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Amelia E. Barber

Friedrich Schiller University Jena
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Urinary tract infections: current and emerging management strategies

AE Barber, JP Norton, AM Spivak… - Clinical infectious …, 2013 - academic.oup.com
Acute cystitis is one of the most commonly encountered bacterial infections and is responsible
for substantial morbidity and high medical costs in the United States and across the globe. …

Human neural progenitor cells over-expressing IGF-1 protect dopamine neurons and restore function in a rat model of Parkinson's disease

AD Ebert, AJ Beres, AE Barber, CN Svendsen - Experimental neurology, 2008 - Elsevier
Growth factors such as glial cell line-derived neurotrophic factor (GDNF) have been shown
to prevent neurodegeneration and promote regeneration in many animal models of …

Aspergillus fumigatus pan-genome analysis identifies genetic variants associated with human infection

AE Barber, T Sae-Ong, K Kang, B Seelbinder, J Li… - Nature …, 2021 - nature.com
Aspergillus fumigatus is an environmental saprobe and opportunistic human fungal pathogen.
Despite an estimated annual occurrence of more than 300,000 cases of invasive disease …

Strengths and limitations of model systems for the study of urinary tract infections and related pathologies

AE Barber, JP Norton, TJ Wiles… - … and Molecular Biology …, 2016 - Am Soc Microbiol
Urinary tract infections (UTIs) are some of the most common bacterial infections worldwide
and are a source of substantial morbidity among otherwise healthy women. UTIs can be …

The Cpx stress response system potentiates the fitness and virulence of uropathogenic Escherichia coli

I Debnath, JP Norton, AE Barber, EM Ott… - Infection and …, 2013 - Am Soc Microbiol
Strains of uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) are the primary cause of urinary tract
infections, representing one of the most widespread and successful groups of pathogens on the …

Effects of agricultural fungicide use on Aspergillus fumigatus abundance, antifungal susceptibility, and population structure

AE Barber, J Riedel, T Sae-Ong, K Kang, W Brabetz… - MBio, 2020 - Am Soc Microbiol
Antibiotic resistance is an increasing threat to human health. In the case of Aspergillus fumigatus
, which is both an environmental saprobe and an opportunistic human fungal pathogen, …

[HTML][HTML] Genome-scale metabolic modeling of Aspergillus fumigatus strains reveals growth dependencies on the lung microbiome

…, T Sae-Ong, LL Xu, O Kurzai, AE Barber… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Aspergillus fumigatus, an opportunistic human pathogen, frequently infects the lungs of people
with cystic fibrosis and is one of the most common causes of infectious-disease death in …

Ex vivo delivery of GDNF maintains motor function and prevents neuronal loss in a transgenic mouse model of Huntington's disease

AD Ebert, AE Barber, BM Heins, CN Svendsen - Experimental neurology, 2010 - Elsevier
Huntington's disease (HD) is an autosomal dominant disorder caused by expansion of
polyglutamine repeats in the huntingtin gene leading to loss of striatal and cortical neurons …

[HTML][HTML] Candida auris in Germany and previous exposure to foreign healthcare

A Hamprecht, AE Barber, SC Mellinghoff… - Emerging infectious …, 2019 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
The emerging yeast Candida auris has disseminated worldwide. We report on 7 cases
identified in Germany during 2015–2017. In 6 of these cases, C. auris was isolated from patients …

A tRNA modifying enzyme as a tunable regulatory nexus for bacterial stress responses and virulence

…, CW Russell, Q Zhou, LM Baird, AE Barber… - Nucleic acids …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Post-transcriptional modifications can impact the stability and functionality of many different
classes of RNA molecules and are an especially important aspect of tRNA regulation. It is …