CHARLES R. STERLING

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Professor
PhD - Wayne State University, 1971

Department of Veterinary Science
University of Arizona
Tucson, Arizona 85721

(520)621-4580(voice), (520)621-2799(fax)
email: csterlin@u.arizona.edu

Research interests

Cryptosporidiosis in the immunologically naive and immunocompromised animal; Monoclonal and polyclonal antibodies in diagnostic parasitology and Immunotherapy; Cysticercosis; epidemiology and immunology of Giardia, Cryptosporidium and Cyclospora infections.

Teaching

VSC 403R - Biology of Animal Parasites & VSC 403L - Parasitology Laboratory
MIC/VSC 438 Ecology of Infectious Diseases

Selected publications

Cama,V.A., C. Bern, J. Roberts, L. Cabrera, C.R. Sterling, Y. Ortega, R.H. Gilman, and

L. Xiao. Cryptosporidium Species and Subtypes and Clinical Manifestations in

Children, Peru. Emerging Inf. Dis. 14: 1567-1574, 2008

Hollm-Delgado, M.G., R. H. Gilman, C. Bern, L.Cabrera, C. Sterling, R.E. Black, and W.

Checkley. Lack of an adverse effect of Giardia intestinalis on the health of Peruvian children. Am. J. Epi. 168: 647-655, 2008

Sturbaum, G.D., D.A. Schaefer, B.H. Jost, M.W. Riggs, and C.R. Sterling. Antigenic

differences within the Cryptosporidium hominis and Cryptosporidium parvum surface

proteins P23 and GP900 defined by monoclonal antibody reactivity Molec. Biochem.

Parasitol. 159: 138-141, 2008

Mayta, H., R.H. Gilman, E. Prendergast, E., J.P. Castillo, Y.O. Tinoco, H.H. Garcia,

A.E. Gonzalez, and C.R.Sterling. Nested PCR for the specific diagnosis of Taenia

solium taeniasis. J. Clin. Micro. 46: 286-289, 2008

Cooper, M.A., R.D. Adam, M. Worobey, and C.R. Sterling. Population genetic evidence

for recombination in Giardia. Current Biology 17: 1984-1988, 2007

Miller, K, and C.R. Sterling. Sensitivity of nested PCR detection for low numbers of

Giardia lamblia cysts. Appl. Environ. Micro. 73: 5949-5950, 2007

Priest, J.W., C. Bern, L. Xiao, J.M. Roberts, J.P. Kwon, A.G. Lescano, W. Checkley, L.

Cabrera, D.M. Moss, M.J. Arrowood, C.R. Sterling, R.H. Gilman, P.J. Lammie.

Longitudinal analysis of Cryptosporidium-specific immunoglobulin G antibody

responses in Peruvian children. Clin. Vaccine Immunol. 13: 123-131, 2006

Sterling, C.R. Food-borne Nematode Infections. In Foodborne Parasitic Infections, Ortega,

Y.R. ed. Springer Science + Business Media, LLC, New York. Pp. 135-160, 2006

Ortega, Y.R. and C.R. Sterling. Outbreaks associated with Cyclospora and

Cryptosporidium. In Microbiology of Fruits and Vegetables, G.M. Sapers, J.R. Gorney

and A.E. Youseff,eds., Dekker/CRC Press, pp. 267-280, 2005.

Priest, J.W., C. Bern, J.M. Roberts, J.P. Kwon, A.G. Lescano, W. Checkley, L. Cabrera,

D.M. Moss, M.J. Arrowood, C.R. Sterling, R.H. Gilman, P.J. Lammie. Changes

in Serum Immunoglobulin G Levels as a Marker for Cryptosporidium Infection in

Peruvian Children. J. Clin. Micro 43: 5298-5300, 2005

Sterling, C.R. and Y.R. Ortega. Cyclospora cayetanensis: An emerging and still perplexing

coccidian parasite. In The Pathogenic Enteric Protozoa: Giardia, Entamoeba, Cryptosporidium and Cyclospora, C.R. Sterling and R.D. Adam eds. Kluwer Academic Publishers, Boston. pp. 43-57, 2004

Checkley, W., R.H. Gilman, R.E. Black, L.D. Epstein, L. Cabrera, C.R. Sterling, and L.H.

Moulton. Effect of water and sanitation on childhood health in a poor Peruvian periurban community. Lancet 363: 112-118, 2004

Nature photos

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