Published and accepted articles in referred journals:  

Islam AK, Knight RJ, Mayer WA, Hollander AB, Patel SJ, Teeter LD, Graviss EA, Saharia A, Podder H, Asham EH, Gaber AO. Intermediate-term Outcomes of Dual Adult versus Single Kidney Transplantation: Evolution of a Surgical Technique. J Transplant. 2016;2016:2586761. doi:10.1155/2016/2586761.

Patel SJ, Suki WN, Loucks-DeVos J, Graviss EA, Nguyen DT, Knight RJ, Kuten SA, Moore LW, Teeter LD, Gaber LW, Gaber AO. Disparate rates of acute rejection and donor specific antibodies among high-immunologic risk renal transplant subgroups receiving antithymocyte globulin induction. Transpl Int. 2016 May 19. doi: 10.1111/tri.12791. [Epub ahead of print

Pagaoa MA, Royce RA, Chen MP, Golub JE, Davidow AL, Hirsch-Moverman Y, Marks SM, Teeter LD, Thickstun PM, Katz DJ; Tuberculosis Epidemiologic Studies Consortium. Risk factors for transmission of tuberculosis among United States-born African Americans and Whites. Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2015 Dec;19(12):1485-92. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.14.0965.

Deng Y, Li Y, Wang F, Gao D, Li L, Teeter LD, Graviss EA, Ma X. Tuberculosis prevention in healthcare workers in China 10 years after the severe acute respiratory syndrome pandemic. ERJ Open Research Aug 2015, 1 (1) DOI: 10.1183/23120541.00015-2015

Knight RJ, Teeter LD, Graviss EA, Patel SJ, DeVos JM, Moore LW, Gaber AO.  Barriers to Preemptive Renal Transplantation: A Single Center Questionnaire Study. Transplantation. 2015 Mar;99(3):576-9. doi: 10.1097/TP.0000000000000357.

 Devos JM, Gaber AO, Teeter LD, Graviss EA, Patel SJ, Land GA, Moore LW, Knight RJ. Intermediate-Term Graft Loss after Renal Transplantation is Associated with Both Donor-Specific Antibody and Acute Rejection.  Transplantation 2014;97: 534-540.

Pang J, Teeter LD, Katz DJ, Davidow AL, Miranda W, Wall K, Ghosh S, Stein-Hart T, Restrepo BI, Reves R, Graviss EA on behalf of the Tuberculosis Epidemiology Studies Consortium. Epidemiology of Tuberculosis in Young Children in the United States. Pediatrics. 2014 Mar;133(3):e494-504. doi: 10.1542/peds.2013-2570. Epub 2014 Feb 10.

Teeter LD, Ha NP, Ma X, Wenger J, Cronin WA, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

Evaluation of large genotypic Mycobacterium tuberculosis clusters: contributions from remote and recent transmission.

Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2013 Dec;93 Suppl:S38-46. doi:10.1016/S1472-9792(13)70009-X. PubMed PMID: 24388648.

Dorman SE, Belknap R, Graviss EA, Reves R, Schluger N, Weinfurter P, Wang Y, Cronin W, Hirsch-Moverman Y, Teeter LD, Parker M, Garrett DO, Daley CL; Tuberculosis Epidemiologic Studies Consortium.

Interferon-γ release assays and tuberculin skin testing for diagnosis of latent tuberculosis infection in healthcare workers in the United States.

Am J Respir Crit Care Med. 2014 Jan 1;189(1):77-87. doi: 10.1164/rccm.201302-0365OC. PubMed PMID: 24299555.

El Sahly HM, Teeter LD, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

Mycobacterium tuberculosis bacteraemia: experience from a non-endemic urban centre.

Clin Microbiol Infect. 2014 Mar;20(3):263-8. doi: 10.1111/1469-0691.12298. Epub 2013 Aug 24. PubMed PMID: 23980760.

Moonan PK, Teeter LD, Salcedo K, Ghosh S, Ahuja SD, Flood J, Graviss EA.

Transmission of multidrug-resistant tuberculosis in the USA: a cross-sectional study.

Lancet Infect Dis. 2013 Sep;13(9):777-84. doi:10.1016/S1473-3099(13)70128-2. Epub 2013 Jun 5. PubMed PMID: 23759447.

Feske ML, Teeter LD, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

Counting the homeless: a previously incalculable tuberculosis risk and its social determinants.

Am J Public Health. 2013 May;103(5):839-48. doi: 10.2105/AJPH.2012.300973. Epub 2013 Mar 14. PubMed PMID: 23488504.

Escalante P, McKean-Cowdin R, Ramaswamy SV, Williams-Bouyer N, Teeter LD, Jones BE, Graviss EA.

Can mycobacterial katG genetic changes in isoniazid-resistant tuberculosis influence human disease features?

Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2013 May;17(5):644-51. doi: 10.5588/ijtld.12.0380. Epub 2013 Mar 1. PubMed PMID: 23453008.

Marquez L, Feske ML, Teeter LD, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

Pediatric tuberculosis: the litmus test for tuberculosis control.

Pediatr Infect Dis J. 2012 Nov;31(11):1144-7. doi: 10.1097/INF.0b013e318266b6c4. PubMed PMID: 22760534; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3473168.

Feske ML, Teeter LD, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

Including the third dimension: a spatial analysis of TB cases in Houston Harris County. +Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2011 Dec;91 Suppl 1:S24-33. doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2011.10.006. Epub 2011 Nov 16. PubMed PMID: 22094150.

Feske ML, Teeter LD, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

Giving TB wheels: Public transportation as a risk factor for tuberculosis transmission.

Tuberculosis (Edinb). 2011 Dec;91 Suppl 1:S16-23. doi: 10.1016/j.tube.2011.10.005. Epub 2011 Nov 15. PubMed PMID: 22088323.

Kelly JD, Teeter LD, Graviss EA, Tweardy DJ.

Intracranial tuberculomas in adults: a report of twelve consecutive patients in Houston, Texas.

Scand J Infect Dis. 2011 Oct;43(10):785-91. doi: 10.3109/00365548.2011.586367. Epub 2011 Jun 22. PubMed PMID: 21696248.

El Sahly HM, Teeter LD, Jost KC Jr, Dunbar D, Lew J, Graviss EA.

Incidence of moxifloxacin resistance in clinical Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates in Houston, Texas.

J Clin Microbiol. 2011 Aug;49(8):2942-5. doi: 10.1128/JCM.00231-11. Epub 2011 Jun 8. PubMed PMID: 21653760; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC3147712.

Grimes CZ, Teeter LD, Hwang LY, Graviss EA.

Epidemiologic characterization of culture positive Mycobacterium tuberculosis patients by katG-gyrA principal genetic grouping.

J Mol Diagn. 2009 Sep;11(5):472-81. doi: 10.2353/jmoldx.2009.080171. Epub 2009 Jul 30. PubMed PMID: 19644021; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2729846.

Serpa JA, Teeter LD, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

Tuberculosis disparity between US-born blacks and whites, Houston, Texas, USA.

Emerg Infect Dis. 2009 Jun;15(6):899-904. doi: 10.3201/eid1506.081617. PubMed PMID: 19523288; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2727328.

El Sahly HM, Teeter LD, Pan X, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

Mortality associated with central nervous system tuberculosis.

J Infect. 2007 Dec;55(6):502-9. Epub 2007 Oct 17. PubMed PMID: 17920686; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2174908.

Moran A, Harbour DV, Teeter LD, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

Is alcohol use associated with cavitary disease in tuberculosis?

Alcohol Clin Exp Res. 2007 Jan;31(1):33-8. PubMed PMID: 17207099.

El Sahly HM, Teeter L, Zerai T, Andrade RA, Munoz C, Nnabuife C, Hunter R.

Serum creatinine changes in HIV-seropositive patients receiving tenofovir.

AIDS. 2006 Mar 21;20(5):786-7. PubMed PMID: 16514316.

Qiu L, Teeter LD, Liu Z, Ma X, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

Diagnostic associations between pleural and pulmonary tuberculosis.

J Infect. 2006 Dec;53(6):377-86. Epub 2006 Feb 7. PubMed PMID: 16466663.

El Sahly HM, Teeter LD, Pawlak RR, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

Drug-resistant tuberculosis: a disease of target populations in Houston, Texas.

J Infect. 2006 Jul;53(1):5-11. Epub 2005 Nov 28. PubMed PMID: 16310855.

Wootton SH, Gonzalez BE, Pawlak R, Teeter LD, Smith KC, Musser JM, Starke JR, Graviss EA.

Epidemiology of pediatric tuberculosis using traditional and molecular techniques: Houston, Texas.

Pediatrics. 2005 Nov;116(5):1141-7. PubMed PMID: 16264001.

Mixides G, Shende V, Teeter LD, Awe R, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

Number of negative acid-fast smears needed to adequately assess infectivity of patients with pulmonary tuberculosis.

Chest. 2005 Jul;128(1):108-15. PubMed PMID: 16002923.

Giordano TP, Soini H, Teeter LD, Adams GJ, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

Relating the size of molecularly defined clusters of tuberculosis to the duration of symptoms.

Clin Infect Dis. 2004 Jan 1;38(1):10-6. Epub 2003 Dec 5. PubMed PMID: 14679442.

Gonzalez OY, Adams G, Teeter LD, Bui TT, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

Extra-pulmonary manifestations in a large metropolitan area with a low incidence of tuberculosis.

Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2003 Dec;7(12):1178-85. PubMed PMID: 14677893.

Gonzalez OY, Teeter LD, Thanh BT, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

Extrathoracic tuberculosis lymphadenitis in adult HIV seronegative patients: a population-based analysis in Houston, Texas, USA.

Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2003 Oct;7(10):987-93. PubMed PMID: 14552570.

Ma X, Reich RA, Gonzalez O, Pan X, Fothergill AK, Starke JR, Teeter LD, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

No evidence for association between the polymorphism in the 3' untranslated region of interleukin-12B and human susceptibility to tuberculosis.

J Infect Dis. 2003 Oct 15;188(8):1116-8. Epub 2003 Sep 26. PubMed PMID: 14551880.

Ma X, Reich RA, Wright JA, Tooker HR, Teeter LD, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

Association between interleukin-8 gene alleles and human susceptibility to tuberculosis disease.

J Infect Dis. 2003 Aug 1;188(3):349-55. Epub 2003 Jul 10. PubMed PMID: 12870115.

Ma X, Dou S, Wright JA, Reich RA, Teeter LD, El Sahly HM, Awe RJ, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

5' dinucleotide repeat polymorphism of NRAMP1 and susceptibility to tuberculosis among Caucasian patients in Houston, Texas.

Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2002 Sep;6(9):818-23. PubMed PMID: 12234138.

Ma X, Wright J, Dou S, Olsen P, Teeter L, Adams G, Graviss E.

Ethnic divergence and linkage disequilibrium of novel SNPs in the human NLI-IF gene: evidence of human origin and lack of association with tuberculosis susceptibility.

J Hum Genet. 2002;47(3):140-5. PubMed PMID: 11950066.

De Bruyn G, Adams GJ, Teeter LD, Soini H, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

The contribution of ethnicity to Mycobacterium tuberculosis strain clustering.

Int J Tuberc Lung Dis. 2001 Jul;5(7):633-41. PubMed PMID: 11469256.

Soini H, Pan X, Teeter L, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

Transmission dynamics and molecular characterization of Mycobacterium tuberculosis isolates with low copy numbers of IS6110.

J Clin Microbiol. 2001 Jan;39(1):217-21. PubMed PMID: 11136774; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC87705.

El Sahly HM, Adams GJ, Soini H, Teeter L, Musser JM, Graviss EA.

Epidemiologic differences between United States- and foreign-born tuberculosis patients in Houston, Texas.

J Infect Dis. 2001 Feb 1;183(3):461-8. Epub 2000 Dec 27. PubMed PMID: 11133378.

Kimura O, Yamaguchi Y, Gunning KB, Teeter LD, Husain F, Kuo MT.

Retroviral delivery of DNA into the livers of transgenic mice bearing premalignant and malignant hepatocellular carcinomas.

Hum Gene Ther. 1994 Jul;5(7):845-52. PubMed PMID: 7981309.

Savaraj N, Lampidis TJ, Zhao JY, Wu CJ, Teeter LD, Kuo MT.

Two multidrug-resistant Friend leukemic cell lines selected with different drugs exhibit overproduction of different P-glycoproteins.

Cancer Invest. 1994;12(2):138-44. PubMed PMID: 7907527.

Teeter L, Hsu H, Curley S, Tong M, Kuo M.

Expression of multidrug resistance (p-glycoprotein) mdr1 and mdr2 genes in human hepatocellular carcinomas and liver metastases of colonic tumors.

Int J Oncol. 1993 Jan;2(1):73-80. PubMed PMID: 21573517.

Teeter LD, Estes M, Chan JY, Atassi H, Sell S, Becker FF, Kuo MT.

Activation of distinct multidrug-resistance (P-glycoprotein) genes during rat liver regeneration and hepatocarcinogenesis.

Mol Carcinog. 1993;8(2):67-73. PubMed PMID: 8104413.

Kuo MT, Zhao JY, Teeter LD, Ikeguchi M, Chisari FV.

Activation of multidrug resistance (P-glycoprotein) mdr3/mdr1a gene during the development of hepatocellular carcinoma in hepatitis B virus transgenic mice.

Cell Growth Differ. 1992 Aug;3(8):531-40. PubMed PMID: 1356418.

Dutt A, Priebe TS, Teeter LD, Kuo MT, Nelson JA.

Postnatal development of organic cation transport and mdr gene expression in mouse kidney.

J Pharmacol Exp Ther. 1992 Jun;261(3):1222-30. PubMed PMID: 1351097.

Ikeguchi M, Teeter LD, Eckersberg T, Ganapathi R, Kuo MT.

Structural and functional analyses of the promoter of the murine multidrug resistance gene mdr3/mdr1a reveal a negative element containing the AP-1 binding site.

DNA Cell Biol. 1991 Nov;10(9):639-49. PubMed PMID: 1684503.

Teeter LD, Eckersberg T, Tsai Y, Kuo MT.

Analysis of the Chinese hamster P-glycoprotein/multidrug resistance gene pgp1 reveals that the AP-1 site is essential for full promoter activity.

Cell Growth Differ. 1991 Sep;2(9):429-37. PubMed PMID: 1661134.

Teeter LD, Petersen DD, Nebert DW, Kuo MT.

Murine mdr-1, mdr-2, and mdr-3 gene expression: no coinduction with the Cyp1a-1 and Nmo-1 genes in liver by 2,3,7,8-tetrachlorodibenzo-p-dioxin.

DNA Cell Biol. 1991 Jul-Aug;10(6):433-41. PubMed PMID: 2069718.

Teeter LD, Chan JY, Kuo MT.

Coordinate activation of multidrug-resistance (P-glycoprotein) genes mdr2 and mdr3 during mouse liver regeneration.

Mol Carcinog. 1991;4(5):358-61. PubMed PMID: 1680339.

Ganapathi R, Kuo T, Teeter L, Grabowski D, Ford J.

Relationship between expression of P-glycoprotein and efficacy of trifluoperazine in multidrug-resistant cells.

Mol Pharmacol. 1991 Jan;39(1):1-8. PubMed PMID: 1670962.

Teeter LD, Becker FF, Chisari FV, Li DJ, Kuo MT.

Overexpression of the multidrug resistance gene mdr3 in spontaneous and chemically induced mouse hepatocellular carcinomas.

Mol Cell Biol. 1990 Nov;10(11):5728-35. PubMed PMID: 2122232; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC361344.

Sen S, Hittelman WN, Teeter LD, Kuo MT.

Model for the formation of double minutes from prematurely condensed chromosomes of replicating micronuclei in drug-treated Chinese hamster ovary cells undergoing DNA amplification.

Cancer Res. 1989 Dec 1;49(23):6731-7. PubMed PMID: 2819718.

Sen S, Teeter LD, Kuo T.

Specific gene amplification associated with consistent chromosomal abnormality in independently established multidrug-resistant Chinese hamster ovary cells.

Chromosoma. 1987;95(2):117-25. PubMed PMID: 3595311.

Teeter LD, Sanford JA, Sen S, Stallings RL, Siciliano MJ, Kuo MT.

Multidrug-resistant phenotype cosegregates with an amplified gene in somatic cell hybrids of drug-resistant Chinese hamster ovary cells and drug-sensitive murine cells.

Mol Cell Biol. 1986 Dec;6(12):4268-73. PubMed PMID: 3796603; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC367208.

Teeter LD, Atsumi S, Sen S, Kuo T.

DNA amplification in multidrug, cross-resistant Chinese hamster ovary cells: molecular characterization and cytogenetic localization of the amplified DNA.

J Cell Biol. 1986Oct;103(4):1159-66. PubMed PMID: 3771630; PubMed Central PMCID: PMC2114345.

Kuo MT, Sen S, Teeter L, Cailleau RM, Knesek JE, Bowen J.

Expression of endogenous murine leukemia virus in transplantable tumor cells and DNA methylation of the viral sequences.

Cancer Res. 1984 Aug;44(8):3518-21. PubMed PMID: 6331650.

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