selected publications
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academic article
- Physiological Levels of Glucose Induce Membrane Vesicle Secretion and Affect the Lipid and Protein Composition of Yersinia pestis Cell Surfaces. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 79:4509-4514. 2013
- Role of a New Intimin/Invasin-Like Protein in Yersinia pestis Virulence. Infection and Immunity. 80:3559-3569. 2012
- Detection of classical and newly described staphylococcal superantigen genes in coagulase-negative staphylococci isolated from bovine intramammary infections. Veterinary Microbiology. 147:149-154. 2011
- A novel core genome-encoded superantigen contributes to lethality of community-associated {MRSA} necrotizing pneumonia. PLOS Pathogens. 7:e1002271. 2011
- Brucella sp. vertebral osteomyelitis with intercurrent fatal Staphylococcus aureus toxigenic enteritis in a bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Journal of Veterinary Diagnostic Investigation. 23:845-851. 2011
- Characterization of a Staphylococcus aureus surface virulence factor that promotes resistance to oxidative killing and infectious endocarditis. Infection and Immunity. 79:342-352. 2011
- Comparison of phenotypic and genotypic methods for the species identification of coagulase-negative staphylococcal isolates from bovine intramammary infections. Veterinary Microbiology. 147:142-148. 2011
- Neutrophils are resistant to Yersinia YopJ/P-induced apoptosis and are protected from ROS-mediated cell death by the type III secretion system. PLOS ONE. 5:e9279. 2010
- Outer Membrane Protein X (Ail) Contributes to Yersinia pestis Virulence in Pneumonic Plague and Its Activity Is Dependent on the Lipopolysaccharide Core Length. Infection and Immunity. 78:5233-5243. 2010
- A quantitative real time {PCR} method to analyze T cell receptor Vbeta subgroup expansion by staphylococcal superantigens. Journal of Translational Medicine. 8:2. 2010
- Superantigen-mediated differentiation of bovine monocytes into dendritic cells. Journal of Leukocyte Biology. 85:606-616. 2009
- Development of monoclonal antibodies to detect bovine {FOXP3} in {PBMCs} exposed to a staphylococcal superantigen. Veterinary Immunology and Immunopathology. 128:30-36. 2009
- Epithelial Cell Gene Expression Induced by Intracellular Staphylococcus aureus. International Journal of Microbiology. 2009:753278. 2009
- Induction of innate immunity by lipid A mimetics increases survival from pneumonic plague. Microbiology. 154:2131-2138. 2008
- Lipid A mimetics are potent adjuvants for an intranasal pneumonic plague vaccine. Vaccine. 26:5554-5561. 2008
- Nanowire-based delivery of Escherichia coli O157 shiga toxin 1 A subunit into human and bovine cells. Nano Letters. 7. 2007
- Phenotypic characterization of OmpX, an Ail homologue of Yersinia pestis KIM. Microbiology. 153:2941-2951. 2007
- Fibronectin Bonding to Nanowires and their Internationalization by Epithelial Cells. Journal of Biomedical Nanotechnology. 2. 2006
- A Series of Meso-tris(n-methyl-pyridiniumyl)-(4-alkylamidophenyl)porphyrins: Synthesis, Interaction with Dna and Antibacterial Activity. Biochimica et Biophysica Acta - Gene Structure and Expression. 1354:252-260. 1997
- Purification of Staphylococcus aureus beta-toxin: Comparison of three isoelectric focusing methods. Protein Expression and Purification. 9:76-82. 1997
- Investigation of the role of the disulphide bond in the activity and structure of staphylococcal enterotoxin C1. Molecular Microbiology. 13:897-909. 1994
- Evidence that the A2 fragment of Shiga-like toxin type I is required for holotoxin integrity.. Infection and Immunity. 62. 1994
- Nucleotide-sequence of the Staphylococcal enterotoxin-C3 gene sequence comparison of all 3 type-C Staphylococcal enterotoxins. Molecular and General Genetics. 220:329-333. 1990