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Dynamic balance of pro‐ and anti‐inflammatory signals controls disease and limits pathology by Cicchese, Joseph M., Evans, Stephanie, Hult, Caitlin, Joslyn, Louis R., Wessler, Timothy, Millar, Jess A., Marino, Simeone, Cilfone, Nicholas A., Mattila, Joshua T., Linderman, Jennifer J., Kirschner, Denise E.

“…Immune responses to pathogens are complex and not well understood in many diseases, and this is especially true for infections by persistent pathogens. One…”
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Modulation of Bacterial Fitness and Virulence Through Antisense RNAs by Millar, Jess A, Raghavan, Rahul

“…Regulatory RNAs contribute to gene expression control in bacteria. Antisense RNAs (asRNA) are a class of regulatory RNAs that are transcribed from opposite…”
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Risk factors for increased COVID-19 case-fatality in the United States: A county-level analysis during the first wave by Millar, Jess A, Dao, Hanh Dung N, Stefopulos, Marianne E, Estevam, Camila G, Fagan-Garcia, Katharine, Taft, Diana H, Park, Christopher, Alruwaily, Amaal, Desai, Angel N, Majumder, Maimuna S

“…The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic is causing significant morbidity and mortality across the US. In this ecological study, we identified county-level variables…”
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The GRE in Public Health Admissions: Barriers, Waivers, and Moving Forward by Millar, Jess A

“…In the wake of COVID-19, there is an urgent need for a diverse public health work force to address problems presented or exacerbated by the global pandemic…”
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Accumulation and expression of multiple antibiotic resistance genes in Arcobacter cryaerophilus that thrives in sewage by Millar, Jess A, Raghavan, Rahul

“…We explored the bacterial diversity of untreated sewage influent samples of a wastewater treatment plant in Tucson, AZ and discovered that , an emerging human…”
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Friend or Foe-Light Availability Determines the Relationship between Mycorrhizal Fungi, Rhizobia and Lima Bean (Phaseolus lunatus L.) by Ballhorn, Daniel J, Schädler, Martin, Elias, Jacob D, Millar, Jess A, Kautz, Stefanie

“…Plant associations with root microbes represent some of the most important symbioses on earth. While often critically promoting plant fitness, nitrogen-fixing…”
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LytTR Regulatory Systems: A potential new class of prokaryotic sensory system by Zou, Zhengzhong, Qin, Hua, Brenner, Amanda E, Raghavan, Rahul, Millar, Jess A, Gu, Qiang, Xie, Zhoujie, Kreth, Jens, Merritt, Justin

“…The most commonly studied prokaryotic sensory signal transduction systems include the one-component systems, phosphosignaling systems, extracytoplasmic…”
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Spatial Organization and Recruitment of Non-Specific T Cells May Limit T Cell-Macrophage Interactions Within Mycobacterium tuberculosis Granulomas by Millar, Jess A, Butler, J Russell, Evans, Stephanie, Mattila, Joshua T, Linderman, Jennifer J, Flynn, JoAnne L, Kirschner, Denise E

“…Tuberculosis (TB) is a worldwide health problem; successful interventions such as vaccines and treatment require a 2better understanding of the immune response…”
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Corrigendum: Spatial Organization and Recruitment of Non-Specific T Cells May Limit T Cell-Macrophage Interactions Within Mycobacterium tuberculosis Granulomas by Millar, Jess A., Butler, J. Russell, Evans, Stephanie, Grant, Nicole L., Mattila, Joshua T., Linderman, Jennifer J., Flynn, JoAnne L., Kirschner, Denise E.

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Horizontally Acquired Biosynthesis Genes Boost Coxiella burnetii's Physiology by Moses, Abraham S., Millar, Jess A., Bonazzi, Matteo, Beare, Paul A., Raghavan, Rahul

“…Coxiella burnetii, the etiologic agent of acute Q fever and chronic endocarditis, has a unique biphasic life cycle, which includes a metabolically active…”
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Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus Acquisition in a Tertiary Care Hospital: Testing the Roles of Antibiotic Use, Proton Pump Inhibitor Use, and Colonization Pressure by Chanderraj, Rishi, Millar, Jess A, Patel, Twisha S, Read, Andrew F, Washer, Laraine, Kaye, Keith S, Woods, Robert J

“…Vancomycin-resistant (VRE) is a leading cause of healthcare-associated infections, and asymptomatic colonization precedes infection. VRE continues to spread…”
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To Sobol or not to Sobol? The effects of sampling schemes in systems biology applications by Renardy, Marissa, Joslyn, Louis R., Millar, Jess A., Kirschner, Denise E.

“…Computational and mathematical models in biology rely heavily on the parameters that characterize them. However, robust estimates for their values are…”
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Coxiella burnetii and Leishmania mexicana residing within similar parasitophorous vacuoles elicit disparate host responses by Millar, Jess A, Valdés, Raquel, Kacharia, Fenil R, Landfear, Scott M, Cambronne, Eric D, Raghavan, Rahul

“…Coxiella burnetii is a bacterium that thrives in an acidic parasitophorous vacuole (PV) derived from lysosomes. Leishmania mexicana, a eukaryote, has also…”
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Integrating NHANES and toxicity forecaster data to compare pesticide exposure and bioactivity by farmwork history and US citizenship by Forté, Chanese A., Millar, Jess A., Colacino, Justin A.

“…Background Farmworkers in the United States, especially migrant workers, face unique barriers to healthcare and have documented disparities in health outcomes…”
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Emergence of New sRNAs in Enteric Bacteria is Associated with Low Expression and Rapid Evolution by Kacharia, Fenil R., Millar, Jess A., Raghavan, Rahul

“…Non-coding small RNAs (sRNAs) are critical to post-transcriptional gene regulation in bacteria. However, unlike for protein-coding genes, the evolutionary…”
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A diversity of Antibiotic-resistant Staphylococcus spp. in a Public Transportation System by Yeh, Pamela J., Simon, Dawn M., Millar, Jess A., Alexander, H. Forrest, Franklin, Darleen

“…Our goal was to determine the diversity and abundance of Staphylococcus bacteria on different components of a public transportation system in a mid-sized US…”
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Intraperitoneal nanotherapy for metastatic ovarian cancer based on siRNA-mediated suppression of DJ-1 protein combined with a low dose of cisplatin by Schumann, Canan, Chan, Stephanie, Millar, Jess A., Bortnyak, Yuliya, Carey, Katherine, Fedchyk, Alex, Wong, Leon, Korzun, Tetiana, Moses, Abraham S., Lorenz, Anna, Shea, Delany, Taratula, Olena, Khalimonchuk, Oleh, Taratula, Oleh

“…Herein, we report an efficient combinatorial therapy for metastatic ovarian cancer based on siRNA-mediated suppression of DJ-1 protein combined with a low dose…”
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Male fetal sex affects uteroplacental angiogenesis in growth restriction mouse model by Hebert, Jessica F, Millar, Jess A, Raghavan, Rahul, Romney, Amie, Podrabsky, Jason E, Rennie, Monique Y, Felker, Allison M, O’Tierney-Ginn, Perrie, Morita, Mayu, DuPriest, Elizabeth A, Morgan, Terry K

“…Abstract Abnormally increased angiotensin II activity related to maternal angiotensinogen (AGT) genetic variants, or aberrant receptor activation, is…”
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Correction: Accumulation and expression of horizontally acquired genes in Arcobacter cryaerophilus that thrives in sewage by Millar, Jess A, Raghavan, Rahul

“…[This corrects the article DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3269.]…”
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Genome rearrangements can make and break small RNA genes by Raghavan, Rahul, Kacharia, Fenil R, Millar, Jess A, Sislak, Christine D, Ochman, Howard

“…Small RNAs (sRNAs) are short, transcribed regulatory elements that are typically encoded in the intergenic regions (IGRs) of bacterial genomes. Several sRNAs,…”
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