Publications

1.       Johannes Huebner, Gerald B. Pier, Joel N. Maslow, Eugene Muller, Hiroyuki Shiro, Michelle Parent, Andrea Kropec, Robert D. Arbeit, and Donald Goldman.  Endemic nosocomial transmission of Staphylococcus epidermidis bacteremia isolates in a neonatal intensive care unit of 10 years.  The Journal of Infectious Diseases 1994;169:526-31

2.       S Sandler, K Marians, K Zavitz, M Parent, J. Coutu, A. Clark.  DnaC Mutations suppress defects in DNA replication and recombination associated functions in priB and priC double mutants in Escherichia coli K12.  Molecular Microbiology, 1999;34(1):91-101.

3.       Erin A. Murphy, Janaki Sathiyaseelan, Michelle A. Parent, Baixiang Zou, Cynthia L. Baldwin.  Interferon-g is crucial for surviving a Brucella abortus infection in both resistant C57BL/6 and susceptible BALB/c mice.  Immunology 2001;103:511-518.

4.       Erin Murphy, Michelle Parent, Janaki Sathiyaseelan, Xiaosui Jiang, Cynthia Baldwin.  Immune control of Brucella abortus 2308 infections in BALB/c mice.  FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology, 2001;32:85-88.

5.       E. Murphy, G.T. Robertson, M. Parent, S.D. Hagius, M.R. Roop, P.H. Elzer, C. L. Baldwin.  MHC Class I and II expression on macrophages containing a virulent strain of Brucella abortus measured using GFP-expressing brucellae and flow cytometry.  FEMS Immunology and Medical Microbiology 2002, 33:191-200.

6.       Cynthia L. Baldwin and Michelle A. Parent.  Fundamentals of the host immune response against Brucella abortus:  what the mouse model has revealed about control of infection.  Veterinary Microbiology 2002;90:367-382.

7.       Michelle A. Parent, Bryan Bellaire, Erin Murphy, R. Martin Roop II and Cynthia L. Baldwin.  Brucella abortus siderophore 2,3-dihydroxybenoic acid (DHBA) limits intracellular killing of the bacteria.  Microbial Pathogenesis, 2002;32:239-248.

8.       Wayne W. Hancock, Frank M. Szaba, Kiera N. Berggren, Michelle A. Parent, Isis K. Mullarky, John Pearl, Andrea M. Cooper, Kenneth H. Ely, David L. Woodland, In-Jeong Kim, Marcia A. Blackman, Lawrence L. Johnson and Stephen T. Smiley.  Intact type 1 immunity and immune-associated coagulative responses in mice lacking IFN-gamma-inducible fibrinogen-like protein 2.  Proceedings National Academy of Science 2004:101 3005-3010.     

9.       Michelle A. Parent, Kiera N. Berggren, Isis K. Mullarky, Frank M. Szaba, Lawrence W. Kummer, Jeffery J Adamovicz, Stephen T. Smiley.  Yersinia pestis V protein epitopes recognized by CD4 T cells.  Infection and Immunity 2005 Apr; 73(4):2197-204.

10.   Isis K. Mullarky, Frank M. Szaba, Kiera N. Berggren, Michelle A. Parent, Lawrence W. Kummer, W. Chen, Lawrence L. Johnson, Stephen T. Smiley.  Infection-stimulated fibrin deposition controls hemorrhage and limits hepatic bacterial growth during listeriosis.  Infection and Immunity 2005 July, 73(7):3888-95.

11.   Michelle A. Parent, Kiera N. Berggren, Lawrence W. Kummer, Lindsey B. Wilhelm, Frank M. Szaba, Isis K. Mullarky, Stephen T. Smiley.  Cell-mediated protection against Yersinia pestis infection.  Infection and Immunity 2005 November, 73(11):7304-7310.

12.   Isis K. Mullarky, Frank M. Szaba, Kiera N. Berggren, Lawrence W. Kummer, Lindsey B. Wilhelm, Michelle A. Parent,  Lawrence L. Johnson, Stephen T. Smiley.  Tumor necrosis factor-alpha and Interferon-gamma but not hemorrhage or pathogen burden, dictate levels of protective fibrin deposition during infection.  Infection and Immunity 2006 February, 74(2):1181-1188.

13.   Michelle A. Parent, Lindsey B. Wilhelm, Lawrence W. Kummer, Frank M. Szaba, Isis K. Mullarky, Stephen T. Smiley.  Interferon-gamma and tumor necrosis factor-alpha are required for both humoral and cell-mediated protection against pulmonary Yersinia pestis infection.  Infection and Immunity 2006 June 74(6):3381-3386.

            Cited:  Faculty of 1000 Biology: evaluations for Parent MA et al Infect Immun 2006 Jun 74 (6) :3381-6                                                  http://www.f1000biology.com/article/id/1032510/evaluation

14.   Isis K. Mullarky, Frank M. Szaba, Caitlyn Winchel, Michelle A. Parent, Lawrence W. Kummer, N. Mackman, Lawrence L. Johnson and Stephen T. Smiley.  In situ assays demonstrate that interferon-gamma suppresses infection-stimulated hepatic fibrin deposition by promoting fibrinolysis Journal of Thrombosis and Haemostasis In Press 2006.

15.   Michelle A. Parent, Radhika Goenka, Erin Murphy, Kristen LeVier, Nuno Carreiro, Basil Golding, Gail Ferguson, R.M. Roop II, Graham C. Walker, and Cynthia L. Baldwin. Brucella abortus bacA mutant is more virulent than the wild-type parent strain in immune-deficient mice.  Accepted Microbes and Infection 2006.

16.   Janaki Sathiyaseelan, Michelle A. Parent, Radhika Goenka, Rita M. Benson, Erin Murphy, Dancella M. Fernandes, Andrea S. Foulkes, and Cynthia L. Baldwin.  Brucella abortus-susceptible mice turn off an initial vigorous type 1 immune response:  rescue by IL-12.  Accepted Infection and Immunity 2006.

17.   Radhika Goenka, Michelle Parent, Philip Elzer and Cynthia L. Baldwin. Antibody deficient mice display enhanced resistance to the intracellular bacteria Brucella abortus  Submitted Infection and Immunity.