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David Briles

Professor University of Alabama at Birmingham
Verified email at uab.edu
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Pneumococcal diversity: considerations for new vaccine strategies with emphasis on pneumococcal surface protein A (PspA)

DE Briles, RC Tart, E Swiatlo, JP Dillard… - Clinical microbiology …, 1998 - Am Soc Microbiol
… McDaniel LS and Briles DE Monoclonal antibodies against surface components of Streptococcus
pneumoniae Monoclonal antibodies against bacteria. Macario AJL and de Macario EC …

The potential for using protein vaccines to protect against otitis media caused by Streptococcus pneumoniae

DE Briles, SK Hollingshead, GS Nabors, JC Paton… - Vaccine, 2000 - Elsevier
… Author links open overlay panel David E Briles a b , Susan K Hollingshead a , Gary S …
better protection, however, than either protein by itself (Briles et al., manuscript in preparation). …

Pneumococcal vaccines

DE Briles, JC Paton, R Mukerji, E Swiatlo… - Microbiology …, 2019 - Am Soc Microbiol
Streptococcus pneumoniae is a Gram-Positive pathogen that is a major causative agent of
pneumonia, otitis media, sepsis and meningitis across the world. The World Health …

Antiphosphocholine antibodies found in normal mouse serum are protective against intravenous infection with type 3 streptococcus pneumoniae.

DE Briles, M Nahm, K Schroer, J Davie… - The Journal of …, 1981 - rupress.org
… Naturally occurring anti-PC antibodies are commonly found in sera of mouse strains (35)
other than CBA/N and are easily demonstrable in normal human sera (DE Briles and C. Forman…

Reduced virulence of a defined pneumolysin-negative mutant of Streptococcus pneumoniae

AM Berry, J Yother, DE Briles, D Hansman… - Infection and …, 1989 - Am Soc Microbiol
Insertion-duplication mutagenesis was used to construct a pneumolysin-negative derivative
of Streptococcus pneumoniae. This was achieved by first transforming the nonencapsulated …

Subclass restriction of murine anti-carbohydrate antibodies

RM Perlmutter, D Hansburg, DE Briles… - The Journal of …, 1978 - journals.aai.org
… Production of IgG1 and IgG2a anti-D-alanine antibodies by x-irradiated mice repopulated
with … A critical study of the IgG subclasses of Rh anti-D antibodies formed in pregnancy and in …

Pneumococcal Surface Protein A Inhibits Complement Activation by Streptococcus pneumoniae

AHT Tu, RL Fulgham, MA McCrory, DE Briles… - Infection and …, 1999 - Am Soc Microbiol
Pneumococcal surface protein A (PspA) is a surface-exposed protein virulence factor for
Streptococcus pneumoniae. In this study, no significant depletion of serum complement was …

Diversity of PspA: Mosaic Genes and Evidence for Past Recombination in Streptococcus pneumoniae

SK Hollingshead, R Becker, DE Briles - Infection and immunity, 2000 - Am Soc Microbiol
… recent clinical isolates of pneumococci of all capsular serotypes, a finding which argues that
they are not recent acquisitions from another streptococcal species (Hollingshead and Briles

Pneumococcal surface protein A (PspA) is serologically highly variable and is expressed by all clinically important capsular serotypes of Streptococcus pneumoniae

…, LS McDaniel, BM Gray, DE Briles - Infection and …, 1990 - Am Soc Microbiol
… Yother and DE Briles, unpublished data), and none of the monoclonal antibodies reacted
with components of the mutant bacterial lysate. Each monoclonal antibody, however, detected …

Anti-phosphorylcholine antibodies of the T15 idiotype are optimally protective against Streptococcus pneumoniae.

DE Briles, C Forman, S Hudak, JL Claflin - The Journal of experimental …, 1982 - rupress.org
In the mouse, most anti-PC antibody is found in one of the three murine anti-PC idiotype
families: T15, M603, or M511. The antibodies within each of these idiotypic families have …