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The White-Nose Syndrome Transcriptome: Activation of Anti-fungal Host Responses in Wing Tissue of Hibernating Little Brown Myotis by Field, Kenneth A, Johnson, Joseph S, Lilley, Thomas M, Reeder, Sophia M, Rogers, Elizabeth J, Behr, Melissa J, Reeder, DeeAnn M

“…White-nose syndrome (WNS) in North American bats is caused by an invasive cutaneous infection by the psychrophilic fungus Pseudogymnoascus destructans (Pd). We…”
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Experimental infection of bats with Geomyces destructans causes white-nose syndrome by Lorch, Jeffrey M., Meteyer, Carol U., Behr, Melissa J., Boyles, Justin G., Cryan, Paul M., Hicks, Alan C., Ballmann, Anne E., Coleman, Jeremy T. H., Redell, David N., Reeder, DeeAnn M., Blehert, David S.

“…Bats with a nose for trouble Hibernating wild bat populations in eastern North America have suffered catastrophic decline in recent years as a result of…”
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Persistence of West Nile virus in the central nervous system and periphery of mice by Appler, Kim K, Brown, Ashley N, Stewart, Barbara S, Behr, Melissa J, Demarest, Valerie L, Wong, Susan J, Bernard, Kristen A

“…Most acute infections with RNA viruses are transient and subsequently cleared from the host. Recent evidence, however, suggests that the RNA virus, West Nile…”
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Bat White-Nose Syndrome: An Emerging Fungal Pathogen? by Blehert, David S, Hicks, Alan C, Behr, Melissa, Meteyer, Carol U, Berlowski-Zier, Brenda M, Buckles, Elizabeth L, Coleman, Jeremy T.H, Darling, Scott R, Gargas, Andrea, Niver, Robyn, Okoniewski, Joseph C, Rudd, Robert J, Stone, Ward B

“…White-nose syndrome (WNS) is a condition associated with an unprecedented bat mortality event in the northeastern United States. Since the winter of 2006*2007,…”
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Keratinocytes Are Cell Targets of West Nile Virus In Vivo by LIM, Pei-Yin, BEHR, Melissa J, CHADWICK, Chrystal M, SHI, Pei-Yong, BERNARD, Kristen A

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Extracellular fibrils of pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus gattii are important for ecological niche, murine virulence and human neutrophil interactions by Springer, Deborah J, Ren, Ping, Raina, Ramesh, Dong, Yimin, Behr, Melissa J, McEwen, Bruce F, Bowser, Samuel S, Samsonoff, William A, Chaturvedi, Sudha, Chaturvedi, Vishnu

“…Cryptococcus gattii, an emerging fungal pathogen of humans and animals, is found on a variety of trees in tropical and temperate regions. The ecological niche…”
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Morphological and molecular characterizations of psychrophilic fungus Geomyces destructans from New York bats with White Nose Syndrome (WNS) by Chaturvedi, Vishnu, Springer, Deborah J, Behr, Melissa J, Ramani, Rama, Li, Xiaojiang, Peck, Marcia K, Ren, Ping, Bopp, Dianna J, Wood, Britta, Samsonoff, William A, Butchkoski, Calvin M, Hicks, Alan C, Stone, Ward B, Rudd, Robert J, Chaturvedi, Sudha

“…Massive die-offs of little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) have been occurring since 2006 in hibernation sites around Albany, New York, and this problem has…”
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Histopathologic criteria to confirm white-nose syndrome in bats by Meteyer, Carol Uphoff, Buckles, Elizabeth L, Blehert, David S, Hicks, Alan C, Green, D. Earl, Shearn-Bochsler, Valerie, Thomas, Nancy J, Gargas, Andrea, Behr, Melissa J

“…Correspondence: 1 Corresponding Author: Carol Uphoff Meteyer, National Wildlife Health Center, 6006 Schroeder Road, Madison WI 53711. cmeteyer{at}usgs.gov…”
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Energy conserving thermoregulatory patterns and lower disease severity in a bat resistant to the impacts of white-nose syndrome by Moore, Marianne S., Field, Kenneth A., Behr, Melissa J., Turner, Gregory G., Furze, Morgan E., Stern, Daniel W. F., Allegra, Paul R., Bouboulis, Sarah A., Musante, Chelsey D., Vodzak, Megan E., Biron, Matthew E., Meierhofer, Melissa B., Frick, Winifred F., Foster, Jeffrey T., Howell, Daryl, Kath, Joseph A., Kurta, Allen, Nordquist, Gerda, Johnson, Joseph S., Lilley, Thomas M., Barrett, Benjamin W., Reeder, DeeAnn M.

“…The devastating bat fungal disease, white-nose syndrome (WNS), does not appear to affect all species equally. To experimentally determine susceptibility…”
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Isolation and partial characterization of Streptococcus suis from clinical cases in cattle by Okwumabua, Ogi, Peterson, Hanna, Hsu, Hui-Min, Bochsler, Phil, Behr, Melissa

“…Sixteen isolates of gram-positive, coccoid bacteria were obtained from clinical cases of diverse conditions in cattle and identified as Streptococcus suis…”
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Identification of a microbial sub-community from the feral chicken gut that reduces Salmonella colonization and improves gut health in a gnotobiotic chicken model by Wongkuna, Supapit, Ambat, Achuthan, Ghimire, Sudeep, Mattiello, Samara Paula, Maji, Abhijit, Kumar, Roshan, Antony, Linto, Chankhamhaengdecha, Surang, Janvilisri, Tavan, Nelson, Eric, Doerner, Kinchel C, More, Sunil, Behr, Melissa, Scaria, Joy

“…A complex microbial community in the gut may prevent the colonization of enteric pathogens such as . Some individual or a combination of species in the gut may…”
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Investigating the causes of death for wind turbine-associated bat fatalities by Grodsky, Steven M., Behr, Melissa J., Gendler, Andrew, Drake, David, Dieterle, Byron D., Rudd, Robert J., Walrath, Nicole L.

“…Wind turbine-associated bat mortality is occurring at unanticipated rates, yet our understanding of the causes of these fatalities is limited. The prominent…”
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Genome divergence and increased virulence of outbreak associated Salmonella enterica subspecies enterica serovar Heidelberg by Antony, Linto, Behr, Melissa, Sockett, Donald, Miskimins, Dale, Aulik, Nicole, Christopher-Hennings, Jane, Nelson, Eric, Allard, Marc W, Scaria, Joy

“…serotype is primarily a poultry adapted serotype of Salmonella that can also colonize other hosts and cause human disease. In this study, we compared the…”
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Determination of the role of target tissue metabolism in lung carcinogenesis using conditional cytochrome P450 reductase-null mice by YAN WENG, CHENG FANG, TURESKY, Robert J, BEHR, Melissa, KAMINSKY, Laurence S, XINXIN DING

“…Critical to mechanisms of chemical carcinogenesis and the design of chemopreventive strategies is whether procarcinogen bioactivation in an extrahepatic target…”
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The Tissue-Specific Toxicity of Methimazole in the Mouse Olfactory Mucosa Is Partly Mediated through Target-Tissue Metabolic Activation by CYP2A5 by FANG XIE, XIN ZHOU, BETH GENTER, Mary, BEHR, Melissa, JUN GU, XINXIN DING

“…The antithyroid drug methimazole (MMZ) can cause severe, tissue-specific toxicity in mouse olfactory mucosa (OM), presumably through a sequential metabolic…”
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In Vitro Resistance Selection and In Vivo Efficacy of Morpholino Oligomers against West Nile Virus by DEAS, Tia S, BENNETT, Corey J, SHIL, Pei-Yong, JONES, Susan A, TILGNER, Mark, PING REN, BEHR, Melissa J, STEIN, David A, IVERSEN, Patrick L, KRAMER, Laura D, BERNARD, Kristen A

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Characterization of Cu,Zn superoxide dismutase (SOD1) gene knock‐out mutant of Cryptococcus neoformans var. gattii: role in biology and virulence by Narasipura, Srinivas D., Ault, Jeffrey G., Behr, Melissa J., Chaturvedi, Vishnu, Chaturvedi, Sudha

“…Summary The pathogenic yeast Cryptococcus neoformans (Cn) var. gattii causes meningoencephalitis in healthy individuals, unlike the better known Cn varieties…”
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Transcription Factor STE12α Has Distinct Roles in Morphogenesis, Virulence, and Ecological Fitness of the Primary Pathogenic Yeast Cryptococcus gattii by Ren, Ping, Springer, Deborah J., Behr, Melissa J., Samsonoff, William A., Chaturvedi, Sudha, Chaturvedi, Vishnu

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In vivo mechanisms of tissue-selective drug toxicity: effects of liver-specific knockout of the NADPH-cytochrome P450 reductase gene on acetaminophen toxicity in kidney, lung, and nasal mucosa by Gu, Jun, Cui, Huadong, Behr, Melissa, Zhang, Li, Zhang, Qing-Yu, Yang, Weizhu, Hinson, Jack A, Ding, Xinxin

“…Acetaminophen overdose causes toxicity in liver and extrahepatic tissues. Although it is well established that cytochrome P450 enzymes play a critical role in…”
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Isolation of Avian Paramyxovirus 1 from a Patient with a Lethal Case of Pneumonia by GOEBEL, Scott J, TAYLOR, Jill, HURST, Kelley R, BEHR, Melissa J, MASTERS, Paul S, BARR, Bradd C, KIEHN, Timothy E, CASTRO-MALASPINA, Hugo R, HEDVAT, Cyrus V, RUSH-WILSON, Kim A, KELLY, Cassandra D, DAVIS, Stephen W, SAMSONOFF, William A

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