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Barratt, M.J., Nuzhat, S.., Ahsan, K, Frese, S.A., Arzamasov, A.A., Sarker, S.A., Islam, M.M., Palit, P., Islam, M.R., Hibberd, M.C., Nakshatri, S., Cowardin, C.A., Guruge, J.L., et al. (2022). Bifidobacterium Infantis Treatment Promotes Weight Gain in Bangladeshi Infants with Severe Acute Malnutrition. Sci Transl Med 2022, 14 (640), eabk1107.

Gehrig, J.L., Venkatesh, S., Chang, H.-W., Hibberd, M.C., Kung, V.L., Cheng, J., Chen, R.Y., Subramanian, S., Cowardin, C.A., Meier, M.F., et al. (2019). Effects of microbiota-directed foods in gnotobiotic animals and undernourished children. Science 365, eaau4732.

Frisbee, A.L., Saleh, M.M., Young, M.K., Leslie, J.L., Simpson, M.E., Abhyankar, M.M., Cowardin, C.A., Ma, J.Z., Pramoonjago, P., Turner, S.D., et al. (2019). IL-33 drives group 2 innate lymphoid cell-mediated protection during Clostridium difficile infection. Nat Commun 10, 2712.

Cowardin, C.A., Ahern, P.P., Kung, V.L., Hibberd, M.C., Cheng, J., Guruge, J.L., Sundaresan, V., Head, R.D., Barile, D., Mills, D.A., et al. (2019). Mechanisms by which sialylated milk oligosaccharides impact bone biology in a gnotobiotic mouse model of infant undernutrition. PNAS 116, 11988–11996.

Saleh, M.M., Frisbee, A.L., Leslie, J.L., Buonomo, E.L., Cowardin, C.A., Ma, J.Z., Simpson, M.E., Scully, K.W., Abhyankar, M.M., and Petri, W.A. (2019). Colitis-Induced Th17 Cells Increase the Risk for Severe Subsequent Clostridium difficile Infection. Cell Host & Microbe 25, 756-765.e5.

Noor, Z., Watanabe, K., Abhyankar, M.M., Burgess, S.L., Buonomo, E.L., Cowardin, C.A., and Petri, W.A. (2017). Role of Eosinophils and Tumor Necrosis Factor Alpha in Interleukin-25-Mediated Protection from Amebic Colitis. MBio 8, e02329-16.

Cowardin, C.A., Buonomo, E.L., Saleh, M.M., Wilson, M.G., Burgess, S.L., Kuehne, S.A., Schwan, C., Eichhoff, A.M., Koch-Nolte, F., Lyras, D., et al. (2016). The binary toxin CDT enhances Clostridium difficile virulence by suppressing protective colonic eosinophilia. Nature Microbiology 1, 16108.

Cowardin, C.A., Jackman, B.M., Noor, Z., Burgess, S.L., Feig, A.L., and Petri, W.A. (2016). Glucosylation Drives the Innate Inflammatory Response to Clostridium difficile Toxin A. Infection and Immunity 84, 2317–2323.

Bartelt, L.A., Bolick, D.T., Kolling, G.L., Roche, J.K., Zaenker, E.I., Lara, A.M., Noronha, F.J., Cowardin, C.A., Moore, J.H., Turner, J.R., et al. (2016). Cryptosporidium Priming Is More Effective than Vaccine for Protection against Cryptosporidiosis in a Murine Protein Malnutrition Model. PLOS Neglected Tropical Diseases 10, e0004820.

Burgess, S.L., Saleh, M., Cowardin, C.A., Buonomo, E., Noor, Z., Watanabe, K., Abhyankar, M., Lajoie, S., Wills-Karp, M., and Petri, W.A. (2016). Role of Serum Amyloid A, Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor, and Bone Marrow Granulocyte-Monocyte Precursor Expansion in Segmented Filamentous Bacterium-Mediated Protection from Entamoeba histolytica. Infection and Immunity 84, 2824–2832.

Buonomo, E.L., Cowardin, C.A., Wilson, M.G., Saleh, M.M., Pramoonjago, P., and Petri, W.A. (2016). Microbiota-Regulated IL-25 Increases Eosinophil Number to Provide Protection during Clostridium difficile Infection. Cell Reports 16, 432–443.

Cowardin, C.A., Kuehne, S.A., Buonomo, E.L., Marie, C.S., Minton, N.P., and Petri, W.A. (2015). Inflammasome Activation Contributes to Interleukin-23 Production in Response to Clostridium difficile. MBio 6, e02386-14.

Burgess, S.L., Buonomo, E., Carey, M., Cowardin, C.A., Naylor, C., Noor, Z., Wills-Karp, M., and Petri, W.A. (2014a). Bone Marrow Dendritic Cells from Mice with an Altered Microbiota Provide Interleukin 17A-Dependent Protection against Entamoeba histolytica Colitis. MBio 5, e01817-14.

Cowardin, C.A., and Petri, W.A. (2014). Host recognition of Clostridium difficile and the innate immune response. Anaerobe 30, 205–209.