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1154. Comparison of Five Testing Modalities for the Assessment of Patient Environment Cleanliness

1581. Impact of Colonization with Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae on the Risk of Gram-Negative Bacteremia in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients Who Receive Prophylactic Levofloxacin

1589. Increased Detection of Diarrheal Pathogens in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients Using a Multiplexed PCR Panel

1826. Impact of Rapid Diagnostics and Ceftazidime–Avibactam on Mortality after Bacteremia Caused by Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae ⬇️

2350. Electronic Interventions to Improve Clostridioides difficile Ordering Practices and Incidence: Impact of Soft Stops vs. Hard Stops

2501. Impact of Influenza A and B Infection on Stem Cell Transplant Patients During the 2017–2018 Season at a Single Center

Activity of Imipenem-Relebactam and Comparator Agents against Genetically Characterized Isolates of Carbapenem-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae

scientific article published on 23 August 2019

Answer to December 2016 Photo Quiz

scientific article published on December 2016

Assessment of Reproducibility of Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization-Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry for Bacterial and Yeast Identification

scientific article published on 29 April 2015

Avoiding infections in transplant recipients: does the gut microbiota have a key role?

scientific article published on 06 January 2020

Babesia microti: From Mice to Ticks to an Increasing Number of Highly Susceptible Humans

scientific article

Bacteremia and Blood Culture Utilization During COVID-19 Surge in New York City

scientific article published on 13 May 2020

Bacteremia and Blood Culture Utilization During COVID-19 Surge in New York City

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

Candida quercitrusa Candidemia in a 6-Year-Old Child

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

Carbapenemase-Producing Organisms: A Global Scourge!

scientific article published on 16 October 2017

Cavitary Pulmonary Nodules in an Immunocompromised Patient With Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder

scientific article published on 01 October 2018

Characterization of Piperacillin-Tazobactam–Non-Susceptible, but Ceftriaxone-Susceptible, Escherichia coli and Klebsiella pneumoniae Bloodstream Infections

scientific article published in 2016

Clinical Performance of SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Testing

scientific article published on 08 May 2020

Clinical Performance of SARS-CoV-2 Molecular Testing

scientific article published on 08 June 2020

Clinical and Molecular Evidence of Atovaquone and Azithromycin Resistance in Relapsed Babesia microti infection associated with Rituximab and Chronic Lymphocytic Leukemia.

scientific article published on 24 May 2017

Closing the Brief Case: Cryptococcus gattii Meningitis with Ventriculitis

scientific article published on July 2016

Closing the Brief Case: Disseminated Mycobacterium haemophilum Infection in a Kidney Transplant Recipient

scientific article published on 26 December 2017

Closing the Brief Case: Too Beta To Be a "B".

scientific article published in June 2017

Colonization with Levofloxacin-Resistant Extended-Spectrum β-Lactamase-Producing Enterobacteriaceae and Risk of Bacteremia in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients.

scientific article published on 26 April 2018

Comparison of Perianal Swab and Stool Samples for Detection of Gastrointestinal Colonization with Ceftriaxone-Resistant and Fluoroquinolone-Resistant Enterobacteriaceae

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Comparison of Two High-Throughput Reverse Transcription-Polymerase Chain Reaction Systems for the Detection of Severe Acute Respiratory Syndrome Coronavirus 2

scientific article published on 07 May 2020

Death from Transfusion-Transmitted Anaplasmosis, New York, USA, 2017

scholarly article by Ruchika Goel et al published August 2018 in Emerging Infectious Diseases

Detection and Characterization of Influenza B Virus With Reduced Neuraminidase Susceptibility in a Stem Cell Transplant Recipient

scientific article published on 18 November 2019

Detection and Genetic Characterization of Community-Based SARS-CoV-2 Infections - New York City, March 2020

scientific article published on 17 July 2020

Development and evaluation of a novel, semiautomated Clostridium difficile typing platform

scientific article published on 21 November 2012

Early introductions and transmission of SARS-CoV-2 variant B.1.1.7 in the United States

scientific article published on 03 April 2021

Epidemiology of Bloodstream Infections Caused by and That Are Piperacillin-Tazobactam-Nonsusceptible but Ceftriaxone-Susceptible

scholarly article by Thomas M Baker et al published December 2018 in Open Forum Infectious Diseases

Evaluation of NG-Test CARBA 5 for Rapid Phenotypic Detection and Differentiation of Five Common Carbapenemase Families: Results of a Multicenter Clinical Evaluation

scientific article published on 06 May 2020

Evaluation of Oxacillin and Cefoxitin Disk Diffusion and Microbroth Dilution Methods for Detecting mecA-Mediated β-Lactam Resistance in Contemporary Staphylococcus epidermidis Isolates

scientific article published on 22 November 2019

Evaluation of Pyrrolidonyl Arylamidase Activity in Staphylococcus delphini.

scientific article published on 21 December 2016

Evaluation of a Multiplex PCR Assay with Molecular Beacon Probes to Rapidly Detect Bacterial Pathogens Directly in Bronchial Alveolar Lavage (BAL) Samples from Patients with Hospital-Acquired Pneumonia (HAP).

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Evaluation of a combined Multi-Locus Sequence Typing and Whole-Genome Sequencing Two-step Algorithm for Routine typing of Clostridioides difficile

scientific article published on 11 November 2020

Evaluation of surrogate tests for the presence of mecA-mediated methicillin resistance in Staphylococcus haemolyticus, Staphylococcus hominis, Staphylococcus capitis and Staphylococcus warneri

scientific article published on 28 October 2020

First Report of bla VIM-4- and mcr-9-Coharboring Enterobacter Species Isolated from a Pediatric Patient

scientific article published on 11 September 2019

First reported human isolation of Staphylococcus delphini

scientific article published on 26 January 2019

From canines to humans: Clinical importance of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius

Gastrointestinal pathogen colonization and the microbiome in asymptomatic kidney transplant recipients

scientific article published on 24 October 2019

Genomic and proteomic analysis of phiEco32, a novel Escherichia coli bacteriophage

scientific article published on 11 January 2008

Gut commensal microbiota and decreased risk for Enterobacteriaceae bacteriuria and urinary tract infection

scientific article published on 01 November 2020

Gut microbiota dysbiosis and diarrhea in kidney transplant recipients

scientific article published on 21 July 2018

Gut uropathogen abundance is a risk factor for development of bacteriuria and urinary tract infection

scientific article published on 04 December 2019

Impact of SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load on Risk of Intubation and Mortality Among Hospitalized Patients with Coronavirus Disease 2019

scientific article published on 30 June 2020

Impact of a Multiplexed PCR Panel on Identifying Diarrheal Pathogens in Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients

scientific article published on 05 November 2019

Implementation of infectious diseases rapid molecular diagnostic tests and antimicrobial stewardship program involvement in acute-care hospitals

scientific article published on 16 October 2020

Improved Performance of a Rapid Immunochromatographic Assay for Detection of PBP2a in Non-Staphylococcus aureus Staphylococcal Species

scientific article published on 28 March 2019

In Vitro Antimicrobial Susceptibility of Staphylococcus pseudintermedius Isolates of Human and Animal Origin.

scientific article published on 9 March 2016

Incidence, significance, and persistence of human coronavirus infection in hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients

scientific article published on 01 November 2018

Multicenter Evaluation of the Modified Carbapenem Inactivation Method and the Carba NP for Detection of Carbapenemase-Producing Pseudomonas aeruginosa and Acinetobacter baumannii

scientific article published on 8 November 2017

Multicenter Study Evaluating the Vitek MS System for Identification of Medically Important Yeasts ⬇️

scientific article published on May 8, 2013

Multicenter evaluation of the Vitek MS matrix-assisted laser desorption ionization-time of flight mass spectrometry system for identification of Gram-positive aerobic bacteria.

scientific article

Multicenter validation of the VITEK MS v2.0 MALDI-TOF mass spectrometry system for the identification of fastidious gram-negative bacteria

scientific article

Performance of Five Commercial Identification Platforms for Identification of Staphylococcus delphini

scientific article published on 23 October 2019

Peritoneal Effluent Cell-Free DNA Sequencing in Peritoneal Dialysis Patients With and Without Peritonitis

scientific article published on 28 October 2021

Photo Quiz: A 4-Year-Old Boy Vomits on His Sister

scientific article published on December 2016

Quantitative characterization of high-touch surfaces in emergency departments and hemodialysis facilities

scientific article published on 06 October 2020

Rapid implementation of SARS-CoV-2 emergency use authorization RT-PCR testing and experience at an academic medical institution

scientific article published on 04 December 2020

Reply To Authors

scientific article published on 12 August 2020

Reply to "risks of 'blind' automated identification systems in medical microbiology".

scientific article published on November 2013

Role of Clinicogenomics in Infectious Disease Diagnostics and Public Health Microbiology

scientific article

SARS-CoV-2 Viral Load Predicts Mortality in Patients with and without Cancer Who Are Hospitalized with COVID-19

scientific article published on 15 September 2020

SARS-CoV-2 antibody characterization in emergency department, hospitalized and convalescent patients by two semi-quantitative immunoassays

scientific article published on 04 June 2020

Safety, tolerability, and clinical outcomes of hydroxychloroquine for hospitalized patients with coronavirus 2019 disease

scientific article published on 23 July 2020

Shotgun Transcriptome and Isothermal Profiling of SARS-CoV-2 Infection Reveals Unique Host Responses, Viral Diversification, and Drug Interactions

scientific article published on 20 April 2020

Shotgun transcriptome, spatial omics, and isothermal profiling of SARS-CoV-2 infection reveals unique host responses, viral diversification, and drug interactions

scientific article published on 12 March 2021

Structure and diversity of urinary cell-free DNA informative of host-pathogen interactions in human urinary tract infection

System-wide transcriptome damage and tissue identity loss in COVID-19 patients

scientific article published on 24 January 2022

Systemic Tissue and Cellular Disruption from SARS-CoV-2 Infection revealed in COVID-19 Autopsies and Spatial Omics Tissue Maps

scientific article published on 9 March 2021

Temporal regulation of gene expression of the Thermus thermophilus bacteriophage P23-45.

scientific article

Testing-on-a-probe biosensors reveal association of early SARS-CoV-2 total antibodies and surrogate neutralizing antibodies with mortality in COVID-19 patients

scientific article published on 22 November 2020

The Brief Case: Cryptococcus gattii Meningitis with Ventriculitis

scientific article published on July 2016

The Brief Case: Disseminated Mycobacterium haemophilum Infection in a Kidney Transplant Recipient

scientific article published on 26 December 2017

The Brief Case: Too Beta To Be a "B".

scientific article published in June 2017

The power of a trained eye: fatal transfusion-transmitted anaplasmosis and a case study in investigative work

scientific article published on 01 February 2019

Two cases of fungal keratitis caused by Metarhizium anisopliae

scientific article published on 6 March 2018

Urinary cell-free DNA is a versatile analyte for monitoring infections of the urinary tract.

scientific article

Yeast-like intraleukocytic inclusions in a peripheral smear

scientific article published on 01 February 2012

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