Maine Medical Center
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Publications

Kakiuchi S, Livorsi DJ, Perencevich EN, Diekema DJ, Ince D, Prasidthrathsint K, Kinn P, Percival K, Heintz BH, Goto M. Days of Antibiotic Spectrum Coverage: A Novel Metric for Inpatient Antibiotic Consumption. Clin Infect Dis. 2022 Sep 10;75(4):567-576.. PMID: 34910130.

Suzuki H, Goto M, Nair R, Livorsi DJ, Sekar P, Ohl ME, Diekema DJ, Perencevich EN, Alexander B, Jones MP, McDaniel JS, Schweizer ML. Effectiveness and Optimal Duration of Adjunctive Rifampin Treatment in the Management of Staphylococcus aureus Prosthetic Joint Infections After Debridement, Antibiotics, and Implant Retention. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2022 Sep 12;9(9):ofac473. PMID: 36196299; PMCID: PMC9522668.

Rock C, Abosi O, Bleasdale S, Colligan E, Diekema DJ, Dullabh P, Gurses AP, Heaney-Huls K, Jacob JT, Kandiah S, Lama S, Leekha S, Mayer J, Mena Lora AJ, Morgan DJ, Osei P, Pau S, Salinas JL, Spivak E, Wenzler E, Cosgrove SE. Clinical Decision Support Systems to Reduce Unnecessary Clostridioides difficile Testing Across Multiple Hospitals. Clin Infect Dis. 2022 Sep 30;75(7):1187-1193. PMID: 35100620.

Corsi-Vasquez G, Ostrosky-Zeichner L, Pilkington EF 3rd, Sax PE. Point-Counterpoint: Should Serum β-d-Glucan Testing Be Used for the Diagnosis of Pneumocystis jirovecii Pneumonia? J Clin Microbiol. 2019 Dec 23;58(1):e01340-19. PMID: 31434728; PMCID: PMC6935916.

Pfeiffer M, O'Connor A, Zimmerman C, Thakarar K, Ahrens K. Hepatitis C Virus Cascade of Care Among Perinatal Patients in Maine Diagnosed With Opioid Use Disorder, 2015-2020. J Addict Med. 2022 Oct 27.. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 36598484.

Moore N, Kohut M, Stoddard H, Burris D, Chessa F, Sikka MK, Solomon D, Kershaw CM, Eaton E, Hutchinson R, Fairfield KM, Stopka TJ, Friedmann P, Thakarar K. Health care professional perspectives on discharging hospitalized patients with injection drug use-associated infections. Ther Adv Infect Dis. 2022 Oct 6;9:20499361221126868. PMID: 36225855; PMCID: PMC9549088.

Thakarar K, Kohut M, Hutchinson R, Bell R, Loeb HE, Burris D, Fairfield KM. The impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on people who inject drugs accessing harm reduction services in an rural American state. Harm Reduct J. 2022 Jul 22;19(1):80. PMID: 35869523; PMCID: PMC9305035.

Rogers R, Bodziak K, Cheema F, Chobanian M, Ebcioglu Z, Gabardi S, Ghai S, Gilligan H, Gohh R, Goyal N, Kavalam G, Mehri B, Rodig N, Rossi A, Singh J, Wood E, Tan CS, Pavlakis M. Implementing a regional standardized BK polyomavirus screening protocol across eleven transplant centres. Transpl Int. 2021 Dec;34(12):2680-2685. Epub 2021 Oct 28. PMID: 34628685.

Zimmerman A, Rogers R, Tan CS, Pavlakis M, Bodziak K, Cardarelli F, Francis J, Gabardi S, Germain M, Ghai S, Gilligan H, Goyal N, Malinis M, Patel H, Rodig N, Theodoropoulos NM, Walshe E, Wood E, Chobanian M. Expecting the unexpected: COVID-19 in Kidney Transplant Recipients within United Network for Organ Sharing Region 1. Transpl Int. 2020 Dec;33(12):1843-1844. Epub 2020 Oct 21. PMID: 33000866; PMCID: PMC7536934.

Siegrist EA, Wungwattana M, Azis L, Stogsdill P, Craig WY, Rokas KE. Limited Clinical Utility of Follow-up Blood Cultures in Patients With Streptococcal Bacteremia: An Opportunity for Blood Culture Stewardship. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Nov 7;7(12):ofaa54. PMID: 33364258; PMCID: PMC7749719.

Vanpouille C, Wells A, Dan JM, Rawlings SA, Little S, Fitzgerald W, Margolis L, Gianella S. HIV but Not CMV Replication Alters the Blood Cytokine Network during Early HIV Infection in Men. Viruses. 2022 Aug 21;14(8):1833. PMID: 36016455; PMCID: PMC9416553.

He WT, Yuan M, Callaghan S, Musharrafieh R, Song G, Silva M, Beutler N, Lee WH, Yong P, Torres JL, Melo M, Zhou P, Zhao F, Zhu X, Peng L, Huang D, Anzanello F, Ricketts J, Parren M, Garcia E, Ferguson M, Rinaldi W, Rawlings SA, Nemazee D, Smith DM, Briney B, Safonova Y, Rogers TF, Dan JM, Zhang Z, Weiskopf D, Sette A, Crotty S, Irvine DJ, Ward AB, Wilson IA, Burton DR, Andrabi R. Broadly neutralizing antibodies to SARS-related viruses can be readily induced in rhesus macaques. Sci Transl Med. 2022 Aug 10;14(657):eabl9605. Epub 2022 Aug 10. PMID: 35947674.

He WT, Yuan M, Callaghan S, Musharrafieh R, Song G, Silva M, Beutler N, Lee WH, Yong P, Torres JL, Melo M, Zhou P, Zhao F, Zhu X, Peng L, Huang D, Anzanello F, Ricketts J, Parren M, Garcia E, Ferguson M, Rinaldi W, Rawlings SA, Nemazee D, Smith DM, Briney B, Safonova Y, Rogers TF, Dan JM, Zhang Z, Weiskopf D, Sette A, Crotty S, Irvine DJ, Ward AB, Wilson IA, Burton DR, Andrabi R. Broadly neutralizing antibodies to SARS-related viruses can be readily induced in rhesus macaques. Sci Transl Med. 2022 Aug 10;14(657):eabl9605 . Epub 2022 Aug 10. PMID: 35947674.

Kanazawa J, Rawlings SA, Hendrickx S, Gianella S, Concha-Garcia S, Taylor J, Kaytes A, Patel H, Ndukwe S, Little SJ, Smith D, Dubé K. Lessons learned from the Last Gift study: ethical and practical challenges faced while conducting HIV cure-related research at the end of life. J Med Ethics. 2022 Jun 22:medethics-2021-107512. Epub ahead of print. PMID: 35732421; PMCID: PMC9772357.

Lachance AD, Stogsdill PB, McGrory BJ. Late Hematogenous Total Hip Infection After Revision for Mechanically Assisted Crevice Corrosion With Adverse Local Tissue Reaction. Arthroplast Today. 2022 Nov 5;18:173-180. PMID: 36387330; PMCID: PMC9647085.

Morris SB, Schwartz NG, Patel P, Abbo L, Beauchamps L, Balan S, Lee EH, Paneth-Pollak R, Geevarughese A, Lash MK, Dorsinville MS, Ballen V, Eiras DP, Newton-Cheh C, Smith E, Robinson S, Stogsdill P, Lim S, Fox SE, Richardson G, Hand J, Oliver NT, Kofman A, Bryant B, Ende Z, Datta D, Belay E, Godfred-Cato S. Case Series of Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Adults Associated with SARS-CoV-2 Infection - United Kingdom and United States, March-August 2020. MMWR Morb Mortal Wkly Rep. 2020 Oct 9;69(40):1450-1456. PMID: 33031361; PMCID: PMC7561225.

Poltak J, Connors C, Wungwattana M, Nicolau D, Mercuro NJ, Liu J. Pharmacokinetics of Cefazolin in Patients With Obesity Undergoing Surgery Requiring Cardiopulmonary Bypass. J Cardiothorac Vasc Anesth. 2022 Aug;36(8 Pt B):2942-2947. Epub 2022 Jan 21. PMID: 35227575.

Bystrom R, Wungwattana M, Tchekmedyian V. A Case of Cefepime-Induced Immune Thrombocytopenia. J Clin Pharm Ther. 2022 Apr;47(4):556-558.. Epub 2021 Nov 2. PMID: 34729808.

Palisano NP, Yen CF, Mercuro NJ. Predictors of discordant MRSA nares and respiratory cultures in patients with pneumonia. JAC Antimicrob Resist. 2022 Sep 30;4(5):dlac095. PMID: 36196446; PMCID: PMC9524568.

Veve MP, Mercuro NJ, Sangiovanni RJ, Santarossa M, Patel N. Prevalence and Predictors of Pseudomonas aeruginosa Among Hospitalized Patients With Diabetic Foot Infections. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2022 Jun 17;9(7):ofac297. PMID: 35873292; PMCID: PMC9301575.

Sankar NP, Thakarar K, Rokas KE. Candida Infective Endocarditis During the Infectious Diseases and Substance Use Disorder Syndemic: A Six-Year Case Series. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Apr 25;7(5):ofaa142. PMID: 32494579; PMCID: PMC7252282.

Thakarar K, Rokas KE, Lucas FL, Powers S, Andrews E, DeMatteo C, Mooney D, Sorg MH, Valenti A, Cohen M. Mortality, morbidity, and cardiac surgery in Injection Drug Use (IDU)-associated versus non-IDU infective endocarditis: The need to expand substance use disorder treatment and harm reduction services. PLoS One. 2019 Nov 26;14(11):e0225460. PMID: 31770395; PMCID: PMC6879163.