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Overview

Patricia A. Rosa is affiliated with the National Institutes of Health in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on areas intersecting Agricultural and Biological Sciences, Immunology and Microbiology, and Medicine. Within these fields, subtopics such as Parasitology, Insect Science, Infectious Diseases, Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics, and Molecular Biology are prominent in their publication record.

The main topics addressed in their work include vector-borne infectious diseases, viral infections and vectors, insect symbiosis and bacterial influences, vector-borne animal diseases, plant virus research studies, CRISPR and genetic engineering, and bacteriophages and microbial interactions.

The frequent publication venues where Patricia A. Rosa has contributed include:

  • bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory)
  • Nature Communications
  • mBio
  • Applied and Environmental Microbiology
  • Current Issues in Molecular Biology

Patricia A. Rosa has collaborated regularly with several coauthors, including:

  • Jenny Wachter
  • Constantin N. Takacs
  • Christine Jacobs-Wagner
  • Molly Scott
  • Irnov Irnov

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by Patricia A. Rosa include:

  • A Filamentous Bacteriophage Protein Inhibits Type IV Pili To Prevent Superinfection of Pseudomonas aeruginosa (2022, mBio)
  • Polyploidy, regular patterning of genome copies, and unusual control of DNA partitioning in the Lyme disease spirochete (2022, Nature Communications)
  • A CRISPR Interference Platform for Selective Downregulation of Gene Expression in Borrelia burgdorferi (2020, Applied and Environmental Microbiology)
  • Coupled induction of prophage and virulence factors during tick transmission of the Lyme disease spirochete (2023, Nature Communications)
  • Genetic Manipulation of Borrelia (2020, Current Issues in Molecular Biology)

Best Publications

  • Induction of an outer surface protein on Borrelia burgdorferi during tick feeding

    Tom G. Schwan;Joseph Piesman;William T. Golde;Marc C. Dolan

  • A bacterial genome in flux: the twelve linear and nine circular extrachromosomal DNAs in an infectious isolate of the Lyme disease spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi.

    Sherwood Casjens;Nanette Palmer;René Van Vugt;Wai Mun Huang

  • Outer-surface protein C of the Lyme disease spirochete: A protein induced in ticks for infection of mammals

    Dorothee Grimm;Kit Tilly;Rebecca Byram;Philip E. Stewart

  • Borrelia burgdorferi OspC Protein Required Exclusively in a Crucial Early Stage of Mammalian Infection

    Kit Tilly;Jonathan G. Krum;Aaron Bestor;Mollie W. Jewett

  • Temperature-related differential expression of antigens in the Lyme disease spirochete, Borrelia burgdorferi.

    B Stevenson;T G Schwan;P A Rosa

  • Clonal Polymorphism of Borrelia burgdorferi Strain B31 MI: Implications for Mutagenesis in an Infectious Strain Background

    Abdallah F. Elias;Philip E. Stewart;Dorothee Grimm;Melissa J. Caimano

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

    Caroline Ojaimi;Chad Brooks;Sherwood Casjens;Patricia Rosa

  • Borrelia burgdorferi sigma54 is required for mammalian infection and vector transmission but not for tick colonization.

    Mark A. Fisher;Dorothee Grimm;Amy K. Henion;Abdallah F. Elias

  • A Specific and Sensitive Assay for the Lyme Disease Spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi Using the Polymerase Chain Reaction

    Patricia A. Rosa;Tom G. Schwan

  • The burgeoning molecular genetics of the Lyme disease spirochaete.

    Patricia A. Rosa;Kit Tilly;Philip E. Stewart

  • Biology of Infection with Borrelia burgdorferi

    Kit Tilly;Patricia A. Rosa;Philip E. Stewart

  • Efficient targeted mutagenesis in Borrelia burgdorferi.

    James L. Bono;Abdallah F. Elias;John J. Kupko;Brian Stevenson

  • Recombination between genes encoding major outer surface proteins A and B of Borrelia burgdorferi

    Patricia A. Rosa;Tom Schwan;Daniel Hogan

  • New antibiotic resistance cassettes suitable for genetic studies in Borrelia burgdorferi.

    Abdallah F. Elias;James L. Bono;John J. Kupko;Philip E. Stewart

  • Homology throughout the multiple 32-kilobase circular plasmids present in Lyme disease spirochetes.

    S Casjens;R van Vugt;K Tilly;P A Rosa

  • Polymerase chain reaction analyses identify two distinct classes of Borrelia burgdorferi.

    P A Rosa;D Hogan;T G Schwan

  • Borrelia burgdorferi Erp Proteins Are Immunogenic in Mammals Infected by Tick Bite, and Their Synthesis Is Inducible in Cultured Bacteria

    Brian Stevenson;James L. Bono;Tom G. Schwan;Patricia Rosa

  • A family of genes located on four separate 32-kilobase circular plasmids in Borrelia burgdorferi B31.

    B Stevenson;K Tilly;P A Rosa

  • Delineating the Requirement for the Borrelia burgdorferi Virulence Factor OspC in the Mammalian Host

    Philip E. Stewart;Xiaohui Wang;Dawn M. Bueschel;Dawn R. Clifton

  • The plasmids of Borrelia burgdorferi: essential genetic elements of a pathogen.

    Philip E. Stewart;Rebecca Byram;Rebecca Byram;Dorothee Grimm;Kit Tilly

Frequent Co-Authors

Tom G. Schwan
Tom G. Schwan National Institutes of Health
Brian Stevenson
Brian Stevenson University of Kentucky
Sherwood R. Casjens
Sherwood R. Casjens University of Utah
Alan G. Barbour
Alan G. Barbour University of California, Irvine
Melissa J. Caimano
Melissa J. Caimano University of Connecticut Health Center
Justin D. Radolf
Justin D. Radolf University of Connecticut Health Center
Steven J. Norris
Steven J. Norris The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston
Sven Bergström
Sven Bergström Umeå University
Christine Jacobs-Wagner
Christine Jacobs-Wagner Stanford University
Ira Schwartz
Ira Schwartz New York Medical College

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