Erin O'Fallon

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Affiliation: Harvard University
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Acquisition of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria: incidence and risk factors within a long-term care population
    Erin O'Fallon
    Department of Medicine, Hebrew Senior Life, Boston, Massachusetts 02131, USA
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 31:1148-53. 2010
  2. ncbi Antibiotic and infection tracking in Minnesota long-term care facilities
    Erin O'Fallon
    Minnesota Department of Health, Acute Disease Investigation and Control Section, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 55:1243-7. 2007
  3. ncbi The emerging threat of multidrug-resistant gram-negative organisms in long-term care facilities
    Erin O'Fallon
    Department of Medicine, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged, Boston, MA 02131, USA
    J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 64:138-41. 2009
  4. ncbi Multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria at a long-term care facility: assessment of residents, healthcare workers, and inanimate surfaces
    Erin O'Fallon
    Department of Medicine, Hebrew Senior Life, Boston, Massachusetts 02131, USA
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 30:1172-9. 2009
  5. ncbi Colonization with multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria: prolonged duration and frequent cocolonization
    Erin O'Fallon
    Hebrew Senior Life Institute for Aging Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
    Clin Infect Dis 48:1375-81. 2009
  6. ncbi Co-colonization with multiple different species of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria
    Graham M Snyder
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Am J Infect Control 39:506-10. 2011
  7. ncbi Multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria among patients who require chronic hemodialysis
    Aurora Pop-Vicas
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 3:752-8. 2008
  8. ncbi Multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria in a long-term care facility: prevalence and risk factors
    Aurora Pop-Vicas
    Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts02215, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 56:1276-80. 2008

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Publications8

  1. ncbi Acquisition of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria: incidence and risk factors within a long-term care population
    Erin O'Fallon
    Department of Medicine, Hebrew Senior Life, Boston, Massachusetts 02131, USA
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 31:1148-53. 2010
    ..We thus investigated the incidence of acquisition of these pathogens among an LTCF population...
  2. ncbi Antibiotic and infection tracking in Minnesota long-term care facilities
    Erin O'Fallon
    Minnesota Department of Health, Acute Disease Investigation and Control Section, Saint Paul, Minnesota, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 55:1243-7. 2007
    ..To describe current systems used to track infections, antibiotic use, and antibiotic-resistant infections in Minnesota long-term care facilities (LTCFs)...
  3. ncbi The emerging threat of multidrug-resistant gram-negative organisms in long-term care facilities
    Erin O'Fallon
    Department of Medicine, Hebrew Rehabilitation Center for Aged, Boston, MA 02131, USA
    J Gerontol A Biol Sci Med Sci 64:138-41. 2009
    ..Multidrug-resistant gram-negative organisms (MDRGN) are emerging as important pathogens among LTCF residents. Data on the clinical epidemiology of MDRGN, especially in comparison to VRE and MRSA, are limited...
  4. ncbi Multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria at a long-term care facility: assessment of residents, healthcare workers, and inanimate surfaces
    Erin O'Fallon
    Department of Medicine, Hebrew Senior Life, Boston, Massachusetts 02131, USA
    Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 30:1172-9. 2009
    ..To characterize the clinical and molecular epidemiology of multidrug-resistant (MDR) organisms in residents, in healthcare workers (HCWs), and on inanimate surfaces at a long-term care facility (LTCF)...
  5. ncbi Colonization with multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria: prolonged duration and frequent cocolonization
    Erin O'Fallon
    Hebrew Senior Life Institute for Aging Research, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts 02215, USA
    Clin Infect Dis 48:1375-81. 2009
    ..Characterizing the duration of colonization, clearance of colonization, and frequency of cocolonization would provide important information for the development of interventions targeting the prevention of MDRGNB spread...
  6. ncbi Co-colonization with multiple different species of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria
    Graham M Snyder
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Am J Infect Control 39:506-10. 2011
    ..Quantifying the prevalence of co-colonization and those patients at higher risk of co-colonization may have important implications for strategies aimed at limiting the spread of MDRGN...
  7. ncbi Multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria among patients who require chronic hemodialysis
    Aurora Pop-Vicas
    Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA 02215, USA
    Clin J Am Soc Nephrol 3:752-8. 2008
    ..Multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria are rapidly spreading throughout the world. The epidemiology of multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria in patients who require chronic hemodialysis has not been previously studied...
  8. ncbi Multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria in a long-term care facility: prevalence and risk factors
    Aurora Pop-Vicas
    Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts02215, USA
    J Am Geriatr Soc 56:1276-80. 2008
    ..To quantify the prevalence, risk factors, and mode of transmission associated with colonization by multidrug-resistant gram-negative bacteria (MDRGN) in the long-term care (LTC) setting...