Diane McMahon-Pratt PhD
Professor of Epidemiology (Microbial Diseases)
Departments & Organizations
Biological and Biomedical Sciences (BBS): Microbiology
Global Health Initiative: Infectious Diseases
School of Public Health: Epidemiology of Microbial Diseases | Global Health | Parasitology Program
Skin Diseases Research Center, Yale
Liver Center
Research Interests
Immune Response to Infectious Disease; immunotherapy; vaccine more...
Education
- B.S., University of Southern California, 1969
- Ph.D., Harvard University, 1978
Selected Publications
- Jayakumar, A., Park, E., Castilho, T., Goldsmith-Pestana, K., Blackwell, J. and McMahon-Pratt, D. 2010. The TLR1/2 agonist Pam3CSK4 enhances specific CD8+ responses in heterologous prime-boost vaccination and provides protection against chronic Leishmania (Viannia) panamensis infection. PLoS Negl Trop Dis. 2011 Jun;5(6):e1204. doi: 10.1371/journal.pntd.0001204.
- Castilho, T., Goldsmith-Pestana, K., Lozano, C., Valderrama, L., Saravia, N.G. and McMahon Pratt, D. 2010. Murine Model of Chronic L. (Viannia) panamensis Infection: Role of IL-13 in Disease. Eur. J. Immunol., 40(10):2816-29.
- McMahon-Pratt, D. and Alexander, J. (2004). Does the Leishmania major paradigm of pathogenesis and protection hold for New World Cutaneous Leishmaniases or the visceral disease? Immunological Rev. 201:206-224.
