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Invasive non-Aspergillus mold infections in transplant recipients, United States, 2001-2006Benjamin J Park
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 17:1855-64. 2011..Non-Aspergillus mold infections continue to be associated with high mortality rates. The incidence of mucormycosis in HCT recipients increased substantially during the surveillance period...
Long-term follow-up and survival of antiretroviral-naive patients with cryptococcal meningitis in the pre-antiretroviral therapy era, Gauteng Province, South AfricaB J Park
Mycotic Diseases Branch, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
Int J STD AIDS 22:199-203. 2011..These data are an important baseline from which to measure effectiveness of public health management of CM in South Africa...- Estimation of the current global burden of cryptococcal meningitis among persons living with HIV/AIDSBenjamin J Park
Mycotic Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
AIDS 23:525-30. 2009..In order to help develop global strategies and priorities for prevention and treatment, it is important to estimate the burden of cryptococcal meningitis... - Outcomes among inmates treated for coccidioidomycosis at a correctional institution during a community outbreak, Kern County, California, 2004Lauren A Burwell
Epidemic Intelligence Service, Office of Workforce and Career Development, and Mycotic Diseases Branch, Division of Foodborne, Bacterial, and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Zoonotic, Vector Borne, and Enteric Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 49:e113-9. 2009..In response to an increase of coccidioidomycosis at a correctional institution in an endemic area, physicians initiated an enhanced diagnosis and treatment program... - Changes in incidence and antifungal drug resistance in candidemia: results from population-based laboratory surveillance in atlanta and Baltimore, 2008-2011Angela Ahlquist Cleveland
Mycotic Diseases Branch, Division of Foodborne, Waterborne and Environmental Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta
Clin Infect Dis 55:1352-61. 2012..Further surveillance for antifungal resistance and efforts to determine effective prevention strategies are needed... - Species identification and antifungal susceptibility testing of Candida bloodstream isolates from population-based surveillance studies in two U.S. cities from 2008 to 2011Shawn R Lockhart
Mycotic Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Clin Microbiol 50:3435-42. 2012..1% isolates resistant to anidulafungin in Atlanta. Given the increase at both sites and the higher echinocandin resistance, C. glabrata should be closely monitored in future surveillance... - Comparison of in vitro susceptibility characteristics of Candida species from cases of invasive candidiasis in solid organ and stem cell transplant recipients: Transplant-Associated Infections Surveillance Network (TRANSNET), 2001 to 2006Shawn R Lockhart
Mycotic Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
J Clin Microbiol 49:2404-10. 2011..glabrata, ganciclovir use in the 3 months prior to the IFI, diabetes acquired since the transplant, and gender... - High prevalence of cryptococcal infection among HIV-infected patients hospitalized with pneumonia in ThailandJulie R Harris
Mycotic Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 54:e43-50. 2012..We evaluated Cryptococcus species as a cause of acute respiratory infection in hospitalized patients in Thailand and evaluated clinical characteristics associated with CrAg+... - Comparison of the use of administrative data and an active system for surveillance of invasive aspergillosis Douglas C Chang
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:25-30. 2008.... - Evaluation of amphotericin B interpretive breakpoints for Candida bloodstream isolates by correlation with therapeutic outcomeBenjamin J Park
Mycotic Diseases Branch, Division of Bacterial and Mycotic Diseases, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, 1600 Clifton Rd, N E, Mailstop C 09, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 50:1287-92. 2006..06 to 2 microg/ml, respectively). Etest produced the widest distribution of MICs (0.094 to 2 microg/ml). However, none of the test formats studied generated results that significantly correlated with therapeutic success or failure... 
An epidemic of coccidioidomycosis in Arizona associated with climatic changes, 1998-2001Benjamin J Park
Mycotic Diseases Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
J Infect Dis 191:1981-7. 2005..Reports of coccidioidomycosis cases in Arizona have increased substantially. We investigated factors associated with the increase...- Lack of SARS transmission and U.S. SARS case-patientAngela J Peck
National Center for Infectious Diseases, Division of Viral and Rickettsial Diseases, Respiratory and Enteric Virus Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 10:217-24. 2004..Improving the understanding of risk factors for transmission will help focus public health control measures... - National outbreak of Acanthamoeba keratitis associated with use of a contact lens solution, United StatesJennifer R Verani
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 15:1236-42. 2009..Premarket standardized testing of contact lens solutions for activity against Acanthamoeba spp. is warranted... - Determination of in vitro susceptibility of ocular Fusarium spp. isolates from keratitis cases and comparison of Clinical and Laboratory Standards Institute M38-A2 and E test methodsNaureen J Iqbal
Mycotic Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA 30333, USA
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 62:348-50. 2008..Further work is required to determine any potential correlation between MIC and clinical outcome in keratitis... - Testing for coccidioidomycosis among patients with community-acquired pneumoniaDouglas C Chang
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 14:1053-9. 2008..However, because Coccidioides spp. testing among CAP patients was infrequent, reportable-disease data, which rely on positive diagnostic test results, greatly underestimate the true disease prevalence... - Lack of SARS transmission among healthcare workers, United StatesBenjamin J Park
Mycotic Diseases Branch, National Center for Infectious Diseases, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 10:244-8. 2004..Lack of transmission in the United States may be related to the relative absence of high-risk procedures or patients, factors that may place healthcare workers at higher risk for infection... - Trichosporon asahii among Intensive Care Unit Patients at a Medical Center in JamaicaRobyn Neblett Fanfair
Epidemic Intelligence Service, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 34:638-41. 2013..Patient washbasins should be single-patient use only; adherence to appropriate hospital disinfection guidelines was recommended... - Evaluation of a newly developed lateral flow immunoassay for the diagnosis of cryptococcosisMark D Lindsley
Mycotic Diseases Branch, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, Georgia 30333, USA
Clin Infect Dis 53:321-5. 2011..This study compares the performance of a recently developed lateral flow immunoassay (LFA) to blood culture and enzyme immunoassay (EIA) for the diagnosis of cryptococcosis... - Multistate outbreak of Fusarium keratitis associated with use of a contact lens solutionDouglas C Chang
Mycotic Diseases Branch, Career Development Division, Office of Workforce and Career Development, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA, USA
JAMA 296:953-63. 2006..Beginning in March 2006, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention received multiple reports of Fusarium keratitis among contact lens wearers...