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| Ian C MichelowSummaryAffiliation: Massachusetts General Hospital Country: USA Publications
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Diagnosis of Streptococcus pneumoniae lower respiratory infection in hospitalized children by culture, polymerase chain reaction, serological testing, and urinary antigen detectionIan C Michelow
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX 75390 9063, USA
Clin Infect Dis 34:E1-11. 2002..These findings support the use of PCR tests to evaluate the protective efficacy of pneumococcal conjugate vaccines and to identify promptly children with pretreated or nonbacteremic pneumococcal lower respiratory infections...
Epidemiology and clinical characteristics of community-acquired pneumonia in hospitalized childrenIan C Michelow
Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
Pediatrics 113:701-7. 2004..The objective of this study was to determine as precisely as possible the epidemiology and morbidity of community-acquired pneumonia in hospitalized children...
Diagnostic utility and clinical significance of naso- and oropharyngeal samples used in a PCR assay to diagnose Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection in children with community-acquired pneumoniaIan C Michelow
Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, 5323 Harry Hines Blvd, Dallas, Texas 75390-9063, USA
J Clin Microbiol 42:3339-41. 2004..However, the combination of results from both sites yields optimal sensitivity (57%), specificity (98%), and positive (92%) and negative (82%) predictive values when compared with Mycoplasma pneumoniae enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay...
Systemic cytokine profile in children with community-acquired pneumoniaIan C Michelow
Department of Pediatrics Divisions of Infectious Diseases, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, TX, USA
Pediatr Pulmonol 42:640-5. 2007..Systemic cytokine characterization of CAP has been limited largely to a few integral cytokines in adults...
Pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis associated with Cellulosimicrobium cellulansJoseph D Tucker
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Medicine, Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
J Clin Microbiol 46:4106-8. 2008..A case of pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis associated with C. cellulans in an immunocompetent boy is described, underlining the importance of prompt surgical and microbiologic evaluation...
Garenoxacin (BMS-284756) and moxifloxacin in experimental meningitis caused by vancomycin-tolerant pneumococciVioleta Rodriguez-Cerrato
Department of Pediatrics, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center, Dallas, Texas, USA
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 47:211-5. 2003..70 +/- 0.35, -0.61 +/- 0.44, and -0.49 +/- 0.36 for BMS, MOX, and VAN-CRO, respectively. Therapy with BMS and MOX was as effective as therapy with VAN-CRO against VAN-tolerant pneumococcal meningitis in rabbits...
Pneumonia in term neonates: laboratory studies and duration of antibiotic therapyWilliam D Engle
Department of Pediatrics, The University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas, TX 75390-9063, USA
J Perinatol 23:372-7. 2003..CONCLUSIONS: Four days of AT appears to be adequate for selected term neonates with pneumonia; however, 2 days of AT appears to be inadequate for this population. Relative to NV, CRP and PCT appear to have a limited role...
Central nervous system infection in congenital syphilisIan C Michelow
Department of Pediatrics, University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at Dallas, Dallas 75390-9063, USA
N Engl J Med 346:1792-8. 2002..However, the identification of all such infants requires the use of additional tests, including IgM immunoblotting and PCR assay...
Asthma and neonatal airway colonizationIan C Michelow
N Engl J Med 358:423; author reply 424-5. 2008
Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 21-2008. An 11-month-old boy with fever and pulmonary infiltratesJason B Harris
Department of Pediatrics-Pediatric Infectious Disease, Massachusetts General Hospital, USA
N Engl J Med 359:178-87. 2008
