1×	314 0.4×	97	6.8k
R D Arbeit United States	18	3.6k 1.3×	2.3k 1.1×	2.0k 1.3×	1.9k 2.4×	449 0.6×	19	8.4k
Gordon L. Archer United States	52	5.5k 1.9×	3.5k 1.7×	2.3k 1.6×	1.3k 1.7×	318 0.4×	103	7.7k
H. Meugnier France	31	2.8k 1.0×	2.1k 1.0×	1.3k 0.9×	549 0.7×	315 0.4×	78	3.9k
Jodi A. Lindsay United Kingdom	49	5.4k 1.9×	4.4k 2.1×	2.1k 1.4×	796 1.0×	555 0.7×	124	7.9k
Luc Devriese Belgium	49	3.4k 1.2×	2.4k 1.1×	1.4k 1.0×	907 1.1×	810 1.1×	228	8.0k
Gordon D. Christensen United States	29	1.9k 0.7×	2.6k 1.2×	736 0.5×	882 1.1×	271 0.4×	44	5.3k
François J. Picard Canada	31	1.8k 0.6×	1.5k 0.7×	1.1k 0.7×	763 0.9×	268 0.4×	49	3.8k
Pietro E. Varaldo Italy	44	2.9k 1.0×	1.6k 0.7×	865 0.6×	1.8k 2.2×	349 0.5×	173	6.2k

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Kloos, Wesley E., Carol G. George, & Laurie K. Sorge. (2005). Inheritance of Powdery Mildew Resistance and Leaf Macrohair Density in Gerbera hybrida. HortScience. 40(5). 1246–1251. 12 indexed citations

Kloos, Wesley E., Carol G. George, & Laurie K. Sorge. (2005). Dark Disk Color in the Flower of Gerbera hybrida is Determined by a Dominant Gene, Dc. HortScience. 40(7). 1992–1994. 9 indexed citations

Kloos, Wesley E., Carol G. George, John Webster, et al.. (1998). Delimiting the genus Staphylococcus through description of Macrococcus caseolyticus gen. nov., comb. nov. and Macrococcus equipercicus sp. nov., Macrococcus bovicus sp. nov. and Macrococcus carouselicus sp. nov.. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 48(3). 859–877. 92 indexed citations

Kloos, Wesley E., Carol G. George, Barbara Zimmer, et al.. (1998). Staphylococcus hominis subsp. novobiosepticus subsp. nov., a novel trehalose- and N-acetyl-D-glucosamine-negative, novobiocin- and multiple-antibiotic-resistant subspecies isolated from human blood cultures. International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology. 48(3). 799–812. 51 indexed citations

Couto, Isabel, Hermı́nia de Lencastre, Elena Severina, et al.. (1996). Ubiquitous Presence of a mecA Homologue in Natural Isolates of Staphylococcus sciuri. Microbial Drug Resistance. 2(4). 377–391. 146 indexed citations

Shimizu, Akira, et al.. (1996). Genomic DNA fingerprinting, using pulsed-field gel electrophoresis, of Staphylococcus intermedius isolated from dogs. American Journal of Veterinary Research. 57(10). 1458–1462. 26 indexed citations

Bannerman, Tammy, et al.. (1993). Evaluation of the Vitek Systems Gram-Positive Identification card for species identification of coagulase-negative staphylococci. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 31(5). 1322–1325. 43 indexed citations

Bannerman, Tammy, et al.. (1993). Species distribution of coagulase-negative staphylococcal isolates at a community hospital and implications for selection of staphylococcal identification procedures. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 31(5). 1318–1321. 72 indexed citations

Kloos, Wesley E.. (1990). Systematics and the natural history of staphylococci. 1. Journal of Applied Bacteriology. 69(S19). 25S–37S. 45 indexed citations

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Kloos, Wesley E., et al.. (1985). Expression of human choriogonadotropin-like material in coagulase-negative Staphylococcus species. Infection and Immunity. 50(3). 860–868. 12 indexed citations

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Kloos, Wesley E., et al.. (1983). Deoxyribonucleotide sequence divergence betweenStaphylococcus cohnii subspecies populations living on primate skin. Current Microbiology. 8(2). 115–121. 9 indexed citations

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Kloos, Wesley E., et al.. (1982). Identification of Staphylococcus species with the API STAPH-IDENT system. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 16(3). 509–516. 152 indexed citations

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Kloos, Wesley E.. (1982). Coagulase-negative staphylococci. Clinical Microbiology Newsletter. 4(11). 75–79. 35 indexed citations

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Phillips, Walter E. & Wesley E. Kloos. (1981). Identification of coagulase-positive Staphylococcus intermedius and Staphylococcus hyicus subsp. hyicus isolates from veterinary clinical specimens. Journal of Clinical Microbiology. 14(6). 671–673. 45 indexed citations

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Phillips, Walter E., Russell E. King, & Wesley E. Kloos. (1980). Isolation of Staphylococcus hyicus subsp hyicus from a Pig with Septic Polyarthritis. American Journal of Veterinary Research. 41(2). 274–276. 23 indexed citations

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Kloos, Wesley E., et al.. (1975). A GENETIC AND BIOCHEMICAL STUDY OF HISTIDINE BIOSYNTHESIS IN MICROCOCCUS LUTEUS. Genetics. 79(3). 361–376. 4 indexed citations

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Kloos, Wesley E., et al.. (1973). Tryptophan Biosynthetic Enzymes of Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of Bacteriology. 114(1). 169–177. 17 indexed citations

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Kloos, Wesley E., et al.. (1970). The Tryptophan Gene Cluster of Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of General Microbiology. 64(3). 319–327. 15 indexed citations

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Pattee, P A, et al.. (1968). Homogeneity in a Staphylococcus aureus transducing fragment. Journal of Virology. 2(6). 652–654. 5 indexed citations

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Kloos, Wesley E. & P A Pattee. (1965). A Biochemical Characterization of Histidine-Dependent Mutants of Staphylococcus aureus. Journal of General Microbiology. 39(2). 185–194. 32 indexed citations

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