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William R. Jacobs

Albert Einstein College of Medicine

ORCID: 0000-0003-3321-3080

608 papers and 54k citations.

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🌟#2 Current Senior Leader in Mycobacterium research and diagnosis 🌟#2 Current Senior Leader in Tuberculosis Research and Epidemiology 🌟#4 Current Senior Leader in Biochemical and Molecular Research

608Publications

54kTotal Citations

#2in Mycobacterium research and diagnosis

First senior author: 1982

Top publicationsby citations

The primary mechanism of attenuation of bacillus Calmette–Guérin is a loss of secreted lytic function required for invasion of lung interstitial tissue

Tsungda Hsu, William R. Jacobs, David Eisenberg et al.|Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences|2003

Cited by 737

A pantothenate auxotroph of Mycobacterium tuberculosis is highly attenuated and protects mice against tuberculosis

Vasan K. Sambandamurthy, William R. Jacobs, Xiaojuan Wang et al.|Nature Medicine|2002

Cited by 343

Dual-Reporter Mycobacteriophages (Φ <sup>2</sup> DRMs) Reveal Preexisting Mycobacterium tuberculosis Persistent Cells in Human Sputum

Paras Jain, William R. Jacobs, Brian Weinrick et al.|mBio|2016

Cited by 87

ϕ <sup>2</sup> GFP10, a High-Intensity Fluorophage, Enables Detection and Rapid Drug Susceptibility Testing of Mycobacterium tuberculosis Directly from Sputum Samples

Paras Jain, William R. Jacobs, Travis Hartman et al.|Journal of Clinical Microbiology|2012

Cited by 81

Recombinant<i>Mycobacterium bovis</i>BCG Prime-Recombinant Adenovirus Boost Vaccination in Rhesus Monkeys Elicits Robust Polyfunctional Simian Immunodeficiency Virus-Specific T-Cell Responses

Mark J. Cayabyab, Norman L. Letvin, Birgit Korioth-Schmitz et al.|Journal of Virology|2009

Cited by 44

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