The ecology, epidemiology and virulence of Enterococcus

K Fisher, C Phillips - Microbiology, 2009 - microbiologyresearch.org
Enterococci are Gram-positive, catalase-negative, non-spore-forming, facultative anaerobic
bacteria, which usually inhabit the alimentary tract of humans in addition to being isolated …

Potential antimicrobial uses of essential oils in food: is citrus the answer?

K Fisher, C Phillips - Trends in food science & technology, 2008 - Elsevier
The antimicrobial properties of essential oils (EOs) have been recognised for centuries and,
with growing demand from changes in legislation, consumer trends and increasing isolation …

Participation in worksite health promotion: a critique of the literature and recommendations for future practice

RE Glasgow, KD McCaul… - Health education …, 1993 - journals.sagepub.com
One of the major rationales for conducting health promotion/disease prevention activities at
the worksite is the potential to reach a high percentage of employees, including many who …

High-level semi-synthetic production of the potent antimalarial artemisinin

…, PJ Westfall, DJ Pitera, K Benjamin, K Fisher… - Nature, 2013 - nature.com
In 2010 there were more than 200 million cases of malaria, and at least 655,000 deaths. The
World Health Organization has recommended artemisinin-based combination therapies …

Production of the antimalarial drug precursor artemisinic acid in engineered yeast

DK Ro, EM Paradise, M Ouellet, KJ Fisher, KL Newman… - Nature, 2006 - nature.com
Malaria is a global health problem that threatens 300–500 million people and kills more than
one million people annually. Disease control is hampered by the occurrence of multi-drug …

Attitudes toward a potential SARS-CoV-2 vaccine: a survey of US adults

KA Fisher, SJ Bloomstone, J Walder… - Annals of internal …, 2020 - acpjournals.org
Background: Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) has rapidly instigated a global
pandemic. Vaccine development is proceeding at an unprecedented pace. Once available …

Mortality, in-hospital morbidity, care practices, and 2-year outcomes for extremely preterm infants in the US, 2013-2018

EF Bell, SR Hintz, NI Hansen, CM Bann, MH Wyckoff… - Jama, 2022 - jamanetwork.com
Importance Despite improvement during recent decades, extremely preterm infants continue
to contribute disproportionately to neonatal mortality and childhood morbidity. Objective To …

Measurements of the meson-photon transition form factors of light pseudoscalar mesons at large momentum transfer

J Gronberg, TS Hill, R Kutschke, DJ Lange, S Menary… - Physical Review D, 1998 - APS
Using the CLEO II detector, we have measured the differential cross sections for exclusive
two-photon production of light pseudoscalar mesons π 0, η, and η′. From our …

Tai Chi and fall reductions in older adults: a randomized controlled trial

F Li, P Harmer, KJ Fisher, E McAuley… - The Journals of …, 2005 - academic.oup.com
Background. The authors' objective was to evaluate the efficacy of a 6-month Tai Chi
intervention for decreasing the number of falls and the risk for falling in older persons …

Recombinant adeno-associated virus for muscle directed gene therapy

KJ Fisher, K Jooss, J Alston, Y Yang, SE Haecker… - Nature medicine, 1997 - nature.com
Although gene transfer with adeno-associated virus (AAV) vectors has typically been low,
transduction can be enhanced in the presence of adenovirus gene products through the …