Submissions from 2017
Evaluation of contact precautions for methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus and vancomycin-resistant Enterococcus, Ana C. Bardossy, Muhammad Y. Alsafadi, Patricia Starr, Eman Chami, Jennifer J. Pietsch, Daniela Moreno, Laura Johnson, George Alangaden, Marcus J. Zervos, and Kate Reyes
Impact and limitations of the 2015 National Health and Safety Network case definition on catheter-associated urinary tract infection rates, Ana C. Bardossy, Rachna Jayaprakash, Anjali C. Alangaden, Patricia Starr, Odaliz Abreu-Lanfranco, Kate Reyes, Marcus J. Zervos, and George Alangaden
Clinical impact of nucleic acid amplification testing in the diagnosis of Mycobacterium Tuberculosis: a 10-year longitudinal study, Kassem Bourgi, Jaimin Patel, Linoj Samuel, Angela Kieca, Laura Johnson, and George Alangaden
Randomized controlled trial to determine the efficacy of early switch from vancomycin to vancomycin alternatives as a strategy to prevent nephrotoxicity in patients with multiple risk factors for adverse renal outcomes (STOP-NT), Joseph J. Carreno, Rachel M. Kenney, George Divine, Jose A. Vazquez, and Susan L. Davis
Colonization by enterococcal strains resistant to vancomycin in patients from a hospital in Lima, Peru, Alisson Estrada-Román, Rafael Mendo-López, Lizeth Astocondor, Marcus J. Zervos, and Coralith García
The safety and economic impact of cefazolin versus nafcillin for the treatment of methicillin-susceptible Staphylococcus aureus bloodstream infections, Lauren K. Flynt, Rachel M. Kenney, Marcus J. Zervos, and Susan L. Davis
Bictegravir, emtricitabine, and tenofovir alafenamide versus dolutegravir, abacavir, and lamivudine for initial treatment of HIV-1 infection (GS-US-380-1489): a double-blind, multicentre, phase 3, randomised controlled non-inferiority trial, Joel Gallant, Adriano Lazzarin, Anthony Mills, Chloe Orkin, Daniel Podzamczer, Pablo Tebas, Pierre-Marie Girard, Indira Brar, Eric S. Daar, David Wohl, Jürgen Rockstroh, Xuelian Wei, Joseph Custodio, Kirsten White, Hal Martin, Andrew Cheng, and Erin Quirk
Local spread of Tn1546-like element among three species of vancomycin resistant enterococci in an intensive care unit, Milica Jovanović, Tanja Tošić, Snežana Jovanović, Goran Stevanović, Mitra Drakulović, Rajica Stošović, and Marcus J. Zervos
"You need to be an advocate for yourself": Factors associated with decision-making regarding influenza and pneumococcal vaccine use among US older adults from within a large metropolitan health system, Linda M. Kaljee, Paul Kilgore, Tyler Prentiss, Lois Lamerato, Daniela Moreno, Samia Arshad, and Marcus J. Zervos
Effect of underlying immune compromise on the manifestations and outcomes of group A streptococcal bacteremia, Kathleen AB Linder, Leen Alkhouli, Mayur Ramesh, George Alangaden, Carol A. Kauffman, and Marisa H. Miceli
Outcomes of fecal microbiota transplantation for Clostridium difficile infection in patients with inflammatory bowel disease, Alireza Meighani, Benjamin R. Hart, Kassem Bourgi, Nichole Miller, Ajin John, and Mayur Ramesh
Multidrug-resistant microorganisms colonizing lower extremity wounds in patients in a tertiary care hospital, Lima, Peru, Rafael Mendo-Lopez, Luis Jasso, Ximena Guevara, Aurora L. Astocondor, Saul Alejos, Ana C. Bardossy, Tyler Prentiss, Marcus J. Zervos, Jan Jacobs, and Coralith García
Hemophagocytic lymphohistiocytosis (HLH): elusive diagnosis of disseminated Mycobacterium avium complex infection, Eloy E. Ordaya, Sulieman A. Jarir, Robert Yoo, and Pranatharthi H. Chandrasekar
A mycoses study group international prospective study of phaeohyphomycosis: an analysis of 99 proven/probable cases, Sanjay G. Revankar, John W. Baddley, Sharon CA Chen, Carol A. Kauffman, Monica Slavin, Jose A. Vazquez, Carlos Seas, Michele I. Morris, M H. Nguyen, Shmuel Shoham, George R. Thompson, Barbara D. Alexander, Jacques Simkins, Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, Kathleen Mullane, George Alangaden, David R. Andes, Oliver A. Cornely, Kerstin Wahlers, Shawn R. Lockhart, and Peter G. Pappas
Crystalline lens dislocation secondary to bacterial endogenous endophthalmitis, Amit Sangave, Rahul Komati, Allison Weinmann, Linoj Samuel, and Uday R. Desai
CD4 is expressed on a heterogeneous subset of hematopoietic progenitors, which persistently harbor CXCR4 and CCR5-tropic HIV proviral genomes in vivo, Nadia T. Sebastian, Thomas D. Zaikos, Valeri Terry, Frances Taschuk, Lucy A. McNamara, Adewunmi Onafuwa-Nuga, Ryan Yucha, Robert AJ Signer, James Riddell, Dale Bixby, Norman Markowitz, Sean J. Morrison, and Kathleen L. Collins
Unique characteristics of cryptococcosis identified after death in patients with liver cirrhosis: comparison with concurrent cohort diagnosed antemortem, Nina Singh, Costi D. Sifri, Fernanda P. Silveira, Rachel Miller, Kevin S. Gregg, Shirish Huprikar, Erika D. Lease, Andrea Zimmer, J S. Dummer, Cedric W. Spak, Christine Koval, David B. Banach, Miloni Shroff, Jade Le, Darin Ostrander, Robin Avery, Albert Eid, Raymund R. Razonable, Jose Montero, Emily Blumberg, Ahlaam Alynbiawi, Michele I. Morris, Henry B. Randall, George Alangaden, Jeffrey Tessier, Thomas V. Cacciarelli, Marilyn M. Wagener, and Hsin-Yun Sun
Mycobacterium marinum remains an unrecognized cause of indolent skin infections, Julie Steinbrink, Molara Alexis, Daniella Angulo-Thompson, Mayur Ramesh, George Alangaden, and Marisa H. Miceli
Safety and efficacy of outpatient parenteral antibiotic therapy in an academic infectious disease clinic, Geehan Suleyman, Rachel M. Kenney, Marcus J. Zervos, and Allison Weinmann
Comparison of daptomycin and linezolid in the treatment of vancomycin-resistant enterococcus faecium in the absence of endocarditis, G Suleyman, Meredith Mahan, and Marcus J. Zervos
Considerations for antibiotic prophylaxis in head and neck cancer surgery, Michael P. Veve, Susan L. Davis, Amy M. Williams, John McKinnon, and T Ghanem
Submissions from 2016
Ceftaroline fosamil for treatment of methicillin-resistant staphylococcus aureus hospital-acquired pneumonia and health care–associated pneumonia: A 5-year matched case-control evaluation of epidemiology and outcomes, Samia Arshad, Pamela Hartman, Mary B. Perri, Daniela Moreno, and Marcus J. Zervos
Early antiretroviral therapy at high CD4 counts does not improve arterial elasticity: a substudy of the Strategic Timing of AntiRetroviral Treatment (START) trial, Jason V. Baker, Katherine H. Hullsiek, Nicole W. Engen, Ray Nelson, Ploenchan Chetchotisakd, Jan Gerstoft, Heiko Jessen, Marcelo Losso, Norman Markowitz, Paula Munderi, Antonios Papadopoulos, Jonathan Shuter, Claire Rappoport, Mary T. Pearson, Elizabeth Finley, Abdel Babiker, Sean Emery, Daniel Duprez, and INSIGHT START Arterial Elasticity Substudy Team
Preventing hospital-acquired infections in low-income and middle-income countries: impact, gaps, and opportunities, Ana C. Bardossy, John Zervos, and Marcus Zervos
Health disparities in hepatitis C screening and linkage to care at an integrated health system in Southeast Michigan, Kassem Bourgi, Indira Brar, and Kimberly Baker-Genaw
Simplified risk stratification criteria for identification of patients with MRSA bacteremia at low risk of infective endocarditis: implications for avoiding routine transesophageal echocardiography in MRSA bacteremia, P Buitron de la Vega, P Tandon, W Qureshi, Y Nasr, R Jayaprakash, Samia Arshad, D Moreno, Gordon Jacobsen, Karthikeyan Ananthasubramaniam, Mayur Ramesh, and Marcus J. Zervos
Impact of intervention measures on MRSA clonal type and carriage site prevalence, Marco Cassone, Sara E. McNamara, Mary B. Perri, Marcus J. Zervos, and Lona Mody
Predictors of Clostridium difficile infection-related mortality among older adults, Teena Chopra, Reda A. Awali, Caitlin Biedron, Eileen Vallin, Suchitha Bheemreddy, Christopher M. Saddler, Keith Mullins, Jose F. Echaiz, Luigino Bernabela, Richard Severson, Dror Marchaim, Paul Lephart, Laura Johnson, Rama Thyagarajan, Keith S. Kaye, and George Alangaden
The Mental Health of Transgender Youth: Advances in Understanding, Maureen D. Connolly, Marcus J. Zervos, Charles J. Barone, Christine C. Johnson, and Christine L. Joseph
INSIGHT FLU005: An Anti-Influenza Virus Hyperimmune Intravenous Immunoglobulin Pilot Study, R T. Davey, Norman Markowitz, J Beigel, D Wentworth, A Babiker, T Rehman, R Dewar, J Metcalf, T M. Uyeki, E B. Finley, B Standridge, P Riska, H C. Lane, F Gordin, J D. Neaton, E Denning, A Duchene, N Engen, M Harrison, K Quan, G Thompson, A Sanchez, M Hoover, V Natarajan, H P. Holley, J Tierney, J Voell, J Baxter, D Bigley, P Coburn, L Faber, E Gardner, L Harlow, M Jain, L Makohon, R McConnell, J Moghe, R Nahra, B Omotosho, T Petersen, H Polenakovik, S Rizza, J Scott, A Shoen, C Solorzano, Z Temesgen, J Whittaker, and INSIGHT FLU005 IVIG Pilot Study Group
Self-turning for pressure injury prevention, Harriet M. Gammon, Cherie B. Shelton, Christine M. Siegert, Creista Dawson, Emily Sexton, Charlotte Burmeister, Gwen Gnam, and Aamir Siddiqui
A case of false-positive Mycobacterium tuberculosis caused by Mycobacterium celatum, Edward Gildeh, Zaid Abdel-Rahman, Ruchira Sengupta, and Laura Johnson
False-positive cerebrospinal fluid cryptococcus antigen in Libman-Sacks endocarditis, Iyad N. Isseh, Kassem Bourgi, Asaad Nakhle, Mahmoud Ali, and Marcus J. Zervos
Clostridium Difficile Colonization in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients: A Prospective Study of the Epidemiology and Outcomes Involving Toxigenic and Nontoxigenic Strains, Tania Jain, Christopher Croswell, Varinia Urday-Cornejo, Reda Awali, Jessica Cutright, Hossein Salimnia, Harsha V. Reddy Banavasi, Alyssa Liubakka, Paul Lephart, Teena Chopra, Sanjay G. Revankar, Pranatharthi Chandrasekar, and George Alangaden
Therapy for cellulitis, Vivek Kak
Reply to "Urinary Tract Infections: Resistance Is Futile", Rachel M. Kenney, Kelli A. Cole, Mary B. Perri, Lisa E. Dumkow, Linoj Samuel, Marcus J. Zervos, and Susan L. Davis
Pertussis: Microbiology, Disease, Treatment, and Prevention, Paul Kilgore, Abdulbaset M. Salim, Marcus J. Zervos, and Heinz-Josef Schmitt
Isavuconazole treatment for mucormycosis: a single-arm open-label trial and case-control analysis, Francisco M. Marty, Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, Oliver A. Cornely, Kathleen M. Mullane, John R. Perfect, George R. Thompson, George Alangaden, Janice M. Brown, David N. Fredricks, Werner J. Heinz, Raoul Herbrecht, Nikolai Klimko, Galina Klyasova, Johan A. Maertens, Sameer R. Melinkeri, Ilana Oren, Peter G. Pappas, Zdeněk Ráčil, Galia Rahav, Rodrigo Santos, Stefan Schwartz, J J. Vehreschild, Jo-Anne H. Young, Ploenchan Chetchotisakd, Sutep Jaruratanasirikul, Souha S. Kanj, Marc Engelhardt, Achim Kaufhold, Masanori Ito, Misun Lee, Carolyn Sasse, Rochelle M. Maher, Bernhardt Zeiher, and Maria J G T Vehreschild
Autoimmune disease and vaccination: impact on infectious disease prevention and a look at future applications, John E. McKinnon and Kathleen Maksimowicz-McKinnon
Predictors of fecal transplant failure, Alireza Meighani, Benjamin R. Hart, Chetan Mittal, Nichole Miller, Ajin John, and Mayur Ramesh
Switching from tenofovir disoproxil fumarate to tenofovir alafenamide in antiretroviral regimens for virologically suppressed adults with HIV-1 infection: a randomised, active-controlled, multicentre, open-label, phase 3, non-inferiority study, Anthony Mills, Jose R. Arribas, Jaime Andrade-Villanueva, Giovanni DiPerri, Jan Van Lunzen, Ellen Koenig, Richard Elion, Matthias Cavassini, Jose V. Madruga, Jason Brunetta, David Shamblaw, Edwin DeJesus, Chloe Orkin, David A. Wohl, Indira Brar, Jeffrey L. Stephens, Pierre-Marie Girard, Gregory Huhn, Andrew Plummer, Ya-Pei Liu, Andrew K. Cheng, Scott McCallister, and GS-US-292-0109 Team
Comparative Effectiveness of Vancomycin Versus Daptomycin for MRSA Bacteremia With Vancomycin MIC >1 mg/L: A Multicenter Evaluation, Pamela A. Moise, Darren L. Culshaw, Annie Wong-Beringer, Joyce Bensman, Kenneth C. Lamp, Winter J. Smith, Karri Bauer, Debra A. Goff, Robert Adamson, Kimberly Leuthner, Michael D. Virata, James A. McKinnell, Saira B. Chaudhry, Romic Eskandarian, Thomas Lodise, Katherine Reyes, and Marcus J. Zervos
Risk factors for surgical site infections following anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction, Michael V. Murphy, Dongyi T. Du, Wei Hua, Karoll J. Cortez, Melissa G. Butler, Robert L. Davis, Thomas A. DeCoster, Laura Johnson, Lingling Li, Cynthia Nakasato, James D. Nordin, Mayur Ramesh, Michael Schum, Ann Von Worley, Craig Zinderman, Richard Platt, and Michael Klompas
Real-life use of isavuconazole in patients intolerant to other azoles, Eloy E. Ordaya and George Alangaden
Safety and Durability of RBX2660 (Microbiota Suspension) for Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection: Results of the PUNCH CD Study, Robert Orenstein, Erik Dubberke, Robert Hardi, Arnab Ray, Kathleen Mullane, Darrell S. Pardi, Mayur Ramesh, and PUNCH CD Investigators
Influenza Vaccine Effectiveness Against Antigenically Drifted Influenza Higher Than Expected in Hospitalized Adults: 2014-2015, Joshua G. Petrie, Suzanne E. Ohmit, Caroline K. Cheng, Emily T. Martin, Ryan E. Malosh, Adam S. Lauring, Lois Lamerato, Kate Reyes, Brendan Flannery, Jill M. Ferdinands, and Arnold S. Monto
Vancomycin-Resistant Enterococci: Epidemiology, Infection Prevention, and Control, Katherine Reyes, Ana C. Bardossy, and Marcus J. Zervos
Influence of Minimum Inhibitory Concentration in Clinical Outcomes of Enterococcus faecium Bacteremia Treated With Daptomycin: Is it Time to Change the Breakpoint?, Bhavarth S. Shukla, Samuel Shelburne, Katherine Reyes, Mini Kamboj, Jessica D. Lewis, Sandra L. Rincon, Jinnethe Reyes, Lina P. Carvajal, Diana Panesso, Costi D. Sifri, Marcus J. Zervos, Eric G. Pamer, Truc T. Tran, Javier Adachi, Jose M. Munita, Rodrigo Hasbun, and Cesar A. Arias
Nosocomial Fungal Infections: Epidemiology, Infection Control, and Prevention, Geehan Suleyman and George Alangaden
Characterization of Salmonella Isangi possessing a CTX-M15 ESBL associated with an outbreak in a US Hospital, Geehan Suleyman, Mary Perri, Dora Vager, Linoj Samuel, Marcus J. Zervos, George Alangaden, and Robert J. Tibbetts
Nosocomial Outbreak of a Novel Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase Salmonella enterica Serotype Isangi Among Surgical Patients, Geehan Suleyman, Robert J. Tibbetts, Mary Perri, Dora Vager, Yuan Xin, Katherine Reyes, Linoj Samuel, Eman Chami, Patricia Starr, Jennifer J. Pietsch, Marcus J. Zervos, and George Alangaden
Safety and efficacy of commonly used antimicrobial agents in the treatment of enterococcal infections: a review, Geehan Suleyman and Marcus J. Zervos
Submissions from 2015
Malaria elimination in Haiti by the year 2020: an achievable goal?, Paul J. Boncy, Paul Adrien, Jean F. Lemoine, Alexandre Existe, Patricia J. Henry, Christian Raccurt, Philippe Brasseur, Natael Fenelon, John B. Dame, Bernard A. Okech, Linda Kaljee, Dwayne Baxa, Eric Prieur, Maha A. El Badry, Massimiliano S. Tagliamonte, Connie J. Mulligan, Tamar E. Carter, V M. Beau de Rochars, Chelsea Lutz, Dana M. Parke, and Marcus J. Zervos
Evaluation of pharmacy generalists performing antimicrobial stewardship services, Joseph J. Carreno, Rachel M. Kenney, Mary Bloome, Jane McDonnell, Jennifer Rodriguez, Allison Weinmann, Paul E. Kilgore, and Susan L. Davis
Virologic and immunologic effects of adding maraviroc to suppressive antiretroviral therapy in individuals with suboptimal CD4+ T-cell recovery, Anthony R. Cillo, Benedict B. Hilldorfer, Christina M. Lalama, John McKinnon, Robert W. Coombs, Allan R. Tenorio, Lawrence Fox, Rajesh T. Gandhi, Heather Ribaudo, Judith S. Currier, Roy M. Gulick, Timothy J. Wilkin, and John W. Mellors
A Rare Case of Diffuse Alveolar Hemorrhage Secondary to Acute Pulmonary Histoplasmosis, Kunal Grover, Hadeel Zainah, Shubhita Bhatnagar, and Tricia Stein
Molecular typing, pathogenicity factor genes and antimicrobial susceptibility of vancomycin resistant enterococci in Belgrade, Serbia, Milica Jovanović, Branko Milošević, Tanja Tošić, Goran Stevanović, Vesna Mioljević, Nikola Inđić, Branko Velebit, and Marcus J. Zervos
Comparison of Three Different FDA-Approved Plasma HIV-1 RNA Assay Platforms Confirms the Virologic Failure Endpoint of 200 Copies per Milliliter Despite Improved Assay Sensitivity, Christina M. Lalama, Cheryl Jennings, Victoria A. Johnson, Robert W. Coombs, John E. McKinnon, James W. Bremer, Bryan R. Cobb, Gavin AJ Cloherty, John W. Mellors, and Heather J. Ribaudo
Transmission of infection to liver transplant recipients from donors with infective endocarditis: lessons learned, M. H. Miceli, M. Gonulalan, Mary Perri, Linoj Samuel, M. A. Al Fares, Kimberly Brown, D. A. Bruno, Marcus J. Zervos, Mayur Ramesh, and George Alangaden
Cryptococcosis in Patients With Cirrhosis of the Liver and Posttransplant Outcomes, Nina Singh, Costi D. Sifri, Fernanda P. Silveira, Rachel Miller, Kevin S. Gregg, Shirish Huprikar, Erika D. Lease, Andrea Zimmer, J S. Dummer, Cedric W. Spak, Christine Koval, David B. Banach, Miloni Shroff, Jade Le, Darin Ostrander, Robin Avery, Albert Eid, Raymund R. Razonable, Jose Montero, Emily Blumberg, Ahlaam Alynbiawi, Michele I. Morris, Henry B. Randall, George Alangaden, Jeffrey Tessier, Marilyn M. Wagener, and Hsin-Yun Sun
Impact of universal gowning and gloving on health care worker clothing contamination, Calvin Williams, Patty McGraw, Elyse E. Schneck, Anna LaFae, Jesse T. Jacob, Daniela Moreno, Katherine Reyes, G F. Cubillos, Daniel H. Kett, Ronald Estrella, Daniel J. Morgan, Anthony D. Harris, and Marci Drees
