List of works by N. Esther Babady

1707Investigation of a Cluster of Mycobacterium interjectum Cases at a Tertiary Care Cancer Center.

scientific article published in December 2014

A 48-year-old Somali woman with hip pain

scientific article published in September 2009

A multicenter evaluation of tests for diagnosis of histoplasmosis

scientific article published on 2 August 2011

Artificial Differences in Clostridium difficile Infection Rates Associated with Disparity in Testing

scientific article published in March 2018

Atypical presentation of Legionella pneumonia among patients with underlying cancer: A fifteen-year review

scientific article published on 20 October 2015

Bacteremia caused by Arcobacter butzleri in an immunocompromised host.

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Capnocytophaga lung abscess in a patient with metastatic neuroendocrine tumor.

scientific article published on 9 November 2011

Clinical Evaluation of the Luminex NxTAG Respiratory Pathogen Panel

scientific article published on 27 April 2016

Clinical and laboratory characteristics of Clostridium difficile infection in patients with discordant diagnostic test results

scientific article published on 11 January 2012

Clinical validation of the Lyra direct HSV 1+2/VZV assay for simultaneous detection and differentiation of three herpesviruses in cutaneous and mucocutaneous lesions

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Comparison of Multilocus Sequence Typing and the Xpert C. difficile/Epi Assay for Identification of Clostridium difficile 027/NAP1/BI.

scientific article published on 23 December 2015

Comparison of the Luminex xTAG RVP Fast assay and the Idaho Technology FilmArray RP assay for detection of respiratory viruses in pediatric patients at a cancer hospital.

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Control of norovirus outbreak on a pediatric oncology unit

scientific article published on 08 July 2015

Detection of Blastomyces dermatitidis and Histoplasma capsulatum from culture isolates and clinical specimens by use of real-time PCR.

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Detection of a transient R292K mutation in influenza A/H3N2 viruses shed for several weeks by an immunocompromised patient.

scientific article published on 14 January 2015

Diagnosis of Extrapulmonary Legionellosis in Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant Recipients by Direct 16S Ribosomal Ribonucleic Acid Sequencing and Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption/Ionization Time-of-Flight Mass Spectrometry.

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Disseminated adenovirus infection in cancer patients presenting with focal pulmonary consolidation

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Emergence of daptomycin-resistant VRE: experience of a single institution

scientific article published on April 2011

Enterobius vermicularis in a 14-year-old girl's eye.

scientific article published on 28 September 2011

Estimating risk of C. difficile transmission from PCR positive but cytotoxin negative cases

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Evaluation of Alere i Influenza A&B for rapid detection of influenza viruses A and B.

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Evaluation of Luminex xTAG fungal analyte-specific reagents for rapid identification of clinically relevant fungi

scientific article published on 31 August 2011

Evaluation of Mycobacterium avium complex clarithromycin susceptibility testing using SLOMYCO Sensititre panels and JustOne strips

scientific article published on 24 March 2010

Evaluation of the Aries Bordetella Assay for Detection and Identification of Bordetella pertussis in Nasopharyngeal Swab Specimens

scientific article published on 26 April 2019

Evaluation of the BioFire FilmArray respiratory panel and the GenMark eSensor respiratory viral panel on lower respiratory tract specimens.

scientific article published on 16 October 2013

Evaluation of the Cepheid Xpert Clostridium difficile Epi Assay for Diagnosis of Clostridium difficile Infection and Typing of the NAP1 Strain at a Cancer Hospital

scientific article published on October 13, 2010

Evaluation of the Vitek MS v3.0 Matrix-Assisted Laser Desorption Ionization--Time of Flight Mass Spectrometry System for Identification of Mycobacterium and Nocardia species.

scientific article published on 11 April 2018

Evaluation of the Xpert MTB/RIF Performance on Tissues: Potential Impact on Airborne Infection Isolation at a Tertiary Cancer Care Center

scientific article published on 15 February 2018

False-Positive Results for Human Immunodeficiency Virus Type 1 Nucleic Acid Amplification Testing in Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy

scientific article published on 23 December 2019

Genotypic Correlation between Cases of Clostridium difficile (CDI) with Community-Onset Diagnosis after Recent Hospital Discharge and Their Prior Unit-Based Contacts

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Hospital-Associated Infections

scientific article published on June 2016

Implementation of Molecular Surveillance After a Cluster of Fatal Toxoplasmosis at 2 Neighboring Transplant Centers.

scientific article published on 19 May 2016

Inflammatory leptomeningeal cytokines mediate delayed COVID-19 encephalopathy

scientific article published on 18 September 2020

Know When to Test: Optimizing Diagnostic Practices for Clostridium difficile Infection (CDI) Among Patients at a Tertiary-Care Cancer Center

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Laboratory Diagnosis of Infections in Cancer Patients: Challenges and Opportunities.

scientific article published on 08 June 2016

Limited diagnostic value of a multiplexed gastrointestinal pathogen panel for the detection of adenovirus infection in an oncology patient population

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Lymphangitic papules caused by Nocardia takedensis

scientific article published on 2 May 2015

Monitoring of cytomegalovirus viral loads by two molecular assays in whole-blood and plasma samples from hematopoietic stem cell transplant recipients

scientific article published on 04 February 2015

Multi-Center Evaluation of the VITEK MS v3.0 System for the Identification of Filamentous Fungi

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Multi-center Evaluation of a PCR-based Digital Microfluidics and Electrochemical Detection System for the Rapid Identification of 15 Fungal Pathogens Directly from Positive Blood Cultures

scientific article published on 19 February 2020

Multicenter Evaluation of the ePlex Respiratory Pathogen Panel for the Detection of Viral and Bacterial Respiratory Tract Pathogens in Nasopharyngeal Swabs.

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Nasal vestibulitis due to targeted therapies in cancer patients.

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Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Infections After Silicone Breast Implant Reconstruction Emphasize a Diversity of Infecting Mycobacteria

scientific article published on 2 September 2017

Performance characteristics of the Cepheid Xpert vanA assay for rapid identification of patients at high risk for carriage of vancomycin-resistant Enterococci

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Performance of Vitek MS v3.0 for Identification of Mycobacterium Species from Patient Samples by Use of Automated Liquid Medium Systems

scientific article published on 26 July 2018

Potential of real-time PCR threshold cycle (CT) to predict presence of free toxin and clinically relevant C. difficile infection (CDI) in patients with cancer

scientific article published on 8 December 2017

Practical Guidance for Clinical Microbiology Laboratories: Viruses Causing Acute Respiratory Tract Infections

scientific article published on 12 December 2018

Prosthetic-Joint-Associated Bordetella holmesii Infection

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Rapid Molecular Detection and Differentiation of Influenza Viruses A and B.

scientific article published on 30 January 2017

Real-time cellular analysis coupled with a specimen enrichment accurately detects and quantifies Clostridium difficile toxins in stool

scientific article published on 22 January 2014

Reducing Unnecessary and Duplicate Ordering for Ovum and Parasite Examinations and Clostridium difficile PCR in Immunocompromised Patients by Using an Alert at the Time of Request in the Order Management System

scientific article published on 10 June 2015

Relapse versus reinfection: surveillance of Clostridium difficile infection

scientific article published on 5 October 2011

Report from the American Society for Microbiology COVID-19 International Summit, 23 March 2020: Value of Diagnostic Testing for SARS-CoV-2/COVID-19

scientific article published on 26 March 2020

Results of the Abbott RealTime HIV-1 assay for specimens yielding "target not detected" results by the Cobas AmpliPrep/Cobas TaqMan HIV-1 Test

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Role of Coinfecting Strains in Recurrent Clostridium difficile Infection

scientific article published on 30 August 2016

The FilmArray® respiratory panel: an automated, broadly multiplexed molecular test for the rapid and accurate detection of respiratory pathogens

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The Perils of Multiplex Gastrointestinal Pathogen Panels: Pseudo-outbreaks of Salmonellae and Entamoeba histolytica in Immunocompromised Hosts.

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Toxin Detection by Cell Culture Neutralization Assay [CYT] and Toxin based EIA [Tox EIA] among Recurrent Episodes of CDI Diagnosed by PCR.

scientific article published on 4 October 2017

Transmission of Clostridium difficile During Hospitalization for Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant.

scientific article published on 21 October 2015