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Program support
- National Institutes of Health—Institute of Allergy
and Infectious Diseases
- US Department of Agriculture—National Research
Initiative
- The
Wellcome Trust
- US Department of Agriculture—National Science
Foundation Microbial Genome Sequencing Program
- State of Washington Safe Food Initiative
- US Department of Agriculture—Animal Diseases Research
Unit
- WSU Animal Health Research Center
Highlighted research
publications in 2005
Abbott, J.R., G.H. Palmer, K.A. Kegerreis, P. Hetrick, C.J. Howard, J.C.
Hope, and W.C. Brown. 2005. Rapid and long-term disappearance of CD4+
T-lymphocyte responses specific for Anaplasma marginale major surface
protein-2 (MSP2) in MSP2 vaccinates following challenge with live A.
marginale. Journal of Immunology 174:6702-6715.
Berens, S.J., K.A. Brayton, J.B. Molloy, R.E. Bock, A.E. Lew, and T.F.
McElwain. MSA-2 proteins of Babesia bovis vaccine
breakthrough isolates contain a unique hypervariable region composed of
degenerate repeats. Infection and Immunity 73:7180-7189, 2005.
Brayton, K.A., L.S. Kappmeyer, D.R. Herndon, M.J. Dark, D.L. Tibbals, G.H.
Palmer, T.C. McGuire and D.P. Knowles Jr. Complete genome sequencing of
Anaplasma marginale reveals that the surface is skewed to two
superfamilies of outer membrane proteins. Proceedings of the National
Academy of Sciences. 102: 844-849, 2005.
Futse, J. E., K. A. Brayton, D. P. Knowles, Jr., and G. H. Palmer.
Structural basis for segmental gene conversion in generation of Anaplasma
marginale outer membrane protein variants. Molecular Microbiology
57:212-221, 2005.
Lopez, J.E., W.F. Siems, G.H. Palmer, K.A. Brayton, T.C. McGuire, and W.C.
Brown. Identification of surface antigens from the St. Maries strain of
A. marginale that stimulate an IgG2 response in outer membrane
vaccinates. Infection and Immunity 73:8109-8118, 2005.
Ueti,
M.W., G.H. Palmer, L.S. Kappmeyer, M. Statdfield, G.A. Scoles and D.P.
Knowles. Ability of the vector tick Boophilus microplus to acquire
and transmit Babesia equi following feeding on chronically infected
horses with low-level parasitemia. Journal of Clinical Microbiology
43:3755-3759. 2005
*Selected from over 35 program publications in 2005
For more information on
the Program in Vector-borne diseases, contact
Dr. Guy Palmer, Program Leader
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