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Fang-ting Liang
Assistant Professor
Laboratory:
Phone:
225-578-9699
Fax: 225-578-9701
fliang@vetmed.lsu.edu |
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Education
Ph.D. from University of Kentucky •
Postdoc training at Tulane University and Yale University
Research Interest
Lyme disease, the most common vector-borne illness in North America and
Europe, is a multisystem disorder that can result in arthritis,
nuerological abnormalities, carditis, and cutaneous lesions such as
erythema migrans and acrodermatitis chronica atrophicans. The etiologic
spirochete Borrelia burgdorferi causes persistent infection
despite the development of strong immune responses against the pathogen.
We are elucidating strategies B. burgdorferi uses to evade the
immune system and identifying bacterial factors that are responsible for
the induction of inflammatory pathology in murine models.
Selected Publications
Xu Q, Seemanapalli SV, Lomax L, McShan K, Li X, Fikrig E, and Liang FT. 2005. Association of linear plasmid 28-1 with an arthritic phenotype of Borrelia burgdorferi. Infect. Immun. 73: 7208-7215
Liang FT, Yan J, Mbow ML, Sviat SL, Gilmore RD, Mamula M, and Fikrig E. 2004. Borrelia burgdorferi changes its surface antigenic expression in response to host immune responses. Infect. Immun. 72: 5759-5767.
Liang FT, Brown EL, Wang T, Iozzo RV, and Fikrig E. 2004. Protective niche for Borrelia burgdorferi to resist humoral immunity. Am. J. Pathol. 165: 977-985.
Liang FT, Caimano MJ, Radolf JD, and Fikrig E. 2004. Borrelia burgdorferi outer surface protein B (ospB) expression independent of ospA. Microb. Pathog. 37: 35-40.
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