Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine

M. Harriff and Bermudez, L. E., “Environmental amoebae and mycobacterial pathogenesis.”, Methods in molecular biology (Clifton, N.J.), vol. 465, pp. 433-42, 2009.

L. E. Bermudez, Petrofsky, M., and Shelton, K., “Epidermal growth factor-binding protein in Mycobacterium avium and Mycobacterium tuberculosis: a possible role in the mechanism of infection.”, Infection and immunity, vol. 64, no. 8, pp. 2917-22, 1996.

L. E. Bermudez, Wu, M., Martinelli, J., and Young, L. S., “Ethanol affects release of TNF and GM-CSF and membrane expression of TNF receptors by human macrophages.”, Lymphokine and cytokine research, vol. 10, no. 5, pp. 413-9, 1991.

L. E. Bermudez and Young, L. S., “Ethanol and survival of Mycobacterium avium complex within macrophages.”, Progress in clinical and biological research, vol. 325, pp. 383-91, 1990.

L. E. Bermudez and Young, L. S., “Ethanol augments intracellular survival of Mycobacterium avium complex and impairs macrophage responses to cytokines.”, The Journal of infectious diseases, vol. 163, no. 6, pp. 1286-92, 1991.

L. E. Bermudez, Danelishvili, L., Babrack, L., and Pham, T., “Evidence for genes associated with the ability of Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis to escape apoptotic macrophages.”, Front Cell Infect Microbiol, vol. 5, p. 63, 2015.

M. J. Harriff, Bermudez, L. E., and Kent, M. L., “Experimental exposure of zebrafish, Danio rerio (Hamilton), to Mycobacterium marinum and Mycobacterium peregrinum reveals the gastrointestinal tract as the primary route of infection: a potential model for environmental mycobacterial infection.”, Journal of fish diseases, vol. 30, no. 10, pp. 587-600, 2007.

L. Danelishvili, Armstrong, E., Miyasako, E., Jeffrey, B., and Bermudez, L. E., “Exposure of subsp. to Metal Concentrations of the Phagosome Environment Enhances the Selection of Persistent Subpopulation to Antibiotic Treatment.”, Antibiotics (Basel), vol. 9, no. 12, 2020.

R. Rojony, Danelishvili, L., Campeau, A., Wozniak, J. M., Gonzalez, D. J., and Bermudez, L. E., “Exposure of to Environmental Stress and Clinically Used Antibiotics Reveals Common Proteome Response among Pathogenic Mycobacteria.”, Microorganisms, vol. 8, no. 5, 2020.

L. E. Bermudez, Young, L. S., Martinelli, J., and Petrofsky, M., “Exposure to ethanol up-regulates the expression of Mycobacterium avium complex proteins associated with bacterial virulence.”, The Journal of infectious diseases, vol. 168, no. 4, pp. 961-8, 1993.

L. E. Bermudez, Petrofsky, M., and Goodman, J., “Exposure to low oxygen tension and increased osmolarity enhance the ability of Mycobacterium avium to enter intestinal epithelial (HT-29) cells.”, Infection and immunity, vol. 65, no. 9, pp. 3768-73, 1997.

A. E. Parker and Bermudez, L. E., “Expression of the green fluorescent protein (GFP) in mycobacterium avium as a tool to study the interaction between Mycobacteria and host cells.”, Microbial pathogenesis, vol. 22, no. 4, pp. 193-8, 1997.

L. E. Bermudez and Young, L. S., “Factors affecting invasion of HT-29 and HEp-2 epithelial cells by organisms of the Mycobacterium avium complex.”, Infection and immunity, vol. 62, no. 5, pp. 2021-6, 1994.

T. Dam, Danelishvili, L., Wu, M., and Bermudez, L. E., “The fadD2 gene is required for efficient Mycobacterium avium invasion of mucosal epithelial cells.”, J Infect Dis, vol. 193, no. 8, pp. 1135-42, 2006.

T. Dam, Danelishvili, L., Wu, M., and Bermudez, L. E., “The fadD2 gene is required for efficient Mycobacterium avium invasion of mucosal epithelial cells.”, The Journal of infectious diseases, vol. 193, no. 8, pp. 1135-42, 2006.

D. Wagner, Sangari, F. J., Parker, A., and Bermudez, L. E., “fecB, a gene potentially involved in iron transport in Mycobacterium avium, is not induced within macrophages.”, FEMS microbiology letters, vol. 247, no. 2, pp. 185-91, 2005.

M. M. Samrakandi, Cirillo, S. L. G., Ridenour, D. A., Bermudez, L. E., and Cirillo, J. D., “Genetic and phenotypic differences between Legionella pneumophila strains.”, Journal of clinical microbiology, vol. 40, no. 4, pp. 1352-62, 2002.

L. Danelishvili, Wu, M., Young, L. S., and Bermudez, L. E., “Genomic approach to identifying the putative target of and mechanisms of resistance to mefloquine in mycobacteria.”, Antimicrob Agents Chemother, vol. 49, no. 9, pp. 3707-14, 2005.

L. Danelishvili, Wu, M., Young, L. S., and Bermudez, L. E., “Genomic approach to identifying the putative target of and mechanisms of resistance to mefloquine in mycobacteria.”, Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, vol. 49, no. 9, pp. 3707-14, 2005.

L. E. Bermudez, Sangari, F. J., and Parker, A., “Green fluorescent protein in the measurement of bacteria-host interactions.”, Methods in enzymology, vol. 302, pp. 285-95, 1999.

L. E. Bermudez, Parker, A., and Goodman, J. R., “Growth within macrophages increases the efficiency of Mycobacterium avium in invading other macrophages by a complement receptor-independent pathway.”, Infection and immunity, vol. 65, no. 5, pp. 1916-25, 1997.

J. A. Maddry, Bansal, N., Bermudez, L. E., Comber, R. N., Orme, I. M., Suling, W. J., Wilson, L. N., and Reynolds, R. C., “Homologated aza analogs of arabinose as antimycobacterial agents.”, Bioorganic & medicinal chemistry letters, vol. 8, no. 3, pp. 237-42, 1998.

L. E. Bermudez and Petrofsky, M., “Host defense against Mycobacterium avium does not have an absolute requirement for major histocompatibility complex class I-restricted T cells.”, Infection and immunity, vol. 67, no. 6, pp. 3108-11, 1999.

L. E. Bermudez, Inderlied, C. B., Kolonoski, P., Chee, C. B., Aralar, P., Petrofsky, M., Parman, T., Green, C. E., Lewin, A. H., Ellis, W. Y., and Young, L. S., “Identification of (+)-Erythro-Mefloquine as an Active Enantiomer with Greater Efficacy than Mefloquine against Mycobacterium avium Infection in Mice.”, Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, vol. 56, no. 8, pp. 4202-6, 2012.

N. Motamedi, Danelishvili, L., and Bermudez, L. E., “Identification of Mycobacterium avium genes associated with resistance to host antimicrobial peptides.”, J Med Microbiol, vol. 63, no. Pt 7, pp. 923-930, 2014.