Michel Ledizet
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2026
Establishment of a laboratory mouse model to study Borrelia miyamotoi infection and disease
Bockenstedt L, Belperron A, Mao J, Zeiss C, Barbour A, Ledizet M, Krause P, Dardick K. Establishment of a laboratory mouse model to study Borrelia miyamotoi infection and disease. Frontiers In Immunology 2026, 17: 1851617. PMID: 42367759, PMCID: PMC13303035, DOI: 10.3389/fimmu.2026.1851617.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchConceptsLaboratory mouse modelWT miceMice lacking BMouse model of infectionDisseminated Lyme diseasePerfusion fixationWild-typeModel of infectionAgent of Lyme diseasePeriod of bacteremiaResistance to reinfectionExtramedullary hematopoiesisSplenectomized miceT cellsGenomic analysisInflammatory infiltrateLyme diseaseMouse modelHuman pathogensInfection cycleAnimal modelsRelapsing fever spirochetesMiceInfectionMild pathology
2025
A Multivalent Peptide Vaccine Against Malaria, Targeting Plasmodium Circumsporozoite Protein and Mosquito AgTRIO
Chuang Y, Ledizet M, Mattessich M, Fikrig E. A Multivalent Peptide Vaccine Against Malaria, Targeting Plasmodium Circumsporozoite Protein and Mosquito AgTRIO. Journal Of Infectious Diseases 2025, 233: e496-e500. PMID: 40804022, PMCID: PMC12965381, DOI: 10.1093/infdis/jiaf432.Peer-Reviewed Original ResearchCircumsporozoite proteinPlasmodium circumsporozoite proteinPlasmodium falciparum circumsporozoite proteinRobust humoral responseOutbred CD-1 miceMosquito saliva proteinsCD-1 micePlasmodium berghei-infected mosquitoesMalaria vaccinePlasmodium infectionInbred C57BL/6Plasmodium sporozoitesHumoral responseImmune responsePlasmodiumControl animalsMalariaChimeric peptideInfected mosquitoesMiceSaliva proteinsPfCSPC57BL/6ProteinInfection