Publications by authors named "Jessica Coates"
Background: Aminoglycosides are potent bactericidal antibiotics naturally produced by soil microorganisms and are commonly used in agriculture. Exposure to these antibiotics has the potential to cause shifts in the microorganisms that impact plant health. The systematic review described in this protocol will compile and synthesize literature on soil and plant root-associated microbiota, with special attention to aminoglycoside exposure.
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- The study evaluates the reliability of five commercially available tests for measuring measles virus-specific IgG antibodies to determine immunity in individuals with uncertain vaccination status.
- False-negative results can lead to unnecessary quarantine or revaccination, while false-positive results may allow susceptible individuals to inadvertently spread the disease.
- Discrepancies were found mainly in low-positive samples, but overall, the tests performed well for confirming negative IgG status and intermediate to high levels of IgG, with about 11% of low-antibody sera yielding false negatives.
Effective antibiotic use that minimizes treatment failures remains a challenge. A better understanding of how bacterial populations respond to antibiotics is necessary. Previous studies of large bacterial populations established the deterministic framework of pharmacodynamics.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFGeographic variation in parasite communities can drive evolutionary divergence in host immune genes. However, biotic and abiotic environmental variation can also induce plastic differences in immune function among populations. At present, there is little information concerning the relative magnitudes of heritable vs.
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