• First contact : 

    Bermudez, Carla Jean (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2013)
    The innate immune system must react to a wide variety of foreign stimuli, only a relatively small proportion of which may be classified as harmful. The goal of this thesis was to investigate interactions between macrophages ...
  • Molecular epidemiology of tick-borne Anaplasmataceae among client-owned dogs in Missouri 

    Yoo-Eam, Sasiwimon (University of Missouri--Columbia, 2012)
    Several tick-borne agents of zoonotic ehrlichiosis or anaplasmosis are endemic to Missouri. Dogs are susceptible to the same infections and tick vectors, but their roles as models, sentinels or reservoirs are undefined. ...