Wei-Mei Ching

Comparative evaluation of selected diagnostic assays for the detection of IgG and IgM antibody to Orientia tsutsugamushi in Thailand.

An improved method for the purification and refolding of r56-kDa proteins from Gilliam and Kato strains of Orientia tsutsugamushi.

Laboratory diagnosis of two scrub typhus outbreaks at Camp Fuji, Japan in 2000 and 2001 by enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay, rapid flow assay, and Western blot assay using outer membrane 56-kD recombinant proteins.

Comparative genomics of Rickettsia prowazekii Madrid E and Breinl strains.

Development of a quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction assay specific for Orientia tsutsugamushi.

Proteome analysis of Madrid E strain of Rickettsia prowazekii.

Using LC-MS with de novo software to fully characterize the multiple methylations of lysine residues in a recombinant fragment of an outer membrane protein from a virulent strain of Rickettsia prowazekii.

Scrub typhus vaccine candidate Kp r56 induces humoral and cellular immune responses in cynomolgus monkeys.

Protection against scrub typhus by a plasmid vaccine encoding the 56-KD outer membrane protein antigen gene.

Cloning and sequence analysis of the 22-kDa antigen genes of Orientia tsutsugamushi strains Kato, TA763, AFSC 7, 18-032460, TH1814, and MAK 119.

Short- and long-term immune responses of CD-1 outbred mice to the scrub typhus DNA vaccine candidate: p47Kp.

Insight into the virulence of Rickettsia prowazekii by proteomic analysis and comparison with an avirulent strain.

Serological reactivity and biochemical characterization of methylated and unmethylated forms of a recombinant protein fragment derived from outer membrane protein B of Rickettsia typhi.

Scrub typhus: the geographic distribution of phenotypic and genotypic variants of Orientia tsutsugamushi.

Identification of cross-reactive epitopes on the conserved 47-kilodalton antigen of Orientia tsutsugamushi and human serine protease.

Comparative proteomic analysis of antibiotic-sensitive and insensitive isolates of Orientia tsutsugamushi.

Accuracy of AccessBio Immunoglobulin M and Total Antibody Rapid Immunochromatographic Assays for the Diagnosis of Acute Scrub Typhus Infection.

Epidemiology of spotted fever group and typhus group rickettsial infection in the Amazon basin of Peru.

Genome-wide profiling of humoral immune response to Coxiella burnetii infection by protein microarray.

Kinetics and magnitude of antibody responses against the conserved 47-kilodalton antigen and the variable 56-kilodalton antigen in scrub typhus patients.

Analysis of the cross-reactivity of various 56 kDa recombinant protein antigens with serum samples collected after Orientia tsutsugamushi infection by ELISA.

Development of new, broadly reactive, rapid IgG and IgM lateral flow assays for diagnosis of scrub typhus.

Two protein lysine methyltransferases methylate outer membrane protein B from Rickettsia.

Scrub typhus with sepsis and acute respiratory distress syndrome.

Molecular characterization of tick salivary gland glutaminyl cyclase.

Semi-automated curation of metabolic models via flux balance analysis: a case study with Mycoplasma gallisepticum.

Detection of Leptospira-specific antibodies using a recombinant antigen-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay.

Multimethylation of Rickettsia OmpB catalyzed by lysine methyltransferases.

An evaluation study of enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay (ELISA) using recombinant protein Pap31 for detection of antibody against Bartonella bacilliformis infection among the Peruvian population.

An insight into the microbiome of the Amblyomma maculatum (Acari: Ixodidae).

Dual exposure of Rickettsia typhi and Orientia tsutsugamushi in the field-collected Rattus rodents from Thailand.

Development of loop-mediated isothermal amplification assays for rapid and easy detection of Coxiella Burnetii.

Rapid and sensitive detection of Bartonella bacilliformis in experimentally infected sand flies by loop-mediated isothermal amplification (LAMP) of the Pap31 gene.

Dot-ELISA Rapid Test Using Recombinant 56-kDa Protein Antigens for Serodiagnosis of Scrub Typhus.

Development of Recombinase Polymerase Amplification Assays for Detection of Orientia tsutsugamushi or Rickettsia typhi.

Detection of Q Fever Specific Antibodies Using Recombinant Antigen in ELISA with Peroxidase Based Signal Amplification.

Highly Sensitive Loop-Mediated Isothermal Amplification for the Detection of Leptospira.