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Identification of Rickettsia felis DNA in the blood of domestic cats and dogs in the USA 

Hoque, Md Monirul; Barua, Subarna; Kelly, Patrick John; Kelly, Chenoweth; Kaltenboeck, Bernhard; Wang, Chengming; 0000-0003-3458-8212 (2021-05-29)
Background: The main vector and reservoir host of Rickettsia felis, an emerging human pathogen causing flea-borne spotted fever, is the cat flea Ctenocephalides felis. While cats have not been found to be infected with ...

Inadequate Reference Datasets Biased toward Short Non-epitopes Confound B-cell Epitope Prediction 

Rahman, Kh. Shamsur; Chowdhury, Erfan U.; Sachse, Konrad; Kaltenboeck, Bernhard; http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7243-8501 (2020-04-08)
X-ray crystallography has shown that an antibody paratope typically binds 15-22 amino acids (aa) of an epitope, of which 2-5 randomly distributed amino acids contribute most of the binding energy. In contrast, researchers ...