Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine

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J. Barra-Carrasco, Olguín-Araneda, V., Plaza-Garrido, A., Miranda-Cárdenas, C., Cofré-Araneda, G., Pizarro-Guajardo, M., Sarker, M. R., and Paredes-Sabja, D., “The Clostridium difficile exosporium cysteine (CdeC)-rich protein is required for exosporium morphogenesis and coat assembly.”, Journal of bacteriology, vol. 195, no. 17, pp. 3863-75, 2013.

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M. R. Sarker, Shivers, R. P., Sparks, S. G., Juneja, V. K., and McClane, B. A., “Comparative experiments to examine the effects of heating on vegetative cells and spores of Clostridium perfringens isolates carrying plasmid genes versus chromosomal enterotoxin genes.”, Applied and environmental microbiology, vol. 66, no. 8, pp. 3234-40, 2000.

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J. Francisco Leyva-Illades, Setlow, B., Sarker, M. R., and Setlow, P., “Effect of a small, acid-soluble spore protein from Clostridium perfringens on the resistance properties of Bacillus subtilis spores.”, Journal of bacteriology, vol. 189, no. 21, pp. 7927-31, 2007.

J. Li, Paredes-Sabja, D., Sarker, M. R., and McClane, B. A., “Further characterization of Clostridium perfringens small acid soluble protein-4 (Ssp4) properties and expression.”, PloS one, vol. 4, no. 7, p. e6249, 2009.

D. Paredes-Sabja, Setlow, P., and Sarker, M. R., “Germination of spores of Bacillales and Clostridiales species: mechanisms and proteins involved.”, Trends in microbiology, vol. 19, no. 2, pp. 85-94, 2011.

D. Paredes-Sabja, Bond, C., Carman, R. J., Setlow, P., and Sarker, M. R., “Germination of spores of Clostridium difficile strains, including isolates from a hospital outbreak of Clostridium difficile-associated disease (CDAD).”, Microbiology (Reading, England), vol. 154, no. Pt 8, pp. 2241-50, 2008.

D. Paredes-Sabja, Setlow, P., and Sarker, M. R., “GerO, a putative Na+/H+-K+ antiporter, is essential for normal germination of spores of the pathogenic bacterium Clostridium perfringens.”, Journal of bacteriology, vol. 191, no. 12, pp. 3822-31, 2009.

D. Paredes-Sabja and Sarker, M. R., “Host serum factor triggers germination of Clostridium perfringens spores lacking the cortex hydrolysis machinery.”, Journal of medical microbiology, vol. 60, no. Pt 12, pp. 1734-41, 2011.

P. Udompijitkul, Paredes-Sabja, D., and Sarker, M. R., “Inhibitory effects of nisin against Clostridium perfringens food poisoning and nonfood-borne isolates.”, Journal of food science, vol. 77, no. 1, pp. M51-6, 2012.

S. Akhtar, Paredes-Sabja, D., and Sarker, M. R., “Inhibitory effects of polyphosphates on Clostridium perfringens growth, sporulation and spore outgrowth.”, Food microbiology, vol. 25, no. 6, pp. 802-8, 2008.

D. Paredes-Sabja, Udompijitkul, P., and Sarker, M. R., “Inorganic phosphate and sodium ions are cogerminants for spores of Clostridium perfringens type A food poisoning-related isolates.”, Applied and environmental microbiology, vol. 75, no. 19, pp. 6299-305, 2009.

V. A. Philippe, Méndez, M. B., Huang, I. - H., Orsaria, L. M., Sarker, M. R., and Grau, R. R., “Inorganic phosphate induces spore morphogenesis and enterotoxin production in the intestinal pathogen Clostridium perfringens.”, Infection and immunity, vol. 74, no. 6, pp. 3651-6, 2006.

D. Raju, Waters, M., Setlow, P., and Sarker, M. R., “Investigating the role of small, acid-soluble spore proteins (SASPs) in the resistance of Clostridium perfringens spores to heat.”, BMC microbiology, vol. 6, p. 50, 2006.

D. J. Whitaker, Kent, M. L., and Sakanari, J. A., “Kudoa miniauriculata n. sp. (Myxozoa, Myxosporea) from the musculature of bocaccio (Sebastes paucispinis) from California.”, J Parasitol, vol. 82, no. 2, pp. 312-5, 1996.

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R. D. Adlard, Bryant, M. S., Whipps, C. M., and Kent, M. L., “Multivalvulid myxozoans from eastern Australia: three new species of Kudoa from scombrid and labrid fishes of the Great Barrier Reef, Queensland, Australia.”, The Journal of parasitology, vol. 91, no. 5, pp. 1138-42, 2005.