Submissions from 2021
Letter to the Editor: In Response, Anita B. Shallal, Ijeoma Nnodim Opara, and Marcus J. Zervos
Pulmonary nodules in a lung transplant recipient, Anita B. Shallal, Robert J. Tibbetts, George Alangaden, and Jonathan Williams
Antibiotic Knowledge, Beliefs, and Behaviors: Testing Competing Hypotheses Using an Urban Community Sample, Joanne Sobeck, Joanne Smith-Darden, Danielle Gartner, Linda M. Kaljee, Barbara Pieper, Paul Kilgore, and Marcus J. Zervos
Nosocomial Fungal Infections: Epidemiology, Infection Control, and Prevention, Geehan Suleyman and George J. Alangaden
Impact of pre-transplant carbapenem-resistant Enterobacterales colonization and/or infection on solid organ transplant outcomes, Sarah Taimur, Stephanie M. Pouch, Nicole Zubizarreta, Madhu Mazumdar, Meenakshi Rana, Gopi Patel, Maristela Pinnheiro Freire, Rebecca Pellett Madan, Eun Jeong Kwak, Emily Blumberg, Michael J. Satlin, Larissa Pisney, Wanessa Trindade Clemente, Marcus J. Zervos, Ricardo M. La Hoz, and Shirish Huprikar
Association between Implementation of a Universal Face Mask Policy for Healthcare Workers in a Health Care System & SARS-CoV-2 positivity testing rate in Healthcare Workers, Dee Dee Wang, William O'Neill, Marcus J. Zervos, John E. McKinnon, David Allard, George J. Alangaden, Lonni R. Schultz, Laila M. Poisson, Betty S. Chu, Steven N. Kalkanis, and Geehan Suleyman
Outcomes of clinical decision support for outpatient management of Clostridioides difficile infection, Tiffany Wu, Susan L. Davis, Brian Church, George J. Alangaden, and Rachel M. Kenney
Challenges related to human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine uptake in Minnesota: clinician and stakeholder perspectives, Nicholas Yared, Molly Malone, Estee Welo, Inari Mohammed, Emily Groene, Matthew Flory, Nicole E. Basta, Keith J. Horvath, and Shalini Kulasingam
Submissions from 2020
Response to "Is the outcome of SARS-CoV-2 infection in solid organ transplant recipients really similar to that of the general population?", George J. Alangaden and Mayur S. Ramesh
Reply to Fernandez Cruz, George Alangaden and Mayur S. Ramesh
Treatment with hydroxychloroquine, azithromycin, and combination in patients hospitalized with COVID-19, Samia Arshad, Paul Kilgore, Zohra S. Chaudhry, Gordon Jacobsen, Dee Dee Wang, Kylie Huitsing, Indira Brar, George Alangaden, Mayur S. Ramesh, John E. McKinnon, William O'Neill, and Marcus J. Zervos
Levonadifloxacin, a recently approved benzoquinolizine fluoroquinolone, exhibits potent in vitro activity against contemporary Staphylococcus aureus isolates and Bengal Bay clone isolates collected from a large Indian tertiary care hospital, Yamuna Devi Bakthavatchalam, Abirami Shankar, Rajeshwari Muniyasamy, John V. Peter, Marcus J. Zervos, Hariharan Triplicane Dwarakanathan, Karthik Gunasekaran, Ramya Iyadurai, and Balaji Veeraraghavan
PROPHETIC: Prospective Identification of Pneumonia in Hospitalized Patients in the Intensive Care Unit, Stephen P. Bergin, Adrian Coles, Sara B. Calvert, John Farley, John H. Powers, Marcus J. Zervos, Matthew Sims, Marin H. Kollef, Michael J. Durkin, Badih A. Kabchi, Helen K. Donnelly, Ana Cecilia Bardossy, Claire Greenshields, Daniel Rubin, Jie-Lena Sun, Karen Chiswell, Jonas Santiago, Peidi Gu, Pamela Tenaerts, Vance G. Fowler, and Thomas L. Holland
Activity of cefepime/zidebactam against MDR Escherichia coli isolates harbouring a novel mechanism of resistance based on four-amino-acid inserts in PBP3, Sachin S. Bhagwat, Periasamy Hariharan, Prashant R. Joshi, Snehal R. Palwe, Rahul Shrivastava, Mahesh V. Patel, Naveen Kumar Devanga Ragupathi, Yamuna Devi Bakthavatchalam, Mayur S. Ramesh, Rajeev Soman, and Balaji Veeraraghavan
Interplay Between Patient Colonization and Environmental Contamination With Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci and Their Association With Patient Health Outcomes in Postacute Care, Marco Cassone, Ziwei Zhu, Julia Mantey, Kristen E. Gibson, Mary Perri, Marcus J. Zervos, Evan S. Snitkin, Betsy Foxman, and Lona Mody
Clinical characteristics and outcomes of COVID-19 in solid organ transplant recipients: A case-control study, Zohra S. Chaudhry, Jonathan D. Williams, Amit Vahia, Raef Fadel, Tommy Parraga Acosta, Rohini Prashar, Pritika Shrivastava, Nadeen J. Khoury, Julio Pinto Corrales, Celeste Williams, Shunji Nagai, Marwan S. Abouljoud, Milagros Samaniego-Picota, Odaliz Abreu-Lanfranco, Ramon Del Busto, Mayur S. Ramesh, Anita Patel, and George J. Alangaden
Cardiac Tamponade Secondary to COVID-19, Mohammed F. Dabbagh, Lindsey Aurora, Penny L. D'Souza, Allison J. Weinmann, Pallavi Bhargava, and Mir B. Basir
Reduced production of bacterial membrane vesicles predicts mortality in ST45/USA600 methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia, S Dey, Smitha Gudipati, C Giuliano, Marcus J. Zervos, J M. Monk, R Szubin, S CJ Jorgensen, G Sakoulas, and A D. Berti
Early Short Course Corticosteroids in Hospitalized Patients with COVID-19, Raef Fadel, Austin R. Morrison, Amit Vahia, Zachary R. Smith, Zohra Chaudhry, Pallavi Bhargava, Joseph B. Miller, Rachel M. Kenney, George Alangaden, and Mayur Ramesh
Exebacase for Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infection and endocarditis, Vance G. Fowler, Anita F. Das, Joy Lipka-Diamond, Raymond Schuch, Roger Pomerantz, Luis Jáuregui-Peredo, Adam Bressler, David C. Evans, Gregory J. Moran, Mark E. Rupp, Robert A. Wise, G Ralph Corey, Marcus J. Zervos, Pamela S. Douglas, and Cara Cassino
Cardiac Complications Attributed to Hydroxychloroquine: A systematic review of the Literature Pre-COVID-19, Georgi Fram, Dee Dee Wang, Kelly Malette, Pedro Villablanca, Guson Kang, Kent So, Mir B. Basir, Arfaat Khan, John E. McKinnon, Marcus J. Zervos, and William W. O'Neill
Descriptive Analysis of Patients Living with HIV Affected By COVID-19, Smitha Gudipati, Indira Brar, Shannon L. Murray, John E. McKinnon, Nicholas Yared, and Norman Markowitz
Can the One Health Approach Save Us from the Emergence and Reemergence of Infectious Pathogens in the Era of Climate Change: Implications for Antimicrobial Resistance?, Smitha Gudipati, Marcus J. Zervos, and Erica Herc
Healthcare resource use among solid organ transplant recipients hospitalized with COVID-19, Madeleine R. Heldman, Olivia S. Kates, Brandy M. Haydel, Sander S. Florman, Meenakshi M. Rana, Zohra S. Chaudhry, Mayur S. Ramesh, Kassem Safa, Camille N. Kotton, Emily A. Blumberg, Behdad D. Besharatian, Sajal D. Tanna, Michael G. Ison, Maricar Malinis, Marwan M. Azar, Robert M. Rakita, Jose A. Morillas, Aneela Majeed, Afrah S. Sait, Mario Spaggiari, Vagish Hemmige, Sapna A. Mehta, Henry Neumann, Abbasali Badami, Amy Jeng, Jason D. Goldman, Anuradha Lala, Marion Hemmersbach-Miller, Margaret E. McCort, Valida Bajrovic, Carlos Ortiz-Bautista, Rachel Friedman-Moraco, Sameep Sehgal, Erika D. Lease, Ajit P. Limaye, and Cynthia E. Fisher
Assessment of invitrosynergy of daptomycin or vancomycin plus ceftaroline for daptomycin non-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus, Mary A Hutton, Ayesha Sundaram, Mary B. Perri, Marcus J. Zervos, and Erica Herc
COVID-19 in solid organ transplant: A multi-center cohort study, Olivia S. Kates, Brandy M. Haydel, Sander S. Florman, Meenakshi M. Rana, Zohra S. Chaudhry, Mayur S. Ramesh, Kassem Safa, Camille Nelson Kotton, Emily A. Blumberg, Behdad D. Besharatian, Sajal D. Tanna, Michael G. Ison, Maricar Malinis, Marwan M. Azar, Robert M. Rakita, Jose A. Morillas, Aneela Majeed, Afrah S. Sait, Mario Spaggiari, Vagish Hemmige, Sapna A. Mehta, Henry Neumann, Abbasali Badami, Jason D. Goldman, Anuradha Lala, Marion Hemmersbach-Miller, Margaret E. McCort, Valida Bajrovic, Carlos Ortiz-Bautista, Rachel Friedman-Moraco, Sameep Sehgal, Erika D. Lease, Cynthia E. Fisher, and Ajit P. Limaye
A Neutralizing Monoclonal Antibody for Hospitalized Patients with Covid-19, Jens D. Lundgren, Birgit Grund, Christina E. Barkauskas, Thomas L. Holland, Robert L. Gottlieb, Uriel Sandkovsky, Samuel Brown, Kirk U. Knowlton, Wesley H. Self, D. Clark Files, Mamta K. Jain, Thomas Benfield, Michael E. Bowdish, Bradley G. Leshnower, Jason V. Baker, Jens-Ulrik Jensen, Edward M. Gardner, Adit A. Ginde, Estelle S. Harris, Isik S. Johansen, Norman Markowitz, Michael A. Matthay, Lars Østergaard, Christina C. Chang, Victoria J. Davey, Anna Goodman, Elizabeth S. Higgs, Daniel D. Murray, Thomas A. Murray, Roger Paredes, Mahesh KB Parmar, Andrew N. Phillips, Cavan Reilly, Shweta Sharma, Robin L. Dewar, Marc Teitelbaum, Deborah Wentworth, Huyen Cao, Paul Klekotka, Abdel G. Babiker, Annetine C. Gelijns, Virginia L. Kan, Mark N. Polizzotto, B. Taylor Thompson, H. Clifford Lane, and James D. Neaton
Unmasking lymphoma immune reconstitution inflammatory syndrome in a patient with pyrexia of unknown origin: a case report, M Mahajan, Bhanu P. Venkatesulu, Omar Sallam, Kanika Taneja, Megan Scott, and Indira Brar
Feasibility Study of the World Health Organization Health Care Facility-Based Antimicrobial Stewardship Toolkit for Low- and Middle-Income Countries, Gina Maki, Ingrid Smith, Sarah Paulin, Linda M. Kaljee, Watipaso Kasambara, Jessie Mlotha, Pem Chuki, Priscilla Rupali, Dipendra R. Singh, Deepak C. Bajracharya, Lisa Barrow, Eliaser Johnson, Tyler Prentiss, and Marcus J. Zervos
Multicenter Cohort of Patients With Methicillin-Resistant, Erin K. McCreary, Ravina Kullar, Matthew Geriak, Evan J. Zasowski, Khulood Rizvi, Lucas T. Schulz, Krista Ouellette, Logan Vasina, Fadi Haddad, Michael J. Rybak, Marcus J. Zervos, George Sakoulas, and Warren E. Rose
Multifaceted highly targeted sequential multidrug treatment of early ambulatory high-risk SARS-CoV-2 infection (COVID-19), Peter A. McCullough, Paul E. Alexander, Robin Armstrong, Cristian Arvinte, Alan F. Bain, Richard P. Bartlett, Robert L. Berkowitz, Andrew C. Berry, Thomas J. Borody, Joseph H. Brewer, Adam M. Brufsky, Teryn Clarke, Roland Derwand, Alieta Eck, John Eck, Richard A. Eisner, George C. Fareed, Angelina Farella, Silvia NS Fonseca, Charles E. Geyer, Russell S. Gonnering, Karladine E. Graves, Kenneth BV Gross, Sabine Hazan, Kristin S. Held, H. Thomas Hight, Stella Immanuel, Michael M. Jacobs, Joseph A. Ladapo, Lionel H. Lee, John Littell, Ivette Lozano, Harpal S. Mangat, Ben Marble, John E. McKinnon, Lee D. Merritt, Jane M. Orient, Ramin Oskoui, Donald C. Pompan, Brian C. Procter, Chad Prodromos, Juliana Cepelowicz Rajter, Jean-Jacques Rajter, C. Venkata S. Ram, Salete S. Rios, Harvey A. Risch, Michael JA Robb, Molly Rutherford, Martin Scholz, Marilyn M. Singleton, James A. Tumlin, Brian M. Tyson, Richard G. Urso, Kelly Victory, Elizabeth Lee Vliet, Craig M. Wax, Alexandre G. Wolkoff, Vicki Wooll, and Vladimir Zelenko
Pathophysiological Basis and Rationale for Early Outpatient Treatment of SARS-CoV-2 (COVID-19) Infection, Peter A. McCullough, Ronan J. Kelly, Gaetano Ruocco, Edgar Lerma, James Tumlin, Kevin R. Wheelan, Nevin Katz, Norman E. Lepor, Kris Vijay, Harvey Carter, Bhupinder Singh, Sean P. McCullough, Brijesh K. Bhambi, Alberto Palazzuoli, Gaetano M. De Ferrari, Gregory P. Milligan, Taimur Safder, Kristen M. Tecson, Dee Dee Wang, John E. McKinnon, William W. O'Neill, Marcus J. Zervos, and Harvey A. Risch
Fecal Microbiota Transplantation for Clostridioides Difficile Infection in Patients with Chronic Liver Disease, Alireza Meighani, Maryam Alimirah, Mayur Ramesh, and Reena Salgia
The Struggling Infectious Diseases Fellow: Remediation Challenges and Opportunities, Michael T. Melia, Armando Paez, Gail Reid, Lisa M. Chirch, Vera P. Luther, Brian G. Blackburn, Federico Perez, Emily Abdoler, Daniel R. Kaul, Susan Rehm, Nada Harik, Alice Barsoumian, Anna K. Person, Heather Yun, J D. Beckham, Susan Boruchoff, Paloma F. Cariello, James B. Cutrell, Christopher J. Graber, Dong Heun Lee, Eileen Maziarz, Molly L. Paras, Raymund R. Razonable, Roseanne Ressner, Anne Chen, Brian Chow, Gerome Escota, Erica Herc, Andrew Johnson, Ryan C. Maves, Obinna Nnedu, Heather Clauss, Prathit Kulkarni, Paul S. Pottinger, Jose A. Serpa, Tanaya Bhowmick, Marvin Bittner, Darcy Wooten, Beata Casanas, Rachel Shnekendorf, and Emily A. Blumberg
Treatment and outcomes of Enterococcus faecium bloodstream infections in solid organ transplant recipients, Nicholas J. Mercuro, Christian Gill, Rachel M. Kenney, George Alangaden, and Susan L. Davis
The Impact of Sociodemographic Factors, Comorbidities and Physiologic Response on 30-day Mortality in COVID-19 Patients in Metropolitan Detroit, Joseph B. Miller MD, Raef A. Fadel, Amy Tang, Giuseppe Perrotta, Erica Herc, Sandeep Soman, Sashi N. Nair, Zachary Hanna, Marcus J. Zervos, George Alangaden, Indira Brar, and Geehan Suleyman
Collaboration Improves PrEP Care for Providers and Patients, Austin Morrison, Indira Brar, David E. Willens, and Emily Thomas
Clinical characteristics and predictors of survival in adults with coronavirus disease 2019 receiving tocilizumab, Austin R. Morrison, Joseph M. Johnson, Kristin M. Griebe, Mathew C. Jones, John J. Stine, Laura N. Hencken, Long To, Monica L. Bianchini, Amit T. Vahia, Jennifer Swiderek, Mayur S. Ramesh, Michael A. Peters, and Zachary R. Smith
Letter to the Editor: Acute hypertriglyceridemia in patients with COVID-19 receiving tocilizumab, Austin R. Morrison, Joseph M. Johnson, Mayur Ramesh, Patrick Bradley, Jeffrey H. Jennings, and Zachary R. Smith
Evaluation of an Antimicrobial Stewardship Program for Wound and Burn Care in Three Hospitals in Nepal, Varidhi Nauriyal, Shankar Man Rai, Rajesh Dhoj Joshi, Buddhi Bahadur Thapa, Linda M. Kaljee, Tyler Prentiss, Gina Maki, Basudha Shrestha, Deepak C. Bajracharya, Kshitij Karki, Nilesh Joshi, Arjun Acharya, Laxman Banstola, Suresh Raj Poudel, Anip Joshi, Abhinav Dahal, Niranjan Palikhe, Sachin Khadka, Piyush Giri, Apar Lamichhane, and Marcus J. Zervos
Cold agglutinin disease and autoimmune hemolytic anemia with pulmonary embolism as a presentation of COVID-19 infection, Neha R. Patil, Erica S. Herc, and Marian R. Girgis
Expect the Unexpected: A Rare Case of Pseudomonas aerguinosa Endocarditis, Swetha Ramireddy, Smitha Gudipati, and Marcus J. Zervos
Self-report of domestic violence and forced sex are related to sexual risk behaviors in a sample of juvenile detainees, Lea Selitsky, Norman Markowitz, Dwayne M. Baxa, Linda M. Kaljee, Cheryl A. Miree, Nishat Islam, Chez Burse, Rehnuma Newaz, Doreen Dankerlui, Gordon Jacobsen, and Christine LM Joseph
Missed Vaccine Opportunities to S. pneumoniae and Influenza in Patients Admitted During the COVID-19 Pandemic, Anita B. Shallal, Rachel M. Kenney, and Allison Weinmann
Closing the Brief Case: Cough in an Immunocompromised Patient, Anita B. Shallal, Norman Markowitz, and Robert J. Tibbetts
The Brief Case: Cough in an Immunocompromised Patient, Anita B. Shallal, Norman Markowitz, and Robert J. Tibbetts
Clinical Characteristics and Morbidity Associated With Coronavirus Disease 2019 in a Series of Patients in Metropolitan Detroit, Geehan Suleyman, Raef A. Fadel, Kelly M. Malette, Charles Hammond, Hafsa Adbulla, Abigail L. Entz, Zachary Demertzis, Zachary Hanna, Andrew Failla, Carina Dagher, Zohra Chaudhry, Amit Vahia, Odaliz Abreu-Lanfranco, Mayur Ramesh, Marcus J. Zervos, George Alangaden, Joseph B. Miller MD, and Indira Brar
Changes in Nasal Staphylococcus Colonization and Infection Rates After Nasal Surgery, Warren Swegal, Robert Deeb, Joshua Greene, Edward L. Peterson, Mary B. Perri, Ana C. Bardossy, Marcus J. Zervos, and Lamont R. Jones
Systematic review and meta-analysis of effectiveness of treatment options against SARS-CoV-2 infection, Viveksandeep Thoguluva Chandrasekar, Bhanu P. Venkatesulu, Harsh K. Patel, Marco Spadaccini, Jacob Manteuffel, and Mayur Ramesh
Rapid Reorganization of an Academic Infectious Diseases Program During the COVID-19 Pandemic in Detroit: A Novel Unit-Based Group Rounding Model, Amit Vahia, Zohra Chaudhry, Linda M. Kaljee, Tommy Parraga Acosta, Smitha Gudipati, Gina Maki, Zain Tariq, Anita B. Shallal, Varidhi Nauriyal, Jonathan D. Williams, Geehan Suleyman, Odaliz Abreu-Lanfranco, Anne Chen, Nicholas Yared, Erica Herc, John E. McKinnon, Indira Brar, Pallavi Bhargava, Marcus J. Zervos, Mayur Ramesh, and George Alangaden
Association of Infectious Disease Physician Approval of Peripherally Inserted Central Catheter With Appropriateness and Complications, Valerie M. Vaughn, Megan O'Malley, Scott A. Flanders, Tejal N. Gandhi, Lindsay A. Petty, Anurag N. Malani, Allison Weinmann, Jennifer K. Horowitz, and Vineet Chopra
Policy statement from the Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America (SHEA): Only medical contraindications should be accepted as a reason for not receiving all routine immunizations as recommended by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, David J. Weber, Thomas R. Talbot, Allison Weinmann, Trini Mathew, Emily Heil, Edward Stenehjem, Robert Duncan, Alan Gross, Patricia Stinchfield, Christopher Baliga, Jamie Wagner, William Schaffner, Kelly Echevarria, and Marci Drees
Comparison of bacterial maxillary sinus cultures between odontogenic sinusitis and chronic rhinosinusitis, Abdulkader Yassin-Kassab, Pallavi Bhargava, Robert J. Tibbetts, Zachary H. Griggs, Edward L. Peterson, and John R. Craig
A Sound Approach: Hydroxychloroquine Reduces Mortality in Severe COVID-19, Marcus J. Zervos, Samia Arshad, Paul Kilgore, Zohra Chaudhry, Gordon Jacobsen, Dee Dee Wang, Kylie Huitsing, Indira Brar, George J. Alangaden, Mayur S. Ramesh, John McKinnon, and William O'Neill
Submissions from 2019
Distribution and Short-term Prognostic Value of the 21-gene recurrence score in African American compared to White American breast cancer patients, Ali Amro, Yalei Chen, Renee Barry, Laura Susick, Jessica Bensenhaver, Erica Proctor, Lindsay Petersen, S David Nathanson, Haythem Y. Ali, Randa Loutfi, Dhananjay A. Chitale, Alyson Simonds, Marcia Kuklinski, Ko-Un Park, Melissa Davis, and Lisa A. Newman
Genomic insights on heterogeneous resistance to vancomycin and teicoplanin in Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus: A first report from South India, Yamuna Devi Bakthavatchalam, Priyanka Babu, Elakkiya Munusamy, Hariharan T. Dwarakanathan, Priscilla Rupali, Marcus J. Zervos, Peter John Victor, and Balaji Veeraraghavan
Discharge Delays and Costs Associated with Outpatient Parenteral Antimicrobial Therapy for High priced Antibiotics, Monica L. Bianchini, Rachel M. Kenney, Robyn Lentz, Marcus J. Zervos, Manu Malhotra, and Susan L. Davis
Open-Label Randomized Trial of Early Clinical Outcomes of Ceftaroline Fosamil Versus Vancomycin for the Treatment of Acute Bacterial Skin and Skin Structure Infections at Risk of Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus, Kimberly C. Claeys, Evan J. Zasowski, Trang D. Trinh, Anthony M. Casapao, Jason M. Pogue, Nitin Bhatia, Ryan P. Mynatt, Suprat S. Wilson, Crystal Arthur, Robert Welch, Robert Sherwin, Wasif Hafeez, Donald P. Levine, Keith S. Kaye, George Delgado, Christopher A. Giuliano, Robert Takla, Colleen Rieck, Leonard B. Johnson, Kyle P. Murray, James Gordon, Kate Reyes, Pamela Hartman, Susan L. Davis, and Michael J. Rybak
Anti-influenza hyperimmune intravenous immunoglobulin for adults with influenza A or B infection (FLU-IVIG): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled trial, Richard T. Davey, Eduardo Fernández-Cruz, Norman Markowitz, Sarah Pett, Abdel G. Babiker, Deborah Wentworth, Surender Khurana, Nicole Engen, Fred Gordin, Mamta K. Jain, Virginia Kan, Mark N. Polizzotto, Paul Riska, Kiat Ruxrungtham, Zelalem Temesgen, Jens Lundgren, John H. Beigel, H C. Lane, and James D. Neaton
Reduced Production of Bacterial Membrane Vesicles Predicts Mortality in ST45/USA600 Methicillin-Resistant, Somrita Dey, Smitha Gudipati, Christopher Giuliano, Marcus J. Zervos, Jonathan M. Monk, Richard Szubin, Sarah CJ Jorgensen, George Sakoulas, and Andrew D. Berti
Twenty-Year Trends in Antimicrobial Susceptibilities Among, Daniel J. Diekema, Michael A. Pfaller, Dee Shortridge, Marcus J. Zervos, and Ronald N. Jones
Evaluation of a rapid syphilis test in an emergency department setting in Detroit, Michigan, Yetunde F. Fakile, Norman Markowitz, Weiming Zhu, Kimberly Mumby, Doreen Dankerlui, Josh K. McCormick, David C. Ham, Andre Hopkins, Jacob Manteuffel, Yongcheng Sun, Ya-Lin A. Huang, Philip J. Peters, and Karen W. Hoover
Prevention of Influenza Hospitalization Among Adults in the United States, 2015-2016: Results From the US Hospitalized Adult Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Network (HAIVEN), Jill M. Ferdinands, Manjusha Gaglani, Emily T. Martin, Don Middleton, Arnold S. Monto, Kempapura Murthy, Fernanda P. Silveira, H K. Talbot, Richard Zimmerman, Elif Alyanak, Courtney Strickland, Sarah Spencer, Alicia M. Fry, Lois Lamerato, Susan L. Davis, and Marcus J. Zervos
Clinical Data on Daptomycin Plus Ceftaroline Versus Standard of Care Monotherapy in the Treatment of Methicillin-Resistant, Matthew Geriak, Fadi Haddad, Khulood Rizvi, Warren Rose, Ravina Kullar, Kerry LaPlante, Marie Yu, Logan Vasina, Krista Ouellette, Marcus J. Zervos, Victor Nizet, and George Sakoulas
T2 Candida versus beta-D-glucan to facilitate antifungal discontinuation in the intensive care unit, Christian M. Gill, Rachel M. Kenney, Laura Hencken, Mark E. Mlynarek, George J. Alangaden, Linoj P. Samuel, and Susan L. Davis
Prevalence of bloodstream infections in neutropenic patients with bacteriuria, Erica Herc, Rachelle N. Rivera, Dale Bixby, and Carol E. Chenoweth
Evaluation of an Hospital-Based Post-Prescription Review and Feedback Pilot in Kathmandu, Nepal, Rajesh D. Joshi, Marcus J. Zervos, Linda Kaljee, Basudha Shrestha, Gina Maki, Tyler Prentiss, Deepak Bajracharya, Kshitji Karki, Nilesh Joshi, and Shankar M. Rai
Evaluation of an Hospital-Based Post-Prescription Review and Feedback Pilot in Kathmandu, Nepal, Rajesh D. Joshi, Marcus J. Zervos, Linda Kaljee, Basudha Shrestha, Gina Maki, Tyler Prentiss, Deepak Bajracharya, Kshitji Karki, Nilesh Joshi, and Shankar M. Rai
The Emperor's New Clothes: Prospective Observational Evaluation of the Association between Initial Vancomycin Exposure and Failure Rates among Adult Hospitalized Patients with MRSA Bloodstream Infections (PROVIDE), Thomas P. Lodise, Susan L. Rosenkranz, Matthew Finnemeyer, Scott Evans, Matthew Sims, Marcus J. Zervos, C B. Creech, Pratish C. Patel, Michael Keefer, Paul Riska, Fernanda P. Silveira, Marc Scheetz, Richard G. Wunderink, Martin Rodriguez, John Schrank, Susan C. Bleasdale, Sara Schultz, Michelle Barron, Ann Stapleton, Dannah Wray, Henry Chambers, Vance Fowler, and Thomas L. Holland
Cholera outbreak in Haiti: Epidemiology, control, and prevention, M AB Lucien, P Adrien, Hind Hadid, T Hsia, M F. Canarie, Linda Kaljee, Paul Kilgore, Dana Parke, G A. Joseph, E Lafosse, Marcus J. Zervos, and J Boncy
Multidrug-resistant Organisms in Hospitals: What Is on Patient Hands and in Their Rooms?, Lona Mody, Laraine L. Washer, Keith S. Kaye, Kristen Gibson, Sanjay Saint, Katherine Reyes, Marco Cassone, Julia Mantey, Jie Cao, Sarah Altamimi, Mary Perri, Hugo Sax, Vineet Chopra, and Marcus J. Zervos
Are bacteria infectious pathogens in hidradenitis suppurativa? Debate at the Symposium for Hidradenitis Suppurativa Advances Meeting, November 2017, Haley B. Naik, Aude Nassif, Mayur S. Ramesh, Gregory Schultz, Vincent Piguet, Afsaneh Alavi, and Michelle A. Lowes
Performance of the T2Bacteria Panel for Diagnosing Bloodstream Infections: A Diagnostic Accuracy Study, M H. Nguyen, Cornelius J. Clancy, A W. Pasculle, Peter G. Pappas, George Alangaden, George A. Pankey, Bryan H. Schmitt, Altaf Rasool, Melvin P. Weinstein, Raymond Widen, Diana R. Hernandez, Donna M. Wolk, Thomas J. Walsh, John R. Perfect, Mollie N. Wilson, and Eleftherios Mylonakis
Treatment of a Staphylococcus lugdunensis cervical epidural abscess, Thomas Noh, Thomas M. Zervos, Anne Chen, and Mokbel Chedid
Impact of an antimicrobial stewardship intervention in India: Evaluation of post-prescription review and feedback as a method of promoting optimal antimicrobial use in the intensive care units of a tertiary-care hospital, Priscilla Rupali, Prasannakumar Palanikumar, Divyashree Shanthamurthy, John V. Peter, Subramani Kandasamy, Naveena GP Zacchaeus, Hanna Alexander, Premkumar Thangavelu, Rajiv Karthik, Ooriapadickal C. Abraham, Joy S. Michael, Hema Paul, Balaji Veeraraghavan, Binila Chacko, Visalakshi Jeyaseelan, George Alangaden, Tyler Prentiss, and Marcus J. Zervos
Reply to Kalil et al, "Is Daptomycin plus Ceftaroline Associated with Better Clinical Outcomes than Standard of Care Monotherapy for Staphylococcus aureus Bacteremia?", George Sakoulas, Matthew Geriak, Fadi Haddad, Warren Rose, Kerry LaPlante, Marcus J. Zervos, Ravina Kullar, and Victor Nizet
Proceeding report of the Second Symposium on Hidradenitis Suppurativa Advances (SHSA) 2017, Eran Shavit, Afsaneh Alavi, Falk G. Bechara, Richard G. Bennett, Marc Bourcier, Ricardo Cibotti, Steven Daveluy, John W. Frew, Amit Garg, Iltefat Hamzavi, Lauren K. Hoffman, Jenny Hsaio, Joslyn S. Kirby, Hadar Lev-Tov, Erin Martinez, Robert Micheletti, Haley B. Naik, Aude Nassif, Cynthia Nicholson, Angie Parks-Miller, Zarine Patel, Vincent Piguet, Mayur Ramesh, Barry Resnik, Christopher Sayed, Gregory Schultz, Aamir Siddiqui, Jerry Tan, Ximena Wortsman, and Michelle A. Lowes
Assembly of a pan-genome from deep sequencing of 910 humans of African descent, Rachel M. Sherman, Juliet Forman, Valentin Antonescu, Daniela Puiu, Michelle Daya, Nicholas Rafaels, Meher P. Boorgula, Sameer Chavan, Candelaria Vergara, Victor E. Ortega, Albert M. Levin, Celeste Eng, Maria Yazdanbakhsh, James G. Wilson, Javier Marrugo, Leslie A. Lange, L Keoki Williams, Harold Watson, Lorraine B. Ware, Christopher O. Olopade, Olufunmilayo Olopade, Ricardo R. Oliveira, Carole Ober, Dan L. Nicolae, Deborah A. Meyers, Alvaro Mayorga, Jennifer Knight-Madden, Tina Hartert, Nadia N. Hansel, Marilyn G. Foreman, Jean G. Ford, Mezbah U. Faruque, Georgia M Dunston, Luis Caraballo, Esteban G Burchard, Eugene R Bleecker, Maria I Araujo, Edwin F Herrera-Paz, Monica Campbell, Cassandra Foster, Margaret A Taub, Terri H Beaty, Ingo Ruczinski, Rasika A Mathias, Kathleen C Barnes, and Steven L Salzberg
Impact of Reported β-Lactam Allergy on Management of Methicillin-Sensitive Staphylococcus aureus Bloodstream Infections, Michael P. Veve, Spenser E. January, Rachel M. Kenney, Edward M. Zoratti, Marcus J. Zervos, and Susan L. Davis
Author response to letter from Gomez et al, Marcus J. Zervos, Gina Maki, Nancy G. Love, and Shawn P. McElmurry
Submissions from 2018
Establishing and utilizing strategic partnerships for vaccine-preventable diseases: Best practices in Haiti, P Adrien, J Francois, Dana Parke, Thomas Bebekoski, P J. Boncy, S Corvil, A Existe, R Jacques, G Joseph, Linda Kaljee, Paul Kilgore, M Christopher, L Queuille, K Severe, R Ternier, and Marcus J. Zervos
Culturing practices and the care of the urinary catheter in reducing NHSN-defined catheter-associated urinary tract infections: The tale of two teaching hospitals, Ana C. Bardossy, Takiah Williams, Karen Jones, Susan Szpunar, Marcus Zervos, George Alangaden, Kate Reyes, and Mohamad G. Fakih
Ertapenem - a potent treatment for clinical and quality of life improvement in patients with hidradenitis suppurativa, Taylor L. Braunberger, Nathan T. Nartker, Cynthia L. Nicholson, A F. Nahhas, Angie Parks-Miller, Zachary Hanna, Rachna Jayaprakash, Mayur S. Ramesh, Pranita V. Rambhatla, and Iltefat H. Hamzavi
Environmental Panels as a Proxy for Nursing Facility Patients With Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus and Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococcus Colonization, Marco Cassone, Julia Mantey, Mary Perri, Kristen Gibson, Bonnie Lansing, Sara McNamara, Payal K. Patel, Vincent CC Cheng, Maroya S. Walters, Nimalie D. Stone, Marcus J. Zervos, and Lona Mody
Probable locally acquired babesia divergens-like infection in woman, Michigan, USA, Erica Herc, Bobbi Pritt, Taylor Huizenga, Richard Douce, Matthew Hysell, Duane Newton, Jennifer Sidge, Eve Losman, John Sherbeck, and Daniel R. Kaul
Effect of algorithm-based therapy vs usual care on clinical success and serious adverse events in patients with Staphylococcal bacteremia: a randomized clinical trial, Thomas L. Holland, Issam Raad, Helen W. Boucher, Deverick J. Anderson, Sara E. Cosgrove, P S. Aycock, John W. Baddley, Anne-Marie Chaftari, Shein-Chung Chow, Vivian H. Chu, Manuela Carugati, Paul Cook, G R. Corey, Anna L. Crowley, Jennifer Daly, Jiezhun Gu, Ray Hachem, James Horton, Timothy C. Jenkins, Donald Levine, Jose M. Miro, Juan M. Pericas, Paul Riska, Zachary Rubin, Mark E. Rupp, John Schrank, Matthew Sims, Dannah Wray, Marcus Zervos, and Vance G. Fowler
Presence of the esp gene in Enterococcus faecium derived from oropharyngeal microbiota of haematology patients, Milica Jovanović, Tanja Tošić, Snežana Jovanović, Rajica Stošović, Goran Stevanović, Branko Velebit, and Marcus J. Zervos
Artificial differences in Clostridium difficile infection rates associated with disparity in testing, Mini Kamboj, Jennifer Brite, Anoshe Aslam, Jessica Kennington, N E. Babady, David Calfee, Yoko Furuya, Donald Chen, Michael Augenbraun, Belinda Ostrowsky, Gopi Patel, Monica Mircescu, Vivek Kak, Roman Tuma, Teresa A. Karre, Deborah A. Fry, Yola P. Duhaney, Amber Moyer, Denise Mitchell, Sherry Cantu, Candace Hsieh, Nancy Warren, Stacy Martin, Jill Willson, Jeanne Dickman, Julie Knight, Kim Delahanty, Annemarie Flood, Jennifer Harrington, Deborah Korenstein, Janet Eagan, and Kent Sepkowitz
Combatting resistant enterococcal infections: a pharmacotherapy review, Nicholas J. Mercuro, Susan L. Davis, Marcus J. Zervos, and Erica S. Herc
Stewardship opportunities in viral pneumonia: Why not the immunocompromised?, Nicholas J. Mercuro, Rachel M. Kenney, Linoj Samuel, Robert J. Tibbetts, George J. Alangaden, and Susan L. Davis
Switching to fixed-dose bictegravir, emtricitabine, and tenofovir alafenamide from dolutegravir plus abacavir and lamivudine in virologically suppressed adults with HIV-1: 48 week results of a randomised, double-blind, multicentre, active-controlled, phase 3, non-inferiority trial, Jean-Michel Molina, Douglas Ward, Indira Brar, Anthony Mills, Hans-Jürgen Stellbrink, Luis López-Cortés, Peter Ruane, Daniel Podzamczer, Cynthia Brinson, Joseph Custodio, Hui Liu, Kristen Andreatta, Hal Martin, Andrew Cheng, and Erin Quirk
Characterization of BK polyomaviruses from kidney transplant recipients suggests a role for APOBEC3 in driving in-host virus evolution, Alberto Peretti, Eileen M. Geoghegan, Diana V. Pastrana, Sigrun Smola, Pascal Feld, Marlies Sauter, Stefan Lohse, Mayur Ramesh, Efrem S. Lim, David Wang, Cinzia Borgogna, Peter C. FitzGerald, Valery Bliskovsky, Gabriel J. Starrett, Emily K. Law, Reuben S. Harris, J K. Killian, Jack Zhu, Marbin Pineda, Paul S. Meltzer, Renzo Boldorini, Marisa Gariglio, and Christopher B. Buck
Increased indoleamine-2,3-dioxygenase activity is associated with poor clinical outcome in adults hospitalized with influenza in the INSIGHT FLU003Plus study, Sarah L. Pett, Ken M. Kunisaki, Deborah Wentworth, Timothy J. Griffin, Ioannis Kalomenidis, Raquel Nahra, Rocio Montejano Sanchez, Shane W. Hodgson, Kiat Ruxrungtham, Dominic Dwyer, Richard T. Davey, Chris H. Wendt, and INSIGHT FLU003 Plus Study Group
The impact of obesity and timely antiviral administration on severe influenza outcomes among hospitalized adults, Hannah E. Segaloff, Richard Evans, Samia Arshad, Marcus J. Zervos, Carolyn Archer, Keith S. Kaye, and Emily T. Martin
Brincidofovir as salvage therapy for adenovirus disease in intestinal transplant recipients, Nimisha Sulejmani, Shunji Nagai, Mohamed Safwan, Michael D. Rizzari, Mohammad Raoufi, Marwan S. Abouljoud, and Mayur Ramesh
The role of environmental contamination in the transmission of nosocomial pathogens and healthcare-associated infections, Geehan Suleyman, George Alangaden, and Ana C. Bardossy
Hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells are a distinct HIV reservoir that contributes to persistent viremia in suppressed patients, Thomas D. Zaikos, Valeri H. Terry, Nadia T. Sebastian Kettinger, Jay Lubow, Mark M. Painter, Maria C. Virgilio, Andrew Neevel, Frances Taschuk, Adewunmi Onafuwa-Nuga, Lucy A. McNamara, James Riddell, Dale Bixby, Norman Markowitz, and Kathleen L. Collins
Evaluation of a rapid point-of-care HIV screening program in an emergency department setting in Detroit, Michigan, Weiming Zhu, Kimberly Mumby, Doreen Dankerlui, Jacob Manteuffel, Cal Ham, Ya-Lin A. Huang, Philip J. Peters, Yetunde F. Fakile, Norman Markowitz, and Karen W. Hoover
Submissions from 2017
Ceftaroline fosamil monotherapy for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia: a comparative clinical outcomes study, Samia Arshad, Vanthida Huang, Pamela Hartman, Mary Perri, Daniela Moreno, and Marcus J. Zervos
Risk factors for 30-day mortality in patients with methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections, Pedro Ayau, Ana C. Bardossy, Guillermo Sanchez, Ricardo Ortiz, Daniela Moreno, Pamela Hartman, Khulood Rizvi, Tyler Prentiss, Mary Perri, Meredith Mahan, Vanthida Huang, Kate Reyes, and Marcus J. Zervos
