Abstracts

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Towards standardized observational data collection of infectious disease outbreaks: a scoping review. 2023. oSTEM Annual Conference.

Post-vaccination SARS-CoV-2 infections and immune response in people with immune disorders. 2023. Infectious Disease Society of America IDWeek.

The influence of COVID-19 pandemic restrictions on Respiratory Syncytial Virus in young children in the United States. 2023. Society for Epidemiologic Research.

Modernizing the Biological Weapons Convention’s Article X Database of Assistance Cooperation. 2022. Emerging Leaders in Biosecurity Summer Research Symposium.

The use of “phecodes” for electronic phenotyping of primary immune deficiencies in a large electronic health record database. 2020. Society for Epidemiologic Research.

Population-level burden of delayed or in vitro discordant empiric antibiotics among bacteremia patients at US hospitals. 2020. International Conference on Healthcare-Associated Infections.

Association of Ivacaftor Treatment and Incident Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis, 2010-2017. 2020. American Thoracic Society Annual Meeting. [Canceled due to SARS-CoV-2].

Predictors of invasive candidiasis among laboratory positive Candida encounters: machine learning applied to a large US electronic health record (EHR) database. 2019. Society for Epidemiologic Research.

Developing Digital Phenotypes of Primary Immune Deficiencies Using Machine Learning on a Large Electronic Health Record Database. 2019. Infectious Disease Society of America IDWeek.

Acid-Fast Bacilli Testing Trends at 43 In- and Outpatient Facilities and Nontuberculous Mycobacterial Pulmonary Isolation Rate, United States, 2009-2015. 2019. Infectious Disease Society of America IDWeek.

Utility of Admission Procalcitonin Level in Patients Presenting to the Hospital with Bloodstream Infection: Real World Evidence from 250 US Hospitals. 2019. Infectious Disease Society of America IDWeek.

Burden of Difficult-to-Treat Antibiotic-Resistant (DTR) Gram-negative Infections in the United States, 2012-2017. 2019. Infectious Disease Society of America IDWeek.

Bacteremia Is Not Commonly Detected in Ebola Virus Disease. 2019. Infectious Disease Society of America IDWeek.

Epidemiology and Spatial Analysis of Pulmonary Nontuberculous Mycobacteria in Patients with Cystic Fibrosis in Florida, 2010-2014. 2019. American Thoracic Society International Conference.

The Risk of Mortality among Patients with Bronchiectasis at a Tertiary Care Center: Quality of Life and 6MWD. 2019. American Thoracic Society International Conference.

Species distribution and trends of invasive candidiasis in the United States, 2009-2015, using a large electronic medical record database. 2018. Infectious Disease Society of America IDWeek.

Utilization practices of ceftazidime-avibactam at academic medical centers in the United States. 2018. Infectious Disease Society of America IDWeek.

Regional differences in trends of hospitalizations associated with tick-borne diseases in the United States, 2009-2014. 2018. Infectious Disease Society of America IDWeek.

Impact of difficult-to-treat resistance on survival in gram-negative bacteremia: a risk-adjusted analysis using electronic health record–based clinical data from 140 US hospitals. 2018. Infectious Disease Society of America IDWeek.

Dwindling utilization of central venous catheter tip cultures: an analysis of sampling trends and clinical utility at 128 US hospitals 2009-2014. 2018. Infectious Disease Society of America IDWeek.

Treatment regimens prescribed for pulmonary Mycobacterium abscessus infections among hospitalized patients in the United States, 2000-2015. 2018. American Thoracic Society International Conference.

Epidemiology of extrapulmonary nontuberculous mycobacterial infections among hospitalized patients in the United States. 2018. American Thoracic Society International Conference.

Difficult-to-treat resistance in gram-negative bacteremia among ICU in-patients at 162 US Hospitals. 2018. Society of Critical Care Medicine 47th Critical Care congress.

Treatment regimens prescribed for Mycobacterium avium complex infections diagnosed in hospitalized patients throughout the United States, 2008-2013. 2017. Infectious Disease Society of America ID Week.

Epidemiology of nontuberculous mycobacterial lung disease among cystic fibrosis patients residing in Hawaii, USA. 2017. Infectious Disease Society of America IDWeek.

Comparative effectiveness of trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole vs. levofloxacin for Stenotrophomonas maltophilia bacteremia: analysis of targeted therapy at 90 US Hospitals, 2000-2014. 2017. Infectious Disease Society of America IDWeek.

Epidemiology of inappropriate empiric antibiotic therapy for bacteremia based on discordant in vitro susceptibilities: risk factors and taxon-level variation in burden and outcome in 156 US hospitals, 2000-2014. 2017. Infectious Disease Society of America IDWeek.

Exploring the relationship between climatic factors and ITN use in 17 African countries. 2015. European Congress on Tropical Medicine and International Health 9th Annual Meeting.

Understanding intra-household decision making for insecticide-treated mosquito net allocation in Uganda. 2014. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 63rd Annual Meeting.

Potential implications of outdoor-sleeping behaviors and nighttime activities for malaria control in the Upper West and Northern Regions of Ghana. 2014. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 63rd Annual Meeting.

Impact of malaria community change agents on LLIN norms and use in Tanzania. 2013. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 62nd Annual Meeting.

A multistate outbreak of listeriosis associated with imported cheese. 2013. Council of State and Territorial Epidemiologists Annual Conference.

Who cut the cheese? Investigation of a multistate outbreak of listeriosis — United States, March–October 2012. 2013. Epidemic Intelligence Service Conference, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Evaluating local vegetation cover as a risk factor for malaria transmission: A new analytical approach. 2012. World Malaria Day, Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.

Identification of risk factors for malaria infection in Macha, Zambia during the dry season for epidemiological modeling and outbreak prediction. 2011. American Society of Tropical Medicine and Hygiene 60th Annual Meeting.

Utility of a combination of molecular typing methods for characterizing methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) isolates and detecting USA 300. 2010. Society for Healthcare Epidemiology of America 21st Annual Meeting.

Quantitative Real-Time Reverse Transcription PCR (qRT-PCR) of the Clostridium difficile pathogenicity locus. 2009. National Institutes of Health.

Sequence comparison of pal, wecA, lspA1, and lspA2 in Class I and II strains of Haemophilus ducreyi. 2009. 18th Sigma Xi Undergraduate Student Research Conference.

Progress toward the development of Felix O1 as a reporter phage for Salmonella. 2008. Washington and Jefferson Undergraduate Research Symposium.

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