Lipidomics and genomics of <em>Mycobacterium tuberculosis</em> reveal lineage-specific trends in mycolic acid biosynthesis (Publications)
Mycolic acids (MAs) are alpha-alkyl, beta-hydroxy long-chain fatty acids found in abundance in the cell envelope of the Mycobacterium tuberculosis complex (MTBC). MAs form an efficient permeability ba
Cost of near-roadway and regional air pollution-attributable childhood asthma in Los Angeles county (Publications)
BACKGROUND: Emerging evidence suggests that near-roadway air pollution (NRP) exposure causes childhood asthma. The associated costs are not well documented. OBJECTIVE: We estimated the cost of childho
<em>Trypanosoma brucei brucei</em>: a model for cerebral trypanosomiasis in mice--an immunological, histological and electronmicroscopic study (Publications)
The successful induction of cerebral trypanosomiasis in ordinary laboratory mice using Trypanosoma brucei brucei is reported. Sequential studies demonstrated the presence of trypanosomes in the inters