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Ann E. Jerse is affiliated with the Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences in the United States. Their research primarily focuses on immunology and microbiology, with significant contributions in medicine. The subfields covered by their work include microbiology, epidemiology, physiology, infectious diseases, and molecular biology.

The scientist's research covers several main topics, including reproductive tract infections research, bacterial infections and vaccines, pneumonia and respiratory infections, syphilis diagnosis and treatment, virology and viral diseases, amoebic infections and treatments, and Clostridium difficile and Clostridium perfringens research.

Ann E. Jerse has coauthored numerous publications with frequent collaborators such as Kristie L. Connolly, Andrew N. Macintyre, William M. Shafer, Adriana Le Van, and Afrin A. Begum.

The most common venues for this scientist's publications include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • UNC Libraries
  • The Journal of Infectious Diseases
  • PLoS Pathogens
  • Vaccine

Notable recent papers include:

  • The serogroup B meningococcal outer membrane vesicle-based vaccine 4CMenB induces cross-species protection against Neisseria gonorrhoeae, 2020, PLoS Pathogens
  • Gonococcal vaccines: Public health value and preferred product characteristics; report of a WHO global stakeholder consultation, January 2019, 2020, Vaccine
  • A novel gonorrhea vaccine composed of MetQ lipoprotein formulated with CpG shortens experimental murine infection, 2020, Vaccine
  • trans-Translation inhibitors bind to a novel site on the ribosome and clear Neisseria gonorrhoeae in vivo, 2021, Nature Communications
  • Meningococcal Detoxified Outer Membrane Vesicle Vaccines Enhance Gonococcal Clearance in a Murine Infection Model, 2021, The Journal of Infectious Diseases

Best Publications

  • A genetic locus of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli necessary for the production of attaching and effacing lesions on tissue culture cells.

    Ann E. Jerse;Jun Yu;Ben D. Tall;James B. Kaper

  • Enteropathogenic Escherichia coli contains a putative type III secretion system necessary for the export of proteins involved in attaching and effacing lesion formation

    Karen G. Jarvis;Jorge A. Giron;Ann E. Jerse;Timothy K. McDaniel

  • Experimental gonococcal genital tract infection and opacity protein expression in estradiol-treated mice.

    Ann E. Jerse

  • Clinically Relevant Mutations that Cause Derepression of the Neisseria gonorrhoeae MtrC-MtrD-MtrE Efflux Pump System Confer Different Levels of Antimicrobial Resistance and In Vivo Fitness

    Douglas M. Warner;William M. Shafer;William M. Shafer;Ann E. Jerse

  • Multiple gonococcal opacity proteins are expressed during experimental urethral infection in the male.

    A E Jerse;M S Cohen;P M Drown;L G Whicker

  • A gonococcal efflux pump system enhances bacterial survival in a female mouse model of genital tract infection.

    Ann E. Jerse;Nirmala D. Sharma;Amy N. Simms;Emily T. Crow

  • Human Experimentation with Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Rationale, Methods, and Implications for the Biology of Infection and Vaccine Development

    Myron S. Cohen;Janne G. Cannon;Ann E. Jerse;Larry M. Charniga

  • Multiple gonococcal pilin antigenic variants are produced during experimental human infections.

    H S Seifert;C J Wright;C J Wright;A E Jerse;M S Cohen

  • Neisseria gonorrhoeae: Drug Resistance, Mouse Models, and Vaccine Development.

    Peter A Rice;William M Shafer;Sanjay Ram;Ann E Jerse

  • Estradiol-Treated Female Mice as Surrogate Hosts for Neisseria gonorrhoeae Genital Tract Infections.

    Ann E. Jerse;Hong Wu;Mathanraj Packiam;Rachel A. Vonck

  • Critical role of Th17 responses in a murine model of Neisseria gonorrhoeae genital infection.

    Brandon Feinen;Ann E. Jerse;Sarah L. Gaffen;Michael W. Russell

  • Experimental Gonococcal Infection in Male Volunteers: Cumulative Experience with Neisseria gonorrhoeae Strains FA1090 and MS11mkC

    Marcia Metzgar Hobbs;Philip Frederick Sparling;Myron S. Cohen;William M. Shafer;William M. Shafer

  • Regulation of the MtrC-MtrD-MtrE Efflux-Pump System Modulates the In Vivo Fitness of Neisseria gonorrhoeae

    Douglas M. Warner;Jason P. Folster;William M. Shafer;William M. Shafer;Ann E. Jerse

  • The global roadmap for advancing development of vaccines against sexually transmitted infections: Update and next steps

    Sami L. Gottlieb;Carolyn D. Deal;Birgitte Giersing;Helen Rees

  • Vaccines against Gonorrhea: Current status and Future Challenges

    Ann E. Jerse;Margaret C. Bash;Michael W. Russell

  • Characterization of interactions of enteropathogenic Escherichia coli O127:H6 with mammalian cells in vitro.

    Carol L. Francis;Ann E. Jerse;James B. Kaper;Stanley Falkow

  • Human C4b-binding protein selectively interacts with Neisseria gonorrhoeae and results in species-specific infection.

    Jutamas Ngampasutadol;Sanjay Ram;Anna M. Blom;Hanna Jarva

  • Tests of Buffergel for contraception and prevention of sexually transmitted diseases in animal models.

    Larry Zeitlin;Timothy E. Hoen;Sharon L. Achilles;Tracy A. Hegarty

  • Vaccines for gonorrhea: can we rise to the challenge?

    Weiyan Zhu;Ching Ju Chen;Christopher E. Thomas;James E. Anderson

  • Plasmid and chromosomal elements involved in the pathogenesis of attaching and effacing Escherichia coli

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  • Local and humoral immune responses against primary and repeat Neisseria gonorrhoeae genital tract infections of 17β-estradiol-treated mice

    Wenxia Song;Sara Condron;Brian T. Mocca;Sandra J. Veit

Frequent Co-Authors

William M. Shafer
William M. Shafer Emory University
Magnus Unemo
Magnus Unemo Örebro University
Michael W. Russell
Michael W. Russell University at Buffalo, State University of New York
Scott D. Gray-Owen
Scott D. Gray-Owen University of Toronto
Gregory D. Sempowski
Gregory D. Sempowski Duke University
Myron S. Cohen
Myron S. Cohen University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Robert A. Nicholas
Robert A. Nicholas University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Peter A. Rice
Peter A. Rice University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Sanjay Ram
Sanjay Ram University of Massachusetts Chan Medical School
Brian K. Agan
Brian K. Agan Uniformed Services University of the Health Sciences

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