Marci Drees

Summary

Affiliation: Christiana Care Health System
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Sustained high influenza vaccination rates and decreased safety concerns among pregnant women during the 2010-2011 influenza season
    M Drees
    Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE 19718, USA
    Vaccine 31:362-6. 2013
  2. ncbi Bandemia with normal white blood cell counts associated with infection
    Marci Drees
    Department of Medicine, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE 4755, USA
    Am J Med 125:1124.e9-1124.e15. 2012
  3. ncbi Acceptance of 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine among pregnant women in Delaware
    Marci Drees
    Department of Medicine, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, New Jersey, USA
    Am J Perinatol 29:289-94. 2012
  4. ncbi Repeated enzyme immunoassays have limited utility in diagnosing Clostridium difficile
    M Drees
    Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts New England Medical Center, 750 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111, USA
    Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 27:397-9. 2008
  5. ncbi Prior environmental contamination increases the risk of acquisition of vancomycin-resistant enterococci
    Marci Drees
    Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston Massachusetts, USA
    Clin Infect Dis 46:678-85. 2008
  6. ncbi Antibiotic exposure and room contamination among patients colonized with vancomycin-resistant enterococci
    Marci Drees
    Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:709-15. 2008
  7. ncbi Underestimating the impact of ventilator-associated pneumonia by use of surveillance data
    Marci Drees
    Christiana Care Health System, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 31:650-2. 2010
  8. ncbi New agents for Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis
    Marci Drees
    Tufts-New England Medical Center, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
    Curr Opin Infect Dis 19:544-50. 2006

Detail Information

Publications8

  1. ncbi Sustained high influenza vaccination rates and decreased safety concerns among pregnant women during the 2010-2011 influenza season
    M Drees
    Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE 19718, USA
    Vaccine 31:362-6. 2013
    ..We surveyed postpartum women to determine whether high vaccination rates were sustained during the 2010-11 influenza season...
  2. ncbi Bandemia with normal white blood cell counts associated with infection
    Marci Drees
    Department of Medicine, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, DE 4755, USA
    Am J Med 125:1124.e9-1124.e15. 2012
    ..We performed this study to determine whether elevated band counts, with normal total white blood cells on admission, were associated with infection or in-hospital death...
  3. ncbi Acceptance of 2009 H1N1 influenza vaccine among pregnant women in Delaware
    Marci Drees
    Department of Medicine, Christiana Care Health System, Newark, New Jersey, USA
    Am J Perinatol 29:289-94. 2012
    ..H1N1 vaccine uptake among pregnant women was substantially higher than reported influenza vaccination rates during previous seasons. Safety concerns were the major barrier to vaccination...
  4. ncbi Repeated enzyme immunoassays have limited utility in diagnosing Clostridium difficile
    M Drees
    Division of Geographic Medicine and Infectious Diseases, Tufts New England Medical Center, 750 Washington Street, Boston, MA 02111, USA
    Eur J Clin Microbiol Infect Dis 27:397-9. 2008
    ..The relative NPV of the first EIA was 97.4%. These data suggest that using newer generation EIAs, repeated testing is of limited benefit in diagnosing CDAD...
  5. ncbi Prior environmental contamination increases the risk of acquisition of vancomycin-resistant enterococci
    Marci Drees
    Tufts New England Medical Center, Boston Massachusetts, USA
    Clin Infect Dis 46:678-85. 2008
    ..Patients colonized with vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) frequently contaminate their environment, but the environmental role of VRE transmission remains controversial...
  6. ncbi Antibiotic exposure and room contamination among patients colonized with vancomycin-resistant enterococci
    Marci Drees
    Tufts Medical Center, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:709-15. 2008
    ..To determine whether total and antianaerobic antibiotic exposure increases the risk of room contamination among vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE)-colonized patients...
  7. ncbi Underestimating the impact of ventilator-associated pneumonia by use of surveillance data
    Marci Drees
    Christiana Care Health System, Wilmington, Delaware, USA
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 31:650-2. 2010
    ..Efforts to improve coding and clinical documentation will address much but not all of this discrepancy between surveillance and administrative data...
  8. ncbi New agents for Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis
    Marci Drees
    Tufts-New England Medical Center, Tufts University, Boston, Massachusetts 02111, USA
    Curr Opin Infect Dis 19:544-50. 2006
    ..Of the currently available newer agents, daptomycin appears to have the most rapid bactericidal activity and provides a much-needed alternative to vancomycin for treatment of MRSA or MSSA bacteremia and right-sided endocarditis...