John R. McQuiston, Ph.D.

 

 

Laboratory of Dr. Rob Tauxe, CDC, Atlanta GA

jmcquist at emory.edu

Salmonella antigen evolution and lateral transfer of the genes involved

History:

PhD, Population Biology, Ecology and Evolution Program and Laboratory of Dr. John M. Logsdon, Jr.,  Emory University, 2008.

MS, Virginia Tech, 1992.

BS, SUNY-Fredonia.

Publications:

McQuiston, J.R., P.I. Fields, R.V. Tauxe and J. M. Logsdon, Jr. 2008. Do Salmonella carry spare tyres? Trends Microbiol. 16:4:142-148.

Sivapalasingam S, Hoekstra RM, McQuiston JR, Fields PI, Tauxe RV. 2004. Salmonella bacteriuria: an increasing entity in elderly women in the United States. Epidemiol Infect. 132(5):897-902.

Herrera-Leon S, McQuiston JR, Usera MA, Fields PI, Garaizar J, Echeita MA. 2004. Multiplex PCR for distinguishing the most common phase-1 flagellar antigens of Salmonella spp. J Clin Microbiol. 42(6):2581-6.

McQuiston JR, Parrenas R, Ortiz-Rivera M, Gheesling L, Brenner F, Fields PI. 2004. Sequencing and comparative analysis of flagellin genes fliC, fljB, and flpA from Salmonella. J Clin Microbiol. 42(5):1923-32.

McQuiston JH, McQuiston JR, Cox AD, Wu Y, Boyle SM, Inzana TJ. 2000. Characterization of a DNA region containing 5'-(CAAT)(n)-3' DNA sequences involved in lipooligosaccharide biosynthesis in Haemophilus somnus. Microb Pathog. 28:301-12.

Vemulapalli R, McQuiston JR, Schurig GG, Sriranganathan N, Halling SM, Boyle SM. 1999. Identification of an IS711 element interrupting the wboA gene of Brucella abortus vaccine strain RB51 and a PCR assay to distinguish strain RB51 from other Brucella species and strains. Clin Diagn Lab Immunol. 6:760-4.

McQuiston JR, Vemulapalli R, Inzana TJ, Schurig GG, Sriranganathan N, Fritzinger D, Hadfield TL, Warren RA, Lindler LE, Snellings N, Hoover D, Halling SM, Boyle SM. 1999. Genetic characterization of a Tn5-disrupted glycosyltransferase gene homolog in Brucella abortus and its effect on lipopolysaccharide composition and virulence. Infect Immun. 67:3830-5.

Elzer PH, Enright FM, McQuiston JR, Boyle SM, Schurig GG. 1998. Evaluation of a rough mutant of Brucella melitensis in pregnant goats. Res Vet Sci. 64:259-60.

Jucker MT, McQuiston JR, van den Hurk JV, Boyle SM, Pierson FW. 1996. Characterization of the haemorrhagic enteritis virus genome and the sequence of the putative penton base and core protein genes. J Gen Virol. 77:469-79.

McQuiston JR, Schurig GG, Sriranganathan N, Boyle SM. Transformation of Brucella species with suicide and broad host-range plasmids. 1995. Methods Mol Biol. 47:143-8.

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