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Multidrug and Mupirocin Resistance in Environmental Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) Isolates from Homes of People Diagnosed with Community-Onset MRSA Infection.

Applied and environmental microbiology

Shahbazian JH, Hahn PD, Ludwig S, Ferguson J, Baron P, Christ A, Spicer K, Tolomeo P, Torrie AM, Bilker WB, Cluzet VC, Hu B, Julian K, Nachamkin I, Rankin SC, Morris DO, Lautenbach E, Davis MF.
PMID: 28939607
Appl Environ Microbiol. 2017 Oct 31;83(22). doi: 10.1128/AEM.01369-17. Print 2017 Nov 15.

Patients with community-onset (CO) methicillin-resistant

A Clinical Prediction Tool for Extended-Spectrum Cephalosporin Resistance in Community-Onset Enterobacterales Urinary Tract Infection.

Open forum infectious diseases

Weinstein EJ, Han JH, Lautenbach E, Nachamkin I, Garrigan C, Bilker WB, Dankwa L, Wheeler M, Tolomeo P, Anesi JA.
PMID: 31041359
Open Forum Infect Dis. 2019 Mar 14;6(4):ofz164. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofz164. eCollection 2019 Apr.

BACKGROUND: Bacterial resistance to first line antibiotics used to treat community-onset urinary tract infections (UTIs) continues to increase. We sought to create a clinical prediction tool for community-onset UTIs due to extended-spectrum cephalosporin-resistant (ESC-R) Enterobacterales (formerly Enterobacteriaceae, EB).METHODS: A...

Reduction in Sporadic Norovirus Infections Following the Start of the COVID-19 Pandemic, 2019-2020, Philadelphia.

Infectious diseases and therapy

Nachamkin I, Richard-Greenblatt M, Yu M, Bui H.
PMID: 34120315
Infect Dis Ther. 2021 Sep;10(3):1793-1798. doi: 10.1007/s40121-021-00473-z. Epub 2021 Jun 13.

INTRODUCTION: Norovirus infections are common in the USA and worldwide. Detection of norovirus in fecal samples is now common in routine tests for enteric pathogens using molecular methods. We observed a change in positivity rates for norovirus after the...

Correction for Kraft et al., "A Laboratory Medicine Best Practices Systematic Review and Meta-analysis of Nucleic Acid Amplification Tests (NAATs) and Algorithms Including NAATs for the Diagnosis of .

Clinical microbiology reviews

Kraft CS, Parrott JS, Cornish NE, Rubinstein ML, Weissfeld AS, McNult P, Nachamkin I, Humphries RM, Kirn TJ, Dien Bard J, Lutgring JD, Gullett JC, Bittencourt CE, Benson S, Bobenchik AM, Sautter RL, Baselski V, Atlas MC, Marlowe EM, Miller NS, Fischer M, Richter SS, Gilligan P, Snyder JW.
PMID: 31462404
Clin Microbiol Rev. 2019 Aug 28;32(4). doi: 10.1128/CMR.00128-19. Print 2019 Sep 18.

No abstract available.

Evaluation of a research use only luminex based assay for measurement of procalcitonin in serum samples.

American journal of translational research

Garrigan C, Han J, Tolomeo P, Johnson KJ, Master SR, Lautenbach E, Nachamkin I.
PMID: 27830020
Am J Transl Res. 2016 Oct 15;8(10):4362-4369. eCollection 2016.

Research use only (RUO) assays do not undergo a validation process similar to test kits used for clinical purposes. Several studies have suggested that RUO assays need to be validated prior to use in any research studies. We evaluated...

The shared microbiota of humans and companion animals as evaluated from Staphylococcus carriage sites.

Microbiome

Misic AM, Davis MF, Tyldsley AS, Hodkinson BP, Tolomeo P, Hu B, Nachamkin I, Lautenbach E, Morris DO, Grice EA.
PMID: 25705378
Microbiome. 2015 Jan 23;3:2. doi: 10.1186/s40168-014-0052-7. eCollection 2015.

BACKGROUND: Staphylococcus aureus and other coagulase-positive staphylococci (CPS) colonize skin and mucous membrane sites and can cause skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) in humans and animals. Factors modulating methicillin-resistant S. aureus (MRSA) colonization and infection in humans remain...

Campylobacter Enteritis and the Guillain-Barré Syndrome.

Current infectious disease reports

Nachamkin I.
PMID: 11286651
Curr Infect Dis Rep. 2001 Apr;3(2):116-122. doi: 10.1007/s11908-996-0033-5.

Campylobacter jejuni is one of the most common causes of bacterial gastroenteritis in the United States and worldwide with approximately 2.4 million infections per year in the United States. A now clearly recognized sequelae following Campylobacter infection is the...

Fungal rhinosinusitis: a retrospective microbiologic and pathologic review of 400 patients at a single university medical center.

International journal of otolaryngology

Montone KT, Livolsi VA, Feldman MD, Palmer J, Chiu AG, Lanza DC, Kennedy DW, Loevner LA, Nachamkin I.
PMID: 22518160
Int J Otolaryngol. 2012;2012:684835. doi: 10.1155/2012/684835. Epub 2012 Feb 08.

Fungal Rhinosinusitis (FRS) is a well known entity, but only in more recent times have the types of FRS been more fully defined. In this study, we evaluate the diagnosis of FRS in a single medical center. Cases were...

Reducing Blood Culture Contamination Rates: Experiences of Four Hospital Systems.

Infectious diseases and therapy

Halstead DC, Sautter RL, Snyder JW, Crist AE, Nachamkin I.
PMID: 32350778
Infect Dis Ther. 2020 Jun;9(2):389-401. doi: 10.1007/s40121-020-00299-1. Epub 2020 Apr 30.

INTRODUCTION: Blood cultures (BCs) frequently become contaminated during the pre-analytic phase of collection leading to downstream ramifications. We present a summary of performance improvement (PI) interventions provided by four hospital systems and common factors that contributed to decreased blood...

Resistance patterns of refractory .

GastroHep

Kumar S, Sangitha R, Nachamkin I, Metz DC.
PMID: 32377173
GastroHep. 2020 Jan;2(1):6-12. doi: 10.1002/ygh2.382. Epub 2019 Dec 23.

METHODS: A retrospective study of patients referred to the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, between 2009-2019 who underwent endoscopy for culture. Chart review identified demographics, history, endoscopic and culture results, treatment, and follow up.RESULTS: Of 109 patients referred...

Phylogenetic Analysis Reveals Source Attribution Patterns for .

Microorganisms

Hudson LK, Andershock WE, Yan R, Golwalkar M, M'ikanatha NM, Nachamkin I, Thomas LS, Moore C, Qian X, Steece R, Garman KN, Dunn JR, Kovac J, Denes TG.
PMID: 34835426
Microorganisms. 2021 Nov 05;9(11). doi: 10.3390/microorganisms9112300.

Campylobacteriosis is the most common bacterial foodborne illness in the United States and is frequently associated with foods of animal origin. The goals of this study were to compare clinical and non-clinical

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