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Projected benefits of active surveillance for vancomycin-resistant enterococci in intensive care unitsEli N Perencevich
Veterans Affairs Maryland Healthcare System, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Clin Infect Dis 38:1108-15. 2004..Passive surveillance was minimally effective. Using the best available data, active surveillance is projected to be effective for reducing VRE transmission in ICU settings...
Health and economic impact of surgical site infections diagnosed after hospital dischargeEli N Perencevich
Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 9:196-203. 2003..Average total costs during the 8 weeks after discharge were US dollars 5,155 for patients with SSI and US dollars 1,773 for controls (p<0.001)...- Raising standards while watching the bottom line: making a business case for infection controlEli N Perencevich
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 28:1121-33. 2007.... - Physicians' acceptable treatment failure rates in antibiotic therapy for coagulase-negative staphylococcal catheter-associated bacteremia: implications for reducing treatment durationEli N Perencevich
Veterans Affairs Maryland Healthcare System, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Clin Infect Dis 41:1734-41. 2005..We aimed to identify acceptable failure rates among infectious disease consultants (IDCs) for treatment of central venous catheter-associated bacteremia... - Acceptable rates of treatment failure in osteomyelitis involving the diabetic foot: a survey of infectious diseases consultantsEli N Perencevich
VA Maryland Healthcare System, Dept of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Clin Infect Dis 38:476-82. 2004..4% to be acceptable. The methodology used in this study may prove useful in delineating acceptable treatment failure thresholds, an initial step in shortening durations of antimicrobial therapy... - Summer Peaks in the Incidences of Gram-Negative Bacterial Infection Among Hospitalized PatientsEli N Perencevich
Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System, and the Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of MarylandSchool of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21202, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:1124-31. 2008..We quantified the seasonal variation in the incidences of hospital infection caused by common bacterial pathogens and estimated the association between temperature changes and infection rates... - Commentary: preventing Clostridium difficile-associated disease: is it time to pay the piper?Eli N Perencevich
Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:829-31. 2008 - Value of performing active surveillance cultures on intensive care unit discharge for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusJon P Furuno
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 28:666-70. 2007..To quantify the value of performing active surveillance cultures for detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) on intensive care unit (ICU) discharge... - Prevalence of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Acinetobacter baumannii in a long-term acute care facilityJon P Furuno
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Am J Infect Control 36:468-71. 2008..Patients in long-term acute care (LTAC) facilities often have many known risk factors for acquisition of antibiotic-resistant bacteria. However, the prevalence of resistance in these facilities has not been well described... - Frequent multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter baumannii contamination of gloves, gowns, and hands of healthcare workersDaniel J Morgan
Departments of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 31:716-21. 2010..Multidrug-resistant (MDR) gram-negative bacilli are important nosocomial pathogens... - Identifying groups at high risk for carriage of antibiotic-resistant bacteriaJon P Furuno
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201, USA
Arch Intern Med 166:580-5. 2006..We aimed to develop a highly sensitive, simple-to-administer prediction rule to identify subpopulations of patients at high risk for colonization on hospital admission... - Increasing prevalence of gastrointestinal colonization with ceftazidime-resistant gram-negative bacteria among intensive care unit patientsKerri A Thom
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 28:1240-6. 2007..Gastrointestinal colonization is an important reservoir for antibiotic-resistant bacteria, and it often precedes clinical infection... - Clinical utility of infection control documentation of prior methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization or infection for optimization of empirical antibiotic therapyMarin L Schweizer
Department of Epidemiology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 2201, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:972-4. 2008..Documented prior MRSA colonization or infection was predictive of subsequent MRSA infections (odds ratio, 4.05). Physicians appear to use this documentation when prescribing empirical therapy for suspected bacteremia... - Utility of the Chronic Disease Score and Charlson Comorbidity Index as comorbidity measures for use in epidemiologic studies of antibiotic-resistant organismsJessina C McGregor
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Am J Epidemiol 161:483-93. 2005..05). A revised comorbidity measure specific to resistant infections would likely provide a better assessment of the comorbidity-attributable risk of antibiotic-resistant infections... - Detection of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci on the gowns and gloves of healthcare workersGraham M Snyder
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:583-9. 2008..To assess the rate of and the risk factors for the detection of methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) and vancomycin-resistant enterococci (VRE) on the protective gowns and gloves of healthcare workers (HCWs)... - Impact of empiric antimicrobial therapy on outcomes in patients with Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae bacteremia: a cohort studyKerri A Thom
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
BMC Infect Dis 8:116. 2008.... - Comparative effectiveness of nafcillin or cefazolin versus vancomycin in methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteremiaMarin L Schweizer
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
BMC Infect Dis 11:279. 2011..The outcome of interest for this study was 30-day in-hospital mortality... - USA300 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia and the risk of severe sepsis: is USA300 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus associated with more severe infections?Kristen M Kreisel
University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Diagn Microbiol Infect Dis 70:285-90. 2011..82; 95% confidence interval, 1.16-2.87; P = 0.01). This suggests that patients with USA300 MRSA are more likely to develop severe sepsis in response to their infection, which could be due to host or bacterial differences... - Targeted surveillance of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and its potential use to guide empiric antibiotic therapyAnthony D Harris
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 685 W Baltimore St, Room 330, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 54:3143-8. 2010..The risk of MRSA infection was far higher in those who were deemed to be at high risk and who were surveillance culture positive. Targeted MRSA active surveillance may be beneficial in guiding empiric anti-MRSA therapy... - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococci co-colonizationJon P Furuno
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 11:1539-44. 2005..06, 95% CI 1.85-5.07). None of the co-colonized patients would have been identified with clinical cultures alone. We report a high prevalence of VRE/MRSA co-colonization upon admission to ICUs at a tertiary-care hospital... - Controlling for severity of illness in outcome studies involving infectious diseases: impact of measurement at different time pointsKerri A Thom
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:1048-53. 2008..Severity of illness is an important confounder in outcome studies involving infectious diseases. However, it is unclear whether the time at which severity of illness is measured is important... - Comorbidity risk-adjustment measures were developed and validated for studies of antibiotic-resistant infectionsJessina C McGregor
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
J Clin Epidemiol 59:1266-73. 2006.... - Empiric antibiotic therapy for Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia may not reduce in-hospital mortality: a retrospective cohort studyMarin L Schweizer
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
PLoS ONE 5:e11432. 2010..We aimed to measure the clinical impact of appropriate empiric antibiotic therapy on mortality, while statistically adjusting for comorbidities, severity of illness and presence of virulence factors in the infecting strain... - Improving efficiency in active surveillance for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus or vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus at hospital admissionDaniel J Morgan
Veterans Affairs Maryland Healthcare System, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 31:1230-5. 2010..Design and setting. Prospective cohort of adult inpatients admitted to the medical and surgical wards of a 119-bed tertiary care VA hospital... - Transfer of multidrug-resistant bacteria to healthcare workers' gloves and gowns after patient contact increases with environmental contaminationDaniel J Morgan
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Crit Care Med 40:1045-51. 2012..To assess the role of environmental contamination in the transmission of multidrug-resistant bacteria to healthcare workers' clothing... - Bacterial contamination of health care workers' white coatsAmy M Treakle
Department of Medicine, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Infect Control 37:101-5. 2009.... 
Clinical and economic burden of antimicrobial resistanceLisa L Maragakis
The Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA
Expert Rev Anti Infect Ther 6:751-63. 2008..Representative literature is reviewed regarding the associations between antimicrobial resistance in specific pathogens and adverse outcomes, including increased mortality, length of hospital stay and cost...- Prediction rules to identify patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant enterococci upon hospital admissionJon P Furuno
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 100 N Greene Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Am J Infect Control 32:436-40. 2004..The aim of this study was to assess the validity of factors from past medical history in defining patients at high risk for subsequent positive cultures with VRE or MRSA upon hospital admission... - The impact of Contact Isolation on the quality of inpatient hospital careDaniel J Morgan
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, United States of America
PLoS ONE 6:e22190. 2011..Contact Isolation is a common hospital infection prevention method that may improve infectious outcomes but may also hinder healthcare delivery... - Impact of freezing on the future utility of archived surveillance culture specimensHeather P Green
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 28:886-8. 2007..Results demonstrate that 98% of 250 bacterial isolates identified on initial culture were subsequently recovered by culture of frozen specimens after a median storage period of 564 days... - Assessing the burden of Acinetobacter baumannii in Maryland: a statewide cross-sectional period prevalence surveyKerri A Thom
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 33:883-8. 2012..To determine the prevalence of Acinetobacter baumannii, an important healthcare-associated pathogen, among mechanically ventilated patients in Maryland... - Association between contact precautions and delirium at a tertiary care centerHannah R Day
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 33:34-9. 2012..To investigate the relationship between contact precautions and delirium among inpatients, adjusting for other factors... - The role of institutional epidemiologic weight in guiding infection surveillance and control in community and hospital populationsDavid M Hartley
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 27:170-4. 2006..Our objective was to quantify and compare the relative impact that individual institutions or subpopulations have on wider population-level outbreaks of emerging pathogens... - Statistical analysis and application of quasi experiments to antimicrobial resistance intervention studiesMichelle Shardell
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Clin Infect Dis 45:901-7. 2007..An example of a hospital-based intervention to reduce methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection rates and reduce overall length of stay is used to explore these methods... - Relative influence of antibiotic therapy attributes on physician choice in treating acute uncomplicated pyelonephritisJessina C McGregor
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, USA
Med Decis Making 27:387-94. 2007.... - Co-carriage rates of vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus and extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing bacteria among a cohort of intensive care unit patients: implications for an active surveillance programAnthony D Harris
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 25:105-8. 2004..Hence, active surveillance for VRE should also theoretically diminish the amount of patient-to-patient transmission of ESBL-producing bacteria... - Impact of empiric antibiotic therapy on outcomes in patients with Pseudomonas aeruginosa bacteremiaRegina B Osih
University of Maryland, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, 100 N Greene St lower level, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 51:839-44. 2007..74). These data suggest that the use of appropriate empirical therapy, i.e., before susceptibility results are known may not be as critical to patient outcomes as other studies have suggested... - Preliminary assessment of an automated surveillance system for infection controlMarc-Oliver Wright
Department of Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology, University of Maryland Medical Center, 29 South Greene Street, Suite 400, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 25:325-32. 2004.... - Risk of mortality with a bloodstream infection is higher in the less severely ill at admissionPeter W Kim
VA Maryland Health Care System, 100 N. Greene St. (Lower level, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Am J Respir Crit Care Med 171:616-20. 2005..Focusing interventions to prevent bloodstream infections in less severely ill patients would be expected to have a greater benefit in terms of mortality reduction... - Aggressive control measures for resistant Acinetobacter baumannii and the impact on acquisition of methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus in a medical intensive care unitMarc-Oliver Wright
Infection Control/Hospital Epidemiology, University of Maryland Medical Center, Baltimore, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 25:167-8. 2004..Aggressive control measures can reduce VRE, and perhaps MRSA, transmission... - Illicit drug use and risk for USA300 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infections with bacteremiaKristen M Kreisel
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Emerg Infect Dis 16:1419-27. 2010..23 for trend). Notably, the proportion of patients with USA300 MRSA bacteremia who did not use illicit drugs increased over time. This finding suggests that this strain has spread from users of illicit drugs to other populations... - Impact of admission hyperglycemia on hospital mortality in various intensive care unit populationsBrian W Whitcomb
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, School of Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, Baltimore, MD, USA
Crit Care Med 33:2772-7. 2005.... - Depression, Anxiety, and Moods of Hospitalized Patients under Contact PrecautionsHannah R Day
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 34:251-8. 2013..The use of contact precautions should not be restricted by the belief that contact precautions will produce more depression or anxiety... - Automated hand hygiene count devices may better measure compliance than human observationDaniel J Morgan
School of Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Infect Control 40:955-9. 2012..Hand hygiene is considered a critical factor in the prevention of health care-associated infections, and there have been many studies on ways to measure hand hygiene compliance... - Epidemiological risk factors for isolation of ceftriaxone-resistant versus -susceptible citrobacter freundii in hospitalized patientsPeter W Kim
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 47:2882-7. 2003..1 to 6.2). Risk factors for CSCF were peripheral vascular disease (OR, 23.2; 95% CI, 4.3 to 124.6), AIDS (OR, 9.5; 95% CI, 1.6 to 55.5), cerebrovascular disease (OR, 4.2; 95% CI, 1.6 to 10.8), and ICU stay (OR, 3.1; 95% CI, 1.8 to 5.4)... - Association between depression and contact precautions in veterans at hospital admissionHannah R Day
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland Baltimore, 685 West Baltimore Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Am J Infect Control 39:163-5. 2011..3 vs 13.0; P = .47), and the association was stronger after adjusting for other variables (mean difference, 2.2; P = .21). Although underpowered, in the largest study to date, patients on CP tended toward more depression and anxiety... - Population antibiotic susceptibility for Streptococcus pneumoniae and treatment outcomes in common respiratory tract infectionsJon P Furuno
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Pharmacoepidemiol Drug Saf 15:1-9. 2006..CONCLUSION: On the population level, in vitro S. pneumoniae nonsusceptibility to macrolide or beta-lactam antibiotics was not associated with treatment failure in conditions of probable S. pneumoniae etiology... - Validity of ICD-9-CM coding for identifying incident methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) infections: is MRSA infection coded as a chronic disease?Marin L Schweizer
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 32:148-54. 2011..We sought to assess the validity of the International Classification of Diseases, 9th Revision, Clinical Modification (ICD-9-CM) code for infection with drug-resistant microorganisms (V09) for identifying culture-proven MRSA infection... - The effect of contact precautions on healthcare worker activity in acute care hospitalsDaniel J Morgan
University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 34:69-73. 2013..Contact precautions are a cornerstone of infection prevention but have also been associated with less healthcare worker (HCW) contact and adverse events. We studied how contact precautions modified HCW behavior in 4 acute care facilities... - Association between methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus colonization and infection may not differ by age groupAdebola O Ajao
Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 34:93-5. 2013..Among 7,405 patients (9,511 admissions), MRSA colonization was significantly associated with infection (adjusted odds ratio, 13.7 [95% confidence interval, 7.3-25.7]) but did not differ significantly by age group... - Concurrent acute illness and comorbid conditions poorly predict antibiotic use in upper respiratory tract infections: a cross-sectional analysisIlene H Zuckerman
Department of Pharmaceutical Health Services Research, School of Pharmacy, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
BMC Infect Dis 7:47. 2007..Antibiotics are generally not indicated for upper respiratory infections (URIs). Our objectives were to describe patterns of URI treatment and to identify patient and provider factors associated with antibiotic use for URIs... - Rates of hand disinfection associated with glove use, patient isolation, and changes between exposure to various body sitesPeter W Kim
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, USA
Am J Infect Control 31:97-103. 2003..Isolation precautions do not increase compliance. Workers do not appropriately comply with disinfection guidelines when attending to multiple body sites/secretions on the same patient. Compliance with hand disinfection remains low... - The use and interpretation of quasi-experimental studies in medical informaticsAnthony D Harris
Division of Healthcare Outcomes Research, Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, 100 N Greene Street, Lower Level, Baltimore, MD, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 13:16-23. 2006..They hope that future medical informatics studies will implement higher level quasi-experimental study designs that yield more convincing evidence for causal links between medical informatics interventions and outcomes... - Multilocus sequence typing versus pulsed-field gel electrophoresis for characterization of extended-spectrum beta-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli isolatesLucia L Nemoy
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, MSTF Building, Room 9 34, 10 South Pine Street, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
J Clin Microbiol 43:1776-81. 2005..MLST has clear utility in studies of ESBL-producing E. coli, based on a greater discriminatory ability and reproducibility than PFGE and the ability to a priori define genetically related bacterial strains... - Dog bite transmission of antibiotic-resistant bacteria to a humanJennifer K Johnson
Department of Pathology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 27:762-3. 2006..This report describes a case of a companion dog that was treated with multiple courses of antibiotics for a chronic illness and transmitted multidrug-resistant bacteria to a human through a bite... - Economics of infection control surveillance technology: cost-effective or just cost?Jon P Furuno
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Infect Control 36:S12-7. 2008..However, little is known about the cost-effectiveness of these tools... - Impact of a computerized clinical decision support system on reducing inappropriate antimicrobial use: a randomized controlled trialJessina C McGregor
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, 100 North Greene Street, Lower Level, Baltimore, MD 21201, USA
J Am Med Inform Assoc 13:378-84. 2006..However, most function with minimal computer support. We evaluated the effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a computerized clinical decision support system for the management of antimicrobial utilization... - Comparison of mortality associated with methicillin-resistant and methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: a meta-analysisSara E Cosgrove
Division of Infectious Diseases, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, and Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts, USA
Clin Infect Dis 36:53-9. 2003..54-2.42; P<.001); significant heterogeneity was present. We explored the reasons for heterogeneity by means of subgroup analyses. MRSA bacteremia is associated with significantly higher mortality rate than is MSSA bacteremia... - The use and interpretation of quasi-experimental studies in infectious diseasesAnthony D Harris
Department of Epidemiology and Preventive Medicine, University of Maryland, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
Clin Infect Dis 38:1586-91. 2004.... - Adverse outcomes associated with Contact Precautions: a review of the literatureDaniel J Morgan
Veterans Affairs Maryland Health Care System, and the Department of Epidemiology and Preventative Medicine, University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Am J Infect Control 37:85-93. 2009..Whereas few would argue that CP are an important tool in infection control, many reports and small studies have observed worse noninfectious outcomes in patients on CP. However, no review of this literature exists... - Non-prescription antimicrobial use worldwide: a systematic reviewDaniel J Morgan
University of Maryland, School of Medicine, Baltimore, MD, USA
Lancet Infect Dis 11:692-701. 2011..Non-prescription antimicrobial and antituberculosis use is common outside of North America and northern Europe and must be accounted for in public health efforts to reduce antimicrobial resistance... - Central venous catheter-associated fungemia secondary to mucormycosisKirk M Chan-Tack
Institute of Human Virology, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore, Maryland 21201, USA
Scand J Infect Dis 37:925-7. 2005..Positive blood cultures are rare. We report the first case of central venous catheter-associated mucormycosis fungemia (Mucor circinelloides). Early diagnosis and multi-modal therapy led to clinical and microbiological cure... - Was this the demise of the food critic?Kirk M Chan-Tack
Div of Infectious Diseases, Dept of Medicine, HSF II, University of Maryland School of Medicine, Baltimore 21201, USA
Clin Infect Dis 40:718, 7545. 2005 - Of models and methods: our analytic armamentarium applied to methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureusEli N Perencevich
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 26:594-7. 2005 - Efficient recovery of fluoroquinolone-susceptible and fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli strains from frozen samplesEbbing Lautenbach
Division of Infectious Diseases of the Department of Medicine, the Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104 6021, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:367-9. 2008..The strains that were not recovered were typically present only in low numbers in the initial sample. These findings emphasize the utility of frozen surveillance samples... - Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus infection and colonization among hospitalized prisonersMarc Oliver Wright
Evanston Northwestern Healthcare, Department of Infection Control, Evanston, IL 60201, USA
Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 28:877-9. 2007..Hospitalized prisoners are at high risk for MRSA infection and colonization, and surveillance should include cultures of nares and wound samples... - Test characteristics of perirectal and rectal swab compared to stool sample for detection of fluoroquinolone-resistant Escherichia coli in the gastrointestinal tractEbbing Lautenbach
Division of Infectious Diseases, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, Center for Clinical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA 19104 6021, USA
Antimicrob Agents Chemother 49:798-800. 2005..For rectal swab, the sensitivity was 90% (95% CI, 68 to 99%) and the specificity was 100% (95% CI, 91 to 100%)... - Persistent colonization and the spread of antibiotic resistance in nosocomial pathogens: resistance is a regional problemDavid L Smith
Fogarty International Center, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD 20892 2220, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 101:3709-14. 2004..To successfully manage ARB at tertiary-care hospitals, regional coordination of infection control may be necessary, including tracking asymptomatic carriers through health-care systems... - A systematic review of the methods used to assess the association between appropriate antibiotic therapy and mortality in bacteremic patientsJessina C McGregor
Oregon State University College of Pharmacy, Portland, OR 97239, USA
Clin Infect Dis 45:329-37. 2007..In brief, future studies should define "inappropriate" therapy on the basis of in vitro susceptibility data, should separately evaluate empiric and definitive therapy, and should control for the baseline severity of illness...