John Mekalanos

John Mekalanos, PhD

Adele Lehman Professor of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics, Harvard Medical School

Publications

Peru-15, a live attenuated oral cholera vaccine, is safe and immunogenic in Bangladeshi toddlers and infants.

Authors: Authors: Qadri F, Chowdhury MI, Faruque SM, Salam MA, Ahmed T, Begum YA, Saha A, Al Tarique A, Seidlein LV, Park E, Killeen KP, Mekalanos JJ, Clemens JD, Sack DA.
Vaccine 2007-01-04
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Self-limiting nature of seasonal cholera epidemics: Role of host-mediated amplification of phage.

Authors: Authors: Faruque SM, Islam MJ, Ahmad QS, Faruque AS, Sack DA, Nair GB, Mekalanos JJ.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2005-04-26
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ToxR regulon of Vibrio cholerae and its expression in vibrios shed by cholera patients.

Authors: Authors: Bina J, Zhu J, Dziejman M, Faruque S, Calderwood S, Mekalanos J.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 2003-03-04
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Development of antimicrobial agents in the era of new and reemerging infectious diseases and increasing antibiotic resistance.

Authors: Authors: Cassell GH, Mekalanos J.
JAMA 2001-02-07
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Identification of a vibrio cholerae RTX toxin gene cluster that is tightly linked to the cholera toxin prophage.

Authors: Authors: Lin W, Fullner KJ, Clayton R, Sexton JA, Rogers MB, Calia KE, Calderwood SB, Fraser C, Mekalanos JJ.
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 1999-02-02
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Use of signature-tagged transposon mutagenesis to identify Vibrio cholerae genes critical for colonization.

Authors: Authors: Chiang SL, Mekalanos JJ.
Mol Microbiol 1998-02-01
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Single amino acid substitutions in the N-terminus of Vibrio cholerae TcpA affect colonization, autoagglutination, and serum resistance.

Authors: Authors: Chiang SL, Taylor RK, Koomey M, Mekalanos JJ.
Mol Microbiol 1995-09-01
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Live attenuated vaccine vectors.

Authors: Authors: Mekalanos JJ.
Int J Technol Assess Health Care 1994-01-01
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Constitutive sensory transduction mutations in the Bordetella pertussis bvgS gene.

Authors: Authors: Miller JF, Johnson SA, Black WJ, Beattie DT, Mekalanos JJ, Falkow S.
J Bacteriol 1992-02-01
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Salmonella vaccines with mutations in the phoP virulence regulon.

Authors: Authors: Miller SI, Mekalanos JJ, Pulkkinen WS.
Res Microbiol 1990-12-01
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