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| Michael G HughesSummaryAffiliation: University of Virginia Country: USA Publications
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E2 quasispecies specificity of hepatitis C virus association with allografts immediately after liver transplantationMichael G Hughes
University of Virginia, Department of Surgery, Surgical Infectious Disease Laboratory, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Liver Transpl 10:208-16. 2004..02 and P = 0.04, respectively). Immediately after transplantation but before actual infection, liver allografts select out from the infecting serum inoculum a less heterogeneous, more closely related population of quasispecies variants...
Does prior transfusion worsen outcomes from infection in surgical patients?Michael G Hughes
Department of Surgery, Surgical Infectious Disease Laboratory, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
Surg Infect (Larchmt) 4:335-43. 2003..The objective of this study was to determine the effect of transfusion on outcomes among infected surgical patients...
Comparison of fungal and nonfungal infections in a broad-based surgical patient populationMichael G Hughes
Department of Surgery, Surgical Infectious Disease Laboratory, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
Surg Infect (Larchmt) 6:55-64. 2005..Our aim was to compare fungal and nonfungal infections among a diverse surgical patient population...
HCV infection of the transplanted liver: changing CD81 and HVR1 variants immediately after liver transplantationMichael G Hughes
Department of Surgery, Surgical Infectious Disease Laboratory, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia, USA
Am J Transplant 5:2504-13. 2005..In conclusion, HVR1 quasispecies variants differentially associate with, and infect allografts, after liver transplantation. Additionally, allografts express variable amounts of CD81 after transplantation...
Effect of an intensive care unit rotating empiric antibiotic schedule on the development of hospital-acquired infections on the non-intensive care unit wardMichael G Hughes
Department of Surgery, University of Virginia, Charlottesville 22908, USA
Crit Care Med 32:53-60. 2004....
Does body mass index affect infection-related outcomes in the intensive care unit?Robert L Smith
Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
Surg Infect (Larchmt) 8:581-8. 2007..We hypothesized that increasing BMI would be an independent predictor of higher mortality rates in the surgical/trauma ICU...
Cost of Gram-negative resistanceHeather L Evans
Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Crit Care Med 35:89-95. 2007..We wished to test the hypothesis that rGNR infections are associated with higher resource utilization...
Primary human hepatocytes in spheroid formation to study hepatitis C infectionTae W Chong
Department of Surgery, Surgical Infectious Disease Laboratory, University of Virginia, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
J Surg Res 130:52-7. 2006..As hepatocytes are the primary reservoir for the virus in vivo, we report on a model using primary human hepatocytes cultured in spheroid formation...
Nature of gram-negative rod antibiotic resistance during antibiotic rotationHeather L Evans
Surgical Infectious Disease Research Laboratory, Department of Surgery, UVA Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908 1380, USA
Surg Infect (Larchmt) 6:223-31. 2005..The aim of this study was to characterize the evolution of gram-negative antibiotic resistance during a study of empiric antibiotic rotation...
Contact isolation in surgical patients: a barrier to care?Heather L Evans
Department of Surgery, UVA Health System, Charlottesville, VA 22908, USA
Surgery 134:180-8. 2003..Contact isolation is commonly used to prevent transmission of resistant organisms. We hypothesized that contact isolation negatively impacts the amount of direct patient care...
BK viral disease in renal transplantationRobert M Cannon
Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, Kentucky, USA
Curr Opin Organ Transplant 16:576-9. 2011..This review is meant to highlight the literature on BK viral disease following renal transplantation published in the most recent year...
A review of the United States experience with combined heart-liver transplantationRobert M Cannon
Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Louisville, Louisville, KY, USA
Transpl Int 25:1223-8. 2012..4%, 71.0%, 65.1%; Pā=ā0.894) and heart transplantation alone (82.6%, 71.9%, 63.2%; Pā=ā0.341). CHLT is a safe and effective procedure, with graft survival rates similar to isolated heart and isolated liver transplantation...
Long-term outcome in 42 pediatric liver transplant patients with alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency: a single-center experienceMichael G Hughes
Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, USA
Clin Transplant 25:731-6. 2011..We examined the long-term outcome of transplantation for alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency (A1ATD)...
Transduction of human T cells with a novel T-cell receptor confers anti-HCV reactivityYi Zhang
Division of Transplantation, Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Hollings Cancer Center, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
PLoS Pathog 6:e1001018. 2010..HCV TCR-transduced T cells may be promising for the treatment of patients with chronic HCV infections...
Human liver transplantation as a model to study hepatitis C virus pathogenesisMichael G Hughes
Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
Liver Transpl 15:1395-411. 2009..Moreover, consideration is given to current and emerging antiviral therapeutic approaches based on translational research results...
Can preemptive cytomegalovirus monitoring be as effective as universal prophylaxis when implemented as the standard of care in patients at moderate risk?John W McGillicuddy
Department of Surgery, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston, SC, USA
Transplantation 89:1218-23. 2010....
General surgery morning report: a competency-based conference that enhances patient care and resident educationBrendon M Stiles
Department of Surgery, University of Virginia Health System, Charlottesville, Virginia 22908, USA
Curr Surg 63:385-90. 2006..Although initially oriented toward transfer of patient information, MR is also hypothesized to serve as a competency-based resident education tool...
AMPK inactivation in mononuclear cells: a potential intracellular mechanism for exercise-induced immunosuppressionHannah Moir
Cardiff School of Health Sciences, Centre for Biomedical Sciences, University of Wales Institute Cardiff, Cardiff, Wales CF5 2YB, UK
Appl Physiol Nutr Metab 33:75-85. 2008..Thus, we suggest that prolonged, repeated, high-intensity exercise that leads to clinically relevant immunosuppression may do so via AMPK inactivation within immune cells...
The effect of warm-up on high-intensity, intermittent running using nonmotorized treadmill ergometryPeter I Brown
School of Science and Technology, Nottingham Trent University, Nottingham, United Kingdom
J Strength Cond Res 22:801-8. 2008..However, repeated sprinting ability is significantly improved after both active and passive warm-ups compared to no warm-up...
