Joshua Richard Fischer

In vitro CpG methylation increases the transformation efficiency of Borrelia burgdorferi strains harboring the endogenous linear plasmid lp56 (2008)

Chen, Qiang, Fischer, Joshua Richard, Benoit, Vivian M., Dufour, Nicholas P., Youderian, Philip, Leong, John M.

Borrelia burgdorferi is the causative agent of Lyme disease, the most common vector-borne illness in the Northern hemisphere. Low-passage-number infectious strains of B. burgdorferi exhibit extremely...

Fibronectin binding protein BBK32 of the Lyme disease spirochete promotes bacterial attachment to glycosaminoglycans (2005)

Fischer, Joshua Richard, LeBlanc, Kimberly T., Leong, John M.

Borrelia burgdorferi, the agent of Lyme disease, causes a multisystemic illness that can affect the skin, heart, joints, and nervous system and is capable of attachment to diverse cell types. Among...

Mechanisms of Host Cell Attachment by the Lyme Disease Spirochete: A Dissertation (2005)

Fischer, Joshua Richard

Host cell binding is an essential step in colonization by many bacterial pathogens, and the Lyme disease agent, Borrelia burgdorferi, which colonizes multiple tissues, is capable of attachment to...

Mechanisms of host cell attachment by the Lyme disease spirochete : a dissertation / (2005)

Fischer, Joshua Richard.

Thesis (Ph. D.)--University of Massachusetts Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 2005.

Decorin-binding proteins A and B confer distinct mammalian cell type-specific attachment by Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease spirochete (2003)

Fischer, Joshua Richard, Parveen, Nikhat, Magoun, Loranne, Leong, John M.

Host cell binding is an essential step in colonization by many bacterial pathogens, and the Lyme disease agent, Borrelia burgdorferi, which colonizes multiple tissues, is capable of attachment to...