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Jessica Z. Kubicek-Sutherland

Researcher at Los Alamos National Laboratory

Publications -  39
Citations -  1056

Jessica Z. Kubicek-Sutherland is an academic researcher from Los Alamos National Laboratory. The author has contributed to research in topics: Chemistry & Biology. The author has an hindex of 10, co-authored 28 publications receiving 731 citations. Previous affiliations of Jessica Z. Kubicek-Sutherland include Uppsala University & University of California, Santa Barbara.

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Mechanisms and consequences of bacterial resistance to antimicrobial peptides

TL;DR: Routine clinical administration of AMPs to treat bacterial infections may select for resistant bacterial pathogens capable of better evading the innate immune system, as well as the ramifications of therapeutic levels of exposure on the development of AMP resistance and bacterial pathogenesis.
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Rapid detection of Mycobacterium tuberculosis biomarkers in a sandwich immunoassay format using a waveguide-based optical biosensor.

TL;DR: The development of sandwich immunoassays for the direct detection of three TB-specific biomarkers, namely LAM, early secretory antigenic target 6 (ESAT6) and antigen 85 complex (Ag85), using a waveguide-based optical biosensor platform are demonstrated.
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Antimicrobial peptide exposure selects for Staphylococcus aureus resistance to human defence peptides

TL;DR: In vitro serial passage of a clinical USA300 MRSA strain in a host-mimicking environment containing host-derived AMPs results in the selection of stable AMP resistance, suggesting that therapeutic use of AMPs could select for virulent mutants with cross-resistance to human innate immunity as well as antibiotic therapy.
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Transfer and Persistence of a Multi-Drug Resistance Plasmid in situ of the Infant Gut Microbiota in the Absence of Antibiotic Treatment.

TL;DR: The results exemplify that conjugative plasmids, harboring resistance determinants, can transfer and persists in the gut in the absence of antibiotic treatment, and provide the first genomic description of antibiotic resistance gene transfer between bacteria in the unperturbed human gut.
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Host-dependent Induction of Transient Antibiotic Resistance: A Prelude to Treatment Failure.

TL;DR: It is revealed that a bacterial mechanism that promotes antibiotic resistance in vivo at concentrations of drug that far exceed dosages determined by standardized antimicrobial testing has escaped prior detection.