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Infectious Diseases Publications

Saccente

  1. Basco MDS, Revollo JR, McKinzie PB, Agnihothram S, Kothari A, Saccente M, Hart ME. Draft Genome Sequences of Two Staphylococcus aureus Strains Isolated in Succession from a Case of Bacteremia. Genome Announc. 2017 Jun 8;5(23). 
  2. Basco MDS, Kothari A, McKinzie PB, Revollo JR, Agnihothram S, Azevedo MP, Saccente M, Hart ME. Reduced vancomycin susceptibility and increased macrophage survival in Staphylococcus aureus strains sequentially isolated from a bacteraemic patient during a short course of antibiotic therapy. J Med Microbiol. 2019 Jun;68(6):848-859.  
  3. Saccente M, Krishnan G. Comparison of blood (1->3)-β-D-glucan levels in AIDS-related Pneumocystis jirovecii pneumonia and AIDS-related progressive disseminated histoplasmosis. Clin Infect Dis 2021; 73(6): 1100-2.
  4. Thapa P, Mohr K, Campbell KK, Saccente M. Sweet Syndrome precipitated by Mycobacterium abscessus in a Laotian Man with Autoantibodies to Interferon Gamma. Journal of Investigative Medicine High Impact Case Reports 2021; 9; 1-4.

Dare

  1. T Ipe, B Ugwumba, T Spencer, T Le, M Stevenson, S Ryan, S Pearson, A Kothari, N Patil, RK Dare, J Rico, A Venkata, J Laudadio, T Ridenour, K Mohammed, N Jamaal, H McNew, M Gibbs, S Hennigan, B Walser, A Novak, B Quinn. Treatment of COVID-19 Patients with Two Units of Convalescent Plasma in a Resource-Constrained State. In Press, Laboratory Medicine. Accepted April 18, 2022. 
  2. J Silva-Nash, S Bordelon, S Searcy, RK Dare. Standardizing HIV Post Exposure Prophylaxis in the Emergency Department Following Sexual Assault. HIV Medicine. Mar 2022; 23 (3): 268-273. https://doi.org/10.1111/hiv.13196
  3. J Klucher, K Davis, M. Lakkad, J Painter, RK Dare. Risk Factors and Clinical Outcomes Associated with Blood Culture Contamination. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. Mar 2022; 43 (3): 291-297. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2021.111
  4. A Minkove, G Geiger, M Llibre, M Montgomery, N West, N Chida, A Antar, D Dandachi, E Weld, and the HIV-COVID-19 Consortium. Clinical Outcomes after IL-6 Blockade in Patients with COVID-19 and HIV: A Case Series. AIDS Research and Therapy. Jan 2022; 19 (6). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12981-022-00430-x
  5. AL Hobbs, N Turner, I Omer, M Walker, R Beaulieu, M Sheikh, S Spires, C Fiske, RK Dare, P Thapa* (mentored trainee), S Goorha, J Gnann, J Wright, GE Nelson. Risk factors for Mortality and Progression to Severe COVID-19 Disease in the Southeast United States (US): A Report from the SEUS Study Group. Infection Control and Hospital Epidemiology. Dec 2021; 42 (12): 1464-72. https://doi.org/10.1017/ice.2020.1435
  • RK Dare, K Lusardi, C Pearson, KD McCain, B Daniels, S Van, JC Rico, M Lakkad, ER Rosenbaum, JR Bariola. Clinical Impact of Accelerate Pheno™ Rapid Blood Culture Detection System in Bacteremic Patients. Clinical Infectious Diseases. Dec 2021; 73 (11): e4616-e4626. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa649
  • D Dandachi, G Geiger, MW Montgomery, S Karmen-Tuohv, G Mojgan, AR Antar, JM Libre, M Camazine, A Diaz-de Santiago, PM Carlucci, IM Zacharioudakis, J Rahimian, J Slim, F Arinze, A Kratz, JL Jones, SM Patel, M Ray, D Koren, JW Baddley, B Hill* (mentored trainee), P Sax, J Chow, and the HIV-COVID-19 Consortium. Characteristics, Comorbidities, and Outcomes in a Multicenter Registry of Patients with HIV and Coronavirus Disease-19. Clinical Infectious Diseases. Oct 2021; 73 (7): e1964-e1972. https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa1339
  • A Bhalodi, S MacVane, B Ford, D Ince, P Kinn, K Percival, D Bremmer, D Carr, T Walsh, M Bhatti, S Shelburne, R Humphries, K Wolfe* (mentored trainee), E Rosenbaum, RK Dare, J Kolev, M Madhusudhan, M Ben-Aderet, M Morgan. Real-World Impact of the Accelerate PhenoTest BC Kit on Patients with Bloodstream Infections in IOAS (Improving Outcomes and Antimicrobial Stewardship): A Quasi-Experimental Multicenter Study. Clinical Infectious Diseases. Epub ahead of print; October 27, 2021.
  • S MacVane, A Bhalodi, RK Dare, E Rosenbaum, K Wolfe, B Ford, D Ince, P Kinn, K Percival, R Humphries. Improving Outcomes and Antibiotic Stewardship (IOAS) for Patients with Gram-Positive Bloodstream Infections Through Use of Rapid Testing: A Quasi-Experimental Multicenter Study of the Accelerate PhenoTest™ BC Kit. Journal of Antimicrobial Chemotherapy. August 2021; 76 (9):2453-63 https://doi.org/10.1093/jac/dkab165
  1. Saad Atiq* (mentored student) and RK Dare. Unique Facial and Oral Lesions in a Patient with Human Immunodeficiency Virus. Infectious Diseases in Clinical Practice. Nov 2019; 27 (6): 380-2. https://doi:10.1097/IPC.0000000000000778
  1. RK Dare, C Tewell, B Harris, P Wright, S Van Driest, E Farber-Eger, G Nelson, T Talbot. Effect of Statin Coadministration on the Risk of Daptomycin-Associated Myopathy. Clinical Infectious Diseases. 2018; 67 (9): 1356-63.

Rico

  1. Johnsrud AJ, Johnsrud JJ, Susanibar SA, Kamimoto JJ, Kothari A, Burgess M, Van Rhee F, Rico JC.Infectious and immunological sequelae of daratumumab in multiple myeloma. Br J Haematol. 2019;185(1):187‐189. doi:10.1111/bjh.15433
  2. Mohan M, Susanibar-Adaniya S, Buros A, Crescencio JCR, Burgess MJ, Lusardi K, Davies F, Morgan G, Vanrhee F, Zangari M, Schinke C, Thanendrarajan S, Kothari A. Bacteremias following autologous stem cell transplantation for multiple myeloma: Risk factors and outcomes. Transpl Infect Dis. 2019;21(2):e13052. doi:10.1111/tid.13052
  3. Nucci M, Shoham S, Abdala E, Hamerschlak N, Rico JC, Forghieri F, Nouér SA, Cappellano P, Solza C, Gonzaga Y, Nadali G, Nucci F, Colombo AL, Albuquerque AM, Queiroz-Telles Filho F, Lima CBL, Arrais-Rodrigues C, Rocha V, Marty FM. Outcomes of patients with invasive fusariosis who undergo further immunosuppressive treatments, is there a role for secondary prophylaxis?. Mycoses. 2019;62(5):413‐417. doi:10.1111/myc.12901
  4. R K Dare, K Lusardi, C Pearson, K D McCain, B Daniels, S Van, JC Rico, J Painter, M Lakkad, E R Rosenbaum, J R Bariola, Clinical Impact of Accelerate PhenoTM Rapid Blood Culture Detection System in Bacteremic Patients, Clinical Infectious Diseases, , ciaa649, https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciaa649
  5. Nucci M, Jenks J, Thompson GR, Hoenigl M, Santos MCD, Forghieri F, Rico JC, Bonuomo V, López-Soria L, Lass-Flörl C, Candoni A, Garcia-Vidal C, Cattaneo C, Buil J, Rabagliati R, Roiz MP, Gudiol C, Fracchiolla N, Campos-Herrero MI, Delia M, Farina F, Fortun J, Nadali G, Sastre E, Colombo AL, Pérez Nadales E, Alastruey-Izquierdo A, Pagano L. Do high MICs predict the outcome in invasive fusariosis? J Antimicrob Chemother. 2020 Dec 16:dkaa516. doi: 10.1093/jac/dkaa516. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 33326585.
  6. Amisha F, Fugere T, Caceres J, Rico Crescencio JC, Falls N. (November 05, 2021) Chryseobacterium gleum Causing Healthcare-Associated Pneumonia in an Adult Male With Diffuse Large B Cell Lymphoma. Cureus 13(11): e19297. doi:10.7759/cureus.19297
  7. T Ipe, B Ugwumba, T Spencer, T Le, M Stevenson, S Ryan, S Pearson, A Kothari, N Patil, RK Dare, J Rico, A Venkata, J Laudadio, T Ridenour, K Mohammed, N Jamaal, H McNew, M Gibbs, S Hennigan, B Walser, A Novak, B Quinn. Treatment of COVID-19 Patients with Two Units of Convalescent Plasma in a Resource-Constrained State. In Press, Laboratory Medicine. Accepted April 18, 2022. 

Bradsher

  1. Donnelly JP, Chen SC, Kauffman CA,…Bradsher RW Jr, J Peter Donnelly, Sharon C Chen, Carol A Kauffman, William J Steinbach, John W Baddley, Paul E Verweij, Cornelius J Clancy, John R Wingard, Shawn R Lockhart, Andr eas H Groll, Tania C Sorrell, Matteo Bassetti, Hamdi Akan, Barbara D Alexander, David Andes, Elie Azoulay, Ralf Bialek, Robert W Bradsher, Jr., Stephane Bretagne, Thierry Calandra, Angela M Caliendo, Elio Castagnola, Mario Cruciani, Manuel Cuenca-Estrella, Catherine F Decker, Sujal R Desai, Brian Fisher, Thomas Harrison, Claus Peter Heussel, Henrik E Jensen, Christopher C Kibbler, Dimitrios P Kontoyiannis, Bart-Jan Kullberg, Katrien Lagrou, Frédéric Lamoth, Thomas Lehrnbecher, Jurgen Loeffler, Olivier Lortholary, Johan Maertens, Oscar Marchetti, Kieren A Marr, Henry Masur, Jacques F Meis, C Orla Morrisey, Marcio Nucci, Luis Ostrosky-Zeichner, Livio Pagano, Thomas F Patterson, John R Perfect, Zdenek Racil, Emmanuel Roilides, Marcus Ruhnke, Cornelia Schaefer Prokop, Shmuel Shoham, Monica A Slavin, David A Stevens, George R Thompson, III, Jose A Vazquez, Claudio Viscoli, Thomas J Walsh, Adilia Warris, L Joseph Wheat, P Lewis White, Theoklis E. Zaoutis, Peter G Pappas. Revision and Update of the Consensus definitions of invasive fungal disease from the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer and the Mycoses Study Group Education and Research Consortium. Clin Infect Dis. 71 (6), 15 September 2020 p1367-1376. PMID 31802125 https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz1008
  2. Johnsrud JJ, Smith CR, Bradsher RW. Serendipitous Treatment of Tularemia in Pregnancy. Open Forum Infectious Diseases. 2019 Oct. 10.1093; 1-3. PMID: 31660371 https://doi.org/10.1093/ofid/ofz413
  3. Labuda SM, Garner K, Cima M, Moulton-Meissner H, Halpin AL, Toney NC, Yu P, Bolton EL, Pierce R, Pierce R, Atiq O, Thompson J, Crist MB, Gable P, Gomes D, McAllister G, Lawsin A, Houston HR, Patil N, Wheeler JG, Bradsher R, Vyas K, Haselow D. Bloodstream infections with a novel nontuberculous Mycobacterium among oncology clinic patients. Clin Infect Dis. 2020 October 1. 2020:71:e178-85.PMID: 31872853 https://doi.org/10.1093/cid/ciz1120
  4. Pearson CS, Bradsher RW, Gardner JM, Wong HK, Kern MH, Dawson K. PHOTO QUIZ: New skin nodules in a man with cutaneous T-cell lymphoma: what is your diagnosis? Infectious Diseases & Tropical Medicine (IDTM) 2020; 6: e609. https://doi/10.32113/idtm_20206_609
  5. Bradsher RW. Mycology, pathogenesis, and epidemiology of blastomycosis. UpToDate Online. Initial publication February 17, 2011, Updated March 17, 2022.
  6. Bradsher RW. Clinical manifestations of blastomycosis. UpToDate Online. Initial publication February 17, 2011, Updated March 16, 2022.
  7. Bradsher RW. Treatment of blastomycosis. UpToDate Online. Initial publication February 17, 2011, Updated March 2, 2022.
  8. Vyas KS, Bradsher RW. Blastomycosis. In: Hunter’s Tropical Medicine 10th, Strickland GT (ed), Elsevier, London, 2019.
  9. Alzghoul B, Geppert S, Innabi A, Kovelamudi S, Johnsrud J, Kothari A, Menna N, Bradsher R.Successfully treated Listeria rhomboencephalitis with hydrocephalus in an immunocompetent patient. Program Abstract 47th Critical Care Congress, San Antonio TX, 2018. Crit Care Med 46:336, 2018
  10. Labuda SM, Garner K, Moulton-Meissner H, Cima M, Thompson J, Wheeler JG, Bolton EL, Pierce R, Yu P, Toney NC, Crist MB, Gable P, Gomes D, Halpin AL, Houston HR, McAllister G, Patil N, Atiq O, Bradsher R, Vyas K, Haselow D. Bloodstream infections with a novel nontuberculous Mycobacterium among oncology clinic patients. Program Abstract 68th annual Epidemiology Intelligence Conference, CDC, April 29-May 2, 2019.
  11. Labuda SM, Garner K, Moulton-Meissner H, Cima M, Thompson J, Wheeler JG, Bolton EL, Pierce R, Yu P, Toney NC, Crist MB, Gable P, Gomes D, Halpin AL, Houston HR, McAllister G, Patil N, Atiq O, Bradsher R, Vyas K, Haselow D. Bloodstream infections with a novel nontuberculous Mycobacterium among oncology clinic patients. Program Abstract SHEA Spring 2019, Boston MA.
  12. Ali, H, Bradsher RW. Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Stent. Program Abstract UAMS Internal Medicine Poster competition. May 22, 2019.
  13. Roy AM, James R, Johnsrud J, Kothari A, Bradsher R. A rare case of Nocardia peritonitis with suspected Nocardia endocarditis. Program Abstract, Southern Regional Meeting, New Orleans, LA, Feb 13, 2020.