PUBLICATIONS
Books:
Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. Edited by: Frank O. Bastian, MD, Professor, Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, University of South Alabama. Mosby/Year Book, March 1991.
Publications:
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- Bastian FO: Spiroplasma-like inclusions in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Arch Pathol Lab Med l979;103:665-669.
- Bastian FO, Hart MN, Cancilla PA: Additional evidence of Spiroplasma in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. Lancet l981;1(8221):660. Summary #1- Ref 1&2
- Bastian FO, Jennings RA: Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease: Procedures for Handling Diagnostic and Research Materials. Infect Control l983;5(1):48-50.
- Bastian FO, Purnell DM, Tully JG: Neuropathology of spiroplasma infection in the rat brain. Amer J Pathol l984;114(3):496-514.
- Tully JG, Bastian FO, Rose DL: Localization and Persistence of Spiroplasma in an Experimental Brain Infection in Suckling Rats. Ann Microbiol (Inst Pasteur) 84;135A:111-117. Summary #2- Ref 4&5
- Bastian FO, Jennings R, Gardner W: Antiserum to Scrapie Associated Fibril Protein Cross-Reacts with Spiroplasma mirum Fibril Proteins. J Clin Microbiol l987;25(12):2430-2431. Summary #3- Ref 6
- Bastian FO, Jennings R, Huff C: Neurotropic Response of Spiroplasma mirum following peripheral inoculation in the rat. Ann Microbiol (Inst Pasteur) 1987;138(6):651. Summary #4- Ref 7
- Bastian FO, Baliga BS, Pollock HM: Evaluation of a modified [3H]thymidine uptake method for studying growth of Spiroplasmas under varying conditions. J Clin Microbiol l988;26(10):2124-2126. Summary #5- Ref 8
- Bastian FO, Jennings RA, Hoff CJ: Effect of Trimethoprim/Sulphasoxazole and hyperbaric oxygen on experimental Spiroplasma mirum encephalitis. Ann Microbiol (Inst Pasteur) l989;l40:l5l-l58. Summary #6- Ref 9
- Titford M, Bastian FO: Handling CJD Tissues in the Histology Laboratory. J Histochem l989;l2(3):2l4-2l7.
- Bastian FO: Historical review of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. In FO Bastian (ed.), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, Mosby/Year Book, 1991, pp. 1-7.
- Bastian FO: Neuropathology of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. In FO Bastian (ed.), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, Mosby/Year Book, 1991, pp. 65-96.
- Bastian FO, Quindlin E: Ethical and legal aspects of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. In FO Bastian (ed.), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, Mosby Co/Year Book, 1991, pp. 224-238.
- Bastian FO: Treatment of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and experimental transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. In FO Bastian (ed.), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, Mosby/Year Book, 1991, pp. 213-223.
- Bastian FO: Review of the theories on the nature of the transmissible agent/s of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other transmissible spongiformencephalopathies. In FO Bastian (ed.), Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and other transmissible spongiform encephalopathies, Mosby/Year Book, 1991, pp. 49-64
- Bastian FO: Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy: relationship to human disease and nature of the agent. ASM news 1993;59:235-240.
- Brown P, Cervenáková, Goldfarb LG, Bishop K, Bastian FO, Kirkpatrick J, Piccardo P, Ghetti B, Gajdusek DC. Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in a husband and wife. Neurology 1998;50:684-688. Summary #7- Ref 17
- Bastian FO, Foster J: Spiroplasma 16S rDNA in Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease and Scrapie as Shown by PCR and DNA Sequence Analysis. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 2001;60:613-620.
- Bastian FO, Dash S, Garry R. Linking chronic wasting disease to scrapie by comparison of Spiroplasma mirum ribosomal DNA sequences. Exp Mol Pathol 2004;77:48-56. Summary 8- Ref 18&19
- Bastian FO, McDermontt ME, Perry AS, Carver LA., Dash S, Garry RF. Safe method for isolation of prion protein and diagnosis of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease. J Virol Methods 2005;130: 133-139. Summary #9- Ref 20
- Bastian FO. Spiroplasma as a candidate causal agent of transmissible spongiform encephalopathies. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 2005;64: 833-838. Summary #10- Ref 21
- Bastian FO, Sanders DE, Forbes WA, Hagius SD, Walker JV, Henk WG, Enright FM, Elzer PH. Spiroplasma spp. from TSE Brains or Ticks Induce Spongiform Encephalopathy in Ruminants. J Med Microbiol, 2007; 56: 1235-1242. Summary #11- Ref 22
- Bastian FO, Boudreaux C, Hagius SD, Sorensen S, Bulgin M, Enright FM, Elzer PH. Spiroplasma found in eyes of scrapie affected sheep. Veterinary Ophthalmology (2011) 14, 1, 10-17. Summary #12- Ref 23
- Bastian FO, Elzer PH, Wu X. Spiroplasma spp. biofilm formation is instrumental for their role in the pathogenesis of plant, insect and animal diseases. Exp Mol Pathol 2012; 93: 116-128.
- Bastian FO, Elzer PH, Wu X. Spiroplasma biofilm on stainless steel viable after glutaraldehyde treatment and likely mechanism for iatrogenic transmission of CJD. J Neuropathol Exp Neurol 2013; 72:578-9. Summary #13- Ref 24&25
- Bastian FO. The Case for Involvement of Spiroplasma in the Pathogenesis of Transmissible Spongiform Encephalopathies. J Neuropathology & Experimental Neurology 2014; 73; 103.
- Bastian FO. Is Alzheimer's Disease Infectious? AIMS Neuroscience, Volume 2 (4): 240–258.