Interventions to reduce tuberculosis mortality and transmission in low- and middle-income countries

Autor: Borgdorff Martien W., Floyd Katherine, Broekmans Jaap F.

Publikováno v: Bulletin of the World Health Organization, Vol 80, Iss 3, Pp 217-227 (2002)

Tuberculosis is among the top ten causes of global mortality and affects low-income countries in particular. This paper examines, through a literature review, the impact of tuberculosis control measures on tuberculosis mortality and transmission, and

Externí odkaz: https://doaj.org/article/e79c6d4bb3814454b52752ab177efbbc

Cost, affordability and cost-effectiveness of strategies to control tuberculosis in countries with high HIV prevalence

Autor: Williams Brian G, Floyd Katherine, Currie Christine SM, Dye Christopher

Publikováno v: BMC Public Health, Vol 5, Iss 1, p 130 (2005)

Abstract Background The HIV epidemic has caused a dramatic increase in tuberculosis (TB) in East and southern Africa. Several strategies have the potential to reduce the burden of TB in high HIV prevalence settings, and cost and cost-effectiveness an

Externí odkaz: https://doaj.org/article/d503a645b7f14a66a3ce862b050e0f96

Outer membrane vesicles and the outer membrane protein OmpU govern Vibrio cholerae biofilm matrix assembly.

Autor: Potapova A; Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA., Garvey W; Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA., Dahl P; Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.; Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, USA., Guo S; Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, USA.; Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA., Chang Y; Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, USA.; Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA., Schwechheimer C; Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA., Trebino MA; Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA., Floyd KA; Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA., Phinney BS; Proteomics Core Facility, UC Davis Genome Center, University of California-Davis, Davis, California, USA., Liu J; Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, USA.; Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut, USA., Malvankar NS; Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, USA.; Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, West Haven, Connecticut, USA., Yildiz FH; Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, USA.

Publikováno v: MBio [mBio] 2024 Feb 14; Vol. 15 (2), pp. e0330423. Date of Electronic Publication: 2024 Jan 11.

Roadmap on emerging concepts in the physical biology of bacterial biofilms: from surface sensing to community formation.

Autor: Wong GCL; Department of Bioengineering, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, CA 90095, United States of America.; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, CA 90095, United States of America.; California NanoSystems Institute, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, CA 90095, United States of America., Antani JD; Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, United States of America., Lele PP; Artie McFerrin Department of Chemical Engineering, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843, United States of America., Chen J; Department of Biological Sciences, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA24061, United States of America., Nan B; Department of Biology, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, TX 77845, United States of America., Kühn MJ; Institute of Bioengineering and Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland., Persat A; Institute of Bioengineering and Global Health Institute, School of Life Sciences, École Polytechnique Fédérale de Lausanne, Lausanne, Switzerland., Bru JL; Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, University of California-Irvine, California, CA 92697, United States of America., Høyland-Kroghsbo NM; Department of Plant and Environmental Sciences, University of Copenhagen, DK-1871 Frederiksberg, Denmark., Siryaporn A; Department of Molecular Biology & Biochemistry, University of California-Irvine, California, CA 92697, United States of America.; Department of Physics & Astronomy, University of California-Irvine, California, CA 92697, United States of America., Conrad JC; William A Brookshire Department of Chemical and Biomolecular Engineering, University of Houston, Houston, Texas, TX 77204, United States of America., Carrara F; Institute of Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland., Yawata Y; Faculty of Life and Environmental Sciences, University of Tsukuba, Tsukuba, Ibaraki 305-8572, Japan.; Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability, University of Tsukuba, 305-8572 Tsukuba, Japan., Stocker R; Institute of Environmental Engineering, Department of Civil, Environmental and Geomatic Engineering, ETH Zurich, 8093 Zurich, Switzerland., V Brun Y; University of Montreal, Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7, Canada., Whitfield GB; University of Montreal, Faculty of Medicine, Montreal, Quebec, H3C 3J7, Canada., Lee CK; Department of Bioengineering, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, CA 90095, United States of America.; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, CA 90095, United States of America.; California NanoSystems Institute, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, CA 90095, United States of America., de Anda J; Department of Bioengineering, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, CA 90095, United States of America.; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, CA 90095, United States of America.; California NanoSystems Institute, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, CA 90095, United States of America., Schmidt WC; Department of Bioengineering, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, CA 90095, United States of America.; Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, CA 90095, United States of America.; California NanoSystems Institute, University of California-Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California, CA 90095, United States of America., Golestanian R; Max Planck Institute for Dynamics and Self-Organization (MPIDS), D-37077 Göttingen, Germany.; Rudolf Peierls Centre for Theoretical Physics, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3PU, United Kingdom., O'Toole GA; Department of Microbiology and Immunology, Geisel School of Medicine at Dartmouth, Hanover, NH 03755, United States of America., Floyd KA; Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California-Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, California, CA 95060, United States of America., Yildiz FH; 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Microbiology Research Center for Sustainability, University of Tsukuba, 305-8572 Tsukuba, Japan., Zacharoff LA; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, CA 90089, United States of America.; Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, CA 90089, United States of America., El-Naggar MY; Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, CA 90089, United States of America.; Department of Chemistry, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, CA 90089, United States of America.; Department of Biological Sciences, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, California, CA 90089, United States of America., Yalcin SE; Department of Molecular Biophysics and Biochemistry, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, CT 06516, United States of America.; Microbial Sciences Institute, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut, CT 06516, United States of America., Malvankar NS; 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Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, NJ 08544, United States of America., Wingreen NS; Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, NJ 08544, United States of America.; Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, NJ 08544, United States of America., Bassler BL; Department of Molecular Biology, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey, NJ 08544, United States of America.; The Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Chevy Chase, Maryland MD 20815, United States of America., Wu Y; Department of Physics and Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China., Xu H; Department of Physics and Shenzhen Research Institute, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, New Territories, Hong Kong, People's Republic of China., Drescher K; Max Planck Institute for Terrestrial Microbiology, 35043 Marburg, Germany.; Department of Physics, Philipps-Universität Marburg, 35043 Marburg, Germany., Dunkel J; Department of Mathematics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, MA 02139-4307, United States of America.

Publikováno v: Physical biology [Phys Biol] 2021 Jun 23; Vol. 18 (5). Date of Electronic Publication: 2021 Jun 23.

c-di-GMP modulates type IV MSHA pilus retraction and surface attachment in Vibrio cholerae.

Autor: Floyd KA; Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California - Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., BioMed 245, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA., Lee CK; Departments of Bioengineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, California Nano Systems Institute, University of California - Los Angeles, 420 Westwood Plaza, Room 5121 Engineering V, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA., Xian W; Departments of Bioengineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, California Nano Systems Institute, University of California - Los Angeles, 420 Westwood Plaza, Room 5121 Engineering V, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA., Nametalla M; Department of Biology, Brooklyn College, Room 307NE, 2900 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY, 11210, USA.; CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave., New York, NY, 10016, USA., Valentine A; Department of Biology, Brooklyn College, Room 307NE, 2900 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY, 11210, USA.; CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave., New York, NY, 10016, USA., Crair B; Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University, 840 West Campus Drive, Advanced Biosciences Center 211, West Haven, CT, 06516, USA., Zhu S; Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University, 840 West Campus Drive, Advanced Biosciences Center 211, West Haven, CT, 06516, USA., Hughes HQ; Department of Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington, 1001 East Third St., Jordan Hall 469A, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA., Chlebek JL; Department of Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington, 1001 East Third St., Jordan Hall 469A, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA., Wu DC; Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California - Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., BioMed 245, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA., Hwan Park J; Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California - Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., BioMed 245, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA., Farhat AM; Departments of Bioengineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, California Nano Systems Institute, University of California - Los Angeles, 420 Westwood Plaza, Room 5121 Engineering V, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA., Lomba CJ; Departments of Bioengineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, California Nano Systems Institute, University of California - Los Angeles, 420 Westwood Plaza, Room 5121 Engineering V, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA., Ellison CK; Department of Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington, 1001 East Third St., Jordan Hall 469A, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA.; Lewis-Sigler Institute for Integrative Genomics, Princeton University, 355 Thomas Laboratory, Washington Road, Princeton, NJ, 08544, USA., Brun YV; Department of Microbiology, Infectious Diseases, and Immunology, Faculty of Medicine, University of Montreal, Pavillon Roger-Gaudry, 2900, boulevard Édouard-Montpetit, C.P. 6128, Succursale Centre-ville, Montréal, QC, H3C 3J7, Canada., Campos-Gomez J; Cystic Fibrosis Research Center, University of Alabama at Birmingham, 1918 University Blvd., MCLM 702, Birmingham, AL, 35233, USA., Dalia AB; Department of Biology, Indiana University - Bloomington, 1001 East Third St., Jordan Hall 469A, Bloomington, IN, 47405, USA., Liu J; Department of Microbial Pathogenesis, Yale University, 840 West Campus Drive, Advanced Biosciences Center 211, West Haven, CT, 06516, USA., Biais N; Department of Biology, Brooklyn College, Room 307NE, 2900 Bedford Ave., Brooklyn, NY, 11210, USA.; CUNY Graduate Center, 365 5th Ave., New York, NY, 10016, USA., Wong GCL; Departments of Bioengineering, Chemistry and Biochemistry, California Nano Systems Institute, University of California - Los Angeles, 420 Westwood Plaza, Room 5121 Engineering V, Los Angeles, CA, 90095, USA. gclwong@seas.ucla.edu., Yildiz FH; Department of Microbiology and Environmental Toxicology, University of California - Santa Cruz, 1156 High St., BioMed 245, Santa Cruz, CA, 95064, USA. fyildiz@ucsc.edu.

Publikováno v: Nature communications [Nat Commun] 2020 Mar 25; Vol. 11 (1), pp. 1549. Date of Electronic Publication: 2020 Mar 25.