Ken Mellits

Contact

• workFood Sciences
  Sutton Bonington Campus
  Sutton Bonington
  Leicestershire
  LE12 5RD
  UK
• work0115 951 6172
• fax0115 951 6142
• ken.mellits@nottingham.ac.uk

Research Summary

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Recent Publications

• LE BON, M., BRAVO DE LANGUNA, F., CHEVAUX, E., MELLITS, K.H., 2016. Viabilité et quantification d’une levure probiotique dans le système digestif du porc Journées Recherche Porcine. 48, 133-134
• KING, E., RICHARDS, P., SAMPSON A., SHETELAT, E., LE BON, M., DODD, C.E.R., CHEVAUX, E., BAULEZ, M., MELLITS, K.H., 2016. Influence du sevrage et de l’addition de levures vivantes sur la population bactérienne fécale chez le porcelet Journées Recherche Porcine. 48, 131-132
• WHITE, G. A., RICHARDS, P. J., WU, S., MELLITS, K. H. and WISEMAN, J., 2015. Assessment of caecal parameters in layer hens fed on diets containing wheat distillers dried grains with solubles BRITISH POULTRY SCIENCE. 56(4), 494-502
• HANCOX LR, LE BON M, RICHARDS, PJ, GUILLOU D, DODD CE, MELLITS, KH, 2015. Effect of a single dose of Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii on the occurrence of porcine neonatal diarrhoea Animal. 10, 1-4

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• LE BON, M., BRAVO DE LANGUNA, F., CHEVAUX, E., MELLITS, K.H., 2016. Viabilité et quantification d’une levure probiotique dans le système digestif du porc Journées Recherche Porcine. 48, 133-134
• KING, E., RICHARDS, P., SAMPSON A., SHETELAT, E., LE BON, M., DODD, C.E.R., CHEVAUX, E., BAULEZ, M., MELLITS, K.H., 2016. Influence du sevrage et de l’addition de levures vivantes sur la population bactérienne fécale chez le porcelet Journées Recherche Porcine. 48, 131-132
• WHITE, G. A., RICHARDS, P. J., WU, S., MELLITS, K. H. and WISEMAN, J., 2015. Assessment of caecal parameters in layer hens fed on diets containing wheat distillers dried grains with solubles BRITISH POULTRY SCIENCE. 56(4), 494-502
• HANCOX LR, LE BON M, RICHARDS, PJ, GUILLOU D, DODD CE, MELLITS, KH, 2015. Effect of a single dose of Saccharomyces cerevisiae var. boulardii on the occurrence of porcine neonatal diarrhoea Animal. 10, 1-4
• CHANG,P., KUCHIPUDI,S.V., MELLITS,K.H., SEBASTIAN,S., JAMES,J., LIU,J., SHELTON,H. and CHANG,K.C., 2015. Early apoptosis of porcine alveolar macrophages limits avian influenza virus replication and pro-inflammatory dysregulation Sci.Rep. 5, 17999
• CHANDLER-BOSTOCK R and MELLITS KH, 2015. Efficacy of disinfectants against porcine rotavirus in the presence and absence of organic matter Lett Appl Microbiol. 61(6), 538-543
• CHANDLER-BOSTOCK, REBECCA, HANCOX, LAURA R., PAYNE, HELEN, ITURRIZA-GOMARA, MIREN, DALY, JANET M. and MELLITS, KENNETH H., 2015. Diversity of group A rotavirus on a UK pig farm VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY. 180(3-4), 205-211
• CHANDLER-BOSTOCK, REBECCA, HANCOX, LAURA R., NAWAZ, SAMEENA, WATTS, OLIVER, ITURRIZA-GOMARA, MIREN and MELLITS, KENNETH H., 2014. Genetic diversity of porcine group A rotavirus strains in the UK (vol 173, pg 27, 2014) VETERINARY MICROBIOLOGY. 174(3-4), 609-609
• HANCOX LR, LE BON M, DODD CER and MELLITS KH, 2013. Inclusion of detergent in a cleaning regime and effect on microbial load in livestock housing. The Veterinary record. 173(7), 167
• SHERWOOD, V., KING, E., TÖTEMEYER, S., CONNERTON, I. and MELLITS, K.H., 2012. Interferon treatment suppresses enteric adenovirus infection in a model gastrointestinal cell-culture system Journal of General Virology: JGV. 93(3), 618-623
• SPIRU D, MELLITS K, ELSHEIKHA H, OCAK M, MCORIST S, 2012. Evaluations of post-weaning performance and enteric disease in weaner pigs after coccidiosis control measures. Pig Journal. 67, 5-9
• BLUNT, R., MCORIST, S., MCKILLEN, J., MCNAIR, I, JIANG, T. and MELLITS, K., 2011. House fly vector for porcine circovirus 2b on commercial pig farms Veterinary Microbiology. 149(3-4), 452-455
• AL-SAYEQH, A.F., LOUGHLIN, M.F., DILLON, E., MELLITS, K.H. and CONNERTON, I.F., 2010. Campylobacter jejuni activates NF-κB independently of TLR2, TLR4, Nod1 and Nod2 receptors Microbial Pathogenesis. 49(5), 294-304
• MCORIST, S. and MELLITS, K.H., 2010. The important lifetime effects of intestinal gut health of pigs at weaning Veterinary Journal. 184(3), 253-254
• LE BON, M., DAVIES, H.E., GLYNN, C., THOMPSON, C., MADDEN, M., WISEMAN, J., DODD, C.E.R., HURDIDGE, L., PAYNE, G., LE TREUT, Y., CRAIGON, J., TÖTEMEYER, S. and MELLITS, K.H., 2010. Influence of probiotics on gut health in the weaned pig Livestock Science. 133(1-3), 179-181
• MELLITS, K.H., CONNERTON, I.F., LOUGHLIN, M.F., CLARKE, P., SMITH, J., DILLON, E., CONNERTON, P.L., MULHOLLAND, F. and HAWKEY,C.J., 2009. Induction of a chemoattractant transcriptional response by a Campylobacter jejuni boiled cell extract in colonocytes BMC Microbiology. 9(1), 28
• SHERWOOD, V., BURGERT, H.-G., CHEN, Y.-H., SANGHERA, S., KATAFIGIOTIS, S., RANDALL, R.E., CONNERTON, I. and MELLITS, K.H., 2007. Improved growth of enteric adenovirus type 40 in a modified cell line that can no longer respond to interferon stimulation. Journal of General Virology. 88(1), 71-76
• PATEL, A., CUMMINGS, N., BATCHELOR, M., HILL, P.J., DUBOIS, T., MELLITS, K.H., FRANKEL, G. and CONNERTON, I., 2006. Host protein interactions with enteropathogenic Escherichia coli (EPEC) : 14-3-3 tau binds Tir and has a role in EPEC-induced actin polymerization Cellular Microbiology. 8(1), 55-71
• MELLITS, K.H., MULLEN, J., WAND, M., ARMBRUSTER, G., PATEL, A., CONNERTON, P.L., SKELLY, M. and CONNERTON, I.F., 2002. Activation of the transcription factor NF-κB by Campylobacter jejuni Microbiology (Reading, England). 148(9), 2753-2763
• BIBBINS, M., CREPIN, V. F., CUMMINGS, N. J., MIZOTE, T., BAKER, K., MELLITS, K. H. and CONNERTON, I. F., 2002. A regulator gene for acetate utilisation from Neurospora crassa Molecular Genetics and Genomics. VOL 267(PART 4), 498-505
• PATEL,A., MELLITS,K.H. and CONNERTON,I.F, 2002. Discovery of Protein-Protein Interaction Using Two-hybrid Systems. In: Functional Microbial Genomics Academic Press, London. 209-238
• MELLITS KH, MULLEN J, WAND M, ARMBRUSTER G, PATEL A, CONNERTON PL, SKELLY M and CONNERTON IF, 2002. Activation Of The Transcription Factor Nf-Kappab By Campylobacter Jejuni. Microbiology (Reading, England). 148(Pt 9), 2753-63
• QAZI, S. N. A., REES, C. E. D., MELLITS, K. H. and HILL, P. J., 2001. Development of gfp Vectors for Expression in Listeria monocytogenes and Other Low G+C Gram Positive Bacteria MICROBIAL ECOLOGY -NEW YORK-. VOL 41(PART 4), 301-309
• DANIELL, S., MELLITS, K. H., FAUS, I. and CONNERTON, I., 2000. Refolding the sweet-tasting protein thaumatin II from insoluble inclusion bodies synthesised in Escherichia coli Food Chemistry. VOL 71(NUMBER 1), 105-110
• MELLITS, K H, MEREDITH, J M, ROHLL, J B, EVANS, D J and ALMOND, J W, 1998. Binding of a cellular factor to the 3' untranslated region of the RNA genomes of entero- and rhinoviruses plays a role in virus replication. Journal of General Virology. 79 ( Pt 7), 1715-23