Browsing by Author "Skare, Jon"
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Wager, Beau; Shaw, Dana; Groshong, Ashley; Blevins, Jon; Skare, Jon (Infection and Immunity, 2015)
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Galbadage, Don Thushara Nuwan (2017-02-16)Mycobacterium marinum is a medically important aquatic pathogen that causes cutaneous granulomatous lesions in humans and a chronic tuberculosis-like granulomatous disease in ectotherms. M. marinum is commonly used as a ...
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Talmage, Sara Jean (2019-08-06)The nucleus is the brain of the cell and is the site of regulation of processes such as DNA replication, transcription and cell cycle. Given its importance in cell function, several known bacterial proteins have been shown ...
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Turse, Joshua Edward (Texas A&M University, 2006-10-30)B rucella lipopolysaccharide is an important component of virulence in brucellosis. Recent research in macrophage models has shown that Brucella LPS does not behave like classical LPS by stimulating potent inflammatory responses. ...
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Zhi, Hui (2016-08-02)Lyme disease is a significant and re-emerging disease that impacts the public health, particularly in endemic regions. The causative agent of Lyme disease, Borrelia burgdorferi, is transmitted to humans by Ixodes ticks. ...
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Christensen, Lanette M (2018-04-30)Legionella pneumophila are aqueous environmental bacilli that live within protozoal species and cause a potentially fatal form of pneumonia called Legionnaires’ disease. Not all L. pneumophila strains have the same capacity ...
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Ramsey, Meghan; Hyde, Jenny; Medina-Perez, Diana; Lin, Tao; Gao, Lihui; Lundt, Maureen; Li, Xin; Norris, Steven; Skare, Jon; Hu, Linden (PLoS Pathogens, 2017)
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Hunt, Carrie Lynn (2016-08-05)Mammals are colonized by trillions of symbiotic microbes, termed the microbiota. This collection of predominantly bacteria greatly outnumbers the host’s own cells in number, genomic content, and biochemical potential. ...
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Zheng, Yi (2010-07-14)Most bacteriophages release progeny virions at the end of the infection cycle by lysis of the host. Large phages with double-stranded DNA genomes use a multigene strategy based on holins, small membrane proteins, and ...
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Shepherd, Tonya Fujina (2016-08-04)Mycobacterium tuberculosis (Mtb) is the infectious agent that causes tuberculosis (Tb). In 2014, 1.5 million people succumbed to tuberculosis while an additional nine million became infected. Tuberculosis is a worldwide ...
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Arora, Srishtee (2017-12-01)Pathogenic bacteria improve their fitness, pathogenicity and virulence by acquisition of mobile genetic elements (MGE). These MGE carry genes for antibiotic resistance, toxins, virulence factors, etc. Staphylococcus ...
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Kim, Tae Kwon (2019-06-13)Tick saliva proteins facilitate feeding success and transmission of tick-borne disease agents by ticks, and thus, they might serve as effective antigens for a tick vaccine. This dissertation for the first-time identifies ...