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  • LIDR Fosters Research for the Advancement of Vaccines and Therapeutics
  • LIDR BSO, Dr. Travis McCarthy, Elected to MABioN Executive Council
  • MRIGlobal and University of Missouri earn Zika study grant

    • Recent LIDR Publications

  • Ludlow A.B., Pauling C.D., Marketon M.M., Anderson D.M. (2019) Drosophila as a Model for Understanding the Insect Host of Yersinia pestis. In: Vadyvaloo V., Lawrenz M. (eds) Pathogenic Yersinia. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2010. Humana, New York, NY
  • Anderson P.E., Olson R.M., Willix J.L., Anderson D.M. (2019) Standardized Method for Aerosol Challenge of Rodents with Yersinia pestis for Modeling Primary Pneumonic Plague. In: Vadyvaloo V., Lawrenz M. (eds) Pathogenic Yersinia. Methods in Molecular Biology, vol 2010. Humana, New York, NY
  • Olson RM, Anderson DM. 2019. Shift from primary pneumonic to secondary septicemic plague by decreasing the volume of intranasal challenge with Yersinia pestis in the murine model. PLoS One.
  • Lacey, et al. 2018. Caspase -1 and Caspase -11 Mediate Pyroptosis, Inflammation, and Control of Brucella Joint Infection. Infect Immun.
  • Lacey, et al. 2019. IFN‐γ‐dependent nitric oxide suppresses Brucella‐induced arthritis by inhibition of inflammasome activation. J Leukoc Biol.
  • Kantor, et al. 2019. Infection Pattern of Mayaro Virus in Aedes aegypti (Diptera: Culicidae) and Transmission Potential of the Virus in Mixed Infections With Chikungunya Virus. J Med Entomol.
  • Olson, et al. 2019. Yersinia pestis exploit early activation of myeloid differentiation primary response 88 (MyD88) for growth in the lungs during pneumonic plague. Infect Immun.
  • Cherla et al. 2018. Coxiella burnetii Inhibits Neutrophil Apoptosis by Exploiting Survival Pathways and Antiapoptotic Protein Mcl-1. Infect Immun.
  • Kantor et al. 2018. Ultrastructural Analysis of Chikungunya Virus Dissemination from the Midgut of the Yellow Fever Mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Viruses.
  • Sheridan et al. 2018. African and Asian strains of Zika virus differ in their ability to infect and lyse primitive human placental trophoblast. PLoS One.
  • Xia et al. 2018. Viral dedication to vigorous destruction of interferon receptors. Virology.
  • Buttrum et al. 2018. Both major histocompatibility complex class I (MHC-I) and MHC-II molecules are required, while MHC-I appears to play a critical role in host defense against primary Coxiella burnetii infection. Infect Immun.
  • Whyte et al. 2018. Inactivation of porcine interleukin-1beta results in failure of rapid conceptus elongation. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
  • Skyberg and Lacey 2017. Hematopoietic MyD88 and IL-18 are essential for IFN-gamma-dependent restriction of type A Francisella tularensis infection. J Leukoc Biol.
  • Dhariwala et al. 2017. Induction of type I interferon through a noncanonical toll-like receptor 7 pathway during Yersinia pestis infection. Infect Immun.
  • Olson and Anderson 2017. Usurping bacterial virulence factors as self-delivery vehicles for therapeutic use. Virulence.
  • Dong et al. 2017. Chikungunya virus dissemination from the midgut of Aedes aegypti is associated with temporal basal lamina degradation during bloodmeal digestion. PLoS Negl Trop Dis.
  • Dong et al. 2017. The midgut transcriptome of Aedes aegypti fed with saline or protein meals containing chikungunya virus reveals genes potentially involved in viral midgut escape. BMC Genomics.
  • Lacey et al. 2017. Temporal role for MyD88 in a model of brucella-induced arthritis and musculoskeletal inflammation. Infect Immun.
  • Sheridan et al. 2017. Vulnerability of primitive human placental trophoblast to Zika virus. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A.
  • Kantor et al. 2017. Identification and initial characterization of matrix metalloproteinases in the yellow fever mosquito, Aedes aegypti. Insect Mol Biol.
  • Olson and Anderson 2017. Fractionation techniques to examine effector translocation. Meth Mol Biol.

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