• Benzoic Acid-Inducible Gene Expression in Mycobacteria 

      Dragset, Marte Singsås; Barczak, Amy K.; Kannan, Nisha; Mærk, Mali; Flo, Trude Helen; Valla, Svein; Rubin, Eric J.; Steigedal, Magnus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)
      Conditional expression is a powerful tool to investigate the role of bacterial genes. Here, we adapt the Pseudomonas putida-derived positively regulated XylS/Pm expression system to control inducible gene expression in ...
    • Genetic Variation/Evolution and Differential Host Responses Resulting from In-Patient Adaptation of Mycobacterium avium 

      Kannan, Nisha; Lai, Yi-Pin; Haug, Markus; Lilleness, M.K.; Bakke, Siril Skaret; Marstad, Anne; Hov, Håkon; Naustdal, Thor; Afset, Jan Egil; Ioerger, Thomas R.; Flo, Trude Helen; Steigedal, Magnus (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)
      Members of the Mycobacterium avium complex (MAC) are characterized as nontuberculosis mycobacteria and are pathogenic mainly in immunocompromised individuals. MAC strains show a wide genetic variability, and there is growing ...
    • Mycobacterium smegmatis Vaccine Vector Elicits CD4+ Th17 and CD8+ Tc17 T Cells With Therapeutic Potential to Infections With Mycobacterium avium 

      Kannan, Nisha; Haug, Markus; Steigedal, Magnus; Flo, Trude Helen (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)
      Mycobacterium avium (Mav) complex is increasingly reported to cause non-tuberculous infections in individuals with a compromised immune system. Treatment is complicated and no vaccines are available. Previous studies have ...
    • Understanding and preventing Mycobacterium avium infections 

      Kannan, Nisha (Doctoral theses at NTNU;2018:178, Doctoral thesis, 2018)
      Mycobacterium avium (Mav) complex (MAC) is a group of slow growing, environmental opportunist pathogens, that have been associated with animal and human infections. Mav is one of the species belonging to MAC, which can be ...