Elisangela R. Castanha

Rapid discrimination of Bacillus anthracis from other members of the B. cereus group by mass and sequence of “intact” small acid soluble proteins (SASPs) using mass spectrometry

Elisangela R. Castanha, Alvin Fox, Karen F. Fox · Journal of Microbiological Methods · 2006 · 59 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Microbiology +17

Human K10 epithelial keratin is the most abundant protein in airborne dust of both occupied and unoccupied school rooms

Karen F. Fox, Elisangela R. Castanha, Alvin Fox et al. · Journal of Environmental Monitoring · 2007 · 48 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Microbiology +17

Bacillus cereus strains fall into two clusters (one closely and one more distantly related) to Bacillus anthracis according to amino acid substitutions in small acid-soluble proteins as determined by tandem mass spectrometry

Elisangela R. Castanha, Marvin L. Vestal, Steve Hattan et al. · Molecular and Cellular Probes · 2006 · 29 citations

Life Sciences, Biochemistry, Microbiology +14

Strain discrimination among B. anthracis and related organisms by characterization of bclA polymorphisms using PCR coupled with agarose gel or microchannel fluidics electrophoresis

Elisangela R. Castanha, Roy R. Swiger, Ben Senior et al. · Journal of Microbiological Methods · 2005 · 28 citations

Life Sciences, Genetics, Molecular Genetics +17

The Bacillus cereus containing sub-branch most closely related to Bacillus anthracis, have single amino acid substitutions in small acid-soluble proteins, while remaining sub-branches are more variable

Courtney Callahan, Elisangela R. Castanha, Karen F. Fox et al. · Molecular and Cellular Probes · 2008 · 13 citations

Life Sciences, Microbiology, Molecular Biology +13