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Einstein Contained Aerosol Pulmonizer (ECAP): Improved Biosafety for Multi-Drug Resistant (MDR) and Extensively Drug Resistant (XDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis Aerosol Infection Studies.

Bing Chen1, Torin R Weisbrod, Tsungda Hsu, Vasan Sambandamurthy, Delia Vieira-Cruz, Anthony Chibbaro, Dan Ghidoni, Todd Kile, W Emmett Barkley, Catherine Vilchèze, Cody Colon-Berezin, David S Thaler, Michelle H Larsen, A Willem Sturm, William R Jacobs.   

Abstract

A new apparatus enhances the biosafety of containment (biosafety level 3 [BSL-3]) and provides experimental reproducibility for aerosol infection experiments with MDR and XDR Mycobacterium tuberculosis. The methods are generally applicable to the study of airborne pathogens.

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Year:  2011        PMID: 23413363      PMCID: PMC3569622          DOI: 10.1177/153567601101600302

Source DB:  PubMed          Journal:  Appl Biosaf        ISSN: 1535-6760


  10 in total

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Authors:  Justin M Hartings; Chad J Roy
Journal:  J Pharmacol Toxicol Methods       Date:  2004 Jan-Feb       Impact factor: 1.950

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Journal:  J Hyg (Lond)       Date:  1952-03

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Journal:  J Hyg (Lond)       Date:  1969-09

5.  A nose-only apparatus for airborne delivery of Mycobacterium tuberculosis to mice: calibration of biological parameters.

Authors:  Céline Louveau; Damien Descroix; Laurence Garnier; Iroudayanadin Delamanche; Pierre Chavarot; Françoise Ramisse; Gilles Marchal; Gilles Vergnaud
Journal:  Microbes Infect       Date:  2005-03-02       Impact factor: 2.700

6.  Adhesion to and invasion of pulmonary epithelial cells by the F15/LAM4/KZN and Beijing strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis.

Authors:  Olubisi T Ashiru; Manormoney Pillay; A Willem Sturm
Journal:  J Med Microbiol       Date:  2010-01-28       Impact factor: 2.472

7.  Isolation and characterization of efficient plasmid transformation mutants of Mycobacterium smegmatis.

Authors:  S B Snapper; R E Melton; S Mustafa; T Kieser; W R Jacobs
Journal:  Mol Microbiol       Date:  1990-11       Impact factor: 3.501

8.  Infection of mice with aerosolized Mycobacterium tuberculosis: use of a nose-only apparatus for delivery of low doses of inocula and design of an ultrasafe facility.

Authors:  J Reid Schwebach; Bing Chen; Aharona Glatman-Freedman; Arturo Casadevall; John D McKinney; John L Harb; Patrick J McGuire; W Emmett Barkley; Barry R Bloom; William R Jacobs
Journal:  Appl Environ Microbiol       Date:  2002-09       Impact factor: 4.792

9.  Introduction of foreign DNA into mycobacteria using a shuttle phasmid.

Authors:  W R Jacobs; M Tuckman; B R Bloom
Journal:  Nature       Date:  1987 Jun 11-17       Impact factor: 49.962

10.  Genome analysis of multi- and extensively-drug-resistant tuberculosis from KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa.

Authors:  Thomas R Ioerger; Sunwoo Koo; Eun-Gyu No; Xiaohua Chen; Michelle H Larsen; William R Jacobs; Manormoney Pillay; A Willem Sturm; James C Sacchettini
Journal:  PLoS One       Date:  2009-11-05       Impact factor: 3.240

  10 in total
  4 in total

1.  Plasticity of Mycobacterium tuberculosis NADH dehydrogenases and their role in virulence.

Authors:  Catherine Vilchèze; Brian Weinrick; Lawrence W Leung; William R Jacobs
Journal:  Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A       Date:  2018-01-30       Impact factor: 11.205

Review 2.  Animals devoid of pulmonary system as infection models in the study of lung bacterial pathogens.

Authors:  Yamilé López Hernández; Daniel Yero; Juan M Pinos-Rodríguez; Isidre Gibert
Journal:  Front Microbiol       Date:  2015-02-04       Impact factor: 5.640

3.  Rational Design of Biosafety Level 2-Approved, Multidrug-Resistant Strains of Mycobacterium tuberculosis through Nutrient Auxotrophy.

Authors:  Catherine Vilchèze; Jacqueline Copeland; Tracy L Keiser; Torin Weisbrod; Jacqueline Washington; Paras Jain; Adel Malek; Brian Weinrick; William R Jacobs
Journal:  mBio       Date:  2018-05-29       Impact factor: 7.867

4.  Generation of IL-3-Secreting CD4+ T Cells by Microbial Challenge at Skin and Mucosal Barriers.

Authors:  Shajo Kunnath-Velayudhan; Michael F Goldberg; Neeraj K Saini; Tony W Ng; Pooja Arora; Christopher T Johndrow; Noemi Alejandra Saavedra-Avila; Alison J Johnson; Jiayong Xu; John Kim; Nazanin Khajoueinejad; Christopher D Petro; Betsy C Herold; Gregoire Lauvau; John Chan; William R Jacobs; Steven A Porcelli
Journal:  Immunohorizons       Date:  2019-05-16
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