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Jessica McCann

Jessica McCann

Research Associate, Senior
Molecular Genetics and Microbiology
jessica.mccann@duke.edu
340 CARL Bldg, Box 3551, Durham, NC 27710

Selected Publications

Essential Amino Acid Metabolites as Chemical Mediators of Host-Microbe Interaction in the Gut.

Journal Article Annu Rev Microbiol · September 15, 2023 Amino acids are indispensable substrates for protein synthesis in all organisms and incorporated into diverse aspects of metabolic physiology and signaling. However, animals lack the ability to synthesize several of them and must acquire these essential am ... Full text Link to item Cite

Early-Life Intranasal Colonization with Nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae Exacerbates Juvenile Airway Disease in Mice.

Journal Article Infect Immun · July 2016 Accumulating evidence suggests a connection between asthma development and colonization with nontypeable Haemophilus influenzae (NTHi). Specifically, nasopharyngeal colonization of human infants with NTHi within 4 weeks of birth is associated with an incre ... Full text Link to item Cite