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  1. Evasion of serum antibodies and complement by Salmonella Typhi and Paratyphi A

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, May 2025, PLOS

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  2. Nitric Oxide Disrupts Zinc Homeostasis in Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium

    Article • mBio, August 2018, ASM Journals

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  3. The Rcs-Regulated Colanic Acid Capsule Maintains Membrane Potential inSalmonella entericaserovar Typhimurium

    Article • mBio, June 2017, ASM Journals

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  4. 47 Years of IAI: a Glance in the Mirror and the Road Ahead

    Article • Infection and Immunity, April 2017, ASM Journals

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  5. Reply to “On the Impact Factor and the ASM Editorial Policy”

    Article • Infection and Immunity, January 2017, ASM Journals

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  6. Point-Counterpoint: What Is the Optimal Approach for Detection of Clostridium difficile Infection?

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

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  7. Erratum for Fang and Casadevall, Research Funding: the Case for a Modified Lottery

    Article • mBio, May 2016, ASM Journals

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  8. Loss of Multicellular Behavior in Epidemic African Nontyphoidal Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium ST313 Strain D23580

    Article • mBio, March 2016, ASM Journals

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  9. Fluoroquinolone Resistance in Salmonella and the Utility of Perfloxacin Disk Diffusion: TABLE 1

    Article • Journal of Clinical Microbiology, August 2015, ASM Journals

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  10. Integrated circuits: how transcriptional silencing and counter-silencing facilitate bacterial evolution

    Article • Current Opinion in Microbiology, February 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  11. Human Diphyllobothrium nihonkaiense Infection in Washington State

    Article • Journal of Clinical Microbiology, January 2015, ASM Journals

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  12. Competitive Science: Is Competition Ruining Science?

    Article • Infection and Immunity, January 2015, ASM Journals

    Professor Ferric C Fang, Dr Arturo Casadevall

  13. Evolutionary expansion of a regulatory network by counter-silencing

    Article • Nature Communications, October 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  14. Financial costs and personal consequences of research misconduct resulting in retracted publications

    Article • eLife, August 2014, eLife

    Professor Ferric C Fang, Dr Arturo Casadevall

  15. The insand outsof bacterial iron metabolism

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, July 2014, Wiley

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  16. Iron ERRs with Salmonella

    Article • Cell Host & Microbe, May 2014, Elsevier

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  17. Specialized Science

    Article • Microbe Magazine, April 2014, ASM Journals

    Professor Ferric C Fang, Dr Arturo Casadevall

  18. Distinct Roles of the Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium CyaY and YggX Proteins in the Biosynthesis and Repair of Iron-Sulfur Clusters

    Article • Infection and Immunity, January 2014, ASM Journals

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  19. The Staphylococcus aureus SrrAB Two-Component System Promotes Resistance to Nitrosative Stress and Hypoxia

    Article • mBio, November 2013, ASM Journals

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  20. Correction: Why Has the Number of Scientific Retractions Increased?

    Article • PLOS One, July 2013, PLOS

    Professor Ferric C Fang, Dr Arturo Casadevall

  21. Why Has the Number of Scientific Retractions Increased?

    Article • PLOS One, July 2013, PLOS

    Professor Ferric C Fang, Dr Arturo Casadevall

  22. Probiotic Bacteria Reduce Salmonella Typhimurium Intestinal Colonization by Competing for Iron

    Article • Cell Host & Microbe, July 2013, Elsevier

    Professor Ferric C Fang, Manuela Raffatellu

  23. Antibiotic and ROS linkage questioned

    Article • Nature Biotechnology, May 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  24. Why We Cheat

    Article • Scientific American Mind, April 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ferric C Fang, Dr Arturo Casadevall

  25. CaseFinder: A Flexible Real-time Online Surveillance Registry for Infectious Disease Physicians to Report Cases of Carbapenem-resistant Enterobacteriaceae (CRE)

    Article • Online Journal of Public Health Informatics, March 2013, University of Illinois Libraries

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  26. Males Are Overrepresented among Life Science Researchers Committing Scientific Misconduct

    Article • mBio, January 2013, ASM Journals

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  27. A Tollgate for Typhoid

    Article • Cell, October 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  28. The NsrR regulon in nitrosative stress resistance ofSalmonella entericaserovar Typhimurium

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, July 2012, Wiley

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  29. Winner Takes All

    Article • Scientific American A Matter of Time, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ferric C Fang, Dr Arturo Casadevall

  30. Antimicrobial actions of nitric oxide

    Article • Nitric Oxide, July 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  31. Evolution of Salmonella enterica Virulence via Point Mutations in the Fimbrial Adhesin

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, June 2012, PLOS

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  32. Integrated stress responses in Salmonella

    Article • International Journal of Food Microbiology, January 2012, Elsevier

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  33. Reforming Science

    Article • Microbe Magazine, January 2012, ASM Journals

    Professor Ferric C Fang, Dr Arturo Casadevall

  34. Microbial Virulence as an Emergent Property: Consequences and Opportunities

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, July 2011, PLOS

    Professor Ferric C Fang, Dr Arturo Casadevall

  35. Multiple Targets of Nitric Oxide in the Tricarboxylic Acid Cycle of Salmonella enterica Serovar Typhimurium

    Article • Cell Host & Microbe, July 2011, Elsevier

    Professor Ferric C Fang, Dr Anthony R Richardson

  36. The phage shock protein PspA facilitates divalent metal transport and is required for virulence of Salmonella enterica sv. Typhimurium

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, September 2010, Wiley

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  37. PoxA, YjeK, and Elongation Factor P Coordinately Modulate Virulence and Drug Resistance in Salmonella enterica

    Article • Molecular Cell, July 2010, Elsevier

    Michael Ibba, Professor Ferric C Fang

  38. Regulation of Hemolysin Expression and Virulence of Staphylococcus aureus by a Serine/Threonine Kinase and Phosphatase

    Article • PLOS One, June 2010, PLOS

    Professor Ferric C Fang, Dr Anthony R Richardson

  39. Nutrient Availability as a Mechanism for Selection of Antibiotic Tolerant Pseudomonas aeruginosa within the CF Airway

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, January 2010, PLOS

    Professor Ferric C Fang, Dr Lucas Hoffman

  40. Vaccination with attenuated Salmonella enterica Dublin expressing E coli O157:H7 outer membrane protein Intimin induces transient reduction of fecal shedding of E coli O157:H7 in cattle

    Article • BMC Veterinary Research, January 2010, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ferric C Fang, Dr Shuping Zhang, Walid Alali

  41. Slc11a1 limits intracellular growth ofSalmonella entericasv. Typhimurium by promoting macrophage immune effector functions and impairing bacterial iron acquisition

    Article • Cellular Microbiology, September 2009, Wiley

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  42. The Base Excision Repair System of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium Counteracts DNA Damage by Host Nitric Oxide

    Article • PLoS Pathogens, May 2009, PLOS

    Professor Ferric C Fang, Dr Anthony R Richardson

  43. Acid stress activation of the σEstress response inSalmonella entericaserovar Typhimurium

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, March 2009, Wiley

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  44. New insights into transcriptional regulation by H-NS

    Article • Current Opinion in Microbiology, April 2008, Elsevier

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  45. Biosynthesis and IroC-dependent export of the siderophore salmochelin are essential for virulence of Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, March 2008, Wiley

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  46. Analysis of Nitric Oxide‐Dependent Antimicrobial Actions in Macrophages and Mice

    Article • January 2008, Elsevier

    Andres Vazquez-Torres, Professor Ferric C Fang

  47. The response regulator SsrB activates expression of diverse Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 promoters and counters silencing by the nucleoid-associated protein H-NS

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, July 2007, Wiley

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  48. The role of ferritins in the physiology of Salmonella enterica sv. Typhimurium: a unique role for ferritin B in iron-sulphur cluster repair and virulence

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, March 2007, Wiley

    Professor Ferric C Fang, Dr Anthony R Richardson

  49. The nitrosative stress response of Staphylococcus aureus is required for resistance to innate immunity

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, August 2006, Wiley

    Professor Ferric C Fang, Dr Anthony R Richardson, Dr Anthony R Richardson

  50. Nitric Oxide in Salmonella and Escherichia coli Infections

    Article • November 2005, ASM Journals

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  51. Suppressor αβ T Lymphocytes Control Innate Resistance to Endotoxic Shock

    Article • The Journal of Infectious Diseases, September 2005, Oxford University Press (OUP)

    Andres Vazquez-Torres, Professor Ferric C Fang

  52. Nitric Oxide in Salmonella and Escherichia coli Infections

    Article • EcoSal Plus, July 2005, ASM Journals

    Andres Vazquez-Torres, Professor Ferric C Fang

  53. Comparison of the PhoPQ Regulon in Escherichia coli and Salmonella typhimurium

    Article • Journal of Molecular Evolution, April 2005, Springer Science + Business Media

    Sigrid De Keersmaecker, Professor Ferric C Fang

  54. Compensatory role of PspA, a member of the phage shock protein operon, in rpoE mutant Salmonella enterica serovar Typhimurium

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, March 2005, Wiley

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  55. Alternative sigma factor interactions inSalmonella: σEand σHpromote antioxidant defences by enhancing σSlevels

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, March 2005, Wiley

    Professor Ferric C Fang, PHD Jonathan G Frye

  56. The alternative sigma factor σEis required for resistance ofSalmonella entericaserovar Typhimurium to anti-microbial peptides

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, March 2005, Wiley

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  57. Co-regulation of Salmonella enterica genes required for virulence and resistance to antimicrobial peptides by SlyA and PhoP/PhoQ

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, February 2005, Wiley

    Professor Ferric C Fang, PHD Jonathan G Frye

  58. Antimicrobial reactive oxygen and nitrogen species: concepts and controversies

    Article • Nature Reviews Microbiology, October 2004, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  59. Regulation of Salmonella typhimurium virulence gene expression by cationic antimicrobial peptides

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, August 2003, Wiley

    Professor Ferric C Fang, PHD Jonathan G Frye

  60. Salmonella selectively stops traffic

    Article • Trends in Microbiology, September 2002, Elsevier

    Andres Vazquez-Torres, Professor Ferric C Fang

  61. Nitric oxide production by human macrophages: there's NO doubt about it

    Article • AJP Lung Cellular and Molecular Physiology, May 2002, American Physiological Society

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  62. The alternative sigma factor σE controls antioxidant defences required for Salmonella virulence and stationary‐phase survival

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, February 2002, Wiley

    Andres Vazquez-Torres, Professor Ferric C Fang

  63. Antimicrobial Properties of Nitric Oxide

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  64. Nitric Oxide and Infection

    Article • January 2002, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  65. evasion of the NADPH phagocyte oxidase

    Article • Microbes and Infection, November 2001, Elsevier

    Andres Vazquez-Torres, Professor Ferric C Fang

  66. Nitrosylation

    Article • Cell, September 2001, Elsevier

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  67. Remodelling of the actin cytoskeleton is essential for replication of intravacuolar Salmonella

    Article • Cellular Microbiology, August 2001, Wiley

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  68. Oxygen-dependent anti-Salmonella activity of macrophages

    Article • Trends in Microbiology, January 2001, Elsevier

    Andres Vazquez-Torres, Professor Ferric C Fang

  69. Border patrols and secret passageways across the intestinal epithelium: Response

    Article • Trends in Microbiology, July 2000, Elsevier

    Andres Vazquez-Torres, Professor Ferric C Fang

  70. Reply

    Article • Gastroenterology, April 2000, Elsevier

    Andres Vazquez-Torres, Professor Ferric C Fang

  71. Mechanisms of Resistance to NO-Related Antibacterial Activity

    Article • January 2000, ASM Journals

    Andres Vazquez-Torres, Professor Ferric C Fang

  72. Phenotype of Mice and Macrophages Deficient in Both Phagocyte Oxidase and Inducible Nitric Oxide Synthase

    Article • Immunity, January 1999, Elsevier

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  73. Genes encoding putative effector proteins of the type III secretion system of Salmonella pathogenicity island 2 are required for bacterial virulence and proliferation in macrophages

    Article • Molecular Microbiology, October 1998, Wiley

    Andres Vazquez-Torres, Professor Ferric C Fang

  74. Diagnosis of Clostridium difficile Colitis

    Article • Annals of Internal Medicine, September 1996, American College of Physicians

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  75. HIV gp120-Specific Cell-Mediated Immune Responses in Mice After Oral Immunization With Recombinant Salmonella

    Article • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes & Human Retrovirology, December 1995, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  76. HIV gp120-Specific Cell-Mediated Immune Responses in Mice After Oral Immunization With Recombinant Salmonella

    Article • Journal of Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndromes & Human Retrovirology, December 1995, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  77. Growth-phase regulation of plasmid virulence genes in Salmonella

    Article • Trends in Microbiology, July 1995, Elsevier

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  78. Plasmid-mediated virulence genes in non-typhoid Salmonella serovars

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

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  79. Cloning and sequencing of the gene encoding the RpoS (KatF) σ factor from Salmonella typhimurium 14028s

    Article • Biochimica et Biophysica Acta (BBA) - Gene Structure and Expression, September 1994, Elsevier

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  80. Mutations in the gene encoding the replication-initiation protein of plasmid RK2 produce elevated copy numbers of RK2 derivatives in Escherichia coli and distantly related bacteria

    Article • Gene, October 1993, Elsevier

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  81. Value of Molecular Epidemiologic Analysis in a Nosocomial Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Outbreak

    Article • JAMA, September 1993, American Medical Association (AMA)

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  82. Human Infection with Salmonella dublin

    Article • Medicine, May 1991, Wolters Kluwer Health

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  83. Biliary obstruction caused by epithelioid angiomatosis in a patient with AIDS

    Article • The American Journal of Medicine, December 1990, Elsevier

    Professor Ferric C Fang

  84. An Overview of Nitric Oxide in Infection

    Article • Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Ferric C Fang