Wolfgang Witte

24.3k total citations · 3 hit papers
260 papers, 16.3k citations indexed

About

Wolfgang Witte is a scholar working on Infectious Diseases, Clinical Biochemistry and Molecular Biology. According to data from OpenAlex, Wolfgang Witte has authored 260 papers receiving a total of 16.3k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 210 papers in Infectious Diseases, 104 papers in Clinical Biochemistry and 93 papers in Molecular Biology. Recurrent topics in Wolfgang Witte's work include Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (199 papers), Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (104 papers) and Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (69 papers). Wolfgang Witte is often cited by papers focused on Antimicrobial Resistance in Staphylococcus (199 papers), Bacterial Identification and Susceptibility Testing (104 papers) and Bacterial biofilms and quorum sensing (69 papers). Wolfgang Witte collaborates with scholars based in Germany, Netherlands and United States. Wolfgang Witte's co-authors include Birgit Strommenger, Christiane Cuny, Guido Werner, Ingo Klare, H. Claus, Dag Harmsen, Franziska Layer, Heike Claus, Yvonne Pfeifer and Ulrich Vogel and has published in prestigious journals such as Science, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences and PLoS ONE.

In The Last Decade

Wolfgang Witte

249 papers receiving 15.5k citations

Hit Papers

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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.

Typing of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a University Hospital Setting by Using Novel Software for spa Repeat Determination and Database Management

2003 1.4k citations Wolfgang Witte, H. Claus et al. profile →
Medical Consequences of Antibiotic Use in Agriculture

1998 720 citations Wolfgang Witte profile →
Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA): burden of disease and control challenges in Europe

2010 487 citations Wolfgang Witte et al. Eurosurveillance profile →

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#	Work	Indexed citations
1	Characterisation of Staphylococcus aureus Strains and Their Prophages That Carry Horse-Specific Leukocidin Genes lukP/Q 2025 ·Toxins ·Stefan Monecke, (unknown), Andrea T. Feßler, (unknown), Igor Loncaric, Elisabeth Liebler–Tenorio, Sascha D. Braun, Celia Diezel, Elke Müller, (unknown), Annett Reißig, Adriana Cabal Rosel, Werner Ruppitsch, Helmut Hotzel, Dennis Hanke, C Cuny, Wolfgang Witte, Štefan Schwarz, Ralf Ehricht	1
2	Comparative Secretome Analyses of Human and Zoonotic Staphylococcus aureus Isolates CC8, CC22, and CC398 2018 ·Molecular & Cellular Proteomics ·Tobias Busche, Mélanie Hillion, Vu Van Loi, David T. Berg, Birgit Walther, Torsten Semmler, Birgit Strommenger, Wolfgang Witte, Christiane Cuny, Alexander Mellmann, Mark A. Holmes, Jörn Kalinowski, Lorenz Adrian, Jörg Bernhardt, Haike Antelmann	27
3	Epidemiology of Staphylococcus aureus Nasal Carriage Patterns in the Community 2016 ·Current topics in microbiology and immunology ·Jaishri Mehraj, Wolfgang Witte, Manas K. Akmatov, Franziska Layer, Guido Werner, Gérard Krause	70
4	Evolution of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus towards increasing resistance 2013 ·Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy ·Birgit Strommenger, Mette Damkjær Bartels, (unknown), Franziska Layer, (unknown), Kit Boye, Henrik Westh, Wolfgang Witte, Hermı́nia de Lencastre, Ulrich Nübel	47
5	Intra- and Interspecies Genomic Transfer of the Enterococcus faecalis Pathogenicity Island 2011 ·PLoS ONE ·Jenny A. Laverde Gomez, Antoni P. A. Hendrickx, Rob J. L. Willems, Janetta Top, Irina G. Sava, Johannes Hüebner, Wolfgang Witte, Guido Werner	50
6	Fluoroquinolone Resistance andClostridium difficile, Germany 2010 ·Emerging infectious diseases ·(unknown), Wolfgang Witte, Ulrich Nübel	46
7	MRSA aus Sicht des RKI: Nachweise bei Menschen und anderen Tieren - eine kommende Zoonose? 2009 ·Berliner und Münchener tierärztliche Wochenschrift ·Christiane Cuny, Christian Stanek, Wolfgang Witte	2
8	Nasal Colonization of Humans with Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) CC398 with and without Exposure to Pigs 2009 ·PLoS ONE ·Christiane Cuny, (unknown), Franziska Layer, Birgit Strommenger, Doris Altmann, Wolfgang Witte	184
9	Ausbruch von Infektionen mit Methicillin-resistenten Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) auf einer orthopädisch-septischen Station - Maßnahmen zur Eradikation und nachfolgende Besiedlungsstudien 2008 ·Zeitschrift für Orthopädie und ihre Grenzgebiete ·(unknown), D Heuck, (unknown), Wolfgang Witte, (unknown), (unknown)	0
10	How many infections are caused by patient-to-patient transmission in intensive care units?* 2005 ·Critical Care Medicine ·Hajo Grundmann, Sina Bärwolff, Adriana Tami, Michael Behnke, Frank Schwab, Christine Geffers, E Halle, Ulf B. Göbel, R. Schiller, Daniel E Jonas, Ingo Klare, Klaus Weist, Wolfgang Witte, (unknown), Martin Schumacher, H. Rüden, Petra Gastmeier	98
11	Community MRSA: Eine neue Herausforderung für die Dermatologie 2005 ·Der Hautarzt ·Wolfgang Witte, Miriam Wiese‐Posselt, Uta Jappe	6
12	Healthcare-associated outbreaks and community-acquired infections due to MRSA carrying the Panton-Valentine leucocidin gene in southeastern Germany 2005 ·European Journal of Clinical Microbiology & Infectious Diseases ·H.‐J. Linde, Florian Wagenlehner, Birgit Strommenger, (unknown), J.M. Tanzer, Udo Reischl, Ulla Raab, Christiane Höller, Kurt G. Naber, Wolfgang Witte, Frank Hanses, Bernd Salzberger, Norbert Lehn	84
13	Impact of antibiotics on conjugational resistance gene transfer in Staphylococcus aureus in sewage 2003 ·Environmental Microbiology ·Knut Ohlsen, Thomas A. Ternes, Guido Werner, (unknown), Dirk Löffler, Wilma Ziebuhr, Wolfgang Witte, Jörg Hacker	94
14	Les Staphylococcus aureus résistants à la méticilline dans les hôpitaux allemands développent des profils de résistance plus étroits 2000 ·Eurosurveillance ·Wolfgang Witte, C Braulke, D Heuck, C Cuny	1
15	Antibiotikaresistenz bei bakteriellen Infektionserregern Mikrobiologisch-epidemiologische Aspekte 1999 ·Publication server of the Robert Koch Institute (Robert Kock Institute) ·Wolfgang Witte, Ingo Klare	3
16	The ability of the Dry Spot Staphytect Plus test, in comparison with other tests, to identify Staphylococcus species, in particular S. aureus 1999 ·Clinical Microbiology and Infection ·Christa Cuny, (unknown), Wolfgang Witte	2
17	Large dissémination de MRSA épidémique dans les hôpitaux allemands 1997 ·Eurosurveillance ·Wolfgang Witte, Christiane Cuny, C Braulke, D Heuck, Ingo Klare	1
18	Two clones of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in Poland 1997 ·Clinical Microbiology and Infection ·Krzysztof Trzciński, Willem van Leeuwen, Alex van Belkum, Paweł Grzesiowski, Jan Kluytmans, M. Sijmons, Henri A. Verbrugh, Wolfgang Witte, Waleria Hryniewicz	25
19	vanA-mediated high-level glycopeptide resistance inEnterococcus faeciumfrom animal husbandry 1995 ·FEMS Microbiology Letters ·Ingo Klare, H. Heier, H. Claus, Rolf Reissbrodt, Wolfgang Witte	256
20	Glycopeptide-Resistant Enterococcus faecium Outside Hospitals: A Commentary 1995 ·Microbial Drug Resistance ·Wolfgang Witte, Ingo Klare	43

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