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  1. Xist expression in male Peromyscus leucopus is associated with restricted chromatin repression and incomplete X-to-autosome dosage compensation

    Article • June 2026, openRxiv

    Alan Barbour

  2. SARS-CoV-2 virus infection of Peromyscus leucopus demonstrates that infection tolerance is not limited to agents for which deermice are reservoirs

    Article • March 2026, openRxiv

    Alan Barbour

  3. Dermal fibroblast cultures recapitulate differences between deermice and mice in their responses to a Toll-like receptor agonist

    Article • Frontiers in Immunology, November 2025, Frontiers

    Alan Barbour

  4. Dermal fibroblast cultures recapitulate differences between deermice and mice in responses to a Toll-like receptor agonist

    Article • July 2025, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Alan Barbour

  5. The white-footed deermouse, an infection-tolerant reservoir for several zoonotic agents, tempers interferon responses to endotoxin in comparison to the mouse and rat

    Article • November 2023, eLife

    Alan Barbour

  6. The white-footed deermouse, an infection-tolerant reservoir for several zoonotic agents, tempers interferon responses to endotoxin in comparison to the mouse and rat

    Article • November 2023, eLife

    Alan Barbour

  7. Autoimmunity to synovial extracellular matrix proteins in patients with postinfectious Lyme arthritis

    Article • Journal of Clinical Investigation, September 2023, American Society for Clinical Investigation

    Alan Barbour

  8. The white-footed deermouse, an infection tolerant reservoir for several zoonotic agents, tempers interferon responses to endotoxin in comparison to the mouse and rat

    Article • August 2023, eLife

    Alan Barbour

  9. Lyme Disease Agent Reservoirs Peromyscus leucopus and P. maniculatus Have Natively Inactivated Genes for the High-Affinity Immunoglobulin Gamma Fc Receptor I (CD64)

    Article • Pathogens, August 2023, MDPI AG

    Alan Barbour

  10. The white-footed deermouse, an infection-tolerant reservoir for several zoonotic agents, tempers interferon responses to endotoxin in comparison to the mouse and rat

    Article • June 2023, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Alan Barbour

  11. The utility of a closed breeding colony of Peromyscus leucopus for dissecting complex traits

    Article • Genetics, February 2022, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alan Barbour

  12. The Family Borreliaceae (Spirochaetales), a Diverse Group in Two Genera of Tick-Borne Spirochetes of Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles

    Article • Journal of Medical Entomology, April 2021, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alan Barbour

  13. An Infection-Tolerant Mammalian Reservoir for Several Zoonotic Agents Broadly Counters the Inflammatory Effects of Endotoxin

    Article • mBio, April 2021, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  14. The infection-tolerant mammalian reservoir of Lyme disease and other zoonoses broadly counters the inflammatory effects of endotoxin

    Article • December 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Alan Barbour

  15. Lactobacilli and other gastrointestinal microbiota of Peromyscus leucopus, reservoir host for agents of Lyme disease and other zoonoses in North America

    Article • PLOS One, August 2020, PLOS

    Alan Barbour

  16. Lactobacilli and other gastrointestinal microbiota of Peromyscus leucopus, reservoir host for agents of Lyme disease and other zoonoses in North America

    Article • April 2020, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Alan Barbour

  17. Genomes, expression profiles, and diversity of mitochondria of the White-footed Deermouse Peromyscus leucopus, reservoir of Lyme disease and other zoonoses

    Article • Scientific Reports, November 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alan Barbour

  18. Discovery of the Lyme Disease Agent

    Article • mBio, October 2019, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  19. B orreliella

    Article • October 2019, Wiley

    Alan Barbour

  20. Genome Sequences of Three Lactobacillus Species Strains of the Stomach of the White-Footed Deermouse (Peromyscus leucopus)

    Article • Microbiology Resource Announcements, October 2019, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  21. The genome of Peromyscus leucopus , natural host for Lyme disease and other emerging infections

    Article • Science Advances, July 2019, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Alan Barbour

  22. Evaluation of the clinical relevance of vancomycin for the treatment of Lyme disease

    Article • Wiener klinische Wochenschrift, May 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alan Barbour

  23. Borrelia

    Article • September 2018, Wiley

    Alan Barbour

  24. Borreliaceae

    Article • March 2018, Wiley

    Alan Barbour

  25. Genotyping Strains of Lyme Disease Agents Directly From Ticks, Blood, or Tissue

    Article • October 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alan Barbour

  26. Citrate Anticoagulant Improves the Sensitivity of Borreliella (Borrelia) burgdorferi Plasma Culture

    Article • Journal of Clinical Microbiology, September 2017, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  27. There is inadequate evidence to support the division of the genus Borrelia

    Article • INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SYSTEMATIC AND EVOLUTIONARY MICROBIOLOGY, April 2017, Society for General Microbiology

    Alan Barbour

  28. Chromosome and Megaplasmid Sequences of Borrelia anserina (Sakharoff 1891), the Agent of Avian Spirochetosis and Type Species of the Genus

    Article • Genome Announcements, March 2017, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  29. Infection resistance and tolerance in Peromyscus spp., natural reservoirs of microbes that are virulent for humans

    Article • Seminars in Cell and Developmental Biology, January 2017, Elsevier

    Alan Barbour

  30. Unique Strain of Borrelia miyamotoi in Ixodes pacificus Ticks, California, USA

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, December 2016, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Alan Barbour

  31. Pathogen and Host Response Dynamics in a Mouse Model of Borrelia hermsii Relapsing Fever

    Article • Veterinary Sciences, August 2016, MDPI AG

    Alan Barbour

  32. Chromosome and Plasmids of the Tick-Borne Relapsing Fever Agent Borrelia hermsii

    Article • Genome Announcements, June 2016, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  33. Expression of the Tick-Associated Vtp Protein of Borrelia hermsii in a Murine Model of Relapsing Fever

    Article • PLOS One, February 2016, PLOS

    Alan Barbour

  34. Transcriptional Profiling the 150 kb Linear Megaplasmid of Borrelia turicatae Suggests a Role in Vector Colonization and Initiating Mammalian Infection

    Article • PLOS One, February 2016, PLOS

    Alan Barbour

  35. Multiple and Diverse vsp and vlp Sequences in Borrelia miyamotoi, a Hard Tick-Borne Zoonotic Pathogen

    Article • PLOS One, January 2016, PLOS

    Alan Barbour

  36. Infectious Diseases Society of America and Gain-of-Function Experiments With Pathogens Having Pandemic Potential

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, September 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alan Barbour

  37. “Lyme”: Chronic Fatigue Syndrome by Another Name?

    Article • Clinical Infectious Diseases, August 2015, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alan Barbour

  38. Borrelia miyamotoi: The Newest Infection Brought to Us by Deer Ticks

    Article • Annals of Internal Medicine, July 2015, American College of Physicians

    Alan Barbour

  39. Broad diversity of host responses of the white-footed mouse Peromyscus leucopus to Borrelia infection and antigens

    Article • Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases, July 2015, Elsevier

    Alan Barbour

  40. Borrelia miyamotoi infection in nature and in humans

    Article • Clinical Microbiology and Infection, July 2015, Elsevier

    Alan Barbour

  41. Top-Down-Assisted Bottom-Up Method for Homologous Protein Sequencing: Hemoglobin from 33 Bird Species

    Article • Journal of the American Society for Mass Spectrometry, June 2015, American Chemical Society (ACS)

    Alan Barbour

  42. Response to Esteve-Gassent et al.: flaB sequences obtained from Texas PCR products are identical to the positive control strain Borrelia burgdorferi B31

    Article • Parasites & Vectors, June 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alan Barbour

  43. Association between body size and reservoir competence of mammals bearing Borrelia burgdorferi at an endemic site in the northeastern United States

    Article • Parasites & Vectors, May 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alan Barbour

  44. Molecular Characterization ofBorrelia burgdorferifrom Case of Autochthonous Lyme Arthritis

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, December 2014, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Alan Barbour

  45. Analysis of the intergenic sequences provided by Feria-Arroyo et al. does not support the claim of high Borrelia burgdorferi tick infection rates in Texas and northeastern Mexico

    Article • Parasites & Vectors, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alan Barbour

  46. Elevated Carbon Monoxide to Carbon Dioxide Ratio in the Exhaled Breath of Mice Treated With a Single Dose of Lipopolysaccharide

    Article • Open Forum Infectious Diseases, September 2014, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alan Barbour

  47. Diversity of Antibody Responses to Borrelia burgdorferi in Experimentally Infected Beagle Dogs

    Article • Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, April 2014, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  48. Fibronectin-Binding Protein of Borrelia hermsii Expressed in the Blood of Mice with Relapsing Fever

    Article • Infection and Immunity, March 2014, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  49. Genome Sequence of Borrelia parkeri, an Agent of Enzootic Relapsing Fever in Western North America

    Article • Genome Announcements, February 2014, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  50. Chromosome Sequence of Borrelia miyamotoi, an Uncultivable Tick-Borne Agent of Human Infection

    Article • Genome Announcements, September 2013, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  51. Elevated Carbon Monoxide in the Exhaled Breath of Mice during a Systemic Bacterial Infection

    Article • PLOS One, July 2013, PLOS

    Alan Barbour

  52. Large Linear Plasmids of Borrelia Species That Cause Relapsing Fever

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, June 2013, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  53. HumanBorrelia miyamotoiInfection in the United States

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, January 2013, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Alan Barbour

  54. Experimental Infections of the Reservoir Species Peromyscus leucopus with Diverse Strains of Borrelia burgdorferi, a Lyme Disease Agent

    Article • mBio, December 2012, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  55. Geographic Variation in the Relationship between Human Lyme Disease Incidence and Density of Infected Host-Seeking Ixodes scapularis Nymphs in the Eastern United States

    Article • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, June 2012, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

    Alan Barbour

  56. Development of a host blood meal database: de novo sequencing of hemoglobin from nine small mammals using mass spectrometry

    Article • Biological Chemistry, March 2012, De Gruyter

    Alan Barbour

  57. Alp, an Arthropod-Associated Outer Membrane Protein of Borrelia Species That Cause Relapsing Fever

    Article • Infection and Immunity, February 2012, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  58. Human Risk of Infection with Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme Disease Agent, in Eastern United States

    Article • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, February 2012, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

    Alan Barbour

  59. Genotypic Diversity of Borrelia burgdorferi Strains Detected in Ixodes scapularis Larvae Collected from North American Songbirds

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2010, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  60. Evolution and Distribution of the ospC Gene, a Transferable Serotype Determinant of Borrelia burgdorferi

    Article • mBio, September 2010, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  61. Geographic Differences in Genetic Locus Linkages forBorrelia burgdorferi

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, July 2010, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Alan Barbour

  62. Niche Partitioning of Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia miyamotoi in the Same Tick Vector and Mammalian Reservoir Species

    Article • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, December 2009, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

    Alan Barbour

  63. Population Structure of the Lyme Borreliosis Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi in the Western Black-Legged Tick (Ixodes pacificus) in Northern California

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, September 2009, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  64. Climate and Tick Seasonality Are Predictors of Borrelia burgdorferi Genotype Distribution

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, February 2009, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  65. Identification of Residual Blood Proteins in Ticks by Mass Spectrometry Proteomics

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, August 2008, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Alan Barbour

  66. A Genome-Wide Proteome Array Reveals a Limited Set of Immunogens in Natural Infections of Humans and White-Footed Mice with Borrelia burgdorferi

    Article • Infection and Immunity, May 2008, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  67. Pathogen escape from host immunity by a genome program for antigenic variation

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, November 2006, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Alan Barbour

  68. Highly Prevalent Coxiella sp. Bacterium in the Tick Vector Amblyomma americanum

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, November 2006, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  69. Differential Telomere Processing by Borrelia Telomere Resolvases In Vitro but Not In Vivo

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, August 2006, ASM Journals

    Dr Troy Bankhead, Alan Barbour

  70. Migratory Passerine Birds as Reservoirs of Lyme Borreliosis in Europe

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, July 2006, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Alan Barbour

  71. Crystal Structure of Neurotropism-Associated Variable Surface Protein 1 (Vsp1) of Borrelia turicatae

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, June 2006, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  72. Antigenic variation by Borrelia hermsii occurs through recombination between extragenic repetitive elements on linear plasmids

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, May 2006, Wiley

    Alan Barbour

  73. A Reverse Transcriptase–Polymerase Chain Reaction Assay of Borrelia burgdorferi 16S rRNA for Highly Sensitive Quantification of Pathogen Load in a Vector

    Article • Vector-Borne and Zoonotic Diseases, March 2006, SAGE Publications

    Alan Barbour

  74. Within-host dynamics of antigenic variation

    Article • Infection Genetics and Evolution, March 2006, Elsevier

    Alan Barbour

  75. Function and Evolution of Plasmid-Borne Genes for Pyrimidine Biosynthesis in Borrelia spp

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, February 2006, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  76. Ticks have R2 retrotransposons but not the consensus transposon target site of other arthropods

    Article • Insect Molecular Biology, September 2005, Wiley

    Alan Barbour

  77. Horizontally Acquired Genes for Purine Salvage in Borrelia spp. Causing Relapsing Fever

    Article • Infection and Immunity, September 2005, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  78. ThirdBorreliaSpecies in White-footed Mice

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, July 2005, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Alan Barbour

  79. Structural Investigation of Borrelia burgdorferi OspB, a BactericidalFab Target

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, April 2005, Elsevier

    Alan Barbour

  80. An ecological approach to preventing human infection: Vaccinating wild mouse reservoirs intervenes in the Lyme disease cycle

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2004, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Alan Barbour

  81. Typing ofBorreliaRelapsing Fever Group Strains

    Article • Emerging Infectious Diseases, September 2004, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC)

    Alan Barbour

  82. Sequence typing reveals extensive strain diversity of the Lyme borreliosis agents Borrelia burgdorferi in North America and Borrelia afzelii in Europe

    Article • Microbiology, June 2004, Society for General Microbiology

    Alan Barbour

  83. Transgenic Expression of RecA of the Spirochetes Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia hermsii in Escherichia coli Revealed Differences in DNA Repair and Recombination Phenotypes

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, April 2004, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  84. Borrelia burgdorferiInfection in a Natural Population ofPeromyscus LeucopusMice: A Longitudinal Study in an Area Where Lyme Borreliosis Is Highly Endemic

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, April 2004, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alan Barbour

  85. Cross-Species Surface Display of Functional Spirochetal Lipoproteins by Recombinant Borrelia burgdorferi

    Article • Infection and Immunity, March 2004, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  86. Cross‐species hybridization of a Borrelia burgdorferi DNA array reveals infection‐ and culture‐associated genes of the unsequenced genome of the relapsing fever agent Borrelia hermsii

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, December 2003, Wiley

    Alan Barbour

  87. Profiling of Temperature-Induced Changes in Borrelia burgdorferi Gene Expression by Using Whole Genome Arrays

    Article • Infection and Immunity, April 2003, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  88. Immunization with the Chlamydia trachomatis major outer membrane protein, using the outer surface protein A of Borrelia burgdorferi as an adjuvant, can induce protection against a chlamydial genital challenge

    Article • Vaccine, March 2003, Elsevier

    Alan Barbour

  89. Laboratory testing for suspected lyme disease

    Article • Medical Clinics of North America, March 2002, Elsevier

    Alan Barbour

  90. Fatal Spirochetosis Due to a Relapsing Fever-like Borreliasp. in a Northern Spotted Owl

    Article • Journal of Wildlife Diseases, January 2002, Wildlife Disease Association

    Alan Barbour

  91. Three Major Lyme Borrelia Genospecies (Borrelia burgdorferi sensu stricto, B. afzelii and B. garinii) Identified by PCR in Cerebrospinal Fluid from Patients with Neuroborreliosis in Sweden

    Article • Scandinavian Journal of Infectious Diseases, January 2002, Taylor & Francis

    Alan Barbour

  92. Antigen polymorphism in Borrelia hermsii , a clonal pathogenic bacterium

    Article • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, December 2001, Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences

    Alan Barbour

  93. Isogenic Serotypes of Borrelia turicataeShow Different Localization in the Brain and Skin of Mice

    Article • Infection and Immunity, May 2001, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  94. Non‐heritable change of a spirochaete's phenotype by decoration of the cell surface with exogenous lipoproteins

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, April 2001, Wiley

    Alan Barbour

  95. In Vitro and In Vivo Neutralization of the Relapsing Fever Agent Borrelia hermsii with Serotype-Specific Immunoglobulin M Antibodies

    Article • Infection and Immunity, February 2001, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  96. Structural Conservation of Neurotropism-associated VspA within the Variable Borrelia Vsp-OspC Lipoprotein Family

    Article • Journal of Biological Chemistry, January 2001, Elsevier

    Alan Barbour

  97. Surface Protein Variation by Expression Site Switching in the Relapsing Fever Agent Borrelia hermsii

    Article • Infection and Immunity, December 2000, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  98. Amblyomma americanum: Specific Uptake of Immunoglobulins into Tick Hemolymph during Feeding

    Article • Experimental Parasitology, December 2000, Elsevier

    Alan Barbour

  99. Variable small protein (Vsp)‐dependent and Vsp‐independent pathways for glycosaminoglycan recognition by relapsing fever spirochaetes

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, May 2000, Wiley

    Alan Barbour

  100. Stability of Borrelia burgdorferi bdrLoci In Vitro and In Vivo

    Article • Infection and Immunity, March 2000, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  101. Growth‐Inhibiting Antibody Responses of Humans Vaccinated with Recombinant Outer Surface Protein A or Infected withBorrelia burgdorferior Both

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, March 2000, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alan Barbour

  102. Extensive interplasmidic duplications change the virulence phenotype of the relapsing fever agent Borrelia turicatae

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, December 1999, Wiley

    Alan Barbour

  103. The extended promoters for two outer membrane lipoprotein genes of Borrelia spp. uniquely include a T‐rich region

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, July 1999, Wiley

    Alan Barbour

  104. Male ticks help their mates to feed

    Article • Nature, February 1998, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alan Barbour

  105. Neuroborreliosis During Relapsing Fever: Review of the Clinical Manifestations, Pathology, and Treatment of Infections in Humans and Experimental Animals

    Article • Clinical Infectious Diseases, January 1998, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alan Barbour

  106. Oral delivery of purified lipoprotein OspA protects mice from systemic infection with Borrelia burgdorferi

    Article • Vaccine, April 1997, Elsevier

    Alan Barbour

  107. Antigenic Variation in Lyme Disease Borreliae by Promiscuous Recombination of VMP-like Sequence Cassettes

    Article • Cell, April 1997, Elsevier

    Alan Barbour

  108. An OspA-Based DNA Vaccine Protects Mice against Infection with Borrelia burgdorferi

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, January 1997, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alan Barbour

  109. A Flagella-less Mutant of Borrelia burgdorferi as a Live Attenuated Vaccine in the Murine Model of Lyme Disease

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, May 1996, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alan Barbour

  110. Identification of an Uncultivable Borrelia Species in the Hard Tick Amblyomma americanum: Possible Agent of a Lyme Disease-like Illness

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, February 1996, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alan Barbour

  111. Expression of the flagellin gene in Borrelia is controlled by an alternative   factor

    Article • Microbiology, January 1995, Society for General Microbiology

    Alan Barbour

  112. Antigen diversity in the bacterium B. hermsii through “Somatic” mutations in rearranged vmp genes

    Article • Cell, September 1994, Elsevier

    Alan Barbour

  113. Activation of a vmp pseudogene in Borrella hermsii: an alternate mechanism of antigenic variation during relapsing fever

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, July 1994, Wiley

    Alan Barbour

  114. Nucleotide sequence and analysis of the gene inBorrelia burgdorferiencoding the immunogenic P39 antigen

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, June 1994, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alan Barbour

  115. Differential Association of Borrelia Species with Cultured Neural Cells

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, February 1994, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alan Barbour

  116. Experimental Infection of the Mouse Brain by a Relapsing Fever Borrelia Species: A Molecular Analysis

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, July 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alan Barbour

  117. The Biological and Social Phenomenon of Lyme Disease

    Article • Science, June 1993, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Alan Barbour

  118. In vitro activity of vancomycin against the spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi.

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, May 1993, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  119. In Vitro Inhibition of Borrelia burgdorferi Growth by Antibodies

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, January 1993, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alan Barbour

  120. Subtelomeric expression regions of Borrelia hermsii linear plasmids are highly polymorphic

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, November 1992, Wiley

    Alan Barbour

  121. A flagella-less mutant of Borrelia burgdorferi. Structural, molecular, and in vitro functional characterization.

    Article • Journal of Clinical Investigation, July 1991, American Society for Clinical Investigation

    Alan Barbour

  122. Variable antigen genes of the relapsing fever agent Borrelia hermsii are activated by promoter addition

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, February 1991, Wiley

    Alan Barbour

  123. ANTIGENIC VARIATION OF A RELAPSING FEVER BORRELIA SPECIES

    Article • Annual Review of Microbiology, October 1990, Annual Reviews

    Alan Barbour

  124. The variable antigens Vmp7 and Vmp21 of the relapsing fever bacterium Borrelia hermsii are structurally analogous to the VSG proteins of the African trypanosome

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, October 1990, Wiley

    Alan Barbour

  125. Cloning and sequence analysis of linear plasmid telomeres of the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, May 1990, Wiley

    Alan Barbour

  126. Detection of Borrelia burgdorferi DNA by the polymerase chain reaction

    Article • Molecular and Cellular Probes, February 1990, Elsevier

    Alan Barbour

  127. Analysis of North American and European Isolates of Borrelia burgdorferi with Antiserum to a Recombinant Antigen

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, August 1989, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alan Barbour

  128. Molecular analysis of linear plasmid‐encoded major surface proteins, OspA and OspB, of the Lyme disease spirochaete Borrelia burgdorferi

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, April 1989, Wiley

    Alan Barbour

  129. The Diagnosis of Lyme Disease: Rewards and Perils

    Article • Annals of Internal Medicine, April 1989, American College of Physicians

    Alan Barbour

  130. Enzyme-Linked Immunosorbent Assays for Lyme Disease: Reactivity of Subunits of Borrelia burgdorferi

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, January 1989, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alan Barbour

  131. Antigenic Variability of Borrelia burgdorferi

    Article • Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, August 1988, Wiley

    Alan Barbour

  132. Linear Plasmids of the Bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi Have Covalently Closed Ends

    Article • Science, July 1987, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Alan Barbour

  133. Borrelia coriaceae sp. nov.: Putative Agent of Epizootic Bovine Abortion

    Article • International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, January 1987, Society for General Microbiology

    Alan Barbour

  134. Transposition of structural genes to an expression sequence on a linear plasmid causes antigenic variation in the bacterium Borrelia hermsii

    Article • Nature, November 1985, Springer Science + Business Media

    Alan Barbour

  135. Isolation of a Spirochete from the Soft Tick, Ornithodoros coriaceus : a Possible Agent of Epizootic Bovine Abortion

    Article • Science, October 1985, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Alan Barbour

  136. Heterogeneity of Major Proteins in Lyme Disease Borreliae: A Molecular Analysis of North American and European Isolates

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, September 1985, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alan Barbour

  137. Antigenic variation is associated with DNA rearrangements in a relapsing fever borrelia

    Article • Cell, June 1985, Elsevier

    Alan Barbour

  138. A Single Recombinant Plasmid Expressing Two Major Outer Surface Proteins of the Lyme Disease Spirochete

    Article • Science, February 1985, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Alan Barbour

  139. Borrelia burgdorferi sp. nov.: Etiologic Agent of Lyme Disease

    Article • International Journal of Systematic Bacteriology, October 1984, Society for General Microbiology

    Alan Barbour

  140. High Potassium in Low-Sodium Soups

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, May 1983, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Alan Barbour

  141. Natural Distribution of the Ixodes dammini Spirochete

    Article • Science, April 1983, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Alan Barbour

  142. Spirochetes Isolated from the Blood of Two Patients with Lyme Disease

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, March 1983, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Alan Barbour

  143. The Spirochetal Etiology of Lyme Disease

    Article • The New England Journal of Medicine and Surgery and the Collateral Branches of Science, March 1983, New England Journal of Medicine (NEJM/MMS)

    Alan Barbour

  144. Variable major proteins of Borrellia hermsii.

    Article • Journal of Experimental Medicine, November 1982, Rockefeller University Press

    Alan Barbour

  145. Lyme Disease—a Tick-Borne Spirochetosis?

    Article • Science, June 1982, American Association for the Advancement of Science

    Alan Barbour

  146. Action of penicillin on Borrelia hermsii.

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, May 1982, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  147. Properties of penicillin-binding proteins in Neisseria gonorrhoeae.

    Article • Antimicrobial Agents and Chemotherapy, February 1981, ASM Journals

    Alan Barbour

  148. Mecillinam Resistance in Escherichia coli: Dissociation of Growth Inhibition and Morphologic Change

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, January 1981, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alan Barbour

  149. Chemiluminescence by Polymorphonuclear Leukocytes from Patients with Active Bacterial Infection

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, January 1980, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Alan Barbour

  150. Kawasaki-like Disease in a Young Adult

    Article • JAMA, January 1979, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Alan Barbour

  151. Hydatid Disease Screening: Sanpete County, Utah, 1971–1976

    Article • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, January 1978, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

    Alan Barbour

  152. An Outbreak of Giardiasis in a Group of Campers *

    Article • American Journal of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene, May 1976, American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene

    Alan Barbour

  153. Casoni Skin Test for Hydatid Cyst

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