Publications – Center for Communicable Disease Dynamics

Comparing Patient Risk Factors, Sequence Type, and Resistance Loci Identification Approaches for Predicting Antibiotic Resistance in Escherichia coli Bloodstream Infections.

Author(s): MacFadden DR, Melano RG, Coburn B, Tijet N, Hanage WP, Daneman NJournal: J Clin MicrobiolPMID: 30894438 May 2019

Rapid diagnostic tests of antibiotic resistance are increasingly being developed that identify the presence or absence of antibiotic resistance genes/loci.…

Genomic Epidemiology of Penicillin-Nonsusceptible Pneumococci with Nonvaccine Serotypes Causing Invasive Disease in the United States.

Author(s): Andam CP, Mitchell PK, Callendrello A, Chang Q, Corander J, Chaguza C, McGee L, Beall BW, Hanage WPJournal: J Clin MicrobiolPMID: 28100596 April 2017

Conjugate vaccination against seven pneumococcal serotypes (PCV7) reduced disease prevalence due to antibiotic-resistant strains throughout the 2000s. However, diseases caused…

Rapid Drug Susceptibility Testing of Drug-Resistant Mycobacterium tuberculosis Isolates Directly from Clinical Samples by Use of Amplicon Sequencing: a Proof-of-Concept Study.

Author(s): Colman RE, Anderson J, Lemmer D, Lehmkuhl E, Georghiou SB, Heaton H, Wiggins K, Gillece JD, Schupp JM, Catanzaro DG, Crudu V, Cohen T, Rodwell TC, Engelthaler DMJournal: J Clin MicrobiolPMID: 27225403 August 2016

Increasingly complex drug-resistant tuberculosis (DR-TB) is a major global health concern and one of the primary reasons why TB is…