Kunyan Zhang

HIV dementia patients exhibit reduced viral neutralization and increased envelope sequence diversity in blood and brain.

Human immunodeficiency virus type 1 envelope-mediated neuronal death: uncoupling of viral replication and neurotoxicity.

HIV-induced metalloproteinase processing of the chemokine stromal cell derived factor-1 causes neurodegeneration.

Growth hormone prevents human immunodeficiency virus-induced neuronal p53 expression.

Comparative neurovirulence in lentiviral infections: The roles of viral molecular diversity and select proteases.

Bacteremia caused by Clostridium symbiosum.

Gemella bergeriae endocarditis diagnosed by sequencing of rRNA genes in heart valve tissue.

New quadriplex PCR assay for detection of methicillin and mupirocin resistance and simultaneous discrimination of Staphylococcus aureus from coagulase-negative staphylococci.

Human infection caused by Clostridium hathewayi.

Bacteremia caused by Clostridium intestinale.

Bacteremia caused by Janibacter melonis.

Novel multiplex PCR assay for characterization and concomitant subtyping of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec types I to V in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Nocardia cyriacigeorgica septicemia.

Use of molecular beacon probes for real-time PCR detection of Plasmodium falciparum and other plasmodium species in peripheral blood specimens.

Novel multiplex PCR assay for detection of the staphylococcal virulence marker Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes and simultaneous discrimination of methicillin-susceptible from -resistant staphylococci.

Isolation and 16S ribosomal RNA gene sequence-based identification of Clostridium scindens from an intra-abdominal abscess.

Outbreak in Alberta of community-acquired (USA300) methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in people with a history of drug use, homelessness or incarceration.

Positive Clostridium difficile stool assay in a patient with fatal C. sordellii infection.

DNA sequence-based detection of group B Streptococcus directly from heart valve tissue in a patient with culture-negative endocarditis.

Clostridium glycolicum bacteremia in a bone marrow transplant patient.

Novel multiplex PCR assay for simultaneous identification of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains USA300 and USA400 and detection of mecA and Panton-Valentine leukocidin genes, with discrimination of Staphylococcus aureus from coagulase-negative staphylococci.

Coexistence of Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive and -negative community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus USA400 sibling strains in a large Canadian health-care region.

Prevalence of USA300 colonization or infection and associated variables during an outbreak of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus in a marginalized urban population.

Novel staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type, tentatively designated type VIII, harboring class A mec and type 4 ccr gene complexes in a Canadian epidemic strain of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Multiplex PCR assay to facilitate identification of the recently described Staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec type VIII.

A novel mechanism of rapid nuclear neutrophil extracellular trap formation in response to Staphylococcus aureus.

Prevalence and genetic relatedness of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus isolates detected by the Xpert MRSA nasal assay.

Enhanced multiplex PCR assay for typing of staphylococcal cassette chromosome mec types I to V in methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus.

Guidelines for reporting novel mecA gene homologues.

Infection-induced NETosis is a dynamic process involving neutrophil multitasking in vivo.

Assessment of virulence diversity of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus strains with a Drosophila melanogaster infection model.

Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus Carriage among Students at a Historically Black University: A Case Study.

A Caenorhabditis elegans host model correlates with invasive disease caused by Staphylococcus aureus recovered during an outbreak in neonatal intensive care.