Carlson College of Veterinary Medicine

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.

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.

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, 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.

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. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, 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.

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.

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. 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 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, 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, 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.

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. Babrak, Danelishvili, L., Rose, S. J., Kornberg, T., and Bermudez, L. E., “The environment of "Mycobacterium avium subsp. hominissuis" microaggregates induces synthesis of small proteins associated with efficient infection of respiratory epithelial cells.”, Infection and immunity, vol. 83, no. 2, pp. 625-36, 2015.

L. E. Bermudez, Petrofsky, M., Kolonoski, P., and Young, L. S., “Emergence of Mycobacterium avium populations resistant to macrolides during experimental chemotherapy.”, Antimicrobial agents and chemotherapy, vol. 42, no. 1, pp. 180-3, 1998.

D. Wagner, Maser, J., Moric, I., Vogt, S., Kern, W. V., and Bermudez, L. E., “Elemental analysis of the Mycobacterium avium phagosome in Balb/c mouse macrophages.”, Biochemical and biophysical research communications, vol. 344, no. 4, pp. 1346-51, 2006.

D. Wagner, Maser, J., Lai, B., Cai, Z., Barry, C. E., Bentrup, K. Höner Zu, Russell, D. G., and Bermudez, L. E., “Elemental analysis of Mycobacterium avium-, Mycobacterium tuberculosis-, and Mycobacterium smegmatis-containing phagosomes indicates pathogen-induced microenvironments within the host cell's endosomal system.”, Journal of immunology (Baltimore, Md. : 1950), vol. 174, no. 3, pp. 1491-500, 2005.

L. E. Bermudez, Sangari, F. J., Kolonoski, P., Petrofsky, M., and Goodman, J., “The efficiency of the translocation of Mycobacterium tuberculosis across a bilayer of epithelial and endothelial cells as a model of the alveolar wall is a consequence of transport within mononuclear phagocytes and invasion of alveolar epithelial cells.”, Infection and immunity, vol. 70, no. 1, pp. 140-6, 2002.

L. E. Bermudez, Motamedi, N., Kolonoski, P., Chee, C., Baimukanova, G., Bildfell, R. J., Wang, G., Phan, L. Tam, and S Lowell, Y., “The efficacy of clarithromycin and the bicyclolide EDP-420 against Mycobacterium avium in a mouse model of pulmonary infection.”, The Journal of infectious diseases, vol. 197, no. 11, pp. 1506-10, 2008.