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Language and racial disparities in treatment initiation for patients with pulmonary non-tuberculous mycobacteria

March 1, 2025

Disparities in testing and treatment of pulmonary nontuberculous mycobacteria (P-NTM) warrant further investigation into language and race’s impact on treatment initiation. The objective of the study is to compare the length of treatment initiation for P-NTM patients assessed in the pulmonary and infectious diseases clinics through language and race.

Effective mitigation of an outbreak of New Delhi metallo-β-lactamase-producing Escherichia coli infections in a small animal veterinary teaching hospital

February 26, 2025

Ian DeStefano, Claire L Fellman , Alicia C Bergeron, Lauren M Golato, Shira Doron, Melissa Cumming, Catherine M Brown, Jessica Leaf, Jaclyn Dietrich, Regina Wagner, Stephen D Cole

J Am Vet Med Assoc. 2025 Feb 26:1-10

An Immunoinformatics-Based Multi-Peptide Vaccine Provides Antibody-Mediated Protection Against Acinetobacter baumannii Infection

February 25, 2025

Sean Jeffreys, Jadelynn Aki, Megan P Tompkins, Nicolas D Prather, Ashlesh K Murthy, James P Chambers, M Neal Guentzel, Chiung-Yu Hung, Bernard P Arulanandam, Jieh-Juen Yu

Vaccines (Basel). 2025 Feb 25;13(3):236.

Penicillin allergy delabeling in long-term care facilities: if not now, then when?

February 24, 2025

Kap Sum Foong, Shira Doron, Alysse Wurcel

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2025 Feb 24;5(1):e61.

Risk Factors and Outcomes of Invasive Candida Infections in Heart Transplant Recipients: A Case-Control Study

January 28, 2025

Majd Alsoubani, Gabriela Andujar Vazquez, Andrew Strand, Shira Doron, Jennifer Chow

Clin Transplant. 2025 Feb;39(2):e70091.

Delving into discrepancies, a single-center experience with Accelerate Pheno for gram-negative bacteremia, a rapid phenotypic susceptibility testing method

January 23, 2025

Zoe Freeman Weiss, Dimitar Zelenkov, Jon Englert, Maureen Campion

Antimicrob Steward Healthc Epidemiol. 2025 Jan 23;5(1):e15.

Building Spatiotemporal Understanding of Mycobacterium tuberculosis-Host Interactions

January 23, 2025

Anna-Lisa E Lawrence, Shumin Tan

ACS Infect Dis. 2025 Jan 23.

Weakened Airway Epithelial Junctions and Enhanced Neutrophil Elastase Release Contribute to Age-Dependent Bacteremia Risk Following Pneumococcal Pneumonia

January 8, 2025

Shuying Xu, Tianmou Zhu, Hongmei Mou, Shumin Tan, John M. Leong

Aging Cell. 2025 Jan 8:e14474. doi: 10.1111/acel.14474. Online ahead of print.

Socioeconomic status and the risk for colonisation or infection with priority bacterial pathogens: a global evidence map

December 6, 2024

Sarah Blackmon, Esther E Avendano, Nanguneri Nirmala, Courtney W Chan, Rebecca A Morin, Sweta Balaji, Lily McNulty, Samson Alemu Argaw, Shira Doron, Maya L Nadimpalli

Lancet Microbe. 2024 Dec 6:100993.

Identification of determinants that allow maintenance of high-level fluoroquinolone resistance in Acinetobacter baumannii

November 26, 2024

Efrat Hamami, Wenwen Huo, Juan Hernandez-Bird, Arnold Castaneda, Jinna Bai, Sapna Syal, Juan C. Ortiz-Marquez, Tim van Opijnen, Edward Geisinger, Ralph R. Isberg

mBio. 2024 Nov 26:e0322124