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Barbara E. Murray
Researcher at University of Texas at Austin
Publications - 235
Citations - 23158
Barbara E. Murray is an academic researcher from University of Texas at Austin. The author has contributed to research in topics: Enterococcus faecalis & Enterococcus faecium. The author has an hindex of 73, co-authored 232 publications receiving 21704 citations. Previous affiliations of Barbara E. Murray include Emerging Pathogens Institute & University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston.
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Problems and mechanisms of antimicrobial resistance.
TL;DR: The continuing need for studies of resistance and for new compounds, and the need for new stategies in managing bacterial infections, are demonstrated.
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A family of fibrinogen-binding MSCRAMMs from Enterococcus faecalis
Jouko Sillanpää,Jouko Sillanpää,Sreedhar R. Nallapareddy,Janeu Houston,Vannakambadi K. Ganesh,Agathe Bourgogne,Kavindra V. Singh,Barbara E. Murray,Magnus Höök +8 more
TL;DR: Enterococci grown in serum-supplemented broth adhere to Fg-coated surfaces, and inactivation in strain OG1RF of the gene encoding Fss2 resulted in reduced adherence, whilst complementation of the mutant restored full Fg adherence, indicating that E. faecalis contains a family of MSCRAMMs that structurally and functionally resemble the F g-binding MSC RAMMs of staphylococci.
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Diarrhea Associated with Aeromonas Species in Children in Day Care Centers
Maria L. de la Morena,Rory Van,Kavindra V. Singh,Michael Brian,Barbara E. Murray,Larry K. Pickering +5 more
TL;DR: This study evaluated 381 children involved in 51 outbreaks in four DCC to determine the association of Aeromonas species with diarrhea and to characterize the isolates, which identified the organism was identified in two outbreaks of diarrhea.
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Conjugal transfer of plasmid DNA from Escherichia coli to enterococci: a method to make insertion mutations.
TL;DR: Shuttle vector pAT18 was transferred by conjugation from Escherichia coli S17-1 to Enterococcus faecalis OG1RF and Enterococcium faecium SE34 and resulted in a pyrC knockout mutant showing an auxotrophic phenotype.
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Specific antibody promotes opsonization and PMN-mediated killing of phagocytosis-resistant Enterococcus faecium.
Robert M. Rakita,Robert M. Rakita,Van C. Quan,Karen D. Jacques-Palaz,Kavindra V. Singh,Roberto C. Arduino,Mee Mee,Barbara E. Murray +7 more
TL;DR: The results suggest that opsonization by antibodies potentially directed against bacterial carbohydrate, in conjunction with complement activation, has an important role in the host defense against phagocytosis-resistant E. faecium.