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Alan G. Barbour is affiliated with the University of California, Irvine in the United States. Their research primarily spans the fields of Immunology and Microbiology, Medicine, and Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology. Within these broader domains, their work encompasses subfields such as Parasitology, Infectious Diseases, Genetics, Immunology, and Molecular Biology.

The scientific topics frequently addressed in their publications include Vector-borne infectious diseases, Viral Infections and Vectors, Immune Response and Inflammation, Bat Biology and Ecology Studies, Gut microbiota and health, Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research, and Genetic and phenotypic traits in livestock.

Alan G. Barbour has contributed to several recent papers, including:

  • The Family Borreliaceae (Spirochaetales), a Diverse Group in Two Genera of Tick-Borne Spirochetes of Mammals, Birds, and Reptiles, 2021, Journal of Medical Entomology
  • An Infection-Tolerant Mammalian Reservoir for Several Zoonotic Agents Broadly Counters the Inflammatory Effects of Endotoxin, 2021, mBio
  • Autoimmunity to synovial extracellular matrix proteins in patients with postinfectious Lyme arthritis, 2023, Journal of Clinical Investigation
  • Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia miyamotoi seroprevalence in California blood donors, 2020, PLoS ONE
  • The infection-tolerant white-footed deermouse tempers interferon responses to endotoxin in comparison to the mouse and rat, 2023, eLife

Their work has appeared across multiple publication venues, with frequent contributions to bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), eLife, PLoS ONE, Journal of Medical Entomology, and mBio.

Alan G. Barbour collaborates regularly with several co-authors, including Ana Milovic, Jonathan V. Duong, Anthony D. Long, Gabriela Balderrama-Gutierrez, and A Mortazavi.

Best Publications

  • Lyme disease-a tick-borne spirochetosis?

    Willy Burgdorfer;Alan G. Barbour;Stanley F. Hayes;Jorge L. Benach

  • Isolation and cultivation of Lyme disease spirochetes.

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  • The Spirochetal Etiology of Lyme Disease

    Allen C. Steere;Robert L. Grodzicki;Arnold N. Kornblatt;Joseph E. Craft

  • Spirochetes isolated from the blood of two patients with Lyme disease.

    Jorge L. Benach;Edward M. Bosler;John P. Hanrahan;James L. Coleman

  • Biology of Borrelia species.

    A G Barbour;S F Hayes

  • The biological and social phenomenon of Lyme disease

    Alan G. Barbour;Durland Fish

  • Antigenic Variation in Lyme Disease Borreliae by Promiscuous Recombination of VMP-like Sequence Cassettes

    Jing Ren Zhang;John M. Hardham;Alan G. Barbour;Steven J Norris

  • Lyme disease spirochetes and ixodid tick spirochetes share a common surface antigenic determinant defined by a monoclonal antibody.

    A G Barbour;S L Tessier;W J Todd

  • Identification of an Uncultivable Borrelia Species in the Hard Tick Amblyomma americanum: Possible Agent of a Lyme Disease-like Illness

    Alan G. Barbour;Gary O. Maupin;Glenna J. Teltow;Carol J. Carter

  • Megabase-sized linear DNA in the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease agent

    M.S. Ferdows;A.G. Barbour

  • Linear plasmids of the bacterium Borrelia burgdorferi have covalently closed ends

    Alan G. Barbour;Alan G. Barbour;Claude F. Garon

  • Heterogeneity of Major Proteins in Lyme Disease Borreliae: A Molecular Analysis of North American and European Isolates

    Alan G. Barbour;Ramona A. Heiland;Timothy R. Howe

  • Sequence typing reveals extensive strain diversity of the Lyme borreliosis agents Borrelia burgdorferi in North America and Borrelia afzelii in Europe

    Jonas Bunikis;Ulf Garpmo;Jean I Tsao;Johan Berglund

  • A Borrelia-specific monoclonal antibody binds to a flagellar epitope.

    A G Barbour;S F Hayes;R A Heiland;M E Schrumpf

  • Molecular analysis of linear plasmid‐encoded major surface proteins, OspA and OspB, of the Lyme disease spirochaete Borrelia burgdorferi

    S. Bergström;V. G. Bundoc;A. G. Barbour

  • Plasmid analysis of Borrelia burgdorferi, the Lyme disease agent.

    A G Barbour

  • The western black-legged tick, Ixodes pacificus: a vector of Borrelia burgdorferi.

    Willy Burgdorfer;Robert S. Lane;Alan G. Barbour;Robert A. Gresbrink

  • Niche partitioning of Borrelia burgdorferi and Borrelia miyamotoi in the same tick vector and mammalian reservoir species

    Alan G. Barbour;Jonas Bunikis;Bridgit Travinsky;Anne Gatewood Hoen

  • An ecological approach to preventing human infection: Vaccinating wild mouse reservoirs intervenes in the Lyme disease cycle

    Jean I. Tsao;J. Timothy Wootton;Jonas Bunikis;Maria Gabriela Luna

  • Variation in a major surface protein of Lyme disease spirochetes.

    A G Barbour;S L Tessier;S F Hayes

  • Profiling of Temperature-Induced Changes in Borrelia burgdorferi Gene Expression by Using Whole Genome Arrays

    Caroline Ojaimi;Chad Brooks;Sherwood Casjens;Patricia Rosa

  • Antigenic Variability of Borrelia burgdorferi

    Bettina Wilske;Vera Preac-Mursic;Günther Schierz;Renate Kühbeck

Frequent Co-Authors

Sven Bergström
Sven Bergström Umeå University
Louis A. Magnarelli
Louis A. Magnarelli Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station
Durland Fish
Durland Fish Yale University
Stanley F. Hayes
Stanley F. Hayes National Institutes of Health
John J. Dunn
John J. Dunn Brookhaven National Laboratory
Steven J. Norris
Steven J. Norris The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Tom G. Schwan
Tom G. Schwan National Institutes of Health
Patricia A. Rosa
Patricia A. Rosa National Institutes of Health
Peter J. Krause
Peter J. Krause Yale University
Claude F. Garon
Claude F. Garon National Institutes of Health

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