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Heather L Mead

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Mead H, Valentine M, Yin H, Thompson Iii G, Keim P, Engelthaler D, et al.
Microbiol Spectr . 2024 Aug; 12(10):e0100824. PMID: 39162534
Importance: Developing new drugs, especially for regional orphan diseases, such as Valley Fever, is a slow and costly endeavor. However, there is a wealth of FDA-approved drugs available for repurposing,...
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Voorhies M, Joehnk B, Uehling J, Walcott K, Dubin C, Mead H, et al.
bioRxiv . 2024 Aug; PMID: 39149389
Next generation sequencing has unlocked a wealth of genotype information for microbial populations, but phenotyping remains a bottleneck for exploiting this information, particularly for pathogens that are difficult to manipulate....
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Henson S, Elko E, Swiderski P, Liang Y, Engelbrektson A, Pina A, et al.
Nat Protoc . 2024 May; 19(11):3456. PMID: 38755448
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Elko E, Mead H, Nelson G, Zaia J, Ladner J, Altin J
Microbiol Spectr . 2024 Jan; 12(2):e0329123. PMID: 38189279
Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) lineages of the Omicron variant rapidly became dominant in early 2022 and frequently cause human infections despite vaccination or prior infection with other...
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Hecht G, Sarbo N, Svoboda W, Mead H, Ruberto I, Altin J, et al.
Front Vet Sci . 2023 May; 10:1166101. PMID: 37215472
Susceptibility to and infection with SARS-CoV-2 in companion animals has been well-documented throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. Surveillance for the virus in dogs has largely been focused on household pets; however,...
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Coyne V, Mead H, Mongini P, Barker B
Immunohorizons . 2023 May; 7(5):333-352. PMID: 37195872
Links between repeated microbial infections and B cell chronic lymphocytic leukemia (B-CLL) have been proposed but not tested directly. This study examines how prolonged exposure to a human fungal pathogen...
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Kelley E, Henson S, Rahee F, Boyle A, Engelbrektson A, Nelson G, et al.
Nat Commun . 2023 Mar; 14(1):1783. PMID: 36997517
Current methods for detecting infections either require a sample collected from an actively infected site, are limited in the number of agents they can query, and/or yield no information on...
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Higgins Keppler E, Caballero Van Dyke M, Mead H, Lake D, Magee D, Barker B, et al.
J Fungi (Basel) . 2023 Jan; 9(1). PMID: 36675936
Coccidioides immitis and Coccidioides posadasii are soil-dwelling fungi of arid regions in North and South America that are responsible for Valley fever (coccidioidomycosis). Forty percent of patients with Valley fever...
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Henson S, Elko E, Swiderski P, Liang Y, Engelbrektson A, Pina A, et al.
Nat Protoc . 2022 Nov; 18(2):396-423. PMID: 36385198
PepSeq is an in vitro platform for building and conducting highly multiplexed proteomic assays against customizable targets by using DNA-barcoded peptides. Starting with a pool of DNA oligonucleotides encoding peptides...
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Mead H, Kollath D, Teixeira M, Roe C, Plude C, Nandurkar N, et al.
mSphere . 2022 Aug; 7(5):e0035222. PMID: 35972134
and are the etiological agents of coccidioidomycosis (Valley fever [VF]). Disease manifestation ranges from mild pneumonia to chronic or extrapulmonary infection. If diagnosis is delayed, the risk of severe disease...