Selected Publications

Plunkard, J., Mulka, K., Zhou, R., Tarwater, P., Zhong, W., Lowman, M., Wong, A., Pekosz, A., Villano, J.: SARS-CoV-2 Variant Pathogenesis Following Primary Infection and Reinfection in Syrian Hamsters. mBio 14(2): e0007823, 2023.

Creisher, P. S., Perry, J. L., Zhong, W., Lei, J., Mulka, K. R., Ryan, H., Zhou, R., Akin, E. H., Liu, A., Mitzner, W., Burd, I., Pekosz, A., Klein, S. L.: Adverse outcomes in SARS-CoV-2 infected pregnant mice are gestational age-dependent and resolve with antiviral treatment. bioRxiv 2023.

Ruiz-Bedoya, C. A., Mota, F., Ordonez, A. A., Foss, C. A., Singh, A. K., Praharaj, M., Mahmud, F. J., Ghayoor, A., Flavahan, K., De Jesus, P., Bahr, M., Dhakal, S., Zhou, R., Solis, C. V., Mulka, K. R., Bishai, W. R., Pekosz, A., Mankowski, J. L., Villano, J., Klein, S. L., Jain, S. K.: (124)I-Iodo-DPA-713 Positron Emission Tomography in a Hamster Model of SARS-CoV-2 Infection. Molecular Imaging and Biology 24(1): 135-143, 2022.

Braxton, A. M., Creisher, P. S., Ruiz-Bedoya, C. A., Mulka, K. R., Dhakal, S., Ordonez, A. A., Beck, S. E., Jain, S. K., Villano, J. S.: Hamsters as a model of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus-2. Comparative Medicine 71(5): 398-410, 2021.

Mulka, K. R., Beck, S. E., Solis, C. V., Johanson, A. L., Queen, S. E., McCarron, M. E., Richardson, M. R., Zhou, R., Marinho, P., Jedlicka, A., Guerrero-Martin, S., Shirk, E. N., Braxton, A. M., Brockhurst, J., Creisher, P. S., Dhakal, S., Brayton, C. F., Veenhuis, R. T., Metcalf Pate, K. A., Karakousis, P. C., Zahnow, C. A., Klein, S. L., Jain, S. K., Tarwater, P. M., Pekosz, A. S., Villano, J. S., Mankowski, J. L.: Progression and resolution of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) infection in golden Syrian hamsters. American Journal of Pathology 192(2): 195-207, 2022.

Jiang, L., Driedonks, T. A. P., Jong, W. S. P., Dhakal, S., Bart van den Berg van Saparoea, H., Sitaras, I., Zhou, R., Caputo, C., Littlefield, K., Lowman, M., Chen, M., Lima, G., Gololobova, O., Smith, B., Mahairaki, V., Riley Richardson, M., Mulka, K. R., Lane, A. P., Klein, S. L., Pekosz, A., Brayton, C., Mankowski, J. L., Luirink, J., Villano, J. S., Witwer, K. W.: A bacterial extracellular vesicle-based intranasal vaccine against SARS-CoV-2 protects against disease and elicits neutralizing antibodies to wild-type and Delta variants. J Extracell Vesicles 11(3): e12192, 2022.

Dhakal, S., Loube, J., Misplon, J. A., Lo, C. Y., Creisher, P. S., Mulka, K. R., Deshpande, S., Mitzner, W., Klein, S. L., Epstein, S. L.: Effect of an adenovirus-vectored universal influenza virus vaccine on pulmonary pathophysiology in a mouse model. Journal of Virology 95(9), 2021.

Vom Steeg, L. G., Dhakal, S., Woldetsadik, Y. A., Park, H. S., Mulka, K. R., Reilly, E. C., Topham, D. J., Klein, S. L.: Androgen receptor signaling in the lungs mitigates inflammation and improves the outcome of influenza in mice. PLoS Pathogens 16(7): e1008506, 2020.

Zhao, Z., Muth, D. C., Mulka, K., Liao, Z., Powell, B. H., Hancock, G. V., Metcalf Pate, K. A., Witwer, K. W.: miRNA profiling of primate cervicovaginal lavage and extracellular vesicles reveals miR-186-5p as a potential antiretroviral factor in macrophages. FEBS Open Bio 10(10): 2021-2039, 2020.

Oei, A. L., Korangath, P., Mulka, K., Helenius, M., Coulter, J. B., Stewart, J., Velarde, E., Crezee, J., Simons, B., Stalpers, L. J. A., Kok, H. P., Gabrielson, K., Franken, N. A. P., Ivkov, R.: Enhancing the abscopal effect of radiation and immune checkpoint inhibitor therapies with magnetic nanoparticle hyperthermia in a model of metastatic breast cancer. International Journal of Hyperthermia 36(sup1): 47-63, 2019.

Collins, D. E., Mulka, K. R., Hoenerhoff, M. J., Taichman, R. S., Villano, J. S.: Clinical assessment of urinary tract damage during sustained-release estrogen supplementation in mice. Comparative Medicine 67(1): 11-21, 2017.