Publications

Gomes F, Teixeira P, Cerca N, Ceri H, Oliveira R.  Virulence Gene Expression by Staphylococcus epidermidis Biofilm Cells Exposed to Antibiotics. Microb Drug Resist. 17(2):191-6, 2011

Rodrigues D, Cerca N, Teixeira P, Oliveira R, Ceri H, Azeredo J. Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella enterica Enteritidis Biofilms Susceptibility to Different Disinfectants and Stress-Response and Virulence Gene Expression of Surviving Cells. Microb Drug Resist 17(2):181-9, 2011

Rivardo F, Martinotti MG, Turner RJ, Ceri H. Synergistic effect of lipopeptide biosurfactant with antibiotics against Escherichia coli CFT073 biofilm.  Int J Antimicrob Agents. 2011 Feb 10. [Epub ahead of print]

Girard LP, Ceri H, Gibb AP, Olson M, Sepandj F.  MIC Versus MBEC to Determine the Antibiotic Sensitivity of Staphylococcus aureus in Peritoneal Dialysis Peritonitis. Perit Dial Int. 30(6):652-6, 2010

Tremaroli V, Fedi S, Tamburini S, Viti C, Tatti E, Ceri H, Turner RJ, Zannoni D.  A histidine-kinase cheA gene of Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligens KF707 not only has a key role in chemotaxis but also affects biofilm formation and cell metabolism. Biofouling 27(1):33-46, 2011

Sproule-Willoughby KM, Stanton MM, Rioux KP, McKay DM, Buret AG, Ceri H.   In vitro anaerobic biofilms of human colonic microbiota.  J Microbiol Methods 83(3):296-301,  2010

Tremaroli V, Vacchi Suzzi C, Fedi S, Ceri H, Zannoni D, Turner RJ. Tolerance of Pseudomonas pseudoalcaligenes KF707 to metals, polychlorobiphenyls and chlorobenzoates: effects on chemotaxis-, biofilm- and planktonic-grown cells. FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 74(2):291-301, 2010

Nelson LK, Stanton MM, Elphinstone RE, Helwerda J, Turner RJ, Ceri H.  Phenotypic diversification in vivo.: Pseudomonas aeruginosa gacS- strains generate small colony variants in vivo that are distinct from in vitro variants. Microbiology. 156(Pt 12):3699-709, 2010 . 

Rivardo F, Martinotti MG, Turner RJ, Ceri H. The activity of silver against Escherichia coli biofilm is increased by a lipopeptide biosurfactant. Can J Microbiol, 56(3):272-8, 2010

Workentine ML, Harrison JJ, Weljie AM, Tran VA, Stenroos PU, Tremaroli V, Vogel HJ, Ceri H, Turner RJ.  Phenotypic and metabolic profiling of colony morphology variants evolved from Pseudomonas fluorescens biofilms. Environ Microbiol, 12(6):1565-77, 2010 

Harrison JJ, Tremaroli V, Stan MA, Chan CS, Vacchi-Suzzi C, Heyne BJ, Parsek MR, Ceri H, Turner RJ. Chromosomal antioxidant genes have metal ion-specific roles as determinants of bacterial metal tolerance. Environ Microbiol 11(10):2491-509, 2009  

Vanderlinde Em, Muszynski A, Harrison JJ, Koval SF, Foreman DL, Ceri H, Kannenberg EL, Carlson RW, Yost CK. A Rhizobium leguminosarum biova viciae 3841 mutant, deficient in 27-hydroxyoctacosanoate-modified lipopolysaccharide is impaired in desiccation tolerance, biofilm formation, and motility. Microbiology 155(Pt 9):3055-69, 2009

Nelson LK, D'Amours GH, Sproule-Willoughby KM, Morck DW, Ceri, H.  Pseudomonas aeruginosa las and rhl quorum-sensing systems are important for infection and inflammation in a rat prostatitis model. Microbiology 155(pt 8): 2612-9, 2009

Rivardo F, Turner RJ, Allegrone G, Ceri H, Martinotti MG. Anti-adhesion activity of two biosurfactants produced by Bacillus spp. prevents biofilm formation of human bacterial pathogens.  Appl Microbiol Biotechnol 83(3); 541-53, 2009 

Harrison JJ, Wade WD, Akierman S, Vacchi-Suzzi C, Stremick CA, Turner RJ, Ceri H. The chromosomal toxin yafQ is a determinant of multidrug tolerance for Escherichia coli growing in a biofilm. Antimicrob Agents Chemother 53(6): 2253-8, 2009

Workentine ML, Chang L, Ceri H, Turner RJ.  The GacS-GacA two-component regulatory system of Pseudomonas fluorescens: a bacterial two-hybrid analysis. FEMS Microbiol Lett 292(1): 50-6, 2009

Tremaroli V, Workentine ML, Weljie AM, Vogel HJ, Ceri H, Viti C, Tatti E, Zhang P, Hynes A, Turner RJ, Zannoni D. Metabolomics investigations of bacterial response to metal challenge. Appl Environ Microbiol 75(3):719-28, 2009  

Phan V, Belas R, Gilmore BF, Ceri H. ZapA a Virulence Factor in a Rat Model of Proteus mirabilis Induced Acute and Chronic Prostatitis. Infect Immun 76(11):4859-64, 2008 

Harrison JJ, Turner RJ, Joo DA, Stan MA, Chan CS, Allan ND, Vrionis HA, Olson ME, Ceri H.  Copper and quaternary ammonium cations exert synergistic bactericidal and antiobiofilm activity against Pseudomonas aeruginosa. Antimicrob Agents Chemother, 52(8): 2870-81, 2008

Harrison JJ, Ceri H, Turner RJ. Multimetal resistance and tolerance in microbial biofilms. Nat Rev Microbiol. 5(12):928-38, 2007

Workentine ML, Harrison JJ, Stenroos PU, Ceri H, Turner RJ. Pseudomonas fluorescens' view of the periodic table. Environ Microbiol 10(1):238-50, 2008

Davies JA, Harrison JJ, Marques LL, Foglia GR, Stremick CA, Storey DG, Turner RJ, Olson ME, Ceri H.The GacS sensor kinase controls phenotypic reversion of small colony variants isolated from biofilms of Pseudomonas aeruginosa PA14. FEMS Microbiol Ecol 59(1): 32-46, 2007

Jones SM, Yerly J, Hu Y, Ceri H, Martinuzzi R. Structure of proteus mirabilis biofilms grown in artificial urine and standard laboratory media. FEMS Microbiol Lett 268(1): 16-21, 2007

Harrison JJ, Turner RJ, Ceri H. A subpopulation of Candida albicans and Candida tropicalis biofilm cells are highly tolerant to chelating agents. FEMS Microbiol Lett  272(2): 172-81,  2007

Harrison JJ, Ceri H, Yerly J, Rabiei M, Hu Y, Martinuzzi R, Turner RJ. Metal ions may suppress or enhance cellular differentiation in Candida albicans and Candida tropicalis biofilms. Appl Environ Microbiol 73(15): 4940-9, 2007

Sepandj F, Cerie H, Gibb A, Read R, Olson M. Minimum inhibitory concentration versus minimum biofilm eliminating concentration in evaluation of antibiotic sensitivity of enterococci causing peritonitis. Perit Dial Int 27(4): 464-5, 2007

Kostenko V, Cerie H, Martinuzzi RJ. Increased tolerance of Staphylococcus aureus to vancomycin in viscous media. FEMS Immunol Med Microbiol 51(2): 277-88, 2007

Harrison JJ, Rabiei M, Turner RJ, Badry EA, Sproule KM, Ceri H.  Metal resistance in Candida biofilms.  FEMS Microbiol Ecol. 55(3):479-91. 2006

Harrison JJ, Ceri H, Yerly J, Stremick CA, Hu Y, Martinuzzi R, Turner RJ. The use of microscopy and three-dimensional visualization to evaluate the structure of microbial biofilsm cultivated in the Calgary Biofilm Device. Biol Proced Online 8:194-215, 2006