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Jean Swings
Researcher at Ghent University
Publications - 379
Citations - 39020
Jean Swings is an academic researcher from Ghent University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Vibrio & Amplified fragment length polymorphism. The author has an hindex of 96, co-authored 379 publications receiving 36551 citations. Previous affiliations of Jean Swings include Federal University of Rio de Janeiro & Sage Group.
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Polyphasic taxonomy, a consensus approach to bacterial systematics.
TL;DR: In this review, the practice of polyphasic taxonomy is discussed for four groups of bacteria chosen for their relevance, complexity, or both: the genera Xanthomonas and Campylobacter, the lactic acid bacteria, and the family Comamonadaceae.
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Report of the ad hoc committee for the re-evaluation of the species definition in bacteriology.
Erko Stackebrandt,Wilhelm Frederiksen,George M. Garrity,Patrick A. D. Grimont,Peter Kämpfer,Martin C. J. Maiden,Xavier Nesme,Ramon Rosselló-Móra,Jean Swings,Hans G Trüper,Luc Vauterin,Alan C. Ward,William B. Whitman +12 more
TL;DR: An ad hoc committee for the re-evaluation of the species definition in bacteriology met in Gent, Belgium, in February 2002 and made various recommendations regarding the species definitions in the light of developments in methodologies available to systematists.
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Biodiversity of Vibrios
TL;DR: Vibrios harbour a wealth of diverse genomes as revealed by different genomic techniques including amplified fragment length polymorphism, multilocus sequence typing, repetetive extragenic palindrome PCR, ribotyping, and whole-genome sequencing, which are probably important driving forces in the evolution and speciation of vibrios.
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Resazurin microtiter assay plate: Simple and inexpensive method for detection of drug resistance in Mycobacterium tuberculosis
Juan Carlos Palomino,Anandi Martin,Mirtha Camacho,Humberto Guerra,Jean Swings,Françoise Portaels +5 more
TL;DR: This method for detecting multidrug-resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis by using a reduction of resazurin is simple, inexpensive, and rapid and might be used with other antituberculosis drugs.
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Re-evaluating prokaryotic species
Dirk Gevers,Frederick M. Cohan,Jeffrey G. Lawrence,Brian G. Spratt,Tom Coenye,Edward J. Feil,Erko Stackebrandt,Yves Van de Peer,Peter Vandamme,Fabiano L. Thompson,Jean Swings +10 more
TL;DR: The current and future impact of multilocus nucleotide-sequence-based approaches to prokaryotic systematics are discussed and the potential, and difficulties, of assigning species status to biologically or ecologically meaningful sequence clusters are considered.