Alaullah Sheikh
Address:
660 S Euclid,
Campus Box- 8051,
Infectious Diseases Division,
7th floor MPRB,
St. Louis, MO, 63110.
Research Interests:
Enteric pathogens, Bacterial pathogenesis, Pathogen-host interactions, Host responses, Vaccine
Biography:
Publications:
- Transcutaneous immunization with Clostridium difficile toxoid A induces systemic and mucosal immune responses and toxin A-neutralizing antibodies in mice.
- Enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli secretes a highly conserved mucin-degrading metalloprotease to effectively engage intestinal epithelial cells.
- Comparative proteomic analysis of the PhoP regulon in Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi versus Typhimurium.
- EatA, an immunogenic protective antigen of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli, degrades intestinal mucin.
- Zinc influences innate immune responses in children with enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli-induced diarrhea.
- Natural selection in a bangladeshi population from the cholera-endemic ganges river delta.
- In vivo expression of Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi genes in the blood of patients with typhoid fever in Bangladesh.
- Characterization of anti-Salmonella enterica serotype Typhi antibody responses in bacteremic Bangladeshi patients by an immunoaffinity proteomics-based technology.
- Transcriptional modulation of enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli virulence genes in response to epithelial cell interactions.
- Memory T-cell responses to Vibrio cholerae O1 infection.
- Novel antigens for enterotoxigenic Escherichia coli vaccines.
- Salmonella enterica serovar Typhi-specific immunoglobulin A antibody responses in plasma and antibody in lymphocyte supernatant specimens in Bangladeshi patients with suspected typhoid fever.