Boston University School of Medicine & National Emerging Infections Diseases Laboratories

3 ARTICLES PUBLISHED IN JoVE

Advanced Biology

Conjugation: A Method to Transfer Ampicillin Resistance from Donor to Recipient E. coli

Alexander S Gold¹, Tonya M Colpitts¹

¹Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, National Emerging Infections Diseases Laboratories

Conjugation: A Method to Transfer Ampicillin Resistance from Donor to Recipient E. coli

Advanced Biology

Phage Transduction: A Method to Transfer Ampicillin Resistance from Donor to Recipient E. coli

Alexander Gold¹, Tonya M Colpitts¹

¹Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine & National Emerging Infections Diseases Laboratories

Phage Transduction: A Method to Transfer Ampicillin Resistance from Donor to Recipient E. coli

Immunology and Infection

Quantification of Antibody-dependent Enhancement of the Zika Virus in Primary Human Cells

Sultan Asad^1,2, Fabiana Feitosa-Suntheimer^1,2, Alexander Gold^1,2, Berlin Londono-Renteria², Tonya M. Colpitts^1,2

¹Department of Microbiology, Boston University School of Medicine, ²National Emerging Infectious Diseases Laborator, Boston University School of Medicine, ³Department of Entomology, Kansas State University

We describe a method to evaluate the effect of pre-existing immunity against dengue virus on the Zika virus infection by using human serum, primary human cells, and infection quantification by quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction.