Bacteriophages, or phages, are viruses that specifically infect bacteria and coopt the cellular
machinery to create more phage proteins, eventually resulting in the release of new phage …

The environmental conditions generated by war and characterized by poverty,
undernutrition, stress, difficult access to safe water and food as well as lack of environmental …

Black-footed ferrets (Mustela nigripes) require extensive prairie dog colonies (Cynomys
spp.) to provide habitat and prey. Epizootic plague kills both prairie dogs and ferrets and is a …

The chloroplast bioreactor is an alternative to fermentation-based systems for production of
vaccine antigens and biopharmaceuticals. We report here expression of the plague F1-V …

Pneumonic plague is a highly virulent infectious disease with 100% mortality rate, and its
causative organism Yersinia pestis poses a serious threat for deliberate use as a bioterror …

This review summarizes current knowledge on the structure, function, assembly and
biomedical applications of the superfamily of adhesive fimbrial organelles exposed on the …

The design of biodegradable polymeric delivery systems based on polyanhydrides that
would provide for improved structural integrity of Yersinia pestis antigens was the main goal …

Pseudomonas aeruginosa possesses a type III secretion system (T3SS) to intoxicate host
cells and evade innate immunity. This virulence-related machinery consists of a molecular …

Yersinia pestis causes plague, a disease with high mortality in humans that can be
transmitted by fleabite or aerosol. A US Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-licensed …

To help design needed new vaccines for pneumonic plague, we targeted the Yersinia pestis
LcrV protein directly to CD8α+ DEC‐205+ or CD8α− DCIR2+ DC along with a clinically …