Laboratory Publications: 2008
January 2008
- Shepard, J.R., R. M.Addison, P.Della-Latta. M. Gherna, G. Haase, G. Hall, J.K. Johnson, W.G. Merz, H. Peltroche-Llacsahuanga, H. Stender, R.A. Wilson, G.W. Procop, F. Wu and M.J. Fiandaca. 2008. Multicenter evaluation of the Candida albicans/Candida glabrata peptide nucleic acid fluorescent in situ hybridization method for simultaneous dual-color identification of C. albicans and C. glabrata directly from blood culture bottles. J Clin Microbiol.46:50-5.
February 2008
- Bishop, J.A., N. Chase, S.S. Magill, C.P. Kurtzman, M.J. Fiandaca and W.G. Merz. 2008. Candida bracarensis detected among isolates of Candida glabrata by PNA FISH including susceptibility data and documentation of presumed infection. J Clin Microbiol. 46: 443-446.
- Farley JE, Stamper PD, Ross, T, Cai M, Speser S and Carroll KC. 2008. Comparison of the BD GeneOhm Methicillin Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) PCR Assay to Culture for Detection of MRSA in Nasal Surveillance Cultures from an At-Risk Community Population. J Clin Microbiol 46:743-746.
March 2008
- Forman, M.S. and A. Valsamakis. Performance characteristics of a quantitative HCV RNA assay using COBAS AmpliPrep Total Nucleic Acid Isolation and COBAS TaqMan HCV ASR. J. Molec. Diag. 2008; 10:147-153.
- Wormser GP, Dattwyler RJ, Shapiro ED, Dumler JS, O'Connell S, Radolf JD,Nadelman RB. Chemoprophylaxis against Lyme disease. Lancet Infect Dis. 2008; 8:146-7.
- Scorpio DG, Leutenegger C, Berger J, Barat N, Madigan JE, Dumler JS. Sequential analysis of Anaplasma phagocytophilum msp2 transcription in murine and equine models of human granulocytic anaplasmosis. Clin Vaccine Immunol. 2008; 15:418-24.
- Dumler JS. Molecular Pathology of Rickettsial Lung Infections. In: Molecular Pathology of Lung Diseases, Cagle P, Zander DS, Jagirdar J, Barrios R, Haque A, Popper H (eds.); Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., New York, NY. 2008. Pages 397-406.
- Walker DH, Raoult D, Dumler JS, Marrie TJ. Rickettsial diseases. In: Harrison’s Principles of Internal Medicine, 17th Ed.; Fauci AS, Braunwald E, Kasper DL, et al. (eds.), The McGraw-Hill Companies, New York, NY. 2008; pages 1059-1067
- Carroll KC. Rapid Diagnostics for Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus: Current Status. Mol Diagn Ther. 2008. 12:15-24.
April 2008
- Johnson, K.E., K. Leahy, C. Owens, J.N. Blankson, W.G. Merz and B.J. Goldstein. 2008. An atypical case of fatal zygomycosis: simultaneous cutaneous and laryngeal infection in a patient with a non-neutropenic solid prostatic tumor. ENT J. 87: 152-155.
- Trnovsky, J., W.G. Merz, P. Della-Latta, F. Wu, M.C. Arendrup and H. Stender. 2008. Rapid and accurate identification of Candida albicans by use of PNA FISHFlow. J. Clin. Microbiol. 46:1537-1540.
- O"Grady NP, Barie PS, Bartlett JG, Bleck T, Carroll K, Kalil AC, Linden P, Maki DG Nierman D, Pasculle W, Masur H; American College of Critical Care Medicine; Infectious Diseases Society of America. Guidelines for evaluation of new fever in critically ill adult patients: 2008 update from the American College of Critical Care Medicine and the Infectious Diseases Society of America. Crit Care Med 2008; 36:1330-49.
May 2008
- Maragakis LM, Winkler A, Tucker MG, Cosgrove SE, Ross T, Lawson E, Carroll KC and Perl TM. 2008. Outbreak of multi-drug resistant Serratia marcescens infection in a neonatal intensive care unit. Infect Control Hosp Epidemiol 29:418-23.
- Zhan L, Cao WC, De Vlas S, Xie SY, Zhang PH, Wu XM, Dumler JS, Yang H, Richardus JH, Habbema JD. A Newly Discovered Anaplasma phagocytophilum Variant in Rodents from Southeastern China. Vector Borne Zoonotic Dis. 2008 May 9. [Epub ahead of print]
June 2008
- Maragakis LL, Tucker MG, Miller RG, Carroll KC, Perl TM. 2008. Incidence and prevalence of multidrug-resistant Acinetobacter targeted active surveillance cultures. JAMA 299:2513-4.
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