Larsen, Bryan, Piotrowski, Thomas, Hart, Benjamin, and Beach, Tyler

Candida albicans and Gardnerella vaginalis are two common infectious organisms of the female urogenital tract. Single agent boric acid (BA) topical preparations have been a treatment for resistant gynecologic Candida and...

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Larsen, Bryan and Piotrowski, Thomas

Persisters are a special group of quiescent and phenotypically unique cells in a given microbial population that survive antimicrobial insults or stresses but retain properties of the original population. Persisters have been...

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Larsen, Bryan, Ogunbekun, Oladipupo, Schlehuser, Betsy, and Lowery, Jonathan

Gardnerella vaginalis (GV) is associated with bacterial vaginosis (BV), a dysbiosis that predisposes to preterm labor and increased susceptibility to sexually transmitted infections. The potential role of cytokines elaborated...

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Larsen, Bryan, Wittman, Emma OMS-2, Yar, Neela, de Seta, Francesco, and Schaut, Dominic

Background: Farnesol is added to numerous consumer products that intentionally, or inadvertently come in contact with tissues that may harbor the opportunistic yeast, Candida albicans. Objective: This study explores biological...

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Larsen, Bryan, Ogunbekun, Oladipupo, Zahl, Sarah, Jackson, Krista, and Lowery, Jonathan

There is a lack of data regarding real and perceived barriers to research participation among osteopathic medical students (OMS’s). We have previously addressed this open question by surveying incoming first-year OMS1’s and...

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Larsen, Bryan and Schaut, Dominic

Candida albicans and Candida glabrata, are two clinically relevant strains of yeast. They make up a majority of commonly seen pathologies such as vaginal yeast infections, nosocomial infections, and infections of...

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Larsen, Bryan, Ogunbekun, Oladipupo, Loghmani, M. Terry, Thompson, William, Hum, Julia, Hiland, Taylor, Lowery, Jonathan, Mahoney, Aaron, and Anloague, Aric

Objecti ve: Soft tissue manual therapies are commonly utilized by osteopathic physicians, chiropractors, physical therapists and massage therapists. These techniques are predicated on subjecting tissues to biophysical...

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Larsen, Bryan, Yar, Neela, and Whitman, Emma OMS-2

This paper explores one of the underappreciated reasons for lack of efficacy in certain cases of antimicrobial therapy, namely the occurrence of a non-genetic resistance to antimicrobial drugs due to a metabolic quiescence of...

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Larsen, Bryan

In order to determine if loss of cell wall integrity contributes to boric acid toxicity towards wild type and drug resistant Candida organisms, yeast growth in osmoprotective-high-sorbitol medium was compared to growth...

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