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  1. Borrelia burgdorferi RevA Significantly Affects Pathogenicity and Host Response in the Mouse Model of Lyme Disease

    Article • Infection and Immunity, July 2015, ASM Journals

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  2. Lyme Disease in North Dakota

    Article • Applied and Environmental Microbiology, October 2014, ASM Journals

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  3. That's my story, and I'm sticking to it—an update on B. burgdorferi adhesins

    Article • Frontiers in Cellular and Infection Microbiology, April 2014, Frontiers

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  4. BB0347, from the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi, Is Surface Exposed and Interacts with the CS1 Heparin-Binding Domain of Human Fibronectin

    Article • PLOS One, September 2013, PLOS

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  5. The Multifaceted Responses of Primary Human Astrocytes and Brain Microvascular Endothelial Cells to the Lyme Disease Spirochete,Borrelia Burgdorferi

    Article • ASN NEURO, June 2013, SAGE Publications

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  6. Evaluation of RevA, a Fibronectin-Binding Protein of Borrelia burgdorferi, as a Potential Vaccine Candidate for Lyme Disease

    Article • Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, April 2013, ASM Journals

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  7. Acetate supplementation reduces microglia activation and brain interleukin-1β levels in a rat model of Lyme neuroborreliosis

    Article • Journal of Neuroinflammation, November 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  8. EbfC (YbaB) Is a New Type of Bacterial Nucleoid-Associated Protein and a Global Regulator of Gene Expression in the Lyme Disease Spirochete

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, April 2012, ASM Journals

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  9. BpaB and EbfC DNA-Binding Proteins Regulate Production of the Lyme Disease Spirochete's Infection-Associated Erp Surface Proteins

    Article • Journal of Bacteriology, December 2011, ASM Journals

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  10. Borrelia burgdorferi Enolase Is a Surface-Exposed Plasminogen Binding Protein

    Article • PLOS One, November 2011, PLOS

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  11. Simultaneous Isolation of Ixodidae and Bacterial ( Borrelia spp. ) Genomic DNA

    Article • November 2010, Wiley

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  12. Leptospiral Endostatin-Like Protein A Is a Bacterial Cell Surface Receptor for Human Plasminogen

    Article • Infection and Immunity, February 2010, ASM Journals

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  13. The Borrelial Fibronectin-Binding Protein RevA Is an Early Antigen of Human Lyme Disease

    Article • Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, February 2010, ASM Journals

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  14. Functional Characterization of Borrelia spielmanii Outer Surface Proteins That Interact with Distinct Members of the Human Factor H Protein Family and with Plasminogen

    Article • Infection and Immunity, October 2009, ASM Journals

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  15. Borrelia burgdorferi BmpA Is a Laminin-Binding Protein

    Article • Infection and Immunity, August 2009, ASM Journals

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  16. Borrelia burgdorferi RevA Antigen Binds Host Fibronectin

    Article • Infection and Immunity, April 2009, ASM Journals

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  17. The Borrelia burgdorferi outer-surface protein ErpX binds mammalian laminin

    Article • Microbiology, March 2009, Society for General Microbiology

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  18. Borrelia burgdorferi EbfC defines a newly-identified, widespread family of bacterial DNA-binding proteins

    Article • Nucleic Acids Research, January 2009, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  19. Treponema denticola does not induce production of common innate immune mediators from primary gingival epithelial cells

    Article • Oral Microbiology and Immunology, December 2008, Wiley

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  20. Borrelia burgdorferi Infection-Associated Surface Proteins ErpP, ErpA, and ErpC Bind Human Plasminogen

    Article • Infection and Immunity, November 2008, ASM Journals

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  21. Borrelia burgdorferi complement regulator-acquiring surface proteins (BbCRASPs): Expression patterns during the mammal–tick infection cycle

    Article • International Journal of Medical Microbiology, September 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  22. Lyme borreliosis spirochete Erp proteins, their known host ligands, and potential roles in mammalian infection

    Article • International Journal of Medical Microbiology, September 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  23. Borrelia burgdorferi Complement Regulator-Acquiring Surface Protein 2 (CspZ) as a Serological Marker of Human Lyme Disease

    Article • Clinical and Vaccine Immunology, December 2007, ASM Journals

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  24. Leptospira interrogans Endostatin-Like Outer Membrane Proteins Bind Host Fibronectin, Laminin and Regulators of Complement

    Article • PLOS One, November 2007, PLOS

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  25. Coordinated Expression of Borrelia burgdorferi Complement Regulator-Acquiring Surface Proteins during the Lyme Disease Spirochete's Mammal-Tick Infection Cycle

    Article • Infection and Immunity, June 2007, ASM Journals

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  26. Mechanisms of Decreased Susceptibility to β-Defensins by Treponema denticola

    Article • Infection and Immunity, February 2007, ASM Journals

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  27. Resistance to human β-defensins is common among oral treponemes

    Article • Oral Microbiology and Immunology, December 2004, Wiley

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  28. Treponema denticola Is Resistant to Human β-Defensins

    Article • Infection and Immunity, July 2002, ASM Journals

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  29. A recombinase A-deficient strain of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans constructed by insertional mutagenesis using a mobilizable plasmid

    Article • FEMS Microbiology Letters, January 2002, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Dr Catherine A Brissette

  30. Virulence factors of Actinobacillus actinomycetemcomitans

    Article • Periodontology 2000, June 1999, Wiley

    Dr Catherine A Brissette