Professor, Pathology, University of Alabama School of Medicine
Pathology
Dr. Moon H. Nahm, MD
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Moon H. Nahm, MD practices Pathology. He attended Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. Moon H. Nahm, MD is also a published physician. He has 101 paper published. The most recent paper is: Genetic, Biochemical, and Serological Characterization of a New Pneumococcal Serotype, 6H, and Generation of a Pneumococcal Strain Producing Three Different Capsular R...
Publications
- Genetic, Biochemical, and Serological Characterization of a New Pneumococcal Serotype, 6H, and Generation of a Pneumococcal Strain Producing Three Different Capsular R...
- Commercially available complement component-depleted sera are unexpectedly codepleted of ficolin-2.
- Low invasiveness of pneumococcal serotype 11A is linked to ficolin-2 recognition of O-acetylated capsule epitopes and lectin complement pathway activation.
- Spectrum of Pneumococcal Serotype 11A Variants Results from Incomplete Loss of Capsule O-Acetylation.
- Diagnosis of Pneumococcal Pneumonia: Current Pitfalls and the Way Forward.
- Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 6C presenting as recurrent prosthetic knee joint infection in a patient with a history of congenital asplenia and underlying autoimmu...
- Blood collection tubes influence serum ficolin-1 and ficolin-2 levels.
- Discovery of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 6 variants with glycosyltransferases synthesizing two differing repeating units.
- Evolution of the capsular gene locus of Streptococcus pneumoniae serogroup 6.
- Clinical implications of pneumococcal serotypes: invasive disease potential, clinical presentations, and antibiotic resistance.
- PspK of Streptococcus pneumoniae increases adherence to epithelial cells and enhances nasopharyngeal colonization.
- Impaired function of antibodies to pneumococcal surface protein a but not to capsular polysaccharide in mexican american adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus.
- Novel Pneumococcal Serotypes 6C and 6D: Anomaly or Harbinger.
- Device for carrying blood samples at 37{degrees}C for cryoglobulin test.
- Biochemical, genetic and serological characterization of two capsule subtypes among streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 20 strains: discovery of a new pneumococcal serot...
- Long-term comparative immunogenicity of protein conjugate and free polysaccharide pneumococcal vaccines in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- The 13-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine (PCV13) elicits cross-functional opsonophagocytic killing responses in humans to Streptococcus pneumoniae serotypes 6C and...
- Type distribution of serogroup 6 Streptococcus pneumoniae and molecular epidemiology of newly identified serotypes 6C and 6D in China.
- Pneumococcal glycoconjugate vaccines produce antibody responses that strongly correlate with function.
- Pneumococcal serotypes causing pneumonia with pleural effusion in pediatric patients.
- Nasopharyngeal pneumococcal carriage of children attending day care centers in Korea: comparison between children immunized with 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccin...
- Multilaboratory comparison of Streptococcus pneumoniae opsonophagocytic killing assays and their level of agreement for the determination of functional antibody activi...
- Opsonophagocytic activity following a reduced dose 7-valent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine infant primary series and 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine at 1...
- Older adults have a low capacity to opsonize pneumococci due to low IgM antibody response to pneumococcal vaccinations.
- A report of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 6D in Europe.
- Differential circulation of Streptococcus pneumoniae serotype 6C clones in two Israeli pediatric populations.
- Influence of asthma status on serotype-specific pneumococcal antibody levels.
- Non-typeable Streptococcus pneumoniae carriage isolates genetically similar to invasive and carriage isolates expressing capsular type 14 in Brazilian infants.
- Cross-reactivity of current serogroup 6 factor sera from Statens Serum Institut with the recently described pneumococcal serotype 6d.
- Low-cost, high-throughput, automated counting of bacterial colonies.
- Heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine immunogenicity in very-low-birth-weight, premature infants.
- A new pneumococcal serotype, 11E, has a variably inactivated wcjE gene.
- The effect of age on the response to the pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine.
- Identification of natural pneumococcal isolates expressing serotype 6D by genetic, biochemical and serological characterization.
- Survey of nonsusceptible nasopharyngeal Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates in children attending day-care centers in Brazil.
- Synthesis, conjugation, and immunological evaluation of the serogroup 6 pneumococcal oligosaccharides.
- Identification of 3-O-acetylglycerol, a novel structural element in bacterial polysaccharides.
- Superior immune response to protein-conjugate versus free pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
- Lipoprotein lipase and hydrofluoric acid deactivate both bacterial lipoproteins and lipoteichoic acids, but platelet-activating factor-acetylhydrolase degrades only li...
- Identification of a simple chemical structure associated with protective human antibodies against multiple pneumococcal serogroups.
- Rarely occurring 19A-like cps locus from a serotype 19F pneumococcal isolate indicates continued need of serology-based quality control for PCR-based serotype determin...
- "Dodgy 6As": differentiating pneumococcal serotype 6C from 6A by use of the Quellung reaction.
- Challenges in the evaluation and licensing of new pneumococcal vaccines, 7-8 July 2008, Ottawa, Canada.
- Structure of the capsular polysaccharide of pneumococcal serotype 11A reveals a novel acetylglycerol that is the structural basis for 11A subtypes.
- Immune response in infants to the heptavalent pneumococcal conjugate vaccine against vaccine-related serotypes 6A and 19A.
- PCR-based quantitation and clonal diversity of the current prevalent invasive serogroup 6 pneumococcal serotype, 6C, in the United States in 1999 and 2006 to 2007.
- Production of a unique pneumococcal capsule serotype belonging to serogroup 6.
- Increase in the prevalence of the newly discovered pneumococcal serotype 6C in the nasopharynx after introduction of pneumococcal conjugate vaccine.
- Antibody to the type 3 capsule facilitates immune adherence of pneumococci to erythrocytes and augments their transfer to macrophages.
- Differential effects of pneumococcal vaccines against serotypes 6A and 6C.
- Pneumococcal vaccination in older adults induces antibodies with low opsonic capacity and reduced antibody potency.
- Initial and subsequent response to pneumococcal polysaccharide and protein-conjugate vaccines administered sequentially to adults who have recovered from pneumococcal ...
- Revaccination of adults with spinal cord injury using the 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine.
- A new model of pneumococcal lipoteichoic acid structure resolves biochemical, biosynthetic, and serologic inconsistencies of the current model.
- A four-parameter logistic model for estimating titers of functional multiplexed pneumococcal opsonophagocytic killing assay.
- Pneumococcal vaccination for patients with COPD: current practice and future directions.
- A rapid pneumococcal serotyping system based on monoclonal antibodies and PCR.
- Low prevalence of recently discovered pneumococcal serotype 6C isolates among healthy Dutch children in the pre-vaccination era.
- Lipoteichoic acid is important in innate immune responses to gram-positive bacteria.
- Genetic basis for the new pneumococcal serotype, 6C.
- Guidelines for assessing immunocompetency in clinical trials for autoimmune diseases.
- Immunogenicity of varying dosages of 7-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide-protein conjugate vaccine in seniors previously vaccinated with 23-valent pneumococcal polysa...
- Discovery of a new capsular serotype (6C) within serogroup 6 of Streptococcus pneumoniae.
- Development and validation of a fourfold multiplexed opsonization assay (MOPA4) for pneumococcal antibodies.
- Platelet-activating factor-acetylhydrolase can monodeacylate and inactivate lipoteichoic acid.
- Use of opsonophagocytosis for serological evaluation of pneumococcal vaccines.
- Validation of a multiplex pneumococcal serotyping assay with clinical samples.
- Lipoteichoic acid-induced nitric oxide production depends on the activation of platelet-activating factor receptor and Jak2.
- Anti-idiotypic antibody as a potential candidate vaccine for Neisseria meningitidis serogroup B.
- Simplified method to automatically count bacterial colony forming unit.
- Safety of varying dosages of 7-valent pneumococcal protein conjugate vaccine in seniors previously vaccinated with 23-valent pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine.
- Monoacyl lipoteichoic acid from pneumococci stimulates human cells but not mouse cells.
- Use of HL-60 cell line to measure opsonic capacity of pneumococcal antibodies.
- Rapid multiplex assay for serotyping pneumococci with monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies.
- A new murine model of humoral immuno-deficiency specifically affects class switching to T-independent antigens.
- Development of experimental carbohydrate-conjugate vaccines composed of Streptococcus pneumoniae capsular polysaccharides and the universal helper T-lymphocyte epitope...
- Multilaboratory evaluation of a viability assay for measurement of opsonophagocytic antibodies specific to the capsular polysaccharides of Streptococcus pneumoniae.
- Pneumococcal lipoteichoic acid (LTA) is not as potent as staphylococcal LTA in stimulating Toll-like receptor 2.
- Peptide mimotopes as prototypic templates of broad-spectrum surrogates of carbohydrate antigens.
- Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay for quantitation of human antibodies to pneumococcal polysaccharides.
- Efficiency of a pneumococcal opsonophagocytic killing assay improved by multiplexing and by coloring colonies.
- The influence of maternal immunization on light chain response to Haemophilus influenzae type b vaccine.
- Central role of complement in passive protection by human IgG1 and IgG2 anti-pneumococcal antibodies in mice.
- Genetic relatedness of levofloxacin-nonsusceptible Streptococcus pneumoniae isolates from North America.
- Immunogenic protein contaminants in pneumococcal vaccines.
- Peptide mimotopes of pneumococcal capsular polysaccharide of 6B serotype: a peptide mimotope can bind to two unrelated antibodies.
- Type III group B streptococcal polysaccharide induces antibodies that cross-react with Streptococcus pneumoniae type 14.
- Maternal immunization with pneumococcal polysaccharide vaccine in the third trimester of gestation.
- Chromogenic assay measuring opsonophagocytic killing capacities of antipneumococcal antisera.
- Monoclonal antibodies specific for Neisseria meningitidis group B polysaccharide and their peptide mimotopes.
- Avidity, potency, and cross-reactivity of monoclonal antibodies to pneumococcal capsular polysaccharide serotype 6B.
- Immunization of humans with recombinant pneumococcal surface protein A (rPspA) elicits antibodies that passively protect mice from fatal infection with Streptococcus p...
- Peptide mimic of phosphorylcholine, a dominant epitope found on Streptococcus pneumoniae.
- An analytical model applied to a multicenter pneumococcal enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay study.
- Development of a multi-specificity opsonophagocytic killing assay.
- A latex bead-based flow cytometric immunoassay capable of simultaneous typing of multiple pneumococcal serotypes (Multibead assay).
- Ablation of tumor necrosis factor receptor type I (p55) alters oxygen-induced lung injury.
- Acquired, but not innate, immune responses to Streptococcus pneumoniae are compromised by neutralization of CD40L.
- Immunity to cross-reactive serotypes induced by pneumococcal conjugate vaccines in infants.
- Pneumococcal capsular polysaccharide preparations may contain non-C-polysaccharide contaminants that are immunogenic.
Schools
Washington University In St Louis School Of Medicine
Barnes Jewish Hospital
Barnes Jewish Hospital S Campus
Doctors Specialties
- Anatomic Pathology
- Pathology
Accepted Insurances
- Choice Plus POS
- Navigate HMO
- Navigate POS
- Options PPO
Education
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Washington University - Barnes-Jewish Hospital -
Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis
Hospital
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University of Alabama Hospital -
Birmingham Veterans Affairs Medical Center
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