This page highlights recent peer-reviewed publications authored by members of the CURE-KY community. All featured work relates to infectious disease research, spanning topics such as pathogenesis, diagnostics, epidemiology, antimicrobial resistance, public health, and translational science. Publications are added monthly to reflect the continued scholarly output of our network. Each entry includes citation details and a direct link to the full article when available.

Whether you're exploring current work in the field, looking for collaborators, or tracking ongoing research trends, this page offers a central view of the scientific contributions advancing CURE-KY’s mission.

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Sahoo BR, Deng X, Wong EL, Clark N, Yang HJ, Kovalenko A, Subramanian V, Guzman BB, Harris SE, Dehury B, Miyashita E, Damon Hoff J, Kocman V, Saito H, Dominguez D, Plavec J, Bardwell JCA. Visualization of liquid-liquid phase transitions using a tiny G-quadruplex binding protein. Nat Commun. 2025;16(1):8578. Epub 2025/09/30. doi: 10.1038/s41467-025-63597-7. PubMed PMID: 41022793; PMCID: PMC12480911.

Galué J, de Souza WM, Torres-Cosme R, Lezcano-Coba C, Tesh RB, Guzman H, Weaver SC, Capitan-Barrios Z, Valderrama A, Samudio R, Vittor AY, Vasilakis N, Carrera LC, Donnelly CA, Faria NR, Carrera JP. Contrasting Ecological Patterns of Venezuelan Equine Encephalitis and Madariaga Viruses in Small Mammal and Mosquito Populations from Two Enzootic Regions of Panama.Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2025;:0. Epub 2025/09/30. doi: 10.1177/15303667251383703. PubMed PMID: 41022530.

Al Musawa M, Kunz Coyne AJ, Alosaimy S, Lucas K, Schrack MR, Andrade J, Herbin SR, Biagi M, Pierce M, Molina KC, DeKerlegand A, Perkins NB, Cosimi R, Kang-Birken L, King MA, Pullinger BM, Rojas LM, Bouchard J, Hobbs ALV, Agee J, Caniff KE, Van Helden SR, Veve MP, Rybak MJ. Correction: Clinical Outcomes of Eravacycline in Patients Treated for Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Infections. Infect Dis Ther. 2025;14(11):2637-2638. Epub 2025/09/29. doi: 10.1007/s40121-025-01242-y. PubMed PMID: 41021192; PMCID: PMC12511469.

Mansoor AE, Krishnan G, Zuniga-Moya JC, Papadopoulus B, Spec A, George I. Comparative Outcomes Following Candida Bloodstream Infection in Patients With Left Ventricular Assist Devices. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2025;12(9):ofaf504. Epub 2025/09/29. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaf504. PubMed PMID: 41018708; PMCID: PMC12461839.

Angwin CJ, de Assis Rocha I, Reed SM, Morrow JK, Graves A, Howe DK. Analysis of IgG responses to Sarcocystis neurona in horses with equine protozoal myeloencephalitis (EPM) suggests a Th1-biased immune response.Vet Immunol Immunopathol. 2025;289:111009. Epub 2025/09/29. doi: 10.1016/j.vetimm.2025.111009. PubMed PMID: 41016329.

Markaryan A, Gellibolian R, Miller CS, Ebersole JL, Kantarci A. Comment on Aji et al. aMMP-8 POCT vs. Other Potential Biomarkers in Chair-Side Diagnostics and Treatment Monitoring of Severe Periodontitis. Int. J. Mol. Sci. 2024, 25, 9421. Int J Mol Sci. 2025;26(18). Epub 2025/09/27. doi: 10.3390/ijms26189072. PubMed PMID: 41009636; PMCID: PMC12469915.

Kandimalla R, Aqil F, Alhakeem SS, Jeyabalan J, Tyagi N, Agrawal A, Yan J, Spencer W, Bondada S, Gupta RC. Correction: Kandimalla et al. Targeted Oral Delivery of Paclitaxel Using Colostrum-Derived Exosomes. Cancers 2021, 13, 3700. Cancers (Basel). 2025;17(18). Epub 2025/09/27. doi: 10.3390/cancers17182955. PubMed PMID: 41008936; PMCID: PMC12469105.

Lancaster KE, Koudelka CW, Elman MR, Enderle MN, Bielavitz S, Estadt AT, Cook RR, Korthuis PT, Young AM. Preferences for clinical trial participation among people who use drugs in rural Oregon and Appalachian Ohio.Drug Alcohol Depend. 2025;276:112894. Epub 2025/09/27. doi: 10.1016/j.drugalcdep.2025.112894. PubMed PMID: 41005181.

Nguyen P, Hawk C, Wolf K, Fields KA. Evidence for a post-invasion role of the Chlamydia trachomatis type III secreted effector TmeA in redirection of host plasma membrane-derived material. mBio. 2025;:e0199325. Epub 2025/09/25. doi: 10.1128/mbio.01993-25. PubMed PMID: 40996286.

El-Dalati S, Collis B, Hall E, Alnabelsi T, Cao C, Johnson M, Gurley J, Strnad L, Reda H, Sekela M, Mansoor AR, Olafsson D, Harris W, Stoner BJ. Antibiotic treatment duration for isolated methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus native tricuspid valve endocarditis: a standardized multidisciplinary approach. JAC Antimicrob Resist. 2025;7(5):dlaf171. Epub 2025/09/24. doi: 10.1093/jacamr/dlaf171. PubMed PMID: 40989898; PMCID: PMC12452267.

Truong D, Mayer KP, Berry MJ, Beach LJ, Abo S, Mathur S, Granger CL, Parry SM, Morris PE. The Short Physical Performance Battery is a valid tool in survivors of critical illness: international clinimetric secondary analysis. Disabil Rehabil. 2025;:1-12. Epub 2025/09/23. doi: 10.1080/09638288.2025.2563768. PubMed PMID: 40985388.

Heim CJ, van den Hoogen BG, Dutch RE. Human metapneumovirus: understanding the molecular mechanisms and pathology of infection. J Virol. 2025;:e0028425. Epub 2025/09/22. doi: 10.1128/jvi.00284-25. PubMed PMID: 40981434.

Berclaz LH, Eicher G, Wieselquist G, Frimpong A, Mallare A, Lijek RS, Fields KA. Complete deletion of the Chlamydia muridarum putative cytotoxin locus reveals contributions during invasion in tissue culture and oviduct pathology during murine genital tract infection. Infect Immun. 2025;93(10):e0041925. Epub 2025/09/22. doi: 10.1128/iai.00419-25. PubMed PMID: 40980925; PMCID: PMC12519784.

Kunz Coyne AJ, Gray R, May E, Curry H, Slain N, Delcher C, Shin E. Molecular and pharmacodynamic insights into β-lactam therapy for high-inoculum Enterobacter cloacae complex infections.Antimicrob Agents Chemother. 2025;:e0117025. Epub 2025/09/22. doi: 10.1128/aac.01170-25. PubMed PMID: 40980907.

Veleeparambil M, Wang C, Kessler PM, Sengupta P, Das S, Chakravarti R, Willard B, Sen GC, Chattopadhyay S. TLR9 signaling requires ligand-induced phosphorylation of two specific tyrosine residues by EGFR and Syk. mBio. 2025;:e0027625. Epub 2025/09/22. doi: 10.1128/mbio.00276-25. PubMed PMID: 40980882.

González-Seguel F, Haezebrouck E, Fresenko LE, Sevin CM, Slone S, Montgomery-Yates A, Kalema AG, Ginoza L, Martinez C, Biehl M, Kelley SR, Johnson JK, Mart MF, Mayer KP. Community-Based Rehabilitation and Patient-Centered Outcomes in Survivors of Critical COVID-19 Attending an Intensive Care Recovery Clinic. Arch Rehabil Res Clin Transl. 2025;7(3):100484. Epub 2025/09/22. doi: 10.1016/j.arrct.2025.100484. PubMed PMID: 40980512; PMCID: PMC12447205.

de Lima STS, Claro IM, Hua X, de Jesus R, Serres K, Simões Mello LM, Forato J, Moreira FRR, Kato RB, Guimarães GN, Scachetti GC, Andrade PDS, Duarte LMF, de Lima MET, Ferraz CPM, Vianna MPN, Santiago RM, Braga ELR, Carneiro IS, Carlos L Firmino A, Cabral MG, Souza C, Mello LP, Li S, Sabino EC, Sallum MAM, Weaver SC, Faria NR, Romano CM, Dellicour S, Proenca-Modena JL, de Souza WM. Active West Nile virus transmission in Brazil: an epidemiological study. Lancet Reg Health Am. 2025;51:101229. Epub 2025/09/22. doi: 10.1016/j.lana.2025.101229. PubMed PMID: 40978564; PMCID: PMC12448031.

Johnson CN, Frank MW, Chaguza C, Morrow BT, Jia Q, Radka CD, Rosch JW. Mechanisms of 10-hydroxyoctadecanoic acid resistance in Streptococcus pneumoniae. J Bacteriol. 2025;:e0022325. Epub 2025/09/19. doi: 10.1128/jb.00223-25. PubMed PMID: 40970708.

Uprety T, Sreenivasan CC, Yu J, Zhao M, Liu R, Yu H, Naveed A, Eertink LG, Soni S, Ruby RE, Chen X, Kaushik RS, Sheng Z, Li Q, Wang D, Li F. Differential tissue tropism and transmission efficiency of two dominant influenza D clades with overlapping but distinct receptor binding fine specificities in ferrets. PLoS Pathog. 2025;21(9):e1013493. Epub 2025/09/15. doi: 10.1371/journal.ppat.1013493. PubMed PMID: 40953060; PMCID: PMC12435653.

White MS, Horikawa-Strakovsky A, Mayer KP, Noehren BW, Wen Y. Open-Source AI for Vastus Lateralis and Adipose Tissue Segmentation to Assess Muscle Size and Quality. Ultrasound Med Biol. 2025. Epub 2025/09/15. doi: 10.1016/j.ultrasmedbio.2025.08.008. PubMed PMID: 40947375; PMCID: PMC12453877.

Wagi CR, McDowell R, Wright A, Egan KL, Meade CS, Young AM, Enderle MN, Estadt AT, Lancaster KE. Navigating Hepatitis C care: Knowledge gaps and access barriers among young women who inject drugs in rural Appalachia. PLoS One. 2025;20(9):e0331849. Epub 2025/09/09. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0331849. PubMed PMID: 40924739; PMCID: PMC12419586.

Claro IM, Hua X, Viveros A, Moreira FRR, Proença-Módena JL, Plante KS, Weaver SC, de Souza WM. Genomic characterization of arboviruses discovered between the 1950s and 1980s. J Virol. 2025;:e0121425. Epub 2025/09/08. doi: 10.1128/jvi.01214-25. PubMed PMID: 40920035.

McGladrey ML, Lacy ME, McQuerry K, Hogg-Graham R, Slavova S, Clear ER, Heier K, Phan C, Hall M, Parker R, Keeton M, Sword J, Ard T, Salem C. Precision public health alliances as a model and method for community engagement. Front Public Health. 2025;13:1617776. Epub 2025/09/08. doi: 10.3389/fpubh.2025.1617776. PubMed PMID: 40917434; PMCID: PMC12408660.

Uprety T, Durazo J, Paul L, Metiner K, Ruby R, Loynachan A, Janes J, Kenndy L, Cassone L, Molly E, Quick M, Morgan J, Beyhan S, Erol E. Detection of Neorickettsia risticii in antemortem fecal and postmortem fetal samples, with genomic insights from complete genome sequencing of a strain recovered from an aborted equine fetus. Vet Microbiol. 2025;310:110705. Epub 2025/09/07. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2025.110705. PubMed PMID: 40913922.

Pujhari S, Heebner J, Raumann E, Zhong T, Rasgon JL, Swulius MT, Shaffer CL, Kaplan M. In situ architecture of the endosymbiont Wolbachia pipientis. bioRxiv. 2025. Epub 2025/09/05. doi: 10.1101/2025.08.29.673095. PubMed PMID: 40909553; PMCID: PMC12407924.

Kharouba M, Cook AM, Bastin MLT, Kutsogiannis DJ, Mahmoud SH. Levetiracetam Dosing Optimization in Neurocritical Care Population: Neuro-ARC Study. Neurocrit Care. 2025. Epub 2025/09/05. doi: 10.1007/s12028-025-02347-5. PubMed PMID: 40908416.

Nemoto M, Kawanishi N, Kamei R, Furusho K, Kawauchi K, Yabuuchi Y, Oue Y, Uchida Y, Nishiura H, Reedy SE, Chambers TM, Li F, Bannai H, Yamanaka T, Tsujimura K. Genetic and serological analyses of equine influenza viruses isolated in Kumamoto and Hokkaido, Japan in 2025. Vet Microbiol. 2025;310:110701. Epub 2025/09/03. doi: 10.1016/j.vetmic.2025.110701. PubMed PMID: 40902312.

Thomas NT, Brightwell CR, Owen AM, Keeble AR, Khadgi S, Wen Y, Fry CS, Murach KA. Satellite cells choreograph an immune cell-fibrogenic cell circuit during mechanical loading in geriatric skeletal muscle. PNAS Nexus. 2025;4(9):pgaf236. Epub 2025/09/03. doi: 10.1093/pnasnexus/pgaf236. PubMed PMID: 40901637; PMCID: PMC12400304.

Sangalli L, Manning E, Alessandri-Bonetti A, Mirfarsi S, Miller CS. Content Validity Assessment of a Virtual Patient-Based Learning Platform for TMD Education among Orofacial Pain Experts. J Dent Educ. 2025. Epub 2025/09/03. doi: 10.1002/jdd.70032. PubMed PMID: 40899021.

Kunz Coyne AJ, Lucas K, Gray R, May E. Propensity-Matched Comparison of Timely vs Delayed Antibiotic Therapy in Stenotrophomonas maltophilia Pneumonia. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2025;12(8):ofaf469. Epub 2025/09/02. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaf469. PubMed PMID: 40893419; PMCID: PMC12391758.

Dhameri S, Imam IA, Abbas U, Stallings J, Ewah O, Shao Q, Chwatko M. Tuning the Upper Critical Solution Temperature of the Polystyrene-Terpineol System toward a Low-Temperature Membrane Formation. ACS Omega. 2025;10(33):38112-38121. Epub 2025/09/02. doi: 10.1021/acsomega.5c05469. PubMed PMID: 40893228; PMCID: PMC12392018.

Simpson P, Wallace K, Olney K, Casaus D, Burgess DS, Schadler A, Leonhard A, VanHoose J. Short-course intravenous beta-lactams for uncomplicated cystitis in hospitalized patients. Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2025;5(1):e191. Epub 2025/09/02. doi: 10.1017/ash.2025.10101. PubMed PMID: 40893131; PMCID: PMC12394014.

Hall ME, Glasgow L, Holloway J, Chahine RA, Davis J, Harris MTH, Knudsen HK, Neufeld JL, Oga E, Lounsbury DW, Sabounchi N, Davis A, Smith M, Chase RP, Ellison SA, Harness J, Surratt HL, Walsh SL, Nakayima PJ, Chandler R. Reach of Community-Selected Strategies to Reduce Opioid-Related Overdose Deaths in the HEALing Communities Study. Subst Use Misuse. 2025;:1-9. Epub 2025/09/02. doi: 10.1080/10826084.2025.2549496. PubMed PMID: 40892527; PMCID: PMC12466881.

Huang K, Sekine KT, Li S, Xu H, Song D, Kachroo P, Kachroo A, Luan H. Comprehensive genomic characterization of the soybean G3PDH gene family and its role in virus resistance. BMC Plant Biol. 2025;25(1):1171. Epub 2025/09/01. doi: 10.1186/s12870-025-06579-7. PubMed PMID: 40890585.

Lathram WA, Radka CD. Intracellular survival of Staphylococcus aureus in macrophages during osteomyelitis. Virulence. 2025;16(1):2553789. Epub 2025/09/01. doi: 10.1080/21505594.2025.2553789. PubMed PMID: 40888369.