Research Interests
- Oral Infectious Diseases
Selected Publications
Recent
Zhang, H. & Stevens, R. (2021). Intrinsic resistance of Enterococcus faecalis strains to ΦEf11 phage endolysin is associated with the presence of ΦEf11 prophage. Archives of Virology, 166(1), 249-258. doi: 10.1007/s00705-020-04861-7.
Zhang, H., Buttaro, B., Fouts, D., Sanjari, S., Evans, B., & Stevens, R. (2019). Bacteriophage ϕEf11 ORF28 endolysin, a multifunctional lytic enzyme with properties distinct from all other identified Enterococcus faecalis phage endolysins. Applied and Environmental Microbiology, 85(13), 1-22. doi: 10.1128/AEM00555-19.
Stevens, R., Zhang, H., Sedgley, C., Bergman, A., & Manda, A. (2019). The prevalence and impact of lysogeny among oral isolates of Enterococcus faecalis. Journal of Oral Microbiology, 11(1). doi: 10.1080/20002297.2019.1643207.
Tinoco, J., Liss, N., Zhang, H., Nissan, R., Gordon, W., Tinoco, E., Sassone, L., & Stevens, R. (2017). Antibacterial effect of genetically-engineered bacteriophage ϕEf11/ϕFL1C(Δ36)PnisA on dentin infected with antibiotic-resistant Enterococcus faecalis. Archives of Oral Biology, 82, 166-170. doi: 10.1016/j.archoralbio.2017.06.005.