Microbiological Sciences: Recent submissions
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Exploration of Laboratory Techniques Relating to Cryptosporidium Parvum Propagation, Life Cycle Observation, and Host Immune Responses to Infection
(North Dakota State University, 2014)Cryptosporidium causes cryptosporidiosis, a self-limiting diarrheal disease in healthy people, but causes serious health issues for immunocompromised individuals. Cryptosporidiosis has been observed in humans since the ... -
Impact of Pre-Harvest Environmental Factors on the Survival of Enterohemorrhagic E. Coli and Salmonella on Lettuce
(North Dakota State University, 2015)Enteric diseases linked to fresh produce consumption are on a rise. Pathogens can contaminate produce in the pre-harvest field and can survive for long time periods. Thus, this study quantified the survival of Enterohemorrhagic ... -
Happy Beef: The Development of ß-Phenylethylamine as a Novel Nutrient Treatment Reducing Bacterial Cell Count by Escherichia Coli O157H7 on Beef Meat
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Since its emergence in 1980's, Escherichia coli O157:H7 has often been associated with the consumption of contaminated meat. E. coli O157:H7 continues to persist as a food borne pathogen not only in beef but many other ... -
Investigations in Asthma Heterogeneity: The Roles of Aspergillus Fumigatus-Derived Eicosanoid Synthases and Occupational Exposures to Grain Dusts on the Development of Fungal Allergic Asthma
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Allergic asthma is an inflammatory syndrome of the respiratory system which changes the airway wall architecture. Using an aeroallergen, murine model of A. fumigatus-mediated asthma, the two studies herein examine the ... -
Rhomboid Proteases and Surface Adhesins During Cryptosporidium Development
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Cryptosporidium parvum, a primary cause of cryptosporidiosis in humans and livestock worldwide, has a complex life cycle that includes an environmental oocyst stage, and stages of merogony, gametogony, and sporogony that ... -
Inhibition of Fusarium Growth and Trichothecene Accumulation in Grain by Antifungal Compounds from Lactic Acid Bacteria
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Fusarium head blight (FHB) is a widely occurring plant disease, which is caused by fungi in the genus Fusarium. FHB leads to mycotoxin accumulation on grain, which causes food safety risk and economic loss. In addition to ... -
Studies in Pathogenesis of a Novel Isolate of Cronobacter Sakazakii using an In Vitro Blood Brain Barrier Model
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Genus Cronobacter is a member of the family Enterobacteriaceae consisting of several opportunistic species. The primary focus of this study was to utilize an in vitro co-culture model of the blood brain barrier to investigate ... -
Lung Mucosal Response to Repeated Inhalational Insults with Immunomodulatory Agents in a Murine Model of Fungal Asthma: Airway Epithelium Takes the Center Stage
(North Dakota State University, 2013)Asthma is a debilitating disease of the lungs affecting 235 million people worldwide. Fungus-associated asthma leads to a particularly severe type of disease, and exposure to environmental fungi and their products is ... -
Preliminary Investigation of Escherichia Coli K12 Biofilm Inhibition on an Antimicrobial Polysiloxane Coating using Whole Transcriptome Profiling
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Whole transcriptome profiling was examined in E. coli K12 when cultured on the surface of a pure polysiloxane coating (Sil) and a polysiloxane coating containing a tethered quaternary ammonium compound (QSil) shown to ... -
Glycan Triggers of Life Cycle Development in the Apicomplexan Parasite Cryptosporidium
(North Dakota State University, 2017)Cryptosporidium is an apicomplexan parasite that causes the diarrheal disease cryptosporidiosis, an infection that can become chronic and life threating in immunocompromised and malnourished individuals. Development of ... -
Emerging Infectious Diseases with Vaccination as a Major Control Approach: The Case of the African 2 (Af2) Clonal Complex of Mycobacterium Bovis in Uganda and Pneumococcal Vaccine for Streptococcus Pneumoniae in the United States
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Respiratory infectious diseases are among the leading cause of morbidity and mortality in the world. This paper presents two respiratory diseases, Mycobacterium bovis and Streptococcus pneumoniae, which cause significant ... -
Prevalence of Listeria Monocytogenes in the Pre-Harvest Environment: A Landscape Epidemiology Approach
(North Dakota State University, 2016)Listeria monocytogenes is the causative agent of the foodborne disease listeriosis. Although the incidence of listeriosis is lower than that of other foodborne diseases, it’s much higher mortality rate makes it a cause for ... -
The One World / One Health Concept Applied in the Field, Laboratory, and Hospital
(North Dakota State University, 2014)New infectious disease outbreaks demand new approaches for control and prevention of disease. The world’s health organizations have adopted the One World/One Health (OWOH) concept to meet this demand. The previous approach ... -
Role of ArcB/ArcA in the Regulation of Biofilm Formation in Escherichia coli in Conjunction with F1hD Expression
(North Dakota State University, 2014)The two goals of this study were to identify the affect that arcB has on biofilm formation and to determine whether this was dependent on AckA. Acetyl phosphate is formed from acetyl-CoA during acetate metabolism and is ... -
Emerging Infectious Diseases with Limited Treatment Options: The Case of Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever in Uganda and Shiga Toxin Producing Escheria Coli in the United States
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Emerging infectious diseases are diseases that newly emerge in a population or change the frequency or spatial distribution of their occurrence. Ebola Hemorrhagic Fever (EHF) and Shiga Toxin-producing Escherichia coli ... -
Hepatitis Virus B and Hepatitis Virus C Co-Infection Among HIV Patients and Development of an Enzyme Linked Immunosorbent Assay (ELISA) for Diagnosis of Equine Protozoa Myeloencephalitis
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Study 1: HIV patients with chronic HBV and/or HCV are more likely to die of liver disease and have a more rapid progression to Acquired Immunodeficiency Syndrome (AIDS) than patients solely infected with HIV. Blood samples ... -
Evaluation of a Climate-Sensitive Disease Control Strategy and Investigation of Multi-drug Resistance in Infectious Bacterial Diseases: A US-Africa Experience
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This paper presents two research projects that explore avenues of controlling infectious diseases both in Africa and the United States. In Uganda, a retrospective study of Otuboi Sub County patient data to evaluate the ... -
Drivers of Infectious Disease Outbreaks: How Climate, Environment and Disease Control Programs Influence Occurence of Infectious Disease Outbreaks
(North Dakota State University, 2012)This research study described the factors driving infectious disease outbreaks using Foot-and-mouth disease (FMD) in Uganda and Lyme disease in North Dakota (ND), Minnesota (MN) and Wisconsin (WI) as case studies. Retrospective ... -
Brucellosis Epidemiology, Virulence Factors, Control and Molecular Targets to Prevent Bacterial Infectious Diseases
(North Dakota State University, 2012)Brucellosis is a bacterial zoonosis that infects both professional phagocytic and nonphagocytic cells in the hosts. Brucella intracellular survival is important for its virulence. In a study to establish the seroprevalence ... -
International Infectious Disease Management and its Role in the 'One World, One Health, One Medicine' Concept
(North Dakota State University, 2012)The knowledge that almost 75% of all new human pathogens have animal origins, requires health professionals from all fields, (i.e. human medicine, veterinary medicine, and public health professionals), to work on solving ...